Chapter 969 Suppression of the Military Department
"Minister Vaillant, what you are doing is simply squandering the diplomatic credibility of our French Empire!" De Ruys sternly rebuked Vaillant.
Vaillant was also not someone who was easy to bully. He also responded with just one sentence, "Minister Ruiz, you are doing this for the sake of the reputation of your Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ignoring the interests of the French Empire!"
Facing the dispute between Minister Vaillant and Minister De Luys, Jérôme Bonaparte looked particularly impatient.
So, Jérôme Bonaparte slammed the document on the table, and then Minister Vaillant and Minister De Ruys stopped.
After seeing that both of them were motionless, Jérôme Bonaparte snorted coldly and asked in a stern tone, "Is the quarrel over? If not, I can lend you my study so that you can continue to quarrel!"
When will the quarrel be over? When will I come back?
You two should be satisfied with this!"
"Your Majesty, I just said that my remarks were too intense! Please forgive me!" Minister Vaillant sincerely apologized to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me for my rude behavior just now!" Minister De Ruys also responded to Jerome Bonaparte.
Jérôme Bonaparte then raised his head and glanced at De Ruys, and then at Vaillant.
Then he sighed helplessly and said to them, "I don't understand. The combined age of the two of you is over a hundred years old, and you are also people who have experienced great storms!
Why were you so unruly just now? Is it because I, the monarch, gave you so much freedom that you dared to transgress!"
In the court of the Second Empire, you will not feel the red tape etiquette and strict hierarchy of the old dynasty at all.
So that everyone who is invited into the Tuileries Palace can feel like a spring breeze.
Every minister in front of such a court and monarch is more or less indulgent.
"Don't dare!" Ministers De Ruys and Vaillant lowered their heads to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Hmph! Don't dare! Just don't dare!" Jérôme Bonaparte snorted coldly, then changed the subject and said, "I asked you two to come to the Tuileries Palace because I want you to seek common ground while shelving your differences and seek common ground together.
The solution is not for you to blame each other for what’s wrong with you!”
De Ruys and Wayan nodded respectively to express their understanding.
Immediately afterwards, Jerome Bonaparte turned his attention to Minister Vaillant, "Vailant, since this matter is a suggestion put forward by your Ministry of War, then I want to hear your opinion!
How are your military plans to divide the Kingdom of Morocco!"
"Your Majesty, after careful discussion by our Ministry of War, we believe that..." Wayang looked around as he spoke, seemingly looking for something.
"What are you looking for?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked.
Minister Wayan showed a shy smile and asked Jerome Bonaparte, "Your Majesty, do you have a map of the Kingdom of Morocco?"
"I don't have this thing here!" Jerome Bonaparte said angrily, and then called Basilio and said: "You should go to the Ministry of War immediately and get a military map of the Kingdom of Morocco.
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Remember, move quickly!"
"yes!"
Basilio left quickly after hearing this. Jérôme Bonaparte turned to Minister Vaillant and Minister De Luys and said, "Let's sit here and wait for a while!"
Minister Vaillant and Minister De Ruys nodded. Jérôme Bonaparte got up from the sofa, came to the desk, opened the drawer, took out the remaining box of Havana cigars from the drawer, and then returned to the sofa.
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Jérôme Bonaparte opened the cigar box, took out two cigars, and handed them to De Ruys and Vaillant respectively.
The two of them carefully took the cigar from Jérôme Bonaparte. Jérôme Bonaparte immediately threw the matchbox he carried on the table, then took out another cigar and sat on the sofa.
superior.
De Ruys and Minister Vaillant quickly reached out to get the matchbox on the table, and finally De Ruys got the matchbox first.
He first lit cigars for Jérôme Bonaparte, and then for Minister Vaillant and himself.
After a while, the whole room was filled with white smoke. However, compared with traditional cigarettes, the smoke produced by Havana cigars was not too choking.
After about another 3 or 4 minutes, Jérôme Bonaparte stood up again. This time he came to the window and opened it. A cold wind blew into the room, blowing away the smoke that filled the room.
It also made Jerome Bonaparte's slightly groggy mind become particularly sober.
Considering the ages of De Ruys and Vaillant (one is close to 50 and the other is over 50 years old), Jérôme Bonaparte, who was standing by the window, turned around and asked De Ruys and Vaillant how they felt.
Do you need to close the windows?
De Ruys and Wayan shook their heads and said that it was not necessary.
Jerome Bonaparte turned around and returned to the sofa. When he sat on the sofa again, a knock on the door reached Jerome Bonaparte's ears.
"Come in!" Jerome Bonaparte raised his voice and said to the door.
The door slowly opened, and Basilio appeared in front of Jerome Bonaparte.
At the same time, he also held a rolled-up military map in his hand.
"Your Majesty!" Basilio walked to the sofa and spread the military map on the table.
"Minister Vaillant, let's start!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to Minister Vaillant.
Minister Wayan nodded, and then pointed to the important town of Tetouan in northern Morocco, "Your Majesty, after unanimous discussions between our War Department and the Colonial Department, we believe that France can occupy the territory north of Tetouan except for Daniel.
Handed over to the rule of the Kingdom of Spain!
The remaining territory will be annexed to the province of Algeria and accept the direct leadership of the French Imperial Government!"
Looking at the territory marked by Minister Vaillant's hand, Jérôme Bonaparte's mouth twitched slightly.
If you compare the territory drawn out by Minister Wayan with his hands and the land occupied by the Kingdom of Morocco, you will find that the territory allocated to the Kingdom of Spain by Minister Wayan is less than one-tenth of the territory of France.
Not to mention that Spain cannot accept such a division, even Jérôme Bonaparte himself cannot accept it.
Minister Wayan, this is not a division of territory, this is simply a naked humiliation of the Kingdom of Spain.
Among the territories divided by Minister Wayan, there were only three cities with relatively large populations, namely Tetouan, Ceuta and Tangier.
What's more, the Kingdom of Spain itself occupied the city of Ceuta, which means that the Kingdom of Spain dispatched more than 20,000 troops and only obtained one Tetouan.
If Prime Minister O'Donnell, the current leader of the Spanish military government, chooses to agree to General Vaillant, then his tenure as prime minister will be over.
[General O'Donnell, who came to power in 1857, was a well-known military leader within the Kingdom of Spain. In order to restore the military government's reputation among the people, O'Donnell chose to use a successful expedition to restore the country that was nearly shattered by the impact of liberals.
social order.
It was under his impetus that the Kingdom of Spain chose to form an alliance with the French Empire and jointly attack the Kingdom of Morocco.]
In order to maintain the friendship with the Kingdom of Spain, Jérôme Bonaparte would not let O'Donnell come down no matter what he said.
"Minister Vaillant, you are simply humiliating the Kingdom of Spain by doing this!" Jérôme Bonaparte bluntly responded to Minister Vaillant, "Such a territory is simply not proportional to their investment!"
"Your Majesty, this time the battle against the Kingdom of Morocco was entirely caused by the French Empire single-handedly defeating the army of the Kingdom of Morocco!
When our army rushed into the Royal Palace of Rabat, the Spanish army had just arrived at Tetouan's corner!" Minister Wayan plausibly replied to Jerome Bonaparte, "I think Tetouan will
It is the most reasonable thing to divide it into them!"
"De Ruys, what do you think??" Jérôme Bonaparte turned his attention to De Ruys.
"Your Majesty, I still insist on following the original agreement!
The northern part of Morocco should be handed over to the Kingdom of Spain!" De Luys replied firmly to Jérôme Bonaparte, "We cannot break the agreement with the Kingdom of Spain!
Even if this agreement is just a verbal agreement! Once the territory is gone, you can get it from other places!
If our diplomatic credibility is gone, we will be unable to move forward!
Your Majesty, I cannot let the good diplomatic relations that I have finally established with the Kingdom of Spain be ruined!"
"Minister Ruiz, you are going to spill the blood of hundreds of French soldiers on a foreign land!" Minister Vaillant criticized De Ruiz again.
This time, Jérôme Bonaparte reprimanded, "Vaillan, when discussing issues, we should discuss them as if they were issues!
Don't label me randomly, what do you mean by spilling the blood of French soldiers on a foreign land!
According to your standards, the Crimean War that I led is also evaluated in your mind like this!"
"No, it's not!" Minister Vaillant shook his head and replied to Jérôme Bonaparte, "The Crimean War and this war are actually very different!"
"Different, what's the difference?" Jerome Bonaparte asked rhetorically, "I ceded Poland and part of Finland from the Russian Empire, and handed them over to Austria and Sweden!
What for?"
Jérôme Bonaparte paused for a moment and continued, "Isn't it just to enable them to stand with us?
What we were able to do back then, why can’t we do it again now!
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I have said time and again that our French Empire aims to make many friends and few enemies!
In this way, we can get support from more countries!
How many times have I said that fighting alone is no longer suitable for this era!"
