Knowing that Jerome Bonaparte still maintained a balanced attitude towards the Russian Empire, Count Clarendon nodded, then stood up and bowed to Jerome Bonaparte and said: "Your Majesty, I will leave first.
Got it!"
"Let me see you off!" Jérôme Bonaparte also stood up and said to the Count of Clarendon.
"No, Your Majesty!" The Earl of Clarendon refused Jérôme Bonaparte's farewell and left the Tuileries Palace alone under the leadership of Mokar.
Standing on the window sill, Jerome Bonaparte quietly watched the Earl of Clarendon retreating away, and whispered in his mouth: "What exactly does the Kingdom of Britain mean?"
…
Time passed by in a hurry, and it soon came to 12 noon the next day.
At this time, under the scorching sun, the streets of the Quai d'Orsay and both sides of the Pont de la Concorde were filled with crowds of onlookers just like yesterday. People were eagerly waiting for the diplomatic missions from various countries to pass by. Due to the large number of people and the lack of police to maintain order,
, the originally spacious street was immediately blocked.
Seeing this, the police chief in charge of this area had to report the situation to his immediate boss, the Minister of the Interior, Pesini.
"What!" After hearing the news, Pesini showed a surprised look on his face, and then hurriedly summoned his police and gendarmerie captains, and issued instructions to evacuate the people to ensure that the diplomatic mission arrived at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on time and smoothly.
The command.
The police sergeant and gendarmerie captain who received the order did not dare to neglect it for a moment, because it was less than two hours before the mission arrived.
Nearly 1,000 police officers and 300 gendarmes were deployed to the Pont de la Concorde and Quai d'Orsay Street to maintain public order. After more than half an hour of coordination, the coordination was finally completed at 12:50 in the afternoon.
After doing all this, Pesini breathed a sigh of relief, and then went to the Tuileries Palace in person to report the news to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"It's not bad!" Jérôme Bonaparte, who was disabled in the study, replied calmly while holding "History of French Civilization" and reading it calmly.
"This is what I should do!" Pesini said humbly to Jerome Bonaparte.
The two chatted for a while again, during which Jérôme Bonaparte asked Pessini if he knew about the situation of Guizot, the former Prime Minister of Orleans.
Pesini shook his head, and then assured Jérôme Bonaparte that he would closely monitor Guizo after leaving.
"Surveillance?" Jérôme Bonaparte chuckled, continued to flip through the "History of French Civilization" in his hand and said: "There is no need to monitor him! You just need to ask Mr. Guizot a question for me!"
"Your Majesty, what do you want to ask?" Pesini said to Jerome Bonaparte.
"Ask Keith for me if he is willing to hold an official position in the imperial government!" Jérôme Bonaparte replied dully, "If he is willing, I can give him the position of member of the Education Committee.
Duty!"
Hearing Jérôme Bonaparte's promise, Pesini showed a hint of surprise on his face.
When this guy was in the Kingdom of Orleans, he advocated taking the right of education out of the hands of the church.
The Falou Law implemented by the current imperial government attributes the right of French citizens to receive education to the influence of the church.
By doing this, does Jerome Bonaparte mean that he wants to break with the church?
"Your Majesty, are you planning to take action against the church?" Pesini asked Jerome Bonaparte cautiously.
It was also an old tradition for French kings before the Great Revolution to strike hard at the church after gaining absolute power.
Who allowed the Gallic Church to accumulate a lot of wealth in France at that time.
However, after the Great Revolution, the wealth accumulated by the Gallic Church over hundreds of years was directly confiscated.
The current Gallic Church is not as wealthy as the previous Gallic Church. If you hit hard rashly, you will probably not get any money, and you will also make yourself embarrassed.
"Pessini!" Jerome Bonaparte closed the "History of French Civilization" and said to Pesigny: "Do you know the catfish effect?"
Pesini shook his head and looked at Jerome Bonaparte with a confused expression.
Jérôme Bonaparte immediately told Pesini about the catfish effect.
"Your Majesty, you want to make Guizo become that catfish and stir up the entire education system!" Pesini immediately understood what Jérôme Bonaparte meant.
"That's right!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded and said to Pesini, "I have to make those guys feel the crisis, otherwise, they will become unwilling to make progress! Our government needs
What we want is a more educated population, not illiterate people!”
"I understand!" Pesini replied to Jérôme Bonaparte with a nod.
Later, Jérôme Bonaparte issued an order to expel Pesini.
Shortly after Pesini left, Queen Augusta appeared in Jerome Bonaparte's study.
"Your Majesty, what do you want from me?" Queen Augusta asked Jerome Bonaparte.
"I can't come to you if I have nothing to do?" Jérôme Bonaparta held Augusta's hand and replied half-jokingly.
"Of course not!" Queen Augusta shook her head.
Immediately afterwards, Jérôme Bonaparte told Queen Augusta that he wanted to take Augusta and Frederick to the Bois de Boulogne for a short outing.
"You don't care about the Quai d'Orsay?" Queen Augusta asked Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Just leave it to Walevsky and the others!" Jerome Bonaparte shrugged and replied to Queen Augusta: "You can't count on me for everything! Walevsky is a diplomat.
The ministers serve me, not me, the emperor, who serves him!"
"Don't you serve Walevsky too often?" Queen Augusta said jokingly.
"I'm not afraid that Walevsky will make a mistake!" Jerome Bonaparte responded awkwardly.
Queen Augusta was right. Since Jérôme Bonaparte became president, his number of direct interviews with foreign envoys has been equal to that of the foreign minister.
Over time, both the domestic and foreign diplomatic departments knew that France’s real Ministry of Foreign Affairs was at the Palais des Tuileries, and that the Quai d’Orsay was nothing more than a “fashion”.
"What? Are you not afraid now?" Queen Augusta teased Jérôme Bonaparte again.
"Stop talking about this! Clean up and leave quickly!" Jérôme Bonaparte had no choice but to change the subject and replied to Queen Augusta.
…
Just as Jérôme Bonaparte and Queen Augusta were preparing to go on an outing to the Bois de Boulogne, carriages carrying foreign ministers passed by the Pont de la Concorde and then headed west to the diplomatic office at the Quai d'Orsay.
The door of the department.
When each minister steps out of his carriage and enters the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, bursts of cheers of "Long live peace, long live Napoleon!" will burst out from the crowd.
As the first group of foreign ministers (prime ministers) to arrive at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the foreign ministers (prime ministers) of the seven countries of Britain, Austria, Russia, Sweden, Sweden, Sweden, and Turkey were immediately welcomed by civilian bureaucrats headed by the state secretary as soon as they stepped into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building.
"Ministers, please come with me!" the State Secretary said respectfully to everyone present, and then led the way for the representatives of the seven countries.
Under the guidance of the State Secretary, the representatives of the seven countries soon arrived at the Ambassador Hall on the first floor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The first thing everyone sees when entering the hall is a large round table made of green velvet. Twelve tables and chairs are placed around the round table.
As eight ministers from the seven countries mainly involved in the Crimean War (Neserroddie and Gorchakov represent the two Russian governments respectively) will discuss issues at the round table, and around the round table there are
There are also dozens of chairs placed in the circle, where representatives of some "irrelevant" countries need to sit.
As for why some unrelated countries came to join in the fun, a large part of the reason lies in the Congress of Vienna.
When the Congress of Vienna divided the cake, the kings expelled by Napoleon came to the Congress of Vienna with a try mentality and tried to return to the throne. As a result, their hopes came true.
Most of the kings expelled by Napoleon regained their thrones, and a lucky few (the Kingdom of Sardinia) even annexed some countries (the Republic of Genoa) on the original basis as compensation.
After the Vienna Partition, European countries also became enthusiastic about participating in conferences. Regardless of whether they had some or not, they all liked to go there and participate.
If we can really get some benefits from the partition, that would be great!
Even if no benefits are gained, strengthening ties with powerful countries is not a wasted trip.
There were scarlet curtains hanging on the wall directly in front of the auditorium and the large round table. After the Secretary of State ordered his men to open the curtains, the portraits of Jerome Bonaparte and Queen Augusta hanging on the wall were revealed.
, the two people in the portrait are facing the round table, as if to tell the representatives that their every move cannot escape their sight.
To the left of the portrait is a fireplace, and on the stand next to the fireplace is a marble statue of Emperor Napoleon. For more than forty years, this statue has not been welcomed by any monarch.
Now, thanks to the efforts of Jérôme Bonaparte and the Second Empire, monarchs of various countries have to face up to this statue, because behind the statue there is a powerful French Empire.
"Everyone, please wait a moment!" the State Secretary saluted everyone present again, "His Excellency, Minister Walevsky, will come down from upstairs soon!"
The foreign ministers of the seven countries nodded, and then sat down according to the names placed on the round table.
After a while, ambassadors from Denmark, Württemberg, Bavaria, Greece, Hanover, Saxony, Poland (Prince Czartoryski concurrently served), Greece, Naples and other ambassadors arrived one after another. They sat in the audience and waited quietly for the peace meeting.