I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 494: Avoid Repeating the Mistakes of the Emperor (Recommended, monthly vote requested!)

The dozen or so people in the room were immediately overjoyed. They didn't expect to have such an unexpected gain today.

2 pounds is equivalent to 50 francs. With such a generous grant, no matter how it is distributed, I can get a lot.

Everyone immediately surrounded Chalmers enthusiastically and started to flatter him:
"You are truly a messenger of freedom and fairness!"

"Your generosity brings hope to all Corsicans!"

"On behalf of the Corsican people, I express my deepest gratitude to you. May God bless you..."

Chalmers smiled and exchanged pleasantries with them, then suddenly turned serious and said:
"However, I have one requirement for the use of this money. That is, the recipient must sever all ties with that Paulie guy!"

Everyone nodded in understanding after hearing this. After all, Paulie had embezzled 2 pounds, and no one would be indifferent. Moreover, they had just confirmed that Paulie had betrayed the organization, and they were ready to bring him down.

Girolamo took the lead and said, "Mr. Chalmers, please rest assured that I will not stop until Paulie is driven out of the Restoration Organization!"

Chalmers nodded with satisfaction: "Great, Mr. Girolamo. I have decided to give you 1 pounds to help you run for Corsica parliament!"

The intelligence agent and the insider sang the same tune, which immediately aroused the passion of everyone present - 1500 pounds is 3 francs. With such a large amount of campaign funds, their election opponents have no hope of winning at all. In fact, even half of this money cannot be spent in a provincial election.

Bartolio immediately followed suit and said he wanted to distance himself from Paoli, then Eleo, Cesare...

Soon, more than a dozen senior members of the Restoration Organization received funding of 3 to 4 francs. They were all excited and satisfied, and they all flattered Chalmers again.

However, they all overlooked one problem - £2 was enough to fund more MPs, but Chalmers only distributed the money to 13 of them, so that their funds were a little too abundant.

In fact, this was the strategy Joseph used to disintegrate the Corsican Restoration Party - divide and disintegrate, and then deviate from the political goals.

With financial support, the 13 people in this room will soon become the "powerful group" in the organization and gradually become alienated from others.

Chalmers could use his influence on them to try to get them to become independent and form another organization.

The two restoration organizations will soon fall into fierce competition for political resources. Who will remember the original goal by then? They will just fight for power.

After all, these congressmen have only been playing electoral politics for 20 years at most. For Joseph, who has witnessed later Western elections, without Paulie as a spiritual leader, he can just use some shady tricks from party struggles to defeat them.

You know, the Corsican Restoration Organization has its own armed forces - the National Guard, and also raises a large number of assassins. Officials sent by the French government to Corsica are often assassinated. Various riots have never stopped. The most recent one happened at the end of last year. Nearly a thousand armed rebels fought with the army for more than a month before it was barely quelled.

If the army was used, as was done during the reign of Louis XV, it would not only be extremely costly but also ineffective - apart from forcing Paoli into exile, there were no significant results.

Historically, even Napoleon was defeated in Corsica.

It was not until Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor that he dispatched a large number of troops to massacre Corsica, which completely solved the problem of the Restorationists. But because of this move, the Corsicans hated him so much that after he was exiled, the Corsicans threw his statue into the sea and razed his old house.

Joseph did not want to deploy too many troops in Corsica. Even if he did not care about the huge military expenditure and the damage caused to Corsica, the military purge would make the Corsicans hate the royal family even more, which would not be worth the cost.

There was no way to expect the people who were alienated from the government to seriously engage in production and construction. So Joseph chose the strategy of internal disintegration.

If we first get rid of this cancer, namely Paulie's Restoration Organization, no one will organize and incite the Corsican people to rebel against the government.

By then, with appropriate policies to improve the livelihood of the people in Corsica, who would be idle and start a rebellion? Wouldn't it be nice to be a glorious Frenchman and let those Russians and Italians envy and hate him?
Without the support of the people, the Corsican National Guard would naturally not be able to survive. Even if a small number of stubborn elements were to be eliminated, it would be much easier than in history.

At present, after several months of operation by the Intelligence Agency, the Corsica strategy has begun to show results and only needs to be closed.

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London.

Poly's villa has been renovated and there is no trace of the fire at all.

Outside the gate of the villa, Mr. Paulie spent a few moments with Miss Isabella in the carriage, and waved goodbye to her reluctantly. As soon as he turned around, he heard someone shouting anxiously in Italian:

"Uncle, you are finally back. I have been waiting for you here for several hours."

Paoli looked in the direction of the voice and saw his nephew Cesari-Colonna Paoli, the second commander of the Corsican National Guard, standing at the door.

"Cesari, why are you here?" He immediately smiled happily and went forward to hug his nephew tightly.

Seshari patted him on the back hastily, then immediately distanced himself from him, and said solemnly:

"Uncle, the situation is not good."

"Oh? What happened?" Paulie sensed something was wrong and hurriedly pulled him into the house and went straight to the study on the second floor.

Cesaree locked the door and immediately said anxiously:
"At last week's regular meeting, Bartolio, Cesare and others accused you of embezzling huge amounts of funding and colluding with the French to sell out the Restoration Organization. They demanded that you be stripped of your leadership and expelled from the organization!"

Paulie's face changed when he heard this, but he smiled again immediately:

"No one will believe such baseless accusations."

"No, uncle, they produced evidence." Cesar told him about the property Paulie purchased in the United States and the leak of the time of the riot.

"They are slandering me!" Paulie shouted angrily, "The money has been burned, and I have never had any contact with the French!"

"I absolutely believe in you," Cesar said hurriedly, "but public opinion in the organization has already formed against you. Last week, 19 people voted in favor of expelling you, and another 12 agreed to suspend your leadership of the organization. Five people abstained."

"These damn bastards!" Paulie was so angry that veins were throbbing on his forehead. There were about 60 people in the Restoration Organization who had the right to vote on major events. Excluding those who were not in Corsica, there should be nearly 50 people attending the meeting. And 31 of them were against him.

There are only 2 votes left to pass the two-thirds threshold!

(End of this chapter)