It was still the soldier who spoke the most to the ear, and Napoleon III's irritable mood was finally better, but Olivier, the prime minister who was not open, was still endless. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"No, I am firmly against it! Repression can only intensify the mood of the people and allow more civilians to join the wave of resistance...... Only reform can solve the problem once and for all!" Olivier also wanted to persuade the emperor.

"Increase the power of the parliament, absorb more civilian members, and give citizens the right to participate in politics...... Increase investment in education and health care, reduce the funding for armaments a little, and if there are ten more charities in Paris, the number of citizens who oppose you will be reduced by at least half......"

"The work intensity of ordinary workers is too great, and the law should be used to set the basic wage, and the working hours should be reduced, and some labor organizations should be organized so that they can make a case to the government......"

"If Your Majesty can accept my approach, I believe that in half a year the workers of the whole of France will be able to make the workers of France love you again!"

"Oh God, half a year?" Montauban said with an exaggerated expression, rising from his chair, "Don't be too idealistic, my dear Prime Minister, how can you waste half a year now?"

"Do you know what the Pru Soldier Factory produces per month, how many shells of various types can be produced per month, how many bullets are there?"

"Now the busiest place in the whole Prussian city and countryside is the recruiting station! Retired veterans and young recruits have formed a reserve and have begun to train in the barracks!"

"In the future, if there is a real war, how many troops do you think Prussia will mobilize? 500,000 or 1 million?"

"At such a critical juncture, you are proposing to reduce military spending? Oh my God, it's a joke......"

Olivier let Montauban run through, and in the end he couldn't sit still, "General, there is still half a year, don't forget that the emperor of the Qing State is about to visit Europe, and this kind of important diplomatic event that has not been encountered in a thousand years will definitely affect the political situation in Europe......

"Even the most arrogant war maniac will calm down and see what will happen after this diplomatic feast, and no one will blindly act before the change happens...... Bismarck is not a madman, he is a calm and iron-blooded prime minister!"

"In addition, I firmly believe in the strength of the French army, is it possible that the glorious tradition left by Napoleon has been completely lost now? France has defeated Prussia several times, and the defeat of its men is not worth mentioning at all!"

"Reform first, quelling public grievances is the top priority!"

The two immediately quarreled, and Napoleon III looked at it with a headache and said, "Enough......!

In the end, the emperor still chose his cronies, after all, Olivier was just a pawn thrown by himself in order to appease the anger of the people, and the real cronies were still the generals in these armies.

"We will wait until the crisis subsides, and the first task now is to solve the troubles caused by this group of Chinese......"

"Montauban, I allow you to cooperate with the work of the National Police Department, and those who have committed treason must be dealt with seriously...... Enough, Olivier, I understand what you mean, but the time is not right, and we can't reform it now......"

"I promise you, as long as the crisis subsides, I will still push forward with reforms...... Nor is a constitutional monarchy ...... No, you can't!"

"Finally...... Inform the Suez Canal side...... Let our people move too, and it is better to muddy this Chinese visit......"

The Emperor made his decision, and then the entire imperial administrative system began to function, and all departments moved.

The telegraph office began to send orders to military bases throughout the country, including overseas, and the French fleet stationed on Corsica began to set sail in the direction of the Suez Canal.

At this moment, the management of the Suez Canal was controlled by France, and the British did not have many shares, and the French stationed two brigades on both sides of the canal, while the British only had two regiments.

It can be expected that when the combined Chinese fleet is ready to pass through the canal, the French side will certainly cause all kinds of troubles, and may even misfire.

It's not just the overseas powers that are taking action, but the French are even more bloody.

In the prisons of the secret police, torture officers were ordered to raise the level of torture, and members of underground workers' organizations, those on the left, were brutally and inhumanely abused.

The National Police Agency issued an order that confessions should be made regardless of life or death, and the torture officers began to use large amounts of drugs as hallucinogens, and then combined with torture to extract confessions.

The secret prison suddenly became a hell on earth, and the screams even came out of the high walls!

Thick confessions were sent out every day, and the military and police, who had been preparing for a long time, rushed to the secret printing bases one after another, and smashed the secret clubs of the left-wing underground organizations.

Perhaps Montauban wanted to curry favor with the emperor by showing himself a personal gesture, and in the middle of the night he personally led a raid on a bar in a ghetto.

Screaming bar girls, terrified bosses, and dirty workers fleeing their ways, surrounded by pulsing torches and heavily loaded soldiers.

Montauban covered his mouth with a handkerchief and looked excitedly at everything in front of him, "Rush in! Those who dare to resist will be killed......

Wolf-like soldiers burst into the backyard of the bar, and in a secret tunnel leading to the sewers, they seized a large batch of printing equipment and more than thirty workers.

The workers, who were unwilling to be captured, chose to fight and retreat, and the two sides immediately exchanged fire, and Montauban listened to the gunfire underground with a gloomy face: "Damn, you are secretly stockpiling arms and weapons, is there going to be a riot? It must be the arms provided by Prussia, it must be ......"

His eyes rolled and he said coldly, "Who is the policeman in charge of this slum......?

Montauban covered his mouth and nose with a perfumed handkerchief, and said impatiently, "You take a team of soldiers and raid the surrounding houses...... I don't believe that this stronghold can escape your eyes without the cover of the people around you!"

"All the women and children around here are suspicious, arrest me...... Then shout to the ground! If they don't surrender, I'm going to kill these co-defendants!"

"Act now, right now!"

On the banks of the Seine, in the slums, all the houses within a radius of 200 meters around the bar were smashed open.

The police officers in the police district, who were familiar with the people's situation, began to screen out 'co-defendants', academics, intellectuals, and small businessmen, and all those who were from working families automatically became left-wing families, and the whole family was arrested without any discrimination.

In particular, families where men are not at home and only rotten people have become the focus of care, and soon the bar is filled with more than 100 suspects.

"Listen to the criminals of the underground...... Stop resisting and come out now...... Otherwise, the woman and the child near the bar will be co-accused and thrown into prison!"

"Give you three minutes to think about it...... Their lives are in your hands!"

Bang Bang Bang ...... More gunfire was heard from underground, followed by angry yelling and swearing.

The corners of Montauban's eyes twitched, and he suddenly shouted, "Shoot ten, throw the corpses down...... Let them know the cost of knowing the rebellion!"

There was a cry in the bar, and the women and children hugged each other and crowded desperately, everyone fearing that they would be one of ten.

"No...... For God's sake, we have not sinned, we are innocent!"