However, Charles, who had just been released from the peak of pleasure, of course had no way to forget everything now, he looked at Mary, but he didn't know what to say all of a sudden, so to speak, his mind was complicated. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although he had known for a long time that Mary would deliberately please him, he did not expect Mary to be able to do such a thing for himself, which was both surprised and touched, and of course he also knew that the humiliating treatment that Mary received in front of Charlotte just before leaving the house must have been one of the accelerants that prompted her to make such a statement.

However, compared to his surprise, Mary seemed to be in her chest, and she couldn't help but laugh when she looked at Charles's slightly embarrassed and dazed appearance.

"What's the matter, sir? Haven't had enough of it? You said you had limited time, so I'm going to hurry up and ...... if you don't think you've had enough fun?"

"No...... I didn't mean that, no need. Now Charles didn't have the idea of coming again, and hurriedly waved his hand, "I...... I was just thinking, you don't have to get to this point...... Really, don't be afraid, I have absolutely no intention of treating you as a victim, please take my word for it. ”

Mary had just said that she was afraid of being abandoned by Charles under some special circumstances, and perhaps this fear had prompted her to please herself so much, and for Charles himself, he did not want to see Mary treated with such trepidation, so he couldn't help but reassure her.

As a minister, he speaks in his own domain, and his subordinates around him are constantly flattered every day, and if he wants to see others silent about him, Charles can see it every day, and if everyone is like this, he will feel bored.

"I take your word for it, don't worry, sir." Mary smiled and sat back next to him, "I didn't see this as a sacrifice, it was just a pleasure, was it?" Rather than being a routine every time, I think I should do something different once in a while...... Didn't you say that? It's like ......"

Mary's hands were on her cheeks, and she let out a "meow~".

"Hahahaha......" Charles finally laughed at her again, "then please continue to be a kitten...... I will always take care of you. ”

"You can't just pay lip service, can you?" Mary's face sank suddenly, "The gift you promised me is still nowhere to be found!" ”

"What gift?" Charles was stunned for a moment, but soon he remembered what kind of "gift" Mary wanted.

"Uh...... Okay, I know, I know......" He could only nod his head in embarrassment.

"Don't you use this kind of ability to deal with your colleagues on me?" Mary didn't give up, "vaguely agreed, then perfunctory, and finally did nothing......"

"But now you ...... It's not very convenient, right? Charles asked rhetorically, "After all, you have a lot of responsibility right now, and you can't leave your post all of a sudden, can you?" ”

"It's not my permanent job!" Mary still didn't back down, but took the opportunity to directly clarify what she was thinking, "Say it again...... I can also take a vacation for a while, as long as you say a word, is there anything else that someone will not want to run out and oppose it? ”

Although Mary is now on the rise with Charles' support, she can also find her position unstable, and she feels more and more the importance of using a child to secure her position.

Mary naturally knew which was more important, the power of the present or the security of the future, so she wanted to take the opportunity of Charles's excellent mood today to directly determine her future.

"So what do you say?" Charles was annoyed by Mary and had to ask her again.

"One year is enough, right?" Mary leaned closer to him, almost as if she were whispering in his ear, "It should be reasonable for me to be here for you for a year, finish all the things you have been told, and then ask myself for a long vacation, right?" And at that time, I should be able to leave one of our children with peace of mind. ”

It's not a long vacation...... Charles couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

"Why, isn't it...... Don't you want to? Mary looked up at Charles, "Of course I'm not in a position to force your ...... if you don't want to"

"Okay, okay, okay, that's all!" On this occasion, Charles couldn't see Mary's pitiful appearance, so he sighed and agreed to her request. "Then you should be satisfied, right?"

"So...... I'm going to look forward to that......" Mary was overjoyed at this moment, and threw herself into Charles's arms.

However, their warmth did not last long, and soon it was time for dinner, and in order to prevent the guests who had called him from waiting, Charles and Mary returned to the hall with him.

By this time, the long table was already full of dishes - although there were not too many chefs to make a big deal about it for the sake of secrecy, but because the ingredients were delicacies, they were still worthy of the status of everyone in the room.

However, the mood of the people here is different, and a large number of them are not in the mood to enjoy the appetite.

The gray-haired Jostang Capafil, who was getting older and less energetic, and had long since become tired of all other entertainments, was now only interested in good food, but now he had no interest in dining, but his face was pale and he looked around.

Ever since Charles revealed this momentous news to him, he had been in this state of nervousness, and although he protested to Charles, Charles, who had been prepared for it, completely ignored his protests and threatened him to obey his orders.

In desperation, he had to ask for advice from the others, and this request was granted by Charles, who, while Charles had been talking to Alphonse de Rothschild just now, was writing anxiously and anxiously, waiting for him to make a decision with his friend, Count Argoo, president of the Banque de France, or at least to throw the blame off himself and into the hands of the other.

He had been anxious ever since it had been sent, and though he knew that Count Argou could not reply so quickly, his anxiety had completely ruined his appetite, so that the delicacies in his mouth could not make him any touch.

This mood is not unique to him, many people are like him, nervous or uneasy to sit on the edge of their seats, and eat the same taste as chewing wax.

However, seeing them so depressed and restless, Charles and Alphonse were not affected in any way, and it can even be said that they ate more cheerfully.

At the dinner table, Charles and Alphonse chatted with each other, showing their intimacy, and Marie sat next to Charles, talking and laughing with them.

Seeing that Mary and His Excellency the Chancellor were so close, the others also flashed the same thoughts as Alphonse, and they also looked at Mary differently - although they did not know where Mary came from for the time being, but since His Excellency the Chancellor himself endorsed her, no matter who she was, her words could count.

Late in the evening, the reply from the Count of Argoo, whom Josdão Capafler had so longed for, finally came, and Josdão Capafler opened the letter almost eagerly, and read it at once.

After reading it, his brow furrowed, and then he looked up at Charles.

"Your Excellency, the person I consulted...... And not against your proposal. ”

"That's great." Charles nodded slightly, then smiled at Alphonse.

As they had predicted, in the name of the great righteousness of the country, even with the great power in his hands, the Count of Argour could only be deeply suspicious, and he knew very well the financial details of the government, so he could not allow himself to become an enemy of the Imperial Government, and could only acquiesce to the arbitrariness of His Excellency Chancellor Tréville.

"However......" Josdas Capafler suddenly changed his words, "for the sake of fairness, and to help maintain the economic stability and security of the Empire, he felt that we had to be extremely cautious, so he requested that a commissioner be sent to oversee the exchange and use of the bonds, so as not to shake the whole country......"

Although Josdown-Cappafler's words are crooked, they are also very simple, and they do not come as a surprise to the Charles—since they find the situation unstoppable, they decide to get involved so as not to lose too much of themselves, or at least not to make their opponents too happy.

And this kind of rebellion is also very useful for Charles - he didn't intend to break with someone like Count Argoo, he just wanted to push what he wanted to do.

"You can rest assured of that." He immediately put down the utensils in his hand, and then looked at the other party with a smile, "Your Majesty and I care more about the financial and economic security of the Empire than you, so from the very beginning, the Imperial Government will send important personnel to be responsible for coordinating this matter......"

"Your Majesty is ready......" Josdão Capafler looked surprised and disappointed.

He did not expect that the Emperor of the Empire and His Excellency the Minister had been prepared to this point in advance, and from here he saw the determination, but also the pain of defeat.

"Yes, Your Majesty has tasked some of his most trusted and capable ministers to take charge of this." Charles nodded again, "Prince Murat and Duke Albifera." ”

Prince Murat refers to Prince Lucien-Murat, who was the son of Murat, a famous general under Napoleon.

Murat was famous, one of the most brave and excellent generals of the Empire, who had made numerous military exploits, and was greatly trusted and reused by the Emperor, and even favored by his sister Katerina. After marrying Caterina, Murat naturally became one of the emperor's most trusted relatives, and he wanted to put a crown on his brother-in-law.

At this time, the king of the Bourbon family of Spain was deposed by Napoleon, so Napoleon let his brother Joseph Bonaparte wear the crown of Spain, and the kingdom of Naples that Joseph originally ruled (which happened to be snatched from the Bourbon royal family) was transferred to the hands of Murat and his wife, and Murat became the king of Naples.

However, the empire soon collapsed in a series of military disasters, and Murat was captured and shot by the Austrian army in 1815 for counterattacking the Austrians who had occupied the Kingdom of Naples.

At the end of the Booming Era, Caterina took refuge in Florence and remarried, while her two sons, Ashley and Lucien, of Murat, ended up in the United States. The eldest son, Ashley Murat, inherited the title of Prince Murat, and on the basis of his father's inheritance, bought a large estate in Florida, USA, and married a niece and granddaughter of George Washington, while Lucien Murat married the daughter of a wealthy merchant in the United States.

However, Ashley had no children after marriage, and died in 1847 in middle age, so the prince's title was inherited by his brother Lucien, and less than a year later there was a revolution in France, and Louis Bonaparte also took advantage of the revolution to become the president of the Second Republic.

The Duke of Albifeira also refers to Louis-Napoleon Suchet, his father is Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet, one of the most important and trusted generals of the Napoleonic Emperor, this marshal was born in a wealthy family, but at the beginning of the Revolution he was put into the army early, and made great achievements in the army all the way, and finally won Napoleon's appreciation, and it was because of his many great achievements that the Emperor Napoleon named him the Duke of Albifeira.

During his military career, Suchet was loyal to the Emperor Napoleon, and he also admired him so much that he named his son

After the collapse of the empire in 1815 and the exile of Emperor Napoleon to St. Helena, Marshal Suchet chose to leave Paris and the army and return to his hometown of Marseille to live in seclusion in the political atmosphere of the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty and the ostracism of the imperial fathers. Although initially the Bourbons were reluctant to recognize the nobles of the Imperial era, they did so a few years later.

In 1826, Marshal Suchet died, and Louis-Napoleon-Suchet, as the only son, inherited the title of Duke of Albifeira, but although it was one of the highest noble titles, because of his special status, he was not trusted by the upper class and the government at that time, although he had always been engaged in politics, but he did not achieve anything special - but after Louis Bonaparte returned to France and rebuilt the empire, the situation was naturally different.

The sons of the Emperor Napoleon's most trusted and relied on were naturally gathered under the command of Emperor Napoleon III, becoming his loyal subordinates and, through His Majesty the Emperor, important persons of the Empire.

However, unlike their fathers, these two middle-aged men already had wealth and status, and no longer had to fight in the army, but instead became politicians, defending the empire with a pen rather than a sword.

His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon III, who had always suffered from not having many cronies in his hands, was more than happy to summon this group of old and young remnants of the old empire to serve him, giving them all kinds of power and honor, not only to fill his reputation for generosity, but also to increase his control over the empire.

Before such a crisis, he put the sons of two former imperial marshals in charge, both to show the emperor's determination and to allow these people to oversee such an important matter for the emperor, and by the way, to enable the natural supporters of the empire to make a windfall from it—the Bonapartists had lost so much in the previous decades that they had to rebuild their wealth and influence by all means, and they had to spare no effort to do so.

And Charles understands what the other side of Jostang Capafil is disappointed and nervous about.

"Of course, we all know that although the prestige is very high, these two nobles are laymen in the financial world, and they must have special people to assist them, and the people who assist him must be loyal to the empire, and they must have the necessary knowledge and influence......"

His Excellency's words were very soft, but Josdam-Capafler listened with wide eyes, lest he miss a word.

When His Excellency the Minister finished speaking, this old man who had been in the financial world for many years immediately figured out that this was a chance to surrender to him.

If you surrender now, there is still a chance to be co-opted, a chance to be saved from a terrible loss - there is no doubt that those two are just mascots, and the main executors must be the so-called staff, and if so, there is a chance to escape from the avalanche.

While surrender may be face-saving, it ...... Hell, who cares about face at this time!

"I am more than happy to serve the Empire." At this moment, Josdown-Capafler immediately stood up, and then bowed slightly to His Excellency, showing his deference. "And you see, I've been walking in the financial world for so many years, and I think I still have some experience to dedicate to the empire......"

"No doubt I don't doubt your experience, but your energy ...... Is it enough? Charles asked rhetorically.

"Your Excellency, don't look at my age, I'm in good health!" Josdão Capafler hurriedly replied loudly, and then immediately brought a portion of food to his mouth with a knife and fork, and then chewed it heavily, "You see, I have a good appetite!" ”

Now he found that the delicacies were delicious again.

"Poof......" Seeing the old man's anxious and nervous and somewhat funny appearance, Mary couldn't help but laugh.

Charles patted Mary's hair lightly, signaling her not to lose her demeanor in such an occasion, and then he looked back at Josdão Cappafil, "Okay, I've seen your determination and your energy, well, well, I'm glad you're still so energetic, in that case, how can I bear to refuse you...... I would recommend your ...... to Your Majesty"

"Thank you, Your Excellency!" If Stang Kapafil was overjoyed, he knew that as long as His Excellency the Minister nodded, then the so-called recommendation to His Majesty was just a formality.

"You're old, though......" Charles changed suddenly.

"No, I'm not old, ......Your Excellency," said Josdão Capafler hurriedly.

"You're old...... after all," Charles repeated again, dismissively.

Josdown-Cappafil was a little stunned, unsure of Charles' meaning, but when he spotted Charles' hand gently caressing Mary's hair behind her head, he finally understood.

"Yes, Your Excellency, I am indeed old, and I don't have much energy after all......" He immediately changed his words, and then looked at Mary flatteringly, "Well, please let this ...... beside you This lady will come and assist me as my deputy. ”

"Good." Charles then smiled with satisfaction. "Well, then, I wish you all the best." (To be continued.) )