Chapter seven hundred and eighty seventh personnel adjustment
"Since this matter was brought up during your term, it is up to you, the Minister of War, to implement it!
After the Colonial Office is established, you can go to Algiers and take up the post of Governor!"
"Yes! Your Majesty!"
After concluding the discussion, Jerome Bonaparte invited Minister Montauban to dine with him as usual. During this period, Jerome Bonaparte clinked glasses with Montauban many times and hinted that Minister Montauban would only serve a little longer in Algiers.
If he made some achievements, he would promote Montauban to the rank of Marshal of the Empire, and even make him a Count of the Empire.
And his purpose in doing this was simply to appease Minister Montauban, who bore the hatred for him for weakening the War Department.
After all, Montauban had already taken a lot of blame for him. If Jérôme Bonaparte did not give him some substantial rewards, how many people would be willing to take the blame for him in the future.
"Your Majesty, please rest assured! I will definitely live up to your expectations!" Minister Montauban replied respectfully to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"By the way, when you serve as Governor of Algiers, you must try your best to attract more Europeans to Algiers!" Jerome Bonaparte once again told Minister Montauban: "We French people
After all, we are in the minority in Algiers, so we must do everything we can to attract more people to Algiers!”
There are now about 135,000 Europeans in Algiers, accounting for one-ninth of the entire population of Algiers, of which the French population is only over 70,000.
This is because Jérôme Bonaparte desperately sent all the political prisoners to Algiers to achieve such a scale. Therefore, efforts must be stepped up to introduce more Europeans into the Algiers colony.
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"Your Majesty, I understand! I will do as you ask!" Minister Montauban nodded without hesitation. Like Jerome Bonaparte, he himself did not completely trust those infidels.
"There is nothing else to say!" Jérôme Bonaparte raised his glass again and said to Minister Montauban.
Minister Montauban respectfully clinked glasses with Jérôme Bonaparte.
After eating and drinking, Minister Montauban left the Tuileries Palace in a carriage under the personal farewell of Jérôme Bonaparte.
Looking at the carriage of Minister Montauban disappearing into the night, Jérôme Bonaparte turned and returned to his study.
Just when Jérôme Bonaparte was about to step onto the stairs, a carriage stopped in the open space outside the Tuileries Palace. The wind chimes hanging on the carriage jingled as the carriage stopped.
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When the sound of wind chimes reached Jerome Bonaparte's ears, Jerome Bonaparte stopped, turned around and ordered his servants to go outside to check the situation.
The servant trotted out of the Tuileries Palace and soon trotted back to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Whose carriage is it outside?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked his servant.
"Your Majesty, the carriage outside is that of the French Ambassador to Sardinia. He said that he came to apologize to Your Majesty!" the servant hurriedly responded to Jerome Bonaparte.
"Apologise!" Jérôme Bonaparte was stunned for a few seconds, then a smile appeared on his face again and he said to the servant: "Let the Sardinian ambassador come in!"
"Yes! Your Majesty!" The servant immediately went to the open space outside the Tuileries Palace and called in the ambassador of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
When the Sardinian ambassador entered the hall of the Tuileries Palace and saw Jerome Bonaparte, he quickly ran up to Jerome Bonaparte and said: "Your Majesty!"
"Mr. Ambassador, come with me!" Jérôme Bonaparte said lightly, then turned around and stepped onto the stairs again.
The Sardinian ambassador followed Jerome Bonaparte and also climbed the stairs.
Led by Jerome Bonaparte, the Sardinian ambassador entered the study.
"Sit down!" Jerome Bonaparte extended his hand and invited the Sardinian ambassador to sit on the sofa.
After a while, the servant entered the room and placed a candlestick on each of the four corners of the square table.
Under the illumination of the sixteen candles on the candlestick, the sofa instantly became bright, and Jérôme Bonaparte was able to see clearly the slightly uneasy face of the Sardinian ambassador sitting opposite.
"Mr. Ambassador, why are you here late at night?"
Although Jerome Bonaparte already knew the purpose of the Sardinian ambassador's visit, he still pretended to be ignorant and asked the Queen to ask the Sardinian ambassador.
"Your Majesty, I come here this time to apologize to you!" the Sardinian ambassador replied to Jerome Bonaparte.
"Apologise?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked deliberately pretending to be confused: "What are you apologizing for? Your country seems to have done nothing to offend me!"
The Sardinian ambassador immediately told Jerome Bonaparte what had happened that afternoon at the Louvre.
"So that's what happened!" Jérôme Bonaparte still pretended not to care and waved his hands calmly, "I almost forgot if you didn't tell me! At that time, I really wanted to
Ask about your Prime Minister, Mr. Cavour!"
Speaking of this, Jérôme Bonaparte paused and said, "But Mr. Ambassador, you are here! I just want you to ask some questions to Mr. Cavour on my behalf!"
"Your Majesty, please tell me! I will definitely tell Prime Minister Cavour!" the Sardinian ambassador said to Jerome Bonaparte with a serious face.
"I asked Mr. Cavour a few months ago if he was willing to join France in civilizing (to put it bluntly, colonizing) Africa! At that time, Mr. Cavour said, I need to ask my brother, that is, you.
Only King Emmanuel can reply to me!" Jérôme Bonaparte said slowly to the Sardinian ambassador: "It has been several months now, and Mr. Cavour has not given me a reply!
So can you ask on my behalf whether your Prime Minister is still willing to take action with France?"
"I will convey it to our Prime Minister on your behalf!" the Sardinian ambassador nodded and responded to Jerome Bonaparte.
"By the way, there is one more thing!" Jerome Bonaparte replied to the Sardinian ambassador.
"Your Majesty, tell me!" Sardinia said with an attitude of listening attentively.
Jerome Bonaparte politely asked if there was any excess working population in the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Facing Jerome Bonaparte's question, the Sardinian ambassador was stunned for a few seconds and then nodded.
Immediately, Jérôme Bonaparte stated that he wanted to sign a labor agreement with the Sardinian government on behalf of the French Colonial Ministry.
The French Colonial Ministry will hire Sardinian workers to work in Algiers, and the money earned by each Sardinian worker will be directly given to the Government of the Kingdom of Sardinia for use by the Government of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
foreign exchange.
Although Jerome Bonaparte's words are very elegant, if you think about it carefully, you will understand that Jerome Bonaparte's labor agreement is a disguised form of human trafficking.
However, Sardinia could not refuse this condition, because the Austrian Empire located next door to them had begun to gradually recover economically due to the support of the French Empire.
The tax shackles originally placed on Lombardy and Venice were gradually loosened due to the rise of Prague, Vienna, and Buda-Pest. Lombardy and Venice, which were gradually loosened by Austria, were encroaching on Sardinia in the Apennines at an unprecedented speed.
The peninsula’s share of light industry.
To make matters worse, some industries in the Kingdom of Sardinia were affected by Cavour's opening policy and began to be gradually controlled by capital groups in France.
Among the recently built railways, two-thirds of them are backed by French capital, running water, horse-drawn carriages, banks...everywhere is filled with French capital.
If Sardinia does not consider finding another way to make money now, otherwise, their only industry will either be completely destroyed by the Austrian Empire or controlled by French capital!
"Your Majesty, how many people do you need?" the Sardinian ambassador asked Jerome Bonaparte.
"Of course, the more, the better!" Jerome Bonaparte answered the Sardinian ambassador without hesitation.
"Your Majesty, I will reply to you as soon as possible together with the previous questions!" the Sardinian ambassador replied to Jerome Bonaparte.
"I look forward to good news from you!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded and said.
Jerome Bonaparte chatted with the Sardinian ambassador until 11 o'clock in the evening, and finally the Sardinian ambassador left under the watch of Jerome Bonaparte.
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In the following period, Jérôme Bonaparte announced some personnel changes.
He first went to separate the Colonial Affairs Department from the War Department into an independent department.
[ps: This move caused Minister Montauban’s status in the hearts of subordinates of the Ministry of War to plummet. For a minister, failure to secure benefits for his subordinates and the department is a failure!
During the period when Minister Montauban served as the Ministry of War, the Ministry of War successively lost military command and colonial control... He could be described as the most "useless" minister of war in history.
Of course, some rights were indeed not lost by Montauban, but this does not prevent subordinates from placing "credit" on Montauban.
If Montauban didn't have the emperor behind him now, he wouldn't be able to command the Ministry of War.】
The new department was renamed the Colonial Office and was responsible for the colonies except Algiers.
The Colonial Office has the power to appoint colonial officials, form colonial governments, and nominate colonial governors (currently, the only governors that the Colonial Office can nominate are Senegal, Guyana, and Gabon).
The new Minister of Colonial Affairs was General de Castene, Governor of Algiers.
Minister of War Couzin Montauban was transferred to Governor of Algiers, and General Vaillant, the emperor's adjutant, became the new Minister of War.
As soon as the personnel announcement came out, the entire War Department was delighted with Couzin-Montauban's resignation.
As for Couzin Montauban, he was currently receiving the Order of Knighthood of the Fourth Class from Jérôme Bonaparte at the Tuileries Palace.
