"The revolution in Paris has overthrown the tyranny of the king, the Parisians no longer have to shoulder heavy taxes, why should we pay taxes to the government, we ourselves are almost exhausted, everyone says, should we take up arms against taxes, against tyranny!!"

A down-and-out small proprietor in a shabby gentleman's uniform stood on a wooden shelf and shouted to the hundreds of yellow-skinny young citizens around him, the municipal revolution in the fortress of Verdun was so mild, that not even a drop of blood had been seen, that the poor burghers had not even been mobilized, and that the only symbol of the so-called Verdun municipal revolution was a notice posted in the neighborhood telling everyone that the Ombudsman was gone, and that the town hall was now the only supreme administrative capital of Verdun......

This is nothing, the common people are not very interested in who is the official, those Verdun fortress soldiers who only changed the golden fleur-de-lis flag with the tricolor flag, and did not even change their uniforms, did not cause any waves in the hearts of the people, until the citizens of Verdun, who were ignorantly celebrating the victory of the revolution, suddenly saw the city hall after the revolution announced the policy of all taxes as usual, and their anger was completely ignited!

Even the illiterate French commoners knew that revolution was no different from rebellion, but why did this municipal revolution, which rebelled under the guise of freedom, equality, and bread, not get a piece of bread after its 'victory', and continued to pay high taxes as before?

Especially at the moment when the news of the Paris Revolution spread across France, fear and tyranny were already spreading among the people, and the people of Verdun could not help but wonder why the Parisians could not overthrow tyranny and gain human rights through violence.

The municipal revolution in Verdun was so fake that almost all the municipal officials had just changed their banners and identities, and the rest of the old and rotten tendencies had not changed at all, which was not only dissatisfied with the burghers, but also with the intellectuals who had been enlightened by democratic ideas!

The Jacobin Club extremists mixed in the crowd had already seen through the essence of the Verdun municipal revolution as a transfer of interests between the capitalists and the aristocracy, and that apart from the disappearance of the authority of the king, the local magnates did not lose a penny!

Therefore, these extremists, dressed in the cloak of democracy and freedom, began their trick up against the angry citizens of Verdun, inciting riots!

The Verdun uprising came so abruptly that the aristocrats and capital predators who thought that they could safely hug the French girls by changing into the tricolor flag were still playing their extravagant salon parties in the room, and the rebel crowd had already broken through the small number of guards with all kinds of weapons!

When more than a dozen guards from the tax office of the city hall saw the crowd of nearly 1,000 rebels swarming towards them, they simply fired a few shots and fled in confusion. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The insurrectionary crowd quickly captured the tax office of the town hall, which was notorious among the people for exploiting the people, and the angry insurrectionary crowd set fire to the entire tax office of the town hall, and the flames of the sky lit the clarion call of revolution in Verdun, and the insurrectionary crowds poured into the streets and alleys, picking on the government offices to kill people and destroy them!

The sudden attack on the Verdun town hall could not stop the countless insurrectionary crowds, and even the soldiers in the Verdun fortress were mobilized by the insurrectionary crowd and refused to suppress the revolution!

Because among the insurrectionary crowd were relatives and friends of the soldiers of the Verdun fortress, who refused to fire on their 'fellow countrymen'!

In just one day, the great nobles of Verdun fled to their fiefdoms in the countryside with their wealth, and the remaining bourgeois bosses appeared in front of the leaders of the uprising with all their faces, made compromises and concessions, and the city of Verdun finally ushered in a real municipal revolution!

This kind of second revolution often appeared in the major cities of France, some succeeded, and some were brutally suppressed by the aristocratic private soldiers, but regardless of the outcome, the news of these bloody municipal revolutions began to spread to the villages and towns around the major cities, and the more ignorant peasants and serfs without personal freedom saw the example of the revolution of the urban citizens!

During the reign of Louis XVI, famine and unemployment caused by the economic recession caused a crisis far greater in the vast countryside than in the cities, and a large number of peasants went bankrupt, creating countless vagabonds and beggars, young and middle-aged people, in order to fill their stomachs, turned into bandits, making life even more difficult for the rural peasants who lacked police and army!

The bad news that came out of the Revolution only deepened the fear of the peasants.

The economic crisis, the machinations of the aristocracy, the fear of robbers, etc., the consequences of these phenomena eventually converged and created an atmosphere of panic, gossip spread among the frightened people, and the unscrupulous bandits cut the unripe wheat and burned the whole village, and in order to cope with these scourges, the French peasants had to be armed, armed with long-handled sickles, wooden forks, shotguns, etc., and the alarm bells were heard one after another in the villages, and the fear spread more and more widely!

When the bandits and robbers who came and went without a trace made the rural peasants tired of coping, they also made their violent solidarity and cooperation more and more proficient, and the peasants, who could not understand why their lives were so difficult, could not help but become irritable and confused!

At this moment, a voice spread rapidly through the countryside, and all the culprits of the peasants' misery were not God's punishment, but the exploitation of the nobles hiding in the castle and the oppression of the unproductive church servants!

"Why can't we get enough to eat?"

"Because all the food that was grown was taken away!"

"Who took the grain?"

"Divine servants and nobles were taken away through high taxes!"

Similar conversations were widespread in the villages, and these words were true, and the peasants soon 'figured out' the reason for their poverty—that most of the grain they harvested had to be handed over to the lazy nobles and the church!

In the past, the peasants were afraid of the private soldiers of the nobility and the huge power of the church, and they would have endured it like this, but!

Now that even the king of the capital of Paris, the largest aristocratic head in all of France, has been overthrown, do we need to be afraid?

So, the peasants began to take up arms for their rights and flock to the nearby noble castles and churches!

First of all, the church priest who had no force was arrested by the peasants, and then, the church priest cleverly told the uneducated peasants that their land deeds and certificates of feudal rights were in the hands of the nobles, and these documents were also the evidence of the nobles' legal expropriation of grain!

Immediately, the battle between the peasants and the nobles officially broke out in the countryside!