With Fouché's vote, the fate of Louis XVI was essentially decided. Because Fouché cast the 355th vote in favor of the death penalty, he was only six votes short of the 361 votes that could have beheaded Louis XVI, and behind Fouché there were many more Monthill MPs who had not yet voted. Their attitude was relatively firm, and it was almost impossible for them to defect. This is not necessarily the case with the remaining Brissote MPs. It can be said that the big picture has been decided. Immediately afterwards, new traitors appeared among the Brissot parliamentarians behind Fouché, and out of seven hundred and twenty votes, three hundred and eighty-seven votes were cast in favor of the death penalty, and the remaining three hundred and thirty-three votes were in favor of pardon. The death penalty of Louis XVI was approved, and he would be the second king in Europe to be sentenced to death.

In fact, there were financial reasons for the king's trial, and with the death sentence of the king, the property of the exiled nobles was confiscated and used as collateral to issue more coupons. If all goes well, these lands and possessions will give the French finances a grace period of not too long. However, in any era, war is a financial bottomless pit. At this time, the war between France and Austria and Prussia was not over.

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After taking Belgium, the French army began to repair. Joseph, who had nothing to do, also came out with his younger brother and wandered the streets of Aachen.

Although they were wandering, the brothers still paid attention to something different, and Napoleon carefully observed the layout of the streets of Aachen, and by the way, through the simulation of street fighting, he demolished the city a hundred times. As for Joseph, of course he was not so bored, he only found a small detail: prices in Aachen had risen significantly, and the shops on the street seemed to be very reluctant to buy with the French, especially the French in military uniforms****** such as this time, he and Napoleon came out without military uniforms, walked into a tavern, and asked in German: "Is there brandy?" The shopkeeper immediately replied, "Yes, yes." Do you pay your bills in Mark? A flower bloomed on the boss's face.

"Can't River?" Joseph continued.

"Riverl? Silver? Silver is possible, too, but our store does not accept finger tickets. The boss replied.

"Silver." Joseph said as he discharged a few silver coins on the counter.

"That's good." When the shopkeeper saw that Joseph was taking out a silver coin, he said happily, "A livre for a cup." ”

"What? Didn't it be two cups of one livre before? Joseph said in surprise.

"That was before the French came." A voice came from the side, and Joseph turned his head to see a red-haired young man with a glass of frothy beer in his hand. When the man saw Joseph's gaze, he raised his glass to him and smiled slightly.

"Yes, that was before the French came. Since the French came, the price of everything has gone up. The shopkeeper also said.

This is also a normal thing, and in general, soldiers who live and die are always willing to spend money. Wherever the soldiers of the brigade go, it is always easy to cause certain industries, such as wine, and some indescribable industry to have a booming business and an increase in prices.

"So, shopkeeper, you should have made a lot of money, right?" Joseph asked with a smile.

"Where," said the boss, shaking his head, "it was okay at first, but now, they're all holding a little piece of paper and they're running over to ask for a drink - hey, isn't that a lie?" Of course I refused to ask for it, and as a result, they beat me up. He also said that he would not accept coupons, that he was a counter-revolutionary, and that he would hang me on a street lamp pole! Nowadays we dare not accept their kind of papers, but the good things have to be hidden in advance, so that they do not see them. ”

In France, in order to ensure the acceptance of money, Parliament did make a decree prohibiting merchants from accepting money. If the merchant insists on refusing to accept the bill, he may indeed be hung by the street lamp. (Of course, French merchants have their own ways of dealing with it) but this is not France.

But the soldiers can't help it, they can't help but come out and relax and spend money, right?

At the beginning, when the front line was very critical, in order to improve the morale of the soldiers, the French government smashed the pot and sold iron, and the military pay for the soldiers was in real metal currency. However, since the Battle of Valmy, the government began to pay the army with money bills, and after the victory at the Battle of Jemap, the proportion of money in the army pay exceeded that of metal money, and by the time Louis XVI was guillotined, there was no metal money in the army pay at all.

Of course, this is what Di Mourie said, and it is also said that at this special moment, in order to stabilize the situation, the government still sends Di Mourieux military pay in metal currency. But General Di Mourier exchanged the metal currency for his own currency and then issued it to the soldiers.

And there is even some basis for this statement, because there are always petty traders who do a special kind of business near the French barracks, that is, exchanging coins for coupons. Of course, this exchange ratio is much darker than in France. The soldier, who did not want to be exploited, beat a certain merchant in a rage, and snatched the two hundred or so silver livres from him, and finally threw him four hundred paper livres.

General Dumourieh, who has never cared much about this kind of thing, was furious about this, declaring that this kind of lawless behavior was really a heinous crime, which caused the people to complain, and it was really not enough to kill the people to be angry. Then he hung up the soldiers, which was considered a correct military law.

But many soldiers suspected that General Dumourieux, who had never cared much about such things, was so angry because he was the backstage boss of the merchants who exchanged money. This irresponsible conjecture quickly spread throughout the army, and the morale of the army became more and more depressed.

Joseph tossed the two livres to the shopkeeper, took two glasses of brandy, and sat down at the window by the street, still staring at the corner of the street, considering how to ambush a cannon there, and then the cannon would fire on the damn Napoleon.

The two of them had just sat down and had only taken two sips when they heard a commotion outside, followed by gunshots, and then exclamations, cries, mixed together, and chaotic.

"What's wrong?" Joseph stood up and looked outside.

A man hurriedly ran in and shouted with a pale face: "French, French, French people have robbed things and killed people!" ”

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In a short time, the French lost hearts and minds in Belgium. At least most of the ordinary people in Belgium were genuinely looking forward to the arrival of the French army. But the actions of the French army turned their dreams into nightmares. A lot of the guys who had been with the French during the Austrian rule are now hooking up with Audi again. It can even be said that once Austria begins its counteroffensive, the whole of Belgium may stand up against France.

However, in order to solve the financial difficulties and prepare for the upcoming second round of intervention – the war cost so much money that the confiscation of the land of the crown and some of the nobility was no longer enough – the French government needed to get more money from Belgium.

The National Assembly sent a large number of commissioners to Belgium in order to get more money from those places.

Direct plunder is obviously inefficient and can lead to a lot of trouble, and even purely economically, it may not be worth the cost. So, the leaders of the National Assembly came up with such an idea.

Everywhere, war should be accompanied by revolutionary measures. Everywhere, all the property of the churches, the aristocracy, and all their lackeys who hated the revolution should be confiscated for the revolutionary cause. (mainly as collateral for the bonds) and the tithes and lordship in the liberated areas were abolished, and the old taxes were abolished and the taxes were increased on the local wealthy. The administrative system of all liberated areas was to be reformed, and only those who had sworn to freedom and renounced all privileges had the right to vote and to be elected. At the same time, in order to avoid the flow of coins into these regions and out of France through them, the use of coins in these regions should be banned and the use of coupons in these areas should be mandatory.

In doing so, they felt, they could separate the common people at the bottom from the feudal lords at the top in these occupied areas.

Camphon, the MP who made this suggestion, declared: "Shoot at the palace and give peace to the huts." So that we can stand our ground anywhere. ”

This proposal was supported by a majority of parliamentarians and was successfully adopted. Robespierre, however, said to Danton in private: "Cambon's idea is beautiful, but I am always worried that in the actual execution, it may be out of shape." And we actually lack the ability to guarantee that this decree is not out of shape. I am afraid that this seemingly beautiful decree will turn into a nightmare when it is implemented. What's more, even in the country, not many people are willing to accept the ......"

"The road to hell is often paved with good intentions." "But for now, that's all we can do." ”

In order to be able to carry out this decree effectively, the parliament sent thirty commissioners to Belgium in one go, and Campon, who proposed this plan, was naturally one of them.

But as Robespierre feared, many times, as soon as the policy falls to the level of implementation, it will be completely deformed. Those commissioners have great power, and most of the things, they can cut them first and then play them, and they can decide with a word, and they even surpass the so-called ministers of the past in terms of power. However, not every commissioner was an "incorruptible" like Robespierre. It can even be said that the vast majority of commissioners are taking advantage of this opportunity to enrich themselves.

In just a few months, the Compon commissioner alone had raised as much as 64 million livres for the Republic in Belgian territory, but the whole of Belgium, even the lower strata of the "huts" that the French intended to co-opt, resented the French.