Between countries, weakness is the original sin, no matter how much your family shouts harmony and common prosperity, but foreigners keep looking at you with colored glasses, you have money, they will greedily pounce and suck blood, you have a long cultural heritage, they will steal their own belongings without shame, if you want to reason between countries, you must first let the other party recognize your strength.

Relations between nations are often simpler and more bare than people-to-people exchanges.

If you are strong and you can speak, if you are not strong enough and still want to maintain national dignity, you will inevitably end up with the same fate as Saddam.

Before Saddam's death, he was a ruler that the Iraqis supported very much, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a 'benevolent and righteous king', under Saddam's rule, the per capita income of the Iraqis ranked among the top in the world, and after Saddam's death, the Iraqis even had a problem eating, not to mention the frequent war environment!

The reason why the king of benevolence and righteousness died without a place to be buried is not the fault of benevolence, but because he does not have the power to implement benevolence and righteousness, and in the face of the force of the state, all other moral benevolence seems extra pale.

It is because Lin Haoda understands this that he will go all the way to slaughter foreigners with impunity, and he understands that he is incompatible with the French and even the entire white Europeans, and if he wants to really make them submit, he can only use the oldest but most effective way - violence.

The state is a violent machine that rules the people, and Lin Haoda vividly interprets the meaning of this sentence.

After Lin Haoda's unit entered the Belgian occupation zone, it did not carry out looting or requisition of grain in a big way, but in the name of garrisoning, all the local security forces in the entire Belgian region were eliminated and replaced by the Imperial Guard.

The Young Guards gathered on the border of the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, making an offensive appearance.

This is mainly used to confuse the upper class of the Belgians, and the mud-legged people below live all day long to fill their stomachs, so naturally they will not have any opinion on military mobilization, but the Belgian capitalists and businessmen, who control the social resources, are thieves and thieves in this regard, and the slightest disturbance will attract the other party's defense.

With so many heavily armed troops entering Belgian territory, the Belgians naturally made a lot of noise, and Lin Haoda's act of dismissing all the local security forces made the Belgian upper class feel extremely uneasy.

Fortunately, Lin Haoda used the name of war, and he did not shy away from the news that he was going to use troops against the Dutch (that is, the Dutch), so that this group of Belgian bigwigs did not make a desperate and excessive move.

In their impression, Lin Haoda, who targeted the Dutch with such fanfare, would never do anything more against the Belgian occupation zone.

If this kind of thing is put on other armies in Europe, the upper echelons of Belgium will not have such inexplicable worries, but Lin Haoda, as a foreigner, has blood on his hands during his rise, and he once did that kind of 'three-light grain policy', so it will make the Belgian upper class feel uneasy.

The upper-class rich people in Belgium also know that Lin Haoda can't go to those Belgian mud legs to make trouble, that kind of person can't eat enough himself, and he can't grab anything, if something really happens, with Lin Haoda's temperament, the knife will inevitably fall on the rich group.

It's just that it's hard to say whether the knife will go with a stroke or cut from head to toe.

However, the actions of the Young Guard against the Dutch made the rich Belgians breathe a sigh of relief, in their eyes, the Young Guards are Lin Haoda's trump card, the Imperial Guard, a new unit, at a glance, you know that it belongs to the second-line paramilitary forces, and the rich Belgians do not think that Lin Haoda really wants to do something, and will choose the so-called Imperial Guard without letting the Young Guards who can fight.

This habitual inertial thinking made the rich Belgians not make much resistance to the entry of 100,000 Imperial Guards, and Belgium itself is not a cohesive European nation.

They have been ruled by Celts, French, Austrians, Dutch, Germans throughout their history, and most Belgians do not speak Belgian, but French, Dutch, and German (the Austrians also speak German, which is actually the same ethnic group as the Germans). ）

In Europe, the real social wealth is often gathered in the towns, Lin Haoda is not rushing to kill people, but to grab money and food, and the Imperial Guard stationed in the town is also legally reasonable, so everything is carried out in an orderly manner.

In mid-1795, Lin Haoda, who was in a temporary office in Brussels, received a report from Qin Xue'er:

"Master, the Imperial Guard has completed the handover of the local town security forces, all weapons have been collected, and the Young Guards stationed in the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands have begun to infiltrate Belgian territory in batches and stealthily to suppress possible riots in large and medium-sized cities according to the established plan.

The data on the rich and ethnic composition of the various cities in the Belgian region have been counted, and the French will not be greatly affected in this operation, and at the same time, the domestic Jia Xu is ready, and when we have cleaned up, we will contact those French capitalists and businessmen to fill the gap in the Belgian region after this purge. ”

Lin Haoda nodded after hearing this: "Very good, if it's okay, let's start it according to the plan tomorrow, this kind of thing is either not done, if you want to do it, you must not let those Belgians have a chance to fight back, and the prestige of the rich Belgians can't leave a single family member, I don't want to see too many exiles go to the countryside to call on those ignorant mud legs to riot!" ”

"That's natural, Sister Zhaoyun has already transferred ninety percent of the intelligence department's action team to cooperate with the actions of the Imperial Guard, in addition to chasing and arresting, Sister Zhaoyun's people are obviously better at it, I believe that the bad impact after the incident will be minimized, most Belgian civilians don't care about the changes in the upper class, they also have an instinctive fear of our army.

But, my lord, if we do this, we will offend the upper class of the rest of the continent, and not only the rich capitalists of the aristocratic class will also regard us as a flood of beasts, for the sake of conquering a mere Holland, is it really worth it? Qin Xue'er asked a little puzzled.

Lin Haoda's approach to the rich Belgian class will not trigger a large-scale Belgian riot, but it will make the rich class in continental Europe except France hostile, and no one likes a ruler who steals money from the rich without following the rules.