Chapter 1340: Follow-up News from Europe
In the following half a month, news from Europe was still being sent to Feng Yunshan's hands.
Sure enough, to Feng Yunshan's surprise, after the strong demands and appeals of the German Empire, the British and Austrian Empires stopped attacking it. The Russians, on the other hand, because of the British withdrawal and the fact that they had taken back St. Petersburg, also agreed to temporarily stop fighting with the German Empire and accumulate strength. And the area they rule, in the name of
As a result, the German Empire was able to concentrate its domestic forces against the workers' revolts in Frankfurt, Munich, and other areas of workers' revolt, suppressing these workers' commune organizations and preventing the newly formed German Empire from becoming a people's commune republic. However, even so, the German Empire did not dare to withdraw its troops from the border, and they were always on guard against the Russian invasion of Belarus and East Prussia, as well as the Austrian invasion of Bohemia. As a result, Germany's forces were somewhat insufficient. If more troops were to be gathered to suppress the workers' revolt at home, there was no way to continue to increase the number of troops to attack France; If they had to send more troops to attack France, the workers' revolt at home would also give them a headache, and in the end, the German Empire would concentrate its forces on suppressing the workers' revolt at home.
On the French side, after Tsarist Russia and Prussia, this time became the focus of Europe. All the countries have their eyes on Paris in France, and they are paying close attention to the French People's Commune Republic, which was formed by the workers and soldiers of Paris, but for the rest of Europe, they prefer to call it the Paris Commune.
In fact, not only other European countries paid close attention to the Paris Commune, but even many places in France were closely watching this force in Paris. In industrial cities with a high proportion of workers, such as Caen, Nantes, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, etc., tens or even tens of thousands of workers rioted.
However, after hearing that the Republic of the People's Commune in Paris had proclaimed the Republic of the People's Commune of France, and that the workers and soldiers of other cities were welcome to join it, it was not until Lyon and Marseille, two regions where the workers' revolt had been successful, declared themselves to be incorporated into the Republic. Just when the rest of the country wanted to join in, a group of aristocrats, farm owners, and industrial capitalists in France launched a counter-offensive, organizing mercenaries and peasants to attack the areas where the workers revolted.
It was at this time that the Honorary Leader of the People's Republic of Ireland, Mecas, stood up and made a powerful appeal to the proletariat of the world to unite and help the Paris Commune in carrying out the proletarian revolution and consolidating the victorious fruits of the workers' uprising. Under his organization, tens of thousands of Irish militants took advantage of the fact that the British fleet in the English Channel was still in the Baltic Sea and rushed to various French cities of Haihe Port, Nantes, Bordeaux, Brest and other places. With their help, the major industrial cities of France were soon occupied by the workers' rebels, who declared themselves to join the French Commune republics in Paris.
At the same time, Blanqui, the executive vice president of the Paris Commune, was also persuaded by Uhgus to launch a public statement of the Paris Commune at the right time: all French workers and soldiers, even peasants and other hired laborers, as long as they are proletarians, can join the Paris Commune and jointly own the huge wealth of the Paris Commune, the wealth of tens of billions of francs! Moreover, Blanqui, in his capacity as president of the People's Commune Republic, appealed to the proletariat of all France and even of Europe to launch an attack on the local governments and the capitalists, to deprive them of all rights and property, all of which were jointly owned by the proletariat.
At the same time, the invisible president of the Paris Commune also announced that in response to the call of Mr. Maccas, the revolutionary mentor of the Irish People's Republic, he welcomed proletarian workers from all over the world to come to Paris, join the Paris Commune, become a part of the People's Commune Republic, and jointly build a beautiful and democratic France.
Under this influence, all parts of France were boiling, not only did all the workers of the industrial cities revolt in power one after another, but even the soldiers who had gone to suppress the workers' uprisings in various places also defected, taking prisoners of all the estates, nobles and factory owners, and confiscating property, land, houses, machinery and factories, minerals and crops, etc.
Under such circumstances, some of the remaining nobles, landowners, and factory owners in France cried out for help from the outside world, and Britain, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Belgium suspended all disputes and sent troops to invade France and form a temporary anti-French alliance, eager to quell the proletarian revolution caused by the workers' uprising. They knew that the workers' revolt that swept through France and Spain was more terrible than the French Revolution more than seventy years ago and the European Revolution eighteen years earlier, and that the fire would consume all of Europe, including their respective countries.
When Feng Yunshan saw this, he couldn't help laughing.
The more industrially advanced and industrially developed the city of the workers' revolution, the more workers there are, especially the more literate and knowledgeable workers nowadays become, the more they will feel oppressed, and then they will launch riots to overthrow the existing rule. Coupled with the example of the Paris Commune, the wealth of tens of billions of francs was directly controlled by the Paris Commune composed of workers. Moreover, since the Irish had succeeded in gaining independence, and now the French workers' uprising had been almost successful, it was no wonder that the European powers did not fear that their regime would be overthrown by the workers at home.
The most important thing is that these workers have a leader, unlike the previous European workers' revolutions, which were scattered and went their own way. Now there are Maccas, Umgus and others, although they may not be able to fight the conspirator of the Paris Commune called Blanqui, but it is enough to be used to rally the workers who believe in them.
In particular, Britain has had a great reduction in strength and insufficient troops, and the recent turmoil among the workers in the country has only temporarily subsided, but large-scale demonstrations have never been completely eradicated, and Britain, which has more than 10 million workers, is now afraid that it will have to reap its own bitter consequences.
In this way, even if the countries of Europe are not attacking each other, they will not be able to stabilize at least for a short time. Moreover, the French workers seized power, and the workers said they were proletarians, but in fact many of them were ruffians and hooligans, as well as some opportunistic politicians and blind followers. Feng Yunshan had already learned from the news that soon after the Paris Commune took power in Paris, the army of the Paris Commune captured the French archbishop, and without saying anything, he paraded and demonstrated him, regarded him as a heresy, burned him to death, and imprisoned all the other Catholics, executed them, or sent them to the mines in the suburbs.
France, which has changed from a strong defender of European Catholicism during the Napoleon III period to a saboteur today, has seriously destroyed the power of European Catholicism, aroused strong hostility from the Holy See, and openly called on the whole world to save the Holy See and tear up the heresy of the Paris Commune.