Make France Great Again

May 13, 1849.

In the days when the beginning of summer has passed and Xiaoman is approaching, the election of the Paris Legislative Assembly is drawing to a close.

The night the election results were announced, a torrential rain fell in Paris.

Although the rain continued to pour down, the Bourbon Palace was still brightly lit.

The candles on the crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling have all been lit, and the entire National Assembly hall is shrouded in candlelight.

Not only on the crystal chandelier, but also on the rostrum, two candles were also lit. Under the candlelight, Speaker Mastra sat on the rostrum with a stern face and waited for the parliament to start.

The time gradually came to 8 o'clock in the evening, the rain gradually decreased, and the sound of insects pierced from the alleys of Paris. The first session of the Legislative Assembly officially started amid the continuous sound of insects.

Speaker Mastra knocked on the gavel in his hand and shouted loudly: "Quiet!"

The originally noisy parliament fell silent for a moment, and people all looked at the "tumbler" Mastra on the rostrum.

"Cough cough" Facing the silent parliament and the members watching him, Mastra cleared his throat and said: "Members, after two months of preparations and elections, we who waved goodbye to the Constituent Assembly, The Legislative Assembly was finally established. The French Republic moved from constitution-making to legislation. This is a victory for democracy!"

As soon as Marast's voice fell, there was thunderous applause from the audience, among which the original party of Order and now the "Freedom Alliance" applauded the most hard-working group.

The Republicans and Mountains, who had experienced military exercises and the threat of a coup in January, completely lost their ability to compete with the Party of Order. Many moderate Republican MPs joined the Party of Order, which made the Party of Order directly in the next two months. It won 450 seats in one fell swoop, and the party of Order, which occupies the vast majority of seats, successfully changed its name to the "Liberty Alliance". How could they not thank the Legislative Assembly.

The Mountain Party, which played the role of the loser in the January military parade, even won 240 seats, making it the "second largest party" in parliament.

There are three major parties in parliament.

As for the more miserable Republicans, they only won 60 seats.

Under the strong targeting of the Party of Order, the republican faction, which had been close to the Party of Order in seats, was completely expelled.

The Mountain Party became the second target of the party of Order's expulsion.

The giants of the Party of Order, including Thiers, obviously do not want to see the existence of the guy with the mark of Robespierre, especially the Catholic rightists like Montalembert, who hate this guy even more, they Already gearing up to fight the Mountain Party.

The Mountain Party knew nothing of all this, and they had somehow become the second largest party in the parliament, and now they could only choose to take a step by step.

After Mastra Kang finished his official speech, the next step was the speech and report of the government representative Odi Lombaro.

Holding the speech, Odi Lombarro stepped onto the rostrum and placed the speech on the rostrum, straightening his body, and said in a standard Parisian accent: "First of all, on behalf of the government, I would like to congratulate the establishment of the Legislative Assembly! "

"Okay!" shouted the party of Order in a loud voice.

Audi Lombarro continued with a confident smile: "In the past six months, our government has tried to cut expenses as much as possible on the basis of everything remaining unchanged."

Odilo Barro shamelessly declared that under his wise leadership, the French government not only had no overspending in the first half of the year, but had some surplus.

But he forgot that his two policies to restore the salt tax and wine tax brought nearly 100 million francs of fiscal revenue to France, but the balance of fiscal expenditure was less than 20 million francs. In other words, in the first half of 1849 Annual spending has surpassed the first half of 1848.

"I believe that France's economy will get better and better in the future!" Odi Lombarro, who had finished his report, bowed like a victorious general like the members present, and waited for their inquiries.

"Mr. Prime Minister, I would like to ask!" Ludru Rolland stood up and questioned Odillo Barrow, he wanted to expose Barrow's lies: "You keep saying that the government has not exceeded its budget, but as far as I know, the government has greatly exceeded the previous budget. The government's budget for a year, we have not reinstated the salt tax and wine tax a second ago!"

"At that time, we didn't abolish the progressive personal tax either!" Odi Lombarro sneered and insinuated that after the June Revolution, the Mountain Party and the Republicans joined forces to abolish the progressive personal tax.

"This is not the time to talk about this!" Ledru Rolland said angrily, and then calmed down: "I would like to ask Mr. Prime Minister how to explain the public bonds issued by the Ministry of Public Works to the society recently. I heard that Light First The amount of issued bonds has been nearly 20 million, this ratio is whether all the bonds are used by the government!"

The actual first tranche of public claims amounted to 200 million francs.

"This is a special bond issued by the Ministry of Public Works for the construction of the railway! Everything is the responsibility of the Ministry of Public Works, and of course it does not include it!" Audi Lombarro responded immediately and said confidently: "We have made a plan. We have established perfect railway investment and management regulations to ensure that the previous situation will not occur! Congressman Ludru, we are stimulating the weak economy in France, boosting employment and consumption in France, and the public works sector is still responsible for its own profits and losses, and the parliament does not There is no right to interfere with the operation of the department!"

Odillombarro's explanation left Ledru Rolland unable to argue that unemployment has always been a problem in the republic.

"As far as I know, the construction of the Paris-Marseille railway has already begun. I believe that it will not be long before we can reach Marseille all the way!" Audi Lombarro said in exchange for the concept: "These railways do not need to cost the country a penny!"

The Party of Order, who knew the inside story, applauded immediately~www.readwn.com~ This made the Mountain Party and the Republican Party who wanted to find fault a little unwilling.

Audi Lombarro, who had achieved his goal, stepped down in a round of applause. After Masella re-emerged to announce the seats of their respective parties to all the members present, the first Legislative Assembly ended and everyone left the assembly.

After the congress, the six men, Odillombarro, Thiers, Morlaix, the Duke of Brouy, the orthodox, the Count of Montalembert, and the Count of Fallou, met at the Rue Poitiers to talk.

"Mr. Prime Minister, your speech is really good! That guy Roland is going crazy!" Montalembert, who was sitting on the sofa, praised Odi Lombarro in a gloating tone.

"Overrated!" Odilo Barro responded modestly.

The Duke of Broy suddenly interjected: "By the way, you found that the loyal lackey of the Italian boy didn't seem to be here today!"

Principal Secretary Pessini

"Persini may be helping his master build his "little toy"!" Thiers said in a slightly sarcastic tone.

"Little toys?" The Duke of Broy's eyes were full of doubts. He had just entered Paris from the countryside and did not understand what Thiers meant.

"It's the military secretariat! Our Mr. President's thinking seems to be still in the era of the Great Revolution. It is no longer the era when whoever controls the army controls Paris!"

Thiers, who has experienced two dynasties, obviously does not believe in the idea that Paris can be dominated by the army. In his view, the army is just a dispensable armed force.

Don't see how Charles X and Louis Philippe, who control the army, fell to the throne. Only by firmly grasping the National Assembly can grasp the future.

Thiers was convinced of this.