Chapter 513 Paulie’s Death
Judging from the several towns where the votes have been counted, Oscar Paulie’s influence in Corsica is still very huge.
After all, his father was the founder of the Corsican Restorationists, who formed an army to drive away the Genoese rulers and even briefly became independent. After France bought Corsica, Pauli led his own army to fight France. Although he lost, his reputation spread throughout Corsica.
Therefore, the Paulists firmly held 35% of the votes.
The pro-French faction also emerged this time. Because Count Butafuoko unexpectedly put aside his prejudices and joined forces with the liberals, he won nearly 30% of the votes in one fell swoop.
Although the anti-Pauli faction spared no effort to publicize the corruption of Pauli organizational funds and collusion with the French army, not many people seemed to believe it, so that even with Chalmers's large financial support, they only won 15 % of the votes.
The remaining nearly 20% of the votes were captured by the Zionist centrists.
You must know that if the restorationists are still as united as before this time, they are likely to obtain more than 70% of the seats in the parliament, thereby meeting the legislative seat requirements.
But now, they are tearing each other apart. No one even cares about the Francophiles anymore.
Southwest Corsica.
On the hillside outside Nongzha Village, two strong men were observing the village in the col with binoculars.
The dark-skinned man on the left kept nodding:
"Agosta did a great job and placed the ignition in a very discreet manner."
He put down the telescope and said to the young man next to him: "Okay, Filippo, let's go back to the town first, and we will officially take action tomorrow night. Oh, you probably heard the news too. The situation is not ideal.”
The latter nodded: "It seems that those loyal to Mr. Pauli only got a little more than one-third of the votes. Those betrayers really deserve to go to hell!"
"Yes, so we must complete this mission. That will at least bring Eliok and the others back under Mr. Pauly's banner."
"Yes, sir." Filippo gritted his teeth and nodded with difficulty, "I will not let you down."
Nongzha Village is a well-known base for members of the National Guard - there are more than 30 soldiers from Nongzha in the National Guard, so it is very difficult to find someone willing to come here to light a fire.
Pauli's nephew Seshali also reluctantly accepted this task after repeated persuasion.
Filippo was the one responsible for lighting the fire.
After the trio who set the fire returned to the nearby town of Quarle, they just entered the hotel when they heard two businessmen with southern Italian accents laughing obscenely and whispering at the same time:
"That's right, when the police came in, Paulie hadn't even put on his clothes yet. He was just standing there in a daze. A dozen people nearby saw him, haha."
"I didn't expect that the Corsican people regard him as a god, but in fact he is just an old pervert."
"And he's also an eager pervert. He doesn't even want to pursue that young lady, so he just resorts to force. Well, the most unlucky thing is her poor aunt. She was poisoned by Paulie just because she cared about her niece. '..."
The two of them laughed lustfully again: "To say that his taste is really extraordinary. It is said that... ah, Miss Isabella's aunt is about to become a grandmother, and he is actually able to do it." "Haha, Ke Maybe the Sijia people have this hobby..."
Filippo couldn't hear clearly, but he could still distinguish words such as "Pauli", "old pervert" and "yongqiang". Coupled with the extremely obscene expressions on the faces of the two people, he suddenly became angry and rushed forward in a few steps. He went over and grabbed one of them by the collar and yelled:
"How dare you insult Mr. Pauly?!"
Agosta also pushed another businessman hard:
"You have to pay the price for what you just said!"
The two businessmen were startled and hurriedly defended: "What are you doing? I'm not talking nonsense, oh, there is news in the London Gazette."
"Yes, that Paulie has been arrested for rape. Miss Isabella's father was so angry that he almost killed him."
"No, it's impossible!" Filippo has been Pauli's fan since he was a child, and he immediately roared and wanted to beat them, "You are not allowed to slander Mr. Pauli!"
"Wait a minute!" The older businessman hugged his head and gestured towards his suitcase, "There is a copy of The Times. I remember it also reprinted this matter. You can read it for yourself..."
Filippo was stunned, threw him aside, turned around, opened the suitcase, and quickly pulled out a copy of The Times.
That was last week's newspaper, and sure enough, the second page printed a huge headline - "Corsican Political Leader Arrested for Rape."
He looked down while trembling, and saw on the news that Pauly tricked an aristocratic lady named Isabella into a small house in the suburbs and committed indecent assault. Isabella's aunt suspected that Paulie had something wrong early on, so she followed them quietly. When she saw the noise of conflict after her niece entered the house, she stepped forward and knocked on the door. Unexpectedly, she was dragged into the house by Paulie...
There were a lot of detailed descriptions at the back of the article. Filippo no longer dared to read any more. He threw the newspaper aside, stared at the two businessmen and said: "You lied to me! This is not true!"
"Stubborn guy." The businessman stepped forward to pack his suitcase and mocked, "There were more than a dozen witnesses at the time, and now the whole of Britain knows about it. Who is he? I suggest you guard your home. The female relatives."
Filippo fell down on the hotel chair, feeling as if his head was about to split. I can’t believe that Mr. Pauli, whom I have admired for a long time, would do such a beastly thing...
Of course, these are all traps set by the French Intelligence Agency.
The only thing that made Fouché not satisfied was that he really couldn't find a man who could seduce Paulie after putting on a skirt - if Dion de Beaumont was still young, he should be qualified for this task [ Note 1].
Therefore, he could only do the next best thing and found Isabella to seduce Paulie. However, based on the principle of "Quality is not enough, quantity is enough", he arranged another aunt victim for Pauly.
As a result, Poly became popular in the UK.
The next day, the distraught Filippo saw the newspaper sent by Ajaccio, which had reproduced the news from the UK, and the content was more detailed-Bartolio and the anti-Pauli MPs would naturally not let it go. Given such a good opportunity, we did our best to publicize the matter and even sent reporters to London to follow up on the report.
Filippo was holding a copy of "Corsica Morning News" and walked for an unknown amount of time. Suddenly he looked up and saw the village of Nongza appearing in front of him.
[Note 1] Dion de Baumont (1728-1810), a legendary French spy, was good at disguising himself as a woman, and he was so beautiful after dressing up as a woman that he attracted many nobles to pursue "her" crazily. Baumont also used his "beauty" to obtain a large amount of information from the "licking dog" and won many awards from Louis XV.
(End of chapter)