"What do you think of my dress tonight, Mr. Treville?" Charlotte, who seemed to be attached to Charles, asked with a smile.

The vague fragrance kept burrowing into his nose, but Charles's mood was far from good.

"Very good." He replied casually.

In fact, it is really good, the delicate white silk dress with the pearl necklace sets off the fair-skinned Charlotte more and more radiantly, she coiled her hair in a bun according to the fashionable style, leaving a few strands hanging down from both sides, and the slender and messy hair also frequently swims on his chest, giving him a different kind of touch.

Okay, that's actually quite comfortable, but that's not the point at all.

"When did you actually hook up with Mr. Kizo?" Charles Zuihou still couldn't help but ask.

Tonight, the wife of the foreign minister of the dynasty held a dinner in her mansion, and the Duke of Treville's family also received an invitation. Charlotte pulled her cousin over, and the two of them came directly in Charlotte's carriage.

"Just recently. Grandpa said he could help him, but he made a bunch of conditions......" Charlotte smiled and asked, "He seems to be in a hurry now, and he doesn't have time to verify whether we are sincere or fake, so he agreed to it all." ”

Unlike his younger brother, who has broken with the current regime, the Duke of Treville has always retained a certain amount of contact and influence in the political circles by taking advantage of his former connections as a powerful minister, and has maintained contacts with many political figures, and has also hidden his true political leanings more deeply.

"It's really convenient for you to rebel like this." Charles said without knowing whether to say it teasing or jealousy.

In fact, in his heart he is quite disdainful.

This is the reason why the royal party rebelled, it has not been and will never be done for twenty years, they just want to restore the old days, take the high-end route, and parasitize too deeply on the old system to draw liliang from outside the system.

But it doesn't matter, the more flaws the enemy has, the better it is for you.

"Envy, huh?" Charlotte didn't seem to hear the deep meaning in Charles's tone, and squeezed Charles' hand with a smile.

"It's fine."

The carriage stopped.

Then, after the porter confirmed that it was the carriage from the Duke's palace of Treville, he quickly opened the door and let the carriage with the coat of arms engraved on the body drive directly in.

The two siblings walked out of the car together, and then walked forward side by side.

"You seem to be a little nervous?" Charlotte asked softly in her ear.

"It's because you've been holding my hand, isn't it?" Charles replied.

"Holding your hand makes you nervous like that?" Charlotte was a little narrow.

"It didn't make me nervous, but it made me unable to move."

"What are you hiding so far?" Charlotte grabbed Charles' hand.

"What do I need to hide?" Charles was unmoved.

………………

The two men quarreled quietly as they walked to the mansion under the guidance of the servant.

Compared to the opulent glitz of the Duke's palace in Treville, the Foreign Secretary's living room is much more austere, with white marble floors topped with thick woollen carpets, crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, and a flannel-wrapped sofa in the corner, as well as red velvet benches and coffee tables.

A few guests have already arrived, gathering in twos and threes to chat. The two siblings lowered their pace.

An old man with short hair and a thin look came up to him, his expression was gentle, but there was a hint of doubt in his eyes.

"Miss Trelville, I'm glad you're here tonight, but why hasn't the Duke been here tonight?" He asked, and although his words were very polite, there was some scathing questioning hidden in them. As if to ask, "Is the Duke of Treville afraid?" Don't dare to come? ”

On the surface, this old man is a little depressed, but he is full of shrewdness and deceit, and he is obviously not an easy person to deal with.

Charles glanced at his cousin, and Charlotte seemed to sense the gaze and nodded slightly.

Sure enough, this is the number two person in the current government, Mr. Kezo, the foreign secretary.

Perhaps, if there are no surprises, he will be the future Prime Minister of France.

Once again, he met a well-known figure in history, but Charles did not have the same excitement as he did when he first met Joseph Bonaparte.

Is this because he has already vented his emotions for the first time, or is it because the 60-year-old man in front of him is not enough for him to have that kind of excitement?

Charles himself couldn't tell. He just saluted in silence.

Charlotte, on the other hand, was still smiling.

"Rest assured, we at Treville will remain true to our promise." She looked at the other party seriously, as if there was really such a thing, "Since Grandpa has promised to help you, naturally he will not back down, he is just a little unwell tonight, and it is not convenient for him to attend." As you know, as his personal secretary, I can take his place at this banquet and convey your opinion to him without reservation. And...... This is my brother. Charlotte smiled and pointed at Charles, she deliberately vaguely said about Charles's identity, "I'm very young and ignorant, grandpa asked him to come with him to learn experience, and if you have a chance in the future, you can give ......"

Hearing this, Kizo turned his head to look at the silent Charles, and then nodded. "Of course, the Duke of Treville is a rare and outstanding state activist in France, and I learned a lot of theories and strategies from him back then, and his retirement is really a great loss to the country! But since Treville has a successor, I should help out if I have the chance. ”

He probably saw Charles as the son of the family that the Duke of Treville intended to cultivate, so he said a polite remark. And although there were some polite words on his lips, his slightly frowning brows still betrayed the master's displeasure, so he almost said, "What's the matter with this Duke of Treville, why did he send two little hairy children over, are you confused?" That's it.

The two sisters and brothers, who were underestimated, looked at each other and smiled, didn't say anything, but directly found a seat and sat down.

Charles swept around the room and took in the guests' appearances. The person who is qualified to be called by the Foreign Secretary for such a conspiracy meeting must be rich or noble, and it never hurts to take the opportunity to remember it now.

Charles soon noticed that in the center of the living room, there was a middle-aged man who seemed to be the most calm, and the most people next to him were talking to him.

"That is Baron de Beauvan, a famous banker. His personal fortune is about 18 million, and the total assets of his bank and those enterprises controlled by him are about 300 million francs. Charlotte still had a smile on her face, but her voice was low and a little mocking. Charles, in this day and age, after all, we are only the descendants of the Duke, but we are the children of God......"

"Hmph, Son of God." Charles followed mockingly. Looking at this big capitalist, there is inevitably a hint of heat in his eyes.

Would I say I'm going to be a child of the plane?

As if sensing the sight of the two siblings, the baron looked at the two of them, and then nodded in a friendly greeting, without revealing any surprise at their age.

This "son of God" was obviously far from the gods in appearance, with a round and chubby face, and his manners were not very elegant, and he did not lack the temperament of a banker—that is, the temperament of an "nouveau riche" who was ridiculed by the aristocracy in every way.

It's a pity that now is the era of the nouveau riche, so the two "Tianhuang nobles" also smiled and nodded at each other.

However, there was an unexpected chill in Charlotte's eyes, which could only be seen by Charles, who had been with him for many years.

"What's wrong with you?" Charles asked softly.

Charlotte had a smile on her face, but her answer was like a cold wind.

"Charles, the times are pressing, so I'm not afraid to bow my head to a new Jacques Cole or Uffral, but only for the chance to cut off his head in the future. He will pay the price for his disrespect to us today. ”

Charles sighed secretly.

No matter how gentle and docile Charlotte may be on the surface, she is still at heart an old aristocrat who is extremely arrogant and regards herself as a nobleman. She, like everyone else in her kind, could not tolerate the disrespect and arrogance of a commoner, even a former commoner, towards the aristocracy in the new era, no matter how rich the other person was. This is a common trait of the orthodox aristocracy.

[Jacques Cole was a wealthy merchant in France during the Hundred Years' War, with a business network all over Europe, when France was defeated in the war and the situation was critical, King Charles VII, who had just ascended the throne, was forced by the situation to appoint him as the chief of finance in 1439, using his talent and wealth to save the situation, and later made him a nobleman. But after the throne and the situation were secured, the king did not spare the merchant, but put him in prison on charges of blasphemy against the monarch, deprived of all his property, and confiscated it all.

Aufraard was a wealthy French man and financier who made a fortune during the Revolution by speculating and taking advantage of the situation to make a fortune by collecting the fortunes of many exiled nobles at low prices. During the Imperial era, he was appointed as the chief supply officer of the navy's food and ammunition, which was even more prominent. But after the restoration of the Bourbons, he was soon thrown into prison, Zuihou went bankrupt, and died in 1846. 】

But Charles himself did not have such a rigid view, and this was the essential difference in political ideas between the Bonapartists and the Orthodox: the Bonapartist believed that if the bourgeoisie was useful, it was the haode bourgeoisie, and if the Bourbons understood and took advantage of this, they would never have escaped from France twice, and its anachronistic, unfounded and useless pride became the noose that strangled the dynasty.

Of course, there is no need to say such things.

"I'd like to see what he'll have to say." Charles replied calmly.

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haha,This time I finally fulfilled the promise of O(∩_∩)O~

It's a pity that tomorrow is another evil Monday............

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