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On the French side, Russell and Napoleon had just finished negotiating, and St. Petersburg had already received information from France. The contents of the negotiations between the British ambassador Russ and Paris were told to Alexander II at a glance.

"I didn't expect Britain to be planning such a plan, but fortunately, France has already reached a secret agreement with Russia, and now their every move is under our supervision. It's just that I don't understand why the Tuileries chose to secretly betray the original ally. ”

Tsar Alexander II took the telegram and handed it to Prime Minister Gochakov. He did not understand the French president's actions, which were simply acting as a negotiator and betraying his allies in exchange for ulterior political purposes.

"I don't know what the French are doing, they are obviously trying to lure Chancellor Bismarck into launching an offensive on the border, but what good is it for them? Could it be that France would think that they could prevail over Germany? If that's the case, then Paris should have been very strong at the beginning. ”

Following Prime Minister Gochakov's train of thought, Alexander II seemed to have figured out something, he patted his head and suddenly said, "What will Paris do if it really wants to dampen Germany's arrogance with a war?" ”

"Of course, to induce Bismarck to attack at all costs!"

But Alexander II thought about it and found that this view was not true.

"Wait, something doesn't seem right. If Napoleon wanted to induce Germany to attack, then the military strength of the French army should not be much different from that of Germany, but the previous feedback information said that there was still a huge disparity in the number of troops of the two countries, how could it be possible to rashly attack Germany in this case, or induce Germany to attack? ”

"Yes."

Prime Minister Gochakov nodded in the same way, he really couldn't understand where Napoleon's plan was so good.

"To attack Germany with this amount of force is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. If Paris wanted to eradicate Germany with the help of the British, it would be even more impossible. Britain is nothing more than a profitable speculator. It is simply impossible to help Paris wholeheartedly, and it is a fool's dream to ask them to post their capital to help the French fight against Germany. ”

After thinking about it, Russia really can't see through the purpose behind Paris, so it can only blame everything on the adventurist spirit of France.

Gochakov was a little regretful, and said stupidly, "I hope our allies know what they are doing." And hopefully they won't get carried away. ”

But Alexander II did not bother with the death of Paris, and although Napoleon had given him a loan of billions of francs, he wished he could afford to take this huge loan.

However, Prime Minister Gochakov did not know that the information in his hands was already a few years ago, and that the French strategic fraud bureau had been concealing the true movements of the French army, and the number of French troops obtained by other countries was nothing more than a false figure. In fact, France secretly expanded many troops in the past five years, but none of them were named after the number of troops, which were born to prevent the invasion of French territory, which Napoleon called the shadow army.

In fact, they were more like the former internal affairs forces, ostensibly responsible for dealing with the birth of the French internal affairs, including royalist uprisings and armed secession elsewhere, but in the event of war, they would also be put on the battlefield as regular troops.

Napoleon replied specifically to this question, "The shadow force is only a unit with a different code name, and in peacetime he is only a shadow of nothingness, which only appears when France breaks out into conflict with other countries and threatens the security of France's own homeland." Therefore, the equipment of the shadow troops should be the same as that of the front-line troops, equipped with the best weapons. They were not reserves, not second-line transport troops, they were elite troops, like the Rhine Corps and the Matz Corps. Therefore, the elite must have the treatment of the elite. ”

After all, they, like the regular army, are armed with the most advanced artillery and rifles. France's annual military spending has become a translucent item spending, and even Congress is not in a position to look at it at will. When the president of parliament tactfully conveyed his appeal to Napoleon, he was flatly refused.

And Napoleon also very justifiably refuted the president of parliament.

"What's wrong with spending taxpayers' money? Our military spends taxpayers' money where it is needed most, not on a blind budget. As for why we can't tell the Congress, it's very simple, because these budgets are being made now in order to be able to regain the advantage of the French Empire in the future! If these secrets are allowed to leak out, then the Reichstag will be the worst enemy of the rise of France! I don't want to see the enemy at the Palais Bourbon! ”

was put on the hat of an enemy in the Bourbon Palace, and the president of the parliament could not continue to refute.

"But ......"

"Nothing, these are state secrets, and if any member of parliament dares to leak it to a courtesan at the wine table, I can guarantee that the whole parliament will be purged until those fools can keep their mouths shut. But do you think these idiots can keep their mouths shut? If they can keep their mouths shut, do I need to go to such great lengths to cover everything up? ”

The Speaker of the Parliament was choked with nothing to say.

The French president has already explained that the Congress can only let go and not pursue it, you must know that there is still the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection behind these people, and once they do something against Napoleon, these guys will pounce on them and throw them into prison for all kinds of crimes.

Which member of Congress here doesn't have some dirty little secret behind him?

Because of this, the Diet was never able to know the true strength and final size of the French army, all of which Napoleon classified as top secret.

And since the Schneider family was appointed by Napoleon, his orders began to skyrocket. Although the nightmare of nationalization hung over them, Napoleon still made the Schneider family the executors. It's just that Schneider's main orders come from a steady stream of arms profits. The manufacture of artillery for France came faster than the manufacture of locomotives.

A year earlier, however, the Schneider family had received a secret order for a staggering number of artillery. The president, who was the leader of the company, immediately realized that the French army might make a big move next.

As the situation in Europe became more complicated, more and more artillery pieces were being built, and he was more certain that France was ready for war. So when everyone else angrily scolded Russia for being ungrateful and Paris for being weak and incompetent, only a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Was this a deliberate attempt to show weakness to Germany and lure the other side into attacking?

Only those who had come into contact with Napoleon face-to-face knew of his unfathomable intrigues and cities.

This war was the time to test the Schneider family's artillery, and if another war broke out between France and Germany, then the superior performance of their artillery would win orders for Schneider throughout Europe.

He even saw countless orders drifting towards the Schneider Group like snow.

When the time comes, Krupp will wait to be!

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