Chapter 53 Internal Gendarmerie
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"These guys have a hard mouth, and they have always refused to say who is behind it, and when the fifth person is executed, the sixth person is willing to open his mouth and tell the mastermind behind it. Do you see the bright red in my hand, we slit his throat with a knife. ”
Napoleon slowly wiped the blood and looked at the Duke of La Rochefoucauld's uncertain face. These are all interrogation methods he learned in Lubyanka in his previous life, and he can only get the information he wants by destroying the other party's psychological defense.
A hand stretched out from inside the carriage and threw a scarlet-stained handkerchief onto the brick-covered floor, and Napoleon turned his head and looked at the man in front of him with a smile, not directly stirring up the troublemakers, but asking another question for no apparent reason.
"Duke La Rochefoucauld, should you know about the dictatorship of the Jacobins?"
The Duke of La Rochefoucauld shook his head mechanically, then nodded sharply, not knowing what the other man wanted to say.
"Robespierre, the leader of the Jacobins, executed nearly 1,000 people, mostly Bourbon relatives and Parisian nobles, during the Jacobin dictatorship, and dealt a brutal blow to the power of the royalists. Really, it was very bloody, and many people were guillotined without even being interrogated. However, the brutal killings of the fanatics who pursued the policy of terror had a very bad impact on the political side, and the intensification of the implementation of terror expanded the scope of the attack, narrowed the social base of the Jacobins, undermined the revolutionary dictatorship, and led to a political dead end. ”
But Robespierre at least gave posterity a revelation. Reasoning with the royalists won't work, and the best way to deal with them is to kill until they don't dare to oppose you. ”
Napoleon patted the duke on the shoulder, looked at the pale face, and whispered, "But there are more ruthless methods, such as the decree they issued in 1793, that the land of the fugitive nobles should be confiscated, distributed or sold to the peasants at a low price." All the land seized by the aristocratic landlords from the rural communes in the last two hundred years should be returned to the peasants, regardless of sex or age, and distributed according to population. ”
La Rochefoucauld seemed to realize what he was going to say next.
"The Duke of La Rochefoucault also occupied a lot of peasant land in the enclosure movement, and if you are convicted of treason, please think that all your land will be confiscated and then distributed to the peasants, and it is worth it to lose all your property for the sake of a daydreaming Bourbon dynasty? The regime is alternate, but the land is eternal. If you lose your land......"
"Yes, I did it all."
Forced to retreat, the Duke of La Rochefoucauld interrupted Napoleon's speech and asked angrily, "What do you really want to do?" ”
Napoleon spread his hands and said succinctly, "I wonder who is behind the scenes?" You said it, a write-off. Otherwise, all the land will be confiscated for treason. ”
If a nobleman has no land, it is equivalent to his life.
"It was the royalists led by the Comte de Chambord who asked me to do this, and said that when he became king of France, he would give a great reward to those who had helped him."
Napoleon's movements stopped, he did not expect that the last heir of the Bourbon dynasty would desperately start making small moves behind his back for the sake of the orthodox throne of the King of France. Not to mention that two-thirds of the members of the parliament are royalists.
Is this really the Count of Chambord in history that even Pope Pius IX deplores?
Napoleon was not convinced.
"Thank you, Duke of La Rocheffoucault, for your dedication to us from this day forward. If I had known that you had dared to conceal anything, our conversation would have reached the ears of the royalists word for word. Even if I don't do it, they'll put you in a burlap bag and throw you into the Seine. ”
With that, Napoleon opened the door of the carriage. Duke La Rochefoucauld was already trembling with fear, and the man in front of him was like a demon, dragging him into the abyss little by little.
The Duke of La Rochefoucauld plucked up his courage and asked, "Your Excellency Napoleon, those who were executed ......"
He stopped, turned his face sideways, and said something that made the Duke of La Rocheffoucault angry with a myocardial infarction.
"I've helped you execute you, and the rest of the aftermath is your business, by the way, I've ordered the soldiers to drag all the corpses to your house, remember to dispose of them."
The lights of the Tuileries Palace did not fade into the night, and Interim President Trochu waited anxiously for a reply from the front. Although the transfer of the improvised reserve army to the front temporarily delayed the Prussian army's offensive and the war became a tug-of-war, it did not alleviate the dire situation at the front.
According to Napoleon's "On Protracted War", which required a lot of manpower and materials, France preferred to put this money into the war rather than leave a penny for Bismarck.
At the sound of a knock at the door, Trochu rubbed his eyes and looked up to see Napoleon standing in the doorway.
"How's tonight's speech?"
"Not good."
Napoleon pursed his lips and said, "I have already attracted the criticism of the royalists, and if it were not for the manpower arranged around, I am afraid the end would be very embarrassing." The conservative and orthodox forces are already on the move, and they can't wait. If I were the Count of Chambord, the next step would be to get in touch with Bismarck and make a deal for him to help him ascend to the throne. And the terms of exchange were the war reparations of France. Not to mention Alsace to Lorraine, he may give all the northern territories to the other side. ”
Hearing this, Trochu suddenly got up, looked at His Majesty Napoleon, and said distractedly, "Then what shall we do?" ”
Napoleon was very calm, "What else can be done, now four thousand men are immediately drawn from the active French army, I need soldiers with rich combat experience." ”
"What do you want so many people to do?"
Napoleon asked rhetorically, "What do you ask me to do?" Of course, it is to prepare for the creation of an internal affairs department, which I have already thought of as the NKVD, to oversee this national gendarmerie, drawn from the army, as a paramilitary force to replace the National Guard, which the population is trying to establish. Martial law and repression can be carried out when the defenses of Paris are empty, or the army cannot be mobilized. The target was any reactionary force that was ready to overthrow the Third Reich. ”
The Soviet purge gave Napoleon a good reference model, and any royalist who tried to make a small move in the secret could arrest and execute him in the name of the purge.
Napoleon made a gesture of beheading and said, "We need a sword under the Arc de Triomphe, the thief of the dictatorship ready to seize power." ”