Chapter 512: Paulie’s Dead End

Chapter 513 Paoli's Dead End

From the perspective of the several towns where votes have been counted, Oscar Paoli's influence in Corsica is still very huge.

After all, his father was the founder of the Corsican Restorationists, who formed an army to drive away the Genoese rulers and even briefly became independent. After France bought Corsica, Paoli led his army to fight against France. Although he was defeated, his reputation had spread throughout Corsica.

So, the Paoli MPs firmly occupied 35% of the votes.

The pro-French faction also emerged this time. Because Count Butafuoco unexpectedly put aside his prejudice and joined forces with the liberals, he won nearly 30% of the votes in one fell swoop.

Although the anti-Paoli faction spared no effort to publicize Paoli's embezzlement of organizational funds and collusion with the French army, it seemed that not many people believed it, so that they only won 15% of the votes under the large amount of funding sponsored by Chalmers.

The remaining nearly 20% of the votes were taken by the Restoration Centrists.

You know, if the Restorationists remain as united as before, they will probably get more than 70% of the seats in parliament, thus meeting the legislative seat requirement.

But now, they are fighting each other. No one even cares about the pro-French faction.

Southwest Corsica.

On the hillside outside the village of Nonza, two sturdy men are observing the village in the valley with binoculars.

The dark-skinned man on the left nodded continuously:

"Agosta did a good job, the fire starter was very concealed."

He put down the telescope and said to the young man beside him:

"Okay, Filippo, let's go back to town first, and we will officially take action tomorrow night. Oh, you probably heard the news, the situation of this election is not very ideal."

The latter nodded: "It seems that those loyal to Mr. Pauli only got slightly more than one-third of the votes. Those betrayers really deserve to go to hell!"

"Yes, so we must complete this mission. That will at least let Elek and others return to Mr. Pauli's banner."

"Yes, sir." Filippo gritted his teeth and nodded with difficulty, "I will definitely not let you down."

Nongza Village is a famous base for restoration members-there are more than 30 soldiers from Nongza in the National Guard, so it is very difficult to find someone willing to come here to light the fire.

It was only after repeated persuasion that Pauli's nephew Cesarri allowed his three guards to reluctantly accept this task.

And Filippo was the one responsible for lighting the fire.

When the arsonist trio returned to the nearby town of Quarle, they just entered the hotel and heard two businessmen with southern Italian accents laughing obscenely and whispering:

"That's right, when the police went in, Paulie was still naked and just standing there in a daze. A dozen people nearby saw him, haha."

"I didn't expect that the Corsicans worshipped him like a god, but he was just an old pervert."

"And he was also an impatient pervert. He didn't even want to pursue the lady, but just forced her. Well, the most unlucky one was her poor aunt, who was also "harmed" by Paulie because she cared about her niece..."

The two laughed obscenely again: "He has a very unusual taste. It is said that...ah, Miss Isabella's aunt is almost a grandmother, but he can still do it."

"Haha, maybe Corsicans have this hobby..."

Filippo didn't hear it very clearly, but he could distinguish the words "Paulie", "old pervert", "force", etc., plus the two The extremely vulgar expression on the man's face suddenly surged with anger. He rushed over and grabbed one of the men by the collar, shouting:

"How dare you insult Mr. Paulie?!"

Agosta also pushed another businessman hard:

"You will pay for what you said just now!"

The two businessmen were shocked and hurriedly explained:

"What are you doing? I didn't say anything nonsense. Oh, there is news in the London Gazette."

"Yes, that Paulie has been arrested for rape. Miss Isabella's father was so angry that he almost killed him."

"No, impossible!" Filippo has been a fan of Paulie since he was a child. He immediately roared and wanted to beat them, "You are not allowed to slander Mr. Paulie!"

"Wait!" The older businessman hugged his head and pointed to his suitcase, "There is a copy of the Times. I remember that this matter was also reprinted. You can see it yourself..."

Filippo was stunned, threw him aside, turned around and opened the suitcase, and soon found a copy of the Times.

It was last week's newspaper, and the second page had a huge headline - "Corsican political leader arrested for rape".

He looked down with trembling body, and saw that the news said that Paulie had lured a noble lady named Isabella to a small house in the suburbs and molested her. Isabella's aunt had suspected Paulie of having problems, so she quietly followed them. When she heard the sound of conflict after her niece entered the house, she went forward and knocked on the door, but was also dragged into the house by Paulie...

The article was also accompanied by a lot of detailed descriptions. Filippo didn't dare to read it anymore. He threw the newspaper aside and stared at the two businessmen and said:

"You lied to me! This is not true!"

"Stubborn guy." The businessman stepped forward to pack his suitcase and mocked, "There were more than a dozen witnesses at the time, and now the whole of Britain knows about it. Who is he to you? I suggest you keep your own women safe."

Filippo fell on a chair in the hotel, feeling as if his head was about to split. He couldn't believe that Mr. Paulie, whom he had admired for so long, would do such a beastly thing...

Of course, these were all traps set by the French Intelligence Agency.

The only thing that made Fouché dissatisfied was that he really couldn't find a man who could seduce Paulie after wearing a skirt - if Dion de Beaumont was still young, he should be able to do this task [Note 1].

So, he could only settle for the second best and find Isabella to seduce Paulie. However, based on the principle of "not enough quality, quantity", he arranged another aunt victim for Paulie.

So, Paulie became famous in Britain.

The next day, the distraught Filippo saw the newspaper sent from Ajaccio, which had reprinted the news from Britain, and the content was more detailed - Battolio and the anti-Paulie parliamentarians would naturally not miss such a good opportunity, and tried their best to publicize the matter, and even sent reporters to London to follow up the report.

Filippo walked for an unknown amount of time with a copy of the Corsica Morning Post, and suddenly he looked up and saw the village of Nonza appear before his eyes.

[Note 1] Dion de Beaumont (1728-1810), a legendary French spy, was good at dressing up as a woman, and after dressing up as a woman, she was as beautiful as a flower, attracting many nobles to pursue "her" crazily. And Beaumont also used his "beauty" to get a lot of intelligence from "licking dogs", and was rewarded by Louis XV many times.