Chapter 753： Albert's "Knock"

As the date of the Paris Peace Conference was approaching, the number of people at the Century Fair did not decrease, but gradually increased.

In the first three days of the opening, the total number of people has exceeded 180,000, which is equivalent to 60,000 people visiting the Century Expo every day.

Such data not only shocked the whole of Paris, but also made Jerome Bonaparte, who had no hope of making a profit at the Century Fair, feel the possibility of making a profit.

Seeing such impressive data, the Paris City Hall began to feel a little dissatisfied with the price of the tickets. They believed that each ticket was only sold for 2 francs, and the price was really low.

180,000 person-times, excluding maintenance costs, the total profit is about 300,000 francs.

And the investment in the entire showroom is 10 million francs, and it will take a long time for them to be truly profitable.

If they can price a little higher, then they will not be able to collect funds faster.

And Jerome Bonaparte, who is the ticket leader, also once had the idea of ​​whether he set the price of each ticket a little low, and whether he should re-set the price.

After carefully weighing the pros and cons, Jérôme Bonaparte decided to keep the current price unchanged.

And ordered Mokar to publish an article called "Tickets and France", which described the reasons for the 2-franc fare for the Century Fair (in order to allow more people to have the opportunity to know and contact the whole world up close, see clearly the development of the world, the century fair is not an exposition for a few, but an exposition for the vast majority), and the government's pledge to unswervingly implement the 2-franc fare, and this article is signed Joseph Stalin.

As soon as the article was published, it was hotly debated at home and abroad, and many people recognized the exposition in the article, which serves the majority of people.

Some foreigners who had no interest in the Century Fair at first began to have a little interest in the French fair.

Immediately afterwards, another part of the "shrewd" people noticed that the signature of the article was the same as the signature published in Britain a few years ago (1848), and the author behind the original signature was Emperor Jerome Bonaparte.

As a result, many people have speculated that the name behind this signature should also be the emperor of the Tuin-le-Li Palace, and the latter part of the people who watched the fun and did not think it was a big deal speculated that the purpose of Emperor Jerome Bonaparte was not to say this. diss a certain prince at Buckingham Palace.

After all, Prince Albert's ticket price at the World's Fair was several times higher than Jerome Bonaparte's current ticket price.

As the saying goes, when there is traffic, there is heat.

In today's world, no one has more traffic than the monarch.

Therefore, the small and medium-sized newspapers in the United Kingdom instantly turned into some unscrupulous marketing accounts of later generations, and hyped them wildly.

Within 48 hours after Jerome Bonaparte's article was published, gossip about the Emperor of France's criticism of Prince Albert began to spread throughout Britain.

The already hot topic was once again pushed to a climax. I am afraid that even Jerome Bonaparte could not have imagined that an article he just published under his name would be misinterpreted like this.

The whole of Britain began to discuss this matter, and under such hot hype, more and more British gentlemen decided to go to the French Century Exposition to find out.

[PS: Later generations will record this unintentional act of Jerome Bonaparte as a means of hype. 】

And Queen Victoria, who was deeply influenced by public opinion, was also dissatisfied with Jerome Bonaparte who was far away in Paris.

The Queen in Windsor Castle crumpled the newspaper in her hand, threw it in her mouth and complained, "What the **** does that fellow Jerome Bonaparte want to do! Does he want to make use of the topic?"

Albert, who was sitting on the side, looked at the pouting and angry queen in front of him, and responded gently and tenderly: "It shouldn't be!"

"What about those articles?" Queen Victoria asked Prince Albert.

"Those articles!" Prince Albert said with a wise smile on his face: "It's just some articles catching wind and shadows!"

Then, Prince Albert pointed to the newspaper in his hand and said to Queen Victoria: "I have a newspaper called Joseph Stalin who published the original text here. Do you want to take a look!"

"Sign-in God of Devouring the Starry Sky"

Queen Victoria took a look at the newspaper, and sure enough, the entire content of the article had nothing to diss from Prince Albert, and the content of the article had nothing to do with Britain at all.

After reading the newspaper, Queen Victoria asked Prince Albert curiously: "Albert, you just said that those articles were chasing shadows, so is this Joseph Stalin Jerome Bonaparte!"

"From the style of the article, it should be him!" Prince Albert said decisively to Queen Victoria: "The newspapers are right about this! However, they were able to publish Jerome Bonaparte seven years ago. The signature of the article was re-read, which surprised me!"

"Seven years ago!" Queen Victoria trembled slightly subconsciously, "How did they turn to the previous article?"

"I don't know about this!" Prince Albert shook his head and replied to Queen Victoria.

"Then... Albert, do we want to go to the World's Fair too!" Queen Victoria asked Prince Albert instead.

"What? You want to go too?" Prince Albert asked Queen Victoria.

"I'm just curious! How is their fair different from what we've had before!" Queen Victoria replied to Prince Albert.

"Since you want to go, let's find a time!" Prince Albert replied to Queen Victoria.

"Don't you think it's not good recently?" Queen Victoria asked a little disappointedly.

"It's better not to pass recently, unless you want to be crowded with those people!" Prince Albert said to Queen Victoria, "I'm sure the number of people this time is only a lot more than we were at the time!"

Thinking of the flooded scene of the World Exposition, Queen Victoria gave up the idea of ​​going to Paris in the near future.

That afternoon, Valette, the French ambassador to Britain, appeared at Windsor Castle!

"Your Majesties, just now I received a telegram from my monarch, His Majesty the Emperor Jerome Bonaparte. His Majesty the Emperor Jerome Bonaparte said that he personally gave a lot to the article "Tickets and France". I am deeply sorry for the negative impact of the two Majesties! Your Majesty himself did not realize that this article would bring so many problems!" Ambassador Wallette, who had just sat down, immediately apologized to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

"It's nothing!" Prince Albert waved his hand generously and replied to Valette: "You can tell Jerome Bonaparte that these chasing things will not affect the feelings between Britain and France! "

"His Royal Highness, thank you for your generosity!" Valette breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to Prince Albert: "I believe that the two countries that have experienced the Crimean War will definitely unite closely in Let's help each other together!"

Later, Valette and Prince Albert started talking nonsense. The two chatted from British culture to French culture, and then from French culture to Pan-Germanic culture.

When Prince Albert talked about Pan-Germanic culture, he immediately changed the subject and asked Wallette: "By the way, Ambassador Wallette, I heard that your country is going to sign a customs union with the Kingdom of Sweden. This matter!"

Valette's expression paused, then resumed his smile and said to Prince Albert, "Your Excellency, I don't know where you heard this news!"

"Your Excellency Ambassador, I have no intention of interfering in your country's diplomacy, but I only hope that on certain issues, our two countries can be frank with each other!" Prince Albert threateningly said: "After all, the two Countries can only trust each other when they are honest with each other!

There are still less than 4 days before the Crimea post-war resolution meeting, and some things must be agreed before the meeting starts! "

Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Valette had to tell Prince Albert that the French Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden were indeed going to sign a treaty of customs union, but the treaty has not been signed yet.

"Your Excellency, please understand that France is now telling the road to industrialization. Therefore, we need a lot of iron ore and coal, and our mainland lacks iron ore and coal, so we have to sign a customs union with the Kingdom of Sweden!" Valette said sincerely to Prince Albert, "It's not that we don't want to tell you, but the customs union between us and Sweden has not been fully implemented!"

Faced with Valette's explanation, Prince Albert was obviously unconvinced.

"Britain can also be an excellent business partner for France! There can also be closer commercial ties between our two countries!" Prince Albert said to Valette.

Valette replied to Prince Albert again that the factory owners in the French Empire did not agree with a more "closer" exchange between Britain and France, because they could not beat the British capital in cost.

The capital in the Kingdom of Sweden cannot defeat them, so they are more willing to communicate with Sweden.

Prince Albert, who had listened to Valette's reasoning, reluctantly accepted his statement.

After all, every family has a hard book to read, and the British were worried that the Indian textile industry would conduct anti-dumping against them, thus restricting the entry of Indian textiles into the United Kingdom by raising tariffs.

Although the customs union between France and the Kingdom of Sweden was established privately without informing Britain, it did not touch the sensitive line of Britain.

Prince Albert was just dissatisfied with the French Empire doing small tricks behind their backs.

Finally, Prince Albert told Zalai that he and Queen Victoria would travel to Paris again in about a month.

Valette immediately extended a warm welcome to Prince Albert to Paris.