Chapter 34: Lifting a Rock and Shooting Yourself in the Foot

Today's three watches, the first one

The advantage of the imported product is that it can give a new meaning to the literal meaning at any time, in other words, the final interpretation of the democratic dictatorship belongs to Napoleon himself.

Since the capitalists were shameless, Napoleon had to be even more shameless than they were.

During the July Dynasty, for example, his nephew, Napoleon III, pretended to be a socialist reformer and cleverly concealed his intentions. The working class, on the other hand, became the political instrument of the Bonapartist careerist, who overthrew the republic and established his own empire in order to "preserve order, family and property", and for the first time socialism entered the political arena and provided the opposition parties with weapons to hinder political development and suppress the proletariat in order to defend the interests of the capitalist class.

In the early years of the Franco-Prussian War, however, the words "republic" and "freedom" rang in the ears of the workers. In order to cater to the enthusiastic interest of the audience, the orators did not attack the business owners and capital, but the government, and insinuated the emperor and empress in their speeches, sometimes directly attacking them. Instead of describing the poverty of the economically exploited and the beauty of public property, the orators romanticized the shame of political oppression, the joy of freedom, and the greatness of the revolution of the republic. Turn the working class into pawns in their hands.

But what kind of republicans were, Napoleon's eyes saw clearly. He wasn't afraid to tear his face directly with them, because these people didn't have any skin at all.

The corridors of the Tuileries reverberated with the angry bickering between Gambitta and Napoleon, and some people subconsciously stopped and craned their necks to look at the hidden door of the office, trying to figure out what was going on inside.

Gan Bi held on to death, and even showed an unreasonable appearance.

However, Napoleon was full of confidence, he was not afraid of the other party's accusations, and refuted Gan Bida with a sonorous and powerful voice, "As I said, the French Third Reich is already a country with a democratic republican system, and I will adopt a policy of dictatorship suppression for any force that wants to oppose the democratic republican government, and the votes are the votes of the people, not the votes of the opposition parties." The boycott of the bill by the group led by the Sheridd family is already an attempt to undermine the republic and freedoms, and if there is a next time, I will confiscate their property and roll all those who oppose the republic directly out of French soil and into French Guiana to drink blood with the natives. ”

They were the first to advocate a liberal republic, but they did not expect that Napoleon would take advantage of their political ideas and impose a policy of dictatorship on the capitalists on the grounds of trying to destroy the freedom of the republic.

Superior skills.

Gan Bida looked at each other angrily, and finally did not choose to continue arguing. Truth is within the realm of might, and no matter how much he refutes it, Napoleon's problems are only three.

"How much do you have my guns? How much do your people have me? How much do you have my money? If there are none, the Republican Party would do well to keep its mouth shut. ”

The door that had been hidden was suddenly opened, and all the people in the corridor who were waiting to see the show were startled, and Gan Bi rushed out of the door in a rage, his face gloomy. And Napoleon, who was sitting in his office, looked light-hearted and even beckoned to him.

"Remember, they won't be so lucky next time."

After seeing Gambida leave, the smile on Napoleon's face slowly faded and was replaced by a gloomy look.

Now is not the time to break with the whole, he still has to wait, wait for the Prussian iron hoof to come to the city.

Although he had the support of the Banque de France, what Napoleon needed was not the support of the bank, but the control of the entire Banque de France. The reason why Charles de Gaulle, the president of the Fifth Republic, was able to sit in the presidency for so long and have the power to dissolve the parliament was because after World War II, the policy of nationalizing important economic lifelines such as banks made parliament no longer able to pose a threat to him.

With the Banque de France, Napoleon was able to easily secure his position and enter the era of state monopoly capitalism.

Napoleon stood in front of the glass window of his office, looking out at the empty square.

The whole of the Tuileries Palace was filled with the oppression of the coming Prussian army, and the splendid marble dome was shrouded in a dark cloud, like the cloud of war that covered the land of France, and the oppressors were breathless.

The door to the office was pushed open again, and Governor Trochu came in through the corridor, staring at Napoleon with a gloomy face, holding a telegram in his hand, but the contents of the telegram made Napoleon's originally relaxed mood fall to the bottom.

Trochu, with a grim expression, placed the telegram in front of Napoleon, took a deep breath, and explained, "This is a telegram from the fortress of Metz, and the resistance of the Rhine corps led by General Bazin is becoming more and more passive. The Prussian 1st and 2nd Army Corps and the 3rd Cavalry Division formed an impenetrable encirclement, and Bazin's Rhine Corps needed to break the siege, and we had no spare forces to support Metz. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Bazin looked up, but what he saw was a cold, bloodless face.

These eyes were devoid of emotion, and he did not even see Louis Bonaparte, who was in the empire.

The sense of oppression brought about by a true imperial king can make those in front of him feel suffocated.

The tyrant Julius seemed to be possessed by his soul at this moment.

Napoleon's hands were trembling, he originally thought that Bazin would be able to hold out for 72 days in history before surrendering, but he did not expect that not long after the siege of the fortress of Metz, Bazin had already given up the idea of trying to break through and began to defend to the death.

Emotions exploded in an instant.

"What the hell are Bazin and his officers doing? The 170,000-strong Rhine Army was surrounded by seven infantry divisions and three cavalry divisions of the Prussian army, a total of 130,000 people. Even 170,000 pigs, the Prussian army couldn't catch them for three months! Look at my dear nephew Louis, what did his Second Empire cultivate? It's all a bunch of incompetent cowards! ”

"But Napoleon, they are just ......"

General Trochu was still trying to calm Napoleon's mood, but to no avail.

"Nothing!"

He slammed his fist on the oak table and continued to roar, "These generals are the scum of the French people...... There is no sense of honor! Calling himself a general, but because the group spent several years in the military academy. But they only learned how to eat with a knife and fork! These rice pails of the Second Reich will only thwart my movements! Look at my generals and compare them to them, all these people are doing is pulling me back! If I had the chance, I should have thrown them all into the Mariana Trench to feed the fish, just as Stalin did with Tukhachevsky! ”

Although he did not know who Stalin and Tukhachevsky were, Trochu clearly sensed the anger of the emperor.

"I didn't read as much as they did, and I graduated early from the Paris Military Academy. But I conquered all of Europe on my own. This bunch of traitors! An unforgivable betrayal of the French people from the very beginning. But all traitors have to pay back, with their own blood. ”

The angry roar still echoed through the office, piercing into everyone's ears.

General Trochu only felt Ruman's back, cold sweat oozing the tip of his nose, and he knew that the man in front of him had always kept his promise.

said that he would hang a traitor, and he would definitely not let go of one.

Napoleon struggled to control his emotions, and the ups and downs slowly subsided. He stared at Trochu standing in front of him and ordered the other party sharply.

"Now I need Stowell's office."

Napoleon's tone was resolute with which there could be no refusal.

"It cannot be delayed any longer, and now the martial law order for Paris and the military order to stick to France are issued immediately."