The first update

Joseph Moncey successfully completed the task assigned to him by Napoleon and successfully sold the fleeing team to Prussia, but it is unknown what the cavalry would do to this group of unarmed rich men. He got rid of the Prussian pursuit as quickly as possible, in fact, the focus of the other party's attention was not on them at all, the heavy escort team was the best trophy for the Prussian cavalry, and who knows if there would be a few French ministers who could turn the situation around.

Napoleon's attempt to purge the internal forces was already underway, and after the elimination of the royalists by means of gunpowder plots, and the expulsion of the financial family of the Banque de France by the hand of Bismarck, any forces that could threaten their politics were eliminated one after another.

Joseph Moncey returned to Napoleon's office and reported the good news to him.

"Your Majesty Napoleon, everything is done, we met the Prussian army very smoothly, and then, as you commanded, abandoned a whole convoy. You should probably look at the panicked look of those people, they probably didn't even think they would have this day! ”

"Ahem."

Napoleon pretended to cough twice, reminding Moncet that "it was the national gendarmerie that was outnumbered and eventually defeated, which led to the fall of the convoy and its capture by the Prussian cavalry." ”

At this time, Trochu walked into the office and was stunned for a moment when he saw the adjutant of the National Gendarmerie standing in front of Napoleon.

"Didn't you ask you to escort those people to Tours? Why did you come back so soon? ”

According to the previous collusion, Munsay retorted to him word for word.

"We were attacked by Prussian cavalry on the way, and we were outnumbered, so we had to temporarily abandon the convoy and choose to evacuate. A vacancy had appeared in the right side of the line of defense in Paris, and the cavalry, as the vanguard, had already penetrated into the rear. Request for immediate replenishment of troops on the right flank. ”

Trox's face changed suddenly, and he scolded, "What about the convoy? ”

"Our cavalry was routed, and we didn't have time to take care of the convoy."

Trochu looked at Monse with a heavy face, he was not thinking about the line of defense, but about the unknown fate of the convoy, the group of people inside was the pillar of the French parliament, France lost the royalists, if it lost the vast majority of republican parliamentarians, then the situation in Paris is more and more towards the situation of Napoleonic dictatorship.

At this point, Trochu could not change anything, and said with a displeased expression, "I am now going to send an army to investigate the situation, Joseph Monce, I need a detailed report, and you have blatantly disobeyed the orders of the higher-ups, and you are waiting to be court-martialed!" ”

After saying that, he waved his hand and motioned for the people outside the door to disarm Meng Sai and wait for him to fall.

"Come on, take it for me!"

Trochu's voice echoed through the hallway, but no one entered.

No one came in to carry out his orders, and Trochu only then discovered that the entire Tuileries Palace had been replaced by men from the National Gendarmerie, and that this armed force was loyal to only one person, the Emperor Napoleon.

The interim president looked at Monce, whose face remained unchanged, and felt more and more that the escort was a secret conspiracy. Methodically crush any force that can blackmail Napoleon, and once the man in front of him has secured the whole of Paris, he will be the dictator and emperor of France in the true sense of the word.

Trochu faced a dilemma, on the one hand, with interest groups, and on the other hand, the emperor who had sworn allegiance to him, and eradicated all those who stood in his way.

Joseph Monsey tacitly turned his head to Napoleon, hoping for an explanation. After all, the whole thing was secretly instructed by him, and he was just acting as an intermediary.

Of course, he also stood up at the right time, stopped in front of Trochu, and spoke for Monse.

"It was not our fault, it was an impossible task to meet the Prussian army in isolation, and also to protect a large convoy, so from the very beginning I let Captain Moncet act at the opportunity, and I gave the task of abandoning the escort in the event of the Prussian army. Because the main task of the National Gendarmerie is to protect the stability of Paris and not to suffer any significant losses. ”

"That's why you abandoned your allies?"

"Temporary allies, if a group of blood-sucking guys attached to France count as allies."

In the face of Trochu's accusations, Napoleon appeared fearless, stood up and said with a tough attitude, "The most important thing in Paris now is the supply of soldiers, not a group of villains who are greedy for life and afraid of death." Why should we lose a thousand and a half cavalry to protect a group of worthless guys, this cavalry army can change the situation of a local battle, what can a group of unarmed rich people do? Do you expect them to rebel? When the Prussian army appeared, these people had already chosen to surrender! Now sitting in the Prussian stronghold accusing me of atrocities! ”

"You deliberately let them attract enemy cavalry?"

Trochu's face changed suddenly, he did not expect that Napoleon, in addition to attacking the restless royalists, would actually attack the republicans, did he really intend to eradicate all those who stood in the way of his ruling in France?

Become the next Louis Bonaparte?

He shook his head and said, "It's not intentional, it's judging the situation." Since they have no use value, why should I lose an army? Don't you know that the most precious thing in France now is not the franc, but the source of soldiers? ”

Napoleon found a reason for betraying his teammates, not to mention that this group of temporary allies would inevitably become his enemies in the future, in which case it was better to eradicate them as soon as possible.

Moncey had given them to Bismarck as a gift, and his plans could be carried out in the open, and the Banque de France had little time left, and after losing most of its shareholder pillars, the Provisional Government was the only successor who could take over the bank strongly.

As for the other heirs to the shareholders? They have to weigh whether their heads are tougher than a bullet, and special solutions should be adopted in special times, and there is a power vacuum in the banks, so don't blame Napoleon for taking advantage of the situation.

At the moment when the French cavalry returned to Paris, the national gendarmerie was ready, and Napoleon's next goal was to turn the banks into state institutions of government, rather than a money-making machine run by a group of financiers.

"Your Majesty Napoleon, you will lose all your allies by doing so!"

However, he ignored Trochu's warning, and said calmly, "I'm going to go to the Banque de France now." ”

Hearing this, Trochu asked uneasily, "What are you going to do?" ”

However, the other party only smiled slightly, and walked out without looking back, leaving only an elusive back for Trox. He became more and more convinced by the rumors that he had the same ambitions as Louis Bonaparte and was ready to build an empire of men.

However, Trochu forgot one thing, the empire originally belonged to Napoleon.

The returning emperor walked out without looking back.

"I have temporarily deposited France in the hands of the republicans, and now I must give it all back."

"No one is missing."