Make France Great Again Chapter 354

"On behalf of His Majesty the Pope, I wish the two newlyweds to help each other under the watchful eyes of the Lord and tide over the difficulties together! May the Lord bless you, the newlyweds..."

The Archbishop of Paris expressed the Pope and God's blessings to Jerome Bonaparte and Augusta with a devout face.

Jerome Bonaparte, who was indifferent to the so-called blessings of God and the Pope, listened to the archbishop's ramble with a blank face.

If it wasn't for the purpose of making his title more sacred, Jerome Bonaparte would not be willing to do these meaningless and extremely cumbersome things.

In order to hold this wedding smoothly, the Tuileries Palace spent about 5 million francs before and after.

The purchase of flowers and decorations from the Tuileries to Notre Dame alone has cost nearly half a million francs.

For Jérôme Bonaparte, who is "thrifty at home", this is the first time he has carried out such laborious activities of burning money.

There is no way, people always have to compromise like reality.

Besides, a wedding like this only happens once in a lifetime, so spending a little money is justified!

Jerome Bonaparte consoled himself thus.

After the long scene, the Archbishop of Paris placed the crown made of pure gold on the table and handed it over to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Your Majesty, please bring it for the queen!" said the archbishop to Jerome Bonaparte.

Jerome Bonaparte raised the crown with both hands and gently placed it on the top of Augusta's head.

Augusta's closed eyes opened when Jerome Bonaparte placed the crown on her head.

The nobles, generals and upstart bankers in Notre Dame immediately stood up and shouted: "Long live Your Majesty! Long live the Queen!"

Afterwards, Mokar came out of the backstage of Notre Dame de Paris, and at this moment his hands were holding a small box with a beautifully carved pattern.

Mocart came to Jerome Bonaparte and presented the box. Jerome Bonaparte opened the box with his own hands. A ring was placed in the box.

The ring body made of sterling silver and the red gemstone set in the gem position make the whole ring look extraordinarily gorgeous and luxurious.

Jerome Bonaparte took out the ring, gently held Augusta's hand with one hand, and put the ring on Augusta's middle finger.

When the ring was completely worn on Augusta's middle finger, Jerome Bonaparte felt a sense of pride.

As a traveler, he sat where his cousin was in history, and married the orthodox princess that his cousin wanted.

From a certain point of view, Jerome Bonaparte has completely surpassed the historical Napoleon III.

This kind of happiness was something he could never experience in his previous life. Although Jerome Bonaparte is still a long way from his uncle.

The wedding didn't come to an end until the evening. In the cheers of the crowd, Jerome Bonaparte and Augusta left Notre Dame and returned to the Tuileries Palace. The Bonaparte family ruled France. It started to stabilize at this moment.

That night, Jerome Bonaparte and Augusta had a wonderful night.

Early morning of November 1st.

When the sky was still hazy, Jerome Bonaparte carefully got up from the bed, tiptoed out of the bedroom, and returned to the study.

During the preparation of the wedding, Jérôme Bonaparte did not work anymore, so the secretarial office squeezed many documents that he needed to read and correct.

All the documents were placed on the desk in the study. Looking at the mountains of documents on the desk, Jerome Bonaparte sighed, and then glanced at the pendulum clock in the corner of the study. It was morning. At 6 o'clock, the estimated time to process all the documents is around 9 o'clock.

As soon as he said it, Jerome Bonaparte sat on the cushioned chair and looked through the contents of the document.

These include reports on grape growing in the province of Bordeaux, reports on cooperatives in the Paris region, summaries of rail transport...

Jerome Bonaparte went through everything carefully, sometimes frowning, sometimes smiling.

Before I knew it, two hours had passed when the door of the study suddenly opened.

Hearing the movement from the door, Jerome Bonaparte raised his head and glanced in the direction of the door. The French Empire Queen Augusta was standing there looking at Jerome Bonaparte.

"Huh? You're awake!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Augusta while looking down at the contents of the document.

"Huh?" Augusta slowly came to Jerome Bonaparte and looked at the documents that Jerome Bonaparte placed on the desk in surprise: "Why so many?"

"This is the content that has been handed over to me after being screened by various departments and the Secretariat!" Jerome Bonaparte shrugged and said, "I need to check every aspect of France. How can there be not much content!"

"Then you don't have to work so hard!" Augusta said softly to Jerome Bonaparte, she was worried that Jerome Bonaparte's body would be overwhelmed.

"There's no way. Now we need to check every aspect. If you're not careful, you can get a lot of big news everywhere." Jerome Bonaparte pointed to the document in his hand and said to Augustus: "This is the central province. Report on the cooperative aspect!"

Jerome Bonaparte handed over the co-op report to Augusta.

After reading it from top to bottom, Augusta looked at Jerome Bonaparte suspiciously and asked, "There seems to be nothing wrong with this report! Many people don't all join the cooperative!"

"This is precisely the biggest problem!" Jerome Bonaparte responded helplessly: "According to this report, more than 70% of the peasants in their province have joined it! When will the peasants be so motivated! If every farmer would understand the benefits of cooperatives, why would I have ordered the provinces to establish agricultural colleges!"

"What do you mean?" Augusta seemed to understand Jerome Bonaparte's subtext.

"Either the people below are fooling us, or someone is using administrative orders to achieve their goals for the sake of political performance!" Jerome Bonaparte sneered at the corner of his mouth.

No matter where or when the bureaucracy is, it is a virtue, and they will do whatever it takes to achieve political achievements.

Such people were also called cruel officials in ancient times.

"And not only in the middle, but also in some areas in the south!" Jerome Bonaparte took out a few documents from the pile of documents and sighed: "Professor Jean Dulles is a qualified Professor, but his perception of bureaucracy seems to be stuck in an ivory tower."

"I don't think so!" Augusta offered different opinions.

"Oh? What do you think?" Jerome Bonaparte asked Augusta.

"The reason why these documents appear here is that your minister saw the tricks in them!" Augusta explained to Jerome Bonaparte: "Otherwise, he may not be able to reach your desk. You didn't say that all the documents were sent to you after being screened by various departments!"

"You have a point in saying that!" Jerome Bonaparte gently stroked his chin.

"So, what are you going to do?" Now Augusta has fully assumed the role of wife and assistant.

"What else can we do? Of course we have to make an on-the-spot investigation! Without investigation, we have no right to speak!" Jerome Bonaparte shrugged and said to Augusta, before adding: "Just take it for We're on our honeymoon!"

"Okay!" Augusta had a happy smile on her face.

Jerome Bonaparte continued to read the content below, while Augusta helped Jerome Bonaparte organize the content he had read.

On November 2, Jérôme Bonaparte and Augusta decided to leave Paris to tour the provinces, and their first stop was the province where 70 percent of the peasants claimed to be vying to join the cooperative.

The result of the raid was as expected by Jerome Bonaparte. Most of the peasants in the province were coerced to join the cooperatives. Many peasants joined in confusion without knowing what the cooperatives were like.

After some visits and investigations, Jerome Bonaparte found that most of the cooperation did not fulfill the obligations of the cooperative at all, but was a mess.

Only a few cooperatives formed by well-known priests, or cooperatives formed by slightly wealthier farmers, can show positive feedback.

Moreover, the cooperatives in the province have not reached 70% at all, as he said, and at best they are only around 40%.

Even so, the entire province was messed up.

Afterwards, Jerome Bonaparte checked the local agricultural schools, but found that the agricultural schools had problems with empty assignments, and many agricultural schools did not recruit many agricultural students at all.

In the special agricultural loans, the principle of giving priority to the nobles and the big landlords appeared, and the wealthy and powerful "first rich groups" began to carry out small-scale land acquisitions with the help of loans.

The policy that was originally beneficial to farmers has turned into a "remainder" move at the local level.

The bureaucracy's policy of forcible mergers for the sake of efficiency made Jérôme Bonaparte seem to have returned to the era more than a hundred years later.

He couldn't help but feel a hint of sadness in his heart, any good policy would turn into a detriment to the people as long as it was in the hands of irresponsible local officials.

Jerome Bonaparte, who felt the decay of the bureaucratic class, immediately dismissed the senior officials of the province and the mayors of the following cities, and appointed a cadre as a senior official at the same time. Although the official was a member of the (moderate) republican faction, Jérôme Bonaparte decided to appoint him.

In the words of Jerome Bonaparte: "I would rather have a republican official than an incompetent idiot to mutilate the people."

After the new senior officials took office~www.mtlnovel.com~ quickly selected a group of mayors from the city council who were familiar with grassroots business.

After the new senior officials and the mayor took office, they immediately issued an order that farmers could dissolve themselves if they were unwilling to establish cooperatives.

Nearly 60% of the cooperatives were dissolved directly, and the vast majority of farmers returned to the ranks of going it alone.

Looking at the group of cheerful peasants in front of him, Jerome Bonaparte shook his head and sighed again: "There is a long way to go!"

With the thunderbolt of the first province, Jean Dulles, who knew Jerome Bonaparte's attitude, immediately took action, and the agricultural inspection team began to inspect the provinces that overfulfilled the task of forming cooperatives.

Sure enough, the provinces that exceeded their goals were wiped out.

Subsequently, Jean Dulles issued an order to dissolve the unqualified cooperative.

Jerome Bonaparte also severely criticized those provinces that used administrative orders to complete their tasks, and once again dismissed a few incompetent high officials and promoted a group of capable officials.

Chapter end