Eagle’s Glory

After hearing the news, Letizia and Agron were both a little surprised.

After all, she sent someone to inform her son, just to prepare him, Aegron would choose to visit the door one day in the next day, which is also a proper etiquette as a nephew.

Unexpectedly, Prince Lucien-Bonaparte actually rushed over like this - this also shows that this uncle valued his nephew.

"Let him come over quickly!" Empress Dowager Letizia responded quickly, calling the attendant to call her third son to him, and then having someone add a set of cutlery to the table.

"It's always good to have more people around," she said with a smile.

Soon, the attendant brought in a middle-aged man, and Aigron was able to see his third uncle, Lucien Bonaparte, for the first time in his life.

He is not tall, with brown-black hair, but his temples are already gray, and the weather of the years can be seen. His facial features are soft, his manners are gentle, his eyes are restrained and somewhat unhappy melancholy, and he looks different from the Said to be like a prince, but a bit more unhappy poet style.

He walked quietly to the dining table, his eyes focused on Aegron, and Aegron politely stood up and bowed to his uncle.

"Nice to meet you, my uncle...I've been looking forward to this day for a long time," he said respectfully.

"I've been looking forward to it for a long time." Lucien Bonaparte nodded lightly, and then sighed with emotion, "I've waited for more than ten years! But all this is not in vain, you still go here after all. Way to go."

In his sigh, he could vaguely see a bit of the momentum when he accompanied Napoleon in the coup d'état.

Before Aegron could speak, he walked in front of Aegron again, raised his hand, tapped Aegron's chest lightly, and said again, "You are taller and stronger than I thought. ."

"In order to complete the unfinished business of our family, I must maintain a strong physique." Aegron replied.

"Very good answer!" Lucien applauded loudly, "When we were your age, we didn't think about it that much—at that time, we all thought it would be enough to keep our family's property in Corsica, Who can imagine what will happen next?"

Then he hugged his nephew tightly again, "You've done a great job, boy, I see all the hard work you've put in so far, and I ask myself, when I was your age, I didn't have this So, you are stronger than me, you are the hope of our family."

These words seemed to come from the heart, so Aigron didn't know how to answer for a while.

"The only thing I'm dissatisfied with is why didn't you contact me when you came to Rome before? Do you still have a grudge against the disputes of the previous generation?" Lucien Bonaparte continued, "Although I am not your servant, as an uncle, I am also happy to help my nephew in distress, but you have ignored me."

"I'm sorry, uncle." Aigron smiled embarrassedly, "It's not that I don't believe in your loyalty to the family - your performance in 1815 has proved that you do have such loyalty, but I have When I came to Rome, I didn't know what my fate was going to be next, so I didn't want to trouble you, after all... You managed to escape the storm and found a peaceful life under the protection of the church again, I don't want to destroy it."

Aegron had not contacted Lucian before. On the one hand, he was worried about his political attitude. On the other hand, he really felt that he should not bother this uncle this time. Anyway, he knew that Lucian didn't have much money in his hand, so he couldn't give it to him. How much sponsorship.

"If you're not afraid of causing trouble to your grandmother, why should you worry about causing trouble to me?" asked Lucien-Bonaparte rhetorically. "You guessed it right, I really don't have anything right now, and I can't stir up the situation anymore, but even so, I can give you a little help when I can, and this is what I should do."

After hearing these words, Aigron's heart warmed again.

"Thank you, uncle, I will never forget your help to me."

Lucien Bonaparte didn't just talk about it, he did use his connections in the church to speak for himself, and he was happy to act as an intermediary between himself and His Majesty the Pope, and he did help as much as he could. myself.

Of course, in his current position, there is only so much left to help.

"Okay, you two stop talking, let's continue with dinner—" Letizia said with a smile, "and you don't look so solemn, our family gatherings should be more cheerful."

Agron and Lucien smiled at each other, then sat down, and then they started chatting while eating.

At this time, Lucien finally turned his attention to Teresa.

"My niece is really splendid." He took a closer look at Teresa's appearance, and then said with a smile, "I dare say that such a beautiful princess must be the most beautiful in the courts of all countries! Aigron is really lucky ."

"You really have become an Italian, Your Royal Highness." Teresa replied with a smile. "It's too coaxing."

"No, I'm telling the truth. I saw quite a few queens and princesses back then. I think I'm qualified enough to make this judgment." Prince Lucien-Bonaparte suddenly thought of something and sighed again. Get up, "It's amazing to think about, you know, I grew up in Corsica, and I didn't have the opportunity to see the world at Versailles until I was a boy. I especially wanted to see the king and queen, of course at that time. I'm just the son and grandson of a small nobleman, how can I get the attention of the court?

It was only at those grandest celebrations that I was able to see poor King Louis XVI and his queen, and though only from afar, I was full of admiration and thought what a majestic pomp! I have dreamed that one day I can become a courtier, I can feel the pomp of the royal family up close, and appreciate the beauty of Her Majesty the Queen and other ladies, haha... Don't laugh at me, who didn't have similar fantasies in their youth Woolen cloth? ! My friends and classmates laughed at me and thought I was too fanciful, and I thought so too. "

When he said this, he changed his words again, "But who would have thought that a few years later, a princess of the Habsburg family became my sister-in-law, and after more than ten years, another Habsburg princess became my sister-in-law. The princess of the Boothsburg family became my niece. It's an amazing fate... I remember it like a dream now. If someone told this story to me when I was a teenager, I would definitely think he was a lunatic. ."

Hearing his uncle's emotion, Aigron realized that although he is now unknown, his uncle is a person who has left a name on the stage of history after all.

He had seen the grand pomp of kings and queens, the Constituent Assembly and the Revolution that followed, the Jacobin dictatorship and the Directorate, until at last he himself became one of several people at the pinnacle of French power.

"Our family is good at turning dreams into reality." Under the surging emotions, Aegron couldn't help but comment, "Grandma will definitely think that this is God's favor for us, but this is more because of our enthusiasm. Ambition, and a never-ending drive for action, and a mind commensurate with those ambitions... We believe in miracles because we are doing them."

"You're right." Lucien Bonaparte nodded, "but it's also important to be born in the right era. Hundreds of years ago, society was suffocating, and every class was unbreakable. It's just a playground for the kings and dukes of the most noble blood. Back then, no matter how talented they were, they could only crawl under them. It was this era that gave us the opportunity, and we just took it better than others - as for Those who didn't take their chances and didn't take their chances, I've seen them end with my own eyes."

Having said that, His Royal Highness raised his palm and slowly lowered it, vividly simulating the scene of the guillotine falling down.

"When the Robespierre brothers went to the guillotine, no one thought that the Bonaparte Brotherhood would rule France, but we did it. Although we finally failed after more than ten years, at least we once put our fate in the In our hands. To this day I have no regrets, compared to those who died in obscurity, at least we were extraordinary."

Then, he picked up the wine glass and said to his nephew, "Cheers to fate."

"Cheers to fate!" Aigron was also interested and drank with his uncle.

However, the uncle and nephew were interested in talking, but Teresa was a little uncomfortable listening to it.

Queen Marie-Antoinette of Louis XVI was born in the Habsburg family and was her great-aunt, who was eventually sent to the guillotine. Perhaps she was indeed to blame, but as a junior, she was unavoidable for this. The great-aunt had compassion.

Moreover, if one day Aigron's dream really comes true, then she herself will be another mother from the Habsburg family. She doesn't want herself, Aigron, and the descendants of the two people to endure such terrible things. destiny.

It hurts to even think about it.

So she decided to change the subject.

"So do you think that our success is big now?"

Perhaps because of drinking, Prince Lucien-Bonaparte's serious face softened a lot.

"Judging from normal logic, the chance is really not big. Please forgive me for my inattentiveness, but I think as an elder, I should tell you the truth." He answered honestly.

"It doesn't matter, you are telling the truth, I won't mind." Aegron shook his head.

Although he is in high spirits now and has already made a huge career, he still maintains a clear head, he can judge the situation - the resources he has in his hands are hardly worth mentioning compared with the whole of France. The army is full of only a few thousand people, and it lacks weapons. However, the French kingdom has a standing army of hundreds of thousands. If confronted, any division can defeat his pitiful strength.

Therefore, anyone who can face reality cannot say that the odds of winning are great.

"When I say there is little chance, I don't mean there is no chance." Lucien-Bonaparte changed his words, "Although France is strong, it doesn't like the Bourbon family. On the contrary, they hate the reaction caused by the restoration of the dynasty. There are people who want to overthrow it all the time - if there is another revolution to overthrow it, then you have a chance, because as soon as the Bourbon crown falls, many French people will remember that the Bonaparte family is suitable to lead They—the previous revolution put our previous generation on the stage, then the new revolution will put my next generation on the stage."

This judgment, in fact, coincides with Aegron's judgment. After all, it is a fool's dream to rely on frontal force to defeat France, and we must find a way to subvert the current restoration dynasty.

Fortunately, the original historical line gave Aigron great confidence-because at the end of July 1830, the July Revolution broke out in France and ousted the Bourbon dynasty, and King Charles X was forced to take family members with him. They fled to England, and the rule of the main branch of the Bourbon family came to an end.

Of course, it was not the Bonaparte family who ruled France next, but the Orleans family, the young royal family who took the opportunity to seize power, known as the July Dynasty. The revolution returned to France and finally restored the empire.

And this time, Aigron didn't want to wait another eighteen years, he wanted to get the crown as soon as possible.

However, he also knows that the historical line has changed, and the original history can only be used as a reference for him, and cannot be copied completely - it may be earlier, it may be delayed, but such a revolution to overthrow the Bourbon royal family should be inevitable.

And he'll be more than happy to push a hand.

"It's easy to incite riots and coups, but it's hard to ensure that the fruits of the coup fall into your own hands." Lucien Bonaparte smiled a little weirdly, "During the Brumaire Coup, your father faced the face of the Senate in the Senate. When the angry MPs were almost incoherent, they managed to save the scene and not let the situation get out of control."

Aigron also knew this truth.

You can't be picked up by the Orleans family. If you want to achieve this goal, you must have a plan and act in a step-by-step manner.

The Duke of Orleans and his family returned to France after 1815. They have been in France for more than ten years. They are eyeing the throne and are bound to win; and he is now abroad, and he can only remotely control domestic supporters in a short period of time. In comparison, it is true is a disadvantage.

Luckily he still has time - maybe not much.

"Do you have any good advice?" Having said this, Aegron sincerely asked his uncle.

After all, he has experience in coup seizing power.

"I have been away from France for more than ten years, and I have long been forgotten. I don't know many things." Lucien Bonaparte replied with a wry smile, "But one thing, my nephew, you must keep in mind. The core It's about the army, as long as you have the support of the army, everything will be fine for you."

Aigron was slightly disappointed.

Although my uncle was right, it was just correct nonsense—everyone knew it.

"One more sentence—" Lucien Bonaparte added, "find out what your opponents are, and my friends may be able to help you."