I have received your telegram. After unanimous discussion among the French Cabinet, it has been decided to grant you the authority to dispatch the Mediterranean Fleet at any time. You may deploy the Mediterranean Fleet from Marseille Port and the Naples sea area for reinforcements if you believe the negotiations are nearing a breakdown, to safeguard the Ottoman Empire's security.
Remember! Be sure to delay the war as much as possible to leave sufficient preparation time for French intervention!!!!
Emperor of the French Empire, Jerome Bonaparte.
After reading the telegram, Valerovsky felt an inexplicable pressure, the source of which was the telegram that was only half a page in size.
Although the content of the telegram seemed to merely allocate the rights to a few warships under his command, behind the warships lied a country's strategic focus for the coming years.
Should France step in, a war centered around the Near East would be inevitable.
