After receiving the reply from Jérôme Bonaparte, Lord Cowley braved the sudden cold wind and left the Tuileries Palace with a cold body but a warm heart.
Jérôme Bonaparte, who stood in front of the carved window and watched Lord Cowley gradually disappear from sight, turned away from the window, sat back in his chair, and processed the documents handed to him by the Secretariat.
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As time goes by, the temperature in Paris has gradually dropped. Citizens living in Paris have also consciously taken off their autumn clothes and put on slightly thicker clothes. Some Paris residents have begun to consciously store firewood in order to survive this period.
winter.
However, all Parisians, including Jérôme Bonaparte, did not realize that winter was coming earlier than they thought.
In mid-January, a cold wave from Siberia swept across Western Europe, dealing a heavy blow to the citizens of Paris who were not ready for the arrival of General Winter.
The citizens of Paris who have not yet calmed down can only step up their efforts to stock up on firewood and race against time. Before batches of wood have completely left the suburbs of Paris, they have been sold to the Parisian middle class with capital and connections (this refers to the
Lawyers, small and medium-sized bureaucrats in Paris) rushed to buy them up, so that the entire Paris lumber market showed a phenomenon of short supply. The price of each piece of wood also gradually increased with the environment of short supply, thus creating a phenomenon of "wood is more valuable than gold".
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Such a vicious price increase incident naturally attracted the attention of Jerome Bonaparte. In order to ease the relationship between supply and demand, and also to eliminate the dissatisfaction of Paris citizens as much as possible, Jerome Bonaparte specially called the Minister of Public Works to his side.
The Ministry of Public Works was ordered to bring in a shipment of lumber from nearby provinces to satisfy Paris, which was gradually falling into a lumber panic.
At the same time, Jérôme Bonaparte also called the senior official of the Seine Province, George Osman, and issued an order to this senior official who abused his people's power: he asked the senior official George Osman to protect as much as possible during this period.
Regarding the living conditions of vulnerable groups in Paris, there must not be widespread death in Paris!
Baron George Haussmann, who was set by the emperor to set KPI targets, had no choice but to grit his teeth and use the originally not very rich municipal government budget to balance the rising prices in the lumber market.
With the dual intervention of the Ministry of Public Works and the Seine provincial government, the lumber panic that originally appeared in Paris has improved slightly.
However, God seems to be against Paris and will not give it any chance to breathe.
A snowstorm came to Paris, known as the heart of France, more than half a month earlier than previous years. In just one night, the entire Paris was transformed into a city covered in silver.
It can be said that General Winter used his harsh methods to bring back the prices that Jérôme and Bonaparte had worked so hard to stabilize. Not only did the price of wood continue to soar even higher than before, but the price of food in Paris also increased.
Rising as panic spreads.
These are not the worst situations. The worst thing is that in this extreme environment in Paris, people freeze to death every day.
Fear will spread throughout Paris like a plague, and the first thing the panicked Paris citizens will think of is the government departments. Those careerists and potential republicans lurking in Paris will lead Paris citizens just like the Napoleons attacked the Orleans government.
Attack governments with unlimited liability systems.
The contradictions that were originally hidden underwater will resurface, and the people of Paris who have endured the cold will definitely surge forward to overthrow the current government.
Anyone who harms the lives of the Paris people will be overthrown by the Paris people.
In the original Orleans Dynasty, it was because food could not arrive in Paris in time, which made the people of Paris resentful. The resentment from the food aroused the citizens' resentment towards the political situation of the Orleans Dynasty, which detonated Paris.
Moreover, these conclusions were what Jérôme Bonaparte found when he reviewed the agricultural price list of the Paris region from 1847 to 1848 from the Ministry of Agriculture and summarized the causes of the Great Revolution.
Jérôme Bonaparte, who sensed in advance that public opinion was slipping in a direction that was not conducive to his rule, once again summoned all cabinet ministers to Tuile except Minister Hai (Minister Dicko was inspecting the Toulon area) and Minister Lu.
There was a brief meeting in the palace.
Jérôme Bonaparte, who stayed in the room with burning firewood, first made a brief summary of the sudden snowstorm, and then made a systematic summary of the situation facing Paris now.
Then he turned to the cabinet members present and asked them what they could do.
The Minister of Public Works immediately spoke. He first criticized himself for not being able to deliver the firewood on time. Then he told the basic situation of the main traffic arteries and railways from Paris to nearby provinces, and then asked Gérault
M. Bonaparte said that due to the blizzard weather, there are still a large number of non-industrial jobs in the national construction factories in Paris. The government can order them to clear the traffic arteries to stabilize Paris.
Later, Pesini, who is the Minister of the Interior, also said that there is also a part of the labor force available in the Ministry of Interior, which can be sent to clear the roads.
With the Minister of Public Affairs and the Minister of the Interior setting an example, the remaining departments also understood what Jérôme Bonaparte meant, and they all expressed to Jérôme Bonaparte that their subordinate departments also had labor forces and could help smooth the way.
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As a result, a vigorous "Battle to Defend Paris" began. Members from the Ministry of Public Works, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Railways, and the Ministry of Justice, under the coordination of the leaders of various departments, cleared the snow on the main roads and suburbs in an orderly manner.
Eugene Schneider, who served as the chairman of the Planning Commission, also converted part of the factories originally used for military logistics production into engineering shovels needed for civilian use at the suggestion of Jérôme Bonaparte to ensure the speed of cleaning.
Perhaps inspired by these people, many people began to join the large army of snow clearers.
Even Jérôme Bonaparte braved the severe cold and walked out of the Tuileries Palace to clear the snow with the citizens of Paris.
When the citizens of Paris saw Jérôme Bonaparte and them hoping to clear the snow, part of the resentment hidden in their hearts disappeared.
People recalled the government's efforts to balance lumber prices, and some of the resentment disappeared once again.
With joint efforts from inside and outside Paris, it took only two days for the first batch of timber to be delivered to Paris.
The panic caused by the snowstorm is gradually fading. The arrival of the first batch of timber has made the market once again confident in the French government, and the prices of timber and food have also dropped.
After this battle, Jérôme Bonaparte once again gained the favor of Paris citizens, and some neutralists began to lean toward the current system.
In the next few days, although Paris was still experiencing intermittent snowfall, no snowfall had the potential to overthrow the government like the sudden blizzard.
In the early morning of January 24, when the long-lost sunlight once again enveloped this land, the "defense battle" that lasted for nearly more than a week came to an end.
"We deeply miss the citizens who died in the 117 heavy snowstorm, and at the same time express our gratitude to all citizens who participated in this "Blizzard Defense War"..." This was George Osman, a senior official of the Seine Province, in the city on January 24.
A concluding speech delivered at the government gate.
Although the severe cold has not gone far and the temperature in Paris is still below freezing, the citizens of Paris still stick to the city hall to listen to the speech of Mayor Georges Haussmann.
After the speech, there was warm applause around the city hall headed by George Haussmann.
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The severe cold brought not only a shortage of living supplies to Paris, but also a certain impact on the military supplies shipped to the Ottoman Empire.
Before the snow along the railway line was completely cleared, Jérôme Bonaparte could only transfer part of the orders originally allocated to the Paris-based Industrie Nord to Eugène Schneider of Le Crezo.
Oren Schneider, which accepted the order transfer, also began to operate at overload.
Even in such a difficult situation, the troops of Britain, an ally, also began to act evil.
When Valewski passed a telegram from Constantinople to Jerome Bonaparte about the location of the British army, an angry Jerome Bonaparte directly called Lord Cowley to him and pointed
Map of the Near East interrogated by Lord Cowley.
"Lord Cowley, please tell me where the British troops are now?"
"Your Majesty, the British Kingdom's primary goal is not to fight a decisive battle with Russia, but to protect the Ottoman Empire from the Russian Empire!" Lord Cowley replied slowly to Jerome Bonaparte: "We think Gallipoli is the best
defensive position!"
It turns out that nearly three months have passed since the British Kingdom issued a war threat to the Russian Empire.
In these three months, Britain spent two full months from recruiting soldiers, to electing commanders, to electing officers, and the remaining month was spent discussing how to combine soldiers
After being transported to the Ottoman Empire, there was no time to survey the terrain.
And Gallipoli is what they think is the best defensive location.
"Lord Cowley, please tell me! The British army should obtain the strategic resources it needs from this inhospitable place!" Jerome Bonaparte asked Lord Cowley.
"What?" Lord Cowley asked Jérôme Bonaparte in confusion, as if he knew about it for the first time.
"I mean the Kingdom of Britain, how can we search for supplies in this area where there is only one dirt road running through the entire island! There is no household around here that can provide us with daily necessities! Our fleet cannot be here either.
Establish effective supplies!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to Lord Cowley word for word.
