As the date of the Paris Peace Conference approached, the number of people at the Exposition of the Century Fair was gradually climbing upwards, rather than decreasing.

In the first three days of the opening alone, the total number of visitors has exceeded 180,000, which is equivalent to 60,000 people entering the Century Expo every day.

Such data not only shocked the whole of Paris, but also made Jérôme, who had no hope of making a profit at the Century Fair. Bonaparte sensed the possibility of making a profit.

Seeing such impressive figures, the Paris City Hall began to feel a little dissatisfied with the price of tickets, thinking that each ticket was only sold for 2 francs, which was really a bit low.

180,000 person-times, a total profit of about 300,000 francs after deducting maintenance costs.

With an investment of 10 million francs in the entire showroom, it will take a long time for them to be truly profitable.

If their pricing could be a little higher, they would be able to aquegate their money much faster.

And Jérôme, as the leader of fares. Bonaparte also had the idea that he should set the price of each ticket a little low, and whether he should re-set the price.

After carefully weighing the pros and cons, Jérôme. Bonaparte nevertheless decided to keep the current prices unchanged.

and ordered Mocal to publish an article entitled "Tickets and France", which described the reason for the establishment of the 2-franc ticket price for the Century Fair (in order to give more people the opportunity to get to know and contact the whole world up close and see the development of the world, the Century Fair was not an exposition for only a few, but an exposition for the vast majority), and the government pledged to unswervingly implement the 2-franc fare, and this article was signed by Joseph. Stalin.

As soon as the article was published, it was hotly debated at home and abroad, and many people identified with the expo that served the majority of people in the article.

Some foreigners, who had little interest in the Century Fair, began to take a slight interest in the French Fair.

Immediately afterwards, some "perceptive" people noticed that the authorship of the article was the same as that published in Britain a few years earlier (1848), and that the author behind the original byline was Jérôme. Emperor Bonaparte.

As a result, many people speculated that the emperor behind this signature should also be the Tuileries Palace, and some people who did not think it was a big deal to see the excitement speculated that Jérôme. Emperor Bonaparte's purpose in saying this was not to diss a certain prince at Buckingham Palace.

After all, Prince Albert had a higher ticket price than Jérôme. Bonaparte's ticket prices are now several times higher.

As the saying goes, where there is traffic, there is heat.

In today's world, no one has a greater flow than the monarch.

Therefore, the small and medium-sized newspapers in Britain instantly turned into some unscrupulous marketing accounts for later generations, and frantically hyped up.

In Jérôme. Within 48 hours of Bonaparte's article, rumors began to circulate throughout Britain that the Emperor of France had criticized Prince Albert.

The already hot topic has once again been pushed to a climax, and I am afraid that even Jérôme. Bonaparte could not have imagined that an article published by his own name would be misinterpreted like this.

The whole of Britain began to discuss this matter, and under such hype, more and more British gentlemen decided to go to the French Century Exhibition to find out.

[PS: Later generations will be Jérôme. This unintentional act of Bonaparte was recorded as a means of hype. 】

And Queen Victoria, who was deeply influenced by public opinion, expressed her gratitude to Jérôme, who was far away in Paris. Bonaparte was also dissatisfied.

The queen in Windsor Castle crumpled the newspaper in her hand, threw it in her mouth, and complained: "Jérôme. What the hell is Bonaparte trying to do! Does he want to play on the topic? ”

Albert, who was sitting on the side, looked at the pouting and angry queen in front of him, and responded gently and gently: "It shouldn't be!" ”

"What's going on with those articles?" Queen Victoria asked Prince Albert.

"Those articles!" Prince Albert said with a wise smile on his face: "It's just some articles chasing after the wind!" ”

Prince Albert then pointed to the newspaper in his hand and said to Queen Victoria, "I have a guy named Joseph here. Do you want to take a look at the newspaper in which Stalin published the original text! ”

Queen Victoria took the newspaper and looked at it, and sure enough, the entire content of the article did not diss Prince Albert at all, and the content of the article had nothing to do with Britain at all.

After reading the newspaper, Queen Victoria asked Prince Albert curiously: "Albert, you just said that those articles are chasing after the wind. Stalin was not Jerome. Bonaparte! ”

"Judging by the style of the article, it should be him!" Prince Albert said to Queen Victoria in no uncertain terms: "The newspapers are not wrong about that! However, they were able to bring Jérôme. I was surprised by the re-emergence of Bonaparte's byline from the time he published his article seven years ago! ”

"Seven years ago!" Queen Victoria subconsciously trembled slightly, "How did they turn to the previous article?" ”

"I don't know about that!" Prince Albert shook his head and replied to Queen Victoria.

"That'...... Albert, why don't we go to the World's Fair too? Queen Victoria asked Prince Albert instead.

"What? Do you want to go too? Prince Albert asked Queen Victoria.

"I'm just curious! What a difference their expo is from what we've done before! Queen Victoria replied to Prince Albert.

"Since you want to go, let's find a time!" Prince Albert replied to Queen Victoria.

"Isn't it possible lately?" Queen Victoria asked, slightly disappointed.

"It's best not to pass in the recent past, except if you want to be with those people!" Prince Albert said to Queen Victoria, "I can say that there are only a lot more people this time than we did then!" ”

Thinking of the flooded scene of the World Exposition, Queen Victoria gave up the idea of going to Paris in the near future.

In the afternoon of the same day, the French ambassador to Britain, Valette, appeared at Windsor Castle!

"Your Majesty, just now I received my Sovereign Jérôme. A telegram from His Majesty the Emperor Bonaparte, Jérôme. His Majesty the Emperor Bonaparte said that he himself was deeply sorry for the negative impact of the article "Tickets and France" on the two Majestices! His Majesty himself did not realize that this article would cause so many problems! As soon as he sat down, Ambassador Valette apologized to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

"Nothing!" Prince Albert waved his hand generously and replied to Valette: "You can tell Jérôme. Bonaparte, these things that chase after the wind and shadows will not affect the feelings between England and France! ”

"Your Highness, thank you for your generosity!" Valette breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and then said to Prince Albert: "I believe that the two countries that have experienced the Crimean War will be closely united and help each other!" ”

Subsequently, Valette and Prince Albert began to talk nonsense that made no sense, and the two of them talked from British culture to French culture, and from French culture to Pan-Germanic culture.

When Prince Albert talked about pan-Germanic culture, he immediately changed the subject and asked Valette: "By the way, Ambassador Valette, I have heard that your country is going to sign a customs union with the Kingdom of Sweden, but I don't know if there is such a thing!" ”

Valette paused for a moment, then regained his smile and said to Prince Albert: "Your Excellency, I don't know where you heard this news!" ”

"Your Excellency, I have no intention of interfering in your country's diplomacy, but I only hope that there are some issues in which it would be better for our two countries to be more frank!" Prince Albert openly threatened: "After all, two countries can only trust each other if they are honest with each other!"

With less than 4 days to go until the post-war meeting in Crimea, some things must be agreed before the conference begins! ”

Seeing this, Valette had no choice but to tell Prince Albert that the French Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden were indeed preparing to sign a customs union treaty, but this treaty had not yet been signed.

"Your Excellency, please understand that France is now telling the road to industrialization, so we need a lot of iron ore and coal, and we lack iron ore and coal in our own country, so we have to sign a customs union with the Kingdom of Sweden!" Valette said to Prince Albert sincerely, "It's not that we don't want to tell you, but that the customs union between us and Sweden is not yet fully implemented!" ”

In the face of Valette's explanation, Prince Albert was obviously unconvinced.

"Britain can also be a great business partner for France! We are also able to have closer business ties between our two countries! Prince Albert said to Valette.

Valette replied to Prince Albert that the factory owners in the French Empire did not agree to a more "close" exchange between England and France, because they could not defeat British capital at cost.

The capital of the Kingdom of Sweden could not defeat them, so they were more willing to communicate with Sweden.

After listening to Valette's reasoning, Prince Albert reluctantly accepted his statement.

After all, every family has a difficult scripture to read, and they were not worried that the Indian textile industry would carry out anti-dumping on them, so as to restrict Indian textiles from entering Britain by raising tariffs.

The customs union between France and the Kingdom of Sweden, although privately established without informing Britain, did not touch Britain's sensitive line.

Prince Albert was just not satisfied with the French Empire sneaking up on their backs.

Eventually, Prince Albert told him that he and Queen Victoria would be going to Paris again in about a month.

Valette immediately extended a warm welcome to Prince Albert to Paris.

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