After Jérôme Bonaparte pondered for a moment, a mature thought came to his mind, and he cleared his throat and told Louis.

"I would like your Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue a proclamation on behalf of the French Navy!"

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs? On behalf of the French Navy?"

De Ruiz pondered Jérôme Bonaparte's plan repeatedly, and at the same time a look of astonishment appeared on his face, and at the moment he could not keep up with the Emperor's thinking.

"That's right!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded and replied to de Ruiz, "In order to test the combat strength of the French Navy in the face of sudden surprises, I have decided to conduct a large-scale military exercise near Corsica.

All navies deployed in the Mediterranean must take part in the exercise, and since this is a live-fire exercise, the sea around Corsica will be designated as a no-sea zone during the exercise!

Any ship that enters the forbidden sea will become a target of the French Navy, and the French Navy has the right to sink a ship if it detects it approaching!"

With that, Jérôme Bonaparte got up and found a map of the Mediterranean Sea in a secret drawer, and took a pencil from his pen holder.

Then, in front of de Ruiz, he drew a circle around Corsica, which was marked on the sea map.

Through the range of the charts drawn by Jérôme Bonaparte in pencil, de Ruiz realized that the Emperor was acting as if to warn the Kingdom of Sardinia by means of military maneuvers.

This was because the Emperor's military maneuvers extended not only to Corsica and Sardinia, but also to the shores of the Apennine Peninsula.

Once the French Navy began to conduct military exercises in this area, any ship that wanted to travel from Sardinia to Naples had to choose to take a long detour.

"Your Majesty, the scope of the Forbidden Sea Zone is too large!" De Ruiys frowned slightly, and replied to Jérôme Bonaparte with a hint of uneasiness, "This will cause some countries to protest!"

"If protests are useful, then what are we bothering with warships and cannons for!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to de Luys with a tough attitude, "If the French Empire is abandoned because of the dissatisfaction of some countries, then I am too much of an emperor!"

de Ruiz was silent, knowing that the Emperor had made up his mind, and no amount of persuasion would help.

Just when de Ruiz was worried that this might lead to a conflict between Britain and France, Jérôme Bonaparte changed his words and then said to de Ruiz, "Of course, your Ministry of Foreign Affairs only needs to inform the countries involved in the establishment of the forbidden sea zone of the French Empire!

At the same time, tell them that if the countries whose rights and interests have been violated by the French Empire have any objections, they can also send someone to negotiate with them!

The French Empire is not an unreasonable country either, and we are happy to communicate with them on an equal footing!"

Now de Ruiz finally understood Jérôme Bonaparte's true purpose, and he did not want to warn the Kingdom of Sardinia, nor did he want to show the British Kingdom the muscles of the French navy in the Mediterranean.

Instead, he used military maneuvers to force the Kingdom of Sardinia to confess to the French Empire.

After all, the French Empire was still nominally the "father" of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

In the face of the "son's" blatant collusion with outsiders, France, as a "father", must teach his son a lesson.

"Your Majesty, isn't this a bit too much?" De Ruiz whispered to Jérôme Bonaparte.

"Big?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked, "I don't think it's a big deal!"

De Ruiz then proposed his own plan, "I think we can reveal to the Kingdom of Sardinia in private that we are aware of their actions, and demand that the Kingdom of Sardinia must explain what Cavour has done!"

In this case, there will be no need to use any large-scale military exercises!"

"Minister Ruice!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to de Ruiz with a nonchalant expression

"Forcing Sardinia to confess to us is only one of the purposes of military exercises, and the reason why I chose this time to conduct military exercises is not only for this purpose!"

"Your Majesty, what else do you want to do?" De Ruiz subconsciously asked Jérôme Bonaparte.

Jérôme Bonaparte put his index finger to his lips and, after making a booing motion, said mysteriously, "This...... Secrecy!

Minister Ruiz, all you need to do is successfully complete the task I have assigned to you!"

"Yes! Your Majesty!" De Ruiz replied to Jérôme Bonaparte.

Immediately afterwards, Jérôme Bonaparte and Ti Ruiz had a little more chat, and de Ruiz left Jérôme Bonaparte's study.

With de Ruiz leaving, Basilio once again went to Jérôme Bonaparte's room.

"Your Majesty!" Basilio said a word respectfully to Jérôme Bonaparte.

"Mr. Basilio, is there anything else you can do?" Jérôme Bonaparte questioned Basilio, knowing that Basilio must have something to tell him when he came in at this time.

"That's right!" Basilio opened his mouth and said to Jérôme Bonaparte, "I have not just been ordered by you to invite Minister de Ruiz to the Tuileries Palace!"

"Hmm!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded in response.

"When I entered the office of Minister de Rouis, I found that Minister de Ruiz was engaged in a working exchange with Mr. Louis de Caaz!

Judging by de Ruiz's maintenance of Monsieur Louis de Kaz, it seems that Monsieur de Caz is a subordinate whom Minister de Luis trusts!" Basilio told Jérôme Bonaparte what had happened in the Foreign Office.

"Louis Dekaz...... Dekaz ......" Jérôme Bonaparte muttered the name repeatedly, he seemed to have heard it somewhere, but for a moment he could not seem to remember where he had heard it.

"Your Majesty!" Basilio reminded him "kindly", "Monsieur Luis De Kaz is the nephew of Duke Ellie De Kaz!"

When Basilio said "Duke Eli Dekaz", Jérôme Bonaparte immediately thought of the royalist who had been in the coup d'état.

At the same time, Jérôme Bonaparte also remembered some important information that he had forgotten in the corner.

"So he's the nephew of Duke Kaz of Eli!" Jérôme Bonaparte looked abrupt.

"That's right!" Basilio seemed to be a little confused about Jérôme Bonaparte, and he cautiously asked Jérôme Bonaparte, "Your Majesty, do we want to give some surveillance to Luis Dekaz!"

"Why are you spying on him?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked rhetorically.

Basilio froze for a few seconds, not knowing how to respond to Jérôme Bonaparte.

"Your Majesty, his uncle is an important member of the Royalists, so there's a good chance that Luis Dekaz is a potential Royalist!" Basilio gives a relatively plausible reason for surveillance.

"A nephew is a nephew, and an uncle is an uncle! We can't arbitrarily assume that if the uncle is a royalist, the nephew must be a royalist!" Jérôme Bonaparte immediately retorted to Basilio, "So far, Louis de Caz has not done anything to endanger the French Empire!

On the contrary, he has been working conscientiously under the leadership of Chancellor de Ruiz!

We cannot condemn a man who has done his utmost for France!"

Basilio hurriedly tried to confess Jérôme Bonaparte, and explained that he was also worried that Luis Dekaz would do something harmful to the interests of the Empire.

"Don't worry! I believe in Mr. Dekaz's character!" Jérôme Bonaparte replied to Basilio in a firm tone, and then ordered Basilio to go to the Admiralty and summon the Admiralty Dico before him.

After all, the major matter of mobilizing the navy for military exercises could not be done only with the consent of Jérôme Bonaparte, and there must be a military presence from Diko.

Bashi

Leo followed Jérôme Bonaparte's orders to invite the Geosciences, and Jérôme Bonaparte was once again left alone in the room.

At this moment, Jérôme Bonaparte was thinking about the "past" of Louis de Kaz.

Yes, this Mr. Dekaz is one of the most famous figures in history.

Historically, the Third Republic was able to escape the predicament of isolation from Europe in a very short period of time, all thanks to Dekaz's ingenuity.

During his tenure as Foreign Minister of the Third Republic, Louis de Kaz single-handedly thwarted Bismarck's attempts to instigate the Second Franco-Prussian War, while sowing the seeds of distrust among the Three Emperors.

In terms of ability, Luis Dekaz is a deservedly good politician.

The only fly in the ointment is that Louis de Kaz, although not a veteran royalist, was not a Bonapartist himself, but a moderate republican.

Of course, this flaw did not harm Jérôme Bonaparte, and as long as Louis de Kaz did not oppose his rule in a clear manner, and at the same time did his best for him, Jérôme Bonaparte was willing to entrust him with great use

Today, de Ruiz is approaching the age of 60.

In a few years, his energy will not be able to support the heavy diplomatic work,

At that point, Dekaz would replace Luys as the Empire's new Foreign Secretary.

Dekaz's abilities and his political affiliation would win Jérôme Bonaparte a certain degree of favor with the "center-left".

……

After a while, Minister Diko appeared in front of Jérôme Bonaparte.

At this moment, Dick's face was full of exhaustion, as if he had stayed up too late.

As soon as he sat down, he asked Jérôme Bonaparte what he commanded.

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