Chapter seven hundred and sixty-two exchange of interests and entrustment
By the time the second meeting ended, all the issues that could be discussed openly had basically reached a compromise.
As the host of the conference, Walewski announced on the spot that the third and final meeting would be scheduled for a week later.
By then, the Paris Peace Conference will provide the final results of negotiations. No country or individual has the ability to overturn the established facts of the third Paris Conference.
Everyone in the ambassador's hall knew very well that the reason why Walewski set the third meeting a week later was simply a hint that they would use this time to win over as many allies as possible.
After all, today's Europe is still a diversified Europe, and no country has the ability to dominate all countries like the American imperialism of later generations.
Not even the Kingdom of Britain is possible.
Therefore, the quantity and quality of allies are the key to obtaining the cake. As long as you can win over more allies, you will be able to cut a large piece of the cake.
On the contrary, the fewer allies standing by your side, the less cake you can share.
In this cake-sharing meeting, France, as the arbiter, has already divided its own cake (the investment rights of the Russian Empire, the investment rights of the Ottoman Empire, the Principality of Luxembourg, the ownership of Rhode Island, the garrison rights of the Holy Land, etc.
It had already been cut off by France before the peace conference started), so Walewski could just sit on the Diaoyutai and watch all the forces competing to win over him.
Sure enough, that night after the second meeting ended.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Austrian Empire once again invited Minister Walewski to dine at the Louvre Hotel, the most luxurious hotel in Paris. The two of them exchanged glasses of wine in the hotel, feeling very uncomfortable.
After three drinks, Minister Bauer gave the prepared gift to Walewski.
"How can this be done!" Walewski rejected Minister Bauer "righteously", "I felt I was unworthy of the last gift!
Mr. Ball should take these back!"
With that said, Walewski pushed back the gift that Count Bauer had pushed over.
Upon seeing this, Count Bauer smiled and said to Walewski: "Mr. Walewski, last time it was a gift from our Emperor to you, and this time it was given to you by Archduke Maximilian!
In the telegram, he specifically asked me to give this gift to you to thank you for your support for him.
Archduke Maximilian also said that this gift symbolizes the friendship between the French Empire and the Kingdom of Poland!
Please accept it!"
After listening to Count Bauer's words, Walewski immediately showed off his acting talent like a movie actor. With a moved expression on his face, he said: "Since this gift represents the friendship between France and the Kingdom of Poland, how dare I destroy it?"
This true friendship!
Then I will shamelessly accept it!"
"It should have been so long ago!" Count Bauer calmly pushed the gift to Walewski again, then raised his glass and said to Walewski: "Mr. Walewski, let us do something for France."
Cheers to the friendship between the Empire and the Austrian Empire, and the friendship between the French Empire and the Kingdom of Poland!”
"There is also the friendship between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Poland!" Walewski also raised his glass as a "reminder".
"Yes, yes! There is also the friendship between the Kingdom of Poland and the Austrian Empire!" Count Bauer quickly changed his words to Walewski.
The two tall legs made a clear and sweet sound, and Count Bauer and Walewski drank the Bordeaux wine in their glasses.
Count Bauer, who sent the gift to Walewski, began to chat with Walewski. The two talked about music, history, and then family.
When talking about his son, Earl Bauer told Walewski that he had a son who had never let him worry about it before. He had been worried about his son's future. Now his son has served as an attendant to Grand Duke Maximilian.
Military attache, he no longer has to worry about his son's future.
Although the Kingdom of Poland is not as good as the Austrian Empire, their competition will not be as fierce as the Austrian Empire.
If you want to climb to a high position in the Austrian Empire, you need to fight your way through the two political groups of Germany and Bohemia (the Hungarian political group withdrew from the stage after 1848).
Only those who have experienced it will understand the hardships involved, but it is different in Poland.
Those who followed Archduke Maximilian to Warsaw were Archduke Maximilian's natural allies. All they had to face were the local forces in Russian Poland, and his allies were the nobles of the former Austrian Poland.
Under such circumstances, the difficulty is much lower than in the Austrian Empire.
After listening to Count Bauer's words, Walewski felt a feeling of empathy in his heart. He was not considering the future of his 10-year-old son before sending him to the Tuileries Palace.
"Hey! It's not easy being a parent!" Walewski sighed.
"Yes!" Earl Bauer also nodded, then raised his glass again and said to Walewski: "Come! Drink, drink!"
Count Ball and Valewski clinked glasses again until around 11 o'clock in the evening, when the tipsy Valewski slowly got into the carriage he came in.
The carriage carried Walewski back to the mansion. Walewski lay in bed and rested until noon the next day before he got up.
Valewski had just gotten up and before he could fully wake up, Valewski's wife told him that the Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire invited him to the Louvre Hotel tonight.
After that, a red invitation letter was delivered to Walewski's hands.
Valewski opened the invitation and looked at it for a long time. He did not see in the invitation which minister was inviting him. The name in the column of the inviter was "Russian Empire".
So Valewski raised his head and asked his wife: "Did the person who sent the invitation say which Russian minister it was?"
The wife shook her head and replied to Walewski: "The servant who sent the invitation handed the invitation to me and left!"
Walewski frowned and muttered softly: "Who could it be?"
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Just when Valewski was thinking about which foreign minister of the Russian government would invite him, the Tuileries Palace where Jérôme Bonaparte lived also received an "uninvited guest."
Mokar, who entered the room, looked at Jérôme Bonaparte, who was looking through the expenditure reports for the Century Exposition and the Paris Peace Conference, and responded respectfully: "Your Majesty, Princess Mathilde would like to ask to see you!"
"Sister Mathilde?" Jérôme Bonaparte put down the report in his hand and frowned slightly. He didn't understand why his sister came to the door at this time.
Could it be said that he was entrusted by someone?
Jérôme Bonaparte thought of this possibility. After all, Cavour, this damn fat man, had already established a relationship with his sister, and he might want to rely on Mathilde to do Jérôme Bonaparte's work.
Now Jérôme Bonaparte did not dare to refuse Mathilde's visit, so he had no choice but to say to Mokar: "Let her come in!"
"Yes! Your Majesty!" Mokar nodded and said to Jérôme Bonaparte.
After a while, Princess Mathilde appeared in Jérôme Bonaparte's study.
"Your Majesty!" Mathilde bowed to Jerome Bonaparte solemnly as soon as she entered the door.
Looking at the sister with a sudden change of painting style in front of him, Jérôme Bonaparte suddenly felt that something was wrong.
As the saying goes, when you treat others with courtesy, you must ask for something.
The more respectful Princess Mathilde was to him, the more Jerome Bonaparte was afraid that she would put forward a condition that he could not achieve.
"Sister, you are too polite!" Jérôme Bonaparte quickly stretched out his hand and said to Princess Mathilde: "Sit down! Sit down!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Princess Mathilde bowed to Jerome Bonaparte again, and then sat opposite Jerome Bonaparte.
After Mathilde sat down, Jérôme Bonaparte hurriedly called Mokar to leave, "Mokar, you have nothing to do here! Just go out first!"
"Yes!" Mokar also bowed to Jérôme Bonaparte.
Only Jérôme Bonaparte and Mathilde Bonaparte were left in the room. Jérôme Bonaparte said to Mathilde helplessly: "Sister, please be a little more normal."
!I am afraid!"
"Hahahaha!" Princess Mathilde whispered softly, and said in a teasing tone: "I don't see, since you, the emperor of the empire, are sometimes afraid!"
"Say it! What do you want from me?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked the helpless Princess Mathilde.
"Can't you come over if you have nothing to do?" Princess Mathilde asked back.
"Of course!" Jérôme Bonaparte spread his hands and said to Princess Mathilde: "Sister, you can come over whenever you want! The Tuileries Palace welcomes you at any time!"
"This sounds pretty good to me!" Mathilde wanted to reach out and touch Jérôme Bonaparte like she did when she was a child. As soon as she reached halfway, she suddenly realized that her brother was already an emperor.
She can no longer treat the emperor as before.
"Sister, what do you want from me?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked again, which relieved Princess Mathilde's embarrassment.
Princess Mathilde put her hands down calmly, and then replied to Jérôme Bonaparte: "Are you free tonight?"
Jerome Bonaparte nodded.
Princess Mathilde then told Jérôme Bonaparte that Prime Minister Cavour had entrusted her with a banquet for Jérôme Bonaparte.
I hope Jerome Bonaparte can agree to his invitation!
"Sister, go back and tell Cavour that he should come to the Tuileries Palace as a guest tonight! It is reasonable to think that I should host a banquet for him!"
