Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-One: The St. Denis District
"Adjutant Canrobert, after you arrive at General Rennault's residence, please tell him that I will meet him at the Elysée Palace at 8 o'clock tonight. When General Rennault comes, please enter from the back to avoid letting people in.
Some restless people have taken advantage of us. And when you leave, don’t ride a horse. Riding a horse can easily attract other people’s attention!”
Jerome Bonaparte gave Canrobert instructions one by one.
"Yes! Your Majesty!" Canrobert responded decisively: "I will convey your words to General Rennault!"
Jérôme Bonaparte received Canrobert's response and waved to Canrobert and said: "Go! Go early and come back early!"
"Yes!" Canrobert straightened his body and saluted Jérôme Bonaparte, who also responded with a serious face.
Canrobert, who left the Elysée Palace, did not immediately go to General Renault's temporary residence. Instead, he returned to his rented mansion alone.
Adjutant Canrobert, who changed into casual clothes again at the mansion and went out, walked alone for a long distance before beckoning for a carriage.
The carriage drove Adjutant Canrobert all the way to the Saint-Denis district.
After the carriage entered the Saint-Denis district, the entire area quickly changed. The neat streets in the Saint-Germain district became uneven. Pebbles and messy garbage could be seen everywhere in the narrow streets. The buildings on both sides of the road also became uneven.
It looks dilapidated and in disrepair. There are still traces of barricades among the rows of dangerous buildings. The stalls and newsboys on the street even blocked the already not well-off streets for a time. The pedestrians also did not let down Saint Denis.
As elegant and neat as Bourgeois, wearing a gray liberty cap, a slightly shabby Carmagnola suit, trousers, and a pair of thick wooden clogs, the proletarian has become the main theme of the Saint-Denis district.
If the Saint-Germain district represents the best side of Paris, the Saint-Denis district undoubtedly represents the most authentic and also the darkest side of Paris.
While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone.
Since the Third Estate of the Great Revolution went hand in hand and then parted ways, workers in Paris have never truly lived as "human beings" for a day. They live in single rooms with more than ten people, or they live in dark, humid and often humid rooms like goblin caves.
In places where there is an epidemic, it is even worse that the only place where one sleeps is to sleep at different times from other people.
The proletarian creates wealth, and his value is constantly squeezed until the bourgeoisie completely squeezes out their value, and those bourgeoisie will throw them away ruthlessly like sugar cane that has squeezed its juice.
After the Great Revolution, the proletarians of Paris have been resisting and fighting, and every time they resisted, they were met with the most ruthless suppression in Paris.
Even former allies (republicans) will raise a butcher knife against them after seizing power.
If Jérôme Bonaparte were here, he would definitely lament the hardships of the Paris workers, and then shed two more crocodile tears before thinking about taking the Paris workers and factories to the suburbs.
The translation is: My grandpa is kind-hearted and doesn’t want to see the poor suffer.
Of course, Canrobert obviously does not have this kind of psychological burden. He has seen too many similar things in Algiers. Compared with the Berbers who are frightened all day long, they are obviously like living in
Like heaven.
Everything is in comparison.
The carriage slowly passed through the streets of Saint-Germain and soon arrived in front of General Renault's temporary residence.
Adjutant Canrobert opened the door and handed a Napoleon silver coin to the coachman because he couldn't find the change. The coachman, who also couldn't find change, could only look at Adjutant Canrobert in embarrassment.
"Consider the remaining money as your tip!" the generous Adjutant Canrobert said magnanimously.
After receiving the carriage, the coachman hurriedly expressed his gratitude to Adjutant Canrobert, and then asked Adjutant Canrobert if he needed to return. He could wait here for Canrobert to return.
"No need!" Adjutant Canrobert shook his head and declined the coachman's kindness, and entered the building where General Rennault was hidden alone.
Climbing the dusty steps, Adjutant Canrobert finally arrived at the fourth floor, where a red nanmu door blocked Adjutant Canrobel.
Adjutant Canrobel knocked gently on the door.
"Who?" General Renault's slightly aged voice came from the door.
"I am Canrobert!" Canrobert leaned towards the crack of the door and whispered to General Renault inside: "I am here to see you on the order of the president!"
General Renault in the room heard the presidential adjutant and quickly stood up and opened the door.
Canrobert and Regno met, and this was their first meeting.
Before this, General Renault only knew from letters that the president had an aide named Canrobert.
The two looked at each other, and Adjutant Canrobert stretched out his hand to General Renault and said with enthusiasm: "Welcome back to Paris General!"
General Renault took Canrobert's hand and nodded.
Next, Adjutant Canrobert told General Reignaud what Jérôme Bonaparte had told him.
Having said that, Adjutant Canrobert quietly stared at the general with "illustrious military exploits" in front of him.
"I understand!" General Renault nodded to express his understanding. He said solemnly: "Please tell the president that I will arrive on time!"
"Yes!" Adjutant Canrobel also nodded to express his understanding.
Later, Adjutant Canrobert explained the current political situation in Paris to General Renault.
Since he had been staying in Rome during this period, General Reignault could only understand the current situation in Paris through newspapers and letters. These were not as detailed as Canrobert, a person who had experienced it personally, who explained the situation in detail to General Reignault.
"Thank you! Colonel Canrobert!" After listening to Canrobert's description of the situation in Paris, General Reignault sincerely thanked Canrobert. Through understanding the political situation in Paris, he already knew the president's purpose.
"I am also serving the president!" Adjutant Canrobel said modestly, and then expressed his needs in a vague way: "General, I hope that when you serve as minister, you can divide the functions of some departments in detail! Departments
Overlapping functions with departments will affect the operation of the entire department!”
General Renault certainly understood what Canrobert meant. He wanted to take away some functions from the Ministry of War and expand the Office of the Military Secretariat.
General Renault can understand Canrobert's behavior.
In fact, during the Roman War, General Renault had already discussed with Niel the problem of the over-bloated functions of the War Department, and he also agreed to streamline the functions involved in the War Department.
"After I become Minister of War, I will get rid of some abuses!!" General Regno responded.
Canrobert expressed his gratitude to General Renault.
Just when Canrobert was about to leave, General Renault took out a note to learn about Canrobert. The note was a note from the Bank of Rome.
"This is..." Canrobert looked at General Rennault in surprise.
"This is the sentiment of all our expeditionary forces towards the president! Notes from the Bank of Rome can be exchanged at the Bank of France!" General Regno responded to Canrobert.
"Isn't this a little precious because of your intentions?" Canrobert looked at the bill, which contained a full 600,000 francs.
You must know that the president's annual salary is only 600,000 francs.
General Regno and the others probably made a lot of money in Rome. As the gathering place of wealth and art in the entire Apennines, Rome could still make a lot of money if they wanted to plunder it.
"Nothing! These were all raised voluntarily by Roman citizens for the Republic's army!" General Regno shamelessly described the robbery as a spontaneous donation.
"I understand! I will hand it over to Mr. President!" Canrobert nodded to General Regno.
"This is yours, Adjutant!" General Renault once again took out a note of 50,000 francs, which was originally the note he was going to give to Eugène Rouet.
Since Minister Eugène Rouet has not come back, it might not be a bad idea to make some friends with the people around the president.
"I can't have it!"
Faced with General Reignaud's bill, Adjutant Canrobert decisively refused.
He knows that some money can be taken and some money cannot be taken.
A minister of war and an adjutant in the military secretariat are mixed together, and any monarch will feel uneasy.
Under Canrobert's repeated excuses, General Renault had no choice but to give up.
Canrobert, who was carrying a huge sum of 600,000 francs, said goodbye to General Regno and called a carriage again to return to his residence.
After putting on his military uniform again, he came to the Elysee Palace to report to Jérôme Bonaparte about the situation of General Regno and placed a note of 600,000 francs on Jérôme Bonaparte's desk.
"It seems that General Renault gained a lot in Rome!" Jérôme Bonaparte, who generally understood what General Renault did in Rome, did not mean to blame him. In this era, money is the best way to motivate the army.
Method.
If Jérôme Bonaparte, who aspired to become a bourgeois monarch, did not use money to motivate them to serve him, would he have to use patriotic enthusiasm to drive them?
"You didn't take any money from him, did you?" Jérôme Bonaparte turned his eyes to Canrobert, and he pursed his lips and asked, half jokingly and half seriously.
"No!" Canrobert was startled, and he stood up quickly and said like a bell.
"Yes! I understand!" Jérôme Bonaparte's faint response made Canrobert's hair stand on end. He was a little glad that he had grasped the bottom line and did not accept General Reignaud.
"Call Wardray over!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to Canrobert.
While Pescinny was in Le Crezo, Fleury was serving on the staff of the National Guard, and when Mokar was in Germany, Wardray, who was both a mentor and friend of Jérôme Bonaparte, took charge of the Elysée Palace.
Responsibilities of the “General Manager”.
After Vadray arrived, Jérôme Bonaparte pointed to the 600,000 francs on the table and said to Vadray: "Take this money and set up a disabled military relief service center to serve disabled soldiers. If the money is not enough,