After seeing Lin Haoda's gesture of opening the skylight and saying bright words, Meunier no longer made a subtle hint, and said bluntly: "Your Excellency Lin Haoda, we can understand your intentions, but you must know that you have too many troops at your disposal, except for the French nobles, there is no foreign mercenary who can command so many troops in France, with your army stationed beside you, the revolutionary government will not sleep peacefully, let alone dare to bring King Louis XVI to Paris." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"These things are negotiable, if you can agree to my request, I only need to keep thousands of troops in the city of Paris, France is so big, I didn't say that I have to stay in Paris."

Lin Haoda replied with a smile.

Meunier was silent for a long time, and then said solemnly: "Are you willing to support a constitutional monarchy and the Marquis de Lafayette on the throne of 'Prime Minister of France'?" ”

"Of course, as long as the king to whom I am loyal is still around, but ......"

Meunier nodded: "Your Excellency Lin Haoda, I will not admit this conversation after walking out of this door, I hope you can also keep this secret, you must know that in the National Assembly, except for the Marquis de Lafayette, no one wants to cooperate with the butcher who killed tens of thousands of revolutionary soldiers." ”

"My demands are simple, first: I need to correct the name of myself and my legions, I think the French Foreign Legion is a good name, and I will take my army to take the official oath to King Louis XVI, and as for how to correct the name, I will send someone to talk to King Louis XVI.

Second: Since I and my legions have become the king's army, that is, the army, we naturally need military salaries, because the revolutionary government does not trust me, I hope that the military salaries can be paid a year in advance, and I don't want to receive a lot of metal money for military salaries and materials, I hope that I can directly distribute food, munitions and other materials that an army should have.

Thirdly, I hope that I and my legions will have some autonomy to suppress any 'bandits' who endanger the king's rights and national interests, whenever and wherever they want, with the king's approval, and that they will have the right to refuse unreasonable orders issued by the revolutionary government.

As long as you agree to my three requests, all other details can be discussed. “

After Meunier heard Lin Haoda's request, the smile on his face immediately became stiff, the first two are okay to say, at most it is just a little money and a few honorary titles, but what does the last one mean?

And the right to refuse the unreasonable orders of the revolutionary government!

Is it up to you, a mercenary leader, to judge whether it is right or not?

This is simply to raise a private army of one's own in France!

Although many of the big nobles in France today have raised a group of private soldiers in their own fiefdoms, Lin Haoda's armed forces are tens of thousands, and they are still private soldiers whose combat effectiveness is comparable to that of the regular army.

And the conditions in Article 3 that the so-called 'judging bandits' can be suppressed anytime and anywhere put a legal cloak on the military operations of the legions under Lin Haoda!

If the Marquis de Lafayette really dares to agree to Lin Haoda's conditions, he will be pushed down the front by the bigwigs in the parliament the next day!

With these three articles, the private soldier rights of the great nobles are not as big as Lin Haoda's legions!

The aristocratic private army would inevitably become a big target for the liquidation after the victory of the revolution, how could the revolutionary government still allow the existence of a regular army private army loyal to the king?

"Your Excellency Lin Haoda, you must know that France is a powerful country with independent sovereignty and unified territory, and the army in France must all obey the orders of the revolutionary government unconditionally, and your third article is really a bit ......."

Lin Haoda said meaningfully: "The revolutionary government does not intend to reserve any armed forces for King Louis XVI, does it?" ”

Meunier replied as a matter of course: "Of course, otherwise, what is the point of revolution?" There were not many old forces supporting the king, and the nobles who sympathized with King Louis XVI were all over France, and it was impossible for the members of the revolutionary government to allow King Louis XVI to keep a large number of troops! ”

"Hehe, you've been emphasizing the members of the revolutionary government, that is to say, for His Excellency Mounier himself, is it still very sympathetic to King Louis XVI?"

Meunier was not afraid of being seized by the political handle, but said very calmly: "Yes, I am sympathetic to the king, in the revolutionary government there are people like me, the king's autocracy is wrong, but it does not mean that the king Louis XVI is not good, I think the king Louis XVI is still quite good for a benevolent and generous master, but unfortunately, under his rule France is everywhere famine, we must try to change the way of ruling the country, otherwise, Those poor people will not watch themselves starve to death. ”

Even to Lin Haoda's ears, Mounier's words were a heart-wrenching remark, because they did not do Mounier any good for his purpose, but exposed his inner political leanings in front of the enemy, which was not a big deal, but it was not a commendable move after all.

"Sir Meunier, you must know that with the establishment of the revolutionary government, the power of the king is weakened, and those who oppose the king will rapidly expand their group, and the middle and lower classes of burghers are mostly dissatisfied with the king, not to mention the peasants in the countryside......"

"Your Excellency Lin Haoda, please don't count the farmers in the countryside, they are not even citizens, they are just a group of ignorant animals who only care about themselves."

Lin Haoda blinked, heard Meunier's unabashed disparagement of the country farmer, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have neglected something before......

The urban burgher class in France is separated from the peasants in the countryside!

Much is said by Mounier's unabashed attitude, which calls the burghers untouchables and the peasants livestock......

Even the poor citizens in the cities look down on the farmers in the villages, and they take the initiative to cut themselves off from them!

It is no wonder that the municipal revolution in the major cities is in an uproar, but there is no news of the revolution in the vast rural areas of the poorer......

Lin Haoda felt more and more that the gap between the thinking circuit of Europeans and the ideas of Chinese was outrageous.

"Well, let's not mention the rural ...... Well, farmer...... But the poor burgher class in the cities alone was enough to make the disgust of the king spread after the revolution, so for you and the constitutional monarchists represented by Lafayette, the army loyal to the king is in fact your natural allies! ”