"Next, you can instruct your censors to intercept all her subsequent letters and hide them or even burn them; you can also pretend that nothing happened. What do you choose?"
Facing Sophie's aggressive gaze, Metternich instinctively felt a little disgusted.
However, he would never decide his actions based on his emotions, so he quickly returned to his unruffled state.
Princess Maria... Actually, he has heard a lot about this person recently.
As a big country, Austria naturally has a large-scale information network in Paris, including embassy staff on the surface, as well as secret agents and spies lurking in the private sector; and these people recently reported a piece of news to Prime Minister Metternich -
—In order to facilitate the marriage between Princess Theoderlande de Beauharnais and the new king of Belgium, the Bavarian royal family sent a small delegation to escort the princess all the way to the French court.
And this Princess Maria was also involved, and became the guardian of her niece, and became a distinguished guest of the French court.
To be honest, when this news reached the ears of various countries, it still caused a bit of consternation - after all, Princess Maria was just the youngest daughter of the late King of Bavaria, with no reputation or any famous deeds, and she was suddenly given the title
It's really strange to have such a diplomatic mission.
However, after the initial shock, this news was quickly ignored by the big shots from all over the world - after all, who would care about such a trivial matter? It's just an unknown princess, nothing to care about. They are more concerned about it.
Close ties between France and the nascent Belgium.
However, Metternich smelled something different in the seemingly plain news.
He knew that Maria was Sophie's twin sister, so he immediately found a seemingly reasonable answer to this strange thing: Maria was specially invited from Bavaria by his good student, and this was not an official Bavarian official.
decision, but his decision.
As for its purpose, it is of course self-evident.
If I can't get the real thing, I'll just use a fake to quench my thirst... I really know how to play.
Metternich felt half ridiculed, but half envious.
After all, although he had been a wandering life, he still couldn't even think about summoning the princess of a country like an emperor and then leaving. Now his "good student" starts to show off as soon as he puts on the crown.
Of course, he was somewhat unspeakably jealous of his "powerful power".
Of course, Metternich did not know the detailed inside story, nor did he know that the instigator of this incident was Maria herself. He guessed that Aiglon used his power and wealth to coerce and lure the Bavarian royal family, and asked them to send Maria to
By his side - this is quite a logical idea.
In short, no matter what, Princess Maria is now in Fontainebleau, next to her good student, and her news contact with Sophie is naturally equivalent to the contact between the French Emperor and Sophie indirectly.
Logically speaking, Metternich should try to stop it and cut off Sophie's news channels just like Sophie said, but at the moment, he can no longer care about torturing Sophie.
Instead, he felt that it would be more beneficial to him to maintain an unofficial channel of contact with the French Emperor through sisters Sophie and Maria - after all, there were too many shady things in politics, and it was inconvenient to go through official channels.
To communicate.
Besides, at this time of turmoil and internal and external troubles, blindly suppressing Sophie will only increase her hatred for herself and make her future even bleaker. It is completely unnecessary.
"What are you talking about, Your Highness?" So, facing Sophie's pressure, Metternich just smiled lightly, "You are a prince and concubine, an important member of the royal family, and I am just your servant.
, how can I restrict your freedom? Besides, correspondence with my own sister is the simplest and most righteous human relationship, how can I stop you? "
Seeing Metternich finally speaking softly to her, Sophie felt an indescribable joy in her heart.
Four years have passed since she "lost power". She has been aggrieved for too long, and the resentment and resentment accumulated in her heart have already overwhelmed her.
And now, after countless sufferings, she seems to have finally seen the light.
Old thing, you have today too... She cursed secretly in her heart with pleasure.
However, she knows that this is far from the end of her "comeback" and she still has a long way to go.
She vowed countless times in her heart that not only would she get back everything she had lost, but she would also get it back twice as much. Only in this way could she make up for the few years of precious youth she had lost while under house arrest.
So, dear little bastard, just wait for me...I will come to you.
After tasting enough joy in her heart, Sophie finally regained her thoughts, and then she looked at Metternich again.
"Since you are so reasonable, I would like to thank you. If Maria tells me anything interesting, I will share it with you..."
"That's great." Metternich also knew what the other party meant, so he immediately expressed his approval.
At this point, he felt a little emotional, "Well, when you said this, I also remembered that I have been away from Paris for more than 20 years. It has left me many beautiful memories. I hope to have the opportunity in the future.
To be able to look at it again.”
Paris was indeed Metternich's "blessed place". The key step in his career was to be appointed ambassador to France by the emperor. Then he enjoyed himself there, not only maintaining good relations with Emperor Napoleon and French ministers, but also with unknown people.
He had affairs with several noble ladies of the empire. In the end, he was the one who single-handedly promoted the marriage between Emperor Napoleon and Princess Louisa, and took advantage of this to become the foreign minister of the empire.
But now, more than twenty years have passed, I am old, and all those memories have changed. The only similarity is that Paris has become the possession of Emperor Bonaparte again.
Therefore, this old man naturally has a little more sense of the right and wrong of things and the differences between people.
However, Sophie at this moment did not have this kind of sentimentality unique to the old man. On the contrary, what Maria had said in her letter, as well as her reveling and reveling life in Paris, aroused Sophie's strong yearning.
She has always been a person who likes glitz and luxury, and Paris, as the embodiment of the "glitz world", just fits her appetite. Even when she was a carefree princess, she liked to bring her little
Lovers play everywhere; after several years of forced seclusion, this urge to "have fun" naturally becomes stronger.
She wished she could take Maria's place right away and enjoy such a gorgeous journey.
But she also knows that the real world is not that simple. If she wants her dreams to come true, she has to put in more effort and effort.
Metternich was a key figure.
Of course, it was impossible for him to agree to such an appalling plan right now, so she could only suppress the impulse and yearning in her heart and continue to move forward calmly.
Of course, Metternich was not aware of these thoughts that were running in Sophie's heart at this time. In fact, he was very happy that Sophie finally put aside her old grudges and showed her kindness to him.
"Madam, since you are so understanding, I can't thank you enough." So he further softened his tone and extended an olive branch to the other party, "If you need my help with anything now, I will definitely be accommodating to you.