It took almost a month for news of the uprising in Mexico to reach Europe, and then, it didn't make much of a splash in Europe. After all, Mexico is a little too far for the average European. Only the Spanish ambassador to France submitted a weak-toned protest to France, asking the French to restrain heretical activities in their territory and control the flow of weapons.

"Juan, you know, the principle of freedom of religion is laid down in our Code." Talleyrand very calmly accepted the protest from the Spanish ambassador and placed it in the drawer of his desk, "Although I myself, and those who know even a little about religion, know that that 'revolutionary theology' is heretical. But in our country, heresy is legal for him. Hell yes, unless they do something extraordinary, we can restrain them according to the law, but we can't control the heretics themselves, or the missions themselves. At least in France, and within his territory, it was legal. You may not know that there are five or six bastards in France today who claim to be the living Jesus, and you see, we don't send them all to prison because it's freedom of religion and freedom of speech. ”

"As far as I know," said Ambassador Juan, "Mr. Minister, there are five of these 'living Jesus', and four of them are being imprisoned by you in a mental hospital. ”

"That's because their family applied to the hospital and got a diagnosis certificate from the hospital and a qualified doctor. This is a medical thing, a medical thing, how can it be considered a locked up? ”

"But isn't there another 'living Jesus' who you sent to prison?"

"Oh, which one is in prison, but he didn't go to prison for religious reasons. I'm sure he was not arrested for religious reasons. Well, we in France are free and democratic republics, and the French people have complete freedom to believe in any religion or not to believe in any religion, or to believe in one religion and then not to believe in another, or to believe in all religions at the same time. In our country, no one is put in prison for religious reasons. As for the remaining one you mentioned, he was locked up for illegally practicing medicine and causing death - this guy said that he stroked the patient with his hand, blew on the patient, and shouted, 'I am Jesus, I command you, sickness, go back from this man,' and he could heal the disease, and as a result, the treatment was delayed, and the patient died—you see, if the patient had not been in trouble, we would have certainly not arrested him. In short, our government does not have the right to ban matters related to religious beliefs. Talleyrand spread out his hands, as if he couldn't help it, "But this heretical theory is so absurd, as long as your country strengthens theoretical education and allows the people to improve their knowledge, you should be able to quickly refute their erroneous views and solve this problem." ”

Well, Ambassador Juan also knew that in this matter he was unlikely to receive any help from the French, who were already a bunch of sons of God, and that heresy, is there a greater heresy than the French Church today? Even if it is Lutheranism, even if it is the whole Protestantism, at least the Holy See dares to call them heretical. Unlike the French, who are obviously heretical, the Holy See does not dare to say it.

"And what about the control of weapons?" Ambassador Juan asked.

"Ah, it's not a big deal." Foreign Minister Talleyrand agreed very simply, "Our two countries are allies, and we will not help each other's enemies." We certainly won't sell weapons to them, you can rest assured. Well, I think, I can responsibly say to you that we didn't sell weapons to Mexico. ”

"But, as far as we know, the rebels in Mexico have French weapons in their hands." Ambassador Juan said.

"This must be smuggling." Foreign Minister Talleyrand said without changing his face, "You know, in that part of the Americas, the land is vast and sparsely populated, especially in Louisiana, most of the places actually have no laws at all, and the only law that is really effective to protect a person's personal and property safety is actually only one thing, and that is the gun in your hand." What is the saying? Free New World, Shootout Every Day?

So unlike on the European side, the weapons over there can be sold freely. Moreover, it is also technically difficult to control. For example, there was a group of new immigrants who were going to farm a little further north, but it was full of Indians and American bandits. In order to be able to peacefully buy the pelts of the Indians, and I'm talking about the furs sold by the Indians, and to keep it from becoming the boots in the hands of the Americans, we have to give them enough weapons to protect themselves.

So in Louisiana, not only were all kinds of guns freely traded, but even the cannons, even the latest rifled cannons, could be legally purchased—as long as the purchaser was French. Because in the north, whether it is the British, the Americans and even the Indians, there are already things that come out to rob with cannons. We can't watch them bully our immigrants with their cannons.

Mr. Ambassador, I can assure you that if a Mexican crosses the border, enters Louisiana, and then goes to a weapons shop, he wants to buy weapons. As long as he doesn't have legal status, the weapons shop won't even sell him a peeling knife - if any of them violate this, we'll fine them so much that they can't cry. But if he waited outside the weapons shop, he grabbed a Frenchman who was about to walk in, stuffed a hawk into his hand, and asked him to help buy a few guns from there. We really can't control this, it's not that we don't want to control it - you know in the New World, we obviously don't have enough law enforcement officers - it's really uncontrollable.

Of course, we will step up border patrols to intercept those smugglers as much as possible. Your country should also strengthen border patrols to stop arms smuggling. ”

Speaking of this, Talleyrand suddenly smiled and said, "But Ambassador Juan, you also know that the border between Louisiana and Mexico is too long. It is not easy to completely block such a long border. It can even be said that it is impossible. So, it will not be easy to completely cut off the supply of weapons to the rebels. Otherwise, in fact, there is another way to solve the problem, that is, your country will buy more and better weapons directly from us. After all, your country far surpasses those rebels in terms of financial and human resources, and with the advanced weapons of our country, I think your country will be able to successfully put down the rebellion in Mexico. ”

Looking at Talleyrand's sincere, Rafflesia-like smile, he almost couldn't hold back and threw his white gloves in his face. However, he still controlled himself and said to Talleyrand: "Mr. Minister, our two countries are allies, and our country has always abided by the covenant and cherished the friendship between the two sides. I hope that at this time, we can sincerely help each other, so that the ship of friendship between our two countries can withstand the storm. ”

With that, Ambassador Juan took his leave, and then he hurried back to the embassy to write a report on the day's dealings with the French, which he then compiled into a secret message and sent it back home by cable telegram from Paris to Madrid.

At this time, there were already commercial telegraph lines between France and Madrid. But it's French companies that run the line, so if it's important information that needs to be kept secret, then it must be in cipherland. However, even if this is done, it is still unsafe. Because the telegraph company would record these messages, as long as they were archived enough to corroborate with current events, it would not be difficult to decipher these cipherlands. Considering that in this era, cryptography has not appeared at all, and the level of the so-called "secret language" is very inferior, that is, "the king of heaven covers the tiger, the river demon of the pagoda town", or "the earth vibrates the high gang, a group of mountains and rivers through the ages; The door faces the sea, and the three rivers flow for ten thousand years.

But on the French side, there was a Joseph who had crossed over. Although he himself only knows a name about cryptography or something. But I still know a little bit about permutations and combinations. And know the general direction, and then, in this era, know this, and have the conditions that people don't have at all (they can automatically obtain all the telegrams sent by others), plus the guys in this era don't have any decent sense of secrecy at all, all of them are the same as the KMT of later generations, a set of passwords, used for many years, and they don't know how to change it. Later, White Eagle wants to pass on some fake news to the foot basin chicken, and one of the common methods is to tell KMT the fake news first.

In contrast, the rabbit's coding level was just as sparse back then, and the locust army thought that it would be possible to decipher the rabbit's code in two months at most, but it didn't work out until the locust surrendered - because the rabbit had to change the code book once or twice a month.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Public Security, the secret words used by the Spanish government are almost no different from the plain code. No sooner had Ambassador Juan's message been delivered than the French already knew what he had said. And when the instructions from the Spanish side came back, Lucien learned of these things even before Ambassador Juan. After all, Ambassador Juan had to wait for someone from the telegraph company to send the telegram over. Then he had to translate the text himself (for the sake of secrecy, these secret words were not known to others), but Lucien could get the translated content directly on the phone.

"Well, it's good, the Spaniards are decisive...... What the? How can the Spaniards do this? They, they're too ......" Lucien, who received the report, was also taken aback by the Spaniard's decision.