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It took almost a month for the news of the uprising in Mexico to reach Europe. After that, it basically did not cause much repercussions in Europe. After all, for the average European, Mexico is too far away. Only the Spanish ambassador to France submitted a weak protest to France, asking the French to curb heresy in their territory and control the flow of weapons.

"Juan, you know, the principle of religious freedom is stipulated in our "Code of Laws." Talleyrand accepted the protest from the Spanish ambassador very calmly, and put it on the desk In the drawer, "Although I myself, and people who know a little bit about religion, know that so-called 'revolutionary theology' is heresy. But in our country, heresy is legal. Hell, unless they do something extraordinary , we can restrain them according to the law, but heresy itself, and missionary itself, we can not control. At least in France, and his territory, this is legal. You may not know, now only in France, claiming to be There were five or six jerks who were living Jesus, and you see, we didn't send them all to jail because that's freedom of religion and freedom of speech."

"As far as I know," Ambassador Juan said, "Mr. Minister, there are five of these 'living Jesuses' in total, and four of them have been imprisoned by you in a mental hospital."

"That's because their family members applied to the hospital and got a diagnosis certificate from the hospital and a qualified doctor. This is a medical matter. How can it be locked up?"

"But, isn't there another 'living Jesus' who was sent to prison by you?"

"Oh, which one is in prison, but he wasn't in prison for religious reasons. I'm sure he was never arrested for religious reasons. Well, we in France are a free and democratic republic, and the French people have the freedom to believe in anything Religion or no religion, or believe in one religion and then not believe in another religion, or, completely free to practice all religions at the same time. In our country, no one will He was put in jail for religious reasons. As for the remaining one you mentioned, he was locked up for illegal medical practice causing death - this guy said he put his hand on the patient, breathed on the patient, and yelled A 'I am Jesus, and I command thee, sickness, get off this man', would have cured the disease, delayed it, left the patient dead - you see, if the patient hadn't had an accident, we certainly wouldn't either Arrested him. In short, our government has no right to issue a ban on matters of religious belief." Talleyrand spread his hands, looking helpless, "but this heretical theory is so absurd, as long as your country Strengthening theoretical education and raising the level of knowledge of the people should be able to quickly refute their erroneous views and solve this problem.”

Well, Ambassador Juan also knows that on this issue, he is unlikely to get any help from the French who are originally a group of filial sons of God. If there is heresy, there is a greater heresy than the French church nowadays ? Even if it is Lutheranism, even if it is the entire Protestantism, at least the Holy See dares to say that they are heretics. Unlike the French, who are obviously heresy, the Holy See dare not say so.

"And what about the control of weapons?" Ambassador Juan asked.

"Ah, this is not a big problem." Foreign Minister Talleyrand agreed very simply, "Our two countries are allies, and we will not provide help to each other's enemies. We will certainly not sell weapons to them, you guys Rest assured. Well, I think, I can tell you responsibly that we did not sell weapons to Mexico."

"However, as far as we know, the Mexican rebels are holding French weapons." Ambassador Juan said.

"It must be smuggling." Foreign Minister Talleyrand said without changing his face, "You know, in America, where the land is sparsely populated, especially Louisiana, most of the places actually have no laws at all, the only one that is really effective Yes, there is actually only one law that can protect a person's personal and property safety, and that is the gun in your hand. How does one say it? Free New World, gun battles every day?

So unlike here in Europe, the weapons over there can be sold freely. Moreover, it is difficult to control technically. For example, a group of new immigrants are going to go further north to farm, but there are Indians and American bandits everywhere. In order to be able to peacefully buy Indian furs—I mean the furs Indians sell—and keep it from turning into boots in American hands, we must keep them armed enough to protect themselves.

So in Louisiana, not only all kinds of guns can be freely traded, but even cannons, even the latest rifled cannons, can be legally purchased-as long as the purchaser is French. Because in the north, whether it is the British, Americans or even Indians, they have already dragged cannons out to rob. We can't watch them bully our immigrants with cannons.

Mr. Ambassador, I can assure you that if there are Mexicans who cross the border, enter Louisiana, and then go to the weapons store to buy weapons. The weapon shop won't sell him a peeling knife as long as he doesn't have legal status - if any of the weapon shops violates this, we'll fine them so much they won't cry. But if he was waiting outside the weapon store, he would grab a Frenchman who was about to go in, put an Eagle in his hand, and ask him to help him buy a few guns from there. We really can't control this, it's not that we don't want to control it - you know that in the New World, our number of law enforcement personnel is obviously insufficient - it's really out of control.

Of course, we will strengthen border patrols to intercept those smugglers as much as possible. Your country should also step up border patrols to stop arms smuggling. "

Speaking of this, Talleyrand suddenly smiled and said: "But Ambassador Juan, you also know that the border between Louisiana and Mexico is too long. It is not easy to completely block such a long border. Even It can be said that it is impossible. Therefore, it is not easy to completely cut off the weapons supply of the rebels. Otherwise, there is actually another solution, that is, your country directly buys more and better weapons from us Weapons? After all, your country is far superior to those rebels in terms of financial and human resources, as long as you add our advanced weapons, I think your country will be able to successfully quell the Mexican rebellion."

Looking at Talleyrand's sincere smile like a rafflesia flower, Ambassador Juan almost couldn't hold back and threw his white gloves on his face. However, he still controlled himself and said to Talleyrand: "Mr. Minister, our two countries are allies, and our country has always abided by the covenant and cherished the friendship between the two sides. I hope that at this time, we can sincerely help each other, let us The ship of friendship between the two countries can withstand wind and waves."

After saying this, Ambassador Juan took his leave and left, and then he rushed back to the embassy to write a report on today's negotiations with the French, and then compiled it into a coded language and sent it back to China through a wired telegram from Paris to Madrid.

By this time, there was already a commercial telegraph line between France and Madrid. But it is a French company that operates this line, so if it is important and needs to be kept secret, it must use secret words. However, even if this is done, it is still not safe. Because the telegraph company will record these telegrams, as long as there are enough archives, and then corroborated with current events, it is not difficult to decipher these secret words. Considering this era, cryptography has not appeared at all, and the level of the so-called "secret language" is very low, that is, "the king of heaven covers the earth tiger, the pagoda suppresses the river demon", or "the earth vibrates Gaogang, and a school of mountains and rivers lasts through the ages." Xiu; the gate faces the sea, and the three rivers flow together for thousands of years".

But on the French side, there is Joseph who has traveled through. Although he himself only knows a name about cryptography. But I still know a little bit about permutations and combinations. And know the general direction, and then, in this era, knowing these, and having the conditions that others do not have at all (the ability to automatically obtain all the telegrams sent by others), plus the guys in this era have no What a decent sense of secrecy, all of them are the same as the KMT of later generations. A set of passwords has been used for many years, and they don't know how to change them. Later, when Bai Ying wanted to pass some false news to the foot pot chicken, one of the common methods was to tell KMT the false news first.

In contrast, although the coding level of the rabbits was as poor as before, the locust army always thought that they could decipher the rabbit's codes in at most two months, but until the locust army surrendered, this matter was not successful-because every rabbit Change the password book once or twice a month.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Public Security, the secret language used by the Spanish government is almost the same as the plain code. As soon as the news of Ambassador Juan got out, the French already knew what he had said. And when the instructions from Spain came back, Lucien learned that these things were even earlier than Ambassador Juan. After all, Ambassador Juan still has to wait for the people from the telegraph company to send the telegram there. Then he had to translate the text by himself (for the sake of confidentiality, other people cannot know these secret words), but Lucien can directly get the translated content on the phone.

"Well, very good, the Spaniards have made a decision... What? How can the Spaniards do this? They, they are too..." Lucien, who received the report, was also taken aback by the Spaniard's decision.