407 Battle of Paris
"Your Majesty, since the attack on the Italian peninsula, we have been fighting a war with the anti-Han alliance for 7 years, and the Kingdom of France is in the attrition of fierce wars every moment.
War consumes not only human resources, but also a huge logistics system to support, and most importantly, it is very expensive to fight, and the Kingdom of France cannot directly loot the land of white pigs like us.
Therefore, as the war became more and more fierce and more money was invested, the original treasury of the Kingdom of France had long been bankrupt, and the wealthy bankers and capitalist factory owners who controlled a large number of handicraft workshops and factories gradually came to the fore.
The French government, lacking supplies and money, had to sell some honorable titles and even political concessions in order to obtain a large amount of war money, and this is how the Jews joined the political arena in the Italian peninsula.
Of course, Jewish investment has apparently gone down the drain, and the Italian peninsula has been reduced to our occupation zone.
However, in the countries of the anti-Han League that had not yet been occupied by the Taiping Army, the process of the bourgeoisie grasping political power and social discourse was greatly accelerated, because they were needed for the war, so the bourgeoisie and bankers infiltrated the government and the court more and more fiercely, and many traditional nobles who had lost the war had to bow to the capitalists and bankers in order to obtain new capital.
Your Majesty, it was this war that we had started that had pushed the Kingdom of France to the brink of the outbreak of capitalism, and the reason why the conservatives, led by Louis XIV, still firmly controlled the Kingdom of France was only because the bourgeoisie had no military power.
In addition to military power, the influence of the French bourgeoisie in society has actually surpassed that of the aristocratic group, and even many of the aristocratic groups have long since become veritable capitalists!
They called themselves liberal aristocrats, many of whom themselves owned large fiefdoms, and the bourgeoisie had become a political force to be reckoned with in the Kingdom of France!
Today, the actions of King Louis XIV of France are clearly tantamount to severing ties with the bourgeoisie and severing his arm, which is a great thing for the cause of heaven. ”
Hong Tiancheng squinted at Xue Taishen: "After all, it is the French King Louis XIV who is useful to speak without military power, no matter how great the ability of the bourgeoisie is, can it still compete with the army?"
As long as King Louis XIV of France gave an order, the factories of those capitalists were seized and nationalized, and if the bankers did not run fast enough, the confiscation of family property was only a matter of borrowing a few crimes. ”
"His Majesty was indeed wise, and after the dismissal of the chief minister, King Louis XIV of France immediately appointed a stubborn conservative aristocrat as the chief minister, and starting from the city of Paris, he vigorously liquidated the bourgeoisie that had infiltrated the court, confiscated a large number of handicraft workshops and production workshops, and even many bankers were arrested, so that King Louis XIV of France had a batch of military resources in a short time.
However, the actions of King Louis XIV of France caused panic in the entire Kingdom of France, except for the city of Paris, capitalists, bankers, even merchants and liberal aristocrats in other cities fled overseas with their wealth, and the unoccupied territory of the Kingdom of France, a large number of factories closed down, workers lost their jobs, banks closed, the economy of the towns of the Kingdom of France was sluggish, and the abnormal prosperity brought by the war disappeared completely!
The loss of workers may not have been a big deal for King Louis XIV of France, but the loss of factories and banks meant that there was a fault in the tax revenues of the Kingdom of France, in other words, the war potential of the Kingdom of France had disappeared!
All we have to do is destroy the last regular French army entrenched in the Paris area, and King Louis XIV of France will not have the money to form a new army, and our army can sweep all the way through and wipe out the local mobs and guerrillas. ”
Hong Tiancheng raised his eyebrows slightly: "Oh? According to you, this move of King Louis XIV of France is a disguised help to relieve us of trouble? However, by removing the stumbling block of the bourgeoisie, the authority of King Louis XIV of France would have been even greater, and no one in the Kingdom of France would dare to refute it. ”
"It is true that the cohesion of the Kingdom of France will be greatly increased, but no matter how strong the cohesion is, guns and ammunition are needed to fight a war, and without productivity and money, is it possible that the French soldiers will fight us hungry with broadswords and spears?"
Xue Taishen Kaikai talked.
"Well, you're right, now is the perfect time for a massive outflow of money from the Kingdom of France, and we should take advantage of the fact that King Louis XIV of France has not restored the production of those nationalized factories, and in one fell swoop to break the last reliance of King Louis XIV of France.
The French bourgeoisie has lost power, and we have only one enemy left in French soil. ”
Hong Tiancheng said with a smile.
"All four main field divisions are used, and I will fight a decisive battle with the main force of King Louis XIV in the Paris area, as long as I win, at all costs!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
In late 1673, the Taiping army gathered four breech-loading rifle infantry divisions, divided into two lines from the direction of Verdun and Orleans, and launched a fierce offensive in the Paris area.
Because the French troops guarded by Orleans and Verdun were regular field troops directly under King Louis XIV of France, and the capital Paris was behind them, the resistance was very stubborn, and after more than a month of war, the Taiping army broke through from two roads and completed the victorious division on the banks of the Seine!
After the breakthrough, the main force of the Taiping Army of the four divisions remained, and there were less than 3 divisions left, but under the strict orders of Hong Tiancheng, the Taiping Army, with constant morale, continued to launch a fierce attack on the French defense line on the outskirts of Paris without hesitation.
The battle lasted for three months, and because the logistics line was too long, the Taiping soldiers could only rely on ammunition from their compatriots who had died in the battle, and in the most difficult times, they even used captured French Minny rifles, from the outskirts of Paris to the street battles in the city of Paris, and every piece of land was covered with corpses from both sides.
The stubborn resistance of the French army bought a great deal of time for the fleeing French bourgeoisie and liberal aristocracy, and almost eighty percent of the French capital entered the British Isles and the Kingdom of Spain intact.
However, the French capitalists who entered the Kingdom of Spain did not stop fleeing, and fled all the way to the Kingdom of Portugal, and some simply took transoceanic merchant ships to the colonies of the Kingdom of France!
The French nation, which was originally condensed together, has been scattered into sand...... ()
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