Chapter 1829: Angoulême's Old Minister

Of course, the refugees, while behaving in a disciplined manner, would also embarrass François I. For example, every time a foreign envoy entered the city, the representatives of the victims would enter the city at the same time, and would prevent François I from stepping down in front of the foreign envoy.

He wanted to expel the representatives of the people's will, but they were very well-behaved and did not do anything unruly. If you want to expel them, it's hard to find an excuse. Moreover, the foreign envoys were also very curious about the refugees surrounding the city of Paris, and often went out of the city to see the freshness, which made the French kingdom very faceless.

Among them, the British envoys were the most diligent. Lately, as if to see the French joke, Edward has frequently sent envoys to Paris to cooperate with the representatives of the people. If the petitioning delegates were stopped by the guards, the English envoys would deliberately intercede for them, so that it would be difficult for the French to refuse, and it would be very difficult for them not to refuse......

In fact, not all victims are honest. The reason why he is so honest is because Marin's men have purged those who are not honest.

In the beginning, seeing the hundreds of thousands of people who had lost their land, there were indeed a small number of careerists who planned to imitate Robin Hood to start an uprising or something, which was better than being addicted to being the leader. As for whether he dies in the future or not, it doesn't matter. Anyway, they are all dying of starvation, so it is better to be a robber to loot the nobles first and live a life of big fish and meat for a while.

But there are too many North Sea spies mixed in with this group of refugees, and if they revolt...... Marin really thought about it, but he thought of these inexperienced victims against the fierce French knights...... That's basically food delivery, right?

Therefore, Marin directly issued a kill order, asking those spies to pretend to be official French agents, and killed those who incited the people to revolt.

Frightened by this, the victims also came to their senses and knew that they could not do anything about it. and those who are not awake will continue to be cleaned up......

Along the way, hundreds of militants among the dishonest people who wanted to rebel were killed by Beihai spies in the name of "secret agents of the French court". By the time they arrived in Paris, there were no "monkeys" who dared to jump out and make trouble.

In addition, the Beihai Kingdom also sent French-speaking spies who had served in the army to reorganize the victims, organize them into several camps according to their hometowns, and select middle-aged and elderly people with high prestige from among the victims to serve as leaders of the victims in various places.

These middle-aged and elderly leaders of the victims of the disaster have lived for many years and are very familiar with the people and things in their hometowns. In addition, after many contacts, I became familiar with the disaster victims under my management. It's not ordinarily difficult for outsiders to get in.

Because of this kind of fragmented management similar to the armor protection system, the people sent by King François I to incite the disturbance were quickly found out and kicked out, which made François I and his ministers very helpless.

Therefore, François I then listened to the advice of his ministers and deliberately provided only a small amount of food, so that the people could only drink thin food. After a few days, many people were hungry. It was in this way that François I wanted to force the victims away and make them go to various cities to earn a living.

However, Marin also had a way to deal with it - he asked those spies to secretly cross the Seine River and deliver food to the victimized camps in the middle of the night. Then, it was mixed with the small amount of grain allocated by François I and cooked thin porridge for the victims.

In addition, in order to ensure that the leaders of the local area could help calm the victims, Marin also secretly sent people to deliver bread through the Seine River into the camp in the middle of the night. Then, when the chiefs went to the tents in the main meeting area, they were each given black bread......

With enough to eat, these local leaders of the victims were naturally not in a hurry, and they also worked hard to help comfort the victims. Although the victims were hungry and complained, the leaders had spoken, and the thorns had already been killed, so naturally no one would jump out.

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François I was depressed, and he was helpless that both of his methods had been defused by the victims. He didn't even know that someone was targeting him, thinking that the victims could endure it.

In the face of people like Gandhi who did not resist violently, François I also experienced the depression of later generations of English. Do you want to kill each other? They didn't take violent measures......

Although this method is despised, the effect is not so good. However, the index of disgusting people is definitely high. This non-violent method of non-cooperation makes people want to kill but cannot find an excuse.

If something like this happened in the colony, maybe it could be drastic. Anyway, you can't see anything about the distant colonies.

However, it would be very disgusting if this happened in the capital......

The capital is generally known as the best place, although it is bragging, but it is indeed the face of a country. Hundreds of thousands of victims surrounded the city in Paris, and if there was a hot search in this era, it would definitely rank first in the hot search, making François I faceless.

In desperation, François I had to find a way to solve the problem. It just so happened that he was going to build several inland shipyards, which required a large number of craftsmen. As a result, the carpenters, who were not very old, were recruited away, and there were several thousand of them.

But most of the rest of the people have no skills, and the French court naturally looks down on them. And the thousands of carpenters also took their families away, a total of about 16,000 people.

However, this is also the limit. After all, because of the war and the effects of smallpox, the French court had huge expenditures and even deficits. So, there wasn't that much money to resettle the victims. Being able to arrange thousands of carpenters is already the limit of the French royal family. This is also because the French crown can collect taxes from the French church.

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At a time when François I and his courtiers were having a headache for the more than 300,000 "well-behaved" victims around Paris, one of François I's trusted ministers, John Brown. Rafi, however, is secretly doing one thing - fooling people......

In a large French restaurant in Paris, John . . . Raffi is entertaining a banquet for Baron Beaugur, a close confidant of François I. This Baron Bogur, although his identity is not engaged in and his IQ is average, he has an identity that people pay attention to - Angoulême's former minister!

The so-called former courtiers of Angoulême refer to the courtiers of François I when he was the Count of Angoulême before he became King of France.

Of course, at the age of four he was given the title of "Duke of Valois", becoming the first in line to the throne of the Kingdom of France. But the Duke of Valois was only an honorific title, and had no actual fief. Moreover, at that time, people did not know whether Louis XII would have a male heir left, so they would not really see him as a crown prince, at most as a spare tire for the crown prince.

Therefore, the real identity of François I at that time was the great lord of the county of Angoulême in the Charente region. And his former ministers in the county of Angoulême, known as the "former ministers of Angoulême", are also the most trusted group after François I ascended the throne.