Flowers, Swords and France

"Boom...Boom..."

The dark clouds continued to tangle and roll in the sky, and then outlined one white line after another on the sky. The huge roars that kept coming, covered up all the sounds around them. .

With the sound of thunder, fine raindrops floated in the air, constantly moisturizing the earth. The sky was frighteningly gloomy, and the strong wind brought a slight chill, causing no one to be seen everywhere.

"Charles, you are very interested!" Joseph Bonaparte, with a smile on his face, slowly walked to the balcony and stood next to Charles with a glass of wine.

"It's a nice day." Charles replied in a low voice.

Then the two men clinked their glasses together and each took a sip of scarlet wine.

Shortly after his cousin returned home, Joseph Bonaparte, Pierre Bonaparte and others also rushed back to Paris.

Today, in this mansion in the Latin Quarter, Louis Bonaparte summoned several of his core members to discuss the recent arrangements.

At this time, although Charles and others had almost arrived, Louis Bonaparte himself had not returned yet due to busy business, so Charles was happy to go to the balcony to see Chun Lei first.

"Yes, good weather!" Joseph Bonaparte smiled, echoed Charles's statement, and then also looked at the distant sky and city.

This young man with a square face looked at the capital where his uncle once ruled from a distance and remained silent for a long time.

"I really can't see enough of this country!" He suddenly sighed. "We can't let go this time!"

After a pause, he continued, "My father is not in good health, so the trip is relatively slow, and it will probably take a few days to come back. When I was young, he often told me about this city... After ten years, he finally has a chance to come back! This time, we will never leave again!"

This sentence is quite appropriate, Ciel thought.

[His father refers to Napoleon's younger brother Jerome Bonaparte (1784-1860), the former king of Westphalia, who was the eldest male member of the Napoleon family at the time. During the Second Empire Was made a prince.

Because he died during the Second Empire, he was later buried in Paris. After the collapse of the Second Empire, all members of the Bonaparte family were expelled from France. Only this prince stayed in France because of his death, so , 'This sentence is quite appropriate'. 】

Of course, it was impossible for Ciel to say these words.

After sighing for a while amid the continuous thunderstorm, Joseph Bonaparte turned his head and looked at Charles.

"Char, I haven't seen you for a few months, you have become more mature."

"Thank you for your compliment." Charles thanked him calmly.

"No, I'm just telling the truth," Joseph Bonaparte shrugged slightly, "It's beyond my expectation that you can grow and progress so fast."

"That's a good thing, isn't it?" Charles replied with a smile.

"Oh! Haha! Of course it's a good thing!" Joseph Bonaparte chuckled a few times, then gently patted Charles on the shoulder, "Charles, we always have such a congenial mind!"

He still did not forget to deliberately win over Ciel.

"The emperor's cause certainly requires us to unite as one at all times." Ciel also hinted in a very tactful way.

"Unite as one! Yes, that's what we need." Joseph Bonaparte nodded, "Charles, even if I don't tell you, you know how critical the current situation is to us. No one can sit idly by..."

Ciel looked at the other person in confusion, trying to figure out what he was implying.

"Char..." After a moment of silence, Joseph Bonaparte stopped being pretentious and directly expressed his thoughts, "This country has been in astonishing chaos recently. Of course, this is a good thing for us. But, Even if it is chaos, there should always be a bottom line... What we want to take over is a country in difficulty, not a ruin! Don't you think so?"

Charles looked at Joseph Bonaparte in confusion, not understanding what he meant.

"You mean..."

"You have made a lot of money recently, right?" Joseph Bonaparte was still looking at the sky in the distance.

"Thank you." Charles replied immediately. "I am deeply honored to have had the privilege to serve the Bonaparte family in such a vital undertaking."

It was precisely because of the request he made incidentally when discussing cooperation with Baron Beauvain that the big banker agreed to give Charles a huge loan as start-up capital to show that the sale was good. In any case, Charles was very committed to this. Emotional.

Because of this, Charles carefully used the funds given to him by the Bonaparte family, as Joseph Bonaparte had arranged and entrusted in advance, and together they made waves in the market and earned money for the Bonaparte family. A vast fortune whose source they would never admit in the future.

"You're welcome. It is the obligation of the Bonaparte family to repay our loyal supporters." Joseph Bonaparte still looked ahead expressionlessly, "And don't worry, it will make you a fortune in the future. There will be more opportunities, as long as you continue to follow the Bonaparte family..."

As long as you continue to follow the Bonaparte family!

This is getting more and more serious! It is already implying that the organization is wrong! Hey, what do you, the future fat man, want to say? !

Charles wanted to hit this guy on the head hard and make him speak his mind, but reason quickly stopped him from doing such a stupid thing. He quickly used his brain to think about every word the other party had just said and carefully considered what the other party meant.

"What we want to take over is a country in trouble, not a ruin! Don't you think so?" Finally, Charles thought of what he had just said.

Charles finally understood, and he suddenly realized.

He, or the leader of the Bonaparte family, was afraid that I would get too close to Baron Bovan and the group of bankers!

They didn't like Charles to be bought by the three million francs and become the running dog of the big bankers, but hoped that Charles would continue to be - uh, let's put it bluntly - the hawk of the Bonaparte family. For this purpose, they tempted Charles with future interests on the one hand, and threatened Charles on the other hand.

And these words, of course, could not be said by the great leader Louis-Bonaparte himself, but only by people like Joseph-Bonaparte.

After thinking this through, Charles suddenly felt that this was not surprising.

No matter how close they were in their positions, there was always a difference between the Bonaparte family and the financial aristocrats - or in other words, they had different positions. The Bonaparte family wanted to rebuild the empire and turn the country into a powerful country that everyone was looking forward to. No matter whether the means were good or not, this goal was fine; but the group of bankers did not care what the country became. They were mainly concerned about interests and profits. As long as they could make a lot of money again and again, they didn't care whether the country was good or not.

The original text is in Liu # 9 @Shu/Bar!

So, in every sense, the Bonaparte family did not want to be the puppets of these financiers, especially for the two brothers Louis Bonaparte and Joseph Bonaparte who were ambitious to create a great cause.

If there was no such ambition and will, the Bonaparte family would not have the qualifications and opportunities to rebuild the empire, right?

As a capable member of the Bonaparte Party and a rare "high-end financial talent", Charles naturally became one of the main people that the Bonaparte family would ask for advice on countermeasures against financiers in the future. They certainly hoped that Charles would remain loyal to his position.

At present, the main goal of the Bonaparte family is to fight, so there will be no conflict with these financiers anyway, so they are just hinting to Charles to keep a distance from the group of bankers, not to be easily fooled by their "sugar-coated bullets", to stand high and see far - the future power and money are great, just follow us honestly!

The future royals represented by Louis Bonaparte, throughout the history of the Second Empire, used and guarded against each other with the financial nobles, which constituted the history of the entire Second Empire. However, I didn't expect it to start so early and so fast! This is no wonder!

After understanding what Joseph Bonaparte implied, Charles was full of energy.

"Sir, you finally spoke my mind!"

Joseph Bonaparte looked at Charles, who suddenly seemed to be pumped up, and was a little surprised.

"What's wrong?"

"I have been thinking this way for a long time. I have been thinking about a question..." Charles deliberately lowered his voice.

"What is the question?" Joseph Bonaparte asked calmly.

"After regaining the empire, how can we prevent ourselves from following the old path of the July Monarchy?"

"Louis and I often think about this question." The other party remained calm.

"The July Monarchy collapsed in such an ignominious way, not without reason. Louis-Philippe was pitiful because he found the most disloyal pillar for his dynasty! Even when he was still sitting safely on the throne, a group of vultures were busy planning how to tear apart the corpse of his pitiful dynasty!" Charles gave his answer, "If we don't learn from their lessons, we will be even more stupid than them, right?"

"Go on."

"Because what we want to take over is a country, not a ruin!" Charles looked at Joseph Bonaparte with a firm gaze, "I have thought about this issue for a long time and I am very worried. There is no doubt that our country needs a developed financial industry to promote the prosperity of industry and commerce, but we should not let them override the country! Because that will make all our efforts look like a ridiculous joke, because it will destroy everything we once cherished. All precious values!

If a group of people can easily lie on the account books, make a fortune by playing with numbers, plunder countless wealth from the masses by manipulating disasters and panics, and make companies and individuals bankrupt by cunning schemes... then who is willing to get rich through hard work? Who is willing to work hard? Who will appreciate diligence and simplicity? Our worship of finance will easily and forever destroy all the values ​​that a country once cherished, and make this country go from strong to irreversibly weak... Sir, I think that in modern times, if we need to build an empire, then we must subdue this group of people, not the other way around... Otherwise, poor Mr. d'Orleans's today will be our tomorrow! "

Charles said this passage with great righteousness, even when he said "countless wealth can be plundered from the masses by manipulating disasters and panics".

In the non-stop thunderstorm, Joseph Bonaparte stood on the balcony and watched Charles' performance quietly without saying a word. Until he finally finished speaking, he finally laughed.

"Hehe...hahaha...Charles, you are too sensitive. You are good at everything, but you are too sensitive. Maybe it's because you often write articles? Haha..." He kept laughing, seemed very happy, and then patted Charles on the shoulder, "But what you said makes sense. I will convey it to Louis. It's very interesting...hahahaha...it's really hard to imagine that you are so young, hahahaha..."

Does this sentence mean "pass the assessment"? Charles smiled embarrassedly and did not answer.

At this time, a carriage rushed quickly from the street in the distance.

"Oh, he's back!" Joseph Bonaparte looked downstairs and shrugged lightly, "Charles, let's go back." (To be continued.)