Flowers, Swords and France

"Who cares about the constitution and parliament? Are they better than swords? How about we find a way to directly launch a coup and arrest all those people?!"

In the conference room of the Elysée Palace, the future prince Joseph Bonaparte, cousin of the current president, said this.

His expression was rather anxious than passionate. This kind of hysterical roar did not show much domineering, but rather seemed like irritation after panic.

The news that Charles received from Viscount Dilion was already known to everyone in the conference room. So it's not surprising that some people showed such annoyance.

The people sitting upright were all wearing black coats and had serious expressions. They all looked as if they had been dyed with ink. The atmosphere was both weird and depressing.

"Yes, we can't sit back and accept their beatings. We have to find a way to save the situation?" Someone immediately echoed his words, "If we can't defeat them within the parliament, we will use decisive measures to do it." at this point……"

Charles listened to the speeches of these people quietly, and suddenly he felt as if he had become the focus of some vague eyes.

This is not very surprising. If you want to launch a coup, you need the help of the army. Among the Bonapartists, who is closest to the army...

But Charles knew that now was not a good time to launch a coup. Louis Bonaparte naturally knew it too.

"No, now is not the time," said Charles. To Charles's surprise, it was not Louis Bonaparte who was the first to object. But his half-brother Morny said, "We still cannot fully control the army. If we force a coup, we may fall into civil war..."

Although the facial contours are different, the two brothers have the same expressionless faces and indifferent attitudes. They have somewhat similar temperaments. Even the tone of voice is almost exactly the same, and no ups and downs or emotions can be heard.

"That's right," I saw that someone was already standing in front of me. Charles also echoed, "Now is definitely not the time to launch a mutiny. Although many officers already support us. But the entire army has not yet been taken into our hands. If we suddenly launch a mutiny, I am afraid that most of them will not support us. "

After these two people spoke one after another, the original radicals gradually lost their voices. Apparently after the initial irritation subsided. They also see the difficulties in reality and no longer insist on their own opinions.

Since the most radical method didn't work, everyone turned to their benefactor, Louis Bonaparte, as usual, hoping that he could give him some ideas - it's not that these people really couldn't come up with ideas, but It is a need, a means to make the benefactor feel that he decides everything.

Louis Bonaparte, who became the focus of all eyes, slowly swept his eyes over everyone. As a person who regards becoming an emperor as his lifelong goal. Of course, he enjoyed this feeling of stars overlapping the moon, but he knew that he needed to do something else at this time.

"Why are you panicking? There is nothing to worry about."

His cold attitude. Everyone else couldn't help but become quiet.

"Didn't we expect it from the beginning? They will never fight us peacefully. They will definitely try every means...so even if they want to do this, it is not surprising," he said with a sneer. , “I’m a little disappointed that I haven’t taken this step until now.”

"You are right, we don't need to worry about them at all." Morny immediately agreed.

The two brothers sang together, and others gradually understood that they had made up their minds, so they all chose to remain silent, waiting for them to express their decisions.

"Although there is no need to worry too much, we do have to find a way to combat their arrogance." Louis Bonaparte continued, "We have to find a way to temporarily block this bill, otherwise it will be too hard for us. Prestige..."

"Then what should we do to achieve this goal?" Joseph Bonaparte asked next to him. "We have so few supporters in Parliament."

"Yes, we do have too few supporters in Parliament..." Louis Bonaparte continued, "So we have to find some helpers."

"Find some help?" The others looked at each other.

"What helpers should I find?" asked another person. "Now the Party of Order has a majority in the Congress, and other factions have long been suppressed by them. A lot of them were arrested a while ago! Even if we unite with other factions, we will not be able to cause any trouble to them..."

"That's right." Louis nodded meaningfully, "So... let's find some helpers from the Party of Order."

"Um?"

Many people were very surprised.

"Do you mean to win over the orthodox faction?" Charles asked calmly.

"Yes, that's right." Louis Bonaparte smiled approvingly at Charles, as if he was happy that he could understand the leader's thinking so well. "That's what we have to do."

Then, he explained slowly, "I have already considered it. We have to find a way to create some cracks in the formidable alliance of the Party of Order, so that we can defeat them one by one. Yes. , I just want to use an ax to split these guys apart."

"So what should be done?" Joseph Bonaparte asked again. "Those royalists with cement in their heads will not easily come to us for cooperation."

"It is precisely because these nobles have their heads filled with cement that we have a way to take advantage of it..." Louis Bonaparte sneered again. "If all of them are crazy-minded, we won't be able to do anything about them... Ciel?"

To Charles's surprise, Louis Bonaparte actually called his name first, so he quickly looked towards the other party, waiting for his inquiry.

"Judging from your background, you are the best able to understand the Royalists. What do you think of them?"

"A group of people who live in the past, sir." Charles replied cautiously. "They really thought they could live a hundred years ago."

"So they actually looked down on Thiers, looked down on Guizot... and even looked down on the D'Orléans family, right?"

Ciel was silent for a while, and then he thought of Charlotte, other people he knew, and even the princess.

"That's quite contemptible, sir."

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"Humph, that's it, they are this kind of people." After receiving Charles's affirmative reply, Louis Bonaparte laughed, then turned to look at the others, "So, do you really think that they Are they of the same mind as the Orleans faction? No, in my opinion, they were just frightened by the revolution, so they had to temporarily join forces with Orleans. In fact, as long as we touch them lightly, they will part ways like before! "

"You are right, sir." Charles lowered his head and agreed with the other person's view.

When talking about the nobility, Louis Bonaparte was both contemptuous and faintly envious - like Napoleon, he admired the so-called aristocratic blood and wanted to be on good terms with those old aristocrats. Napoleon often encouraged his men to marry old aristocrats, and Louis Bonaparte always wanted to have relationships with these "people of noble blood."

Maybe part of the reason why he values ​​Ciel so much comes from this surname?

It’s better not to speculate too much on the emperor’s thoughts.

In any case, his judgment was not wrong - the orthodox nobles really hated the Orleans family and the entire July Dynasty. Although the Orleans royal family is related to the Bourbon royal family, these die-hards just cannot accept Orleans.

“Although they are united now, the orthodox faction will never be happy to see the restoration of the July Monarchy,” Louis Bonaparte asserted. “So, we must use this method to create rifts among them, and finally Shatter the entire alliance."

Ciel slowly understood what the other party meant.

"So, for this purpose, I plan to take the initiative to show weakness and let people initiate a bill in Parliament... to cancel the ban that the old royal family is not allowed to return to the country." Louis Bonaparte said his plan, "Then let the prince and Paris Come back with the Count."

Because King Louis-Philippe is already old and his grandson, the heir Earl of Paris, is too young, the actual head of the Orleans royal family is now the king's second son, Prince Jourville.

"At the same time, let the Count of Chambord (referring to the successor of the Bourbon royal family) also come back?" Joseph Bonaparte asked.

He gradually understood what his cousin meant.

"What a great idea! The Orléansists will be happy to support this proposal, but those guys with cement brains will definitely not agree! Then they will have a huge quarrel!"

Yes, judging from the current situation, even if both royal families return, only the Orleans royal family will be restored in the end. It is impossible for the orthodox faction to accept this result, so they will simply support the continuation of the banishment order and let both of them return. If you don't come, you would rather lose both sides than let Orleans gain. Although this kind of thing seems incredible, when you think about Charlotte, it is not incomprehensible...

Therefore, as long as they find a way to throw out the "abolition of the royal family's banishment order", the two monarchist factions will fight on their own.

It's funny to say it, but for these die-hard royalists, they would rather live in a republic or even a Napoleonic empire than let the Orleans family regain the throne - so that's okay See how much resentment the Orleans family accumulated among these nobles during the Revolution and the July Monarchy of 18 years!

"As long as we let the orthodox nobles fight Orleans, the Party of Order will be paralyzed, and no one will have time to think of fighting us." Louis Bonaparte smiled confidently, as if everything was under control Among them, "Then we can naturally use this time to prepare well."

"Isn't it? Everyone?" (To be continued...)