321 Golden Youth
At the end of 1793, it was undoubtedly a rare 'lucky time' for Lin Haoda, a large number of loans came as promised, and with the efforts of the French bourgeoisie, the French navy, which was extremely hostile to Lin Haoda's regime, became neutral, and no longer intercepted and plundered merchant ships that served Lin Haoda's power, on the condition that Lin Haoda divided some neutral supply ports for the original French fleet, allowed them to dock and would not send troops to 'intimidate' them.
The influx of a large number of strong foreign currencies and metal currencies that did not depreciate has better mobilized the labor enthusiasm of the French civilians, and under the lure of not arrears of wages, a large number of French young people have re-poured into the construction sites, various factories and even the arsenals that have ceased production, and the minerals that had been stopped from mining have also resumed production, and the magic of money is far more effective than the high-pressure policy, and it has also eliminated the hostility of many French civilians.
For the first time, the French lands under Lin Haoda's control ushered in the restoration of productivity, rather than destruction and population loss.
However, the French bourgeoisie knew that this was only a temporary appearance, and that when the first loans were used up, it would be the end of the return of the French plebeians to the state of 'salted fish', and would completely lose confidence in the government, and provoke even greater riots, because by that time the French plebeians would find that they could not afford to eat even the worst black bread!
As a result, the French bourgeoisie made a very creative proposal for comprehensive integration to Lin Haoda.
The French bourgeoisie wanted to replace all the local police and security forces in the occupied territories with 'propertied soldiers', which they called 'golden youth'.
It was a group of local armed men from propertied families, who were beneficiaries of the bourgeois constitution of the French bourgeoisie and who were relatively wealthy in their own right, and who naturally did not betray the present regime.
Many of today's local security forces are from the ordinary citizen class, and they are easily infected by the emotions of sans-culottes, which can cause social instability, so they need a more reliable group of people to maintain local rule.
After all, Lin Haoda's Young Guards are limited in number, and they are simply unable to undertake the work of the public security police in the vast occupied areas, so they naturally hope that a group of people with the same interests can take on the responsibility of local police security.
Therefore, it is no surprise that the Golden Youth Project passed the consent of Lin Haoda and completed the vote with an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
Next, a large number of golden youths took over the weapons of the original local police force and became the new local security force!
The progress of the Golden Youth Project and the slow replenishment of logistics materials allowed Lin Haoda to finally continue the foreign war.
First of all, Lin Haoda directly supplied almost all the military supplies to the 50,000 young guards in the Marseille theater, launched several large-scale counteroffensive campaigns, and beat the Italian mercenaries of the menacing Count of Provence all the way back to the territory of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and even broke through the French border and entered the Savoy region belonging to the Kingdom of Sardinia, surrounding the city of Chambéry!
As a result, the Young Guards paid only 10,000 casualties, while the total number of Italian mercenaries they defeated exceeded 100,000!
Compared with the disgraceful record of the Italian mercenaries under the command of the Count of Provence, the number was smaller, but the troops of the Marquis de Lafayette, which was composed entirely of Frenchmen, survived under the main attack of Lin Haoda, the Marquis of Lafayette mainly relied on the fortress and repaired fortifications to defend to the death, and the Young Guards played the role of attackers, and the two sides fought a fierce offensive and defensive battle in the Verdun area for three months, and the Marquis de Lafayette relied on the continuous support of the European powers in the rear to support the imperialism tenaciously.
Even Lin Haoda saw a lot of elite German mercenaries in the troops of the Marquis de Lafayette!
Many cities and positions that were already about to be captured, because of these new elite German mercenaries, the Young Guard paid a higher price!
With the support of the European powers, the Marquis de Lafayette's artillery was not inferior to Lin Haoda, but Lin Haoda was unable to use fire suppression as open as he did at the beginning because of the lack of logistics and materials, which is why the Young Guards fought so hard.
After three months of fierce fighting, the Young Guards paid a full 30,000 men to capture the fortress of Verdun, but the remnants of the Marquis de Lafayette, who had retreated to the Sedan region, still had the strength to fight with the blood of the European powers!
That's when Lady Luck arrived!
The Polish lands, which were divided between the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Austria, and the Kingdom of Prussia, broke out in a large-scale national independence uprising by Polish nationalists.
It has to be said that the large-scale outbreak of the Polish national uprising was baptized by many French revolutionary ideas, and the Empress Catherine of the Russian Empire was greatly annoyed, and she threatened that this time she would no longer give the Poles any chance of autonomy, and that she would completely destroy the Polish nation and make them slaves of the 'advanced civilization' of Europe!
The Russian Empire, the most well-armed, quickly formed a large expeditionary force and began to suppress the Polish national uprising with great momentum.
Austria then joined the feast, and the Kingdom of Prussia was the most supportive of the Marquis de Lafayette, and many of the troops actually joined the Marquis de Lafayette as mercenaries, resisting the Young Guard, and the reaction was the most slow.
The rhythm of the Polish national rebel army being beaten by the Russian expeditionary force made the Kingdom of Prussia and Austria see the opportunity to annex their territory, after all, there were still many autonomous cities in Poland at this time, and the Republic of Poland actually existed.
Under the will of Empress Catherine, this time the Polish nation will completely disappear, and the Russians will not allow the Poles to have any chance of rising again!
In the face of the weaker Poles, the anti-French alliance that the European powers had reached suddenly collapsed, among which the strongest Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Austria and the Kingdom of Prussia, in order to carve up Poland have launched a military alliance against France, the Kingdom of Prussia even transferred all the German mercenaries to the east in an attempt to seize the territory, but unfortunately, because the Kingdom of Prussia was one step slower, it became the party that gained the least benefits from the destruction of the Polish nation, of course, this is all an afterthought, Now that the military power of the three major powers of the European continent is all used on the Poles, it is definitely a great opportunity for Lin Haoda, and a devastating annexation war is about to begin!