Chapter 1516 The Master of Training Your Dragon (7)

Napoleon's adjutant, Eugene Merlin, arrived in the morning with an order that Napoleon wanted to see Georgiana.

This was a very formal invitation. Almost all the ministers were notified to see the First Consul in this way. Merlin was accompanied by a small group of guards. She felt that she might not be able to come back alive and watch the First Consul in the tower.

Sunrise the next morning.

She followed them without resisting, and Feigel was also walking with them. They walked there, and there were many people watching their team along the way.

After arriving at the Tuileries Palace, she was not taken to the study, but to a reception where a horseshoe-shaped table was set up. The other students didn't know whether they didn't come or they had all left, and only Napoleon was in there.

He was originally looking at other documents, but when he sensed Georgiana's arrival, he closed the document. The adjutants all retreated and closed the door.

There is a kind of magical power in Napoleon. People who have never seen him will think that he is domineering and arrogant, but after seeing him in person, they will find that he is a very calm person, at least he is very tolerant when he is not angry.

and.

It's just that he didn't smile now, frowned slightly, and dropped the two documents on the table not far from her.

"Let's take a look." He said coldly.

Georgiana picked up the report. The top one was the report of the Paris Police Department, and the bottom one was the investigation report of local government officials and the special court. They were all about "adulterated bread".

When people buy bread at such an expensive price, of course they want to buy pure wheat flour. Adulterated bread is made by mixing some rye, oatmeal, or even sawdust and lime into the bread. This is what the common people hate the most, Lyon said.

The first two victims of Touji were counterfeit currency merchants and bakery owners.

It had just been harvested not long ago, and there was no one mixing lime with it, but there was some mixing old grain with new wheat. The report from the police department said that this kind of bread entered the market because of corruption and bribery by local government officials, and local government officials wrote that it was black market bread.

and smuggling of flour.

Georgiana put down the report.

At this time she found that Bonaparte had been staring at her, his eyes were very bright, as if they could shine.

"I'm not benefiting anyone," she said intuitively.

"You idiot." He said helplessly, "People like you died ten years ago."

"I thought it wasn't ten years ago." She said calmly.

"You wrote to Chaptal, saying that our wines have lower alcohol content than Portuguese wines, so we should be charged lower tariffs. Why do Portuguese wines enjoy more preferential treatment?"

"Has your spy ever been to an English pub?" she said defiantly.

He waited quietly for her to continue.

"Ancient Greece was part of Byzantium, but in Constantinople, Greek retail wine merchants were replaced by sweet wines produced by Venetian merchants. French red wine entered the British market too late, and Portuguese wine had already occupied this market."

She suddenly paused when she said this. She originally wanted to use the story of the godfather Creon as an example, but this was easily exposed. "This is the result of collusion of interests."

He thought for a moment and then said, "I plan to merge the police department and the Ministry of Justice next month."

"You don't have to tell me this." She said in surprise.

"As long as Fouche can't find out the results, he will blame the 'British Gold Coin'. He did the same thing in the Saint-Niques bombing. He bribed a so-called George's agent and filed a report to sneak in.

The Joan list in Paris, I hate this man and the false information he provided me..."

"Be careful about your safety." She blurted out, interrupting him.

"Because of Fouche, some Jacobins who were supposed to be exiled to Africa and America were instead monitored for exile outside Paris. The rumor that I sent Moreau's men to the front line was made by them." Bonaparte said calmly.

You have to say, "He's not like you. His pockets are almost full of gold coins."

Georgiana didn't know what to say.

"You have had contact with Merlin. What do you think of him?" he asked again.

She thought for a long time and couldn't find a definite answer.

"Cambaceres once recommended a Jacobin judge to the Court of Appeal. I refused. Cambaceres said to me, 'You have appointed Merlin.' I told him that the difference between the two men is very big.

Big, Merlin was once a member of the Directory. He knew very well that he no longer had the ambition to climb up, but the man recommended by Cambaceres was still ambitious. He believed that he was fully ambitious to replace Cambaceres.

He even replaces me, and even hopes to start another revolution. If I give him the position of judge of the Court of Appeal, he will make the three provinces in chaos. If I live, I will not worry about these people at all. I have always known how to suppress them.

, but if I die one day, put me in bed for eight days to make them believe that I am still alive, and then you can use this time to make arrangements and kill them."

She was stunned for a moment.

"You won't die so early!" she said firmly.

He laughed and said, "You think I'm saying my last words?"

What he just said seems like his last words from any angle.

"Come here." He said softly.

Georgiana passed without much resistance.

He hugged her and let her sit on his lap.

"On the way to the Grand Theater, my coachman was drunk. Normally I would never let a drunk man drive the carriage for me, but I was very tired that day and wanted to rest. Until the explosion happened, I

I don't believe the prediction you made." He squeezed her arm and said, "Pyrotechnics and explosives are actually the same thing. The person who made the bomb was the pyrotechnician Chevalier. When the police found the bomb, he said no.

When I asked what the bomb was used for, I thought it was for setting off fireworks. I have no reason to blame a craftsman, right?"

She looked at him with some suspicion.

"I lied to you, I'm sorry." He lowered his head, looking like he was at the mercy of others, "Just hit me."

She stood up in anger.

Which thing should she be angry about? Was it him who lied about not really deporting and executing the Jacobins and sending them to England to organize the "Bread and Blood" movement, or was it Giuseppina's affair?

Sometimes, she suddenly understood the mood of those who wanted to assassinate Napoleon.

"I know you will compare me with that person in your heart. I am not as good as him in many ways, but I am willing to make corrections. Can he be as good as me?"

Georgiana was speechless.

Yes, Napoleon didn't even want to stay in power for life. How many people can do this?

"I think the most important thing now is to establish your authority." She whispered.

"I told them, I indulge you because you introduced the railway. The weight of a horse hauled on the track is equal to the weight of 20 horses. The railway from Lyon to Paris was not approved because they felt that if the river surface was like this

You said it's frozen, and horses can be hauled on ice." He paused, "But I want to tell you, the real reason that prompted me to do that is that I love you, and you are different from other women..."

"Stop talking!" Georgiana interrupted him immediately.

This sentence sounds so familiar, just like Voldemort said to Slughorn, "You are not like other teachers."

He really shut up.

"You're going to start charging tariffs on steel, aren't you?" Georgiana asked.

"And salt, you know why," said Bonaparte.

The salt tax was a tax in the Middle Ages. Who said the slave trade was abolished?

However, the salt tax is equivalent to feudal royal power. Salt is not only eaten by people, but also by animals. It has a great impact on animal husbandry and agriculture.

Among the petitions to the Estates-General were petitions for the abolition of taxes on meat, bread and salt.

The tax on bread had already been collected during the milling process, and the reinstatement of taxes on meat and salt meant that the three-tiered parliament had spent their time in vain.

"Will I have to pay 12 sous for eating fruit in the future?" Georgiana asked.

"Do you think being a free man is worse than being a slave?" Bonaparte said with a smile, "In addition to not being able to gather together to eat fruit, they can often eat fruit."

"you are not happy?"

"Do you think I'm happy?" He suddenly changed his face and roared in anger.

"Don't yell at me," Georgiana said expressionlessly.

He is neither Tobia, nor is she Irene, and she will not shrink back.

"If I were Nero, who do you think is Seionus?" he asked again.

"The Guards will not mutiny," said Georgiana.

"Republicans always hold onto dreams and refuse to face reality." Bonaparte looked out the window of the Tuileries Palace and said, "Do you think I am jealous of Moreau?"

Georgiana made no answer.

He sneered and turned around slowly.

"Sometimes I really wish we could all die on the battlefield. The depth of that hell is a little shallower than this city."

"Can I know what moved you? Is it really public opinion?" Georgiana asked.

"Someone told me that violence represents weakness. What I have to do now is to ease the conflict. My compassion will far exceed the power of the guillotine."

"Can you tell me who it is?"

"You can take a guess." He smiled frivolously.

Georgiana compared this sentence with the ministers she knew, and finally she thought of a completely impossible person.

"Who?" Napoleon asked.
To be continued...