Although Aigron seemed to have rejected Duke Nordlyen's proposal, this did not extinguish the Duke's idea of promoting an affair between Alice and His Majesty.
For him, this was not just a momentary impulse filled with righteous indignation, but also a profit calculation that pushed the boat along.
After this incident, his heart was filled with disgust and hatred for Treville and his son, so naturally he never thought of leaving any face to them.
However, the Duke also knew that everything must be done strategically. Since this matter cannot be accomplished overnight, it can only be done slowly, so he also kept his thoughts in mind and prepared to look for favorable opportunities.
After telling everything to the Duke, Aiglon told him a few more words, and then he took leave of him.
The Duke's family came out to see him off, and Agnes naturally stood at the front to say her final farewell to Agron.
"Agnes, see you tomorrow." Agron hugged Agnes affectionately again, and then said goodbye to her.
According to Teresa's compromise, Agnes can only be on duty as a security guard during the day, so she naturally does not need to follow Agron back now.
"See you tomorrow, Your Majesty." Perhaps because she was finally satisfied after being depressed for many days, Agnes still had a hint of spring on her face, and her eyes looking at Agron also showed a little more reluctance.
Just a moment ago, the two of them were so affectionate, and they were enjoying themselves as a family when having dinner with their family. But in the blink of an eye, she could only watch her lover leave, and her heart was naturally full of reluctance and helplessness.
But she also knew that she could only get so much at most, so her helplessness did not turn into unwillingness and she silently accepted it all.
In fact, after getting used to it, all this is not so difficult to accept. There are so many people who are envious of her, and her parents are also proud of her. What else is there to be dissatisfied with? She said to herself silently again.
"Your Majesty, please be careful and pay attention to safety along the way." She whispered in Aigron's ear and warned him gently, "Also, after you go back, please take care of Her Majesty the Queen's emotions - she will definitely not be happy."
"I know, don't worry, I will handle all this myself." Aigron replied.
Then, as if on purpose, he gently rubbed Agnes's belly, "You should also take care of yourself..."
Agnes was a little shy, but did not refute.
So, Aigron turned around and got into the carriage, and then galloped towards the palace.
She didn’t know whether she and His Majesty’s efforts this time were lucky enough to get the “gift” promised by Aigron, but she had indeed been aroused by Aigron’s desire to become a mother. She looked forward to having a child, even if it was an illegitimate child.
It doesn't matter, she can devote all her love and hope to let her and His Majesty's child grow up healthily and have a beautiful life.
Facing the carriage that was getting further away, she gently rubbed her belly, and then watched her lover disappear into the shadows of the distant street.
After returning to the palace, Aigron followed his usual pace of life and came to Teresa's palace to spend the night with his wife.
Teresa behaved as usual, as if her husband had just been visiting and performing official duties today and had not come back until now. Perhaps, for her, since she chose to "semi-accept" Agnes, what happened outside the palace
, she just didn't bother to care about it. If she continued to argue and argue, it would have no effect and would not change anything except causing another disturbance, so it was better not to know anything.
The couple talked and chatted as usual, teased the child for a while, and then went to bed together. The most noble couple in the empire were still as harmonious as ever.
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The next day, according to the previously determined schedule, Marshal Soult, the Minister of War, came to the palace at the summons of Aigron.
Although Aigron's schedule was very tight, as a marshal and an important minister, he would naturally receive preferential treatment, so he was quickly brought to Aigron without a long wait.
"Your Majesty!" Although the marshal has always been arrogant, the status of king and minister has been determined at this time, so when he saw Aiglon, the old marshal still bowed with great respect to pay tribute to his new master.
"Good morning, Marshal, I am very pleased to see you are so energetic." Aigron also respected the Marshal and nodded to him.
After a brief greeting, Aigron told the marshal the purpose of summoning him today.
"Your Excellency, Marshal, the palace relocation work is almost ready and is expected to be officially launched after the New Year, so you may need to go to Fontainebleau to see me sometimes in the future."
"Your Majesty, Fontainebleau also holds many beautiful memories for me. I am happy to go back there often." The marshal replied respectfully.
Marshal Soult didn't care much about Aigron's plan to "move the palace" to Fontainebleau, but considering that after moving the palace, His Majesty the Emperor's time in Paris will inevitably be reduced. Correspondingly, the imperial government and
The Paris city government will assume more responsibilities, and he will have more independence within the War Department, so from this aspect, he is happy to see it happen.
Aigron was well aware of the marshal's little plan, but his little plan was bound to come to nothing...
Fontainebleau is about 60 kilometers away from the Royal Palace in Paris, which is farther than Versailles from Paris. It is indeed a relatively long distance by the standards of this era, and it is inevitable that the capital will feel beyond its reach; but Aiglon
Plans had been made secretly for a long time. At the same time as the Paris-Orléans railway was being built, a branch line was also built near Fontainebleau to connect the centers of the two empires.
It is expected that by that time, it will only take him an hour or two to take a special train from near the palace to the Paris train station, and the special train can be on call at any time, rain or shine. If there is something that needs him to deal with urgently, he and his entourage will be there in an instant.
You can rush to the capital, and you won't encounter the problem of being "out of reach" at all.
The development of technology will eventually make many problems disappear naturally.
However, there is no need for him to inform Marshal Soult about the construction of the railway. He can just give him a surprise when the time comes.
"When I move to the palace, I hope to hold a grand celebration, and in this celebration, there must be a military parade." Aigron continued to tell the other party about his plan, "Your Excellency Marshal, the newly established Guards will
You are the protagonist of this military parade, and you will be the host of the military parade. I hope that you can form the backbone of the Guards as soon as possible to participate in the military parade... Time is short, so please work hard for this.
"
"I understand, Your Majesty."
Although he was a little surprised by Aigron's idea, since Aigron made it so clear, Marshal Soult could not shirk it and could only agree.
At the beginning of his return, Egeron reached a tacit agreement with the provisional government, and took control of the army with the help of Marshal Soult, and allowed him to preside over the purge within the army, cleaning out those staunch royalists who opposed Egeron, and eradicating them at the same time.
As a result, a large number of officers and soldiers were forced to retire.
However, as Aigron officially ascended the throne, the "military purge" that lasted for several months also came to an end. On the one hand, the Bourbon royal family has been rebellious in recent years and has no die-hard followers. It only needs to identify a small number of
A handful of staunch royalists can be expelled from the army; on the other hand, Aigron does not want to create a situation where people are panicked and the morale of the army is fluctuating due to long-term purges. He needs to create a stable atmosphere.
As a result, during this period, the purges within the military gradually came to an end, and instead, "rebuilding the Guards" became the new top priority of the Minister of War.
For Aigron, this has even become a matter of life and death.
The word "Guard" has too special meaning for the empire. Emperor Napoleon specially formed such an elite force, which became famous under his command and became a model for European countries to follow when they carried out military reforms.
In 1815, the restored Bourbon royal family naturally hated this elite armed force created by Emperor Napoleon, and issued an order to disband it.
However, the prestige of the Guards did not disappear because of this. Since then, as people's nostalgia for Napoleon and the glorious era of the Empire gradually deepened, the reputation of the Guards has been frequently mentioned again.
Now that the empire has been restored and Aigron has returned to the throne, as the emperor's successor, it is natural that he rebuild the Guards as the elite force of the empire.
Moreover, from a practical point of view, as Aiglon's rule gradually enters the track, he will also need to be responsible for both the palace security work and the imperial guard monitoring the national armed forces.
Since 1789, the citizens of Paris seemed to have completely "enlightened", and the number of rebellions became extremely frequent. Even during the great revolution that overthrew the royal family, the masses were not idle, and launched riots such as the Mu Yue, Guo Yue and Portuguese Moon riots.
Waiting for a series of turmoil.
Later, it was even more "splendid". Big news would be made almost every few years, and barricades kept popping up in Paris, so that France would have turmoil to change its regime every ten or twenty years. Until 1871
In 2000, the Provisional Government of Versailles finally ended this period of turmoil at the bloody cost of brutally killing tens of thousands of rebels.
Under such circumstances, if any French ruler and emperor did not have a private army that was absolutely loyal to him, he would not be able to survive, let alone pass the throne to the next generation.
So naturally, the formation of the Guards has become the focus of Aigron's attention since before he ascended the throne.
In the past, when the emperor formed the Guards, he selected elite soldiers from each branch of the army. Now it is naturally similar. Aigron asked the Ministry of War to select elite soldiers from each garrison, and then prepared to break them up and reorganize them.
Finally, he formed the Guards he wanted.
In the original historical line, Napoleon III, who proclaimed himself emperor in 1852, the first thing he did after taking power was to mobilize the elite of the entire army to form his Guards.
By 1855, only three years later, he had formed an infantry division (2 grenadiers and 2 light cavalry regiments), a cavalry brigade (1 cuirassier regiment and 1 cuirassier regiment).
The New Guards, consisting of a hussars regiment), one chasseur battalion and five artillery companies, has a strength of more than 20,000.
Later, the establishment of the New Guards continued to expand, exceeding more than 40,000 people.
This new Guards became his tool to intimidate Paris and other careerists, and it also made him the longest-ruling monarch in France since Louis XVI - but unfortunately this was ended in the smoke of the Franco-Prussian War.
everything.
In order to maintain his rule, Aigron would naturally do the same thing, and he could do it much more justly than Napoleon III.
As the most natural heir to the Bonaparte family, he also has the status of a royal family, so he does not have to worry about his own prestige. There is a huge network of relationships that he can naturally use.
In this newly formed Guards, he will place a large number of cronies and young family members as officers to ensure his absolute control over the Guards.
Under the guidance of this policy, Prince Eugene's sons, the two "nephews" brought by Princess Augusta to defect to him, will be placed by him as low-level officers in the Guards. Even those who just came to defect to him will be
His half-brother William, who is only 10 years old, will be trained by him in a few years to become an officer of the Guards around him, responsible for the security of the palace.
In order to reflect the importance he attached to the Guards, he decided to serve as the commander-in-chief himself. As for the deputy commander (and actual manager of daily affairs), he let his loyal captain of the guard, Lepanto
Marquis André Davout took over, which was also a legitimate appointment.
For Aigron, the personal safety of his family comes first, and only by ensuring his own personal safety can he have the luxury and qualifications to realize his governing philosophy.
Obviously, soldiers were hastily drawn from various armies and then broken up and reorganized. No matter how elite these candidates were, they would not be able to have qualified combat effectiveness in the short term. However, Aigron didn't care about this. Anyway, now he and
The people in the country are still in the "honeymoon period", and he has a lot of time to nourish his imperial army and slowly turn them into the elite of the army.
In fact, Aigron didn't care that much about the military parade after moving to the palace, but he was going to use this as a reason to urge Soult to speed up the formation of the Guards, and also to make Soult understand that he was not responsible for this matter.
Any concessions may be made.
Marshal Soult was naturally a little unhappy about this. After all, Aigron wanted to form his own independent armed force under his nose, and he also recruited the most elite soldiers. This was tantamount to poaching his heart.
But now that the situation is like this, he can't come up with any reasonable excuse to object.
Moreover, Aiglon still maintains respect for him. He can still exercise power within the army, but he cannot control the palace.
This division of interests is completely acceptable to him.
"Your Majesty, the time you gave is rather hasty, but I promise you that at least there will be thousands of good boys to accept your review." So, after hesitating for a moment, he bowed and saluted Aigron.
"I assure you, they are definitely the best soldiers."
"You are accepting our inspection, Your Excellency Marshal." Aigron replied with a smile. "They will also cheer for you."