Chapter 14 Nine-Hour Workday
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Julius Caesar, who claimed that he would rather be king in the backwoods of Gaul than in Rome, probably never imagined that Gaul, which had once been in the backwoods, would have a European military commander of unparalleled prestige, even on a par with Alexander and Hannibal.
Seeing off Empress Eugénie, Napoleon spent the night studying the Instructions on Armed Insurrection with the Instructions on Armed Insurrection in hand, and Blanqui made detailed annotations in the intricate architectural areas such as Saint-Anthony, from the Avenue Grace along the Seine to the Champs-Elysée and even to Saint-Anthony.
In order to overthrow the absolute monarchy, he studied the layout of the city for more than ten years.
By the time Napoleon rubbed his dry eyes, closed the booklet, staggered to his feet, walked to the window and opened the dark blue velvet curtains, the dawn had already appeared in the east, the fiery morning glow reflected the gray sky, the classical buildings were bathed in sunlight, the Seine River passed quietly through the city, and the whole Paris slowly woke up from the dawn.
Like the future of the Third Reich.
Napoleon asked the hotel waiter for bread and coffee, sat down on the sofa to replenish his sleep, and was about to fall asleep in a daze when a noisy sound woke him up.
Napoleon sat up quickly, and subconsciously touched his waist, only to suddenly realize that he was not equipped with a gun. Trox, who walked into the living room with a plate, stared at the "Emperor Majesty" in front of him in confusion.
"For the safety of your life, I personally brought breakfast to you, Your Majesty Napoleon."
"Thank you."
Napoleon let down his guard, picked up the bread on the table, turned to Trochu and said, "You celebrated last night?" ”
"Yes."
"There was a small celebration at the Palace of Versailles, and Blanqu and they arrived. It's just that the republicans' faces don't look very good, and the banquet almost caused a quarrel. ”
Napoleon looked up curiously and asked, "Oh? What happened? ”
"It's nothing, Gan Bida humiliated the Blanquists as a group of uneducated no-pants men, and the two sides almost got into a fight, but they were persuaded by Schneider, the speaker of the Legislative Council, and both sides of the banquet broke up unhappily."
Napoleon, smearing butter on the bread, replied, "Predictably, the republicans thought they would take power, but they did not expect that their calculations would be disrupted, and the republican cabinet temporarily achieved a real republic, and not a republic belonging to the bourgeoisie." ”
Trochu hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Your Majesty, I heard that Empress Eugenie has come to look for you?" ”
"Yes, I made a deal with the Bonapartist faction, and now the Bonapartist faction has won over me, further isolating the bourgeois republicans."
He felt that Napoleon's approach was too risky, and advised him to plan to slow it down a little, "but the Republicans are still the most powerful faction in France at the moment, they control the financial capital factories in France, and behind them are the most influential people in France at present." ”
Napoleon waved his hand and said impatiently, "Of course I know, but let's not forget that the army is in our hands, and the working class is only for the republic, not for the capitalists." If we promised the workers that after the war with Prussia the government would enact a nine-hour workday, how many people would you say would support us? When the time comes, the entire working class will be the backbone of our struggle against the republicans. ”
The eight-hour work day was first proposed by socialist Robert Owen in 1817. With his support, sympathetic factory owner John Doherty and others launched a campaign for an eight-hour workday. In 1866, the Geneva Congress of the First International put forward the slogan "Eight Hour Work", which demanded that all countries enact laws to confirm it.
The slogan of the Geneva Congress was dismissed as nonsense. If the capitalists are disciplined, the workers do not need to fight for their rights and interests by means of strikes and riots. Even in the liberal United States, the eight-hour workday was first affirmed until sixteen years later.
This system of work was at the heart of the struggles of the workers' movement in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century, and Napillon, after practical considerations, changed it to nine hours.
"You're going to have a nine-hour workday? With all due respect, Your Majesty, you will lose the support of all the capitalists in the city of Paris. "And I have to point out that these theories of yours are very dangerous......"
"You mean to say it's very similar to Marx's theory? Or do you want to say that I am a socialist? ”
Napoleon sneered and said, "Extraordinary times must be done by extraordinary means, otherwise the chaos will not end." After winning over the working class, the capitalists are nothing more than an isolated herd of lambs to the slaughter. General Trochu, have you heard the story of Caesar's abduction? ”
"Caesar was kidnapped?"
Trochu looked at the other party inexplicably, not knowing what he wanted to say.
"Julius Caesar was kidnapped during his journey by Cilician pirates, who demanded a ransom of 20 tarrants. Caesar mocked them for not knowing who they had caught, and demanded 50 tarrants from the pirates. During the 38 days he waited for the ransom, he had to stay with the pirates, and he even joked that he would send them all to the cross if he was released. ”
"The first thing he did when he was released was to assemble a fleet and capture all the pirates who had kidnapped him."
"Then slit their throats until they couldn't make a sound, and then slowly crucified the group."
Napoleon finished the story in a calm tone, and added, "What if the republicans are these pirates, and behind them are the French capitalists?" Little did they know that a loyal army, combined with an angry mob, would be able to slit everyone's throats and hang their bodies on crosses. ”
Napoleon's words were terrifying to hear.
It seems that the other side is ready to wipe out the republicans.
And the army was loyal to the supreme president, and Napoleon became a veritable military dictatorship. After the Franco-German crisis in the future cannot be reconciled, Ludendorff's guiding ideology of general warfare will appear on the stage of history.
Even in a republican form of government, Napoleon had an entire French army and the support of the people.
Napoleon's words revealed the future fate of the republicans, and as long as they acted rashly, the heads of Gampeda and others would sooner or later hang on the pillars of the Palais Bourbon.
He needs a stable political situation, not a cabinet of presidents who have been constantly changing like the Third Republic in history, and he will not let the power of capital become a tool to control the country.
When he had integrated the rest of the forces, all that remained was the garrison of Paris.
"Now let's go."
Napoleon stood up and walked out the door, and Trochu, who was standing behind him, quickly stood up and asked suspiciously, "Your Majesty, where are we going?" Don't you go to the government's cabinet meeting? ”
"Can listening to a bunch of politicians babbling nonsense solve the crisis facing Paris? I must go to the barracks now, do you expect the present French army to be able to win the battle against Prussia? ”
Trochu froze in place.
Napoleon only left the latter with an inscrutable back, and said without looking back, "I now have a plan, and it is time to turn the weak sheep of France into wolves armed to the teeth." ”