Bazin's face turned pale at first and then immediately turned unhealthy and flushed. His hands were shaking as if they were shaking, and he suddenly stood up.
"This is a shame! This is a despicable conspiracy! You are challenging the dignity of all the French people!"
"Go back to Asia with your conspiracy, I won't accept your humiliation!"
"It is impossible for the great King of France to issue such an order, absolutely impossible..."
The marshal and the three accompanying generals around him all stood up and turned away angrily, but Xiao Letian was not angry at all and sneered, "The nobles who have been favored by Napoleon III for many years are nothing more than a group of betrayers in the end!"
"Bazin, you are the son of an engineer and you are on the path of a mercenary... Without His Majesty the Emperor, who are you? Do you still want to be a baron?"
"Hahaha... Loyalty is bullshit... The empire has collapsed, and your loyalty has become bullshit. I'm afraid you wish the emperor would die early!"
"Shut up!" Bazan and others were furious and turned to scold Xiao Letian, "What do you, a conspiracy and careerist, know? You will never understand what His Majesty means to us!"
"The Bonaparte family is our belief and our life! Without the emperor, we are just dust on the ground at this moment! Our loyalty does not need you to prove it!"
"Okay!" Xiao Letian stood up. "Now the Emperor's order has been issued, but you refuse to carry it out... You say this is a scam? Then open your eyes and take a good look. Is this photo right? Fake, is this autographed letter fake?”
Xiang Ying opened the folder and threw a stack of photos on the table. The black and white images recorded the scene of Xiao Letian and the French Emperor resting together at the William Palace!
A sumptuous dinner, a walk in the garden, a group photo under the Statue of Hercules... and even a negotiation meeting in the study!
This is not an isolated photo. There are fifteen clearly taken photos. In this era, photo fraud technology has not yet been born!
"You have already read the handwritten secret letter. I don't think I need to judge whether it is authentic or not. If you Bazan can't even recognize the emperor's handwriting, I'm afraid you, the marshal, won't be able to be a marshal!"
"You clearly know that everything I say is true, but you deliberately think it is false... In the end, the only plan in your heart is betrayal!"
"The empire has collapsed! You have to find another master. Now you are begging for mercy and waiting for the Republic to throw you some meaty bones? Go and gnaw on them!"
Humiliated, humiliated by Chi Guoguo, the furious Bazan yelled, "Shameless! Bastard!"
The sound was so loud that the soldiers in the guard camp outside subconsciously wanted to rush in. How could the Chinese soldiers let them intrude? There was a clatter of rifle bolts, and bayonets on both sides were at war with each other.
Just when both sides were deadlocked and couldn't get off the stage, Wang Huaiyuan began to cough, "Cough cough cough... cough cough cough... it smells so strong!"
"I've said it a long time ago, we Chinese people shouldn't care about such irrelevant matters... Look, people are taking our good intentions and treating them like donkeys' liver and lungs!"
"Why bother? Let them continue to besiege the isolated city and let them watch 170,000 brothers starve to death... We Chinese are not losing our lives, so why should we be scolded?"
"They don't care about their titles. They are all supporters of the Great Revolution and defenders of the Republic! Throw away the titles of earl, baron, and viscount and integrate into the republic and become ordinary people!"
"Privileges of the nobility? How immoral... You have to pay a title salary every year? I don't care about that little money..."
"What? People want to salute the lord? No...we are all equal, I will bow to you first...hahaha...cough cough cough..."
Wang Huaiyuan made a strange sarcasm, and Bazin and the other three generals suddenly turned dark!
Xiang Ying was even more clever. Not only did he translate in a timely manner, but he also added insults at the end: "You are really out of date... That's called nationalism... Everyone is equal... I am unwilling to become a noble with the emperor..."
"Now it's better, it's a republic again, how happy it is!"
Xiao Letian snorted coldly, "Humph... I'm so happy! I don't know, have you washed away the blood from the suppression on your hands all those years ago?"
"Do you really think that the Republic will not be liquidated? Blood debts must be paid with blood! Montauban even fled to Belgium to live in seclusion. The Queen did not dare to stay in Paris for a day, so she escaped to England..."
"You are the only ones who still dream of *the country! You are patriotic, who loves you..."
The words were like a lightning strike, and Bazin and others turned pale. The four of them took several deep breaths. Finally, at Bazin's signal, Commander Radmiro walked out of the barn with a dark face. "What do you want to do? Take a step back and put the Put down the gun...as long as there are no shots fired inside, you don't have to worry about our life or death!"
The tense atmosphere outside the barn eased a lot, but the atmosphere inside the barn became weird.
Wang Ju and Xiang Ying's cynicism, and finally Xiao Letian's finishing blow, directly hit the weak spot in these people's hearts, which was also what they were most worried about.
Are you kidding me? What does it feel like to be stripped naked all of a sudden when a nobleman holds it as a privilege?
What is nobility? That is a lifelong dream for many people!
What privileges do nobles have in Europe? Every country is different but at the end of the 19th century, the benefits of nobility were countless!
First of all, nobles can receive different amounts of salary according to their rank. This is a great benefit, and this benefit mainly comes from the emperor's private treasury, which means it has nothing to do with the French treasury.
In addition to the appropriation from the national finance, the emperor's main income was the colonial income and commercial trade income. The annual welfare and salary of a baron like Bazin added up to about 500,000 francs.
Then nobles still have fiefs. When kings and emperors confer nobility, they will give them a fief. Of course, this kind of land has permanent property rights.
In fact, in the 21st century, many beautiful castles in Europe and a large amount of surrounding land still belong to the descendants of nobles and are private property recognized by the state.
The annual tourism revenue from the castle alone is terrifying. Although the output of the surrounding farmland is not large, the value of the land is also terrifying.
If you have money and a fief, of course it comes with political privileges!
In many schools, one must have aristocratic status to attend, or those colleges and universities will only give very few places to children from ordinary families.
Especially in some higher military schools, children of nobles are given priority in admission, which ensures that the power of nobles in the army will not be diluted.
As nobles, their children and grandchildren don't have to worry about food and clothing. Their children don't have to worry about survival from birth. They can study art, music, science, military, philosophy, politics...such specialized talents from an early age. It will further monopolize the country's superstructure.
