Let. Jacques. Gauhn, captain of the Fifth Mounted Police in Paris, is unknown to outsiders as the head of the secret police in Paris. But six months ago, he was just an ordinary cavalry sergeant in the Fifth Mounted Police.

As the second son of a merchant family, this position is almost the pinnacle of his status, and the position of an officer above is for the nobles.

If it weren't for Song Xiance's favor, he wouldn't have been able to become the current captain of the Mounted Police. It is precisely because of this that let. Jacques. Gao En was grateful to Song Xiance and devoted himself to the foreigner who promoted him.

Unlike the nobles who were wary of foreigners competing with them for the throne of the court, Jean. Jacques. For a class of citizens like Gao En, whoever can promote them will be loyal to whom, and they really don't care much about the country or anything. After all, the state has never given them any benefit other than requiring them to serve and pay taxes, so what reason is there for them to be loyal to the country owned by the nobility and the king?

Among the French aristocracy, it is likely that the Lord will promote some capable officials who are not from noble backgrounds, but compared to the robed nobles appointed by the Lord of the Throne, the number of these people is also very small. Moreover, for a low-level person like him, who is not outstanding in talent and can only do some information work, the Lord of the Dharma Throne will at most give some monetary rewards, and will not think about their future or anything.

But Lord Song is different, compared with the cold Lord Dharma, Lord Song will always describe an extremely bright future to them, and never take out his body to identify a person, which makes the reorganized Fifth Mounted Police Team very close to Lord Song, and has become the most loyal subordinate under Lord Song, the captain Jean. Jacques. Gao En became Song Xiance's first cronie.

When Song Xiance entered the Louvre, let . Jacques. Gao En and his subordinates were still guarding Song Xiance's carriage, and no one was lazy and lax, and the serious attitude of these mounted policemen was about to catch up with the guards beside Lord Faza. A year ago, no one in Paris would have believed that these mounted police could do their duty.

In the past, the security of Paris was carried out by two forces, the National Gendarmerie directly under the King and the Mounted Police, which was attached to the City Council. To make a simple comparison, the former is a weakened brocade guard, while the latter is similar to the shop army in the city.

Therefore, the problems that the army should have, and the mounted police team also accounted for it. Theoretically, they were supposed to be responsible for policing the city, but the Mounted Police were only stationed on the streets, and they lacked equipment and training to blackmail passing vendors, and they were mostly blind to criminal activities on the streets. Even some of the Mounted Police are street ruffians, and they naturally don't want to protect any citizens.

Although from 1630 onwards, Richelieu's repression of the aristocracy and the exploitation of the countryside forced the local mounted police to function as fire extinguishers, and changed from maintaining law and order to suppressing protests and small rebellions, the cardinal still did not think of reforming the mixed good and bad mounted police.

However, the police system reform plan proposed to him by Song Xiance finally moved the cardinal, so he gave Song Xiance a chance to establish and improve the police system in Paris first. According to the patrol police system implemented by Chongzhen in Beijing, Song Xiance quickly completed the reform of the Paris police department.

The National Gendarmerie still retains its original basic function, and will only be mobilized in the event of a large-scale street rebellion or a vicious gang. As for the original mounted police force, it was divided into three parts, one part of which was located at the traffic arteries of each urban area to maintain stability in the area and monitor the unstable elements in the area; Some of them have become mounted police patrolling the streets to combat street crime and calm down emergencies; Finally, a group of shrewd and capable personnel were selected to form a secret police force to monitor the daily movements of the nobles and ministers who opposed the king and the throne.

It is difficult to say whether the reform of the police system that the Lord Fa Que is looking forward to has achieved its goal, but the law and order in Paris is much better than before, and even Louis XIII personally summoned Song Xiance, praised him greatly, and accepted the cardinal's suggestion to hire Song Xiance to become his language teacher.

After Gao En and the others waited for nearly a morning, Song Xiance finally walked out of the Louvre, and seeing that there was no other expression on this person's face, Gao En's heart suddenly relaxed. As long as this adult is okay, then he is very safe in his place.

In order to be able to get as close to the palace as possible and grasp the whereabouts of the king, the cardinal deliberately built his mansion near the Louvre, but this splendid palace is now the property of the eldest son of the king. After the birth of the king's eldest son, the cardinal gave it to his newborn highness.

With such a generous stroke, Song Xiance was also smacked. He also realized why the French nobles couldn't get the cardinal down several times, and in the face of such loyal courtiers, only a fool would believe those great nobles who wanted to put money into their pockets all day but didn't pull a dime.

Entering the office in the west wing of the Bishop's Palace, Song Xiance quickly finished reviewing the documents stacked on the table. For some seemingly unimportant documents, he gave direct instructions; If it is difficult to determine the degree of importance, he will make a summary record; For some of the more important ones, they wrote suggestions and pasted them on the document and put them aside.

Every two days, he reported to the cardinal of Lyon on the situation in Paris, and sent these important documents to Lyon along with them. And the letter he was going to write to the cardinal today was extremely important, in addition to reporting the movements of the great nobles in Paris, he also wrote these few words in secret language.

“… The plan went smoothly, and the queen was convinced that when the evidence was in hand, the rebels could be clawed. I wish you a good day. ”

Putting the letters and documents into a wooden box, Song Xiance called Jean. Jacques. Goun, after handing him the wooden box, said: "Old rule, send it to Lyon as soon as possible." ”

Let. Jacques. Gao En agreed, and reported to Song Xiance by the way: "... The gentleman who returned to the city with the adult yesterday has already been sent to the adult's residence, and according to the guard who sent the gentleman back, Mr. Zhang has returned, and it seems that he is waiting for you to go back at the adult's residence. ”

Although he took refuge in the cardinal, Song Xiance did not move to live in the Bishop's Palace, and he bought a residence near the town hall as the Ming embassy in France and his own residence. When he heard Mr. Zhang in Gao En's mouth, he knew that it was Zhang Guoji who had arrived in Paris.

This made him feel a little strange, because Zhang Guoji was still talking about a big business in Spain before, and for some reason he suddenly came to Paris. Song Xiance said calmly: "Well, then I'll go back today, if there is any special situation, you know how to contact me." ”

"Yes, my lord, I will keep an eye on the movements of Paris for my lordship, and I will never let those rebels escape my eyes..." Jacques. Gao En immediately became excited, and patted his chest at Song Xiance to reassure.

Song Xiance smiled slightly, and after packing up the things on the table, he left with Gao En. Ma Zaran, who was working at the other end of the Bishop's Palace, didn't even know that Song Xiance had come to the Bishop's Palace today.

After riding in the carriage for more than half an hour, Song Xiance returned to his residence. It is a small three-storey brick building with a small garden behind the stable, in addition to a front yard with a stable. In the vicinity of the city hall, although such a building is ordinary, it is not a property that ordinary people can buy, so the surrounding environment is very good, much quieter than the ordinary neighborhood, but it is not far from the lively shopping street.

Passing through the front hall on the first floor, in the study on the second floor, Song Xiance saw Zhang Guoji who was playing chess with Zhang Ke, and the two of them got acquainted faster than him. Seeing Song Xiance open the door and come in, Zhang Ke said goodbye very interestingly.

As the door was closed again, Song Xiance asked Zhang Guoji out loud: "Why did you come to Paris at this time, is there something wrong?" ”

After Zhang Guoji put the chess pieces back on the chessboard, he stretched out his hand to the opposite side and said, "Come, let's talk while playing, I was interrupted by you just before the addiction was over." ”

Looking at Zhang Guoji's demeanor, Song Xiance estimated that even if there was a problem, it would not be a big problem, so he walked to the edge of the table and said after the cannon was in the center: "You came to Paris, won't you just have a chess addiction." ”

Zhang Guoji, who was looking at the chessboard intently, replied casually: "That's not true, in fact, there are still a few things I want to discuss with you." The first thing I want to ask you is that in the war between France and Spain in the south, do you think there is more hope of victory there? ”

Song Xiance was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and asked vigilantly, "What are you doing inquiring about this?" We cannot be allies with Spain, France is the most important thing we can unite with at the moment.

As long as France can occupy an advantage in western Europe and can suppress the Netherlands and Spain, then the overseas colonization activities of these two countries will be constrained differently, and this is the situation that our Ming Dynasty needs at present.

A weak France would disrupt our plans for expansion abroad, and it would also lose the basis for controlling the balance in Europe. You should know that Britain is in a lot of chaos right now, and it is said that there is a civil war on the verge of a civil war, and we cannot expect the British to balance the situation in Europe..."

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