I Am the Crown Prince in France

Chapter 494: To avoid repeating the mistake of becoming emperor (recommended now, please vote for me!)

More than a dozen people in the room were immediately ecstatic. They didn't expect to have such an unexpected harvest today.

20,000 pounds is equivalent to 500,000 francs. With such a generous grant, no matter how you distribute it, you can get a lot.

Everyone immediately enthusiastically surrounded Chalmers and started the rainbow fart mode:

"You are truly a messenger of freedom and fairness!"

“Your generosity brings hope to all Corsican people!”

"On behalf of the people of Corsica, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to you. May God bless you..."

Chalmers smiled and greeted them politely, then suddenly said with a straight face:

"However, I have a requirement for the use of this money. That is, the recipient must sever ties with that guy Pauly!"

After hearing this, everyone nodded to express their understanding. After all, Poly embezzled 25,000 pounds from someone else, and no one would be able to remain angry. Moreover, these people had just confirmed that Pauli had betrayed the organization, and they were originally preparing to bring him down.

Girolamo took the lead in expressing his stance: "Mr. Chalmers, please rest assured that I will never stop until the day when Paulie is kicked out of the Restoration Organization!"

Chalmers nodded with satisfaction: "Great, Mr. Girolamo. I have decided to allocate 1,500 pounds to help you run for Corsican parliament!"

The Intelligence Agency agent and the spy sang together, which immediately aroused the passion of everyone present - 1,500 pounds is 37,000 francs. With such a large sum of money for running, their electoral opponents have no hope of winning. In fact, even half of this money cannot be spent to hold an election for provincial councilors.

Bartolome immediately followed suit and expressed his intention to draw a clear line with Pauli, followed by Eliok, Cesare...

Not long after, more than a dozen senior leaders of the restoration organization had received funding of 30,000 to 40,000 francs. Each one of them was happy and satisfied, and they praised Chalmers again.

However, they all overlooked one problem - £20,000 was enough to fund more MPs, but Chalmers only distributed the money to 13 of them. So much so that their funds are a bit excessive.

In fact, this was the strategy Joseph used to dismantle the Corsican Zionist Party—divide and disintegrate, and then deflect political goals.

With financial support, the 13 people in this room will soon become a "strong group" in the organization, and gradually become separated from others.

Chalmers could use his influence over them to try to get them to become independent and form another organization.

The two restoration organizations will soon be in fierce competition for political resources. Who will remember the original goal? It has become a struggle for power only for the sake of power.

After all, these congressmen have only been playing electoral politics for the past 20 years at most. For Joseph, who has witnessed later Western elections, as long as there is no spiritual leader like Pauli, just copying some dirty tricks of party struggle will be enough to defeat them. of.

You must know that the Corsican Restoration Organization has its own armed force, the National Guard, and also breeds a large number of assassins. Officials sent by the French government to Corsica are often assassinated. Various riots have never stopped. The most recent one occurred at the end of last year. Nearly a thousand armed rebels and the army fought fiercely for more than a month before they were barely subdued.

If the army is used, as it was under Louis XV, it will not only cost a lot, but also the effect will not be very good-except for forcing Pauli to go into exile, there will be no major results.

Historically, even Napoleon was defeated in Corsica.

It was not until Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor that he dispatched a large number of troops to bloodbath Corsica. This was the complete solution to the Zionist problem. But because of this move, the Corsican people hated him deeply. After he was exiled, the Corsican people threw his statue into the sea and bulldozed his family's old house.

Joseph did not want to use too many troops in Corsica. Even if he did not care about the huge military expenditure and the damage caused to Corsica, the military purge would make the Corsican people hate the royal family even more, which would not be worth the loss.

There is no need to expect people who are alienated from the government to seriously engage in production and construction.

So Joseph chose the strategy of disintegrating from within.

If the cancer of Pauli's Restoration Organization is dealt with first, no one will organize and incite the Corsican people to rebel against the government.

If appropriate policies are then implemented to improve the people's livelihood in Corsica, who will have nothing to do to start a rebellion? Wouldn't it be nice to be a glorious Frenchman and let the Russians and Italians envy, envy, and hate him?

Without the support of the people, the Corsican National Guard would naturally not be able to maintain itself. Even if a small number of die-hards have to be annihilated, it will be much easier than in history.

At present, after several months of operations by the Intelligence Bureau, the Corsican strategy has achieved initial results and is just waiting to be closed.

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London.

Pauli's villa has been renovated and there are no signs of being burned.

Outside the gate of the villa, Mr. Pauli had a moment of tenderness with Miss Isabella in the carriage, and reluctantly waved goodbye to her. As soon as he turned around, he heard someone shouting anxiously in Italian:

"Uncle, you are back. I have been waiting for you here for several hours."

Pauli followed the sound and saw his nephew Cesari-Colona Pauli, the second commander of the Corsican National Guard, standing at the door.

"Cesari, why are you here?" He immediately smiled happily and hugged his nephew tightly.

Cesari patted his back hastily, then immediately distanced himself and said solemnly:

"Uncle, the situation is not good."

"Oh? What happened?" Pauli noticed something was wrong, and hurriedly pulled him into the house and went straight to the study on the second floor.

Cesari locked the door tightly and immediately said anxiously:

"At the regular meeting last week, Bartolio, Cesare and others accused you of embezzling huge amounts of funds and colluding with the French to sell out the Restoration Organization, demanding that you be removed from the leadership and expelled from the organization!"

Pauli's face changed when he heard this, but he smiled again:

"No one will believe such an unfounded accusation."

"No, uncle, they have produced evidence." Cesarri told Pauli about the property he purchased in the United States and the leak of the time of the riot.

"They are slandering me!" Paulie shouted angrily, "The money was burned, and I have never had any contact with the French!"

"I absolutely believe you." Cesaree said hurriedly, "but the organization has formed a public opinion against you. Last week, 19 people voted in favor of expelling you, and another 12 agreed to suspend your leadership of the organization. Five people abstained."

"These damn bastards!" Paulie was so angry that veins jumped on his forehead. There are about 60 people in the Restoration Organization who have the right to vote on major events. Excluding those who are not in Corsica, there should be nearly 50 people attending the meeting. And 31 of them are against him.

There are only 2 votes away from the two-thirds pass threshold!