Make France Great Again Chapter 345

Compared with the senior legionnaires who were applauded, those middle and low-ranking officers did not hesitate to support the decision of the emperor and the chief of staff.

The establishment of the corps, division, brigade, and regiment-level staff will inevitably be accompanied by a large-scale transfer and expansion of military posts, which is a once-in-lifetime opportunity for promotion.

Not to mention that each staff department is a vertical structure, and they have every opportunity to be selected to go to the General Staff for further study, and then be assigned to the local garrison to serve as key positions.

This caused the division between the superior and the lower-middle-level officers, and the upper-level generals without the support of the middle- and lower-rank officers could only be forced to agree with Jerome Bonaparte's opinion.

Of course, it is not the senior military officers who are most opposed to the establishment of the vertical staff, but the so-called staff.

Why they are called "so-called" staff officers, that's because these officers who passed the exam and entered the staff academy never actually fulfilled their duties as staff officers one day.

The Paris Staff College, like high-level military schools such as Saint-Cyr and the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, requires rigorous examination competition to enter.

Every officer who enters the Staff College can probably be regarded as an excellent quiz maker. However, these excellent quiz writers immediately became reluctant to make progress after entering the Paris Staff College. They fight and drink all day long. There is nothing else.

The information on military maps and troop formations is not to be seen at all, and the entire staff academy is like a backwater.

When someone asks why they don't study hard, the staff of the Staff Academy will only answer: "Study! Study! Only those stinky beggars in the military study. Our staff academy students came in to get out. Enjoy! Only fools go to study!"

That's right, officers who graduated from the Staff College have been linked to tenure from the moment they walked out of the school, and all they need to do is to endure. In the staff academy where seniority is important, as long as you can survive a certain number of years, then you can be promoted.

The vast majority of every member of the staff college will be assigned to Paris to occupy important positions after graduation, and most of the substantive positions are also handed over to the civilian bureaucracy. Officers with a little less luck can also seek to spend their time locally and overseas.

Many enterprising legionnaires jokingly refer to these groups as "recovery sicknesses," who are rotated every two or three years.

When Marshal Reño was the Minister of War, a large number of members were removed and replaced, and many members were sent to local terms. The vacant positions were inherited by some members of the expeditionary force and a large number of hard-working civilian bureaucrats.

When St. Arnault was the Minister of War, this kind of purge was even more serious, and many candidates for foreign mills were forced to retire by St. Arnault.

The Ministry of War has barely survived since then. Some staff from the Staff College secretly complained that St. Arnault was inhumane, but they still did not dare to take any action.

Until the establishment of the General Staff Department and the Army Staff Department, this group of officers of the General Staff College who usually eat and wait to die has exploded.

St. Arnault Chief of Staff and Emperor Jerome Bonaparte, where are the reforms! This is simply rooting for their staff academy!

How can those mid- and low-level officers be able to do such delicate work? In terms of surveying and mapping, officers from their staff academies are experts!

The staff and academies, who had lost their foundation, obviously couldn't bear to have their private land taken away by the chief of staff and the emperor. They joined together and formed a joint petition under the leadership of several highly respected "old generals", hoping to stop the establishment of the fourth level. Staff recommendation.

The petition is filled with the names of the members of the Staff Academy, and it will be brought into the Tuileries by several old generals who have fought under the emperor and handed over to Jerome Bonaparte.

According to these people's assumptions, the emperor will definitely consider the situation properly after seeing these petitions, and will give them relatively generous conditions no matter how bad it is.

For these quizzers, why should they work hard for things that can lie flat!

Time wears out their wits, but also their guts.

Several old generals came to the Tuileries Palace with petitions, and in Mocar (Wallewski was still running around for Jerome Bonaparte's marriage, De Morne focused on docking with cabinet ministers) . Virnia is still in a state of crazy involution.) Under the leadership of these respected old generals, they were kept in a guest room.

A portrait of Napoleon is placed directly opposite the guest room, and next to the portrait is a portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte.

The two wore the same Lev dress, with flowing blonde hair heading towards the wind, the only difference was the background behind the two.

After sitting in the guest room and waiting for a long time, they finally waited for Jerome Bonaparte.

At this time, Jerome Bonaparte was wearing a (Napoleon) emperor's casual clothes, with a smile on his face as if it would not change in ten thousand years. old general.

These old generals who once served under Napoleon hurriedly stood up and saluted Jerome Bonaparte.

Jerome Bonaparte also solemnly returned the salute to these generals who had fought passionately in the First Empire, still lovingly saying, "I'll keep you waiting!"

After the basic etiquette was over, Jerome Bonaparte and the old general took their seats in turn.

These old generals who are proficient in the world did not show off to Jerome Bonaparte for the first time. Instead, they kept expounding the story of Emperor Napoleon leading them to the north and south, and showed themselves to Jerome Bonaparte. credit?

"The First World War in Russia was really tragic... At the beginning, we had just graduated, and all the members of a class went to Russia with His Majesty the Emperor. In the end, there were only a few left, me and another classmate came back smoothly, and all the others went to Russia. Buried in the ice and snow of Russia."

"Yeah! During the battle of Leipzig, the regiment I was in took the lead... In the end, there were less than one company left in the whole regiment, and even myself was bitten by the hair!"

Several old generals repeatedly described to Jerome Bonaparte how tragic the war was at the beginning... How did they climb out of the dead pile...

Jerome Bonaparte listened quietly to the memories of the old generals, nodding in affirmation from time to time.

Seeing that Jerome Bonaparte affirmed their contribution to the empire, the old generals became more courageous. They switched from personal achievements to praise the emperor at the time, and praised Jerome Bonaparte for being the same as Napoleon at the time. The emperor can also lead the whole of France to revival.

Then, from the praise of the emperor himself, it was extended to praise the army system established by the emperor. In their mouths, Jerome Bonaparte heard the taste of "two whatevers".

Compared with that one, each of these old fellows in front of them harbors evil intentions, trying to wrap their own interests on their loyalty to Emperor Napoleon.

Taking advantage of the identity of Emperor Jerome Bonaparte's nephew to conduct moral kidnapping, Jerome Bonaparte had to submit.

In a popular saying, the old general seems to hold high the banner of "the law of the ancestors is immutable" and let Jerome Bonaparte stop reforming to maintain the power of their vested interests.

"Your Majesty! The staff system can't be moved!" The old acting general said to Jerome Bonaparte in tears: "The system that the emperor painstakingly established was to keep France strong! If anything goes wrong, France The military system is at risk of collapse! I know that you were bewitched by Saint Arnault for the future of the French army, and we hope you can stop this reform."

"That's right! Your Majesty, you can't change it!" Another general also helped: "A rash change is likely to cause a rebound in the army, which is not a good thing for the entire empire!"

Seeing these sanctimonious, old generals who sip an emperor, a sneer appeared on the corner of Jerome Bonaparte's mouth.

Whenever, wherever! There will always be a bunch of guys with Bonaparte flags against Bonaparte.

What Jerome Bonaparte didn't understand, these guys in front of him verbally described the emperor's goodness, but in fact they were just defending their core interests.

"Generals, I know all about your loyalty to the Empire!" Jerome Bonaparte, who didn't want to tear his face, smiled and said to the old general, "If there is nothing else, I will go to work first!"

"You can't go!" An old general stood up and grabbed Jerome Bonaparte's cuff and said~www.mtlnovel.com~Jerome Bonaparte stopped and looked at the sanctimonious guy in front of him , he still said politely: "General, do you have anything else to do?"

"Your Majesty, we implore you not to reform any further! Can you keep everything as it is? For the sake of our fight for the Empire!" The general pleaded with Jerome Bonaparte's cuffs.

Jerome Bonaparte put away his smile, and responded coldly with a gloomy face: "General, your merits should not be the capital of your threats! I don't want to hear it again!"

"Your Majesty! This is the petition of the army! There are nearly 200 officers in total." Upon seeing this, another general hurriedly handed the prepared petition to Jerome Bonaparte.

Jerome Bonaparte took the petition and looked at the dense French on the petition, then raised his head and said dismissively, "Are you threatening me?"

"Your Majesty, please stop reforming!" Several old generals said in unison.

"I can tell you clearly that if you want to use this method to force me to give in, it is absolutely impossible!"

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