Nearly 20,000 workers, proletarians, artisans and petty traders in Paris broke out in an uprising, they seized the police station, troops and other weapons, and formed the Paris Workers' Self-Defense, and the Provisional Government hurriedly sent soldiers to suppress it, however, many soldiers defected, formed the Paris Soldiers' Self-Defense, and launched a civil war with the Provisional Government for the streets of Paris. These two self-defense forces, with workers and soldiers as the main body, were ready to seize Paris and resist the aggression of the Prussian army.

Outside the city, the Prussian army could not care about Paris, they deployed half of their troops in the northwest and east of Paris to prevent French reinforcements from rushing to the rescue of Paris, and the other half of the troops were all deployed in the southwest of the town of Versailles, which was heavily guarded, because their king Wilhelm I would soon be crowned in this Versailles palace and become the emperor of the German Empire!

Under the operation of Prussian Prime Minister Bismarck, as early as after the siege of Paris and the capture of Versailles, the Kingdom of Prussia began to brew the establishment of the German Empire, and now, the French Provisional Government has also surrendered on behalf of France, Paris is also ready to be desirable, and the time has come for the king to officially ascend the throne and become the emperor.

After a few days of waiting, several kingdoms and principalities of the German Union had already sent delegations to Versailles, and the coronation of Wilhelm I as Emperor of the German Empire officially began.

The choice of Versailles to hold the coronation ceremony in the French territory was purely an insult to France, and it was also a declaration to the whole of Europe and the world that Prussia had completely unified the German Confederation and established the Holy Roman Empire.

The coronation ceremony officially began.

Wilhelm I wore the uniform of the Prussian field marshal, a German pointed helmet with Germanic characteristics, and several medals of merit were hung from the collar of his military uniform to the placket, including the Iron Cross when he was a second lieutenant officer when he was young, and the Grand Cross of Merit Medal he made when he was a major general, and on his chest he also hung the Brandenburg Order of the Red Eagle and the Berlin Silver Medal, holding a scepter, which looked very solemn.

A group of cardinals of the French diocese who were improvised and the Protestant archbishops of Bavaria were crowned at the same time. When they saw William I coming, they all stepped forward to greet him. William I looked at them and laughed.

Behind Wilhelm I, a group of Prussian Junker knights wearing silver-white masks, all of whom were generals in the Prussian army and officers of other Bavarian, Hesse, Hanoverian, Saxony, and other armies, drew their bright matching swords, raised them vigorously and stabbed them into the air, and shouted: "Please Your Majesty ascend the throne and become Emperor of the German Empire!" ”

The bishops were stunned, their faces changed greatly, and they came back to their senses in the middle of the ring, and hurriedly sang hymns together. The four cardinals carried the elaborate crown over, Wilhelm I couldn't wait to take off the German spired helmet on his head, the archbishops put the crown on the head of Wilhelm I, and he officially became the emperor of the German Empire!

And precisely because all the attention of the Prussian army was focused on the transformation of their king into the emperor of the German Empire, they did not notice that the changes had begun in the city of Paris.

In just three days, the people of Paris formed 90 battalions, amounting to more than 30,000 people. A large number of weapons and munitions were obtained, a national guard was formed in Paris, mainly workers and soldiers, and, after elections, an army of five battalions elected a commissar, because the leaders of the army were mostly workers-born activists and envied the ideal of an equal social life, so these leaders formed the Paris Commune of the proletarian armed forces of Paris, elected Louis Eugène Valland as president, Bautier as vice-president, and 18 permanent members, Twenty men formed the organization of the Paris Commune, which led the entire Paris insurrectionary army.

At the same time, the Paris Commune also recruited ordinary members, but these members were very demanding, at least they were officers or workers' leaders with a certain appeal, and many other citizens with a certain prestige. There were more than 5,000 ordinary members of the Paris Commune, and these members were the backbone of the insurrectionary army.

The French Provisional Government mobilized all the troops in the city to suppress the National Guard. However, most of the French army was dragged into a confrontation with Prussia, and only 30,000 soldiers launched an attack on the National Guard. The 30,000 soldiers of the Provisional Government seized the Montmartre Heights, but when they seized the Montmartre Heights, the nearby residents were awakened, and the cannons were looted and were about to be demolished to ensure that the Prussian troops outside the city would not be affected by the entry into the city.

All the Parisians were outraged. The National Guard fighters in the area immediately assembled, and the population, including many women, children and the elderly, joined the SDF soldiers on the heights of Montmartre. The government soldiers who had come to suppress it, seeing that their relatives were also opposed to them, mutinied, acted in concert with the population, and arrested military officers, police officers and gendarmes of the Provisional Government. Before the government forces who had stolen the two heights could dismantle and carry away the artillery, they were routed by the people led by the National Guard and the members of the Commune.

The whole of Paris, including parts of the city, especially the workers' concentrations, responded to the reaction, and the armed uprising broke out quickly. The National Guard and the population searched for weapons, set up barricades and sentry posts, sent out patrols, and concentrated scattered artillery. The Central Committee of the National Guard took urgent measures to lead the armed uprising, occupying most of the neighbourhoods and capturing the War Department and a number of other military institutions and strongholds. Frightened, the Provisional Government forces and gendarmes fled to the Palace of Versailles, southwest of Paris.

By the next morning, the National Guard had entered the Hôtel de Ville, raised the red flag, and the rebels had taken control of the whole city, and the whole of Paris was brought under the rule of the Paris Commune.

The French Provisional Government, which had fled to Versailles, asked Bismarck, who had become Prime Minister of the German Empire, for assistance. Bismarck directly set the conditions, and was ready to let the French Provisional Government increase the price of another 1 billion francs to release some of the captured French troops, totaling 50,000 people. But Wilhelm I, who had just ascended the throne as Emperor of Germany, and other Junker generals did not agree, and their ambitions were even greater, and they were ready to take advantage of the civil strife in Paris to directly capture Paris. What they want is the direct annexation of France, at least the northern half of France, including Paris, not just Lorraine, Alsace and Luxembourg and 1 billion francs.

Bismarck did his best to prevent it, believing that Prussia, though now strong, was not so powerful as to ignore the whole of Europe. The French army still had a lot of strength, the Lyon and Tours, Marseille and Bordeaux regiments, etc., plus the reserve troops, at least 200,000 troops. And the millions of people in Paris are not so easy to occupy. Therefore, he suggested that the French should be left to fight among themselves, abandoning Paris, asking for more benefits, and then occupying the occupied areas in northern France.

Wilhelm I was finally persuaded by Bismarck to give up the idea of attacking Paris, but put forward new and harsher conditions directly, and asked the French Provisional Government to sign a new agreement to directly release all French prisoners totaling 100,000 troops, but all the areas occupied by the German army except for 80 kilometers from Paris were transferred to the German Empire, and 3 billion francs were compensated.

This condition was extremely harsh, but the French Provisional Government, which had no bottom line, did not bargain, agreed to it and quickly signed a good agreement.

Two days later, the German Kaiser and Chancellor left Versailles with German troops. The reason why the troops were transferred away was that they were very satisfied with the conditions promised by the French Provisional Government, and second, the war in France had ended, and the German Empire's troops on the eastern and western fronts were tight, and the German Empire hurriedly ended the war with France in order to concentrate on dealing with the attacking Britain, Tsarist Russia, and the Austrian Empire.

As for the reparations from the French side, there must be no problem. With more than 100,000 troops, it is impossible to capture Paris occupied by ordinary mobs.

On this side, the French Provisional Government collected more than 40,000 stragglers, plus 100,000 captives returned by the German Empire, a total of 140,000 troops, to attack Paris from the direction of Versailles.