Chapter 1048: Interlude outside the Bourbon Palace
After talking about the Tuileries Palace, let us turn our attention to the Tuileries Palace again.
At this moment, encouraged by the royal family's "selfless" contribution of one year's funds and 10 million francs, some members of the legislative group voted in favor of the proposal to sell 80,000 hectares of state-owned forests. In the end, the proposal was approved by a relative majority of 140 to 120.
pass.
[The entire legislative body has a total of 275 seats, excluding the 8 votes due to Favre's departure, and 7 abstentions.]
Afterwards, French Deputy Speaker Pio knocked the table twice with the gavel again and said with a serious expression.
"I announce that this proposal will be officially passed on January 16th!"
In an instant, the entire Bourbon Palace once again burst into applause like raindrops.
After half a minute, the applause gradually subsided.
Bio spoke again, "Dear members of parliament, let us move on to the next one."
In the next three hours, Ash Fuld discussed the national debt interest, navy and army expenditures, and revenue collection fees with the legislative group. In the end, the members of the legislative group had certain differences except for the navy and army expenditures.
Others are passed by an absolute majority.
[Some members of Congress believe that the navy and army will cost a total of 500 million francs!
This amount of money accounts for a quarter of the entire French finance!
However, when Achille Fuld took out the military expenditure of the British Kingdom in 1858 (22.5 million pounds converted into francs, which is 556 million francs), the MPs present never spoke again!
In this era of overwhelming national self-esteem, no member of Parliament dares to openly declare that France is inferior to the Kingdom of Britain!]
Even though there were slight disagreements over military expenditures for the navy and army, the legislative group still passed the proposal with a relative advantage of 170 votes in favor.
Three hours later, with the words of "adjourn" from the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Council, Bio, the annual Legislative Council report came to a successful conclusion.
The parliamentarians sitting in the circular conference hall left their seats in order from left to right, and then left the Bourbon Palace through the corridor with a large red velvet carpet on the right side of the Bourbon Palace.
When the parliamentarian representatives left the palace, which symbolized the highest power of the empire, they were immediately targeted by reporters squatting near the Bourbon Palace.
These reporters, who ran faster than cannonballs, were like sharks that smelled blood. They surrounded the congressmen at lightning speed, and then loudly asked them what happened at the Bourbon Palace.
If these reporters ask questions in private, then some members of Congress who are dissatisfied with the empire are willing to tell each other anonymously what happened at the Bourbon Palace.
However, this is a public place!
According to the laws of the Second Empire, all members of Parliament could not reveal the contents of the Bourbon Palace in public.
Any member who violates this law will be subject to certain criminal penalties, and some may even be directly disqualified from being a member.
No member of parliament dares to violate this law.
Not to mention, they didn’t know how many of the reporters who asked him questions were dissatisfied with the empire, and how many of them were fishing for law enforcement!
The MPs who came out of the Bourbon Palace took a tough stance and said, "No comment" to reporters who wanted to force them to make mistakes!
However, the "no comment" from the congressmen did not dissuade the reporters' thirst for knowledge. With some rich experience, they decisively abandoned some of the congressmen who were loyal to the empire and the centrists, and instead followed the republican congressmen and the representatives of the Montagnards.
This group of reporters who followed the Republicans and the Montagnards firmly believed that they would be able to extract what happened at the Bourbon Palace from their mouths.
As long as any one of these congressmen leaks something, they will be able to get the first-hand information in the shortest possible time, and then publish the information as soon as possible.
Of course, this method may have a certain impact on the congressman who leaked the news.
But what does this have to do with them!
They are just reporters and are only responsible for reporting "real" information.
As for whether this information will have a bad impact on the parties concerned, this is not within their scope of consideration.
When the Imperial and Moderate MPs saw reporters surrounding the Republicans and the Mountains, they breathed a sigh of relief and quickly left the Bourbon Palace in carriages.
The Republican and Montagnard MPs who were surrounded by reporters were questioned over and over again by reporters.
"What do you think of this annual meeting at the Palais Bourbon?"
"Why was Representative Favre expelled from Parliament, and what mistakes did he make in Parliament?
Is it political persecution or other reasons?"
…
Facing reporters' questions, this group of congressmen could only choose to respond by doing Tai Chi.
"No comment!"
"You can ask Favre about the reason why Senator Favre was expelled from the parliament!
He can give you the answers you want!"
…
However, these vague answers did not satisfy reporters. They blocked the way forward for the lawmakers and made it difficult for them to move forward.
At this moment, Minister Achille Fuld and Deputy Speaker Pio appeared side by side at the main entrance of the Bourbon Palace.
Looking at the opposition members of Congress who were blocked by reporters at the front steps, Achille Fuld could not help but reveal a gloating smile.
Bjorn, who was standing aside, looked at Achille Fuld beside him and immediately reacted. He approached Achille Fuld and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Fuld, these reporters are
Did you find it?"
"So be it!" Asher Fuld replied vaguely.
At that time, he only told the Paris newspaper community through some people that after the Bourbon Palace meeting, journalist friends could walk around the Bourbon Palace at will without being expelled by gendarmes and police cars.
Unexpectedly, those reporters actually listened.
"Now that they have blocked the door, should we disperse them?" Bjorn asked Achille Fuld again.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Of course!" Achille Fuld, who had punished the opposition a little, nodded and responded to Bjorn.
Then, Pio called the captain of the guard who was stationed around the Bourbon Palace to him.
"You should immediately summon a company of soldiers and drive away all those reporters!" Bio pointed at the reporters and congressmen in the distance and said to him.
The garrison chief looked at the reporters and congressmen not far away and asked Billo cautiously, "Your Excellency, Deputy Speaker, our soldiers are very rude. If we accidentally hurt these reporters when they have physical contact with them,
That’s not good!”
"Stupid!" Bjorn cursed in a low voice, "It's okay if you don't do anything!
Even if you need to take action, as long as they take action first, you can definitely defend yourself and fight back!"
The garrison commander immediately understood what Bio meant. He quickly put his feet together and saluted Bio and said, "As you command!"
After a while, a well-trained company appeared in a line in the garden outside the Bourbon Palace, each soldier holding an arc-shaped fork (riot fork) in his hand.
The reporters who blocked the gate of the Palais Bourbon were also shocked when they saw the soldiers and the riot forks in their hands.
"Dear journalists, my soldiers and I do not want to harm you!
But our mission is to guard the order of the Bourbon Palace. Your behavior of blocking the door of the Bourbon Palace has seriously affected the order of the Bourbon Palace!
So I implore you to leave immediately!" the guard captain told reporters in a serious tone, "If you are unwilling to leave, my soldiers and I will use unconventional means to force you to leave!"
After that, the guard captain ordered his soldiers to move towards the reporter.
After receiving the order from their superiors, this group of soldiers holding riot police marched towards the reporter with firm steps.
The timid reporters immediately fled in all directions after seeing the approaching soldiers.
The Republican and Montagnard deputies who were "rescued" by the soldiers from the journalists also looked at these imperial "accomplices" with indifference.
They will not forget that it was with the assistance of the army that Jerome Bonaparte was able to overthrow the Republic and establish his own empire.
"Members of Congress, you are now free! Please go back on your own and don't stay too long at the gate of the Bourbon Palace!" the captain of the guard responded politely to these members of the House.
Representatives of the Republican and Montagnard factions also left the Bourbon Palace in carriages.
The captain of the guard who solved the congestion incident at the Bourbon Palace returned to the Bourbon Palace and reported to Pio, "Your Excellency Speaker, the reporters and members have left the Bourbon Palace!"
"Thanks a lot!"
Bio gave a word of encouragement, and then went to the Tuileries Palace with Achille Fuld to report on his duties.
After leaving the Bourbon Palace, the carriage headed due north by west. After crossing the Pont de la Concorde and the Place de la Concorde, it immediately turned around and continued traveling due west by south until it arrived at the Tuileries Palace.
Pio and Fuld stepped down from the carriage and were brought to Jerome Bonaparte by Basilio, the royal steward who had been waiting for a long time.
At this moment, Jérôme Bonaparte, who had just been "reprimanded" by Augusta, immediately showed a look of joy after seeing Bio and Achille Fuld.
Immediately, Jerome Bonaparte asked impatiently. "Has the legislative group passed the government's budget? Has the proposal for 80,000 hectares of state-owned forests been passed?"
Achille Fuld and Bio looked at each other, and Billot said to Jerome Bonaparte, "Your Majesty, I would like to ask Minister Fuld to describe to you the entire process of the Bourbon Palace!
"
"Minister Fuld, please speak quickly!" Jerome Bonaparte turned his attention to Achille Fuld.
Achille Fuld vividly told Jerome Bonaparte everything that happened at the Bourbon Palace, including the fight between him and Favre.
After listening to Achille Fuld's description, Jérôme Bonaparte nodded with satisfaction and praised, "Minister Fuld, you did a great job!
I am happy that the empire can have a minister like you!"
"Your Majesty, these are all things I should do!" Ashil Fuld replied reservedly.