As soon as the news of the fall of Toulon arrived, Joseph immediately found himself in trouble. Because once Toulon was lost, French control of Corsica would be almost zero.

"Damn, mom, they're still in Corsica!"

Compared to France, Corsica is much safer in a sense. At least, the relics of the Revolution after the improvement of His Majesty the King have not yet been sent to Corsica. But now the light on Napoleon has begun to emerge a little. It's not as dazzling as it was later, but at least...... At least it's a firefly, right?

"Once Toulon has fallen, it will only take a blink of an eye for Corsica to fall into the hands of the British. Well, Poly had a close relationship with the British. He was even less likely to let go of this opportunity. However, Napoleon did not tear his face with Pauly, who was a little smarter and not ...... However, in short, they must be taken from Corsica...... But the trouble is that now France seems to be more dangerous than Corsica, Corsica is still a little bit of a bottom line, but France is ......"

Thinking like this, suddenly a singing voice came from the window: "Everything will be fine, everything will be fine, the profiteers are all hanging on telephone poles......"

Joseph frowned, he turned his head to look outside, and saw a group of sans-culottes armed with spears, singing and walking down the street not far away. On the tip of the spear in the hand of the man in the front, there was also a head.

"I don't know which unlucky one it is. Most likely a flour shop owner. Joseph thought so, and felt as if it was definitely not a good idea to bring his mother and them to Paris:

"Where have they seen this, not to mention anything else, every day when they see this, they will be scared out of their neuropathy. But it's not a problem to keep them in Corsica. It's a real headache! Maybe, maybe I'll have to talk to Napoleon about it. ”

Today, however, Napoleon has returned to Paris, but he is not in Paris. After all, it was impossible for his legion to be stationed in the city of Paris. Napoleon's Fifth Army is now stationed near Montmartre, north of the city. This area went on to become one of the most attractive districts in Paris, such as the famous Moulin Rouge. But that was many years later, and today it's just an ordinary piece of highland.

At lunchtime, Joseph talked to Cano and said that he had something to do with Napoleon in Montmartre, so he had to entrust his two younger brothers to him for the time being, and the two of them were used to eating at Canot's anyway.

"You go to Napoleon at this time, is there anything you can do?" Kano asked.

"Lazar, you know, our family, my mother, and my sisters, are all in Corsica. Now that there is a problem in Toulon, I am afraid that there will be chaos in Corsica, so I am very worried......"

"That's it...... This is indeed a problem. "Indeed, you ought to take leave to consult with Napoleon." Corsica will definitely fall into the hands of the British for the time being. Well, find a way to get them to France, but neither you nor Napoleon can pick them up. ”

"I know the weight, Lazar." "If we were to pick them up, it would only put them in extra danger." ”

"Alright, you can use my carriage to go. I'll send you a few more guards, it's not safe on the road right now. ”

……

Napoleon was also in favor of taking the family out of Corsica, but he also thought that the family could not be brought to Paris. They have to find them a safer place.

"Let Lucien fetch them," said Napoleon, "and Lucien is so old that he should do something." After we arrived, we bought a manor in some part of the province, incognito, and let them live there first, and let Lucien take care of them there. ”

"Lucien?" Joseph still didn't feel at ease, "This guy is not very reliable." ”

"Come on, Joseph." Napoleon shook his head and said, "Who do you think is reliable?" Lucien is not reliable, am I very reliable? To put it bluntly, you have always felt that no one is reliable except you. But let me tell you, don't lose sight of your brother's strengths, Lucien is very clever. He's usually like that, just because he thinks that someone has given him a handle anyway, and you really left things to him, and he knows how to take care of it. ”

Joseph thought about it, this kind of thing really can only involve Lucien. But you've got to find a helper for Lucien, don't you? So he asked, "Do you have any particularly clever guys under you?" There are a few young men who are very clever, but they are now battalion commanders, even regiment commanders and division commanders, let them ...... for our private affairs."

"It doesn't matter." Joseph said, "Isn't it just the abuse of power for personal gain? If you think anyone is good, I'll find a way to give him an assignment first, let him go to the south to do some work, and then do us a favor by the way. ”

"Then I think the Chrysler battalion commander is good, he is cautious, and he can just make up for Lucien's shortcomings. What do you think? ”

"This is your subordinate, and you know him better than I do. Okay, you think about it, just give me the list, and I'll do the rest. Joseph finally said this.

In the vicinity of Toulon, the French army had only a few newly formed units, which had not even had time to be fully equipped with weapons and equipment because of the chaos of the previous period. Therefore, it was difficult for the French army to organize a decent counterattack for a while.

If, at this time, the British had been able to quickly muster a large army, land at Toulon, and then march north, such a move would have posed a greater threat to France, given the considerable influence of the royal party in the south.

However, Prime Minister Pitt had just cut the Army by a quarter in order to save money. It's not easy to get a big army out all at once now. Besides, the British didn't really have much idea about the territory of France. Because they knew that those continental Europeans would not allow them to make a Normandy territory on the continent again. The greater purpose of Britain's joining the anti-French alliance was to focus on those French colonies.

Although in the Far East, the French lost the Seven Years' War to the British and almost lost their colonies in India, but France still had many colonies in North Africa and North America. Now that the British occupy Toulon, they have in fact cut off the connection between France and North Africa, at this time, they are throwing their limited army on the French continent to fight with hundreds of thousands or even more Frenchmen, and there is not much to divide after the fight? Or would it be better to throw these armies into North Africa and the Mediterranean, and grab the colonies that were originally French?

Any Englishman who is confronted with this multiple-choice question can conclude almost without thinking about it, and so is Prime Minister Pitt, so after he took Toulon, he did not send many more troops to Toulon.

Of course, at the urging of Austria and Prussia, the British made some efforts, and they managed to persuade both the Spaniards and the Kingdom of Sardinia to send troops to Toulon.

The first was the Spaniards, who at first intended to send 10,000 troops, but when their army disembarked at Toulon, they found that the British troops were disembarking and embarking at Toulon. The people on board were all combat troops, and as soon as they got off the ship, they knew that they were all temporarily recruited engineers—since the Spaniards were coming, wouldn't it be just right to transfer the troops in Toulon to North Africa to grab territory? As for why a large number of engineers were brought in, it was, of course, to strengthen the defense of the port of Toulon. As long as you can keep Toulon in control, it will be too much help to the North African side. The British, of course, did not intend to go north to help the Austrians and Prussians, but they still wanted to hold Toulon.

Seeing these actions of the British, the Spaniards quickly understood that this was not right! While it is unlikely that the British would have carved a piece of land in mainland France, was it possible for the Spaniards? Since there is none, then why fight with the French in native France? Where the British could go in North Africa, could the Spaniards not go?

So the Spaniards stopped sending troops to Toulon in order to grab meat from North Africa with the British.

Originally, the Kingdom of Sardinia also agreed to send 5,000 troops, but at this time, when they saw that these two bigwigs who either never set the sun or were never setting were playing such tricks, they could naturally think: Even if the French royal family is restored, can the small Kingdom of Sardinia still make France unable to cede land and pay reparations? And their army didn't even have time to load it on ships, so the Kingdom of Sardinia simply did not send troops. Directly sent these soldiers to the Mediterranean Sea to grab the islands.

As a result, during the most critical period, the number of foreign troops in Toulon not only did not increase significantly, but the really most effective army decreased a lot.

Of course, in order to explain to the allies, the three countries played together and made a fortune. They informed Austria and Prussia of the numbers of the troops that landed at Toulon, but they did not tell them that, although they were all in Toulon, most of the troops under these numbers were on the Mediterranean side.

This inexplicable time difference gave the French more time to react. Cano first sent an army under the nearest General Pope to attack Toulon, and then ordered Napoleon's Fifth Army to be ready to go south at any time to support the Toulon battlefield.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Joseph asked Napoleon to propose that he need to send an "advance team" to Toulon to study the situation of the war first.

This request was quickly approved by Carnot, although he knew that both Joseph and Napoleon were planning to take advantage of the opportunity to help get their families out of Corsica.

The advance party was sent out, and Lucien became their "guide". Napoleon also began to prepare to lead his troops south, and at this time, Joseph made another suggestion to Carnot.