Chapter 724： Receipt

After listening to Wallevsky's retelling, Jerome Bonaparte had mixed feelings.

No matter which plane it is, Li Li, who has been beaten by imperialism, can quickly adjust his status, take advantage of the special geographical advantages of the Far East, and protect his own interests as much as possible without large-scale conflicts with imperialist powers. .

Jerome Bonaparte speculated that the reason why Satsuma and Changzhou were willing to buy ships and guns from France was probably based on two possibilities.

At one point, Satsuma and Changzhou wanted to buy these military supplies to test whether France intends to colonize them like Ryukyu. After all, a country that is trying to colonize will never arm the country that is about to colonize. (Japan in history has always been afraid of being divided up by imperialist powers.

It was not until the end of the Russo-Japanese War that concerns about Japan were completely eliminated. )

The second is Satsuma and Changzhou... At least the Satsuma domain, who hopes to show goodwill to France by purchasing French ships. After all, the previous Satsuma domain was beaten by the expedition fleet of the French Empire. Not only lost money, but also spit out his own small colony, Ryukyu.

Otherwise, the Satsuma clan can buy a fleet from Britain.

On the other hand, the eldest empire next door to them has not changed at all since the Opium War began to the present, and the eldest empire has not changed at all, and it still looks sullen.

Thinking of this, Jerome Bonaparte once again asked Wallevsky if he had any news about the Qing Dynasty in the Far East.

Wallevsky told Jerome Bonaparte that the entire Ministry of Foreign Affairs had not received any other useful information at the moment.

"Forget it!" Jerome Bonaparte sighed and said, "Let's get back to the point! Dick, you just said you wanted to submit a new round of shipbuilding plans to the Legislative Yuan, right!"

"Yes! Your Majesty!" Dicko nodded and replied to Jerome Bonaparte.

"How much francs will the new shipbuilding plan cost!" Jerome Bonaparte asked Minister Dicko again.

Minister Dicko told Jérôme Bonaparte that he planned to spend five years building a global navy with both offense and defense, which is expected to cost about 400 million francs.

"400 million francs!" Jerome Bonaparte gasped after hearing this, and then asked, "Do you know how much the empire's revenue is now?"

Dicko shook his head subconsciously. As the Minister of the Navy, he really didn't know much about the empire's finances.

"The revenue of the entire empire last year was about 2.8 billion francs!" Jerome Bonaparte replied to Dicko: "This is still in the context of raising taxes on high value-added products (there has been no luxury tax in history). The income is 1.8-2.2 billion francs). You have to deduct 1/7 of the annual fiscal income at once!

You want me to use the taxes of all French citizens to support your navy and the subsidiary industries of your navy! "

"Your Majesty, if the navy is not updated sooner, the advantages we have accumulated in the early stage will soon be surpassed by our opponents!" Minister Dicko argued to Jerome Bonaparte rationally.

"What? Do you still want to compete with the British Empire next door for naval supremacy?" Jerome Bonaparte gave Dicko a sideways glance.

"Your Majesty, I don't think there is anything wrong with this!" At this time, there was quite a posture of Dicko's new-born calf who was not afraid of tigers: "No country is born a sea hegemon! The British Kingdom also defeated countless opponents. Status today!

If Britain can do it, so can we. "

After a moment of silence, Jerome Bonaparte responded to Minister Dicko: "Dicoot, having a dream is something to be encouraged, but sometimes, we also have to base ourselves on reality.

Now you remind me of a man who, like you, tried to build a navy of the same size as Britain, but his ending was very bad!

The strength of military strength does not mean comprehensive national strength, but also strength.

The British have better coal and cheaper iron ore than we do, which means they can make a lot of steel cheaper than we do.

With these steels and what they have to wear on that island country, they can also send fleets one after another into the water at the fastest speed.

Under such circumstances, even if we have accumulated the advantages of the early stage!

It will not be surpassed by their backhand! "

"Your Majesty, do we really have no chance?" Minister Dicko asked Jerome Bonaparte somewhat unwillingly.

"Yes!" Jerome Bonaparte responded firmly to Dicko, "As long as we can persevere and go on, sooner or later we will be able to defeat Britain!

However, our generation may well not see it!

Minister Dicko, what you need to do now is not to think about how to surpass the Kingdom of Britain, but to try to narrow the gap between you and Britain!

Only with thick and thin hair can we truly defeat them!

Therefore, your 400 million franc shipbuilding plan will not pass with me!

I hope you can reformulate your next pragmatic plan! "

"Yes! Your Majesty!" Minister Dicko responded with a slightly depressed will.

"By the way, as a semi-official organization, it is not very good for the Maritime Commission to always be affiliated with the Navy!" Jerome Bonaparte then responded to Minister Dicko.

The reason why he did not say anything about the fact that the Naval Council was attached to the Navy was entirely because the Crimean War was about to begin.

Now that the Crimean War is over, if the navy "guides" the shipping again, it will easily breed a huge interest group, which is not conducive to their rule.

Therefore, the Maritime Commission must be brought back into the hands of the government, and the Railroad Commission will also withdraw its militarized management after Jérôme Bonaparte returns.

The General Staff only needs to keep the exchange agency in the railway, and that's it!

"Yes!" said Minister Dicko to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Okay! What you have to do recently is to get into the ship modification plan and adjust the shipbuilding industry in the Toulon region!" Jerome Bonaparte warned Minister Dicko: "However, don't be too hasty when making adjustments. !

Don't let it turn into mass layoffs, you can tell the businessmen in Toulon exactly what I'm saying now.

If anyone makes workers unemployed on a large scale, I will borrow their brains! "

For any existence that affects the stability of the empire, Jerome Bonaparte will spare no effort to strike.

Thousands, tens of thousands of workers and several heads of capitalists still have a scale in the heart of Jerome Bonaparte.

Afterwards, Jerome Bonaparte invited Dicko to have a late-night snack. Minister Dicko, who was sitting at the dining table, immediately felt relieved, but at the same time, he felt that the burden on his shoulders was a little heavier.

At four o'clock in the morning, Minister Dicko, who had left the residence of Jerome Bonaparte, walked alone on the empty street, and his heart fell into loneliness.

And Jerome Bonaparte himself once again sat on the sofa to communicate with Wallevsky, "I'm going to leave for Paris tomorrow!"

A look of surprise appeared on Wallevsky's face. He asked Jerome Bonaparte euphemistically if it was too hasty to leave so soon. He himself hadn't contacted the Paris side yet!

"I don't think it's good to be in touch!" Jerome Bonaparte replied to Wallevsky. "Let's go back to Paris quietly and surprise them!"

I'm more afraid of being frightened!

Wallevsky couldn't help but complain in his heart, since Emperor Gereau Bonaparte insisted on returning, as a courtier, he did not dare to have any rebuttal opinions.

As for the welcome ceremony, we can only wait for a suitable opportunity to make it up for His Majesty the Emperor.

"Your Majesty, do you want to return for a visit and rest first!" Wallevsky asked Jerome Bonaparte, "I'll wake you up after the departure time!"

"Forget it, look at what time it is!" Jerome Bonaparte pointed to the grandfather clock and responded to Wallevsky. UU reading

Wallevsky glanced at the time. It was 4:30 in the morning, only two and a half hours before the first train to Paris left.

It also took nearly an hour from them to reach the Toulon train station, which meant that Jerome Bonaparte could only sleep for an hour and a half.

"I'll have to deal with it here!" Jerome Bonaparte shrugged and lay on the sofa, closing his eyes and resting. Gradually, Jerome Bonaparte fell asleep.

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"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

With a hazy shout coming from his ear, Jerome Bonaparte slowly opened his sleepy eyes and asked, "Is it time?"

"Your Majesty, it's 5:30 now!" Warefsky reminded.

While rubbing his eyes, Jerome Bonaparte yawned to Wallevsky and said, "I'll wake up Vernia, so you can prepare yourself!"

After speaking, Jerome Bonaparte dragged his tired body from the living room to Vernia's bedroom, then pushed Vernia's body back and said, "It's time to get up!"

"I don't want to get up!" Vernia, who was shaken awake by Jerome Bonaparte, said lazily.

"If you don't get up again, I'll leave you behind!" Jerome Bonaparte gently pinched Vernia's little face.

"Got it! It's time for me to get up!" Virnia opened his eyes reluctantly, and with the help of Jerome Bonaparte, put on his clothes.

Afterwards, Virnia and Jerome Bonaparte walked out of the bedroom, washed briefly, put on wigs and glasses (to prevent people from recognizing them), and rode the carriage to Toulon with Wallevsky stand.