With a pop, this beautiful world was shattered in the eyes of the prince!
The truth behind the imperial mask of hypocrisy was so cruel that the young prince was too frightened to look directly at it.
The military and political administrations have all been eaten away by moths. There are scams and false accounts everywhere. Where is the powerful empire that my father said? Where exactly?
Eugène Bonaparte didn't even know how he returned to the Tuileries Palace. Like a ghost, he wanted to see his father but couldn't find him. He only saw Empress Eugène drinking in his mother's drawing room.
"Oh, my angel baby...why did you come back so early this afternoon? Are you staying here tonight or at your palace in the suburbs?"
"Mother...why did you drink so much? God, you drank two bottles of red wine in one afternoon...oh, this is the third bottle of red wine!"
"Don't worry about me. I'm just happy. My baby is doing so well. I drink more because I'm happy..."
After a few casual greetings between mother and son, the prince couldn't help it anymore. He suddenly buried his face in his hands and sobbed softly and said, "Mother... what should I do? What should I do..."
Queen Eugene sat up from the recliner in fright. "My child, what's wrong with you? What happened..."
When the queen listened patiently to her son's account of everything that happened today, the queen of the empire looked lonely. Looking at her son's sad look, it felt like a mother's heartache.
"Child! Cheer up! What do you look like!"
"Everything in this world has a reason for its existence as long as it exists. Sooner or later you will rule this empire. You must mature and you must accept it all!"
"To tell you the truth, I know better than you what the empire is like, and your father also knows it very well!"
"We can do nothing about all this. All we can do is to develop, develop, and develop again... When our career development comes to an end, I am afraid that will be the moment when this country abandons us!"
"Why?" The prince shouted worriedly.
"Why? Why! Why..." The queen's eyes turned red. "What's the reason? It's not because of our family!"
"The curse of Bonaparte's family! This family's fate is like this and cannot be changed!"
"Child, you are old too. You must understand a cruel reality. The appearance of any country at this moment has been created since the founding of the country!"
"What is the so-called state system? In the final analysis, it is just one sentence... Who shares the rights!"
"Remember the full name of our country, the Second French Empire! This is the continuation of the First Empire and a restoration of the Napoleonic family's rule over France!"
"Why did we succeed? Do you really think your father is a genius? Is he the God of War? One person can fight against an army of millions?"
"Wrong, he is not a god, he is just a smart man who can find allies and unite them together!"
"Your father knows what he wants and who his allies are! When Napoleon I's empire was overthrown, the existence of the Second French Republic did not actually solve the domestic crisis!"
"The nobles of the empire were persecuted by the Republic, while the workers and peasants did not receive any benefits. The various chaotic decrees of the Second Republic could not solve the domestic conflicts at all!"
"It was against this background that your father was restored to power. His success shows that he was really supported by many people at that time!"
"Your father is very smart. He knows very well that the crux of the empire's contradictions is not internal but external! If a country wants to be strong and its people want to be happy, in the final analysis, it must learn from Britain!"
"A monarch must be able to lead his people to rob and rob the world's resources for my own use. Only then can the country become richer and stronger!"
"It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Without resources, any bullshit political system is just a castle in the air! A starving citizen of the Republic is actually worse off than a well-fed slave!"
"It is precisely because your father figured this out that he took up his uncle's banner and began to call on the people to think about why Napoleon I could bring infinite glory to France!"
"When the starving people began to miss the cattle and sheep of North America, the wheat of Odyssey, the cotton of India, and the black tea of China, they also began to miss the glory of the First Empire!"
"Taking this opportunity, your father began to unite with the persecuted nobles and the capitalists who were crazy about overseas colonies. Together they gathered strength to successfully restore the empire!"
"My child, you must remember that our family's rise to power is inseparable from the support of the nobles and capitalists!"
"Then since they have contributed to the founding of the country, they will naturally get a share of the cake of power in the end. Isn't this a matter of course?"
"Silly boy, I donated all my family wealth and sacrificed the lives of all my young talents to finally build the Second Empire. I have made great contributions, so I should naturally be rewarded!"
"What reward do you want? Is it our Bonaparte family that rewards them? God, my child, please wake up. Have you ever farmed in your life? Have you raised cattle and sheep? What kind of wealth have you created with your own hands? "
"You have nothing! You have nothing, so what can you give them?"
"It is actually this country that creates wealth. All we can reward are various rights within this country. It is the people of France who create wealth. If we don't go to them to share the wealth, why should we go to you?"
The prince listened to his mother recounting the scenes that happened that year, and the bloody scenes of his father's restoration slowly unfolded in front of him. This is a truth that no teacher can teach. Blood was flowing to me from almost every pore.
"But you can't! If corruption continues like this, the country will be hollowed out!" the prince said desperately.
"Child! What else can we do otherwise? Corruption is actually a hidden bonus!"
"Your father can't pay dividends to these people openly. After all, there are countless republicans and anarchists in France who are eyeing them!"
"If the bonus is revealed, those people will definitely attack in groups!"
"If you can't do it openly, you can only do it secretly! Because..."
"My child... because you don't pay this kind of dividend, we will lose the support of all the nobles and capitalists! How can we still govern the country if we lose the support of such a huge group?"
"Wake up! My son, stop having fantasy dreams!"
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