I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 462 Social Death Plan
More than 10,000 Viennese people came to attend the emperor's funeral, and they crowded several nearby streets.

Joseph, wearing a long black coat, sat in a wheelchair, following closely behind Leopold II, thinking about how to withdraw the French troops from Silesia in batches.

Well, although his legs and feet are intact, the public statement is that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had his leg grazed by a bullet on the battlefield, and an infection occurred on the way to Vienna, which has now begun to affect his movements.

At this point, the fighting in Silesia had stopped, and Lacy dragged the cannons used in the previous confrontation at Liegnitz to Breslau and built a new line of defense.

And the day before yesterday, Leopold II officially announced the suspension of Joseph II's reforms, causing an uproar throughout Austria.

Joseph remembered that Leopold II canceled the reforms a few months later. It seemed that the war in Silesia was too costly for the empire, so he had to act in advance to win more support from the nobles, especially the Hungarian nobles.

However, this was also good news for him. Once Hungarian troops entered Silesia in large numbers, the French withdrawal would be even less noticeable.

Behind him, another man in a wheelchair was staring at him with resentment. It was Baron Walter.

Walter's injury has improved a lot, but he still feels pain all over when he walks.

At this time, he no longer had any fear of the French prince - the French army used to be the Emperor's hope to retake Silesia. Just like last time, as long as the Frenchman showed the slightest dissatisfaction, his brother-in-law would teach him a lesson.

He even worried that the French prince would send someone to assassinate him again.

However, the situation is completely different now!

The reform was over, and the nobles were jubilant, expressing their loyalty to the new emperor. The Hungarian nobles even assembled an army of nearly 4 people, which was about to march to Silesia.

In Austria, Bohemia, Croatia, and even the Southern Netherlands, a large number of nobles who originally refused to participate in the war due to the reforms will join the army. It is said that the number may reach more than 3.

This meant that Austria would no longer need French troops.

Baron Walter, sitting in a wheelchair, looked down at his mutilated hand and swore secretly in his heart: Sooner or later, that arrogant and despicable Frenchman will pay the price!
In fact, he had secretly contacted Austria's anti-French ministers to make the French army withdraw from Austria. Although he had no political ability, his identity itself was a political symbol, so his efforts had begun to have an impact.

Austria, an empire that was formed without bloodshed, is located in central Europe and borders many major powers. As a result, there are various factions within the country - pro-French, pro-British, pro-Russian, and even pro-Putin. Of course, there are also people who oppose the above countries.

If Joseph knew what Baron Walter did, he would really be able to give him a medal.

Walter thought that France was trying to form an alliance with Austria and form a coalition with Austria. In fact, Joseph was eager to get away from Silesia, this troubled place.

Just like that, after the funeral of Joseph II, the Holy Roman Emperor whose ambitions were unfulfilled, Joseph returned to Paris on the pretext of serious injuries, and took the First Guards Corps as his escort along the way.

Camelia did not find free time to visit her teacher before leaving Vienna - the crown prince was injured and she had to be by his side to take care of him at all times.

As everyone was paying attention to the emperor's funeral, the news of Baron Walter's assassination did not spread at all. The girl left a letter to her teacher and returned to Paris with the prince.

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Paris. Although Joseph had repeatedly asked public opinion to downplay France's military victory in Silesia, when he arrived in Paris, nearly a thousand people still gathered on both sides of the road to welcome the triumphant army.

Joseph had already thrown away his wheelchair - who said that the prince could not recover in a week because of his strong body - he gave a brief speech to the welcoming crowd, then left the important task of "military and civilian family" to Berthier and returned directly to the Palace of Versailles.

After reporting his safety to Queen Marie and Louis XVI and having dinner together, Joseph finally had some free time.

Is it easy to be a crown prince? It’s almost always 997, and you have to travel a lot.

He was about to go back to his bedroom to have a good sleep. During the past few months in Silesia, he had slept on a camp bed for most of the time, and his back and waist ached after waking up. Today, he could finally enjoy his own velvet bed.

However, when he came to the corner of the corridor, he saw Fouché, Mirabeau, Bailly and others standing at the door, looking forward to it.

Joseph sighed deeply and walked over with heavy steps.

Several important ministers hurriedly saluted him respectfully, and after praising his victory in Silesia, they looked at each other, and Fouché was the first to follow him into the reception room.

"Your Highness, regarding the matter you instructed me to do before regarding Oscar Paulie," the intelligence chief placed a document in front of the crown prince, "we have basically found out all his circumstances and have deployed personnel around him. We can now take action at any time."

Joseph was immediately cheered up when he heard this. This Corsican Restorationist leader was his biggest worry. He had caused considerable damage to Corsica and seriously led the Emperor astray. But Paulie had been hiding in England before, and now he could finally take action.

He looked at Fouché and asked, "What are your plans?"

"As you instructed before, we decided to use a mistress to achieve our goal."

Because the British government did not allow Paulie to be assassinated, and Joseph could not kill him either - if he died now, Paulie would become a "martyr", which might stimulate the Corsican Restorationists to carry out separatist activities more firmly, so he had to be "socially killed"!
Joseph frowned slightly, then asked, "Please tell me more about it."

"Yes, Your Highness," Fouché said, "Paulie has a wife, and we plan to have a Bulgarian woman of humble origins seduce him, and of course, he will think it is a French woman.

"After the woman succeeded, I managed to get his wife to catch the adulterer and expose the true identity of the mistress..."

Joseph sighed. This couldn't be blamed on the intelligence agency's old-fashioned thinking. After all, they were all from the 18th century and had never seen the twists and turns of later generations, so it was not easy for them to come up with such an old-fashioned method.

Seeing that the Dauphin seemed dissatisfied, Fouché added: "Your Highness, then I will find another Caucasian woman, and we can seduce him together?"

Joseph held his forehead helplessly, thought for a while, and randomly picked a "simple" case from later generations to instruct the intelligence chief: "If you want to use a woman to deal with him, you can design a noble lady to appear beside him, secretly seduce him, but on the surface be indifferent to him. Then find an opportunity to make something happen between them, but keep it secret.

“After he lets down his guard, arrange for some people to pass by the room where they are being intimate. It would be best if there are police officers inside.

"Then the lady took out the torn clothes she had prepared, left some scars on herself, and shouted 'rape!' Then she informed his wife."

(End of this chapter)