Chapter 1 Empire, I'm Back

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Late at night on September 3, 1870.

The dawn of dawn had not yet dispelled the darkness in the city of Paris, and the fog that hung over the Seine was like a cloud of defeat over the Imperial Senate and the Tuileries Palace. The gallows had been draped around the neck of the Second French Empire, and the undercurrent of careerists had realized that the empire that Louis Bonaparte had built in imitation of his uncle was running out.

In the city of Paris under martial law, a silent army marched along the left bank of the Seine in the direction of Les Invalides.

The carriage stopped at the entrance of the Invalides, and Trosch trembled from the reverent heart, stepping on the intricate and intricate textures of the ground, through the golden cross, and finally in front of the stone chamber where Napoleon's coffin was stored on the second basement floor of the Invalides.

The middle-aged man, who was not tall, sat cross-legged on the coffin, squinted his eyes at the head of the Paris army in front of him, and said calmly, "General Trochu, you are here." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, I am here."

He was not a devout Catholic, but when he saw the hand sticking out of Napoleon's coffin in Les Invalides in Paris a month ago, even the most staunch atheist would have wavered in his faith at that moment. What's more, the person who crawled out of the coffin with a dirty face had the same face as the First Emperor in the portrait.

Trochu was still a Bonaparte, and his excitement at seeing the emperor was palpable.

The resurrected Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the First French Empire.

But it's the body of a traverser.

If this kind of unscientific logic exists, then there is no fuss about resurrection. I have had the experience of crossing over, and it seems that it has become common sense to crawl out of the coffin.

After all, the corpse of the previous life had long since decayed in the New Virgin Cemetery.

The resurrected man did not show any signs of shock or anything else, but only asked Trochu for the time.

When he received an answer from Trochu's mouth, he patted the dust off his shoulder and said a short word.

The man who had been sleeping in the coffin for decades spoke in a somewhat hoarse voice.

"Is it 1870...... Actually, 129 years ago, from Moscow to Paris, it never stopped......"

Seeing the coffin of the emperor opened by the Invalides and the people who crawled out of it, General Trochu took a deep breath and said cautiously, "You really take the emperor...... Your Majesty? ”

"Is there any point in dwelling on this question now?"

He turned his head and looked at the other party calmly, and quickly adapted to the role of "taking the emperor".

To Trox, it was as if the abyss was staring at him.

"If I'm not mistaken, now the Second Reich is preparing for war with Prussia, a pity for my stupid nephew. The French army under General Bazin was expected to lose the battle at the Lorraine border and then retreat to Merlin. Thus opening the door to Lorraine, then he was surrounded by Prussian troops in Meylin, McMahon was defeated on the Alsace front, and then led an army of 120,000 to leave Chalons and go to Merlin to relieve the besieged Bazin, and then McMahon and Napoleon III, directly surrounded by the Prussian army, Sedan. ”

Trochu opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but was directly interrupted by the other party.

"My ridiculous nephew will lose the Battle of Sedan, and if General Trochu were willing to believe me, the French army would probably be able to hold some of it. Of course, you don't have to rush to question it, at least you should see if the campaign goes down according to my script on August 30. ”

The man in front of him predicted the line of Napoleon III's attack, as well as the estimation of the future situation of the war. Trochu could not object or question, but left with a full stomach full of doubts.

Now, a month later, Trochu is back in that position, convinced of the identity of the person in front of him.

Napoleon III was besieged and annihilated at Sedan and taken prisoner along with McMahon. During the Battle of Sedan, at the suggestion of Trox, part of the army used Napoleon III as a bait to forcibly break through the encirclement of the Prussian army and successfully evacuate.

Everything went down according to the script he said.

During Trox's one-month absence from Paris, Les Invalides sent an army to guard against the spread of news of his "resurrection" at Napoleon's orders.

"Olivier's cabinet became a casualty of the war, and the cabinet of the Count of Baliqiao existed only as a transition. Soon the Second French Empire will be replaced by a new regime formed by a careerist. ”

Napoleon held his chin and looked up from the coffin to see the cross of Les Invalides.

Napoleon III's last bit of mercy to the republicans did not reciprocate him, and even the day after his surrender, the Reichstag was ready to overthrow the Second Empire.

"Look at what the fools of Paris have done, every revolution since 1815 has only stirred up ambition and provoked competition, and people have lost their sense of right and wrong, and selfishness has replaced patriotism and the common good. The one who sent King Louis to the gallows under the slogan of democracy and freedom, in turn, betrayed the people, the royalists, the Orleanists, the Workers' Party, all of them thought about their own interests and did not plan for the future of the country at all, at least in my eyes, this group of fools never. ”

As soon as he finished complaining, Trochu opened his mouth and added, "As the general Napoleon saw, the Emperor, oh no, your nephew was encircled and surrendered at the Battle of Sedan Battle, but fortunately, according to the retreat you have reserved, a quarter of the French army broke through the encirclement, and is now regrouping and preparing to meet the Prussian army." ”

Napoleon touched the texture on the peachwood coffin, turned his head to look back at the soft and dark coffin where he had been lying for decades, shook his head disdainfully, and said, "Forget it, do you think they can still resist the invasion of the Prussian army?" Bismarck's strategic aim was to capture Paris and make the dignity of France subordinate to them. If the Prussian army does not break through Paris, Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm do not pass under the Arc de Triomphe, they will not rest on their laurels. ”

Cold sweat slowly slid down Trochu's cheeks, and he didn't even dare to look up at the person in front of him.

"Do you believe we can hold Paris?"

The traverser named Napoleon calmly watched the "mutinous" Bonamanians in front of him, and although there were eyebrows between Trochu and the Orleanists, he did not dare to be disrespectful to the First Imperial Monarch in front of him after the Invalides witnessed the miracle of Napoleon's resurrection.

Although his empire and glory, long gone.

From 1815 onwards, the French army relied only on the myth of Napoleon's invincibility for spiritual maintenance, and the superstitious belief that the French army was invincible. This illusion blinded Napoleon III to the actual state of corruption, and they were reduced to a shell without a soul. The military is very conceited about their heroic traditions, but they are backward and unnoticed in government, administration, command, guidance, preparation, science, technology, etc.

Emperor Napoleon III and the French ministers lived in this kind of fool's paradise, ignorant of reality. Lieutenant Colonel Stowell, the French military attache in Berlin, once published such a report: "When the Prussian army worshipped, the priests blessed the king and the army first, and the rest second." If we compare it with France, the French army has become a rabble, and its spirit and discipline are degraded day by day. ”

After a long silence, Napoleon did not get the answer he wanted from Trochu's mouth, but he did not need an answer, only a strong support. And Trochu was the best means by which he could quickly take control of the army.

"France should not be degraded, whether it is the ambitious Prussia, or the European monarchs who will not save them, these are irrelevant topics, and the most important thing is to make them realize that France will not be defeated, let alone surrender. My stupid nephew, along with the Minister of War who coaxed him, and the equally stupid and incompetent Congress, should be sanctioned and judged before the people. ”

As a time-traveler who came back from the dead, he eventually identified himself as Bonaparte Napoleon and as the savior of France.

The royalists, the republicans, the Workers' Party, and all sorts of careerists tried to get a piece of the pie from the Reichstag in Paris when the French army was defeated, and no one wanted to save the country.

It's full of impersonal careerists who need iron and blood to reforge order in the Empire.

Napoleon slowly stood up from the half-opened peachwood coffin, and looked calmly at General Trochu, the commander-in-chief of the defense of Paris, who was much taller than him.

The Invalides were silent except for the sound of the two of them breathing.

The burning candles on the white walls surrounding the coffin suddenly flickered, and in front of the twelve reliefs of the goddesses of victory, Napoleon looked coldly at the commander of the defense of Paris, Trochu.

The conversation between the two sides is nearing its end.

The pre-dawn darkness was finally gone, and the first rays of sunlight illuminated the sharp dome of Les Invalides, and the gentle gaze of the holy white reliefs cast on the man standing on the coffin. He wasn't tall enough, but he was big enough to make the powerful nobles bow their heads before him.

Twelve reliefs, symbolizing the twelve great victories of the First French Empire.

Did God make him the savior of France? This question is no longer important.

"Someone will come out and pick up the pieces, short man, woman or foreigner, the traitors of France should be crucified, and the pace of Prussian war crimes will come to an end under the city of Paris. My resurrection is for the salvation of this country. ”

The war giant, who had terrified the monarchs of all Europe, looked at Trochu condescendingly and calmly, and unhurriedly uttered the words that made his feet go limp, and he almost fell to his knees.

"Empire, I'm back."

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