While Basilio was rectifying the unhealthy practices of the Paris-based Norte Industrial Group and Jérôme Bonaparte was eagerly waiting for the Persian envoy to ask for help, a sudden change was also taking place in North Africa.
The initiator of this incident was the Kingdom of Morocco in North Africa.
Early on a Sunday morning near the end of December, French Foreign Minister De Luyins hurried to the entrance of the Tuileries Palace in a carriage, stepped on the snowy steps that had not yet been cleared, and entered the hall of the Tuileries Palace.
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Upon seeing this, the servants in the hall quickly stopped De Luyins and asked De Luyins, "Minister Luyins, do you have anything urgent to report to His Majesty?"
"Of course!" De Luyins replied without hesitation.
"Please go to the drawing room and wait for a moment. I will go and report immediately!" the servant said while ordering his companion to take De Luyins to the drawing room.
Upon seeing this, his companion hurriedly ran to De Luyins and responded to De Luyins: "Please follow me!"
De Luyins followed the servant of the Tuileries Palace to the drawing room, while another servant ran directly towards the room of the royal steward Vernia.
When the servant arrived at the door of the royal steward's room, he took a deep breath and knocked gently on the door.
After a while, a lazy voice came from the room, "Who is it?"
The owner of the voice was none other than the Emperor Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Your Majesty!" the servant said to Jérôme Bonaparte with a hint of excitement.
"What's the matter?" Jérôme Bonaparte continued to ask.
The servant informed Jérôme Bonaparte through the door of the room that De Luyins had arrived at the Tuileries Palace.
In the room, Jérôme Bonaparte was stunned for a moment when he heard that De Luyins had arrived at the Tuileries Palace, and then he realized that De Luyins must have something important to talk to him about.
So, Jérôme Bonaparte asked the servant outside the door again: "Did Lu Yins tell you what he came to do?"
"Minister Lu Yins just said that there was something important and didn't say much else!" the servant replied quickly.
"Okay! I understand! You go and tell Yins Lu, I will be there right away!" Jerome Bonaparte shouted out the door, then turned and returned to the bed.
"Minister Luyins is here?" Vernia, with a slight flush on her face, asked Jérôme Bonaparte with a charming expression.
"Well!" Jérôme Bonaparte picked up the clothes scattered on the carpet and put them on, while complaining to Vernia in a low voice, "This old guy really doesn't give me any free time.
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Sooner or later he will be deposed!"
Vernia smiled slightly, she understood that these words of Jérôme Bonaparte were just temporary words of anger, and the weight of Minister De Luyins in Jérôme Bonaparte's heart was definitely not low.
Otherwise, how could he bring back De Luyens, who was already the ambassador to Austria, to serve as foreign minister.
In order for De Luyins to secure the position of Foreign Minister, former Foreign Minister Walewski was promoted and secretly promoted by Jérôme Bonaparte and sent to the Principality of Luxembourg as Prime Minister.
Although the Principality of Luxembourg is nominally a country on an equal footing with France, and their Prime Minister has the same status as the Speaker of the Legislative Council and is far superior to the Cabinet Ministers, the Prime Minister of the Principality of Luxembourg is far inferior to the Cabinet Ministers in terms of power, and he still controls the empire.
Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
This is enough to prove Jérôme Bonaparte's trust in De Luyins.
"Okay! Don't talk anymore, you'd better go and meet with Minister Luyins!" Vernia said to Jerome Bonaparte in a gentle voice: "I think Minister Luyins must have something.
I will come to you if there is anything that requires you to make up your mind!"
"If Lu Yins teases me with some trivial matters, I will definitely let him know the rights of the emperor!" Jerome Bonaparte said to himself, and then he turned to Vernia
Said: "Just sleep a little longer!"
Vernia nodded and watched Jerome Bonaparte leave the room.
Jerome Bonaparte left Vernia's room and walked straight towards the study.
When he opened the study, he found that De Luyins was not seen in the study.
"Not in the study? It must be in the living room!" Jérôme Bonaparte muttered in a low voice, then closed the door and headed to the living room.
In the living room, Jérôme Bonaparte met Minister De Luyins. At this moment, Minister De Luyins was sitting on a Turkish-style sofa, waiting for the arrival of Jérôme Bonaparte.
The appearance of Jérôme Bonaparte caused De Luyins to stand up quickly to greet him.
After shaking hands with each other, the two sat on the sofa together. Jerome Bonaparte asked De Luyins with a slightly teasing tone: "Mr. Luyins, do you have any bad news to tell me?"
"Your Majesty, I really can't hide anything from you!" De Luyins responded to Jérôme Bonaparte with a wry smile.
"Hey!" Jérôme Bonaparte said with a slightly surprised expression, "This is really bad news!"
"That's right!" De Luyins nodded and replied to Jérôme Bonaparte: "According to the report of our ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, the Kingdom of Morocco secretly signed a trade treaty with the Kingdom of Britain a few days ago.
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Hearing this, Jérôme Bonaparte's expression immediately became solemn.
He had long regarded the Kingdom of Morocco as meat on his plate and would never allow the British to take over the Kingdom of Morocco.
Because once the Kingdom of Britain takes over the Kingdom of Morocco, it will mean that the colonies of Britain and the core colony of France (which can also be called overseas provinces) are bordering each other, which is very detrimental to France's control of Algeria.
The French army can carry out cross-border law enforcement against the Kingdom of Morocco, but it is difficult to carry out cross-border law enforcement against Morocco, which became a British colony.
In the event of future friction between Britain and France, the Kingdom of Morocco, which became a British colony, would become Algeria's stronghold against France.
Due to emotions and reasons, Jérôme and Bonaparte did not wait to allow the British Kingdom to have the possibility of getting involved in the Kingdom of Morocco.
"What is the content of the treaty?" Jérôme Bonaparte said in a deep voice.
"Your Majesty, this is the letter from the Ambassador to Morocco to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!" De Luyins handed the letter from the Ambassador to Morocco to Jérôme Bonaparte.
Jérôme Bonaparte unfolded the folded letter and carefully
The content of the letter mainly focuses on the content of the treaty signed between the Kingdom of Britain and the Kingdom of Morocco, which includes allowing British merchants to trade throughout the Principality of Morocco, implementing agreed tariffs (10% commodity tax is levied in accordance with the agreement), and granting British merchants extralegal status.
Governance.
Looking at the contents of the agreement, Jérôme Bonaparte saw nothing but the four words "loss of power and humiliation of the country".
After reading the letter, Jérôme Bonaparte could not have imagined that as the only country in North Africa that could be "independent" (Egypt and Tunisia nominally obeyed the orders of the Ottoman Empire, and Algeria has been completely occupied by France), the Kingdom of Morocco could completely
They wander back and forth among the steel ropes of the three countries of Britain, France and Spain, but they want to hang themselves on the same steel rope as the Kingdom of Britain.
Is it more noble to be a dog in the Kingdom of Britain than to be a dog in France?
"Abd al-Rahman (Sultan of the Principality of Morocco), what do you want to do!" Jérôme Bonaparte stamped his feet and said slightly angrily, "Don't he know that doing this will only turn them into Britain?
A puppet of the kingdom?”
"Your Majesty, I can actually understand Abd al-Rahman's purpose of signing this treaty impatiently!" De Luyins said to Jérôme Bonaparte with a blank expression.
"Tell me! What is their purpose?" Jerome Bonaparte asked De Luyins.
"Your Majesty, Abd al-Rahman's purpose is to prevent our invasion!" De Luyins said bluntly to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"We haven't even started to invade him yet, and he is so eager to turn himself into a puppet?" Jérôme Bonaparte was still a little puzzled.
Although he did have plans to occupy Morocco, his occupation of the King of Morocco was not an immediate plan.
If the agreement signed between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Kingdom of Britain is not restricted, the Kingdom of Morocco will soon become a puppet state of the Kingdom of Britain.
"Your Majesty, haven't we had enough friction with the Kingdom of Morocco?" De Luyins asked rhetorically, and then continued, "Before the Bourbons occupied Algeria, the frequency of friction between France and Algeria was far less than that of us.
Frequency of friction with Morocco!
At that time, we didn't just invade Algeria.
If I were the Sultan of Morocco, I would also be terrified of France."
"Indeed!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded in agreement with De Luyins's words.
"And it is much better to become a puppet country of the British Kingdom than to live in exile overseas!" De Luyins once again gave a reason.
"So, Abdur Rahman is determined to lick the British's buttholes?" Jérôme Bonaparte frowned slightly and said to De Luyins.
"It's very possible!" De Luyins responded to Jerome Bonaparte, "However, I suggest that we propose to the Kingdom of Morocco a treaty similar to the Kingdom of Britain!
If the Kingdom of Morocco signs it, then everything will be fine!
If Morocco is unwilling to sign..."
Before De Luyins finished speaking, Jérôme Bonaparte said to De Luyins: "If Morocco is not willing, then we will send troops to Morocco! I'm right, Luyins!"
