Talleyrand was a very contradictory man.

In his original history, he was of aristocratic origin, and he studied theology at university.

After graduation, he served as abbot and bishop of the region.

But I'm actually an atheist.

As a bishop of the first estate, he leaned towards the third estate at the Estates-General, and his position was constitutional.

During the French Revolution, he preached the fusion of Christian fraternity with revolutionary feelings, earning him the title of Revolutionary Bishop.

But at the same time as the fight with the revolutionary party was hot, he also secretly wrote to Louis XVI......

When Louis XVI was captured, Talleyrand knew that his correspondence with Louis XVI might be guillotined if discovered, so he immediately ran away to England and then to the United States.

Immediately after the Thermidorian coup, he seized the opportunity to actively join the Thermidorian party, and was finally allowed to return to France, and then quickly became the foreign minister of the new government through his connections.

Then he began to bet on Napoleon, and Napoleon's seizure of power in the Wuyue coup d'état was planned at Talleyrand's house.

Later, he disagreed with Napoleon's politics, and began to secretly engage in activities against Napoleon.

Eventually, he assisted the anti-French allies in capturing Paris and proclaimed Louis XVIII as king.

After the restoration of the Bourbons, he continued to serve as foreign secretary and signed the Peace of Paris on behalf of France.

Talleyrand's ability to judge the situation and see the wind and steer the rudder can be said to have reached the level of supernatural perfection.

Talleyrand immediately asked the people around him where the prince was.

The Shire's operation was carried out separately and simultaneously, and the operation was over by taking down all the targets in a surprise manner.

Charles himself understood that he was only arresting sinners who opposed the king and were condemned to France.

So the aristocracy who did not think about controlling everyone at all.

So no one else's actions were affected.

Talleyrand soon learned that Charles had not left the estate where Louis XVI lived at all.

After Talleyrand confirmed this, he subconsciously sighed in his heart:

"His Royal Highness Charles has indeed been in close contact with the nobles of the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and now this matter is done professionally.

"The most important thing now is to control the king, and everyone else just needs to arrest a group of clear opposition."

Talleyrand also immediately returned to the estate where Louis XVI lived, only to run to the door and meet the Duke of Richelieu, the Prime Minister of France.

The Duke of Richelieu obviously also got the news, looked at Talleyrand, his colleague and partner, and immediately questioned him:

"Your Excellency Talleyrand, did you plan this incident with His Highness Charles! What are you doing here? ”

Talleyrand immediately waved his hand and shook his head and said:

"This was planned and prepared by His Highness Charles himself, and I was not involved, so I don't know what happened, and I am also here to ask His Highness Charles about the situation now."

The Duke of Richelieu was a little incredulous, this kind of thing was too much like Talleyrand's pout:

"You're really not involved?"

Talleyrand rightly said:

"Of course I wasn't, and if I did, we wouldn't be here right now."

The Duke of Richelieu and Talleyrand said this and walked into the entrance of the estate.

After the guards saw the image and identity of the two, they directly let them in, and at the same time sent someone inside to report.

Talleyrand looked at the manor, where the lights were still brilliant, and felt that the atmosphere around him seemed too relaxed.

There is no serious atmosphere at all to carry out the "Qingjun side" operation.

Since the arrests were carried out outside the estate, the Dukes of Talleyrand and Richelieu were the latest to come back to see what was going on.

Some of the other nobles ran home in fright, and some did not think to come back immediately.

The inside of the manor had no idea what was going on outside, so neither the guards nor the maids were the same as usual.

Talleyrand and the Duke of Richelieu, saying this, went all the way into the manor and came to a large drawing room next to the large room where Louis XVI lived.

I met Louis XVI and Charles directly.

The three of them were sitting on a huge couch, looking very cordial and casual chatting.

It's as if nothing happened.

Talleyrand sensed that something might not be right, and for a moment he wasn't sure what to say.

The Duke of Richelieu was more direct:

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, I heard that His Highness Charles arranged for the guards to capture a large number of nobles, what is going on?"

Louis XVI and his wife were visibly stunned:

"What guards? What nobles? What happened? ”

Charles explained rather calmly:

"I arranged for the guards I brought back to capture a group of nobles and merchants who secretly opposed my father's rule and endangered the interests of France."

Both Louis XVI and his wife were stunned.

"What? Who did you arrest? ”

"How can you just catch the nobles!"

Talleyrand and the Duke of Richelieu were also obviously stunned, but they didn't expect Charles to admit it so directly.

Talleyrand, in particular, thought that Charles would at least have to cover it up.

Say it so directly, is it ready to start acting? Do you want to force the palace directly?

Talleyrand subconsciously looked around, trying to find the axemen in ambush from outside the doors and windows.

At the same time, Charles rightly said:

"Why not? I have solid evidence.

"Those guys, led by the Duke of Orleans, who, during the wars and negotiations, have been facilitating and even directly financing the rebels intent on overthrowing your rule.

"What is more important is to collude with foreign businessmen and sell out our interests in France.

"According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, such people must at least be shot, or even sliced into slices of meat."

Louis XVI and his wife, as well as the Dukes of Talleyrand and Richelieu, were taken aback again:

"Orleans, the Duke!"

"You captured the Duke of Orleans!"

Charles goes on to explain as a matter of course:

"The family of the Duke of Orleans was inherently guilty and tried to interfere with the succession to the throne in the time of Louis XV.

"The bereaved family who disobeyed His Majesty Louis XIV should have been exiled directly!

"It is really not a pity to die by providing convenience for the rebels and colluding with foreign businessmen to endanger national security!"

Louis XVI was visibly stunned this time:

"Charles...... Didn't you arrest the Duke of Orleans because of an argument with him about clothes? ”

Now Charles is obviously a little different, Dad, why are you so focused?

Didn't you listen to all the dads I just said!

Charles's slightly stunned explanation:

"Of course not, I only arrested him to punish him for his real crimes, not to have a small contradiction with the perception of clothing."

Louis XVI did not believe Charles:

"What are you going to do next?"

Talleyrand immediately perked up to know what Charles was going to do next.

At the same time, Talleyrand was a little nervous, feeling that Louis XVI was too slow as king.

It's all at this time, what else can I do......

Then Talleyrand heard, and Charles still took it for granted:

"When I get back to Paris, I'll send them to the Bastille and try them in the Organic Court.

"Although their crimes are all conclusive and unforgivable, they still have to stand trial.

"They should be given the most reasonable punishment through procedures that comply with the rules."

Louis XVI was born with soft ears.

Hearing what Charles said categorically, and thinking of what the Duke of Orleans and his group of nobles usually do, he suddenly felt that Charles seemed to be doing what he should have done:

"If they do have the crimes that Charles is talking about, they should be tried and punished.

"Since this is your case, Charles, then you will continue to be responsible to the end."

Charles continued to nod as a matter of course:

"I understand, I'm ready, Father rest assured."

Now it's time for Talelang to be stunned:

"Your Highness, you want to send them to trial? And then punish...... And then what? ”

Charles casually continued:

"Then we have to sort out France's finances, reform the existing irrational system, and develop and build our country."

Talleyrand continued to test with some entanglement:

"Your Highness...... You specially organized the guards, and the co-op captured these ...... Convict.

"And then, your thoughts, the things you want to do, is that all?"

Charles heard Talleyrand's reminder, thought for a moment, and then added:

"Adjust France's future diplomatic strategy and always maintain a good cooperative relationship with Inventions."

Talleyrand was sure that His Highness Charles really had nothing else in mind.

This time, he is really just a pure Qingjun side, and it is really not aimed at the monarch at all.

I won't let the monarch get caught in the fire and disappear, and I won't ask my father to start his retirement early.

Charles and Louis XVI were really fathers and sons, not antonyms.

At the same time, servants from outside began to come in and report that more and more nobles were returning to the estate.

If you want to come in and meet Louis XVI, you are actually here to find out the news.

Louis XVI did not make a direct decision, but looked at his son:

"Charles, you made it yourself, you can explain it to them yourself."

Charles immediately agreed, and got up and went to the hall of the manor.

The nobles and wealthy merchants who had originally attended the banquet rushed to the manor one after another and entered the hall where the banquet had been held before.

Their movements were not controlled in the first place, and when they found that the Charles had no further movements, they came boldly.

When Charles appeared, the hall fell silent.

These nobles also have all kinds of speculations in their hearts, and there are many similar ones to Talelang.

After all, what looked like a coup d'état had just taken place around the manor where the king lived, and a large number of nobles were captured by soldiers.

Now where the king lives, only Charles, the crown prince, comes out, but Louis XVI does not show up.

In the hearts of many people, they have begun to worry about whether Louis XVI, the king, is still alive.

At the same time, Charles walked up the half-story stairs in the middle of the ballroom.

Cleared his throat, caught everyone's attention, and loudly announced:

"Don't worry, it's over.

"The people I arrested were all nobles and wealthy businessmen suspected of treason.

"You are all law-abiding nobles and merchants, and of course you are safe."

The originally quiet scene sounded a chaotic, low and suppressed discussion.

The nobles were discussing the veracity of what Charles had said.

At the same time, Louis XVI's younger brother, the Count of Provence, Louis Stanisław Seville, also known as Louis XVIII in history, stood at the front row of the crowd and asked Charles:

"Charles, my brother, where is Your Majesty?"

When Charles heard his uncle's question, he immediately smiled and said:

"Father is resting inside, is my uncle going to see my father?"

Sewell was a little confused when he heard this rhetorical question.

Is this break a normal break, and is this audience a normal one?

Sewell was stunned for a few seconds and then continued to ask:

"Why didn't Your Majesty come out?"

Charles casually explains:

"Father said that I am in charge of this matter, so let me be responsible to the end, and let me explain the situation to everyone.

"Now that the matter is over, if you don't have anything else to do, go back and rest.

"We're on our way back to Paris tomorrow."

Although Charles said that it was okay, the nobles at the scene were still uneasy.

I always felt that this matter was not as simple as Charles said.

But now that the Charles is in control of the situation, the Charles have already driven people out, and they can only leave in a state of anxiety.

Charles returned to his parents' living room, and Talleyrand and the Duke of Richelieu took their respective leaves.

The world seems to be completely back to normal.

Charles lived directly next door to his parents' room.

The next morning, Louis XVI and his family of three appeared together, joined the rest of the nobles, and set off for Paris.

Louis XVI and his wife showed up, and the nobles were relieved that the worst thing they feared had not happened.

However, seeing Charles and Louis XVI and his wife not leaving each other, they still couldn't completely put their minds at ease.

Some people instinctively wonder in their hearts whether the current king Louis XVI has been hijacked by the crown prince Charles.

Only the dukes of Talleyrand and Richelieu were roughly sure that it was something that was not at all at all.

The father and son are really father and son.

The motorcade of the French aristocracy marched along the largest road in the region in the direction of Paris.

The arrested nobles, led by the Duke of Orleans, were not directly abused.

Just tied his hands, escorted by the soldiers, and returned in a bus.

Le Havre was less than 200 kilometers from Paris, and the aristocrats traveled in the latest cars, which could run more than 60 kilometers per hour on smooth roads, and were back in Paris by the afternoon.

The car of Louis XVI and his wife continued on their way straight to the palace of Versailles.

Charles remained in Paris, escorting the nobles led by the Duke of Orleans to the Bastille.

The next morning, Charles again went to bring up the nobles headed by the Duke of Orleans and send them to the French Supreme Court.

Give yourself evidence from the West Factory to the justices, and then let them go straight to the trial and sentencing.

The Duke of Orleans, father and son, were pressed down in the courtroom, and they both instinctively struggled and cried out:

"I'm not guilty! I didn't do anything wrong! You have no right to judge me! ”

What the West Factory collects is more data, and a lot of evidence is not particularly strong.

The point is that in the countries of the Taixi Continent, the current trial of the crimes of the traditional nobles is relatively chaotic.

Considering the identity of the Duke of Orleans, and the size of the dozens of nobles sent by Charles in one go, if the court was really a normal trial, Charles would not be enough to convict these nobles if they heard these things.

But Charles waited at the scene, standing in the courtroom with his bodyguard, and submitting his "trial proposal".

He was stripped of his titles and titles, confiscated all family assets, and exiled to work as laborers in Canada.

The judges had already heard what had happened in Le Havre and had already known what Charles had "done."

Now that Louis XVI is not intervening and is fully empowered to handle these matters on his own, it further confirms their suspicions:

"Crown Prince Charles staged a coup d'état, King Louis XVI has been controlled, and now Charles is the de facto monarch."

"The aristocracy, led by the Duke of Orleans, was the victim of this coup......"

Whether it was a conspiracy to overthrow the rule of King Louis XVI, collusion with overseas merchants to harm French interests, or a dispute over the style of clothing, Charles, who was enraged, was not enough for Charles to mobilize his armed forces and forcibly capture the Duke of Orleans.

Relatively speaking, the victims of the coup d'état are the most reasonable things, so they must be the victims of the coup.

The judges hesitated for a long time, but finally pronounced the verdict according to Charles's advice.

All the nobles associated with the rebels were stripped of their titles, confiscated all their wealth, and exiled to Canada.

(End of chapter)