Chapter 2 The Rising Sun of Dawn

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After Napoleon came out of Les Invalides, he got into the carriage of the Trochu and walked along the left bank of the Seine in the direction of the Palais Bourbon.

In September, the banks of the river have begun to become cold, and the unfrozen Seine has gradually become cold.

Along the banks of the river, you can see crowds of demonstrators, both Jacobins and Blanquists, who want to take advantage of this opportunity to overthrow the monarchy. They loudly protested against the fall of the Second Reich, and the crowds of the marchers rushed in the direction of the Palais Bourbon, where the legislature was located.

"Fight the empire and overthrow the empire."

"Long live the Republic."

All sorts of slogans for freedom and democracy converged, and yet Napoleon, sitting in a carriage, was indifferent to all this.

He stared at the farce indifferently, like a rational audience watching the clown.

The clouds of war hung over the skies of Paris, and from the Latin Quarter to San Antonio, every faction was ambitious to seize political position in the midst of chaos. The seeds of conspiracy are slowly fermenting, turning into a treacherous cloud of suspicion that hangs over everyone's hearts.

Trochu whispered, "According to Your Majesty's orders, the Wehrmacht in Paris has begun to go to the Palais Bourbon......"

Napoleon crossed his hands and held his chin and whispered, "Well, the Legislature is now arguing in the Palais Bourbon, and they are busy fighting for the right to belong to the country of France." The bourgeois republicans, led by Favre and Gambita, should demand the immediate deposition of Emperor Napoleon III and the transfer of power to a government council elected by the Legislative Council, right? ”

Trochu was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

"The Orleanists, represented by Thiers, should be content to demand the formation of a government defense committee, the exact form of which will be decided later by the Constituent Assembly. The Bonapartist parliamentarians advocated the formation of a National Defense Council headed by the Count of Baliqiao to take over power. Look at this group of politicians, the Prussian army is almost in Paris, they are still planning for their own interests, and none of them really notice what the French people want. ”

Napoleon's face showed disgust, and he said coldly, "The most favorite thing a politician does is to waste time, and the endless arguments in the Palais Bourbon will not solve the crisis of war before France." Even Thiers did not hesitate to point out that the French Republic's system of government was full of negative compromises and lacked the power to win over and unite the whole country. ”

In the National Assembly of 1871, nearly two-thirds of the deputies elected were royalists, and the so-called republican form of government was nothing more than a mechanism for the factions to fool the Parisian people and fight for their own power.

"Do these idiots really think that if a republic is established, they will no longer be exploited and oppressed?"

Trochu vaguely guessed something from Napoleon's dissatisfied tone, and asked tentatively, "Your Majesty is preparing to ......?" ”

Napoleon interrupted him directly, "We have no time to listen to the endless arguments of politicians, Paris needs a strong defense government to deal with the next defensive war, and now it must end this farce with a coup d'Γ©tat." General Trochu, you are the commander-in-chief of the defense of the city of Paris, and the 120,000 national defense troops in the city are under your control, and we have the biggest hole card in our hands. ”

Paris has become a sea of people, and the government of the Second Empire is teetering in the midst of internal and external troubles.

Napoleon stared at the demonstrators on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, his fists clenched, the green tendons on the back of his hands bulging. The farce of the Paris Commune will never be repeated in its own hands.

"I must take power from the hands of politicians and will unite the people," he said calmly. ”

However, Trochu hesitated and said, "But in doing so, it offends both the Republicans and the Orleanists, and the royalists are not easy to explain, and they are both trying to put their agents on the throne of the leader of the country." ”

In addition to the Bonapartists, the Loyalists were another force that had a profound influence in the French army. Although Napoleon Bonaparte is a sign of appeal in the eyes of the French people, Napoleon, who came back from the dead, will not be recognized by the Bonaparte family.

Unless he does something amazing.

"Royalists?"

Napoleon said indifferently, "Do they look forward to the return of the rightful heir of the Bourbons, Count de Chambaud, or the long-awaited Count of Paris, Louis Orleans, to become the king of France?" If these fools, who only know about the palace struggle, can solve the crisis of the Prussian invasion, I very much welcome them to sit in the king's place. It's a pity that none of this gang of rubbish is useful. ”

Another card in Napoleon's hand was the Bonaparteists, and the cabinet of the Counts of Balibridge and the Empress Eugenie hoped that a member of the Bonaparte family would emerge to put an end to the current chaos in Paris.

As for the royalists, who were about to move, Napoleon exuded contempt and contempt and sneered, "So if the royalists have no way to solve the current situation in France, then it is better to shut me up." What France needs is a savior, not a bunch of incompetent careerists. ”

Place de la Concorde, crowded with people.

Since Napoleon III declared war against Prussia, there has not been such a buzz, and the people singing the Marseillaise have strongly demanded that the country end its monarchy and move towards a republic.

Under strong pressure from the people, the Legislative Council was at a loss.

Schneider, the speaker of Congress, rubbed his bloodshot eyes and walked in the direction of the conference room at the Palais Bourbon. Everyone who went to the conference room had a cloudy look on their faces.

The melancholy between the eyebrows could not hide the joy in their hearts.

News of the defeat of France was received yesterday at noon, and at one o'clock in the morning last night the Legislative Council convened an emergency meeting to discuss the question of the deposition of Napoleon III and the transfer of power for a night without an answer. The debate in the room will continue today, with Orleans, the royalists, the republicans, the Bonapartists, each faction unwilling to sacrifice its own interests to reach a final compromise.

However, the Blanquists, the pioneers of the Workers' Party, were actively mobilizing the people to put pressure on the legislature, and Schneider realized that if this continued, they would sooner or later be overthrown by the people. Demonstrators and protesters have slowly moved closer to the Palais Bourbon.

He rubbed his temples, sighed, stepped on the red carpet, and walked into the conference room.

"It was a terrible afternoon."

At one o'clock at noon, the meeting was officially convened as scheduled.

As Schneider had predicted, the beginning of the meeting was filled with contradictions and gunpowder. First, Gambitta raised radical slogans calling for the immediate deposition of Napoleon as emperor and the establishment of a government dominated by bourgeois republicans. This statement was opposed by the Orleanists and Bonapartists who were loyal to the monarchy, and Thiers of the Orleanists immediately refuted Gambita's argument.

"France cannot do without a monarch," he said impassionedly, "and if France sets a precedent, we will become enemies of the monarchy." Don't forget, England, Russia and Prussia, they are all monarchies. If France chooses to become a republic, it means that we may face opposition from all of Europe. ”

Favre, who was sitting directly across from Thiers, immediately got up and retorted, "Monarchy? The French people have been disillusioned enough with the monarchy, from the guillotine of Louis to the present, the monarchy that has taken root in France has only brought disaster, and the Second Empire is no exception, and the French people can no longer accept the product of a monarchy. ”

"Only the Bonapartes can save France, and let's not forget that once the myth of Napoleon is shattered, we will suffer ruin."

"The myth of Napoleon has long been shattered, fool."

Schneider had hoped to be over in an hour and then announce the establishment of a republic to the world, but their argument has not ended so far.

The originally hidden door opened a crack, and Schneider's legislative assistant walked in quickly, walked towards Legislative Speaker Schneider with a gloomy face, and whispered a word in his ear.

"General Trochu is here."

"Why is he here?"

Schneider's face changed slightly, intervening in the Legislative Council at this sensitive time, I am afraid that there are other ulterior conspiracy behind the Governor of Paris.

As the governor of Paris, he, the president of the legislative council, could not refuse the other party, so he had to whisper orders.

"Let him in."