Chapter 319: , Telegram and password

It took almost a month for the news of the Mexican uprising to reach Europe, and then, basically it did not cause much response in Europe. After all, for the average European, Mexico is a little too far away. Only the Spanish ambassador to France submitted a weak-toned protest to France, demanding that the French restrain heretical activities in the territory and control the flow of weapons.
"Juan, you know, the principle of religious freedom is stipulated in our Code." Talleyrand calmly accepted the protest from the Spanish ambassador and placed it on his desk. In the drawer, "Although I, and those who have a little knowledge of religion, know that the "revolutionary theology" is heresy. But in our country, heresy is legal. Hell, unless they do something extraordinary. , We can restrain them in accordance with the law, but heresy itself, and the mission itself, we can’t control. At least in France, and in his territory, this is all legal. You may not know, now it is only in France, claiming to be There are five or six who are alive. You see, we did not send them all to prison, because this is freedom of religion and freedom of speech."
"As far as I know," Ambassador Juan said, "Mr. Minister, there are five of these'living Jesus', and four of them have been put in a neuropathy by you."
"That's because their family applied to the hospital and got the diagnosis certificate from the hospital and a qualified doctor. This is a medical matter, how can it be considered locked up?"
"But, isn't there another ‘living Jesus’ that you sent to prison?"
"Oh, which one is in prison, but he was not in jail for religious reasons. I am sure that he was definitely not arrested for religious reasons. Well, we France is a free and democratic republic, and the French people have any belief Religion either does not believe in any religion, or first believes in a certain religion, then ceases to believe in, and then changes to believe in another religion, or, at the same time, the complete freedom to believe in all religions. In our country, no one will He was imprisoned for religious reasons. As for the remaining one you mentioned, he was imprisoned because of illegal practice of medicine resulting in death. This guy said that he touched the patient with his hand, breathed at the patient, and yelled ' I am Jesus, I order you, sickness, retreat from this person', you can treat the disease, but the treatment was delayed and the patient died. You see, if there is nothing wrong with the patient, we will definitely not catch him. In short, our government has no right to issue a ban on religious beliefs." Talleyrand spread his hands, looking helpless, "but this heresy theory is so absurd, as long as your country strengthens theoretical education, Allowing the people to improve their knowledge 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 a bunch of French people who are originally filial sons of God. If you want to talk about heretics, nowadays, there are more heretics than the French church. ? Even if it is Lutheranism, even if it is the entire Protestant religion, at least the Holy See dare to say that they are heretics. Unlike the French, who are obviously heretics, the Holy See still dare not say.
"What about weapon control?" Ambassador Juan asked.
"Ah, this is not a big problem." Foreign Minister Talleyrand promised 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 can rest assured. Well, I think, I can tell you responsibly that we have not sold weapons to Mexico."
"However, as far as we know, all the Mexican rebels are holding French weapons." Ambassador Juan said.
"This must be smuggling." Foreign Minister Talleyrand said without changing his face. "You know, the Americas are very large and sparsely populated, especially in Louisiana. In fact, most places have no laws at all, the only ones that are 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. What do you say? Free New World, gun battle every day?
So unlike in Europe, the weapons over there can be sold freely. Moreover, it is technically difficult to control. For example, there is a group of new immigrants who are planning to go a little further north to farm, but there are Indians and American robbers everywhere. In order to buy Indian furs peacefully, I am talking about fur sold by Indians, and to prevent them from turning into long leather boots in the hands of Americans, we must give them enough weapons to protect themselves.
So in Louisiana, not only can all kinds of guns be freely traded, but even the cannons, even the latest rifled cannons, can be legally purchased as long as the buyer is a Frenchman. Because in the north, whether it is British, American or even Indians, there are already dragging cannons to rob. We can't watch them bully our immigrants with cannons.
Mr. Ambassador, I can assure you that if a Mexican crosses the border, enters Louisiana, and then goes to the weapons shop to buy weapons. As long as he has no legal identity, the weapon shop will not even sell him a peeled knife. If any weapon shop violates this, we will fine them so that they can't cry. But if he waits outside the weapon shop, he just grabs a Frenchman who is about to walk in, puts an eagle ocean into his hand, and asks him to help 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 on the New World side, our law enforcement personnel are obviously insufficient. This is really uncontrollable.
Of course, we will strengthen border patrols and intercept as many smugglers as possible. Your country should also strengthen border patrols to prevent 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 seal off such a long border. Even It can be said to be impossible. Therefore, it is not easy to completely cut off the rebels’ weapon supplies. Otherwise, there is actually another way to solve this problem, that is, your country directly buys more and better ones from us. Don’t you have weapons? After all, your country’s financial and human resources are far more than those of the rebels. As long as we add our advanced weapons, I think your country will be able to successfully put down the Mexican rebellion.

Looking at Talleyrand's sincere smile like a big king flower, he almost couldn't help throwing his white gloves on his face. But 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 cherish the friendship between the two sides. I hope that at this time, we can sincerely help each other and let us The ship of friendship between the two countries can withstand storms."
After saying this, Ambassador Juan left, and then he hurried back to the embassy, ​​wrote a report on the negotiations with the French today, then compiled it into a secret language, and sent it back to China via a cable telegram from Paris to Madrid.
At this time, there was already a commercial telegraph line between France and Madrid. But it is a French company operating this line, so if it is important and needs to be kept secret, then you must use secret words. However, even if you do this, it is still unsafe. Because the telegraph company will record these messages, as long as they archive enough, and then confirm with current events, it is not difficult to decipher these secret words. Considering this era, cryptography has not yet appeared. The level of so-called "passwords" is very inferior, that is, "Heavenly kings cover earth tigers, pagoda town river demon", or "Zhen Gaogang, a faction of mountains and rivers. Xiu; the door faces the sea, and the three rivers meet the water level for thousands of years.
But on the French side, there was Joseph who came across. 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, know these, and have the conditions that others do not have at all (can automatically get all the telegrams sent by others ~ EbookFREE.me~ plus this era The guys don’t have a decent sense of secrecy at all. They are all the same as the KMT of later generations. They have a set of passwords, and they don’t know how to replace them after they have been used for many years. Later, the white eagle will send some fake news to the chicken. One of the commonly used methods is to tell KMT the false news first.
In contrast, although the rabbit’s coding level was the same in those days, the Locust Army always felt that it would be able to decode the rabbit’s code within two months at most, but until the Locust Army surrendered, this thing did not succeed because the rabbit did it every month. Change the codebook once or twice.
Therefore, the secret words used by the Spanish government are almost indistinguishable from the plain words in the eyes of the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Public Security. As soon as the news of Ambassador Juan passed out, the French already knew what he said. When the instructions from Spain came back, Lucien learned these things even earlier than Ambassador Juan. After all, Ambassador Juan had to wait for the telegram company to send the telegram. Then you have to translate the text yourself (for confidentiality, other people can't know these secret words), but Lucien can get the translated content directly on the phone.
"Well, very good, the Spaniards have a decision...what? How can the Spaniards be like this? They, they are too..." Lucien, who received the report, was also taken aback by the Spaniard's decision.
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