In mid-January, in the square in front of the Ministry of Police and the General Office of the Paris Police, the square was soon surrounded by thousands of people who were spontaneously organized. They held up various slogans, waved their arms, and shouted in unison to demand that the police release the arrested innocent newspaper boys. The lively scene reminds people of the revolution in the Paris people conquering the Bastille in 1789.

Fortunately, most of the people in Shiwei were restrained. In addition to the bright red slogans and deafening slogans, the so-called "weapons" in their hands were only rotten tomatoes and rotten eggs. They fell on the stone steps of the Ministry of Police building like rain.

The military and police who were loyally guarding the building gate were a little at a loss. Although the gun was bayonet and ammunition was in the chamber, the gun was always close to the chest and did not push the gun against the unarmed quasi-civilians. At least the orders from the peak had not yet allowed them to shoot.

"His Excellency Duke of Ultrant, this is the Duke of Desay inciting violence and the people to rebel. We need to suppress it with determination and mercy!" The recognized Catholic rebellion in Paris, the secret police leader, Charles de Mare, said to Fouche, who had been standing on the windowsill and looking at the crowd of the square, but did not review the bad consequences caused by his reckless behavior.

The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Police and Fouche's main assistant, Lombard Tadieu, who is currently temporarily taking over the affairs of the General Office of the Paris Police, immediately opposed De Marre's bloody proposition. He believed that the matter should be resolved peacefully in a rational way, and communication with the instructor behind the scenes, the Duke of Desay.

Before, Tadieu did not agree with the police station's arrest of street boys, but under the pressure of Fouche, he considered using this matter to test the other party's reaction, so he nodded in agreement. Unexpectedly, the people's reaction was too strong and rapid, and they dared to surround the Police Department Building, which made all Parisians talk about the terrified state of the day. This was a "feat" that has never been seen since 1799.

Tadieu never thought of using force to suppress it, so his order to the military and police in front of the door was: use his body as a flesh shield to guard the gate, and he must not fire the first shot unless the public tries to attack the inside of the police department.

"Joseph!" Tadieu invited Fouche to the side, and he persuaded him in a friend's tone: "You must keep your head clear. Once the massacre of civilians occurs in the square of the police building, the two-level parliament will have enough reason to impeach, which is what the emperor is happy to see. So, you must talk to the Duke of Desay, after all, the fundamental interest of the latter is not in Paris, but in the Mediterranean, in Gruna, and in Barcelona, ​​there should be no conflict of interests between us and the Dominion of Gruna."

Fouche was always gloomy, frowning but silent. He was first unhappy about what Tadieu called him, and then because the Secretary-General persuaded him to have a conversation with the little bastard. Fouche knew the deep conflict between him and Desai. It was that he and his wife wanted to blackmail Grand Duke Hruna for a political donation. Unexpectedly, Desai only gave 500,000 francs, and the police minister felt that he was humiliated.

Soon, the police minister's mind returned to normal and began to work quickly. After thinking about it carefully, Tadieu's statement made sense. He must not have a bloodshed in the police building, so that the emperor and the two-level councils could seize his own handle. As for Little Desay, if he was to solve it later, he must pay a heavier price.

Half an hour later, Bishop Vika brought the letter from the commander of the Paris military police and Duke Savari to the police department building to make a peaceful request, hoping to release the innocent newspaper boy. With Fouche's acquiescence, Tadieu, who was also in charge of the Paris police station, accepted the request of the new neighborhood bishop to release the prison boy unconditionally, but refused to remove the heads of the two police stations.

Afterwards, Duke Savari asked Desai privately why the military intelligence agency did not incite a revolution in the square so that the police minister who acted as a tyrant would be impeached by two-level parliament and would be dismissed directly. In the tense atmosphere at that time, as long as someone fired the first shot at the guard, it would inevitably lead to the highly excited military and police officers who would recklessly suppress the people.

The angry Desai shouted innocently, and he did not instigate thousands of people to surround the police building. It was spontaneously organized by the Parisians and had nothing to do with him. After learning about the Plaza Conference, Desai asked Bishop Vika to come forward to stop the situation from spreading, avoiding the occurrence of a bloody incident.

Desai told his brother bluntly, "If you are looking for troublemakers, I suggest going to the Bourbon Palace (Parliamentary Lower House, National Convention), Luxembourg Palace (Parliamentary Upper House, Noble House), or the Duilary Palace, or even the Fontainebleau Palace."

Desai is not a fool. Once a bloody incident occurs, Fouche will be impeached and stepped down, but as an inciteer recognized by all Parisians, he will also be implicated. Desai is happy to see Fouche fallen, but he will never be willing to take advantage of his future for this.

Desai even maliciously speculated that Napoleon deliberately stayed at the Palace of Fontainebleau outside Paris, just waiting to see this good show. Once he was surrounded by public opinion, he would act as a good person and kick the Duke of Khruna back to Spain without any hesitation, so that the Desai division would continue to work hard.

The emperors and the power of power, both ancient and modern, and both in China and abroad, are like this. Of course, the emperor also deeply possesses this truth.

Thinking of this, Desai agreed to hold a secret meeting with Fouche. As long as the police minister accepts the 500,000 franc check, the two sides can reconcile, so as not to let the emperor get a advantage. Fouche, who was greedy and defeated reason, refused to accept the olive branch handed over by the Duke of Desai at the instigation of his wife, so the peace talks between the two broke down and the battle restarted.

This time, it was the turn of the Minister of Police to open fire on Duke Hruna first.

A "rumor" soon circulated on the streets of Paris, saying that the Duke of Desay accepted the political cash from the British cabinet and royalists, trying to subvert the French Empire and repeat the Louisian era.

This rumor has not had much impact among ordinary people. Since the end of the Revolutionary Age, the romantic Parisian citizens have begun to turn to reality. What they care most about is no longer the so-called national politics, but the daily livelihood issues of themselves and their families. Recently, the Duke of Desai has been helping stray children and helping poor families. In the hearts of the Paris people, Desai has a very good reputation.

But in the upper class of the capital, the situation seemed different. In the lower house of parliament, there were many radical Jacobin members who asked for an investigation into the enemy's behavior of the Dominion of Hruna. Although the political forces supporting the Duke of Hruna successfully forced the first reading of the debate hall to fail to pass smoothly, the second reading would still begin five days later. At the same time, the members of the aristocratic House who hated Desay also got involved and demanded a hearing on the Duke of Desay's "traitoring the country."

The so-called rumors are of course facts, and even the emperor or the people around the emperor are very clear about them. Napoleon nodded in agreement with the British cabinet. However, in public, the emperor would never admit that he had acquiesced to the transactions between Duke Hruna and the hostile elements, so Desay must resolve the current political crisis on his own.

Desai was prepared for the emperor's irresponsible statement. In fact, before returning to France, Duke Hruna and his think tanks had already realized that the short-term cooperation between the Dominic, the British, the Spanish rebels, and the royalists would inevitably be deliberately exposed to the public by the conspirators, becoming an important handle for hostile forces to suppress the Duke of Desai.

On January 30, on the eve of the second debate in the lower house of parliament, several news came from Paris about the Duke of Desay and the Dominion of Hruna.

Around the New Year, the Desai Division had just assisted the garrison of the city of Lerida in western Catalonia, defeating the harassment of the city by rebels active in the Aragon region, killing and killing several rebels. In addition, in Barcelona, ​​the Ghruna Gendarmerie also cracked several conspiracies of rebel forces infiltrating the port city. Therefore, the conspiracy theory between the Dominion and the Spanish rebels was self-defeating.

A few weeks ago, a British spy dressed as a merchant seduced a former French officer named Charles, and then defected to Palma. The so-called collusion between the Duke of Desay and the British cabinet was purely a despicable trap set by a damn traitor and shameless British, intended to discredit the brave Duke of Desay, so that the Desay Division and the Dominant Lord Hruna would be in chaos and destroy the improved security situation in the Catalonia region.

As for collusion with the Royalist Party, General Savari, the commander of the Paris Military Police, came to the stage to testify personally, and there was no such thing. In fact, the Duke of Desay's guard had just assisted the Paris Military Police and successfully cracked a Royalist assassination plot. Several royalist thugs who tried to sneak into the Palace of Fontainebleau and wanted to assassinate the emperor were arrested.

After clarifying all the facts, all kinds of "rumors" about the collusion between the Duke of Desay and the hostile forces became vulnerable. The members of the upper and lower houses of the Parliament who jumped up and down and actively opposed the Duke of Hruna were all silenced and had to apologize to the young Duke who suffered unjust grievances, who also accepted the apology from the members with calmness and generousness.

Desai and others who were in danger of surviving the crisis of trust did not relax for a few days. Soon, sneaky gangsters appeared around the Duke's mansion. These people were ragged and surrounded by groups of three or five, shouting loudly at the people or carriages entering and leaving the Duke's mansion. If they saw women passing by, they would arrange some filthy language that was unpleasant.

After nightfall, the unemployed hooligans did not disperse themselves. Some people kept throwing stones of large and small at the Duke's mansion, breaking doors and windows, or stuffing various threatening letters into the cracks of the closed doors. The guards asked to go out and disperse the thugs, but were stopped by the Duke of Desay. He asked everyone to remain highly vigilant at night and not go out privately, but could kill all rioters who wanted to climb over the wall and enter the room. That was a legitimate right granted by the law.

Sending thugs to harass the mansion day and night is one of Fouchy's common tricks to treat political enemies. Once the guards of the Duke's mansion go out to disperse the thugs, various unexpected situations will happen. For example, several "newsletter reporters" passing by the place accidentally saw that the Duke's guards brutally killed several good citizens.

Desai's attitude naturally did not ask, listen, and ignored it. Even the Paris Police Department sent someone to explain that he was not in a position to help the Duke's Mansion maintain the security of the neighborhood. He was too lazy to get angry. Such inconspicuous tricks, when the time travelers retaliated against their commercial competitors in their previous lives, they were useless and played with it, without any new ideas.
Chapter completed!