Make France Great Again

May 13, 1849.

In the days when Lixia has passed and Xiaoman is approaching, the election of the Paris Legislative Assembly is drawing to a close.

On the night when the election results were announced, there was a heavy rain in the Paris city.

Despite the constant rain, the Palace of Bourbon was still brightly lit.

All the candles on the crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling have been lit, and the entire National Assembly Hall is enveloped in candlelight.

Not only on the crystal chandelier, but also on the rostrum, two candles were also lit. Under the candlelight, Speaker Mastra sat on the rostrum with a straight face and waited for the parliament to start.

The time gradually came to 8 o'clock in the evening, the rain gradually decreased, and the sound of insects pierced through the alleys in the city of Paris. Amidst the continuous sound of insects, the first session of the Legislative Assembly officially began.

Speaker Mastra tapped the gavel in his hand and shouted loudly: "Quiet!"

The originally noisy parliament fell silent in an instant, and people turned their attention to the "tumbler" Mastra on the rostrum.

"Ahem" Facing the silent parliament and the lawmakers who were staring at him, Mastra cleared his throat and said: "Members, after two months of preparation and election, we waved goodbye to the Constituent Assembly, The Legislative Assembly has finally been established. The French Republic has moved from a constitution to legislation. This is a victory for democracy!"

As soon as Marast's words fell, there was thunderous applause from the audience, among which the Party of Order and now the "League of Liberty" applauded the hardest.

The republicans and Montagnards, who had gone through military exercises and coup threats in January, completely lost their ability to compete with the party of order. Many moderate republican MPs joined the party of order, which made the party of order directly The Party of Order, which had won 450 seats in one fell swoop, and occupied the vast majority of seats, successfully changed its name to the "Freedom Alliance". How could they not thank the Legislative Assembly.

The Montagne, which played the role of loser in the January military parade, even won 240 seats, and logically became the "second largest party" in parliament.

There are 3 major parties in the parliament.

As for the Republicans, it was even more miserable, only winning 60 seats.

Under the strong targeting of the Party of Order, the republicans who had been close to the Party of Order in seats were completely expelled.

The Montagne took its place as the second target of the party of Order's expulsion.

The giants of the Party of Order, including Thiers, obviously don't want to see the existence of the guy who retains the imprint of Robespierre, especially the Catholic rightists like Montalembert, who hate this guy even more. Already gearing up and preparing to attack the Mountain Party.

The Montagne knows nothing about all this, and they have somehow become the second largest party in the parliament. Now they can only choose to take a step forward.

After Mastra's long official speech, the next step is the speech and report of the government representative Odilon Barro.

Odilon Barro, holding the speech, walked up to the rostrum, put the speech on the rostrum, straightened his body, and said in a standard Paris accent: "On behalf of the government, I would like to extend my congratulations to the establishment of the Legislative Assembly! "

"Okay!" the Party of Order yelled loudly.

Odi Lombarro smiled confidently and continued: "In the past six months, our government has tried to cut expenses as much as possible while everything remains the same."

Odilon Barro shamelessly declared that under his wise leadership, the French government not only did not exceed its expenditures in the first half of the year, but also had some surpluses.

However, he forgot that his two policies of restoring salt tax and wine tax brought nearly 100 million francs in fiscal revenue to France, but the balance of fiscal expenditure was less than 20 million francs, in other words, the first half of 1849 Annual spending has surpassed that of the first half of 1848.

"I believe that the French economy will get better and better in the future!" Odi Lombaro, who finished his report, bowed like a victorious general and the MPs present,

and await their inquiries.

"Mr. Prime Minister, I would like to ask!" Le Drew Rolland stood up and questioned Odilon Barrow, he wanted to expose Barrow's lies: "You keep saying that the government has not exceeded the budget, but as far as I know, the government has greatly exceeded the previous budget. One year's government budget, you know we haven't restored the salt tax and wine tax just a second ago!"

"At that time, we didn't abolish the personal progressive tax either!" Odilon Barro sneered. After the June Revolution, the Montagne and the Republicans joined forces to abolish the personal progressive tax.

"Now is not the time to talk about this!" Ludru Roland said angrily, and then calmed down: "I would like to ask Mr. Prime Minister how to explain the public bonds issued by the Ministry of Public Works to the society recently. The issued amount of this batch of bonds is already nearly 20 million yuan, is this ratio all for government expenditures!"

The actual amount of the first batch of public debt is 200 million francs.

"This is a special bond issued by the Ministry of Public Works for the construction of the railway! Everything is the Ministry of Public Works' own profit and loss, of course not included in it!" Odilon Barro immediately responded, and said with confidence: "We have formulated The perfect railway investment and management regulations have been enacted to ensure that the previous situation will not happen! Mr. Ludelu, we are stimulating the weak economy of France, stimulating employment and consumption in France, and the public works department is responsible for its own profits and losses. The parliament will not There is no right to interfere with the operation of the department!"

Odilon Barrow's explanation left Le Drew Rolland speechless. Unemployment has always been a major problem in the Republic.

"As far as I know, the construction of the Paris-Marseille railway has already begun. I believe that we will be able to reach Marseille all the way in a short time!" Odi Lombarro said secretly: "These railways do not need to cost a penny of the country!"

The Party of Order, who knew the inside story, applauded immediately, which made the Montagne and the Republicans who wanted to find fault a little reconciled.

Odilon Barro, who had achieved his goal, stepped down amidst applause. Maestra came to the stage again and announced the seats of their respective parties to all the members present. After the first Legislative Assembly ended, everyone left the assembly.

Odilon Barrow, Thiers, Mollet, the Legitimists of the Duke of Broy, the Counts of Montalembert and the Counts of Falloux met in the Rue Poitiers after the parliament.

"Mr. Prime Minister, your speech is really good! That guy Roland is going crazy!" Sitting on the sofa, Montalembert praised Odi Lombaro in a gloating tone.

"Overrated!" Odi Lombaro responded modestly.

The Duke of Broy suddenly interjected: "By the way, you found out that the loyal lackey without the Italian kid seems to have not come today!"

Refers to Chief Secretary Pessini

"Pessini may be helping his master build his "little toy"!" said Thiers in a slightly ironic tone.

"Little toys?" The Duke of Broy's eyes were full of doubts. He had just entered Paris from the countryside, and he didn't understand what Thiers meant.

"It's the Military Secretariat! Our Mr. President seems to be stuck in the era of the Great Revolution. Now it is no longer the era when whoever controls the army controls Paris!"

Thiers, who has experienced two dynasties, obviously no longer believes in the idea that the army can dominate Paris. In his view, the army is just a dispensable armed force.

Don't you see how Charles X and Louis-Philippe, who were in control of the army, fell from the throne. Only by firmly grasping the National Assembly can we grasp the future.

Thiers was convinced of this.