Chapter 67: He wants to establish the Third Reich on earth
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The morning sun of dawn has risen.
Ancient buildings are bathed in divine brilliance.
After Napoleon's departure from St. Anthony, as the Prussian First Army approached the capital, Paris, gossip began to spread, and newsboys shouted newspapers in the streets, announcing the further approach of the Prussian army. There was a worried look on everyone's face, and the fate of everyone in Paris was at stake in the engulfing war.
After the Provisional Government took control of the mouthpiece of public opinion, Napoleon III would never again fall on the lips of the people of Paris, as was the case during the Second Empire.
Hugo's republicans emphasized Prussia's barbarism and evil, and called on everyone to stand up and defend the nascent republic.
The soldiers marched to the front line in orderly steps, and occasionally a military priest could be seen following the soldiers, reciting prayers. In the desperate absence of the "commissars" who were responsible for guiding the army's morale encouragement and appeal, the French soldiers had to be temporarily recruited to replace them, taking into account the predominantly Catholic religion of the French soldiers.
This was not pioneered by Napoleon, who was not the first to do so, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia, known as the Third Rome, replaced the commissar with an Orthodox priest for the soldier's ideological work function and was responsible for the divine blessing of weapons (mistakenly). France is a Catholic country, and when Napoleon was crowned emperor in 1804, he also promised to patronize Pope VII to stop persecution and restore Catholic status.
Since this is a war for the French people, then the priest should not hide in the church, go to the front, the soldiers need your divine blessings.
Everything was rehearsed according to his script, except for the remnants of the Bourbons.
The Bourbon Royalism is nothing more than an obsolete product in the process of historical evolution, and the old and young who have clung to the imperial system and are unwilling to let go are destined to be swept away in the general trend of the times.
France's crushing grip on the monarchy is only the end of the road, but at this time it is also self-defeating to go to the republic, look at the parliamentary form of government that the republicans are proud of? Outrageous inefficiency, pointless delays, and no one willing to sacrifice their own interests to reform, even though the two times in history the German army came in a surging wave, it was a temporary and hurried battle. Sticking to the old ways of warfare, the occupation of German tanks after the defeat of Plan 17 and the Maginot Line was nothing more than a national surrender and a near-surrender.
Decaying, a stagnant pool, the inefficient republic after the Franco-Prussian War was doomed to ruin in violent upheaval.
Now that we know its end, it is better to directly strangle the republic in the bud and replace it ourselves.
The future of this country must belong to a strong centralized government, a democratic dictatorship.
A dictator and tyrant who leads the empire to the light.
As for what Qianfu refers to? He doesn't care.
When did France become stronger, not an empire under the leadership of a dictator?
When Trochu was resurrected, he trembled and asked why he had returned.
Napoleon replied in a low voice.
"It's not my France."
"That's why I'm here."
Napoleon was not the only one who had a lot on his mind.
As the carriage jolted, Thiers' eyelids twitched, and he hadn't had a good night's sleep in the past few days. The secret telegrams of the Counts of Chambord and the Counts of Louis touched his heart so much that he even felt that he was on the wrong side.
Aristocratic rebellion to restore the Bourbon Monarchy? It was a dangerous and terrible task for them, and despite the numerous staunch Bourbon supporters and efforts at the top of the French parliament, there was only a thin line between the powerful aristocracy and the imperial-loathed lower classes, and the announcement of the king's restoration would cause quite a stir in Paris.
And now, Thiers has to accept the intermediary liaison between the Bourbon heirs and Prussia, which has always been a high-risk, high-reward task. If he succeeds, Thiers will become the prime minister of the Restoration, and if he fails, the tyrant of Paris will not hesitate to put a nowhere on the traitor.
It's just that he wondered why Napoleon would agree to his demands to confront Prussia directly.
Thiers shook his head, as if he had never seen through the other's thoughts.
The carriage stopped as it approached the Prussian front-line troops, and Thiers got out of the carriage and walked, waving the white flag in his hand, and slowly approached the Prussian army, not wanting to be mistaken for a spy and shot dead in the far outskirts of Paris.
Walking up to the Prussian soldier with his rifle, Thiers said in stammering German, "I'm not a spy, I'm a representative of the Paris peace talks." ”
At Bismarck's behest, Thiers, as the representative of the two countries in the peace talks, was not treated roughly. The officers politely invited him into the base camp - in order to show the strength of Prussia to the French, they placed nearly a hundred Krupp cannons in front of the French representatives.
The 280mm cannon, which weighed tens of tons and required more than a dozen horses to pull it, was the last straw that brought down Napoleon's Second Empire, and even Thiers could feel the cold oppression when he passed by them, and the pitch-black muzzle crushed even the bronze cannon that France was proud of.
The Chasebo rifle did not prevent this long-range monster from crushing the will to fight of the French army.
It was also from the bombardment of 1870 and the complaints of General Susan that the prelude to the development of French artillery began.
At the end of the Krupp artillery, Bismarck was smiling at the arrival of Thiers. This was a meeting he had specially prepared to crush the last of the French enemies by flexing their strength against them.
Thiers walked up to Prime Minister Bismarck with a numb scalp and nodded in greeting, "Prime Minister Bismarck, I am here to ...... on behalf of Paris."
"Is it for Paris, or for the royal family?"
Bismarck didn't want to be a fuss, especially when Prussia was condescendingly questioning the other side. When he heard the other party say that he represented Paris, his face was obviously gloomy.
"We are only willing to negotiate with representatives of the royal family, and if it is a representative of the government in Paris, we will wait until the Prussian army has broken through Paris, and then we will discuss the surrender."
Thiers was displeased, but he did not dare to show any emotion on the surface, and he said respectfully to Bismarck, "I personally represent the royal family. ”
"Hmm."
Bismarck nodded noncommittally, his face a little kinder, lifted the tent behind him, and said, "Come inside, Senator Thiers." ”
As he spoke, he walked into the tent on his own, leaving Thiers alone. The other exhaled, tried to calm himself, and followed.
Prime Minister Bismarck took a piece of paper, handed it to the other party, he raised his head and said, "If the heir of Bourbon really wants us to help him ascend to the throne and become king of France, this is the condition put forward by Prussia." The Count of Chambord will only begin if he agrees, otherwise everything will not be discussed. ”
Thiers curiously moved the piece of paper, but the contents made his face change instantly, and every line of French was unscrupulously provoking his nerves.
He looked up at the other in horror, while Bismarck just looked at him with a breezy face, as if he had calculated all of Thiers' emotions.
The calm parliamentarian looked at Bismarck, who was smiling, and angrily questioned the other party.
"This agreement, are you trying to force the Bourbon royalists to death?"