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Chapter 1029 Albert’s shock

Prince Albert was not persuaded by Jerome Bonaparte's sophistry in the end, but he did not want to get entangled in the issue of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

After all, the French Empire has completely occupied Savoy and Nice, and it is basically impossible to get them to spit them out again.

"I don't want to discuss too much about the issues of Jérôme, Savoy and Nice!" Prince Albert replied to Jerome Bonaparte with a serious expression, "However, I hope that in the next navy

On this issue, the French Empire can communicate with the British Kingdom on the basis of integrity!

Otherwise, I really don’t know how to convince the British Kingdom to continue to believe in you!”

"Don't worry!" Jerome Bonaparte hurriedly assured Prince Albert, "I invite you here this time just to maintain peace in the Mediterranean!"

"That's good!" Prince Albert nodded.

Immediately, Prince Albert made a request to Jérôme Bonaparte to visit the French Imperial Fleet!

Facing Prince Albert's request, Jérôme Bonaparte showed a slight hesitation on his face. After a while, he responded to Prince Albert, "Let's do it! After a while, we will be together

Visit Marseille!”

"Okay!" Prince Albert replied to Jérôme Bonaparte eagerly.



In the next few days, Jérôme Bonaparte and his wife accompanied Albert and his wife on a tour of Paris and its surrounding areas.

The French Admiral Duco and the British Admiralty had been arguing over the number of British and French fleets in the Mediterranean.

Dicko believes that the number of French fleets deployed in the Mediterranean should be 90% of the British Mediterranean fleet. The reason he gave is that as a world power whose comprehensive national strength is comparable to that of Britain, the French Empire has a smaller number of fleets deployed in the Mediterranean.

should be balanced with the status of the French Empire,

However, the British Admiralty believes that the number of French fleets deployed in the Mediterranean should be limited to 60% of the British Kingdom. Only in this way can the Mediterranean truly achieve peace and stability.

After the two sides continued to argue back and forth for several days, they learned that Jérôme Bonaparte and his wife and Prince Albert returned to the provinces.

Jérôme Bonaparte and Prince Albert also joined the debate between the British and French Admiralty Ministers.

"Jérôme, I think the number of troops deployed by the French Empire in the Mediterranean should be slightly reduced!" Prince Albert said to Jérôme Bonaparte.

"Albert, how much do you think our naval fleet deployed in the Mediterranean should be compared to yours?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked Prince Albert.

After Prince Albert pondered for a moment, he replied to Jerome Bonaparte, "About 65%! I think this data is enough for the French Empire to maintain peace in the Mediterranean without weakening its influence!"

After listening to Prince Albert's words, Jerome Bonaparte also showed a thoughtful expression on his face. After a long time, Jerome Bonaparte opened his mouth and said to Prince Albert, "How about 75

%! I think the French Empire only has 75% of the Mediterranean fleet of the British Kingdom, so that it can truly maintain its hegemony in the Mediterranean without weakening its influence!"

Albert was silent again. After a moment, he looked at the Navy Minister beside him, "What do you think?"

"Your Majesty!" The British Admiralty raised his head and said firmly to Jerome Bonaparte, "The French Empire's Mediterranean fleet is only allowed to be 70% of the British Kingdom's!

If the French Empire is unwilling, then there is no need to continue this peace negotiation!"

After hearing the decisive plan of the British Admiralty Minister, Jerome Bonaparte turned his attention to Prince Albert. Prince Albert also nodded and replied to Jerome Bonaparte, "His attitude is

My attitude!”

Jérôme Bonaparte was silent again, then gritted his teeth and said to Prince Albert, "Okay! 70% makes 70%!"

However, I am not prepared to destroy the extra fleets."

Then, Jérôme Bonaparte told Prince Albert that he would distribute the excess ships to the Far East or sell them directly to other countries, hoping that the Kingdom of Britain would not stop him.

Prince Albert magnanimously stated that he would not stop Jérôme Bonaparte from this action, as long as Jérôme Bonaparte did not move out of the fleet to change the territory, Jérôme Bonaparte would be fine.

They also agreed to Prince Albert's request.

Seeing that Emperor Jérôme Bonaparte had promised to reduce the number of fleets, Minister Dick's tears could not help but roll in his eyes.

For him, every ship is his painstaking effort. Now it only takes a simple negotiation to remove them all from the battle order. It is really heartbreaking.

.

After Prince Albert and the British Lord of the Admiralty left, Minister Dicko asked Jérôme Bonaparte with a hint of sadness, "Your Majesty, are you really prepared to hand over the hegemony of the Mediterranean to them?"

Jérôme Bonaparte lowered his head and remained silent. After a long period of time, Jérôme Bonaparte spoke to Minister Dicko again, "Dico, the secret of the so-called Mediterranean hegemony and maritime hegemony.

Inseparable!

If the French Empire cannot obtain maritime hegemony, then there will be no hegemony in the Mediterranean!

So what if we suppress Britain in the Mediterranean? The British Kingdom can completely deploy all their fleets deployed in other areas to the Mediterranean!

This will crush our weak Mediterranean hegemony in one fell swoop, which is nothing but a dream!"

"If there is no French escort, what will happen to Egypt and the Suins Canal?" Minister Dico responded to Jérôme Bonaparte. "Once the Suins Canal is opened, we may not be able to hold it at all.

here!"

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Jérôme Bonaparte sighed and replied to Minister Dick, "Actually, I didn't expect Egypt and the Suins Canal to become France's bag.

Things!

These two things will be occupied by Britain sooner or later."

"Then why did you do it in the first place..." Minister Dick asked Jérôme Bonaparte doubtfully.

"It is precisely because Egypt and the Suins Canal are things that the British Kingdom must obtain, so I want to get them!

The purpose is to allow them to make concessions to France in other aspects in exchange for our concessions in Egypt!" Jerome Bonaparte explained to Minister Dicko.

Minister Dicko nodded in understanding, and then could only sigh heavily and leave.



Britain and France maintained a fleet ratio of 1 to 0.7 in the Mediterranean. With the joint efforts of Jérôme Bonaparte and Prince Albert, an agreement was quickly reached.

Because this news was simply a great shame for the people of Paris who had just accepted the annexation of Savoy and Nice.

Therefore, Jérôme Bonaparte did not bring this issue to the table, and at the same time restricted major newspapers in France from writing articles comparing the numbers of the British and French fleets.

However, even if Jerome Bonaparte had strictly guarded against such issues, he could guard against domestic articles, but he could not guard against foreign articles.

Under the secret promotion of the British cabinet, the whole of Britain already knew that the French Empire had compromised with the British Kingdom on the issue of Mediterranean hegemony.

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The gentlemen of Britain had a look of pride on their faces, and they immediately began to subscribe to such newspapers.

Soon, this group of British people discovered a "treasure". They discovered that a man named Marx was vilifying Jerome Bonaparte in a British newspaper.

As a result, some British people became interested in Dr. Ma.

After investigation, they found that Dr. Ma had been reviling Jérôme Bonaparte for several years.

In order to "recognize" Dr. Ma's contribution, they all subscribed to the newspaper that Dr. Ma often criticized Jerome Bonaparte.

Therefore, Dr. Ma's name began to spread to France. A small number of newspapers escaped customs inspection, and then the articles were copied and printed again.

The whole of Paris was secretly filled with articles that were unfavorable to Jerome Bonaparte. Jerome Bonaparte had no choice but to send his police officers to raid some "black workshops". Finally, before the situation spread completely out of control,

, kill it.

However, the news of Jerome Bonaparte's surrender to Britain still spread.

At this moment, the parties involved, Jerome Bonaparte and Prince Albert, were in Marseille. After arriving in Marseille, the two parties rested overnight, and then took the train from Marseille to Toulon the next morning.

The two people who got off the train at Toulon immediately met with the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet. Under the leadership of the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet, Jérôme Bonaparte and Albert arrived at the Toulon military port in a carriage.

Prince Albert, who got off the bus from the Toulon military port, looked at the "behemoths" docked at the military port pier with a shocked face, and then said to Jerome Bonaparte, "These..."

"The one you are pointing to is the warship that France just developed some time ago!" Jérôme Bonaparte introduced to Prince Albert, then changed the subject and continued to him, "Albert, I remember your British

The kingdom’s second ironclad ship is also coming out!

No need to be so surprised!"

Prince Albert was silent for a moment and replied to Jérôme Bonaparte, "Our port is not as spectacular as the naval port of Toulon!"

"Would you like me to sell you a few ships?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked Prince Albert half-jokingly.

"No need!" Albert shook his head and refused, and then said proudly, "We will definitely be able to build a more powerful warship!"

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