295 Contradictions and the return of Dandong

As Lin Haoda gradually recovered and resumed the war, Robespierre, who had suffered heavy losses, did not seem to have the slightest intention of surrendering, and despite the large number of young and strong people killed and wounded in Brittany, he not only reorganized the National Salvation Committee, but also published a new and intensified national mobilization plan in the National Convention, this time, Robespierre did not seem to intend to spare anyone to participate in the war!

"Let all the turnsmiths, carpenters, and carpenters at once stop their personal work and go and build butts, gun carriages, baggage wagons, and transporters! Let the locksmiths, the horsesmiths, the axemakers, and all the ironsmiths rest their work and go to make cannons! Arm the 'Friends of the Motherland' (including all kinds of people's clubs and patriots) into a mighty procession! Let the unarmed carry ammunition, let the women deliver rations and make bread, and let the hymns of the Motherland send the signal to fight! ”

With Robespierre's 'overdraft' national mobilization speech at the National Convention, the newspapers controlled by Robespierre's government began to preach: "Let all the men who can take up arms and go out into the army at the same time!" Where there is danger, people should rush to it! ”

Robespierre's mobilization is class- and property-neutral, which means that the children and parents of wealthy families must also take up arms and go to the front!

The people in the Convention no longer enjoy any political conveniences and privileges, and they have to fight with guns on their shoulders!

Faced with the demographic losses of the last Brittany campaign, Robespierre pointed out in a high-profile manner: "What we lack is not people, but the patriotism of our generals!" ”

Robespierre frantically tried to turn this reckless general mobilization into a legal principle, and he asked the National Salvation Committee to draw up a new mobilization bill, declaring: "From now until the enemy is driven out of the territory of the Republic, all French people will always be called up for military service." Young people have to go to the field; Married men had to forge weapons and deliver provisions; Women had to build tents, uniforms, and go to hospitals; The children had to go and tear old cloth into bandages; The old people had to go to the public places to encourage the courage of the warriors, to promote hatred of the kings and nobles and the unity of the republic! ”

The traditional unspoken rule of hiring people instead of conscription was abolished, and conscription became a national obligation, and unmarried or unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 25 were the first to be called up (this was the policy in the history of the real French Revolution, and Robespierre's obvious discrimination against single French dogs was evident from the selection of the first cannon fodder...... The flag of their battalion reads: "The French people rise up against the tyrant!" ”

Facts have proved that by squeezing the sponge, the whole people are forced to call up the young and strong, even if hundreds of thousands die, it is still possible to pull out a lot of troops......

However, the army cannot be formed by just pulling out men, and the Robespierre government, which is already on the verge of bankruptcy, even if it pulls out all the remaining French single dogs between the ages of 18 and 25 to join the army and send them to death, what will it use to arm them?

Guns and cannons can't be made by those craftsmen and blacksmiths who work voluntarily, even if they are obligatory, at least there must be raw materials, don't pay for it, who will transport raw materials to you?

You can't shout two words long live freedom, and then the raw materials come out of nowhere......

Therefore, the Robespierre government did not pull out hundreds of thousands of 'French single dog troops' at once, as imagined, because the government simply did not have so much money to arm them, and it could not even provide the necessary food and collective dormitories!

Thus, a second, seemingly absurd Robespierre-like policy was introduced......

Robespierre, in order to collect money from the war, naturally set his sights on those rich French bigwigs, these bigwigs are naturally not aristocrats, and the aristocratic class has long been killed and scared away under Robespierre, however, in the French land where capitalism is booming, the real rich are never the nobles, but the 'smart people' of industry and commerce.

Robespierre exploited the wealth hatred of the sans-culottes class to get the National Salvation Committee to issue a devoid of the sanctity of personal property in the French Declaration of Human Rights.

He announced a bill that strictly limited property rights: "There must be a maximum limit of personal wealth, no one may have more than the maximum amount of wealth, no one may rent more than a certain amount of arable land, and each citizen can only have one workshop or one shop!" ”

This social program, which on the one hand preserves private property and on the other hand, limits the consequences of private property, is itself full of contradictions, and those sans-culottes who only know how to eat and follow the crowd naturally do not matter, they have nothing to limit anyway, but the elite who make up the French social system is not at ease!

You know, the vast majority of the people in the National Convention were educated intellectuals, and in the 18th century, intellectuals meant learning, meaning social elites!

France was not created by peasants and citizen craftsmen, but there were far more peasant groups and craftsmen in the ancient countries of the East than France!

Including France, all the advanced countries of the European continent really supported their strong industrial strength by those social elites who held a large amount of social wealth, including aristocrats, merchants, factory owners, lawyers, and teachers...... Only there are no peasants and ordinary craftsmen!

This contradictory political program, therefore, caused an uproar throughout the National Convention and the social elite of the First French Republic, who thought that Robespierre had gone mad for the sake of the war!

Robespierre's behavior is tantamount to pitting all the rich and poor classes of the republic against each other!

This kind of antagonism is extremely terrible, because the operation of a society cannot rely on the poor alone, even in the government-planned economy of later generations, there are a group of people who get rich first, this is the principle of social operation, not artificially can be changed, if you have to eradicate the rich class, it will only cause one consequence, the people of the whole country will suffer from poverty and endure poverty!

If no one dares to get rich, they will naturally lose their upward momentum, and the social wealth created by the people will inevitably shrink by a large margin, and naturally they will not be able to support more people......

Fortunately, Robespierre came to power by election, not by means of war, so he could not forcibly exterminate the rich class in the entire French society!

It was at this time that Danton, with a few retinues, entered the area controlled by Robespierre's government in a very low-key manner, and a terrible political storm was about to break out!