Chapter 496: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death

"Your Excellency, what we want is justice!"

Voltaire said solemnly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

In front of him is the only generalissimo of France, the hero who led the French army to defeat Prince Eugen and Churchill in the War for the Spanish Throne, and the Duke of Villars, a veteran at the level of the patron saint of France at this time.

"Justice?"

Marshal Villars sneered and said, "I've seen too many so-called justices, which one do you want?" ”

"Your Excellency, there is only one justice."

Voltaire said.

"We want equality, we want freedom, we want democracy, why do we stop in front of an aristocracy?"

At this time, a voice in the crowd shouted.

"Yes, we want our Louis and Eju, we want to see the king, and we want to ask him, where are our Louis and Eju. Where did Louis and Éju, whom our ancestors had saved up for generations, go? And what's wrong with the king, the king can't rob us of Louis and Eju either! ”

Then another voice shouted.

"To Versailles!"

"Don't listen to him, the generalissimo is also a nobleman, and he is in the same league as those liars."

"Kill these Philip's lackeys!"

……

Then countless chaotic shouts rang out, and the otherwise calm crowd became restless again.

"All retreat, dare to kill the former!"

Marshal Villar roared.

At this moment, a sudden gunshot rang out, and Marshal Villars turned his head in astonishment, and behind him, a soldier in the King's Guard was looking blankly at the rifle in his hand, and it was obvious that there had been a misfire, which was not uncommon in such tense situations. However, the gunfire detonated the powder keg, and the other soldiers, who were also in emotional tension, also pulled the trigger one after another, and under the frightened gaze of Marshal Villars, hundreds of rifles continued to spew flames one after another, and the protesting crowd on the opposite side immediately fell in the dense gunfire.

The next moment there was a dead silence.

Suddenly, like a dam bursting, the angry crowd rushed forward, and in the desperate shouts of Marshal Villars, countless figures drowned his crippled body, followed by the hundreds of soldiers, and the angry people roared and rushed forward desperately, like enraged African bison herds, slammed into Versailles with a terrifying momentum, and behind them, more people poured out of the streets of Paris, converging in torrents towards Versailles.

Poor Philip V was stupid.

When he stood on the tower of Versailles and watched this scene, he did not hesitate to make a choice.

Run!

He had no other choice.

His Majesty, King of France and Spain, the most powerful monarch in Europe, losing his courage in the face of the raging power of the people, rushed down the tower as fast as he could, boarded the carriage with his family, left Versailles under the protection of the guards, and fled west to Rouen.

Then the enraged crowd flooded the Palace of Versailles.

Three hours later, the delegates of the Estates-General announced that they would form a parliament to temporarily take over power, as well as a parliament to take over the Bank of France and the Mississippi Company, to form a French popular self-defense army, to open the arsenals of Paris to arm the civilians, and to build barricades to defend against Philip V's counter-attack. However, it was at this time that there was a contradiction within the parliament, some of the deputies demanded that Louis XV be put back on power to play a constitutional monarchy, and some of them demanded that the Netherlands should be established as a republic, anyway, this kind of thing is usually like this, of course, first of all, it is necessary to resist the counterattack of Philip V.

On his way to Rouen, Philip V encountered the French troops he had transferred.

At this time, when he learned of the murder of Marshal Villars, the French army, which had always respected him very much, was in a state of righteous indignation, so Philip V quickly gained the allegiance of the army, and at the same time, the parliament raided the most heinous nobles in Paris to maintain the finances, causing everyone to be in danger, so the nobles also put aside their dissatisfaction with Philip V, and a counterinsurgency army was quickly formed and marched to Paris.

The French Civil War officially broke out.

The royal army soon reached the outskirts of Paris and engaged the parliamentarian forces in an exchange of fire.

It is clear that the hastily formed parliamentary army is no match for the regular army, and although the newly armed civilians and the royal army are fighting bloodily with the support of mental strength, Paris is still falling.

At this critical moment, the French parliament finally ended the debate, the republicans gained the upper hand, and then the French parliament proclaimed the French Republic, and used the People's Daily to issue a call to the whole country, calling on the people of France to stand up and defend the republic that belongs to the people, and at the same time a great slogan was born......

"Freedom, equality, fraternity! There is no death, which is very boring. ”

Emperor Yang said speechlessly.

Of course, there must be deaths.

The battle for Paris has begun, the blood of the French people is flowing in their capital, the French soldiers who were supposed to defend the French people are shooting bullets at their own compatriots, and the French people, who are supposed to be their backing, are also returning fire with the same bullets.

Uh, the bullets made in the Ming Dynasty.

Obviously, this scene was very pleasant to His Majesty the Emperor.

"Let Yang Yan tell Philip V that I supported him in the past, and of course I will support him in the future, I want to see democracy in France, but it is definitely not a group of people, even a respectable old hero like Marshal Villars dares to kill, such people will not bring happiness to the French people, they are a group of gangsters and not warriors who pursue freedom."

Emperor Yang said indignantly.

"Your Majesty, what Philip V lacks most now is military spending."

Liang Cheng said.

"Then let Han Guang lend him 20 million dragon dollars first, and then it will be not enough, of course he needs to provide a mortgage, just use the colony as collateral, whatever colony Louis likes to use as collateral."

Yang Feng said.

At this time, the Ming warships had arrived in Panama City, but the envoy of Philip V had not yet arrived, and once the envoy of Philip V arrived, then the two sides could complete the transfer of power in Central America, which would become a direct territory of the Ming royal family, similar to Xinbocheng and the Persian Gulf. The capital of this territory will be located in Panama City, and then the rest is naturally digging the canal there, the Suez Canal is progressing smoothly at this time, it is estimated that it will be navigable in five years at most, and it will take another ten years to dig out the Panama Canal, so the Ming Dynasty's control over this world will be very strong.

"And what about the French Parliament?"

Liang Cheng asked.

Of course, he understood what His Majesty the Emperor wanted to do, and this kind of thing had to be done by both sides together, otherwise it would be difficult to fight this war for too long if he only helped one side.

The French Parliament.

Yang Feng pondered and said: "There should be many people in our people who have a good impression of their pursuit of freedom and democracy, right? ”

Liang Shangshu immediately understood.

The official Ming Dynasty continued to support Philip V, which is nothing to criticize, after all, he is the official monarch of the Ming Dynasty, and the republic, no matter how it is calculated, is also a chaotic minister and thief, while the righteous people of the Ming Dynasty support the republic on the side, such as donating money to them, such as smuggling arms for them, and even helping them to carry out propaganda like the People's Daily, anyway, let the two sides keep fighting, so that the blood of the French keeps flowing.

This is actually the game that the Japanese played in China back then.

In other words, this kind of thing really can't blame Emperor Yang for being too insidious and cunning, mainly because he has too many teachers, and there are too many examples he can learn from.

"Also, order the Mediterranean Fleet to patrol over and do so."

Then he added.

Liang Cheng looked at him suspiciously.

"There are a lot of people there, and if they encounter misfortune because of the war, shouldn't the fleet go and ask for an explanation?"

Yang Feng said.

Liang Shangshu understood in seconds.

This means that if one side is about to win, one can find an excuse to make trouble for them in the past, such as stating that the military fleet has issued a threat of war, or even simply bombarding the area controlled by the other side, so as to give the other side a chance to breathe, so that it can recover and continue fighting, so that the war can continue.

That's it.

Let's play these in a short period of time, and then add others depending on the situation, Emperor Yang likes this kind of *** or something, and his life will add a lot of fun because of this.

In fact, at this time, Yang Feng's help to the side of the Republic was already quite large, if it was not for the People's Daily to give them propaganda, how could they have made the voice of freedom heard in the whole of France in a short period of time? You must know that in such an era, whoever has the loudest voice has the right to speak, and the common people do not have any ability to distinguish, not to mention that the republic represents justice in this matter. After many years of being influenced by the idea of freedom and equality, and being bewitched by those rebellious ministers and thieves in Britain and the Netherlands for many years, at this time the French people are extremely eager for freedom, and now the republic that represents freedom, equality and democracy has finally arrived, so why not hurry up and fight for it?

And Philip V really hurt the hearts of the people too much this time, taking people's money is like killing their parents, and the hard-earned money of countless ordinary people in France for generations has been taken away by you like this, what qualifications does such a king have to be worthy of loyalty?

With the cry of the French conscience in the People's Daily, Voltaire, Montesquieu and other parliaments, the whole of France fell into a kind of frenzy, just at this time the news of the defeat of the Franco-Spanish coalition was constantly confirmed, and even the news that Philip V sold his Central American colonies to Han Guang also spread, this kind of behavior of preferring to sell the land to outsiders to exchange for outsiders, but refusing to take out a gold coin to exchange for the people of their own country, made those people who held a pile of waste paper Livre banknotes angry.

Then a wave of defense of Paris quickly rose all over France.

Previously, Philip V and his father formulated a strategy to resist the invasion of the Ming Dynasty and the British were similar, and they were all soldiers, they imported a large number of rifled guns produced by the Ming Dynasty and then set up arsenals in various places. But now without waiting for the invasion of the Ming army, the rebellious people were cheapened, and in the French cities, those ordinary people spontaneously formed an insurrectionary army, and then easily seized the arsenals and opened them to arm themselves, and then sang war songs and rushed to Paris.

Although the combat effectiveness of these volunteers was not very good, they could not stand the large number of people, Philip V had less than 50,000 French troops in his hands, and the self-defense army in Paris exceeded 100,000.

In this case, Philip V had to transfer troops from Spain.

However, Spain also went into chaos, not that the common people also rebelled, but the Spanish nobles did not want to go through this troubled water, because of the Mississippi company incident, the Spanish nobles lost a lot of money, and they were already dissatisfied with Philip V, plus Philip V sold Central America to Yang Feng, which made the Spanish nobles centrifuge him, although Philip V was the king of Spain, but in the final analysis, he still had to rely on the support of the nobles, and the nobles did not support him, and it was useless, and the nobles refused to send troops and he was not able to force others.

But it was at this time that his savior arrived.

"Twenty million dragon dollars."

At a manor near Paris, Han Guang stood in the sun and said to Philip V.

"Your Excellency, this is not enough."

Philip V said.

This is really not enough, the most important thing for him now is to be able to get the Spanish nobles to support him, but if he wants the Spanish nobles to support him, then he must first have money, he must at least exchange the waste paper like Livre banknotes for those Spanish nobles who have suffered heavy losses, otherwise the latter will definitely not love him.

"Money is good, no matter how much it is, but you have to have collateral."

Han Guang said with a smile.

"Where do you want?"

Philip V said.

He had no other collateral other than his territory.

"If you want to borrow 20 million, then you have to use Haiti as collateral, if you want to borrow 50 million, then you have to use the Arcadia colony as collateral, if you want to borrow 100 million, then you have to add your Spanish colonies as collateral, for example, in the south of South America, along the Río de la Plata, if you want more, then you have to add other colonies, in short, as long as you are willing to take out these colonies as collateral, even if you want to borrow 100 million, I can get you a loan."

Han Guang said.

"Of course I won't give you gold coins, you can only accept dragon dollar bills, anyway you can buy whatever you want with dragon dollar bills, and this is only a mortgage, only if you can't repay the loan on time, we will collect the colony as compensation, if you can repay the loan on time, then the colony is still yours, I think this is a very reasonable deal, after all, we also have to take a huge risk, you seem to be at a disadvantage in the current situation in France, we don't want to end up lending money to waste."

Then he added.