Chapter 987: The Ideal and Reality of the Agricultural College
After getting the emperor's location, Cavour didn't stop for a moment. He quickly left the embassy and rushed towards the train station. He had to buy the nearest train.
This scene happened to be discovered by the Ministry of Interior surveillance personnel stationed around the Sardinian Embassy. They followed Cavour from a distance. After Cavour purchased the train ticket and left, the Interior Ministry surveillance personnel secretly took out the
He took his ID and asked the conductor which train Cavour purchased.
After seeing the logo of the Ministry of Interior, the conductor showed a frightened expression on his face, and then told them stumblingly.
The members of the Ministry of Interior who heard about which train Cavour would take quickly left the ticket gate of the railway station, but before leaving, they did not forget to threaten the conductor to keep it secret.
The conductor nodded in fright and watched them leave.
Then, returning to the Ministry of the Interior, they informed the Minister of the Interior, Pesini, of the news.
After hearing this, Pesini had a flash of surprise on his face, and then said to them with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work!"
"It's not hard work! It's not hard work!" the surveillance officer responded with a flattering look.
Later, after praising them verbally, Pesini tactfully issued an order to expel them.
After the surveillance personnel left, Pesini called his secretary again and ordered him to immediately send a telegram to the telegraph office closest to Jerome Bonaparte.
"Understood!" After receiving the order, the secretary quickly went to the telegraph office under the Ministry of the Interior.
After a while, the secretary who had sent the telegram returned to Pesini's office to resume his duties.
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The telegram transmitted from Paris to the telegraph office near the Loire Valley region finally arrived near Jérôme Bonaparte after nearly ten minutes of hard work.
At this moment, Jérôme Bonaparte and Augusta, accompanied by the president of the Loire-et-Cher province in the Central Region of France, were visiting the agricultural "university" established in the provincial capital of Blois.
Entering the campus, Jérôme Bonaparte looked at the students walking back and forth in the university and couldn't help but smile.
Then, he randomly recruited another student and asked him about his family, his major, and why he chose agriculture.
The student stumbled to answer Jérôme Bonaparte's question. It turned out that the student chose agriculture because his family could no longer support him to study in Paris.
It happened that an agricultural college was opened in Blois, and the local government exempted him from tuition fees, so he engaged in agriculture.
Immediately afterwards, Jérôme Bonaparte asked him if he was willing to continue engaging in agriculture after graduation.
Faced with such a question, the students were obviously hesitant in their answers.
Jérôme Bonaparte immediately encouraged, "There is nothing to hide! Even if you say you want to eat and wait to die, I can understand!
I think back then, this was my goal too!”
After hearing Jérôme Bonaparte's answer, the student plucked up the courage to say that his first goal was to pass the exam and enter the imperial system and serve as an imperial tax officer. His second goal was to go to a big city to make a career.
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If that doesn't work, he might consider going home to engage in agriculture...
After listening to the student's answer, Jérôme Bonaparte's eyes couldn't help but feel a little confused.
Whether in the 21st century or in modern times, few agricultural students are willing to return to farming.
However, Jerome Bonaparte could understand their choice. In this era of change, returning to his hometown to farm was undoubtedly the worst choice.
Even the Junker nobles who were born and raised next door are trying every means to reinvest the profits from agricultural output, thereby doubling their assets.
Therefore, Jerome Bonaparte did not want to be too demanding that they must return to their hometowns to farm.
"It seems that you have made your own plan!" Jérôme Bonaparte patted his shoulder gently with his hand and said solemnly, "The future of the empire is ours, and it is also yours.
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I look forward to you being able to do great things!"
After speaking, Jerome Bonaparte ordered Lucien Murat, who was following him, to hand a beautifully wrapped gift to the student in front of him.
After receiving the gift, the student was a little overwhelmed. Jérôme Bonaparte smiled and said to him, "This is my graduation gift to you in advance!"
"Why don't you thank your majesty soon!" the Sheriff of Sher quickly urged.
"Thank you..." The student was about to speak, but was stopped by Jérôme Bonaparte, "No need to thank you!"
The student swallowed his words of thanks again, and then quietly waited for Jérôme Bonaparte's instructions with a tense face.
"Now, you can leave!" Jérôme Bonaparte waved his hand and responded to the student,
After the students left, the Chancellor of the Scheier Province ran to Jérôme Bonaparte and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, there are actually many students who are willing to return to their hometowns to engage in agriculture!"
Jérôme Bonaparte stopped smiling and responded expressionlessly, "Mr. ***, you don't need to explain!
My original intention of establishing the Agricultural College was indeed to promote the development of French agriculture, but I also knew that the profits generated by agriculture were far less than those of industry, so there must be a large number of people majoring in agriculture who are unwilling to devote themselves to agriculture.
I can understand all of this, so what we have to do is not to force them to engage in farming, but to increase the profit margins of agriculture as much as possible.
Only in this way will more people be willing to join agriculture.
Only by doing a good job in agriculture can the empire gain the support of the vast majority of people living on this land.
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Jerome Bonaparte talked endlessly about the necessity of doing agriculture well and how to do it well.
After talking for about 5 minutes, Queen Augusta beside Jerome Bonaparte finally couldn't hold it any longer. She took advantage of Jerome Bonaparte's pause and spoke to Jerome Bonaparte.
Bonaparte said: "Your Majesty, let's visit the experimental base first!"
"Yes! Okay!" Jérôme Bonaparte smacked his lips, nodded with a hint of regret, and then ordered the Sergeant Major to lead the way.
Under the leadership of the Sergeant Major, Jérôme Bonaparte and others arrived at the experimental base in the backyard of the Agricultural University... No, it was more like a manor than an experimental base. When Jérôme Bonaparte and others
After Naba and others entered the experimental base, the gardener responsible for guarding the experimental base stopped them...
Upon seeing this, the Sheriff of Scheer Province loudly reprimanded the gardener guarding the experimental base.
Immediately afterwards, a middle-aged man with a slightly stout figure came to Jérôme Bonaparte and others. He first apologized to Jérôme Bonaparte and then introduced himself to his family.
Only then did Jérôme Bonaparte realize that the man in front of him was the president of this agricultural university.
When the gardener guarding the experimental base saw the principal arriving, he quickly opened the door and Jérôme Bonaparte and others were able to enter the experimental base.
After entering the base, Jérôme Bonaparte first saw the arch-shaped grape trellis inside the base.
The principal of the Agricultural College hurriedly introduced to Jerome Bonaparte that the grape trellises in front of him were cultivated by the students of the Agricultural College, mainly to train students' practical ability.
Looking at the grape trellis in front of him, Jérôme Bonaparte recalled the disaster caused by phylloxera in history, which directly triggered the depression of the French grape industry.
However, since the disaster occurred in the late 1860s, Jérôme Bonaparte could only tell the principal, "Your Agricultural College must pay close attention to the state of the grapes!
A small grape is related to our entire French economy!"
"Yes!" Although the principal of the Agricultural College did not understand what Jérôme Bonaparte meant, he still nodded to express his understanding.
Then, the principal of the Agricultural College wanted to lead Jérôme Bonaparte and Queen Augusta to the inside of the experimental base.
At this moment, an entourage wearing imperial uniform appeared in Jerome.
Behind Bonaparte and others, he reported to Lucien Murat who was in the rear.
After hearing the report from his entourage, Lucien Murat's expression changed slightly. He quickly got in front of Jerome Bonaparte and reported to Jerome Bonaparte, "Your Majesty, there is a letter from Paris.
telegraph!"
Jérôme Bonaparte's expression immediately became serious. He turned around and apologized to the school principal, "Please forgive me for not being able to continue the visit!"
The president of the college, who has not yet shown the results to the emperor, feels very regretful. At the moment, he can only respond to Jerome Bonaparte with a smile, "Your Majesty, I am very glad that you can come to visit us with your Majesty the Queen!"
Jerome Bonaparte, Augusta and others left the college under the farewell of the president of the college. When he returned to the hotel, he immediately asked Lucien Murat, "Where is the telegram?"
Lucien Murat glanced at his entourage, who quickly responded to Jerome Bonaparte, "Your Majesty, the telegram has been placed in the study!"
"Yes!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded, then entered the study, picked up the telegram on the table, and read it over.
"What's wrong? Did something happen in Paris? Do we need to go back now?" Queen Augusta asked as she entered the study after Jerome Bonaparte.
Jérôme Bonaparte put down the telegram and said casually, "Nothing! The telegram said that Sardinian Prime Minister Cavour has purchased a train ticket here and is expected to arrive the day after tomorrow!"
"Cavour!" Queen Augusta immediately showed a look of disgust on her face after hearing about Cavour, "Why is he coming to France if he doesn't ban liberalism in Sardinia?"
"What else can be done? Of course we beg us to spare Sardinia!" Jerome Bonaparte replied, shrugging his shoulders.
"Let Sardinia go?" Queen Augusta sneered, "Why didn't they think of this when they were planning the assassination?"
"Cavour did not plan an assassination!" Jérôme Bonaparte corrected.