St. Petersburg

Russian Foreign Minister Carl Woesel frowned and said, "Your Majesty, the ambassador to Paris has heard news that Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was restored on January 1, 1852 and claimed to be Napoleon III."

After hearing the news of the restoration of Napoleon III, Nicholas I was furious. In his opinion, the Napoleon family, the outbreaker, was not qualified to serve as the French emperor.

This is not only his personal opinion, but also his tangible interests. Napoleon relied on the election of the people, broke the tradition of "the power of the monarch" and shook the foundation of all monarchical countries in Europe. This is also the origin of the anti-French war.

I finally suppressed this fallacy and now restored Napoleon III. Isn’t this an insult to all participants in the Vienna Conference? The most important thing is that it insulted Alexander I.

What made him even more angry was that Napoleon III dared to challenge the majesty of the Russian Empire. After the outbreak of the Holy Land crisis, the French government intervened, shaking the Russians' control over the Orthodox Church.

With the addition of new and old hatreds, Nicholas I naturally could not recognize the legitimacy of Napoleon III. If the two sides were too far apart, he had already taken practical actions to let the French know the power of the Russian Empire.

Nicholas I said disdainfully, "It turns out that he is a little slut, but he just uses some inappropriate tricks."

Order the Minister to France to issue a diplomatic note to the French government, condemning Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's shameless behavior of usurping the throne and ordering him to abdicate immediately."

The restoration of Napoleon III is naturally a quick knife to cut the mess. In order to avoid interference from international forces, the specific time is kept confidential.

In Nicholas I's opinion, this is a petty family. Without a trace of the majesty of a monarch, he is not worthy of becoming a member of the monarch's group.

Karl Wolsel advised, "Your Majesty, it's not good for us to answer this toughly, this will continue to deteriorate the relationship between the two countries."

If you don’t admit it, you won’t admit it. You also sent a diplomatic note to disgust Napoleon III, which undoubtedly made the relationship between France and Russia worse.

Due to distance, Russia has little influence on France. This diplomatic criticism means that it makes Napoleon III less face-to-face.

Anyway, no matter how fierce the Tsarist government yelled, it would be impossible for Napoleon III to abdicate. At this point, no matter what was ahead, he would continue to move forward.

Nicholas I said disdainfully, "What are you afraid of? If you offend me, you will offend me. Anyway, the relationship between Russia and France is like this. How bad can it be?"

Giving up is Nicholas I's attitude. It's not his impulse, but on the Ottoman issue, the French-Russian conflict has become fierce, and both sides are unwilling to give in, and the possibility of reconciliation is almost zero.

Facing Nicholas I, whose idea was decided, Foreign Minister Carl Woesel naturally would not respond. What does the French have to do with him?

"Yes, your majesty." Karlwosel replied

Then he changed the topic and said, "Your Majesty, the Constantinople negotiations have been confirmed to be impossible to achieve results. With the support of Britain and France, the Ottoman Empire will not make concessions this time. Our next plan can be started."

In other words, the war is coming, and now it needs a reasonable excuse. Influenced by European culture, the Tsarist government is no longer as reckless as it was back then, and knows the importance of being a bitch to set up a archway.

Nicholas I nodded, and said, "Order Duke Minshkov to issue an ultimatum to the Ottoman Empire. If they still reject our kindness, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will choose an excuse!"

Goodwill, who feels the "goodwill" of the Tsarist government? They have such a big appetite. No matter how weak the Sudanese government is, it must resist it?

Compromise means chronic suicide, and there is still a glimmer of vitality to resist. With the support of Britain and France, the Ottoman Empire did not have any chance of winning.

"Yes, your majesty!" Karlwosel replied

With millions of excuses, you will always find it. The Ottoman Empire itself is corrupt and there are too many messy things. It is too easy to pick them.

Constantinople was the dream of generations of the Tsarist government. This is not only purely military and economic value, but also huge political and religious value.

In short, as long as the Tsarist government can successfully seize Constantinople, no matter how heavy the losses are, it is acceptable.

In this regard, Nicholas II was too stupid in history, and he ran to fight the Germans and the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the death.

If he bullies the Ottoman Empire first and seizes the Constantinople area, relying on political and religious bonuses, he can completely overwhelm all domestic contradictions.

In this regard, Nicholas I's strategy was completely correct. It would be much easier to regain Constantinople with its strong prestige to go home to carry out reforms.

Russia's internal conflicts actually attracted the attention of the Tsarist government, but the opposition group was too powerful and Nicholas I dared not act rashly.

Many Russian senior officials, including Nicholas I himself, opposed serfdom, but unfortunately they were all cowardly in the face of the entire aristocratic group.

Now the Tsarist government has placed its expectations on this Russian-Turkish war. As long as Constantinople is captured, everything will be fine. If it fails, there is nothing we can do. We can only risk internal reforms.

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Paris

After the successful restoration of Napoleon III, the country did not stabilize immediately, and the strength of the opposition forces was still strong. An anti-imperialist uprising broke out in Paris on January 12.

Half a month later, the uprising spread to more than 20 provinces including Toulouse, Marseille, Limoges, Perpignan, Balena, Toulon, and Bordeaux.

At this time, the role of bribing the officers was reflected. Napoleon III responded much stronger than the July dynasty and immediately ordered the suppression of the rebellion.

32 provinces across the country have entered a state of martial law. In just one month, more than 260,000 people have been arrested and more than 10,000 have been exiled. White terror fills France.

Due to the lack of effective organization of the insurrectionists, they were scattered throughout the country to fight for war, and they were quickly suppressed.

After firmly sitting on the throne, Napoleon III's troubles also came. The first is the financial crisis. In order to win people's hearts during the restoration, Napoleon III greatly increased everyone's salary and benefits.

For example, a senator of parliament has an annual salary of 30,000 francs, a state counselor has an annual salary of 25 francs, and a minister of each department has an annual salary of 40,000 francs. Those who have part-time jobs have multiple salaries.

Napoleon himself also received an annual salary of 26 million francs. Compared with the annual fiscal revenue of 1.23 billion francs in France, the emperor's annuity accounted for only 21, which does not seem to be too high.

However, the accounts obviously cannot be calculated like this. If the treatment of the upper level increases, can the salary of lower level civil servants not increase?

There is no doubt that Napoleon III was a good leader who cared about everyone's living standards, so the French civil servants were happy and the era of "high salary" was coming.

Government officials raised their salary, and Napoleon III did not forget that the army on the same front as him had been promoted and the salary increase was raised.

Even the Catholic Church, which supported him, received a grant of 42.8 million francs in 1852. Compared with the emperor Franz who took office as soon as he came to power, Napoleon III was obviously a good child.

During the day when the new emperor succeeded to the throne and celebrated the whole world, Napoleon III also considered the interests of the common people and abolished a series of heavy taxes.

Then everyone was happy and shouted "Long live the emperor". The only problem was finance.

With the increase and decrease of expenditure and income, the French government's financial situation is not far from bankruptcy.

Playing with people's hearts was Napoleon III's strength, but when it comes to governing the country, he was still a novice and had just started his journey.

In order to consolidate his rule, Napoleon III also expanded the civil service, and the French administrative officials increased from 470,000 to 620,000.

It is worth mentioning that in order to deal with the Near East crisis, Napoleon III was preparing to continue to expand the army, but because of financial difficulties, he was forced to shelve the plan.

Looking at the financial statements of the bankruptcy, Napoleon III asked with a headache, "Rue, what can you do to resolve the financial crisis?"

Rue replied with a wry smile, "Your Majesty, negotiate with the consortium. We need their support to get through it."

I don’t know who he won the title of “Deputy Emperor” and since then, Rue began to restrain himself in front of Napoleon III.

Fortunately, it is the European continent here. If it were changed to the Eastern World, he would have died at this time.

Even though he was still in a high position and power, Rue knew that Napoleon III, who became emperor, was different from Louis Napoleon Bonaparte before he succeeded to the throne.

As the second-person in this group, you must pay attention to your words and deeds. If you are too cautious, it will affect their relationship with the monarch and ministers; if you are too arrogant, it will not be possible, it will make Napoleon III disgusted.

Looking for consortium support, this suggestion is just the norm. It has no innovation, but it is very effective.

The French government is poor, but the French consortium is very rich. After years of capital accumulation, the name of the usury empire has emerged.

However, this is not a long-term solution. It also takes a price to obtain support from the consortium. Without sufficient benefits, it is difficult for them to pay.
Chapter completed!