Make France Great Again

Faced with everyone's questioning eyes, Cavaignac, who was born in the military, was not stage frightened.

"After the coup, power will be concentrated in Jerome Bonaparte's Élysée Palace. I have a deep understanding of this!" Cavaignac said confidently: "They are not willing to concentrate all power on that Italian kid. !"

"General Cavaignac, do you mean that the purpose of their military exercise at this time is not for a coup d'état?" Lamartine, who was relieved in his heart, asked again.

Lamartine, who also served as the ruler of the Republic, is like a freshman entering the political arena compared to Cavaignac.

"The purpose of their military parade is to demonstrate to us!" Bastide, who served as foreign minister, also pointed out the root of the problem: "The purpose of publishing the military parade in the newspaper is also to disrupt our army!"

"So what method should we use to deal with it!" Lamartine then asked Cavaignac.

Bastide and Cavaignac looked at each other, and Bastide said helplessly, "There is no way!"

Cavaignac also added: "Changarnier and Odilon Barrow obviously have the support of their party and the president. We cannot defeat them through procedures!"

"Then can we just sit and do nothing?" Lamartine shouted in despair.

"Mr. Lamartine, no matter how much you shout!" Cavaignac, who had lost his power, said bitterly: "We have lost everything! The army, the police, the National Guard, now we can only pray that they can deal with Be merciful!"

If it weren't for these guys' desperate opposition, he would have reached a cooperation with the Party of Order to become the first president of France.

With the army and the police in his hands, he is fully capable of purging the Party of Order and returning the National Assembly to a clean cabinet.

Unlike the remnants of some dynasties who sit in the cabinet majestically, these revolutionaries were kicked out instead.

"By the way! President, we can influence the president! As long as the president disagrees, then everything can be saved!" A voice came from behind Lamartine, and everyone noticed the guy behind Lamartine, he was Victor Hugo's son Charles Hugo.

"My father supported the president at the beginning, so he should be able to persuade the president to give up the military parade!" Charles Hugo said excitedly: "I believe the president will not want to see the Party of Order dominate. This is not in line with his principle of checks and balances." choose!"

Everyone is thinking about Charles Hugo's answer. From the perspective of maintaining checks and balances, the National Assembly has no trace. Jerome Bonaparte really cannot kill the republicans.

[PS: The republicans still regard Jerome Bonaparte as a passerby who will leave get out of class at some point. 】

"Will this cause trouble for Mr. Hugo?" Lamartine was a little hesitant. As Hugo's friend, Fei-Lamartine really didn't want to see his old friend in trouble. The Party of Order and the Republicans belonged to two different camps! .

"No!" Charles Hugo responded immediately: "Although my father is in the Party of Order, his heart has always been with you! My father must be very willing to help!"

Under the condition that Charles Hugo patted his chest to guarantee, Lamartine and others pinned their hopes on Victor Hugo.

Lamartine went to the Place des Vosges to pay a visit to Hugo in person. After a short discussion, Victor Hugo decided to help the republicans "overcome the difficulties".

Victor Hugo went to the Elysee Palace in a stagecoach.

At this moment Jérôme Bonaparte was sitting in a square room of the Élysée Palace, with walls in the Empire style and decorated with white wood. There are oil paintings and sculptures on the walls. Although the works of oil paintings are not written by celebrities, they also have a special flavor.

President Jérôme Bonaparte was wearing a red velvet round hair, and sitting on the left side of him was a beautiful young woman, the Marquise de Alais.

Morny and another reserved middle-aged man were sitting directly opposite Jerome Bonaparte.

"Mr. President, I'd rather disturb you at this time!" The middle-aged man clasped his hands on his lap and said awkwardly.

"Alfred Picard, right?" Jerome Bonaparte smiled kindly, and said in a kind tone: "It doesn't matter! No matter what time it is, I am happy to fight with you on the front line Talk to workers!"

The guy in front of him is one of the members of the railway committee that Morni is planning to build, and he is also a national engineer of the Road and Bridge Corps.

Today he arrived with Morny to report to Jérôme Bonaparte the tasks he had entrusted to the Railway Commission.

"Mr. President, all the documents are here!" Alfred Pirka handed over a stack of sorted documents to Jerome Bonaparte.

Jerome Bonaparte, who received the documents, did not read through the thick documents, but directly asked Pirka: "Mr. Pircard, I would like to ask whether France is capable of completing the established plan at this stage!"

Pilka said intermittently: "If... I mean, if you don't consider the financial issue..."

"Don't worry about funding, I just need to ask if you have any technical difficulties!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Pilka.

"There are no technical difficulties! We have been measuring and calibrating those railways for more than ten years!" Alfred Picard explained to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Very good!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded slightly. He picked up the information and flipped through it, and asked, "Mr. Picard, do you have the confidence to complete these routes within five years?"

"Mr. President, we are confident to complete it! It's just..." Picard hesitated and didn't speak.

"Just what?" Jerome Bonaparte looked up at Picard.

"It's just that it is very likely to cost hundreds of millions of francs!" Alfred Picard gritted his teeth and said, "We have roughly calculated the cost, just Lyon-Marseille, Paris-Nancy-St Lasbourg, Paris-Brussels, Paris-Bruges-Toulouse, Paris-Nantes-Brest, the cost of these main arterial lines is conservatively estimated to cost 100-200 million francs per year!"

"Oh my God!" Alfred Pircard's figure didn't frighten Jerome Bonaparte, but instead frightened the Marquise de Alais beside him.

In 1848, the gold content of one franc was 0.29 grams, 100-200 million francs per year, which is equivalent to spending 29-58 tons of gold per year.

"Don't worry about the cost! Trust the market's confidence in the railway!" Jerome Bonaparte tried to comfort Alfred Picard.

PS: I revisited the Constitution of the Second French Republic and found that the power of the president in the Constitution of the Second Republic is close to that of an autocratic emperor. The National Assembly cannot do any damage to the President without forming an absolute advantage of 2/3. The President can complete the reorganization of military power by replacing the Minister of War. In other words, as long as the President and the Minister of War are strong enough, they can directly take the kick aside. I really don't know what the Constituent Assembly thinks. The power given to the President is stronger than that of the King of Orleans.