Chapter 157: The Night of August 4th
This time, the Marquis de Lafayette's proposal to send the French Foreign Legion to suppress the peasant rebellion, not to mention, directly doubled Lin Haoda's strength with a slight loss!
Looking at it this way, the king who only supports Lin Haoda verbally and politically, and at most gives a king with the title of honorary baron, is very stingy compared to the Marquis de Lafayette, Lin Haoda's 'enemy'......
After looking at Lin Haoda, who had doubled the strength of the army under his command, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if the chaos caused by this peasant revolution really created a political storm in the French government, would the Marquis de Lafayette, who had sent him rise all the way, give him another 'big gift', so that he could really be rooted in the rich and vast French kingdom?
The main mission released by the Total War System - Shock and Deter France is almost equivalent to the mission goal of unifying the entire territory of France, and Lin Haoda always remembers it!
Anyway, as an Asian yellow race, he is in a situation of exclusion and jealousy in any country on the European continent, and the distant Oriental world is just an unattainable fantasy for Lin Haoda, and it is impossible for Lin Haoda to cross the Eurasian continent with an army almost at both ends of the world, as for taking the sea route, it is a joke, as long as the white Europeans are not brains collectively, it is impossible to help Lin Haoda transport tens of thousands of troops to the Eastern world......
Because of the complex internal political situation of the Kingdom of France, its own chaos has not yet been sorted out, so it is naturally impossible to mobilize the power of the whole country to transport tens of thousands of troops for ocean voyages, with the shipping capacity of this era, the transportation of tens of thousands of troops will make Britain, the strongest navy among the five major powers of the European continent, frown, and spend a lot of money, not to mention the free transportation of tens of thousands of troops to the Eastern world......
It is impossible for the Kingdom of France to transport Lin Haoda's tens of thousands of troops to the East, and there is no reason for other European countries to spend huge sums of money to do such a non-profitable thing!
As for transporting Lin Haoda's tens of thousands of troops to the closer American continent by sea, the cost of materials, money and food can be much less, but the American continent is regarded as his colonial reservation by European whites, how can he send Lin Haoda's tens of thousands of troops to claim the king?
Whoever had the idea of transporting Lin Haoda's tens of thousands of troops to the American continent, the English Empire would definitely be the first to jump out against it, and even resort to acts of war to stop it!
If Lin Haoda's tens of thousands of troops were really successfully transported to the North American continent, it would be difficult to say whether Canada would be able to continue to fly the rice flag......
With the obstruction of the British, it can be said that there will be no national forces in the world willing to send ships to help Lin Haoda transport the army, and if Lin Haoda really wants to go to sea, he can only rely on his own shipbuilding!
Therefore, Lin Haoda, who can't go anywhere, might as well simply spell out a piece of his own territory in the Kingdom of France and then slowly figure it out, what if he is not recognized by the mainstream society in Europe? It's a big deal, Lin Haoda used a butcher's knife to kill a 'recognition'!
Lin Haoda is curious, for white people, is national dignity important, or is their own life important?
After Lin Haoda completed the 50,000 killing target, while reorganizing and training the army, he slowly approached the outskirts of Paris and waited for the development of the Palace of Versailles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
At noon on August 4, 1789, a quick knock on the door interrupted the lunch between the Marquis de Lafayette and his family, and when the door was opened, the Marquis de Lafayette heard the anxious-looking chamberlain shouting: "The great thing is not good, a large-scale peasant uprising has broken out in the provinces, and a petition jointly issued by five provincial councils has just been sent to the Palace of Versailles!! ”
When the Marquis Lafayette heard the words 'acts of war', his brows twitched fiercely, and he didn't care about the lunch time that had just begun, and after quickly putting on his clothes and saying a brief goodbye to his family, he said to the summoned attendants: "Prepare the carriage, the National Constituent Assembly must be convened today, as quickly as possible!" ”
After the joint petition of the five provinces arrived at the Palace of Versailles, the various parliamentarians who stayed in the political center of the Kingdom of France showed great efficiency and rushed to the main hall from all over the country, but the event came so suddenly that even then, the National Constituent Assembly opened at nightfall.
It's just that these bigwigs of the National Constituent Assembly, including King Louis XVI, are not sleepy at all, and they all know that the five provincial councils that jointly issued the petition are under the control of the municipal committees established after the overthrow of the low-level citizens' revolution, and they are completely orthodox revolutionary governments!
It is also a faction that does not support the retention of the king.
Of course, this does not mean that all the municipal councils of the five provinces are democratic radicals, and that the pervasive bourgeoisie also has considerable energy in them, but this time the momentum of the peasant revolution is too great, and the reasons are very sufficient, and the rational politicians know very well that they must not stand in opposition to the majority of the French, which is the interest of more than 20 million rural peasants!
With such a large popular base, how can politicians with careerists and democratic radicals not make good use of it?
The reason why the arrival at Versailles on August 4 was only a petition and not a 'declaration of civil war' was simply because most of the French people did not want their homeland to divide into a civil war, and both capitalist politicians and democratic radical politicians were initially deeply influenced by the political ideas of patriots, and these people had a common bottom line in their hearts, France must maintain a unified national situation, and anyone who tried to divide France and start a civil war was a sinner for all the French people!
The success of the French Revolution has undoubtedly deepened the patriotism and nationalism of all strata of France......
The fact that Napoleon in history was able to lead the French legion to victory and victory was inseparable from the patriotism that the French were inspired at that time.
Even before the National Constituent Assembly was inaugurated, the Marquis de Lafayette and other parliamentary leaders recognized the key to resolving the present crisis situation and abolishing the privileges and excesses that had contributed to the outbreak of the peasant revolution.
Don't look at this as just a joint statement of the five provinces, but the Marquis de Lafayette and others have learned that the outbreak of the peasant revolution is nationwide, and the silence of the other provinces is not to support the decision of the National Constituent Assembly, but not to be the first bird, and now the 'head bird' has appeared, as long as the National Constituent Assembly rejects this proposal and continues to implement the policy of suppressing the revolution, it will inevitably cause a civil war in the whole of France!
At that time, the main repressive force will definitely depend on the old aristocratic feudal forces of the king's line, because in the face of the revolutionary army holding high the banner of freedom, equality and justice, it will inevitably collapse the morale of the National Self-Guard forces that support the National Constituent Assembly, and most of the National Guard soldiers joined because of revolutionary ideas.
In the civil war, the losing side will definitely be buried in the dust of history, and if the old aristocratic forces that relied on the king's line insist on suppressing the revolution, whether they can win or not, the prospect of the National Constituent Assembly gradually being deprived by the king's line can be foreseen by any reasonable politician.
Therefore, even the liberal aristocracy tended to quell the unrest and restore order in the provinces.
However, the contradiction is back to the level of class antagonism, the abolition of privileges and exorbitant taxes is naturally a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people, a milestone victory for the liberation of more than 20 million poor people in France, but for the aristocratic class in power, it is a disaster!
The bigwigs of the National Constituent Assembly, which was filled with a large number of aristocrats, were forced to make some concessions under the pressure of the civil war, but they were not willing to accept complete defeat, and they negotiated a very interesting solution before the National Constituent Assembly opened.
The liberal aristocracy, led by the Marquis de Lafayette, and the constitutional bourgeoisie, agreed to be controlled by an absolute majority of votes in the National Constituent Assembly, recognizing feudal rights as a special type of ownership, and characterizing them as forcible seizures, so that all contractual instruments for the taxation of land should be reviewed, which is also a legal act.
The ingenuity lies in the fact that these bigwigs decided to entrust this review task to a liberal nobleman, Duke Egilon, one of the largest landowners in the country......
However, this move caused panic among other privileged classes in the Kingdom of France, such as the ecclesiastical forces, which had always been opposed to the liberal aristocracy, and the die-hard feudal aristocracy, which represented the old forces!
In the hands of a liberal nobleman, doesn't it mean that the Duke of Egilon can completely cancel the privileges and taxes of the church forces and the diehard feudal aristocracy opposed to the liberal aristocracy by means of legal examination, so as to appease the people's grievances, and then carefully retain the privileges and interests belonging to the liberal nobles?
The liberal aristocracy is basically involved in the operation of capital, and they are themselves a bourgeoisie, and they are fundamentally different from the archbishops who rely entirely on fiefs and estate income to maintain a decent and luxurious life, and the old feudal aristocracy!
It is a pity that the strength of the Church, which is weak in the National Constituent Assembly, and the feudal aristocracy, which is the old power, cannot compete with the constitutional bourgeoisie and the liberal aristocracy.
As soon as the National Constituent Assembly began on the night of the Fourth of August, the whole session went straight to the climax!