Chapter 29: Karl Marx's Three Commentaries on Treville

"Oh! That sounds pretty surprising. After listening to Kong Ze's explanation, the other party raised his eyebrows with interest, "What is this Mr. Trevier thinking?" ”

There is no doubt that this Mr. Tréville did not make such a big arrangement just to facilitate his own viewing of the report, and there are deeper schemes in the mainland.

"It doesn't matter what he's thinking, and you and I don't need to know." Kong Ze directly interrupted the other party's temptation, "You just need to sue me, can you join in?" ”

The other party lowered his head, as if he was hesitating about something.

"Is he rich?" After a moment, the other party suddenly asked in a low voice.

"Well, he's very rich now, at least...... It can give us money that we will spend for the rest of our lives, if we make him satisfied. Kong Ze nodded without hesitation.

"After serving him, I can't live my present life all day?"

"That's natural. We don't want to tell you what to do, and you've been caught in the trumpet. Kong Ze calmly replied, "Once you choose our service, you can't go around stealing anymore......"

"Stealing only when you need to?" The other party asked rhetorically with a slight mockery.

"Yes, I'll just say, you're smart, and I'm exactly what we need most." Kong Ze didn't deny it at all, "That's right, the ugly words ahead, you must take a lot of risks, but aren't you living by the gallows all day now?" What difference can it make? Hey, you're not really like some stupid donkey stealing addict and you're going to want to show your hands after a good day, right? ”

"I don't have that fetish...... the other man laughed rather awkwardly. It seems that Kong Ze really said it.

"Well, even if you have this fetish, it doesn't matter. As long as you get things done here, you can go back to France once a year. Steal as much as you love, no one can control you! Don't think it's difficult, Mr. Tréville is now at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and it's easy to get you a passport, and you can go wherever you like! Kong Ze glanced at the other party with a slight mockery, "Okay, what other concerns do you have now?" Don't rub it off, sue me, do you want to follow me! Or rather. You don't believe me? ”

Then, with a sharp gaze, he stared at the other party with an expressionless face.

Do you believe me?

In the face of this direct questioning, the other party finally stopped talking.

He took a few puffs of his cigar, and then the moment the carriage was about to stop, he jerked it out the window.

"Okay, let's make a deal!"

Kong Ze breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then reached out and patted the other party's shoulder.

"I knew you wouldn't have any other answer."

"What do you need me to do now?"

"You don't need to do anything. Give me back first, and wait for my next call. Kong Ze slowly pulled out a small stack of banknotes from his body, "These are the funds that Mr. Treville gave you, and you can spend them however you want—of course." You can also take it and just disappear without a trace. Still, friend, if I were you. I'll be waiting for the big money in the future......"

"Alright, I'm here for this. Will they still run? The other party took the banknote in Kong Ze's hand, and then walked directly out of the carriage.

"Goodbye!" Kong Ze said goodbye to him in the carriage. Then he waved his hand, and he walked away without looking back.

It wasn't until the other party's figure had disappeared into the shadow of the corner that Kong Ze slowly and leisurely walked out of the carriage with the box.

At this time, the two young ladies had already stepped out of the carriage, Kong Ze bowed to them indifferently, and then returned to the hotel with them.

When he first returned to the inn, instead of going to the restaurant, he went to the waiter and asked for a newspaper - when he heard the man say that the newspaper here called his employer "the butcher of March", he did feel a little interested in seeing how the newspaper here mocked and insulted his employer.

He was not disappointed.

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"History repeats itself over and over again. As soon as something happens in the present day, we can all find references in past history, whether it is good or bad.

When Charles de Treville, the mastermind of the March coup, with the countenance of a speculator who won by chance, and the blood of the people suppressed, came to England as their general representative amid the triumphant cheers of the Bonapartists, we could see in him the ghost of the past - the man who shouted 'The revolution is dead!' The figure of Louis XVIII, who returned to France from a foreign country on his toes.

Louis XVIII sent a representative to express his allegiance to the Great Powers at the Vienna Peace Conference, promising that he would be willing to let France abandon its glory and ideals as long as they were able to maintain their rule; And as Louis Bonaparte's envoy, what difference would the mission be made for this self-proclaimed down-and-out aristocrat to come to England?

Yes, he would shout peace, like his master, Louis Bonaparte, and show great loyalty to England, saying that his gang would never pose the slightest threat to Britain after stealing the supreme power of France. If they want to be recognized by the European powers for their illegal acts, they cannot but be courteous to them.

This is how the stinking reactionaries have for decades brought a great country to the point where it must wag its tail and beg for mercy from foreign countries - these people, who have no support from home, can only beg for the mercy of foreigners, who after all have the merit of weakening and corrupting a great nation!

It is true that in France, the revolutionary agitation that had been noisy for a while was indeed dead, but it was not killed by Louis Bonaparte and Treville, who, however much they pretended to be great, could not do it - it was the French people, a people who had always wavered in the extreme, fainted for a moment in the weakening of extreme blood loss, so that they were seized of power by this group of bandits.

The revolution in France died not in March 1851, but in June 1848, in the Provisional Government. The republic is dead, and so is the freedom of the people, including the bourgeois.

Yes. It was this group of bourgeois who shouted for freedom and democracy, it was this group of bourgeois who shouted for the extermination of the mob that put an end to the revolution. France was so damaged by their selfishness that they were dying, and then they shouted that they loved civil rights and freedom, but they knelt before Louis Bonaparte and his minions, just to catch their breath in the face of the raging tide of revolution!

Freedom is certainly precious, but it can be discarded in order to maintain one's own interests; All men are created equal, but in order to maintain our nobility before the sans-culottes, we can shout long live the Emperor - there is nothing more hypocritical and corrupt than bourgeois morality. In the next revolution that is bound to come, the people who recognize this qiē are clear. Do you still think of them as friends?

Bonaparte, who made a triumphant proclamation of victory in Parliament, brazenly posed as the patron saint of the French and the French order, but in the final analysis he was nothing more than the last extension of this bourgeoisian morality.

Indeed, there are those who doubt the sincerity of these men in shouting peace, and think that they will prepare a war of revenge against England while sweetening their words, as they have already done in France, for they have never taken the word credit to heart all along.

However, even this idea is an overestimation of this group of unprincipled and moral careerists.

This group of careerists had never had a grudge in their hearts, and certainly never had good intentions, and they would not be indignant at Britain because of Napoleon's tragic fate. As long as they were able to maintain the power they had so hard to gain together, they would never remember that they had a family feud to settle - they would only harm England for the sake of profit, but they would never do so for the sake of Napoleon.

That's right, Treville has absolutely no integrity, though. But they were equally unconvinced that they would not wage a war against Britain purely for revenge - at least not when they could not gain profit.

Not surprisingly, the British government watched this very quickly, if not calmly. Celebrate with them at the feast and congratulate the bandits on their success. Hurrays that they have succeeded in strangling a revolution and a republic.

In order to protect their ill-gotten gains. In order to extinguish the little spark that represented the hope of human progress, Nelson's descendants were even more than happy to shake hands with Bonaparte - could there be any other form of bourgeois morality?

There can be no doubt that the reactionary classes of all countries are willing and willing to come together in opposition to the revolution, just as they had united to strangle the Revolution decades earlier.

Now, they thought that everything was settled and that they could sing and dance, so Treville came, boasting of his victory.

However, how long can this bourgeois prosperity and peace really last?

No, it's impossible!

Empire is war!

My uncle's empire could at least claim to have brought civil law to France, something that could at least be said to be positive - though for the most part it was only window dressing, but the nephew's empire would not even have this window dressing, and it would bring nothing to the French people except the flames of war and blood and tears.

Having deprived the people of the rights they once had and rightfully entitled, it can only rely on the army to suppress the anger that lies in the hearts of the people, and the more it depends on the army, the more it must move towards tyranny and conquest, until it destroys itself again and again in the midst of militarism.

The despicable Restoration of Louis XVIII disappeared in just fifteen years, and the traces of his people in France can only be used as a laughing stock - what difference would the fate of Louis Bonaparte, de Treville and others be?

They think they have a piece of Europe in their hands, and they will share the spoils for themselves - isn't this the kind of nightmare that Treville can bring to Britain and to the whole of Europe, as has happened countless times in history?

Peace - this is the favorite word of every bourgeoisie when they are preparing for war, and the self-proclaimed god who dwells in the Tuileries Palace is no exception.

This group of bandits will look for a decent victim for their own prestige and to satisfy the conquest of their armies**, because they have to.

For thirty years, the terrible specter of war has never been more evident than it is now, and it is unlikely to happen between France and Britain, but it is likely to happen anywhere else, just as jackals are always ready to attack their prey, so Bonaparte and his accomplices are always ready to seek out their victims, to gnaw at everyone they can knock down.

If the French people do not want to endure the terrible catastrophe of decades ago, and to fall into the terrible situation of those years, they should keep their eyes open, not listen to any rhetoric from this group of bandits, stop allowing themselves to follow this group of people, and not become cannon fodder for them to go to war at their instigation, for they have not even had the genius and will of Napoleon, but are just a bunch of contemptible careerists and philistines!

Peace-loving people throughout Europe must never relax their vigilance and remain vigilant at all times, otherwise the war caused by this group of bandits will be in the face! Don't have any illusions, because empire means war! (To be continued......)