Chapter 8: The King's Command

On June 23, 1789, a month had passed since Lin Haoda arrived in Paris of this era. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In this month's time, Lin Haoda finally barely adapted to the dirty, boring and poor living environment of human beings in this era!

Except for the black bread, which is an unknown batter that is 'bright' like, eating sausages and hard, toothy bacon is like a festival......

This is as difficult as the living conditions of survival training in the wilderness, and the 'January Tour' in Paris has put Lin Haoda's taste system and stomach through arduous tests again and again......

"Damn, it's been a month, why hasn't the Total War system found Napoleon yet?" Lin Haoda stood outside the main hall of the Imperial Presence Conference, like other mercenaries, casually and boringly performing vigilant tasks around, waiting for the 'third-level representatives' inside to discuss a result with King Louis XVI of France......

During this month's time, in addition to the tenacious food standard of the French people, what impressed him the most was how chaotic and hot the so-called national conference of the Kingdom of France was......

It is nice to say that a group of gentlemen, nobles, clergy, monks and representatives of the bourgeoisie are tearing it apart, and what is unpleasant is that a group of big men are there to proclaim their 'justice' with their mouths and even their fists and feet!

Lin Haoda has a clear understanding of the political meeting, the chubby and likable round face of King Louis XVI, in addition to a few inconspicuous persuasions and proposals that will definitely be rejected in the noisy meeting, most of the rest of the time is the representatives of the third estate, and the representatives of the second estate nobility wearing stockings are impassionedly talking about their rights demands!

If it weren't for their group of mercenaries and the French King's personal guard, the Imperial Guard, to maintain the law and order environment of the meeting, I don't know how many times the all-out military exercise would have been staged here......

Today's Lin Haoda is lucky, he can patrol outside and blow the wind, so he doesn't have to go in to be a 'racket warrior'......

In France, the first class is the king of France and the high bishops and monks who hold the right to theocracy and the people's ideological education, the second class is all kinds of aristocratic people, the third class is the people other than the first two classes, from the big capitalists and big bankers who are richer than the aristocracy, down to the small Parisian workers and townspeople who do not have enough to eat, all belong to the third estate, and interestingly, the peasants and tenants in the countryside of France are not allowed to participate in the discussion of political rights, and some people ridicule it as the 'fourth estate', which they do not even know!

This is the class division of the mess that the Kingdom of France is doing today......

The disparity between the rich and the poor in the third class opened Lin Haoda's eyes, there is a truth of existence in any era, when wealth is accumulated to a certain extent, rights will follow, although the political rights of those big capitalists and big bankers are no different from the small citizens and dirty workers at the bottom of Paris, but their connections and the power that can be used with gold coins far exceed most of the nobles, and they can even ignore and crush almost all the small and medium-sized nobles!

Many court nobles, robed nobles and sword-wearing nobles who held high positions in government departments were inextricably linked with these rich merchants, big capitalists and big bankers.

Many high bishops and monks of the first estate want to continue to strengthen their power and penetrate deeply into the administration of French affairs, to put it bluntly, they are competing for power with the king of France!

No matter how good-tempered Louis XVI was, he could not have agreed!

The second estate was even more divided, and the most authoritative justices of the robed aristocracy, who had the same virtue as the group of bishops, were eager to change the absolute monarchy of France to the medieval aristocratic feudal system, and they also had the support of a large number of sword nobles who owned territories!

The liberal aristocrats in the second estate, who were closely related to the rich people such as big capitalists and big bankers, insisted on improving the political rights of the 'rich' of the third estate and relaxing the authority of the canonized aristocracy!

The capitalists want to put on a layer of aristocratic skin and participate in the national political game!

The truth of taking people's money to eliminate disasters for others is vividly reflected in the liberal aristocracy, and even Lin Haoda, a little mercenary, clearly knows that the luxury of these liberal aristocrats who have a poor income is comparable to that of those highest-ranking first-class archbishops and high-ranking robed nobles!

The poor French king had only a few thousand court nobles who lived on him......

The first and second estates, which were supposed to stand by the king's side, split into pieces, and some even openly shouted with King Louis XVI of France, not to mention the already oppressed third estate?

Interestingly, the Third Estate, which has the largest number of people and the least political power, is the most united part of this, because they share the same goal - to reduce taxes and reduce prices and increase the welfare of citizens!

Many aristocrats who had been bought off by the capitalists also sided with the Third Estate and strongly resisted King Louis XVI's tax increases!

King Louis XVI of France did not want to raise taxes innocently, but France's finances, which had no source of revenue, were on the verge of collapse, and he would still have to finish his calf after the collapse of the government's finances!

France is an absolute monarchy, but it is not a monarchy, and there are too many forces to restrain the power of the king!

"Hey, you know what? On the 19th, after the Senate revoked the right to vote on the third estate by order of the king, the representatives of the third estate organized a private meeting on the 20th, and the national representatives were about to officially oppose the king! ”

Johns, who was patrolling with Lin Haoda, a famous chatter in a mercenary team, began a 'routine' Kan Dashan with taste......

"Anyone who is in the city of Paris knows this news, isn't the Royal Council in it now the King of France and the representatives of the Third Estate seeking reconciliation?" Lin Haoda said disdainfully.

"Reconciliation? It's impossible, the king is short of money and wants to raise taxes, and the French don't want to pay more when they can't eat enough, I understand this reason, and no party wants to reconcile at the expense of others. ”

Johns exclaimed, justifiably.

After hearing this, Lin Haoda squinted his eyes slightly and looked at the closed door, and there were noisy shouts from time to time, it is definitely impossible for the French people to retreat, because regression means starvation!

But the King of France is also driven to the edge of the precipice, unless he is willing to be a bitter mascot and lose most of his prestige and power!

"Perhaps, that's how the revolution broke out."

Just as Lin Haoda was muttering to himself, there was a bang, and the door of the meeting was slammed open from the inside, and a colleague who was acting as a 'racket warrior' inside rushed out and shouted: "The king has an order, ready to disperse the third-level representatives who resist the order!! ”

The mercenaries and the King's Guards, who were patrolling outside, suddenly rushed into the hall in a lined up with loaded guns!