On the day following the appointnt of the Chief of Staff of France, the "freshly appointed" Marshal of the Second Empire was approved by the Ministry of War, recomnded by Jero Bonaparte.
In recognition of the outstanding contributions Saint Arno and Renio made to the French Army, General Saint Arno, Chief of Staff of France, and General Renio, Commander of Strasbourg, were awarded the rank of Marshal.
The news spread, causing an uproar in the entire French military community. So generals opposed the awarding of the Marshal title to Saint Arno and Renio, and even so generals made an issue out of the awarding of the Marshal rank. They believed that awarding Saint Arno, who had not accomplished anything (referring to the achievents akin to Marshal Biron), the Marshal position was an insult to the title.
Faced with such baseless accusations, the newly appointed Chief of Staff, Imperial Reserve Marshal Saint Arno, was sowhat irritated.
If the French Army were not implenting military and political separation, and if the Chief of Staff did not control military appointnts and dismissals.
Saint Arno vowed to make them understand the authority of a superior.
The Tuileries Palace, playing a major role in this Marshal appointnt incident, also made no gesture at this ti, seemingly allowing the incident to unfold.
The appointnt of Saint Arno and Renio as Marshals also seed to be stalling due to their "virtue not matching the position."
As ti passed, the inertia of the Tuileries Palace made the anti-Bonaparte faction within the military more arrogant, with so even openly forming cliques within the army, preparing to rebel when necessary.
If not for the reports from the Special Investigation Departnt of the Police Station, Jero Bonaparte would not have known that there was a potential opposition within the army attempting to overthrow his rule.
"Alright! I understand! Thank you for your hard work!" After reviewing the internal military intelligence, Jero Bonaparte nodded in affirmation to Edgar Ney, the head of the Special Action Investigation Departnt: "I didn’t expect you to identify all the people behind the military so quickly, truly remarkable!"
"This is part of my duty!" Edgar Ney responded neither humbly nor arrogantly to Jero Bonaparte.
"Indeed, if you can continue like this, your achievents will definitely not fall short of your uncle’s!" Jero Bonaparte silently pondered as he looked at Edgar Ney standing before him, scrubbed clean of any superficial flash.
Is it the environnt that changes a person? Or does a person change the environnt?
Jero Bonaparte still rembered eting Edgar Ney a few years ago, when he had not thought much of this person who relied on his uncle’s reputation to establish himself in Paris.
Yes, Edgar Ney’s uncle was the forr Marshal Ney, one of the few who went to death for Jero Bonaparte’s uncle, Emperor Napoleon.
After the fall of the First Empire, Ney died following Napoleon of the First Empire. Since Ney himself had no children, Edgar Ney beca the heir of Marshal Ney, inheriting Ney’s fa and prestige, he joined the Bonaparte faction, serving first Louis Napoleon and then Jero Bonaparte.
In the early days of serving Jero Bonaparte, Edgar Ney did not receive much attention from Jero Bonaparte. In Jero Bonaparte’s view, Edgar Ney was just a banner for uniting Bonapartists.
A chance event changed Edgar Ney’s status in Jero Bonaparte’s eyes. At that ti, shortly before the attack on the Roman Republic, Jero Bonaparte dispatched General Renio to the Roman Republic, and Edgar Ney tily requested to accompany. After deliberate consideration, Jero Bonaparte decided to offer Edgar Ney the opportunity to demonstrate himself, and with a wave of the hand, agreed to Edgar Ney’s request.
During the siege of Ro in 1849, Edgar Ney demonstrated his talent as a military commander and achieved victory.
Upon returning, Edgar Ney experienced a long period of neglect before being summoned by Jero Bonaparte again.
It was on this occasion that Jero Bonaparte proposed to Edgar Ney whether he would be willing to serve as the head of the Police Station’s Investigation Departnt at the President’s Residence.
The so-called Investigation Departnt, rather than a departnt, was more appropriately a bureau.
The number of personnel within the Investigation Departnt had nearly caught up with the number of administrative officials in a departnt that couldn’t have subordinates.
Their main purpose was to monitor the French Army for any signs of betrayal, and if any appeared, they were to report imdiately to Jero Bonaparte.
In the following two-plus years, the number of the Special Investigation Departnt continued to grow, gradually forming the magnitude of a departnt bureau.
The Special Investigation Departnt’s mastery and surveillance of the army’s interior beca more sophisticated, with all military regions, except Algeria, being monitored by the Departnt.
[PS: Algeria has always been a place of exile for France’s political failures, where many political failures were entirely exiled. So joined the army, so resided in Algeria, and so crossed over to Britain. They can be said to be traditional opposition, regardless of being Republic, Bourbon, or Bonapartist, there were people opposing them.
And so opposed for the sake of opposition.]
Looking at the SS head he had cultivated himself, Jero Bonaparte’s lips curled into a comforting smile: "Ney, do you want to end this sneaky life!"
Edgar Ney’s expression briefly showed a flash of struggle before he said calmly: "I am willing to follow your orders!"
"I like those who obey commands the most!" Jero Bonaparte sternly pointed at Edgar Ney regarding his equivocal response: "From now, the Special Investigation Departnt is detached from the Police Station and renad as the chanical Command! And you will be the first Commander of the chanical Command, enjoying the treatnt of a Quasi-General Rank of France! The function of the chanical Command remains unchanged! At the sa ti, you shall also assu the role of adjutant!"
Edgar Ney’s face showed a hint of joy. Although Edgar Ney was only at the quasi-general level, he was very aware that the powers of the chanical Command were no less than those of the Ministry of War and the General Staff.
The reason for the quasi-general rank was probably to ensure the rank retained so value.
Edgar Ney guessed correctly; Jero Bonaparte designed the highest officer of the chanical Command to be a brigadier to prevent a proliferation of general ranks.
In France, as long as you can get promoted to the rank of major general, it ans you have the qualifications to command forces ranging from a brigade to an army corps.
This unreasonable military rank system caused a lot of confusion, and at the sa ti, there were major problems in the organization of the French military...
This will be discussed later.
In short, for the sake of the bigger picture, the highest commander of the chanical Command had to be a brigadier.
"Rest assured! It won’t be long before France innovates! By then, you’ll be able to rise another level!" Jero Bonaparte assured Edgar Ney.
"Understood!" Edgar Ney responded to Jero Bonaparte.
In the following days, Jero Bonaparte went to the Council of State on his own to state: "In view of France’s increasingly serious ideological issues, it is necessary to form a departnt capable of managing military cris and ideological inadequacies!"
This action t with opposition from so military personnel in the Council of State, who reasonably argued that the governnt should handle its own affairs and that military matters should be resolved by the military itself.
This rebuttal made Jero Bonaparte feel that the military could once again beco that impenetrable iron company.
Throughout history, the military has been the ruling class’s violent apparatus. If the ruling class does not control this military, it could turn into a rampaging beast.
It would carry away anyone it could and engage in a grand and relentless warfare only to perish.
The General Staff and the chanical Command were his tools to tether this unreasonable beast. To achieve this goal, he even used his administrative powers as Emperor, implenting policies in the Legislative Court and the Second Institute.
The chanical Command was established, and Edgar Ney beca the commander of the first chanical Command.
After understanding the powers controlled by the chanical Command, many opposing voices disappeared overnight without a trace.
Despite this, Jero Bonaparte did not intend to spare those people; keeping them was only delaying the inevitable detonation of these ti bombs.
Under Jero Bonaparte’s instructions, the chanical Command began to act.
n wearing blue uniforms, with the Sword and Shield dal on their chests, went across France to arrest the opposing generals.
The opposing generals, who normally flaunted their power at the bases, rembered the Public Security Committee that vanished over half a century ago when they saw these individuals.
The fear deep in their bones turned the fierce generals into obedient kittens in front of the chanical Command mbers, wishing they could speak their deepest thoughts to them.
So generals even disregarded their dignity, kneeling in front of the chanical Command, crying their hearts out.
In just one month, nearly 30 generals were directly dismissed for reasons such as corruption, dereliction of duty, and being too old, most of whom were potential supporters of the Republican Faction and a few from the Orléans Faction.
After dismissing over 30 generals in one go, all doubts in France were completely silenced.
The military was left with only one path: to sing praise.
On May 31st, a grand ceremony dissipated the gloom hanging over France’s military circle.
Commander Renio, who had just arrived from Strasbourg a few days ago, and General Saint Arno, Chief of Staff of France, stood upright on a wooden award platform draped with a red carpet.
Standing on the platform were generals residing in Paris, who were invited to partake in this low-substance marshal awarding performance.
Below the platform, thousands of soldiers stood with rifles in hand, observing the happenings on the stage.
Soon, Jero Bonaparte appeared, followed by two servants each carrying a platter covered with a red cloth; beneath the cloth lay a staff symbolizing the Imperial Marshal and a first-class dal.
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