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Published at 16th of January 2023 06:03:23 AM


Chapter 68: Preparations before returning to France

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In the political program of the second round of reform of the Papal State published in the newspaper, Jerome Bonaparte clearly felt the embarrassing embarrassment of the Papal State's separation of hips and head, but it was a last resort.

The reform emphasized that the Papal State should follow the trend of history to establish a system that suits the national conditions of the Papal State. Therefore, the Papal State will implement a system of upper and lower houses.

Members of the House of Lords will be joined by the College of Cardinals nominated by Pope Pius IX and by Roman knights with noble titles. The House of Commons is elected by all the subjects of the Papal State, and the cabinet is formed according to the proportion of the parties in the House of Commons in the House of Representatives.

If the parties in the House of Commons cannot hold a majority in the House of Commons, a person appointed by Pope Pius IX will be the Prime Minister of the Cabinet.

Of course, Pope Pius IX can also appoint his own prime ministers.

From this set of political systems, Jerome Bonaparte can see that Pius IX is not willing to completely lose his right to rule over the secular world, otherwise he would not have added to the reform political program that the pope can personally appoint the cabinet s right.

Of course, since the position of the Pope is elected by the Cardinals, the Cardinals in the House of Lords seem to be just mascots, but in fact they still control the entire Papal State.

In Jerome's view, the second round of political reforms obviously imitated the French political reforms, but because of the inherent secular and religious characteristics of the Pope, a good French political reform has become a kind of French political reform in the Papal State. The four reforms are different.

Although the Pope under the second round of reforms lost some of his rights, he still holds the vast majority of the rights of the entire Papal State.

It is equivalent to changing from a reactionary absolute monarchy to an enlightened absolute monarchy.

The advantage of giving up some rights is that Pius IX can continue to gain the support of the Roman majority.

If there is no external force to intervene, such a strange reform will allow the Papal State to survive the dangerous European revolution smoothly.

Can all of this really meet Pius IX's wish?

On July 17, the first vote in the Papal State began. Pius IX and Pererino Rossi went to St. Peter's Square to announce the House of Commons to the residents of Rome, and announced to the residents of Rome that there were no members of the first cabinet. A list of temporary cabinet members pending election.

Pererino Rossi was promoted to the first interim prime minister of the Papal State and served as minister of interior and foreign affairs. Bishop Muzarelli was also promoted to minister in charge of public education, and the rest such as minister of finance and minister of transportation. Most of them are also the clergy class, or gentlemen of the class close to the clergy.

Although the prestigious nobles in the city of Rome were dissatisfied with Pope Pius IX's appointment of cronies, but now that the vote is imminent, they are not willing to compete with Pius IX on the temporary cabinet affairs.

Anyway, they are just a temporary cabinet, once they and their party are elected successfully.

Not afraid that Pius IX is unwilling to fulfill his promise.

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On July 31, a letter from Paris arrived in the hands of Jerome Bonaparte via the Port of Marseille. The person responsible for delivering the letter was none other than Persini.

Seeing the servants from Paris rush over to Persini, Jérôme Bonaparte, who was sitting on the desk with his arms crossed, hurriedly got up to give Persini a hug and said, "Persini, long time no see!"

"His Royal Highness, it's great to see you!" Persini excitedly responded to Jerome Bonaparte.

Then, at the invitation of Jerome Bonaparte, the two sat on the sofa beside the desk.

Upon seeing this, Captain Letty hurriedly brought two cups of coffee, a crystal cup filled with sugar cubes, and a small pair of tweezers to Pessini and Jerome Bonaparte.

"Sugar cube!" Jerome asked Pessini if ​​he wanted to add it.

"No need! Thank you!" Pessini picked up the coffee and stirred it quietly with a spoon. The rising white water vapor kept pouring out of the coffee under Pesini's stirring, and the brown coffee gradually became The brown-and-white soldiers appeared sticky. After stirring a few times, Pesini gently blew the water vapor floating on the rim of the cup, took a sip of coffee, and half of the fatigue of the car and horse was instantly eliminated.

Under the influence of coffee, Pesini, who was struggling, explained the situation in Paris to Jerome Bonaparte again.

Under the attack of Cavaignac, the whole of Paris experienced a temporary weakness, and now it is stunned again.

Physical pain can be shut up by physical means, but mental pain can only be healed with time.

After the revolution, General Cavaignac suffered strong resistance from moderate republicans headed by Hugo. Hugo even threatened to claim that he would never support a scoundrel in power.

"Huh? Didn't our Dictator dictator take action against poor Mr. Victor Hugo?" Jerome Bonaparte asked gloatingly~www.novelhall.com~ as a rival of Cavaignac He hopes that the more people who oppose Cavaignac, the better.

Doing politics means making many friends and making few enemies.

"I heard that Cavaignac has made several fires in the office and claimed to arrest Mr. Hugo!" Pessini also showed a tone of schadenfreude: "However, our Mr. Dick Tedot obviously did not The guts to keep Mr Hugo behind bars, as he is now preparing for the December presidential election."

"I don't have the guts to carry out a coup d'etat, but I have the guts to suppress the workers! Our General Dick Tedot is really a man on his knees to make money!" Jerome Bonaparte continued to ridicule Cavaignac, and then he again He asked, "By the way, do you have any difficulties with the promotion?"

"Hey...hey..." Pessini scratched his head embarrassedly and said in a low voice: "It's not that there are no difficulties, that is, we are always surrounded by a group of people when we post small advertisements, so that every time the party members are attacked by Princess Mathilde will save you if you catch them!"

The corners of Jerome Bonaparte's mouth twitched slightly. According to Persini's description, a relevant scene had already appeared in his mind.

The propaganda of the Bonapartists had to rely on random advertisements. Is this the progress of the times or the "degeneration" of the Bonapartists.

"By the way, this is a letter from General Dufour to you!" Persini handed the letter to Jerome Bonaparte.

Jerome Bonaparte opened the envelope to examine the contents.

The envelope said that Jerome Bonaparte could leave for France under his guarantee.

"Go! Go back to France!"




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