As the date of the Paris Peace Conference gradually approached, the number of people attending the Century Exposition, instead of decreasing, gradually increased.
In the first three days of the opening alone, the total number of visitors exceeded 180,000, which is equivalent to 60,000 people entering the Century Exposition every day.
Such data not only shocked the whole of Paris, but also made Jérôme Bonaparte, who originally had no hope of making a profit from the Century Exposition, feel the possibility of making a profit.
After seeing such impressive data, the Paris City Hall began to feel a little dissatisfied with the price of tickets. They believed that each ticket was only sold for 2 francs, and the price was really low.
With 180,000 visitors, the total profit after maintenance costs is only about 300,000 francs.
The investment for the entire exhibition hall is 10 million francs, and it will take a long time for them to truly make a profit.
If their pricing could be slightly higher, wouldn't they be able to collect funds faster?
As the ticket leader, Jérôme Bonaparte also once had the idea of whether he had set the price of each ticket a little low and whether he should re-set the price.
After carefully weighing the pros and cons, Jerome Bonaparte decided to maintain the existing price without changing it.
He also ordered Mokar to publish an article titled "Tickets and France", which described the reason why the Century Exposition established a 2-franc ticket price (in order to allow more people to have the opportunity to understand and contact the whole world at close range and see clearly
The development of the world, the Century Exposition is not an exposition that only serves a few people, but an exposition that serves the vast majority of people), and the government guarantees the unswerving implementation of the 2-franc ticket price, and this article is signed by Joseph Stalin.
As soon as the article was published, it immediately received heated discussions at home and abroad. Many people identified with the expo in the article that served the majority of people.
Some foreigners who originally had no interest in the Exposition of the Century began to have a slight interest in the French Exposition.
Immediately afterwards, some "keen" people noticed that the signature of the article was the same as the signature published in Britain a few years ago (1848), and the author behind the original signature was Emperor Jerome Bonaparte.
As a result, many people speculated that the emperor behind the signature should also be the emperor of the Tuileries Palace, and some people who did not mind the excitement speculated whether the purpose of Emperor Jerome Bonaparte's words was
diss a certain prince in Buckingham Palace.
After all, Prince Albert's ticket price for the Universal Exhibition was several times higher than Jérôme Bonaparte's current ticket price.
As the saying goes, where there is traffic, there is popularity.
In today's world, no one has greater traffic than the monarch.
Therefore, Britain's small and medium-sized newspapers instantly turned into some unscrupulous marketing accounts of later generations, hyping up like crazy.
Within 48 hours after Jérôme Bonaparte's article was published, gossip began to spread throughout Britain that the French Emperor criticized Prince Albert.
The already hot topic has once again been pushed to a climax. I am afraid that even Jerome Bonaparte could not have imagined that an article published under his own name would be misinterpreted in this way.
The whole of Britain began to have a heated discussion about this matter. Under such heated hype, more and more British gentlemen decided to go to the French Exposition of the Century to find out.
[ps: Later generations will record this unintentional act of Jérôme Bonaparte as a means of publicity.]
Queen Victoria, who was deeply affected by public opinion, was also dissatisfied with Jerome Bonaparte who was far away in Paris.
The Queen in Windsor Castle crumpled the newspaper in her hand, threw it in her mouth and complained: "What on earth does that guy Jérôme Bonaparte want to do! Does he want to use it as an excuse?"
Albert, who was sitting aside, looked at the angry queen in front of him, and responded gently: "Probably not!"
"What's going on with those articles?" Queen Victoria asked Prince Albert.
"Those articles!" Prince Albert said with a wise smile on his face: "They are just some superficial articles!"
Then, Prince Albert pointed to the newspaper in his hand and said to Queen Victoria: "I do have a newspaper here where Joseph Stalin published the original article. Do you want to take a look?"
Queen Victoria took the newspaper and took a look. Sure enough, the entire article contained no content dissing Prince Albert. The content of the article had nothing to do with Britain at all.
After reading the newspaper, Queen Victoria curiously asked Prince Albert: "Albert, you just said that those articles were based on rumors, so is this Joseph Stalin Jerome Bonaparte?"
"Judging from the style of the article, it should be him!" Prince Albert said categorically to Queen Victoria: "Those newspapers were not wrong about this! However, they were able to put the article published by Jérôme Bonaparte seven years ago
The signature on the article was republished, which surprised me!"
"Seven years ago!" Queen Victoria trembled slightly subconsciously, "How did they find the previous article?"
"I don't know about that!" Prince Albert shook his head and replied to Queen Victoria.
"Then...Albert, should we also go to the World's Fair?" Queen Victoria turned to ask Prince Albert.
"What? You want to go too?" Prince Albert asked Queen Victoria.
"I'm just curious! How is their fair different from the ones we held before!" Queen Victoria replied to Prince Albert.
"Since you want to go, let's find a time to go there!" Prince Albert replied to Queen Victoria.
"Don't you think it won't work recently?" Queen Victoria asked a little disappointed.
"It's best not to go there in the near future, unless you want to squeeze in with those people!" Prince Albert said to Queen Victoria, "I'm sure there are only a lot more people this time than we did at that time!"
Thinking of the overwhelming scene at the Universal Exposition, Queen Victoria gave up the idea of going to Paris in the near future.
That afternoon, Valet, the French ambassador to Britain, appeared at Windsor Castle!
"Your Majesty, I just received a telegram from my monarch, Emperor Jérôme Bonaparte. His Majesty Emperor Jérôme Bonaparte said that he himself was deeply concerned about the article "Ticket and France".
We sincerely apologize for the negative impact this article has caused to your Majesty! Your Majesty himself did not realize that this article would cause so many problems!" Ambassador Vallett immediately apologized to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as soon as he sat down.
"Nothing!" Prince Albert waved his hand magnanimously and replied to Valette: "You can tell Jérôme Bonaparte that these gossipy things will not affect the feelings between Britain and France!
"
"Your Highness, thank you for your generosity!" Wallet breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to Prince Albert: "I believe that the two countries that have experienced the Crimean War will unite closely.
Let’s help each other!”
Later, Valet and Prince Albert began to talk some meaningless nonsense. The two of them talked from British culture to French culture, and from French culture to Pan-Germanic culture and...
When Prince Albert talked about Pan-Germanic culture, he immediately changed the subject and asked Wallet: "By the way, Ambassador Wallet, I heard that your country wants to sign a customs union with the Kingdom of Sweden. I don't know if it is possible."
This matter!"
Valet's expression paused, and then he regained his smile and said to Prince Albert: "Your Excellency, I don't know where you heard this news!"
"Your Excellency Ambassador, I have no intention of interfering in your country's diplomacy, but I just hope that our two countries can be more frank on certain issues!" Prince Albert threatened openly: "After all, two countries
Only when countries are honest with each other can they trust each other!
There are less than four days left before the Crimea post-war settlement conference, and some things must be agreed upon before the conference begins!"
Seeing that he could not hide it, Wallet had to tell Prince Albert that the French Empire was indeed preparing to sign a customs union treaty with the Kingdom of Sweden, but the treaty had not yet been signed.
"Your Excellency, please understand that France is now on the road to industrialization, so we need a lot of iron ore and coal, and our homeland is short of iron ore and coal, so we have to sign a customs union with the Kingdom of Sweden!"
Wallet said sincerely to Prince Albert, "It's not that we don't want to tell you, but the customs union between us and Sweden has not been fully implemented yet!"
Faced with Wallet's explanation, Prince Albert was obviously unconvinced.
"Britain can also become an excellent business partner of France! We can also have closer business ties between our two countries!" Prince Albert said to Valette.
Valet then replied to Prince Albert that the factory owners in the French Empire did not agree to closer exchanges between Britain and France because they could not defeat British capital in terms of cost.
The capital in the Kingdom of Sweden cannot defeat them, so they are more willing to communicate with Sweden.
After hearing Valet's reasons, Prince Albert reluctantly accepted his statement.
After all, every family has a hard time learning. Wasn’t it true that the British were also worried that the Indian textile industry would launch anti-dumping measures against them, so they used higher tariffs to restrict Indian textiles from entering the UK?
Although the customs union between France and the Kingdom of Sweden was established privately without informing Britain, it did not touch Britain's sensitive lines.
Prince Albert was just dissatisfied with the French Empire's secretive actions behind their backs.
Finally, Prince Albert told Zelai that he and Queen Victoria would go to Paris again in about a month.
Valet immediately expressed a warm welcome to Prince Albert for his trip to Paris.
