Chapter 399: Metternich to Paris

"If that's the case, then all the better!"

Augusta's answer made Jérôme Bonaparte look happy, and the rash merger is likely to cause a stress response from the Prussian side.

Augusta returned to Württemberg in the name of going home to visit relatives, and then negotiated with his uncle and old husband about the transfer of the Oberndorf Royal Arsenal, so that all the workers in the arsenal could be transferred to him without knowing it. within France.

Looking at Jerome Bonaparte with a coquettish expression on his face, Augusta glared at Jerome Bonaparte and said angrily, "Did you have a plan!"

"No! No! Absolutely not!" Jerome Bonaparte immediately denied it: "This is your suggestion!"

"Oh? Really?" Augusta looked suspiciously at Jerome Bonaparte, she seemed to want to see some clues from him.

"Really!" Jerome Bonaparte vowed to Augusta: "Actually, I don't want you to go to Württemberg. You manage a huge court by yourself. If you leave, I will Who is going to run the Tuileries, big and small?"

"You can find your two confidantes!" Augusta looked around the room, and then said to Jerome Bonaparte in a resentful tone: "I believe they are very willing to leave when I leave. Be the mistress of the Tuileries!"

"How is that possible!" Jerome Bonaparte immediately stated his position and complimented Augusta: "Where are the two of them capable of managing the Tuileries Palace, the Tuileries Palace still depends on You come!"

"I hope you can do what you say!" Augusta didn't believe what Jerome Bonaparte said, and she immediately shouted at the door: "Virnia!"

Virnia, who was lying at the door eavesdropping, trembled slightly when she heard the shouts in the room. She didn't want to be involved in the "war" between the emperor and the queen.

And from a certain point of view, Virnia is still Queen Augusta's "little follower", and all her actions to get close to the emperor are officially approved by the queen.

"Yes!" Virnia replied subconsciously at the other end of the door.

Immediately, she realized that she had made a mistake. The queen inside the door should not know that she was outside the door, and her voice directly exposed herself.

"Don't eavesdrop! Come in!" Queen Augusta's voice came to the door again, and Virnia could only open the door tremblingly and enter the room.

Virnia, who entered the room, straightened her body and came to Queen Augusta and asked, "Your Majesty, what do you need me to do for you!"

"Virnia, while I'm away! The whole court will be handed over to you!" Queen Augusta patted Vernia's shoulder and exhorted, and then specially emphasized: "Don't let Your Majesty bring some unreasonable things. The woman of the fourth is here!"

"But..." Vernia looked timidly at Jerome Bonaparte, she did not dare to interfere in the emperor's private life at will.

After all, Virnia wasn’t the emperor’s orthodox wife either.

"Don't worry! With me behind you, he doesn't dare to do anything to you!" Queen Augusta assured Virnia.

Then, Augusta's eyes fell on the pair of huge **** of Virnia and said with a little jealousy: "Besides, he is not willing to do anything to you!"

Now Virnia next to her also noticed Queen Augusta's gaze, and she subconsciously covered her chest with her hands.

"The affairs of the palace will be handed over to you first! Remember, you must not let some people in!" Queen Augusta emphasized her words carefully.

"Please rest assured, I will definitely complete the task!" Vernia assured Queen Augusta.

For the next two days, Queen Augusta has been preparing the things she needs to prepare for her first return home.

Jerome Bonaparte also informed the Württemberg envoy Augusta in advance of the news of his return to Württemberg.

Upon hearing the news, the Württemberg Consensus first showed a shocked expression, as if something extraordinary was about to happen, and then euphemistically instilled in Jerome Bonaparte the concept of "love and affection between husband and wife".

Jerome Bonaparte looked at the envoy of Württemberg with a bewildered expression. After a long time, he understood what the envoy of Württemberg meant. It turned out that the envoy of Württemberg misunderstood what Jerome Bonaparte meant. He also thought that Jerome Bonaparte and Augusta separated due to the conflict between husband and wife.

Jerome Bonaparte hurriedly explained the reason to the envoy of Württemberg: The queen returned to Württemberg with the consent of Jerome Bonaparte because she missed her brothers and sisters in the Kingdom of Württemberg too much.

After listening to Jerome Bonaparte's explanation, the envoy of Württemberg breathed a sigh of relief, and then assured Jerome Bonaparte that the Kingdom of Württemberg would welcome the Queen's return home.

On June 10, the Queen of the Second French Empire, Augusta, went into battle lightly and was about to leave for home, but only some ministers knew that Augusta had returned to her parents' home.

On the evening of the 10th, Jerome Bonaparte sent Queen Augusta to a temporary train station outside Paris.

Queen Augusta will take the train to Strasbourg and then cross Strasbourg to Germany.

When arriving in Germany, the cavalry of the royal family of Württemberg will go to meet them.

After Jerome Bonaparte and Augusta kissed their last goodbyes at the train station, Augusta got on the train and was about to leave.

Just as the train was about to start, Jerome Bonaparte seemed to remember something immediately, and he suddenly shouted at Augusta in the carriage: "Remember, make sure to name the factory named William Mauser with him. Paul Mauser's people brought them back, they are a pair of brothers!"

With the disappearance of the sound, the train gradually moved into the distance and disappeared into the night.

Jerome Bonaparte took advantage of the night to come to the banks of the Seine, looking at the river that flows continuously under the moonlight, as well as the newly repaired place on the banks of the Seine, Jerome Bonaparte has a smile on his face, he is alive But for more than 30,000 days, he will leave his own traces in this world.

On June 11, a message from Vienna reached Paris via a telegram from the French Embassy in Vienna.

The telegram stated: In view of the increasing tension in the Balkans, Austria has decided to send a mission to France, the ostensible purpose of which is to mediate the conflict between the Russian Empire and the French Empire.

The member of the mission is the "unknown" Richard Metternich.

According to the telegram, the embassy will arrive in Paris on June 18, and the Paris side should be prepared to respond.

Jérôme Bonaparte, who received the telegram, once again called the Minister of Foreign Affairs, De Ruiz.

"What is the Austrian Empire trying to do?" Jerome Bonaparte slapped the telegram on the table with a pretense of anger and said to De Ruiz: "They are mobilizing in the Danube Valley and sending a mission. Do they really think that it is still Metternich's time?"

"Your Majesty, I think the most likely reason for the Austrian embassy to arrive in Paris is to negotiate with France!" De Ruiz, a senior pro-Austrian faction, expressed his opinion to Jerome Bonaparte.

"What do they want to negotiate with France? Are they going to take a step back? It's impossible!" Jerome Bonaparte said firmly: "You should understand that now France has begun to mobilize! We can't stop this A war machine, unless the Russian Empire falls in front of the Empire! The French Empire can also devour the Russian Empire’s established share in the Ottomans and follow-up cooperation with the Russian Empire.”

"Then you have to take a tough attitude to meet the envoy of the Austrian Empire!" De Luis of course understood the predicament the empire was facing now. It turned out to be a taut bowstring, and stopping halfway would only lead to the destruction of the bow and arrows. break.

"You mean, we persuaded the Austrian Empire to stand on our side?" Jerome Bonaparte asked De Ruiz.

"No! Your Majesty, we just need to keep them neutral!" De Ruiz responded to Jerome Bonaparte: "Austria's neutrality means a betrayal of the Russian Empire! "

"Austria's neutrality means betrayal of Russia!" Just when De Ruiz said this sentence, in the thousands of miles away in the Lombardy region, in a speeding train, an over-aged old man Wearing a fiery red priest's robe, he said the same thing to the young man beside him.

"Father, are we going to help the Russian Empire in this war!" The young man asked with a puzzled look at the old man beside him.

"No! We have to try our best to prevent the war from happening!" The old man said to the young man beside him in an old and haggard voice and then added: "Although our prevention may In vain!"

"If we can't stop the war, where should we stand?" the young man said again.

"We have to stand on the side of the winner!" The old man responded to the young man without hesitation.

"Who will be the victor then?" the young man asked again.

"France has the leading army in Europe, and Britain has the largest navy in the world! If the two of them join forces, there is no other country in this world that can stop them!" There was a trace of sadness in the old man's eyes, he was thinking for himself Saddened by the gradual decline of the empire to which one's allegiance fell: "With the strength of the Russian Empire, they are no match for them at all!"

"Isn't this a betrayal of Russia? After the war, the Russian Empire may..." The young man grieved over the fate of the post-war empire.

"Now that the empire has reached the most critical time, we can't accompany Russia to die! As for the future, that's the future!" The old man said with a sigh.