Chapter 395 French Set Meal (please vote for me)
"I hope the riots did not affect France."
Theodor and Talleyrand walked side by side towards the drawing room, while the Bavarian Minister of State, Foreign Minister and others could only follow behind as foils.
"That was more than a simple riot, Your Majesty." Talleyrand's voice was loud enough to ensure that the surrounding Bavarian ministers could hear it, "You must know the views of those liberals - they have always wanted to subvert They are a group of dangerous lunatics who seek to seize the royal power and wealth of the nobles!
"And what happened in the northwestern provinces of France was exactly what those lunatics instigated."
"They all deserve to be cursed." Theodore agreed casually, but in his heart he was wondering why the French came all the way to talk about this nonsense. It had nothing to do with him at all. "Oh, I heard that South Those rebels in the Netherlands seem to be involved?"
"Yes, Your Majesty." The French Foreign Minister nodded immediately, "The liberals I just mentioned are those Southern Netherlands people. They are trying to murder our king with a riot!"
Theodore said to himself that you are at war with the rebels in the Southern Netherlands, and it would not be surprising for them to go to France to cause trouble, but he still pretended:
"Fortunately those guys didn't succeed. God bless your majesty."
The group entered the reception hall, and Talleyrand suddenly said seriously: "Your Majesty, don't you find this strange?"
"What's weird?"
"Why do the Southern Netherlands rebels have the courage to launch a conspiracy against the French royal family?" Talleyrand looked at Theodore, "And they can produce thousands of them in a short period of time. Guns and millions of livres, isn’t it strange?”
Teodor was startled and slowly sat down on the chair above:
"You mean?"
"All of this was done by a big country instructing them!" Talleyrand waved his hands vigorously with righteous indignation. "They once killed their own king, and then secretly supported the Southern Netherlands to launch a rebellion in an attempt to remove this land from the Seized from the hands of the Holy Roman Emperor.
"After the Southern Netherlands was controlled by the rebels, they were still not satisfied and prepared to spread the revolution there to France!"
When Teodor and all the ministers present heard this, their hearts suddenly tightened.
It has nothing to do with the Southern Netherlands' intention to murder the French king, but if it is the former who want to export revolution, that is another matter.
Liberal revolution is a nightmare that haunts every monarch, a plague that will kill the empire if it touches even a little bit!
They immediately thought that that "big country" was the first country to be infected by the "plague".
The Glorious Revolution beheaded Charles I and exiled James II.
Moreover, judging from the current situation of the Hanoverians supporting the Southern Netherlands rebels on the battlefield in the Southern Netherlands, the people standing behind the liberals in the Southern Netherlands must be the British.
Talleyrand continued: "The English Parliament has control of their king, and control of all England. They want other countries to do the same, and they will murder the king if he gets in the way.
"They will incite revolution everywhere, and what happened in France is the beginning!
"If the monarchs don't unite to stop it, similar things will happen in Austria, Spain, Sweden, and Bavaria in the future. …”
In the meal Joseph prepared for Britain, the situation in India was the main course, and the accusation of exporting revolution was the gravy.
He clearly remembered that in history, European monarchs' fear of France exporting revolution eventually led to the anti-French alliance.
The British took advantage of this to gather together the European countries and consume France to death. At the moment, the British don't seem to realize that the trick they are encouraging the Southern Netherlands to play in France is actually to export revolution - the Southern Netherlands Parliament is in the hands of liberals, and at the same time, a large number of liberals are making trouble in France. partisans, and they were cooperating with French liberals.
Now that the British had their cards handed to them, Joseph naturally didn't mind letting them taste the wrath of European monarchs.
The Bavarian Foreign Minister looked at Talleyrand hesitantly: "Archbishop Talleyrand, you may be a bit alarmist..."
Talleyrand immediately signaled to the outside of the hall: "I have brought a man, you can ask him personally."
Theodore gestured to the guards in confusion to bring in the prisoners escorted by French soldiers.
Talleyrand said to the man: "Who are you?"
"Steven Albert Vesalius."
Immediately, a Bavarian official remembered this name:
"It's the Speaker of the Southern Netherlands...ah, I mean the secretary of the rebel leader!"
Yes, this person is none other than Van de Noot's secretary, the highest-ranking person in the "Committee of Free Alliances" captured by the French Intelligence Service.
Talleyrand continued to ask:
"Please tell everyone why Van de Noot intends to overthrow the French royal family?"
Vesalius lowered his head slumped and said:
"It was the instruction of British Foreign Secretary Wellesley. He told the Speaker, 'We must launch a revolution to overthrow that tyrant.' He also proposed a plan to spread rumors about France's land redemption plan, use the dissatisfaction of French farmers and nobles to create riots, and eventually Louis The 16th were ousted and the French Parliament was established..."
There was an uproar in the reception hall.
Although what Vesalius told was not entirely true - according to the French requirements, he would get a sum of money and go to the United States to spend the rest of his life - but he just messed up the order, or pretended to be true, but none of his words were out of thin air. Fabricated. Even if the Bavarians went to investigate, they would probably come to the conclusion that "the statement is true."
Talleyrand signaled outside the Munich Palace: "I have also brought more than 20 Dutch rebels. If necessary, His Majesty can send someone to interrogate them."
With what Vesalius said first, no matter what those people behind said, everyone would think of the British.
A few hours later, Theodore, the Grand Duke of Bavaria, looked at Talleyrand firmly and said seriously:
"We must unite and do our best to persuade the British to give up this terrible idea!"
The next day, Talleyrand left Munich and rushed to Württemberg.
In his itinerary plan, there will also be Mainz, Upper Hesse, Austria, Sweden and other countries. He will also say to them what he said to the Bavarians yesterday.
Later he would go to Saxony, Lower Hesse, and even Prussia. Although these countries are currently following the British, if it comes to such "big rights and wrongs" as exporting revolution, they will fall out with the British at any time.
He doesn't care whether these countries believe it or not. Even if they don't believe it, the British will waste a lot of diplomatic resources if they want to explain this matter clearly.
(End of chapter)