"Your Majesty, this is Pauline. Feng. Princess Metternich! ”

Empress Augusta immediately became the queen of Jérôme. Bonaparte introduced.

"Your Majesty, hello!" Pauline. Feng. Metternich once again appealed to Jérôme. Bonaparte curtsied, "It is an honor to meet you!" ”

"Hello, Miss Metternich!" Jérôme. Bonaparte pondered for a moment, then spoke again: "Can I ask you a question about the relationship between you and Prince Metternich ......?"

"My mother was the daughter of Prince Metternich and my father was the Hungarian nobleman Morik. Count Sandor! "Pauline. Feng. Metternich responded generously to Jérôme. Bonaparte.

"So you are la petite-fille (granddaughter and granddaughter are one word in French) of the Prince of Metternich." Jérôme. Bonaparte vs. Pauline. Feng. Metternich asked.

"It won't be long before I'll call him le beau-père!" Pauline. Feng. Metternich looked at Jérôme with a blank expression. Bonaparte responded.

"Why?" Jérôme. Bonaparte subconsciously asked.

Then, he immediately reacted to the question he had just asked, which was really a very stupid question.

"Your Majesty, I have been with my uncle Richard. Feng. Metternich engaged! "Pauline. Feng. Metternich immediately turned to Jérôme. Bonaparte explained: "It is expected that they will get married next year! ”

This old fellow Metternich is really ridiculous, I really don't know what he thinks about it! Jérôme. Bonaparte complained silently in his heart.

Although it is said that among the European aristocracy, the phenomenon of consanguineous marriages was not uncommon (Jérôme. Bonaparte was married to his cousin Augusta, and it was really impossible for the royal family to accept him like him), but the phenomenon of direct and generational separation like this is still relatively rare.

In most cases, it is also between cousins and sisters.

"Then congratulations!" Jérôme. Bonaparte hypocritically to Pauline. Feng. Metternich said: "Richard is a good lad, you will be able to live happily ever after with him!" ”

"Your Majesty, thank you for your blessings!" Pauline. Feng. Metternich vs. Jérôme. Bonaparte replied with a smile.

Subsequently, Pauline. Feng. Metternich tactfully addressed Jérôme. Bonaparte offered to say goodbye.

"You're here with Augusta! I need to get away for a while! "Jérôme. Bonaparte stopped Pauline. Feng. Metternich's departure instead looked for a target along the edge of the dance floor.

Wander back to Jérôme on the edge of the dance floor for a while. Bonaparte found Prince Metternich in a room next to the ballroom, where he was sitting on a sofa chatting with the old Marshal Radetzky.

Jérôme. Bonaparte walked slowly in the direction where Metternich and Radetzky were, and when he was about to approach them, Marshal Radetzky spotted Jérôme. Bonaparte, he opened his mouth to Jérôme. Bonaparte shouted: "Your Majesty! ”

Sit with your back to Jérôme. Prince Metternich on Bonaparte's sofa immediately turned to look at Jérôme after hearing Radetzky's shout. Bonaparte.

Marshal Radetzky and Prince Metternich hurriedly got up to greet him. Bonaparte walked slowly in front of them and asked Radetzky and Prince Metternich with a smile: "Count Radetzky and Prince Metternich, why don't you two go to the dance floor!" ”

"Your Majesty, I'm old!" Marshal Radetzky against Jérôme. Bonaparte replied, "It's hard to have the strength to dance anymore!" ”

"I look at the old marshal, you are not old at all!" Jérôme. Bonaparte said with a smile to Radetzky.

"No more! It's really old! Radetzky's face showed a look of sorrow, "I am 89 years old, and it is time to obey the call of the Lord at any time!" ”

"Old marshal, don't say that!" Jérôme. Bonaparte replied to Radetzky: "In my opinion, you will live at least 10 years!" ”

"10 years?" After hearing this, Radetzky shook his head with a wry smile and responded, "How many people in this world can live to be 99 years old, and now I am just a candle in the last years!" Just wait for God to call!

Besides, to be able to live for so long! I'm satisfied!

There are only a handful of people who lived through that era with me! ”

"Old marshal, no matter what, you must keep an optimistic attitude! Lombardy and Venice still need you to govern! "Jérôme. Bonaparte gave a word of encouragement to Marshal Radetzky.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty!" Marshal Radetzky to Jérôme. Bonaparte thanked him, and then continued: "You are not here for more than that! ”

"Of course not, I'm actually here for Prince Metternich!" Jérôme. Bonaparte turned his gaze to Prince Metternich.

"Let's talk!" Marshal Radetzky made a gesture of invitation, and then prepared to go elsewhere.

"No!" Jérôme. Bonaparte raised his hand to stop it, and then said to Metternich: "Prince Metternich, can you go out with me!" ”

"Of course, Your Majesty!" Prince Metternich nodded to Jérôme. Bonaparte responded.

Jérôme. Bonaparte and Prince Metternich walked to the gate of the ballroom, and the Count of Gnell, who was in charge of guarding the ballroom, looked at them with a puzzled expression, "Your Majesty, where are you going?" ”

"Sir, do we need to report to you where we go?" Jérôme. Bonaparte asked rhetorically, frowning.

As one of the administrators of the royal palace, the Count of Gnell had no choice but to look at Prince Metternich with a pleading gaze.

Prince Metternich, who lived in the Tuinlery Palace, naturally understood Jérôme. The reason for Bonaparte's displeasure was that the rules of the Douinlery Palace were far less numerous than those of the Hofburg Palace.

The only managers of the entire Douinleri Palace are Mocal and Vilnia, so the Jérôme who come and go freely in the Douileri Palace. Bonaparte would have hated such a thing.

"Your Majesty said he wanted to go out for a walk!" Prince Metternich hastened to give Count Gnaire a look and told him not to be troubled.

The rigid Count of Gnell still responded to Prince Metternich in a dogmatic manner, "Your Excellency, where are you going?" I will send someone to protect you! ”

"Are you ready to imprison me, Mr. Metternich?" Jérôme. Bonaparte looked at Prince Metternich with displeasure on his face.

Prince Metternich and Count Gnell heard Jérôme. Bonaparte's words were immediately shocked.

If the situation is allowed to develop, the relationship between the French Empire and the Austrian Empire may be ruined.

"Nope! Your Majesty, I'm not! Count Gnaire hurriedly explained.

"Then don't get out of the way of me!" Jérôme. Bonaparte said to Count Gnell in a low voice.

"Yes! Your Majesty! "Count Gnell had to get out of the way.

Jérôme. Bonaparte and Prince Metternich were able to leave, but before Jérôme could leave. Bonaparte deliberately threatened again, "By the way, don't spread the news of our departure!" Otherwise, you will bear the consequences! ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! The Count of Gnell whispered to Jérôme. Bonaparte replied.

Prince Metternich and Jérôme. After Bonaparte had walked a long way out of the Hofburg Palace, Prince Metternich asked Jérôme. Bonaparte said, "Your Majesty, what are you looking for me?" ”

"Actually, it's nothing!" Jérôme. Bonaparte said to Prince Metternich in a nonchalant tone, "I have heard that Empress Yin Lisabeth is in the Hofburg Palace, and the relationship with the Queen Mother Sufi does not seem to be very harmonious!" ”

Prince Metternich heard Jérôme. After Bonaparte's words, he suddenly felt as if he was about to make a big deal.

What's more, he can't shirk it at all!

"This is Her Majesty Queen Yin Lizabeth, tell Your Majesty!" Prince Metternich asked Jérôme. Bonaparte said.

"It doesn't matter who told me, you just have to answer yes or no!" Jérôme. Bonaparte asked Prince Metternich in a slightly stern tone.

"Yes!" Prince Metternich responds to Jérôme. Bonaparte said, "There are indeed some contradictions between Empress Yin Lizabeth and Queen Sufi! ”

"Hmm!" Jérôme. Bonaparte nodded and continued, "Did Empress Elisabeth try to find you? ”

"That's right!" Prince Metternich to Jérôme. Bonaparte responded, "Until Her Majesty has not given birth to an heir, it will be difficult for me to help her!" ”

"So you can't bear to watch an 18-year-old girl fall into depression day by day in the Hofburg Palace and be indifferent!" Jérôme. Bonaparte asked Prince Metternich.

"Your Majesty, this is the innate responsibility of being an empress!" Prince Metternich, who has long seen the wind and waves, has long lost empathy in his heart, he is like a ruthless political machine, calculating gains and losses.

"Responsibility for bullshit!" Jérôme. Bonaparte couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, "A group of self-proclaimed clever fellows have formulated self-made clever etiquette, and then a large group of people act according to the requirements of etiquette like fools!"

What do you say they are doing this for? ”

Prince Metternich did not speak, and he knew that what he said now would not solve the problem.

Because he stood before an emperor of the House of Bonaparte, who had tried decades ago to persuade Emperor Napoleon (before the Battle of Lepzig) to give up what did not belong to France (Confederation of Bonaparte, Kingdom of the Netherlands) by preserving the position of the House of Bonaparte in France.

However, he failed, and the Emperor Napoleon scolded him and drove him away.

From that time on, he understood that the Bonapartes could not be moved by interest at times, and that their impulses would make them do something in anticipation of the consequences, even if it did not benefit them in itself.

This is also one of the most terrifying places in Bonaparte.

"Your Majesty, what do you want me to do?"