After Jerome Bonaparte pondered for a moment, a mature idea came into his mind. He cleared his throat and said to Louis.
"I hope your Ministry of Foreign Affairs will issue an announcement on behalf of the French Navy!"
"Foreign Ministry? On behalf of the French Navy?"
De Ruys thought over and over about Jérôme Bonaparte's arrangements, with a look of astonishment on his face. At this moment, he was somewhat unable to keep up with the emperor's thinking.
"That's right!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded and responded to De Ruys, "In order to test whether the French Navy's combat effectiveness is sufficient to cope with emergencies, I have decided to conduct a large-scale military operation near Corsica.
large-scale military exercises.
All navies deployed in the Mediterranean must participate in this exercise. Since this exercise is a live-fire exercise, the waters surrounding Corsica will be designated as a restricted sea zone during the exercise!
Any ship that enters the restricted sea area will become the target of the French Navy. Once a ship is found approaching, the French Navy has the right to sink it!"
After that, Jerome Bonaparte got up and found a map of the Mediterranean Sea in the secret drawer, and also took a pencil from the pen holder.
Then, in front of De Luys, he drew a circle around the island of Corsica marked on the maritime map.
Through the scope of Jérôme Bonaparte's pencil on the chart, De Ruys realized that the emperor's move seemed to be a warning to the Kingdom of Sardinia through military maneuvers.
Because the scope of the emperor's military exercises not only included Corsica and Sardinia, but also extended to the coast of the Apennine Peninsula.
Once the French Navy began conducting military exercises within this range, any ship that wanted to go from Sardinia to Naples would have to choose to go far away.
"Your Majesty, the scope of the forbidden sea zone is really too large!" De Luys frowned slightly and replied to Jerome Bonaparte with a hint of uneasiness in his tone, "This will cause protests from some countries!"
"If protest is useful, then why are we bothering with warships and cannons?" Jerome Bonaparte said to De Ruys with a tough attitude, "If the French Empire gives up because of the dissatisfaction of some countries,
Then I am too cowardly to be an emperor!"
De Luys remained silent. He knew that the emperor was determined and no amount of persuasion would help.
Just when De Ruys was worried that this might lead to a conflict between Britain and France, Jerome Bonaparte changed the subject and said to De Ruys, "Of course, your Ministry of Foreign Affairs only needs
Just tell the several countries with interests that the French Empire has established a prohibited sea zone!
At the same time, tell them that if the countries whose rights and interests have been violated by the French Empire have objections, they can send people over to negotiate with them!
The French Empire is not an unreasonable country, and we are willing to communicate with them on an equal footing!"
At this time, De Ruys finally understood the true purpose of Jérôme Bonaparte. He did not want to warn the Kingdom of Sardinia, nor did he want to show the Kingdom of Britain the muscle of the French navy in the Mediterranean.
Instead, they used military exercises to force the Kingdom of Sardinia to confess the situation to the French Empire.
After all, the French Empire was still the nominal "father" of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Faced with the "son"'s blatant collusion with outsiders, France, the "father", must teach his son a lesson.
"Your Majesty, isn't this price a little too high?" De Ruys whispered to Jerome Bonaparte.
"Is it big?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked, "I don't think it is big!"
Subsequently, De Ruys put forward his own plan, "I think we can reveal to the Kingdom of Sardinia in private that we are aware of their actions, and demand that the Kingdom of Sardinia must take action against Cavour."
Behavior explained!
In this case, there is no need to use large-scale military exercises!"
"Minister Ruiz!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to De Ruiz calmly, "Forcing Sardinia to confess to us is only one of the purposes of the military exercise. The reason why I chose this time to conduct military exercises is
Exercises have more than one purpose!"
"Your Majesty, what else do you want to do?" De Ruys asked Jerome Bonaparte subconsciously.
Jérôme Bonaparte put his index finger to his lips, made a hissing gesture, and said mysteriously, "This... is confidential!
Minister Luiz, you just need to successfully complete the tasks I assigned you!"
"Yes! Your Majesty!" De Luys replied to Jerome Bonaparte.
Immediately, Jerome Bonaparte and De Ruys chatted for a while, and De Ruys left Jerome Bonaparte's study.
With de Ruys leaving, Basilio once again visited Jerome Bonaparte's room.
"Your Majesty!" Basilio said respectfully to Jerome Bonaparte.
"Mr. Basilio, do you have anything else?" Jerome Bonaparte asked Basilio. He knew that Basilio came in at this time and must have something to tell him.
"That's right!" Basilio said to Jerome Bonaparte, "Did I just invite Minister de Ruys to the Tuileries Palace on your order?"
"Yes!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded in response.
“When I entered the office of Minister de Ruys, I found that Minister de Ruys was having a work exchange with Mr. Louis Decaz!
Judging from de Ruys's defense of Mr. Louis Decaz, it seems that Mr. Decaz is a more trusted subordinate of Minister De Ruys!" Basilio will happen in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Tell Jérôme Bonaparte about it.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Louis Decaz... Decaz..." Jerome Bonaparte muttered this name repeatedly, as if he had heard this name somewhere,
But for a moment I couldn’t seem to figure out where I had heard it.
"Your Majesty!" Basilio reminded "kindly", "Mr. Louis Decaze is the nephew of Duke Elie Decaze!"
When Basilio said "Duke Elie de Caze", Jérôme Bonaparte immediately thought of the royalist during the coup.
At the same time, Jerome Bonaparte also remembered some important information that he had forgotten in the corner.
"It turns out that he is the nephew of Duke Caze of Elie!" Jerome Bonaparte showed a look of surprise.
"That's right!" Basilio seemed a little confused about Jerome Bonaparte. He asked Jerome Bonaparte cautiously, "Your Majesty, do we want to give Louis Decaz some credit?"
surveillance!"
"Why keep him under surveillance?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked rhetorically.
Basilio was stunned for a few seconds, not knowing how to respond to Jerome Bonaparte.
"Your Majesty, his uncle is an important member of the royalist party, so Louis Decaz is very likely to be a potential royalist!" Basilio gave a relatively reasonable reason for the surveillance.
"A nephew is a nephew, and an uncle is an uncle! We cannot arbitrarily think that the uncle is a royalist, and the nephew must be a royalist!" Jerome Bonaparte immediately retorted to Basilio, "So far, Louis
·Dechaz has not done anything to harm the French Empire!
On the contrary, he has been working seriously under the leadership of Minister de Luys!
We cannot criticize a man who has done so much for France!"
Basilio hurriedly confessed to Jérôme Bonaparte, and explained that he was also worried that Louis Decaze would do something harmful to the interests of the empire.
"Don't worry! I believe in the character of Mr. Decaz!" Jérôme Bonaparte responded to Basilio with a firm tone, and then ordered Basilio to go to the Admiralty to call the Admiralty Dicko.
in front of him.
After all, the major matter of mobilizing the navy for military exercises cannot only be approved by Jérôme Bonaparte, but Dicko's military must be there.
Basilio obeyed Jerome Bonaparte's order and went to invite Dico. Once again, Jerome Bonaparte was alone in the room.
At this moment, Jérôme Bonaparte's mind was filled with the "past history" of Louis Decaz.
Yes, this Mr. Decaz is a famous figure in history.
Historically, the reason why the Third Republic was able to escape from the isolation of Europe in a very short period of time was all due to Decaz's ingenuity.
When Louis Decaze served as Foreign Minister of the Third Republic, he single-handedly thwarted Bismarck's desire to instigate a second Franco-Prussian War, while sowing the seeds of distrust among the Three Emperors Alliance.
In terms of ability, Louis Decaz is a well-deserved outstanding politician.
The only flaw is that although Louis Decaze was not a senior royalist, he was not a Bonapartist. He was a moderate republican.
Of course, this flaw is not a big deal to Jerome Bonaparte. As long as Louis Decaz does not openly oppose his rule and at the same time works for him wholeheartedly, then Jerome Bonaparte will
Still very willing to entrust him with important tasks
Nowadays, De Luys is almost 60 years old.
In a few years, his energy will no longer be able to support the heavy diplomatic work.
At that time, Decaz will replace Ruiz as the new foreign minister of the empire.
Decaz's abilities and his political affiliation will win Jérôme Bonaparte favorability among the "center-left" to a certain extent.
…
After a while, Minister Duco appeared in front of Jérôme Bonaparte.
At this moment, Dico's face was full of exhaustion, as if he had stayed up too late.
As soon as he sat down, he immediately asked Jerome Bonaparte what his orders were.
