Bishop Leonard, welcome. Your presence has made our humble office shine. In his office, Lucien welcomed Bishop Leonard.

Lucien is not humble when he says that his office is shabby, because most of the time (and not a few times a year) Lucien does not work here. Therefore, Lucien naturally didn't care about the decoration here. Sometimes, he can even use this relatively modest office to show his integrity.

Of course, the whole French people believed in the incorruptibility of the Bonapartes. Although the salaries of the consuls of Bonaparte, the abbot of Bonaparte, and the ministers of Bonaparte were not low, all of their wages were donated to help the poor in France. Besides, the whole of France knows that the Bonaparte family is very good at business, and they have a lot of money, where can they use corruption?

Just like a certain mayor of Xinxiang, a lighthouse country in later generations, did not receive a salary, and even paid hundreds of millions of dollars to support various undertakings in Xinxiang, the people of the Bonaparte family not only did not receive a salary, but also constantly used the money for various charitable causes. Of course, the Bonaparte family, like a mayor in Xinxiang, multiplied many times in the process. But this is all money that comes from the right way of the right way, and it is by no means made by corruption - when it comes to corruption, how much money can there be? As long as the policy direction is adjusted and the economy is prepared in a prescient way, we don't know how much money we can make on the right path.

"Minister Bonaparte, it is an honour for me to meet you here. May God bless you. Bishop Leonard responded.

"Mr. Bishop, you should have known before you came, that after the Olympics we will be working on the Barbary pirates to free the Catholics who have been kidnapped and sold into slavery. You also know, Mr. Bishop, that these people have been living in North Africa for a long time, and that they are in slavery with those evil infidels, and that they are worse off than dead. They look forward to the stars and the moon to the hope that we will deliver them from the slavery of the heathen, just as the peasants look forward to the clouds in a great drought. ”

Hearing Lucien's exaggerated remarks, Bishop Leonard couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

Indeed, over the past few hundred years, starting in the 16th century, Barbary pirates captured between 800,000 and 1.25 million European coastal dwellers and sold them into slavery by attacking ships, as well as raiding coastal settlements. In the middle of the 17th century, such daring raids reached their peak. Coastal towns such as Spain and Italy were disturbed by the disrupted populations that moved inland until the 19th century.

And the French, who played a dishonorable role in these disasters. In fact, Barbary pirates were able to run rampant in large part because of the support of France. The French opened their ports to supply the pirates, helped them sell their stolen goods, helped them build and repair ships, sold them weapons, provided them with information, and even vacated churches belonging to God for the pagans to pray. Without the French, the Barbary pirates simply could not have been so harmful. Now the French are jumping out to pretend to be saviors, what a ...... I've never seen anyone so brazen!

As if to see Bishop Leonard's thoughts, Lucien added: "When the tyrants of the Bourbon dynasty ruled France, not only did they not stop such atrocities, but they were defiled by Mammon, and betrayed God and the pious French people in order to gain the benefits of the pirates' plunder. They simply don't deserve to call themselves Catholics. I think the Holy See should think carefully about this and declare the excommunication of the remnants of the exiled Bourbons. ”

"The Bourbon guys aren't a good thing, of course, but don't you continue to be allied with Turkey now?" Bishop Leonard thought to himself, but his mouth said: "The Church is lenient and just, and we will investigate the exiles of the Bourbons, and we will only resort to such extreme measures if the evidence is conclusive." ”

Lucien understood this, and then he added, "Although the things that support the Barbary pirates are made up by those tyrants. The Government of the French Republic has never done anything so contrary to conscience. But we still feel that we have a moral responsibility in this matter. That is why we hope to work with the Holy See for the liberation of God's people who have fallen into North Africa.

But as you know, Mr. Bishop, these displaced Christians have been living in North Africa for a long time, and their families and businesses are in North Africa, and it is irresponsible to let them leave North Africa. And North Africa, in turn, is the territory of the Turks. France did not want territorial expansion and aggression. This is contrary to French principles.

So even if we liberate the poor Christian slaves, they will still stay in North Africa. But these poor Christians, our poor brothers, have fallen into the hands of the infidels for hundreds of years, and although they still retain their devout faith in Jesus Christ, because of the lack of guidance from the Church, there will always be doubts and even misguided in some matters. So we need to establish an orthodox church in North Africa to guide the Lambs of God. ”

Bishop Leonard knows that this is the point. So he asked: "Of course the Holy See is willing to help these lost lambs." But what can the Holy See do in pagan lands? ”

"We have negotiated with the Sultan that France will have the right to lease ports in the former Barbary countries, to mine minerals, and to build railways attached to the mines. In the leased ports, as well as along the mines and railways, France would have the power to build new churches and station certain troops.

Originally, the Church in our country would have liked to be able to take this responsibility up, but we in France have always been honest and trustworthy. One of the secret terms of the agreement we reached with the Holy See was that our Church would not preach outside France and her dependencies. Those places in North Africa are legally leased by us, not French territory or dependencies. Therefore, the Church in our country should not preach in these places. Therefore, the responsibility of leading the lost lambs to the right path can only be fulfilled by the Holy See. The Holy See can ask us what it needs in the course of the mission. When the infidels are looking for trouble, they can come to us for support. I say this, do you see our sincerity, Bishop? This is the most important gift we have given to the Pope. ”