Struggle in Russia

Russell's idea was to sit on the Diaoyutai by himself and listen to Palmerston's conditions first. If the conditions are good, he will push him along and agree to let Palmerston go away quickly, and if the conditions are not good, he will flatly refuse.

But Russell did not expect that Palmerston's mentality was completely different at this moment. In the past, he was nostalgic for the position of foreign minister. He wanted to do things and promote his own ideas, so he would still work hard to maintain the unity of the cabinet. Give Russell some face.

But the current situation is that Palmerston knows that he must be the foreign minister at the end of the day. He has arranged everything and will let you decide if he has no desires or desires.

So Russell didn't say a word and he didn't say a word. If you want to use a few chicken feathers to send me away, it's not such a good thing!

When Palmerston didn't speak, Russell was dumbfounded. If someone said he was going to resign, then he, the prime minister, would have to make a statement no matter whether it was a hypocritical retainer or a direct approval.

But the problem is, now he seems to say that nothing is appropriate, okay? If he agreed directly, it would appear that the prime minister is mean and ungrateful, and it would be hard to hear the news. And he didn't say anything, Palmerston could have resigned and thrown himself directly into the arms of the opposition, splitting the cabinet directly.

This is not what Russell wants to see. Russell hopes that even if Palmerston resigns, he will neither speak ill of him as the prime minister nor join the enemy, and just accept the idle work he gives him and wait for his death with peace of mind.

But this guy doesn't even ask for anything, what does this mean?

Another way, how about Russell hypocritically retaining him? What if Palmerston is a dude with a fake face, and you won't leave if you keep me, and continue to be the foreign secretary?

At that time, Russell was really in pain!

After thinking about it, Russell could only grit his teeth and ask: "My friend, I am extremely reluctant to resign, but as you said, there are too many rumors and gossips. If you continue to stay The position of Minister of Foreign Affairs is not very beneficial to the party or the cabinet...Well, what do you want to do after you resign as Minister of Foreign Affairs?"

This is Russell's painful asking price. For Palmerston, Russell has a lot of room to ask him, so he also asks the price: "How about I become Chancellor of the Exchequer?"

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the position second only to the Foreign Minister in the cabinet, and it is also a first-class fat vacancy. Generally, this position can only be filled by the most trusted cronies of the Prime Minister. Let's put it this way, it is impossible for Russell to let Palmerston become Chancellor of the Exchequer anyway. How could he let Palmerston manage his own pocketbook and hand over the economic lifeline to the other party.

So Russell immediately said: "No,

You are not familiar with financial work, and it is not suitable to change people suddenly! "

Palmerston immediately interjected: "How about I go to the Home Office?"

The Ministry of the Interior is also one of the most powerful departments and one of the three giants in the cabinet. Russell is definitely not willing to give such a key position to Palmerston, so he still refuses:

"It's good that you are willing to go to the Ministry of the Interior, but you are overqualified to go to this department. I think you can still play a role in more critical departments. What do you think?"

At this time, Palmerston also knew that the fire was almost ready. He had already made two consecutive requests, and Russell refused, but one thing, two things, and three things were not. Russell couldn't refuse the next request no matter what. If this fellow continued to refuse, then he could really choose to turn his face.

"Well, I don't care about the minister?"

Regardless of the minister, it is likely that there are not many friends who know this position. No matter the minister or no matter the minister, doesn't it sound cute? Regardless of whether the minister is a minister who has nothing to do with it?

Could it be that this is the department that is said to be empty-paid!

Well, you can say it that way, but it doesn't matter if it's not true or not. It seems that he doesn't care about anything and has no specific position, but he is indeed an official in the cabinet. Simply put, no matter whether the minister is not in charge of a certain matter, he can still participate in cabinet meetings and decision-making.

You want to say that it doesn't matter whether the minister is not important, and it is really not important, because it is not in charge of specific affairs. But you want to say that he is really unimportant? This product can take part in everything, it's weird, isn't it?

For Palmerston, other positions in the cabinet are actually not very attractive to him. Whether it is managing money, internal affairs or managing business, he is not very interested, and he is not professional. He still likes to do diplomacy.

But if it is really allocated to other powerful departments as ministers, he will definitely not be able to control the foreign affairs, so it is a choke. But no matter what kind of weird position the minister is, it is just right for him. It seems that he doesn't care about anything, but he can participate in decision-making. Even if he wants to participate in foreign affairs, it is reasonable.

Russell definitely didn't want to give Palmerston a job he liked. After all, Russell's purpose was to get Palmerston out, not to continue to let him participate in foreign affairs. But, as I said just now, he has rejected Palmerston's two requests in a row, and it is really inappropriate to refuse once.

And after all, Palmerston is the foreign minister and the first minister in the cabinet. You can't let him take care of the health, transportation or sports departments when such an important minister resigns. Regardless of whether the minister's speed is just right, it won't be too shabby, and it doesn't have too much power, it's just right to send Palmerston away.

Russell hesitated, because Palmerston's condition was just right, and it happened to be stuck on his psychological upper limit. He could accept it, but it wouldn't be particularly pleasant. It hurts!

It's just that, Russell quickly made a deal, and it's considered profitable to drive Palmerston off the throne of foreign minister. It's better to let him be a minister than to let him continue to misfortune foreign policy.

So Russell gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "Yes, I agree!"

It's just that Russell agreed a bit early, because Palmerston still had conditions, and soon he put forward the conditions given by Peel, which made Russell very angry, and almost regretted it on the spot.

It's just that when Russell looked at the triumphant Palmerston, he held back again. He felt that the reason why Palmerston raised such a condition was probably intentional, just to let him retreat and refuse, so that If the two sides fail to agree, Palmerston can continue to be his foreign secretary with confidence.

Thinking of this, Russell went all out again, because he was really fed up with Palmerston, as long as he could drive him out of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he agreed to all these conditions, Russell didn't believe it, and see you get out How long can you be arrogant!