Wren was still shaking a little in his legs when he got off the train. Yes, it's really a little shivering, because the speed of the train is just too fast.

For a person like Joseph, who had even ridden the "Fuxing" in his previous life, the speed of a passenger train of about 60 kilometers was nothing more than a drizzle. But for people in this era, this is not the case, sixty kilometers per hour, this may be (in fact, you can be completely confident, remove these two words and replace them with affirmation) the highest speed he has ever achieved in his life.

With such a high speed, the stimulation brought by it made Wren's legs weak. So, after getting off the train, he stood for a long time holding on to the lamp pole on the platform before he was able to recover his feet.

However, during this time, Wren was not idle, and his mind began to quickly calculate the impact of the progress of the railroad on his business.

"The push of the railway will definitely make the price of transportation drop significantly, and the cost of logistics will drop a lot in any area where there is a railway. Logistics costs are also important operating costs, so that the textile industry on the European continent will have some lower costs. And once their costs come down, it puts a lot of pressure on us. ”

Wren had always been a very trouble-minded man, and he almost immediately thought about the impact that the railroad, which seemed to have little to do with him, might have on his business in the future.

Over the years, after the European market was completely opened to the UK, the British textile industry has made great progress, for example, the size of the textile mill in Rennes has expanded almost every year. But Wren also knows that the textile industry on the European continent has been beaten by the British in these years, and a large number of European textile companies will withdraw from the textile market every year. Some have gone bankrupt, some have transformed, in short, the textile companies on the European continent that continue to struggle to support have become more and more difficult.

These people will naturally be dissatisfied, and they will also attack the British in various ways, demanding that the European continent re-erect the barriers to British goods. Of course, this is met with widespread opposition from other industries, and it is almost impossible to succeed.

However, those guys still came up with some tricks, for example, some guys in the textile industry in France successfully lobbied the State Department to get these two bills. The first is called the Anti-Dumping Act, which prohibits foreign companies from undermining free trade by dumping. Anyway, on the European continent, the interpretation of the word free trade is entirely in the hands of the French.

According to this act, any company that sells goods in France at a price lower than the price at which they sell similar products in the UK will be deemed to be dumping, and then will be subject to a complete set of "anti-dumping packages" such as seizure of goods and heavy fines.

Since the advent of this bill, there have been several anti-dumping investigations in succession. Although the French did a fair job in insisting on "free trade", the British won the anti-dumping investigations. But litigation itself is a huge cost, especially the cost of time.

The second bill is still the British's own pot. That was the British Navigation Act. This act was passed in October 1651 by the Parliament of the English Republic led by Cromwell, which aimed to protect the monopoly of seafaring trade in England. This also led to a war with the maritime power of the Netherlands.

This bill provides: Only ships owned and manufactured by the United Kingdom or its colonies may carry goods from the British colonies. The government designated certain colonial products to be trafficked only to the British mainland or other British colonies, including tobacco, sugar, cotton, indigo, furs, etc. Products manufactured in other countries had to pass through Britain and could not be shipped directly to the colonies.

This decree is still in force. This kind of law, which clearly violates the principle of "free trade", has of course been the target of concentrated fire attacks by France and other European countries. However, because of the insistence of the British nautical community, this bill has not been amended.

Half a year ago, some Dutch textile merchants pushed the Dutch Republic to pass a retaliatory bill: restricting the right of way for British goods on the European continent. Of course, the bill does not explicitly target the UK, but only requires that facilities such as ports and roads be prioritized for use by "countries that support free trade". And the list of "countries that support free trade" does not include the United Kingdom.

If only the Dutch had such a rule, but as soon as the bill was passed on the Dutch side, the French immediately followed suit, and as soon as the French followed suit, the entire continent followed suit. As a result, the logistics cost of British goods on the European continent has risen significantly, and this disadvantage in transportation costs is likely to be further widened in the future with the widespread use of railways. This will obviously affect the competitiveness of British textiles on the European continent.

To this end, the merchants engaged in the textile industry took two measures: on the one hand, they demanded that the government negotiate with the French to solve the problem, and of course, they also understood that the British government might be able to exert so-called pressure on other countries, but it was difficult to exert such pressure on the French, who did not care about the military power of the British, and even liked to roll up their sleeves from time to time to show the British their biceps. Therefore, the so-called demand for the government to negotiate a solution to the problem is actually to hope that the government can amend the navigation law to a certain extent, in exchange for concessions from the French.

Of course, this kind of practice will definitely damage the interests of another group of people in the country, so this matter is not so easy to solve, and it is estimated that it will not take a few years to discuss and discuss in the Congress dozens of times in the past, and there is no change in it.

As for the other hand, it is naturally to tap the potential internally and reduce the production cost on its side.

The textile industry is a typical labor-intensive industry, and wage costs account for a considerable part of the cost. So Wren's first thought of doing so was to lower workers' wages and increase labor intensity. To his surprise, however, the lowly workers refused to accept their new contracts. It is a great crime to dare to strike and betray the great United Kingdom by shooting a shot in the back when British merchants were about to fight against the Dutch and French textile merchants for the benefit of Britain.

It's just that because of all kinds of restrictions, the United Kingdom can't use the most suitable means to deal with them for the time being, so they don't have to think about these hooligans, these ungrateful scoundrels, and they don't want to think about it, if it weren't for the Wren textile factory to provide them with a platform to work, they would have fallen down on the street and starved to death!

However, in order to meet Pakistan, Rennes had to agree to their coercion and agree to reinstate the old contract in the past. This also means that the profits he can make at the Pakistan Trade Fair this year will be greatly reduced. It's like cutting his flesh.

"When I go back, I am determined to find a way to teach these guys who don't know what to do and teach them a hard lesson, so that they will never dare to do this again in the future!"

Wren was ruthless in his heart as he walked towards the Freedom Palace.

The five-day second session of the Pakistan Trade Fair finally ended smoothly, and the commercial contracts and intent contracts reached by all parties at this Pakistan Trade Fair have greatly increased compared with the first session.

This success has been widely reported in many newspapers, and it is believed that it epitomizes the strength of the French economy. Some newspapers attributed this good situation to Napoleon's wise leadership. For example, Kommersant published such a report under the title "Please cherish this golden age".

"Under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte, France was in its finest golden age since the beginning of France. The rapid growth of the economy has brought more benefits and hope to everyone. Whether we are walking in the streets of Paris or walking on the country roads; The people we meet, whether they are workers or farmers, or even French people with French nationality, or foreigners who come to France to work and study, we can see hope shining in their faces, from their eyes.

Recall that before the revolution, under the rule of the Bourbons, how could the French people have such a vision, such a smile? It was not for nothing that at the inauguration of the Champ de Mars railway station, countless crowds cheered like the beloved Consul Bonaparte, whom they called 'Imperator'. Bonaparte's consul had proved that he was an invincible commander-in-chief, both on the battlefield and in the post of leading the construction of the country, and in the Roman sense of the word, Bonaparte's consul really deserved the title......"

After this report, more newspapers joined in the chorus of praise for Napoleon, even the tabloids devoted to the lace news, which carried some colored ones, joined in, and sang the praises of Napoleon's great achievements.

In the end, not only French newspapers, but even some foreign newspapers, some of which were originally French, joined in, so it was only natural that they sang the praises of Napoleon. On the other hand, there are two situations in the media, one is to use Napoleon to stimulate the rulers of their own country, just as some parents like to use other people's excellent children to stimulate their own children. Others really believed in the revolutionary ideals of France.

Of course, it is not without jumping out to sing the opposite. For example, some of the old aristocracy in exile in Austria and England, who still had a little money in their hands, also ran some newspapers, which naturally attacked Napoleon, from his stature to his family.

For example, there is such a newspaper in London, which is very clever in using comic strips to create Napoleonic ballads. This time they first spread the rumor that Napoleon was gay, that he was like Caesar, "a woman of all men, and a man of all women".

That's not all, the French don't care about such attacks at all. Then they spread rumors that Polina also has the same attributes, and is also a man of all women, a woman of all men, and even made up the story of Polina and his eldest brother and sister-in-law.

Because the circulation of this newspaper is actually very small, neither Polina nor Joseph noticed this in the first place. But there is a Holy Knights in England. This shameless practice of viciously slandering their image of "saints" naturally angered the young men of the Knights of the Holy Maiden, so these "knights" made an appointment together, took canes and whips, and rushed into the newspaper office, smashing the newspaper office to pieces, and then the matter was published in the big newspapers and entered the field of vision of the Bonaparte family.

It is said that Polina also asked Lucien to get two newspapers related to her, read them for herself, and then said very angrily that this newspaper is too unbelievable, the painting is too poor, and the painting of her is too ugly, it is really bearable, which is unbearable, and she really deserves to be smashed!

As for Napoleon, he only noticed that people compared him to Caesar, and was triumphant about it, but he did not have time to pay attention to how they compared him to Caesar.

In July 1802, a group of members of the State Council first introduced a motion to give the First Consul Napoleon the honorific title of "Anperador" in recognition of his contribution to France.

As soon as this bill was proposed, it was unanimously approved by all the members of the State Council. The parliamentarians said that Napoleon Bonaparte's ruling virtue was worthy of heaven and earth, and the majesty of the world, ancient and modern, should really be added to the honorific title of "Anperator" to show honor.

So in the blink of an eye, the State Council completed the proposal and submitted it to the People's Court for review. How could the Senate raise objections to such a bill? Don't they want to live anymore? As a result, the Senate passed the bill as quickly as possible and submitted it to the Legislative Yuan for a vote.

It is said that Napoleon did not know about this until this time. He immediately rushed to the Legislative Yuan and delivered a speech to the members of the Legislative Yuan, saying that "Imperator" was not a servant of the people and should have the honorific title, but that it was his vocation to serve the French people wholeheartedly as the first consul, that he was the first public servant of the French people, and that he did not need such a reward. Therefore, he hoped that the members of the Legislative Yuan would respect his personal views and veto this bill, which deviated from the spirit of democracy.

After listening to Napoleon's speech, the Legislative Yuan quickly passed the bill in third reading – the first time since Napoleon became First Consul that the Legislative Yuan went against the will of the First Consul. Edwards, president of the Legislative Yuan, is said to have told Napoleon: "Your Excellency, First Consul, just as you are to be faithful to the ideals of democracy, we must also listen to the voice of the people." ”

Then the bill was submitted to the Senate, which naturally did not want to go against the will of the people, so they also passed it under Napoleonic pressure.

Of course, this does not mean that the bill can take effect immediately, because in order for the bill to take effect, it must also be handed over to the first consul for execution. The First Consul may be carried out as he sees fit. Naturally, there is an option to put this on hold for the time being. So Napoleon did not hesitate to shelve the bill.

But even so, people began to refer to Napoleon by Imperador, and their reason was: "What to call a servant of the people, is it not the natural right of the people?" ”

Gradually, newspapers began to preface Napoleon's title with the honorific title of Anbelator.

Of course, Napoleon himself was in no way in favor of this, and he constantly spoke against it. But the newspapers were unanimous: "This embodies the humble virtue of the Venerable Anbrato." ”

Then the Legion of Honor also took action, and they also said that over the years, they had awarded the Legion of Honor to many French and foreign friends who had contributed to France, but the First Consul had always humbly accepted only the lowest cavalry medal. This is clearly not commensurate with the great contribution of the First Consul. Many uninformed masses accused them of treating the First Consul poorly, and some of the emotional laureates of the Order of Honor even sent their medals back to the Legion of Honor, saying that they returned their medals because the Legion of Honor could not award Bonaparte a medal worthy of his contribution according to his genuine contributions. Because they were less qualified to receive medals than Bonaparte was in power.

The Legion of Honor urgently designed and manufactured a medal known as the "Anpelardo" and awarded it to Napoleon.

This "Order of the Anbrado" is made of pure gold and inlaid with a large number of precious stones, and at the bottom of the medal, there is a line of words: "Serve the people".

After the medal was completed, Bernie, the head of the Legion of Honor, personally held the medal and went to the office of the First Consul, surrounded by countless French people, to persuade the First Consul to accept the medal.

He was followed by most of the members of the Legion of Honor, all of whom wore their medals on their chests and followed Bernie outside the consul to express their wishes to the First Consul.

Napoleon hurried to the door and explained to the enthusiastic crowd that he really could not accept an honor that smelled of monarchy. The representatives of the citizens said that "Anpelardo" was an honorific title that existed in the days of the Roman Republic, and was not reserved for emperors. We can't use it just because some emperors have used it.

It is clear that the deputy's statement is more representative of the will of the people, because when he says these words, everyone is desperately applauding him.

In the end, under the persuasion of everyone, Napoleon decided to obey the will of the French people and accepted the medal as "Anbelator".