Chapter Seventy-Two, Supporting the Jacobin Monarchy

The next morning, Joseph went to work as usual. On the way, he thought, how would Lafayette react? Will he be notified directly that his job has been cancelled because of the change in the situation? Or even put a seal directly on the door of his office?

But when Joseph arrived at the place, he realized that he might really be overwhelmed. His post is still there, and all kinds of things to deal with are still there waiting for him to deal with.

When it was time to eat at noon, Kano next door walked in.

"Joseph." Kano said, "I heard about last night, and you did a great job!" ”

"Lazar, I'm ......," Joseph didn't have time to say anything more when he heard Cano continue to say with a fluttering brow:

"You know what? Joseph. I used to think that you would be a good logistics organizer, a good staff officer, but certainly not a good commander-in-chief. Because although you are keen and meticulous, and can come up with many good solutions, you lack the courage to make decisions when it is critical. But your brother Napoleon, who is very decisive and a natural commander......"

"What's that? Can you come up with a lot of good solutions, but you lack the courage to make a decision? Isn't that saying that I'm 'timid and indecisive'? Who is this Cao Cheng's joke? Joseph was thinking this, but heard Kano continue:

"But judging from your decision yesterday, I am completely wrong in this opinion. You are a person who has persistence and determination! You are usually cautious and meticulous, and you are brave and firm at critical moments! Joseph, you have the potential to be a great commander. ”

"But I still don't know how to deal with His Excellency Lafayette." Joseph was a little apprehensive.

"I haven't seen the general today. But I think the general is a sensible person. "Why did you say that yesterday when you were so worried today?" ”

"Yesterday's situation, I had to do this. Even if the general thinks of me because of this, I must do it. "But General Lafayette was a very good man, and I always respected him, and I did not want to lose his friendship." ”

Joseph knew that Lafayette valued Carnot very much, so he also tried to use Kano to see if he could ease relations with Lafayette.

Cano laughed and said, "If General Lafayette was a man who put the interests of France before his own, he would not have bothered with you because of yesterday's events. And to be honest, what he did yesterday was really ungraceful. If he puts personal grievances ahead of the interests of France, then why do we need such a friend? Well, don't overthink it. We do things openly, as long as we are worthy of our conscience, why are we worried about so much? ”

That's a really Carnot-esque answer, and this man doesn't bother to explain it. It is probably impossible to count on him as an intermediary to communicate with Lafayette. Joseph thought.

At this time, a herald came in and said to Kano and Joseph, "The general has something to ask you two to come over." ”

Joseph and Carno went with the herald to Lafayette. Kano smiled at Joseph and said, "Don't worry, I'll support you." ”

When he met Lafayette, Joseph was still a little weak, but Lafayette did not mention yesterday's events at all. As usual, he just asked about the progress of some projects.

When the work was over, Joseph and Kano took their leave. Out of the door, Kano said to Joseph:

"Look, I'll just say that the general won't care about this."

When Joseph heard this, he just smiled, but thought to himself, "How can Kano be so straightforward?" Lafayette's refusal to mention it shows that he minded it. ”

Of course, if Lafayette took the initiative to mention this incident and comforted Joseph and told him not to care, Joseph was afraid that he would think that Lafayette was particularly useful again.

"'Can the contemptible husband be with the king? What they have not obtained, they will suffer. What is gained, what is lost. It seems that Confucius is talking about me. But this is really reasonable, worthy of the master. If Kano knew what was going on in my heart, he would have said the same about me. But at least one thing is guaranteed, and that is that Lafayette won't do anything to me anytime soon. Joseph thought.

It was quiet for a while, and Lafayette and his friends seemed to be in control. The king swore an oath to the Constitution, and Lafayette took a group of men who had split from the Jacobin Club and established a separate Fyan Club. He has forged an alliance with the "black party" that supports the king, as well as decent people who can afford to pay the election deposit, and seems to have firmly controlled the situation.

The remaining democrats, the remnants of the disbanded Cortrière Club, and the leftists who had been marginalized in government and parliament all threw themselves into Robespierre's Jacobin Club, and almost at the same time that the right had achieved a grand coalition, the left had quietly formed their grand coalition.

Now that Lafayette and his friends have gained the upper hand, they certainly hope to consolidate their position. So in Dupol, Barnaf and the Ramer brothers mentioned that they tried to take advantage of their current dominant position in parliament to amend the constitution, give the king more powers, restore some of the rights of the nobility, and set up an upper house in order to win over the "black party"; raising the electoral bond to ensure that all those who can be elected in the future are "decent people"; Allowing parliamentarians to be re-elected and allowing parliamentarians to concurrently serve as ministers to ensure long-term benefits for their own people.

Although, in terms of numbers, the Fiyans plus the Black Party, plus those who lean towards them, are already a majority in the parliament and are enough to pass such a resolution. But none of these proposals passed in the vote. Because it was not only the Jacobins who opposed these proposals, nor only a part of the "decent people" who leaned towards the republic, but also the entire black party.

Both King Louis XVI and Queen Mary are said to have agreed that Lafayette was a more formidable enemy than those Jacobins. This is also normal, the Jacobins did not have much power at the time. Their leader is just a civilian, (no way, in the understanding of the palace, civilians are all uninformed SB) What kind of waves can they afford? The Duke of Orleans, who was mixed with them, is not as good as before. He had been away from France for more than a crucial year, and by the time he returned, his power had almost been dispersed. Besides, that playboy is also a typical guy who can't do anything. If he really had the ability, he would not have driven Lafayette out of the country back then, and he would not have made a civilian chairman now. He also has the surname Bourbon? How could he have the surname Bourbon? He also deserves the surname Bourbon?

The king and queen had this view, and the people of the Count of Artois (younger brother of King Louis XVI) probably played a large role. The Count of Artois was the first nobleman to flee abroad, and he was also the most resolute in the counter-revolution of the nobles. In a sense, he was one of the people who Mirabeau had told the king and queen that he had been very wary of but who wanted to drink their blood the most. But now the king and queen really have no one to rely on, and the king and queen have never believed in Mirabeau.

It is true that the Fiyan faction gave many favors to the king and nobles, but in the eyes of the Black Party, those things were theirs. The Fyan guys only returned a small part of what they had stolen from them. Like the mobs, the Fyan guys aren't really any different - they're all damn rebels. Since they are all rebellious, of course, it is better to let the two rebellions kill each other. If they are on the stronger side and let them defeat the other rebellion in one brain, it does not seem to be a good thing to restore the bright sky of France.

In addition, there is another reason that makes the Black Party firmly on the side of Jacobin, and that is the Austrian attitude.

Since the failure of the king's escape, the royal couple and the royal party have pinned their hopes on military intervention in European countries, especially the queen's brother, the Austrian emperor. They felt that the French army was now deeply divided, and if the European countries united, they could easily defeat the French army and get France back on the "right track".

However, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria was not very enthusiastic about going to war with France, and the reason for his less-so-enthusiasm was that Catherine II the Great of Russia was very enthusiastic about intervening in France by armed force.

The royal families of Europe are all relatives, as long as they are slowly found in the family tree, any king and the king of another country can be close or far and close. Catherine the Great and Louis XVI insisted on finding it, and most of them could find some relatives. But Her Majesty's enthusiasm for armed intervention in the French Revolution was not in France, but in Poland.

At this time, the glory of beating Turkey has long been history, and the influence of the royal system and the one-vote veto system of the nobles has gradually weakened, and now it has changed from a lion in Eastern Europe to a little fat sheep that everyone loves. It's just that there are more wolves around the little fat sheep, and several wolves restrain each other, so that the little fat sheep can survive. And Russia is a wolf that covets this little fat sheep. If there is a war in Europe because of the intervention in France, with the size of France, this war will not end in a short time. Those countries bordering France, all their forces will be attracted to this war, and then in Eastern Europe, Russia will be able to do whatever it wants.

This plot could not be concealed from the Austrian Emperor Leopold II, so he did not want to start a war, and he even felt that if there was a constitutional monarchy, then the situation in France would be perfectly acceptable. Because he didn't want to lose both of France and France, he turned back to find that Poland had been divided between the Russians and the Prussians, and he didn't even leave him a sip of soup.

Therefore, in order for war to break out, the royal party must not allow the constitutional monarchy to succeed.