Chapter 109 Transaction with the Emperor (1)
In France during Napoleon's era, there were two larger espionage intelligence organizations, one was the (secret) Police General Office led by the Secretary of Police Joseph Fouche, and the other was the Paris Gendarmerie commanded by General Annie Jean-Marie Rennie Savari.
If time travelers want to judge the leaders of these two major intelligence organizations, Fouchey is like a scheming and skilled Ms. M (a senior official of MI6). The entire French police agency has a fruitful and fast-paced operation of daily administrative affairs, which is not the credit of Fouchey alone. He has more functions, and he has allocated four direct subordinates to himself:
First, Fouchey's close collaborator and personal friend, Secretary-General Lombard Tadieu. The latter temporarily controlled everything in the General Police Department when the Secretary of Police left Paris;
Secondly, it was the former police chief of Paris, Pierre François Real, a friend of Danton, who was responsible for local police officers in almost half of the country's provinces;
Also, the national legal counsel Perti Lozeel, who is responsible for his other half of the province. All local police officers report directly to the two of them;
Finally, it was Charles de Marre, a criticized oath-sected priest who was responsible for extending the tentacles of French secrets-police to all parts of the country.
As for the Paris Military Police Department under General Savari, few outstanding figures appeared among its subordinates, mostly soldiers who obey orders and civilians who are timid and afraid of trouble. The main achievements of the Military Police Department came from Savari himself's wonderful performances.
In 1783, Savari studied at the Royal St. Louis Academy in Metz; after being promoted to lieutenant in 1791, Savari joined the Rhine Front, where he would serve for five years, and later promoted to captain, Savari, the major, and served under General Wandham.
A major event that changed Savari's life was that he became the colonel adjutant of General Desert and participated in the expedition to Egypt and the Battle of Malenco. After the unfortunate death of the old general Desert, it was Colonel Savari who found the body of his superior and buried it properly. At that time, Napoleon Bonaparte, the first ruler, learned about this incident and let the loyal Savari be his adjutant.
In 1801, Savari was responsible for commanding the elite military police in the ruling guards. As a result, while serving as adjutant of Napoleon, he also began to fulfill various special missions that the First Governor delivered to him.
In 1803, Savari, promoted to brigade general, was sent to Bleister, Vandai, and Norman to perform a secret mission. There he secretly arrested a group of accomplices of Kadudal, who attempted to assassinate the first ruler. Later, Savariben was appointed governor of Vincent, and when the Duke of Gan was arrested, Savari upheld the original sentence and ordered the execution of the Duke's death penalty.
During the Battle of Ostritz in 1805, Napoleon sent Savari to meet with the Tsar and tried to discuss the truce. His mission was to make Alexander I believe that he was in trouble and lack confidence in the current situation. Savari's successful "performance" did this, thus helping Napoleon lay the foundation for the victory of the Battle of Ostritz.
In April 1808, General Savari, who was named Duke of Rovigo, went on a mission to Spain. He cleverly used the internal division of the Spanish royal family to successfully persuade Charles IV, who was forced to abdicate, and his son Fernande VII, to both rush to the small French town of Baronna, and hand over the final ownership of the Spanish throne to Emperor Napoleon, and the Baronna conspiracy was formed.
General Savari was loyal to the emperor, but his lone heroic simple personality made him not very patient and was not suitable for commanding a complex and efficient intelligence organization. It is worth mentioning that after Savari took over Fouchy's position as police minister, the police work seemed to be Xiao Ruo and Cao Sui, and was managed in an orderly manner, but in fact there were many crises.
A few years later, the Malay Incident made Savari's reputation disgrace. Of course, this is all a story. At least in 1809, no one except the time travelers knew about this.
On the night of November 27, when the carriage in Desay was still driving slowly in the old port city of Marseille, Duke Rovigo (Savari) had been waiting for a long time in the Madraud Cathedral on the outskirts of Marseille.
The Mazer Cathedral was built in the 12th century and is an ancient building on the top of a mountain. The cathedral is solemn, magnificent, gorgeous and elegant, and belongs to a rare Roman Byzantine architectural treasure. There is a respectable tomb of the bishop in the church. This Spanish bishop, named Xavier, insisted on overcoming disasters with his believers during the plague pandemic in the 18th century and finally sacrificed his life.
For two hours, Savari sat quietly in the empty church hall, having no time to watch the vicissitudes of the history and grand momentum of Mazhuo Cathedral. What he kept silent in his heart was how to persuade Little Desai to follow his advice later.
I remember the last time I met with Little Desai was in June 1808. The emperor was set up in the small town of northern Spain, Victoria's base camp. In just over a year, the old little brother changed so much that he almost forgot the shy, loyal and brave guard officer. Especially in the past five months, Little Desai's actions were simply a combination of keen eyes, insidious and cunning politicians and businessmen.
In May this year, when the Paris cabinet felt the serious harm to the French economy under the "Berlin Amnesty Order", especially the increasingly difficult to obtain certain strategic materials, headed by the Minister of Justice, including the Secretary of the Army Clark, the Minister of Navy Decre, the Minister of Logistics, the Minister of the Interior Sharptal, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Treasury Morion, the Minister of Post Lavalette and others, most of the cabinet members jointly signed a joint proposal to the emperor who was still fighting on the Danube front:
It is hoped that in the southern Mediterranean, far away from Paris, within the non-French traditional territory, it can open a secret trade channel with the United Kingdom, and import certain strategic substances that France urgently needs, such as saltpeter, steam engines, construction machinery, Welsh white coal, etc.
At the beginning, the emperor flatly rejected the so-called suggestions of the cabinet ministers. He severely accused the ministers of their actions, which was just a nonsense farce, insisting that the empire did not need to obtain any means of production from the enemy (British). However, after the defeat of the Aspen-Esling Battle, the calm emperor gradually woke up and reviewed the gains and losses of the trade blockade policy in the mainland.
Due to the serious lack of saltpeter, the French imitated the Revolutionary era and returned to the dirty and smelly thatched cottages, and struggled to plunder various saltpeter raw materials. Similarly, when a large number of young and middle-aged people joined the army, the production efficiency of the handicraft workshops and ore collection sites in the rear was suddenly greatly reduced, and the use of high-efficiency steam engines and construction machinery became the best choice.
In September, the emperor wrote to General Savari in Paris and asked him directly whether he chose to open a secret trade channel with the British on the eastern coast of Spain (Barcelona) or in Gea, the northern coast of the Mediterranean, as a means of opening up a secret trade channel with the British. The emperor also ordered the Duke of Rovigo to take action personally to secretly contact the damn British and build a trade neutral zone.
Just the day after Savari received the emperor's secret letter, he met the envoy of the Duke of Little Desai. The freshly released Grand Duke of Khruna sent someone to tell his brothers of the opposite sex that Khruna had contacted the British and reached a compromise. The Dominion of Khruna would carry out a (in fact, it has been carried out) a package of trade agreements that would be conducive to France's economic revitalization plan.
Savari was naturally shocked by Little Derby's bold actions, but he had to admit that the latter was extremely exquisite in seizing the opportunity. Because one week earlier was seeking death (the emperor opposed it); if one week later, he would be waiting for death (no one's own share).
Savari was not polite to recommend the Dominion of Hruna to serve as the transit trade channel between France and its mortal enemy Britain. As for the reasons for persuading the emperor, Little Desay has considered it thoroughly.
In order to win the emperor's trust, the Grand Duke Hruna made a written guarantee that he would not take the initiative to obtain the position of the crown prince of Poland; in order to deceive the British, he actually performed a "absurd farce" with the emperor, secretly instructed General Savari to spread rumors in Paris that Napoleon was about to dissolve the marriage between the Duke of Desay and Princess Saxony.
But later, this "absurd farce" became increasingly deviated from its original trajectory and became increasingly difficult to deal with.
Soon, Derby Little strengthened his military and political control over the Gruna Autonomous Territory and quietly eliminated spies from Paris;
Then, he calmly accepted the political cash from the British cabinet and kept in touch with the royalists;
In addition, he successfully undermined Marshal Ogero and secretly controlled the central and southern regions of Catalonia;
Even in order to monopolize the absolute trade rights of the Western Mediterranean, Little Derby did not hesitate to unite with the British Mediterranean Fleet to block the port of Naples, and engage in a military confrontation with Marshal Mura...
Many of the above facts were known to the emperor, but some were unknown to the emperor, and to be precise, they were kept in the dark. Fouche and Savari himself, more or less, concealed some inside information for Little Dercy.
Now carrying another mission of the emperor, Duke Savari, who traveled thousands of miles from Paris to Marseille, is preparing to take this opportunity to persuade Derby in person to change his course and return to the normal order of the comic stage play, rather than turning it into a conspiracy tragedy.
Thinking of this, Savari sighed in his heart. He could not be sure that Little Dercy could accept his advice, because Little Dercy is no longer the guard officer who needed the guards of his father and brothers four years ago, but the empire major general who was in power and held the military and political seal, Grand Duke Khruna, and the future Polish crown prince.
At about 7:30 pm, a major officer in a military uniform came in outside the church gate. He walked to Duke Savari and whispered that Grand Duke Hruna's carriage had sailed to the foot of the church hill and within 10 minutes, he arrived at the square in front of the door of the Mazhuo Cathedral.
Chapter completed!