Chapter 155 The Foresighted Talleyrand
The brig ship that Desay and his group arrived in Lisbon around late at night. After arriving at the dock, Prince Talleyrand and his mistress Miss Dorosay said goodbye to the young Regent. They will transfer to a Spanish merchant ship that had been waiting for a long time and leave Lisbon overnight. After sailing out of the mouth of the Tejo River, the Spanish ocean-going merchant ship transporting Talleyrand and others will travel north along the Atlantic Ocean along the Iberian Peninsula, land on a certain point on the west coast of France, and secretly return to Paris.
Before leaving, the generous and hospitable Regent ordered his followers to transport three large oak boxes to the merchant ship where Talleyrand was riding, filled with various gold, silver jewelry, jewelry, diamonds, precious oil paintings, etc. In addition, in order to ensure the safety of the two distinguished guests during their journey, Desai also sent his own team of personal guards to escort Talleyrand along the way, and Dorosai and the two arrived on the west coast of France.
As soon as he returned to his exclusive cabin, Dorosay couldn't wait to open the three treasure chests given by the Regent. Various dazzling array of gold, silver and jewelry emitted an extremely attractive light under the reflection of the candlelight, making the beautiful lady's eyes and hands overwhelmed.
Just as Talleyran was sitting on the comfortable sofa and focused on admiring a precious oil painting left over from the Renaissance era, Miss Dorosay quickly changed into a new outfit, slim figure swaying countless jewelry. A soft-toned oriental silk skirt, naked shoulders appeared in the gem-laced yarn, and she was covered with a pair of water-pink satin shoes with pearls. The blue eyes were filled with charming light, and the towering peaks left a deep cleavage under the candlelight, which appeared from time to time.
Dorosai walked to the sofa and smiled unrestrainedly at Talleyran, "Dear, do you think I'm beautiful?"
Talleyran hugged his beautiful mistress in his arms, kissed his red lips, and swam back and forth on his plump skin with his hands, and then praised: "Of course, the legendary Queen Helen of Troy is not as good as my baby!"
Dorosai twisted his body and gently broke free from the prince's arms. She sat on the sofa, leaning against Talleyran, and asked in a soft voice: "Then you have to remember our original agreement. At least one box of these three treasure chests should be divided into me."
Talleyran stroked his white and tender thighs around him unrestrainedly, and he said openly: "Apart from these masterpieces of the Renaissance masters (oil paintings), everything else belongs to you, my cutest beauty."
"You are such an amiable gentleman!" Dorosey couldn't help but praise her, and she took the initiative to put the prince's slightly dry hands on her plump and upright breasts. Then she said: "You should thank Andrew Desey for his generous actions, which are worth at least 2 million francs. So in my opinion, he deserves your respect than the stingy Emperor Napoleon!"
Since Talleyran fell out of favor with Napoleon, except for the prince's annuity of 300,000 francs per year, the emperor rarely gave various gifts to his former foreign ministers. Although Talleyran, who made money, had a wealth of tens of millions of francs, this year he received millions of francs of political donations from Austrian Prime Minister Prince Metternich alone, Miss Dorosay, who regarded himself as a housewife, was still indignant about this.
After hearing this, Talleyran laughed, "No, my lovely baby, these boxes of jewelry in front of you are less than one percent of the one that Desay had plundered in Lisbon. On the contrary, he would like to thank me in the future, because after returning to Paris, I would persuade Prince Metternich to move the future chips from Tsar Alexander Russia and put them on the side of Poland under Desay's rule."
Dorosay was surprised by his lover's statement, especially the last sentence, and then asked: "This is possible? The Grand Duchy of Warsaw currently has only 5 million people. Even if the Kingdom of Catalonia is included, it can only exceed 10 million. If it is against the huge Russian Empire of 34 million, how can there be any victory?" Obviously, everyone can understand the superficial mathematical logic of 1 plus 1 less than 7.
Talleyran smiled and said nothing about this because he knew very well that since Napoleon's proposal to the Tsar's sister early this year, the emperor, who was extremely angry because of his great loss of face, actively planned a final solution to Russia at the Duilary Palace: tore up the Treaty of Tirsit at any time, invaded Russia on a large scale, and forced Tsar Alexander I to surrender and seek peace.
The invasion plan was originally scheduled to be in the summer of 1811, but due to a large area of food shortage in France (it means that this food crisis was mainly due to poor traffic flow, coupled with discriminatory local protection policies in the north and south, and the empire's heirs were still in Princess Ollidi's belly, and the British Expeditionary Force's military resistance in the Iberian Peninsula were finally postponed to 1812. Tallyran predicted that the specific time would be between April and June.
Before 1809, Talleyran was just a little disappointed with Napoleon because the emperor refused to end the war for hegemony that unified Europe. Talleyran's actions in Tilsette (1807) in Paris (1808) were nothing more than the idea of Napoleon ending this endless conquest, and did not intend to secretly overthrow the French Empire so that the Bourbon dynasty would be restored in France.
But on January 1809, everything suddenly changed.
As soon as Napoleon returned to Paris from the Spanish battlefield, he recruited a group of princes and ministers into the palace. The emperor clenched his fists and threw himself at Talleyrand, sternly cursing at him: "You! Thieves! Bad guys! Those who are shameless!... You deceive everyone and betray everyone! For you, there is no sacred thing, you will even betray your biological father. I am as kind as a mountain to you, but you try your best to oppose me. It has been ten months since you spread rumors, as if my affairs in Spain are not going well... Listen! I will smash you like smashing glass... You - the smelly mud in stockings! The smelly mud!"
While listening to the emperor's crazy yelling at him, Talleyrand looked pale, but never said a word. Everyone present was shocked by Napoleon's roar. When he was trembling, the only person who was not excited and peaceful was like a plaster, calmly and politely enduring Napoleon's verbal abuse and insults for three hours. Talleyrand was not not afraid, but he could calm down and be proud, because he knew that insults and intimidation were definitely not a real battle!
Talleyran will never forgive the great humiliation that Napoleon gave him in public.
Earlier in 1810, Talleyrand secretly met with the Russian ambassador Prince Gulakin in Paris, and analyzed in detail Napoleon's conspiracy to lead a large army to invade Russia in the future. He also waited for an opportunity to blackmail the Russian ambassador, but he was unexpectedly coldly treated by Prince Gulakin. Obviously, the straightforward and simple-minded Russians did not believe in this seller's pursuit of honor and despicable and insidious French nobleman. He refused to pay a Russian ruble for this seemingly absurd and loopholeful "false intelligence".
This humiliation incident imposed by the Russian ambassador eventually prompted Talleyran to wait until Emperor Napoleon's first step and exiled to Elba Island, at the Vienna Peace Treaty in 1814, he actively promoted Britain, Austria and the French of the Bourbon dynasty to form a strategic alliance to fight against the military threats of Prussia and Russia. If Napoleon had not secretly returned to France from Elba Island in an untimely manner and regained the power of the French Empire, perhaps the history of Europe would have been rewritten.
To this day, Talleyran still has resentment towards the Russians, but he has another good bargaining chip in his hands, Poland under Desai. During his two conversations and meetings with Desai, the scheming Talleyran predicted that this ambitious young monarch would inevitably be blinded by the power. As a Pole, the contradiction between Desai and Alexander I was irreconcilable; and as the actual monarch of the two countries, Desai, whose power was inflated, would not willingly make Poland a vassal under the Napoleon Empire.
Therefore, joining the Austrians and the British to vigorously support Andrew Desai, allowing him and his Poland, the Russian Tsar, and Emperor Napoleon to fight openly and secretly, has become Talleyran's future political and diplomatic strategy. Although just yesterday afternoon, Talleyran always avoided discussing the Russian issue with Desai, which was because he believed that the Regent of Catalonia had not yet returned to Poland and had gained a foothold in the turbulent Grand Duchy of Warsaw.
Only after the above conditions are ripe will Talleyrand cooperate with Desai in all aspects.
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Just as Talleyrand's merchant ship slowly sailed away from the Lisbon Pier, Desai had entered the heavily guarded port building under the escort of a large number of guards, preparing to listen to the intelligence report from Lieutenant Silva on the Lieutenant's riot about the Lisbon.
"His Highness the Regent, in fact, this massive public chaos is within our expectations, but beyond our expectations. The cause of the incident was purely caused by an accident." Lieutenant Silva said in the beginning.
As expected, it was the Military Intelligence Bureau led by Lieutenant Jacques, and the military police Lieutenant Silva and others, who did plan to organize Mario to incite black slaves in Lisbon to resist the brutal rule of the whites, and create chaos in the city, so that the two intelligence departments mentioned above could fish in troubled waters and secretly seize the huge wealth accumulated by the Portuguese nobles in the Lisbon official residence for hundreds of years.
As for the unexpected, it was the temporary cause of this large-scale chaos, which was not due to the profound conflict between the blacks and the whites, but was caused by the Spanish army in the opposite shore of Lisbon and Barrelu, commanded by the Marquis de Portugal, the Governor of Portugal, to be stationed on the opposite side of Lisbon. According to the gendarmerie, a Spanish soldier who was traveling in Lisbon refused to pay high catering fees, which eventually led to a serious conflict between Portuguese civilians and Spanish soldiers.
Chapter completed!