Flowers, Swords and France

After explaining the follow-up arrangements to Carlyon and Charles, Louis Bonaparte finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the tense atmosphere in the carriage temporarily eased. .

Carrion secretly winked at Charles, suggesting that he should stop talking and let the leader of the Bonaparte family who had just returned to the country take a good rest. Charles understood, nodded and remained silent.

However, perhaps because he had just returned to France after a long absence, Louis Bonaparte did not choose to take this opportunity to take a nap. He was still looking around, carefully looking at the country he had worked so hard to get. , the physical fatigue was obviously covered up by the mental excitement.

"No country is as beautiful as this!" Louis Bonaparte sighed after looking at it for a long time. "She is worth spending our lives to capture and defend!"

"You are absolutely right." Charles agreed at the right moment.

Then, Louis Bonaparte returned his gaze from the window to the carriage, and then looked at Charles steadily, his eyes both gentle and unconcealably fierce.

Ciel smiled and nodded.

"Young man," Louis Bonaparte also laughed under the influence of Charles, "I do admire you. This is not only because of your grandfather, but also because of you."

A burst of surprise passed through Charles's heart - how many people can get such praise from such a powerful man in this world? !

"It's my pleasure." He replied quickly.

"We have already seen your execution ability and are very satisfied with it. But what I admire most about you is not here." Louis Bonaparte paused intentionally, "Do you know where it is?"

"Please tell me, I really don't know..." Charles replied with a smile.

"You don't need to be so reserved. Really. Who else is here now? There are only three of us. You can speak freely in front of us." Seeing that Charles was a little reserved, Louis Bonaparte smiled again and then encouraged He said.

Then, he announced the answer.

"What really makes me admire you is your vision." Louis Bonaparte made a gesture. "I have carefully read what you wrote to me. It is very insightful. You have this at such a young age. Insight is really rare..."

"This is just my rough opinion."

"Even such a rough opinion is already rare. Especially at your age!" Louis Bonaparte shook his head slightly, as if sighing, "Most of the opinions you put forward are very reasonable. My appetite. Some of them inspire me a lot..."

Ciel didn't wait for a reaction. Louis Bonaparte continued.

"In the economic field, the government must play its due role, and it should play a leading role in times of economic downturn. Through large-scale public construction and reasonable credit stimulation, we can put the national economy on an upward track. , and then restore the confidence of the business community in the economic situation...The negative impact of the temporary fiscal deficit will be offset by the subsequent economic benefits. 'You couldn't be more right - if the government axes. If we keep shouting about doing nothing every day, what else do people want to do?”

"I keep saying it. We think too much about how to take the country and too little about how to govern it after we take it. And you can think about it in the meantime. And It’s very gratifying for me to give you some valuable opinions.” Louis Bonaparte sighed softly. "If we capture a country, does that mean we can say everything is fine and then go to bed? No, we captured it in order to govern it in our own way! We This country should be allowed to grow and develop in our hands, right?”

"You couldn't be more right. I completely agree with you." Charles replied immediately.

He said this from the bottom of his heart.

If he doesn't have some ideas of his own and just usurps power for the sake of usurping power, what's the difference between him and those worms? Even if it is just to leave some traces of time travellers, he also hopes to leave his mark on the world.

"After taking power, we should not only find ways to expand the scale of business and stimulate trade, we should also expand the output of industry, because only it can provide enough jobs. We can and must increase people's income so that It will not trigger another turmoil in this country!" Charles expressed his opinion, "And only it can truly strengthen the country's strength, allowing France to compete with any powerful country in Europe and restore the glory of the empire."

Louis Bonaparte nodded in approval. In the eyes of the man who wrote "On the Abolition of Poverty," these views of Charles couldn't be more in line with him. "Your plan to build railways is an extension of our point of view. Not only that, we also need to roll out public works everywhere, which can not only absorb the unemployed people and give them jobs; it can also completely transform this country She has a new look! Seventy years of slumber has been too long. We don’t know how much effort it will take to shake off all the dust on her body!”

Of course he would appreciate Ciel's plan. It was under Louis Bonaparte that France's railways expanded nearly tenfold, and the originally disconnected railway lines became one covering the entire country.

He was the first emperor in Europe to believe that unemployment, rather than God, was tied to his crown.

"You are absolutely right." Charles echoed again, "You are the one who really thought about how to govern this country. This is why I chose to follow you."

He was not giving a false compliment, but a genuine similarity of opinion.

"You will find that you have made the right decision." Under Charles' compliment, Louis-Bonaparte just smiled indifferently, "I have studied this country for decades, and I have spent countless efforts to figure out how to rule it. This country is worth it."

"Yes, it is totally worth it." Charles also sighed.

"Do a good job, young man. There is still a long way to go." Louis-Bonaparte patted Charles on the shoulder again, with a lot of expectations in his eyes. "Although we still have many obstacles and enemies at present, they can't stop us after all. This country will definitely be ours! At that time, you need to implement your ideas well. I hope your talents are not only reflected on paper!"

"I will work with you to make this country a new look." Charles answered immediately.

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This kind of true emotional expression is extremely rare in the careers of both of them.

After a moment, the two people's pedantic impulse had completely disappeared, and their faces were filled with their original calmness and indifference again.

"This parliamentary election is very important to us, and there can be no mistakes." Carrion, who had been silent all the time, also interrupted at the right time. "This is the best time for us to show our strength. Only when everyone knows our influence will those centrists consider joining us."

"Parliament!" When mentioning this word, Louis-Bonaparte frowned. There was a little disdain in his tone. "What is the use of this thing except to make the French people have a spasm? When we come to power, I will definitely tear it apart and never cause trouble to anyone again!"

As a traveler who traveled through time and space, Charles knew his feelings about the parliament and what he did later.

The original text is in the six # 9 @book/bar!

After he usurped power and became the emperor of the empire, he split the National Assembly into three institutions in one fell swoop - the Senate, the Council of State and the Legislative Corps.

The Senate and the Council of State were composed of dignitaries appointed by him, responsible for drafting and reviewing laws.

The Legislative Corps, which holds the power of legislation. On the surface, it was elected by universal suffrage of all male citizens over the age of 18, but the candidates for representatives had been designated by the government in advance. The "official candidate" system was implemented, so voters only had the "right" to vote in accordance with orders.

The Legislative Corps was convened by the emperor himself, and the president and vice president were also appointed by the emperor. The Legislative Corps only discussed and voted on bills read by the government's special envoys, and had no right to propose bills for legislation by members themselves, and they could only vote on the budgets of various government departments and decide on taxes separately - they could only passively express their approval or opposition to existing bills and had no right to request amendments.

Therefore, in the Second Empire, the Legislative Corps was in an insignificant position. There was no podium during the meeting, and each member could only speak at his original seat. The annual salary of senators is as high as 30,000 francs, that of state counselors is 25,000 francs, and the positions of members of the Legislative Council are unpaid.

It can be seen that doing one's utmost to reduce the power and influence of the parliament is one of the core of Louis Bonaparte's political philosophy. And his humiliation and contempt for the parliament, to some extent, also buried the fuse that triggered all kinds of disasters in the last years of the Second Empire.

Louis Bonaparte's deep hatred of the parliament is not just because he is a pretender to the throne and has a natural hatred for the parliament that "represents" the will of the people. The deeper reason is that he believes that in France, a country that advocates participation in politics and has very different political positions and demands, if the parliament holds power, it will cause schizophrenia and paralysis of action in the entire country. Under the quarrels of hundreds of people with completely opposite ideas, the government and the country will not be able to do anything - but he wants to do something for this country.

In any case, although the main purpose of his political system was to seize power, although he appointed people based on personal connections in the parliament, and although his revolutionary mentor and deputy mentor mocked and humiliated him during his tenure, he did make great achievements for the development of France's economy and industry through this political system, and the era when he ruled was also the era of the fastest economic development in France.

In the following 80 years, the political paralysis of the Third and Fourth Republics of France (the Third Republic changed prime ministers 86 times in 70 years, and the Fourth Republic changed prime ministers 21 times in 11 years) was exactly what he had foreseen?

And later, the Fifth Republic established by Charles de Gaulle (actually Charles de Gaulle) after launching a coup, how much did its political system (presidential system, weakening parliament) coincide with Louis Bonaparte's political design?

Despite all the intrigues he used to usurp power, despite being described as a clown later, despite leading the empire and the French nation to the disastrous end of Sedan, Louis-Bonaparte was still a politician with his own outstanding political ideas and enough ways to implement his ideas. This is certain.

Of course, as a transitional figure of an era, his shortcomings are also very obvious. His limitations are as prominent as his advantages, and together they wrote the twenty-year history of the Second Empire, which may not be noble or glorious.

"You are right, the parliament is a big trouble, but we have to face this big trouble now." Carrion replied respectfully, "No matter how we plan to deal with it in the future, we must face it now and find a way to use it. As the old saying goes, there is no eternal principle, only principles that change with the times..."

"That's true at the moment." Louis-Bonaparte silently agreed with Carrion's opinion, and then he looked out the window again.

"We still need to wait a little longer..." )

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