Robespierre was able to engage in guillotine terror politics and gain the enthusiastic support of the vast majority of low-level sans-culottes, of course, for a reason.

On the economic front, Robespierre formed a revolutionary army that specialized in levying grain, forcing the peasants to hand over grain. You must know that at this time, the sans-culottes of the French nation refer to the commoners living in the towns, and the peasants in the villages are not as good as the sans-culottes, they are also more ignorant and can be easily exploited and suppressed, so the so-called poor class represented by Robespierre's Jacobins is precisely the working class, and does not include the peasant uncles......

Because the common people such as the workers and craftsmen in the towns were the basis for the real value creation of the French nation, and it has been proved in later generations that the status of the workers in the industrialized countries is always a little higher than that of the peasants.

Under Robespierre's leadership, the National Convention granted the Food Supply Council the right to expropriate all factories and all agricultural harvests by force. The Food Supply Board has established a price list for daily necessities in each locality in strict accordance with the price limit decree.

Of course, Robespierre also knew that collecting grain from those poor tenants and poor peasants could not squeeze much oil and water, and offended a large number of people for nothing, so the main targets of grain collection and price restriction were the propertied people, who were called well-off families and wealthy families in later generations......

As for the wealthier classes, with the exception of the politicians of the National Convention, they either guillotined or fled their homeland to escape Robespierre's pursuit of the French Republic......

Robespierre was evidently pleased with this economic strategy, and when he reported on the mission of Saint-Just in the Jacobins, he noted: "You see, it brings down the rich for the sake of their livelihood. This practice aroused the forces of the revolution and boosted the morale of patriots. The aristocracy was guillotined. ”

The results of the Reign of Terror are encouraging. Brittany (in fact, the area controlled by the National Convention of the First French Republic far exceeds that of Brittany, here it is only abbreviated as Brittany) has effectively suppressed hoarding and speculation, and implemented the requisition and rationing system of daily necessities, the problem of soaring prices and currency depreciation has been controlled, and there are no longer long queues to buy bread and rush to buy daily necessities in the cities. As a result of the promulgation of the regulations on the punishment of suspects, a large number of high-ranking elements have been executed, the revolutionary army has been purified, and sufficient logistical support and the emergence of a number of outstanding officers have boosted the fighting spirit of the army and strengthened the strength of the revolutionary army.

The Reign of Terror restored the authority of the French Revolution, overcoming egoism and discipline with coercion, so that they could consciously unite against their enemies. The terror gave the revolutionary government unlimited power, the unlimited power guaranteed the smooth implementation of the terror policy, and the success of the terror greatly enhanced the prestige of the revolutionary government, and also pushed Robespierre's prestige to the peak!

Leader Robespierre pointed out in the National Convention: "The revolutionary government is therefore in need of extraordinary behaviour, because the circumstances around it are turbulent and fickle, especially because, in order to deal with new and grave dangers, it must constantly adopt new and rapid means." ”

Power is so attractive that whoever holds it can control not only his own destiny, but also the destiny of others. Only with it will Robespierre be able to realize his dream of a democratic, equal, well-to-do republic. Robespierre saw that it was terror that brought about the complete unity of the First French Republic (those who were not united were guillotined...... Then terror can also be his dream of a republic in France.

After a complete purge of the political leaders whom the Convention openly resisted him, Robespierre intensified his hand into the sacred legal system of the Republic, and carried out the orders of the revolutionary government unconditionally in order to preserve them, so that all opponents feared the instructions of the revolutionary government. Robespierre abolished the defender system and the pre-trial system, and could use 'reasoning' to decide cases when there was no evidence.

The two words 'reasoning' turned the trial step of the law into Sherlock Holmes, however, under Robespierre's rule, this "reasoning" was much more bloody than bloody, and the benchmark of all reasoning depended entirely on the National Salvation Committee and the local commissioners, that is, it was Robespierre's will to "reason" the conviction at the legal level, which was almost the same as in the monarchy, when the king's order was a decree!

Of course, the First French Republic was the country of the French people, so it was necessary to use "reasoning" to explain why such a sentence was made!

It's really a huge irony, is it possible that free and equal democracies will inevitably end up in the dictatorship of individual stealth?

Even though there is no crown on his head, in fact everyone knows that Robespierre has an invisible crown on his head.

It's just that at the level of the country's constitution, Robespierre's rights still come from the National Convention, and all major votes must be passed by the National Convention before they count, but unfortunately, the politicians in the National Convention have been completely frightened by Robespierre's terrorist politics, and almost all the citizen volunteers and the Revolutionary Army of the Republic obeyed Robespierre's orders, and those politicians did not dare to be shot to death as the first bird even if they hated Robespierre in their hearts!

Because Robespierre's killings were so heavy that even Robespierre himself felt a little "excessive", Robespierre more than once defended his politics of terror in public: "If in peacetime, the power of the people's government is a virtue; In revolutionary times, this power is both a virtue and a terror. Without virtue, terror is harmful; Without terror, virtue is powerless. ”

Robespierre was bent on making his country a pure and unblemished utopia, and his fanatical sense of mission made him unable to tolerate any compromise with reality, any moral stain. Robespierre firmly believed that anyone who stood in the way of his noble aims had no choice but to die—the greatest progress of human civilization had no scruples of sacrifice or cost.

Under the tremendous military pressure brought by Lin Haoda, Robespierre did it, because before the national crisis, he found too many equally fanatical companions, and together they created a real sense of realizing the national mobilization of the First French Republic (Brittany), at this moment, Robespierre was full of confidence in the face of Lin Hada's military power!