Chapter 84: How to deal with Lin Haoda
On the night of July 17, 1789, although there was still a restless dark current, the fighting and bloodshed on the surface had stopped, and the National Guard, which was unable to attack in the city of Paris, was consciously defended by Lin Haoda's army, and quietly awaited news in the direction of the Palace of Versailles. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After spending several hours at the Paris City Hall, Lin Haoda returned to the more fortified Bastille with his personal guards for safety reasons......
The Hôtel de Ville may have been a good political stronghold before the king bowed his head, and it could have dealt a severe blow to the morale of the revolutionary masses, but now......
It was just a well-decorated town hall......
After completing the task of the all-out war system, the gains and losses of the Paris City Hall have become insignificant to Lin Haoda, he will not take the initiative to withdraw the defensive forces of the Paris City Hall, but he will not hold there regardless of casualties!
From a purely military point of view, the Bastille was a fortress of war conducive to defense, a large number of ammunition and food from the National Guard, as well as useful living materials looted from the houses in the occupied areas of the city of Paris, under the labor of the numb revolutionary prisoners of war, one by one were pushed into the well-guarded Bastille, and the main road leading to the Bastille in the city of Paris was lit with torches throughout the night of the 17th. The line infantry used bayonets and leather whips to drive the young men of the revolutionary prisoners of war, and kept transporting Lin Haoda's trophies.
As for the civilians in the occupied areas of Lin Haoda's army, he did not order an unconditional massacre, but restrained them and used them as coolies, and in the battle to capture the Paris City Hall, most of the ordinary citizens of Paris who were affected either fled in advance or joined the sequence of resistance and became armed citizens chanting freedom slogans, so the number of ordinary Parisian citizens who survived and were captured by the line infantry was not large......
If the revolutionary government did not recognize Lin Haoda's status as an armed force and forced him to disband the army, these poor prisoners of war and innocent civilians of the National Guard would be Lin Haoda's 'sacrifices' before the war with the revolutionary government!
These thousands of Parisians and prisoners of war were important political resources.
During the battle, a large number of casualties among the citizens could not be relied on by the revolutionary government, so how could there be no immortal in the revolution?
Bread and freedom do not fall on the heads of ordinary people out of thin air, and this truth is clear even to the illiterate citizens of Paris!
However, if the revolutionary government had to go to war in the city of Paris in vain in the tragic deaths of thousands of Parisian citizens and prisoners of war, they would have to carefully consider the feelings of the group of sans-culottes below, and many of the prisoners in Lin Haoda's hands had relatives and friends among the officers and men of the National Guard, which had been seriously expanded!
These things cannot be concealed by the revolutionary government, and the city of Paris is very large, but the dense flow of people is enough for any news to spread quickly!
Lin Haoda would not put himself in opposition to the whole of France for the sake of the little historical shattering point provided by thousands of captives, that would be real stupidity!
The butcher is not guilty, but the butcher who is not strong enough, that is the fate of the thousand men who have no place to die!
On the night of the 17th, the Palace of Versailles was no less tranquil than the city of Paris, and the aristocracy and the high clergy, who had learned that the king's authority had shrunk, plunged headlong into the whirlpool of power bargains, and the nobles without that ability were afraid of the cruelty of the revolution of the Parisian citizens, and felt that the future security of living around these men who dared to commit crimes was too tricky.
I don't know how many conservative aristocratic forces began to plan to transfer their family power and funds, some to cities with strong aristocratic power in France, and some simply to go abroad completely......
Anyway, their fiefdom property in France was still legal, and neither the revolutionary regime nor the Marquis de Lafayette revealed any intention of depriving the nobles of their fiefs, and no one dared to make such a proposal to offend the entire French high society in France, where the aristocracy was powerful!
The French aristocratic fiefdom system is more entrenched than the Glorious Revolution of the English Empire, and the success of this people's revolution is not only due to the widespread spread of enlightened ideas and the food crisis caused by the famine in France, but also the absolute factor is the result of the power struggle between the upper nobility and the clergy and King Louis XVI!
Among the initiators of the revolutionary regime, the leaders of the patriotic party, there were a large number of people who were themselves aristocrats, and most of them, if not nobles, were capitalists and bankers with a lot of money!
Even Maximilien François Marie Isidor de Robespierre, who represented the lower classes, was himself a wealthy man......
From Robespierre's long name, it can be seen that the other party's family background cannot be a low-level commoner......
It was the resistance of the bourgeoisie of the first, second and third estates to Louis XVI's royal autocracy that broke out this revolution, and King Louis XVI, who was constrained by various forces, was unable to mobilize the reactionary army of France to suppress the revolution, and the only 20,000 foreign mercenaries who could fully control it became a hairless 'phoenix' after the defeat of the First World War......
The aristocracy and the revolutionary regime would not remove the king, but it was clear that a new king, the benevolent Louis XVI, could be replaced......
However, the victory of the revolution also caused panic among many nobles, who suddenly discovered that the clay legs, who they had despised before, broke out so terrifying!
This is why many nobles began to transfer family members.
After leaving on the busy and quiet night of the 17th, the Marquis de Lafayette's National Guard appeared outside Versailles on the morning of July 18 very punctually.
Louis XVI with a decadent look and Maria in fancy dress attended. Queen Antoinette received the Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the American Revolution.
After an hour of talks about the general political cooperation intentions of France in the future, Maria . Queen Antoinette abruptly asked a question that made the Marquis de Lafayette slightly stunned.