Chapter 322 322 The dawn of one empire, the twilight of another
After the initial joy, Lin Youde ordered to block the news of Sissi's pregnancy.
Shenji's combat power will gradually weaken after pregnancy, and it will be minimized before and after childbirth, and if the hostile forces have detailed information about Sissi's pregnancy, they may take advantage of Sissi's weakest time to do something. Therefore, it has become a natural choice to cover up the news of pregnancy as much as possible and influence the judgment of hostile forces.
In order to strengthen the effect of cover-up, Lin Youde specially arranged for Sissi to follow her alone in public, in order to counter the rumors that did not go unruly - in fact, as long as the goddess sister of Sanssouci Palace did not appear in public for a period of time, the news that she was pregnant would quietly begin to circulate.
On the other hand, Sissi's pregnancy also had an impact on Lin Youde's strategic approach, because pregnancy meant that she could not be used as a combat force on the battlefield in the coming year, so Lin Youde had to re-evaluate the deployment for the next year from a more conservative perspective.
At the same time, in order to avoid further weakening his combat effectiveness, Lin Youde set a dead rule for himself, and when he made love with the fox and Viola in the future, he must take safety measures to completely eradicate the possibility of the two of them winning the lottery again.
However, there is a saying that "the tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop", Lin Youde is trying to pick up his tail and be a man, but others do not intend to understand his difficulties at all.
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The seeds sown by the fox are thriving in France.
Demonstrations continued in many French cities, crowds carried red fig leaf flags and portraits of Lin Youde, sang the Internationale and walked through the streets, and in some places there were armed riots, and workers and students took the weapons of the military and police who came to suppress them, and opened fire on the police in return.
The French warrior army was all dispatched to maintain law and order in the big cities, but in the small and medium-sized cities that the warriors could not take care of, the power of the masses prevailed.
In such a situation, the peculiar composition of the French government became an accelerant for the situation.
The French goddesses were adopted by several families representing the interests of different classes, and although these families had long since metamorphosed into a new ruling class and occupied the top of the social pyramid, they still nominally represented the class they started from during the Revolution, and the corresponding goddesses they adopted would become the spokesmen of these classes.
The French government, on the other hand, is an alliance of these families who nominally represent various classes, and every election is actually the product of the struggle between various families, and after each family wins the election, it will adopt some policies in favor of the class it represents, so as to continue to gain votes from this class in the next struggle.
But most of the time, whoever is elected will make appropriate compromises with other families in order to keep the government running. Therefore, most of the cabinet of the French government has people from various families, and the difference is only in the influence of different families on this government.
Because of this, when the domestic situation began to threaten the interests of all the families, everyone unanimously supported the tough measures taken by the First Consul Christina.
However, this form of government organization does not mean that the benefits of each family from the regime are equal, and the family with the greatest influence will certainly occupy the majority of the distribution of benefits, while the family with weak influence can only eat what is left by others.
So when the situation began to show signs of getting out of control, the various families began to make their own small calculations.
Most of the spearheads of the masses were directed at the Bonapartes, so the other families began to wonder if it was time to take the opportunity to take their place.
In particular, the family of the goddess is in the prime of life, as long as it falls to the people, it is very likely to become the spokesperson of the people's interests, and the sooner it falls to the people, the greater the benefits will be obtained after overthrowing the Bonaparte family.
But in the same way, there are also families who think that the Bonaparte family is strong and will not be brought down lightly, so they choose to put the treasure on the first consul Christina. In particular, those new capitalist families who gradually relied on the tide of capitalist development after the Great Revolution did not have the authority to adopt the gods, so they did not have the right to adopt the gods, and there was no way to become spokesmen for the people, but they were likely to be divided up by the people.
These people can only stand next to the First Archon Christina, although they do not have a god concubine, but they control a large amount of social resources in their hands like other families, employ a large number of thugs and doglegs, and secretly fund the lives of many war concubines.
As a result, the drama of the Warring States period in ancient China began to play out in France, and politicians and speculators constantly moved from this ball to the salon, spying on each other for information and conspiracies in the midst of unnutritious conversation and laughter.
Only one person looked at this qiē coldly.
"Mademoiselle, the representative of the citizens of Lille asks to see you."
The butler's voice interrupted Xia Li? Morality? Pull? Lille pondered, she turned her head, looked at the old butler, and said in a deep voice: "Sue them that I am not feeling well, please let them go." ”
"It's the sixth time you've turned them away with such an excuse."
"I have been rejected five times with the same excuse, and the person who doesn't give up is either a fool or a stunned young man. It is useless for such a person to see it. ”
The butler sighed and turned to leave the room where Xia Li was.
Xia Li continued to look at the streets of Paris outside the window, a puff of black smoke in the distance was quite dazzling, but Xia Li was used to it, in the past four months after Lin Youde went back, black smoke often came out of Paris, either the people were burning the houses of the rich, or the police were using smoke to disperse the gathered crowd. Occasional gunshots can be heard, with the occasional thunderous explosion.
Now the wives and ladies of wealthy families are not afraid to go out, and there are basically no ladies except for Shenji at the evening ball, and the gentlemen don't seem to have the heart to invite Miss Shenji, who is usually eager to kneel and lick, to dance, but instead gather in groups of three or five, discussing the current situation in a low voice with a stern expression.
Now it seems that the damned Lin Youde is a disaster star at all, since the establishment of the French Republic in the flames of the Great Revolution fifty years ago, it has never experienced such a ****, whether it is when the iron-blooded prime minister and the Prussian military god Old Moltke hit the Mirror Palace, or when the Schlieffen maneuver executed by Moltke Jr. to the Marne, Paris gives people a calm and calm impression.
But now, not a single soldier with a strange steel helmet with a spear tip appears around Paris, and the city is in chaos.
It all started on that day, and Charlie vividly remembers the morning when the train with typical German design pulled into the station in Paris, and she stood on the platform, greeting with curiosity the Oriental who was a household name in Germany - and now in France - is also a household name.
That was the beginning of a qiē chaos.
During Lin Youde's nearly month-long trip to France, Xia Li has been following him closely, every time he does or says something in public, Xia Li sees it in her eyes and listens to it, she doesn't find anything suspicious, and she doesn't smell any clues. This man is just a normal propagation of his ideas to the people, no different from those university professors.
But that's what France has become.
The financial attacks of the Jews were just a primer, and what really caused this was the "dynamite" that Lin Youde had laid one by one many years ago.
When panhumanism began to spread in France, Charlie only regarded him as another harmless sociological doctrine, a purely academic thing, and felt that the French government's attitude towards this doctrine was a bit excessive, which was an interference with academic freedom.
But who knew that this thing would take root in this way and permeate the hearts of every lower class of people in France.
Of course, Charlie didn't know that in another time and space, France was the source of the people's revolution, and after the flames of the initial revolution were extinguished, the French represented by the people of Paris carried out wave after wave of resistance, from the European Revolution in 1848 to the later Paris Commune The French people used blood and fire to make the French ruling class realize again and again that they could not ignore their demands, so by the beginning of the twentieth century, France became one of the countries where leftists lived the most. Politicians who support socialism can openly participate in politics and even openly profess their convictions.
But in this time and space, after the Revolution, the French people no longer had a chance to vent, and the new social system and the existence of the gods and goddesses directly erased the February Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871, and the ruling class, including Charly, was not aware of the people's demands and their pent-up anger.
And pan-humanism, which calls on the people to take action, to reclaim the fruits of their labor with their own hands, and to live happily is like a torch thrown into a dry pyre.
Now, of course, when Xia Li looks back at the claims of panhumanism, she finally realizes this.
But now, fires have burned across the fields of France, and fig leaf flags have sprung up in every French city.
Charlie couldn't help but think of Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" again, and remembered the long scarf woven by Mrs. Defarge in the book, on which the crimes of many people were written in cipher code known only to Mrs. Defarge, waiting for the day when a general reckoning would be carried out in the anger of the people.
Now, Mrs. Defarge, who did not know where to hide, must have knitted a scarf of unimaginable length.
Xia Li's mind conjured up a humble tavern, where the women were constantly knitting and weaving, and scarves were already all over the tavern, even through the cracks in the door to the street.
At this time, the butler opened the door again.
"Miss, the Bonaparte family has sent someone, it's Master Raymond."
Xia Li sighed.
Since it was Raymond who came, it meant that it was time to finally take sides.
Xia Li took one last look at the street outside the window, and then closed the curtains with her hands. She turned and looked at the butler.
"Invite him in."