The resolution of the National Assembly on the night of 4 August expressed the French government's compromise with a nationwide rural uprising and the recognition that they should have basic 'human rights'. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The democratic radical politicians of the municipal council stood in front of the crowds everywhere, impassionedly proclaiming that the rebirth of France was about to begin, that all people would be equal under the fair and just provisions of the law, and that the entire kingdom of France would completely abolish the barriers of all provinces, as well as any form of privilege and aristocratic church taxes!

The people no longer have to bear heavy tithes and all sorts of lords' taxes that they inexplicably look at, but from this moment on, they only have to pay taxes to their homeland, the great and noble Kingdom of France!

Of course, these cries were fabricated by the democratic radicals who took the opportunity to expand their influence, and in the provincial cities where the municipal councils had been reorganized by the revolution at the bottom, the resolutions of the National Constituent Assembly would naturally be carried out thoroughly, while the large and middle-sized nobles of these provinces fled with their families to other regions, or even to exile.

The reason why these feudal nobles fled was not that the mob stormed their castles, but that they were afraid of the power that would break out of the people's revolution!

Compared with the great nobles who held huge resources in the Kingdom of France, those small and medium-sized nobles were the ones who suffered the most, because they enjoyed the privileges of the nobility, but their power was weak, and after the decree of the National Constituent Assembly, except for some provinces in the west and south of the Kingdom of France, where the aristocratic power was deeply entrenched, the other provincial aristocratic privileges were dealt a devastating blow!

Hierarchical distinctions, privileges, and localism were swept away, and from then on all French people had the same rights, the same obligations, any profession, the same taxes, a real unity of the land, the overlapping framework of the old France was dismantled, and local customary laws and provincial and municipal privileges ceased to exist!

It can be said that the resolution on the night of August 4 not only excavated the privileged class of the old forces of the Kingdom of France, but also broke all the barriers between the provinces and the town hall, and under the frenzied spread of patriotism, people consciously began to abide by the resolution of the National Constituent Assembly on the night of August 4, and the regular French army of the provinces, which had been on the sidelines, turned into a national guard that supported the revolution, the red, white and blue tricolor flag flew high over the entire Kingdom of France, and the fleur-de-lis flag removed the right to bear the French flag.

Even those provinces with strong religious power and feudal aristocracy did not dare to rise against this trend, let alone face the National Guard forces in other French provinces with absolute superiority in numbers, even in their own provinces, there are a lot of popular emotions to be appeased!

Therefore, these provinces with strong old power still complied with the decision of the French government on the surface, and began to symbolically cancel privileges and taxes, however, these old power bosses, who held a large number of connections and resources in the Kingdom of France, did not have any counterattack power.

Over time, the original decision to abolish all privileges and taxes was accompanied by additional provisions, such as the abolition of personal rights, but the right to attach to land was declared redeemable.

This article does not contradict the purpose of abolishing privileges at all, because the land deeds and other documents of these lands belong to the nobles, and they cannot be deprived of each other's property without compensation, and the equality of everyone does not mean that the people are higher than the nobles, and the things of the common people cannot be forcibly taken, let alone the nobles?

This alone allowed the tax between the lord and the farmer to continue to be preserved in a different way!

The peasants were liberated, but their land was not liberated, and if the peasants still wanted to continue cultivating the land to support themselves, they had to pay the land rent, which was a legal rent, because the nobles provided the land, and the peasants provided the labor, which was a fair and reasonable contract transaction!

Of course, since privileges and taxes were abolished, the peasants and nobles were 'equal' at the legal level, and they had the right to buy the cultivated land!

Unfortunately, thanks to the efforts of the old forces, the conditions of the redemption method laid down by the National Constituent Assembly were extremely harsh, and the French government did not require the lords and nobles to show any proof of their land rights, nor did they require them to show any proof of the contracts that their ancestors had concluded with the peasants!

You know, the value of the land is basically estimated by these deeds and land rights certificates, and as a result, the lord does not need to show any documents publicizing the price of the land, and how much the land will be sold for is not up to the noble lord himself?

How much money can a gang of peasants have to buy land ownership from a noble lord who is asking for a lot of money?

It can be said that this additional clause preserves to the greatest extent the interests of the liberal aristocracy and the bourgeois landlords, who have no 'privileges' and no taxes, but who can still collect all forms of rent from the peasants as before!

However, the details of such legal texts are not revealed by the French government, so the rural mob sees only the abolition of privileges, the disappearance of exorbitant taxes, and the broken human class for the time being.

Naturally, the French government won a national political victory, and the Kingdom of France, which had been on the verge of civil war a moment earlier, was restored to normal in just one week, and the municipal councils of the provinces had no reason to reject this resolution, which was completely in line with the ideas of the Revolution, and no one dared to blatantly offend the anger of the public to refuse to carry it out!

It can be said that most of the entire French kingdom completed the destruction of the privileged class during the period from August 5th to August 11th, although the church forces and the feudal aristocratic forces retained some of their own interests, their privileges were completely gone, even if they could still live on land rent, but the superior rights of the nobles, such as the right to the first night, the right to hunt, the right to territorial jurisdiction, etc., were all gone!

The church has lost tithes, an important source of revenue.

The French government seemed to have taken care of the plebeian class and retained some of the rights of the feudal aristocracy and ecclesiastical power, but in fact it was tantamount to offending them all.

Even King Louis XVI came to his senses afterwards, because too many feudal nobles who supported him complained to King Louis XVI, and the night of August 4 not only wiped out the feudal nobles and monks and archbishops who had persecuted King Louis XVI in the first place, but also included those court nobles and other sword-wielding feudal nobles who had always supported King Louis XVI.

King Louis XVI could no longer sit idly by and watch the Diaoyutai period, and during the National Constituent Assembly's implementation of the resolution to abolish privileges and taxes, King Louis XVI refused to sign any form of document on the abolition of privileges and entered into a complete non-cooperative attitude with the National Constituent Assembly in order to win the hearts and minds of his supporters of the old power.

Of course, the actions of King Louis XVI did not really hinder the implementation of the resolution on the night of August 4, except for the aristocratic forces of the king's line to find their backbone.

The National Constituent Assembly, with its legislative powers, which it had hidden from King Louis XVI, could easily carry out this policy.

Just as Jia Xu had predicted, the entire Kingdom of France was changed because of this peasant revolution, and its influence was even more powerful than the Paris Revolution at the beginning!

However, the Paris Revolution was a milestone in the first shot of the bourgeois revolution, and it was much more significant than this peasant revolution, because the French government would not admit that they had made the decision on the night of August 4 because they were afraid of the peasant revolution, and the National Constituent Assembly easily piled all the glory on the French government, and it was this 'advanced' political organization that enabled the rebirth of the Kingdom of France after the revolution.

Naturally, the system of the National Constituent Assembly was also recognized throughout the Kingdom of France, which was considered to be the glorious future of the Kingdom of France, except for the old power classes whose interests had been damaged.

When the French government carried out this resolution, it naturally did not forget the French Foreign Legion in the Paris region, and tens of thousands of national guards began to gather to prevent any accidents, and a military order signed by the French government was sent to Lin Haoda, asking him to stop the continuous suppression and massacre of the long-disbanded peasant rebel army, and not to enter the city of Paris.

The French Foreign Legion was located on a plain between Versailles and Paris, and the French government promised to take care of their supplies, but until the French government made a new move, Lin Haoda's French Foreign Legion was not allowed to make any out-of-the-ordinary military action, otherwise it would be considered treason!

It can be said that the French government that quelled the peasant revolution that broke out in the whole country, broke the barriers between the provinces and transformed almost all the former French regular army into the National Guard, and some had the confidence to give any order to Lin Haoda, and the Marquis de Lafayette was no longer afraid of the rebellion of the French Foreign Legion.

In August 1789, when the French government was at its strongest, the whole country was immersed in the revelry of breaking all the old system and privileges, the peasants and burghers at the bottom were preparing to enjoy the fruits of their self-righteous victory, and did not find any irrationality in the details of the laws issued by the French government, while the old power classes were rushing to visit and began to gather their own forces to prepare for the National Constituent Assembly!

This time, they will not choose a military confrontation in which they are in a weak position in all aspects, and the National Assembly will become a battlefield for the old power class!

However, in Lin Haoda's vision, it seemed that the Kingdom of France was really about to usher in a period of real unification, and he once again approached Jia Xu to discuss countermeasures.