An envelope from Rome "crossed the ocean" into France, then passed through Marseille, Lyon, and "taken" a train to the Elysée Palace Military Office.
Pesini, who had received a letter from Rome early in the morning, rushed to the door of Jerome Bonaparte's bedroom. Now that the door was open, he hesitated for a moment before knocking on the door of Jerome Bonaparte.
Ba's room door.
As Pesigny's knock on the door became louder and louder, Jérôme Bonaparte in the bedroom finally opened his hazy sleepy eyes and asked Pesigny lazily outside the door: "What's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, there is a letter from Rome!" Pesini said calmly outside the door.
"Rome?" Jerome Bonaparte murmured to himself in a half-asleep state, and then woke up. After patting his cheeks gently, he put on the clothes he had prepared the night before and opened the door.
He stretched out his hand and said urgently to Pesini: "Here's the letter!"
"Here! Your Majesty!" Pesini respectfully handed over a letter from Rome to Jerome Bonaparte.
The plain brown envelope was written with the eye-catching "From the President" in French, and the signature in the lower right corner of the envelope was "Renio de Saint-Jean Gérière, Commander-in-Chief of the Roman Expeditionary Force".
Jérôme Bonaparte quickly tore open the envelope, and the white letter paper "lyed" quietly in the envelope. He took out the letter paper and placed the empty shell envelope on the walnut bedside table. He sat by the bed and read the contents of the letter paper.
Opening the folded letter, Jérôme Bonaparte was able to see the entire letter.
The contents of the envelope are as follows:
"Dear Mr. President, under your wise decision and leadership! Our army fought steadily and completely captured the city of Rome on the night of June 3.
In this battle, we annihilated more than 40,000 people in the Roman Republic (an exaggeration) and captured more than 5,000 die-hards!
The members of the puppet government headed by Mazzini have also been captured by our army. The only regret is that we did not capture the military commander of the puppet government, Garibaldi. This cunning guy escaped from our pursuit and was at a loss.
Fighting against each other we fought the best war since the Empire, and it's all thanks to..."
The next words were all a lot of disgusting words of praise, such as: "Without the president's wise decision, we would not have been able to defeat Rome!" "The army soldiers only want to serve Mr. President" and other words.
After reading the letter from beginning to end, Jérôme Bonaparte refolded the letter and put it on the bed. He was certain that this letter could never have been written by General Renault himself. It was most likely Edgar Ney.
A letter written by the swordsman on behalf of General Renault.
However, Jérôme Bonaparte did not resent this kind of flattery.
"Your Majesty, over there in Rome..." Pesini, standing next to Jerome Bonaparte, asked cautiously.
"Huh? Didn't you see?" Jérôme Bonaparte looked at Pesigny in confusion.
Pesini shook his head and replied firmly: "This letter is written to you by Rome. How dare I dare to overstep my authority!"
"Then take a look at it too!" Jérôme Bonaparte handed the letter on the bed to Pesini.
Pesini took the letter respectfully with both hands and read every line of it.
About two minutes later, Pesini refolded the letter and placed it on the bedside. With a joyful expression on his face, he said: "Your Majesty, Rome is victorious!"
"That's right! Rome won!" Jerome Bonaparte breathed a long sigh of relief and nodded in response with a smile on his face.
Rennault was personally appointed by himself to go to Rome to "quell the rebellion". It can be said that Rennault represents the will and prestige of Jerome Bonaparte.
Once Renault makes a mistake in Rome, it will inevitably lead to the loss of Jérôme Bonaparte's prestige.
Especially in the more than ten days after May 17, Jérôme Bonaparte often remembered that the first attack on General Oudinot in history ended in failure. He hoped that General Regno could avoid failure and go straight to Huanglong.
After receiving the letter, Jérôme Bonaparte felt relieved.
Next, what he should think about is how to turn this war to his advantage.
"Pessini!" Jérôme Bonaparte conveyed the order to Pessini: "You should rush to the residence of Prime Minister Odilon Barrow and Minister Liulier as soon as possible and call them over!"
"Yes!" Pesini responded, turned and left.
Before Pesigny could step out of the bedroom, Jérôme Bonaparte's voice came from behind Pesigny again: "Wait a minute!"
Pesini turned around again and stared at Jérôme Bonaparte in confusion.
"What do you think about setting up a telegraph line to Rome?" Jerome Bonaparte raised his head and asked Pesini.
"Of course that's great!" Pesini immediately replied: "This can save a lot of time!"
"Not only Rome, but also the Near East needs to set up a telegraph line! Well, just call the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce over! The work of setting up telegraphs has always been the responsibility of their Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce!" After explaining everything to Jerome.
Bonaparte waved his hand.
Pesini turned and left Jérôme Bonaparte's bedroom.
Jérôme Bonaparte stood up, stuffed the letter back into the envelope, and then put it in his pocket.
After washing up under the service of the butler and maid, and eating a "simple" breakfast worth 500 francs, he returned to the study alone to wait for the arrival of the "guest".
At 9:10 a.m., Pesini returned to the Elysée Palace to inform Jérôme Bonaparte about the situation of two ministers and a prime minister.
"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Odilon Barrow and Minister Liulier will be here soon! Minister Biffe himself is inspecting villages near Paris and will not be back until this afternoon!"
"It seems that Biffe, the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, is quite competent!" Jérôme Bonaparte joked, half jokingly and half seriously.
"Your Majesty, I once heard someone say that Minister Biffet owns a large area of land in the Seine department!" Pesini responded to Jérôme Bonaparte.
Good guy, I took advantage of my position to inspect the land!
Jérôme Bonaparte was a bit dumbfounded. Each of his ministers did not look like serious bureaucrats at all, but instead looked like businessmen who were calculating calculations.
This is very much in line with capitalism! By the way, I can...
"Has Minister Biffet committed any illegal land acquisition?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked casually.
After a moment of silence, Pesini said, "Your Majesty, do you need me to call someone from the police department to check it out?"
"No need for now!" Jérôme Bonaparte rejected Pesini's suggestion: "We need to find out Bife's attitude first! If he is unwilling to cooperate with us, we will implement the next plan."
"Yes!" Pesini responded to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Your Excellency, President!" Odilon Barro's voice came from outside the door, and Jerome Bonaparte looked at Pesini, who quickly moved away from Jerome Bonaparte and sat on the sofa nearby.
"Come in!" Jérôme Bonaparte responded rushing out the door.
Odilon Barrow entered the study, followed closely by Minister Liuelli.
"Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Minister, please sit down!" Jérôme Bonaparte invited Barrow and Liulier to sit down.
Pesini quickly stood up to give up his seat to Barro and Liuelli, then smiled and nodded and left the study.
Jérôme Bonaparte stood up and came to Barro and Liuelli and said to them: "I received a letter from Rome. General Regno and Major Edgar Ney have led the army to occupy Rome.
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Odilon Barro and Liuelli showed varying degrees of surprise. They did not expect the Roman Republic to be so vulnerable and defeated them in less than half a month.
"This is all thanks to your leadership, President!" Liuelli immediately boasted to Jerome Bonaparte.
A trace of displeasure flashed in Odilon Barrow's eyes. He was the one who promoted him to this position in the first place, but he didn't want to be grateful and wanted to be a mere wallflower.
Barrow, who was currently "cooperating happily" with Jérôme Bonaparte, nodded and seemed to agree with Liuelli's words.
Jerome Bonaparte waved his hands modestly and said: "This is all based on the joint efforts of Mr. Prime Minister and his colleagues in the Party of Order. I am just following the trend!"
A president who is modest and does not interfere too much in the running of the cabinet is undoubtedly the favorite of any power-hungry prime minister.
[ps: In Barrow's view, Jérôme Bonaparte, who occasionally interfered with the army in an unreasonable way, was not an interference in the operation of the cabinet at all! In the constitution of the Second Republic, the prime minister did not have the power to command the army. The Ministry of War's opinion of Barrow
In other words, it is a stealth department.]
"Mr. Barrow, what should we do next? Those guys in the parliament will never let this big news go unchecked! They are likely to use this matter as a weapon to attack us, and that guy Ludru Roland is eager to
We made a mistake!" said Jérôme Bonaparte, pretending to be worried.
"Please don't worry!" Odilon Barrow said with confidence. He had obviously thought of a response strategy: "Those guys from the Mountain Party will not be happy for long. When they attack us again, they will
When they were expelled from the Assembly, General Changarnier was already ready!"
Changarnier, Changarnier again! What a haunting fellow!
Jérôme Bonaparte secretly cursed the aging Changarnier in his heart to go see God earlier.
Curse is a curse, but Jérôme Bonaparte still had a happy smile on his face and said: "It would be great if General Changarnier is willing to take action!"
"Our plan is..."
Odilon Barrow was discussing eloquently, but Liuelli, who was sitting next to Barrow, looked a little angry. As the Minister of War, he and a member of the Party of Order were as unaware of Barrow's conspiracy as the president.
Even Changarnier, who was supposed to be a subordinate, had no respect for his nominal superior. What on earth did the Minister of War mean?