Chapter 839: Dominating Southern Xinjiang (65) Riots Again
For Battiros, the year 2929 and the 2nd year of the new calendar were the same turbulent years as last year, except that last year's Reign of Terror was a lifeless disaster, and this year was a riot of blood and fire.
Perhaps this year's disaster has begun to emerge from last year's "Snow Moon Uprising", and this year, after the "Muyue Uprising", there has been another "Rainy Moon Conflict".
As the Siber economy became more and more chaotic, Maael's Directory had to carry out new reforms, this time in the month of Rainy Moon (May), which abolished the passage of coins and replaced them with paper money or gold and silver money, and forcibly confiscated coins from the people.
Naturally, this measure once again greatly angered the population, just as the last time the small coupons bearing the face of Seliti III were abolished.
At this time, many retired veterans couldn't stand it anymore, and they sacrificed their sweat and experience for Xibo, but they were summarily dismissed, and they had to accept one bastard measure after another.
Therefore, during the rainy moon, many banners holding high banners of Xi Ailie and Ji Weiluo took to the streets, demanding that the Directory compensate for their losses, which was the "Rainy Moon Conflict".
The Directory, as in the past, took a very blind attitude to the petition, except for a few responsible persons who kept persuading the veterans to go back first, and swore that the Directory would solve the veteran's plight, but when the veteran asked what concrete measures were being taken, the responsible person took care of him.
However, the "Rainy Moon Conflict" cannot be treated the same as the previous two uprisings, let alone suppressed, you must know that this group of people are all veterans of Siber who have fought against the Holy Order Alliance on the front line.
It is not that the conscience of the Directory found that the veterans had made contributions to Siber, mainly because at the beginning of the year, due to supply difficulties, 30 legions, that is, 90,000 troops, were laid off in one go, plus those who had already been retired, and the number of veterans at this time exceeded 100,000, and more than 30,000 came to Batiros to petition.
With so many troops, if the Directory were to suppress these armies as they did the townspeople, and cause them to give the Directory a revolt like the peasant revolt in Arara, the consequences would be undoubtedly disastrous, and no one would dare to do so.
But the Directory did not dare to suppress the petitioners, nor was it willing to pay for the future of the veterans, so how could the conflict be resolved?
At this time when the storm was about to come, the "General of the Rainy Moon" Orange, who had just been established (30 years old), wrote to put forward his own opinion on the matter, and it was advisable to organize the veterans to go to the development area to settle the conflict between the Directory and the veterans.
Orange has had a very aggrieved life in recent years, and since the old prefect Mael is gone, he has not gotten along well with the new generalissimo of the Eastern Front, Palle Clarno, who prefers to use the old man he promoted, rather than Orange, a general who likes to go alone.
Therefore, when Baleklano ruled the army, Orange and Puedi, a pair of difficult brothers, always sat on the cold bench in the rear.
The so-called poor thinks about change, and the idle and panicked Orange sensed his opportunity in the veteran movement, so he had this book.
Truth be told, Orange's proposal was not a good idea, but it was an idea that the Directory had gathered so far that he could lose the least money, so he immediately agreed to it when there was no better way, and ordered Orange, who had made the idea, to return to Battyros and take charge of organizing the preparations for the veterans' cantonment.
Orange set off immediately after receiving the order, and then promoted Puedi as his deputy, and this main general who had been successful in Yuyue alone was also suppressed by Baleklano, and he was eager to flee from the Eastern Front immediately, so he naturally agreed immediately.
For veterans, it is natural that few people will be happy to leave their familiar homeland and go to the development area that is extremely inhospitable to them.
But whether or not to be willing is one thing, and whether to be willing is another, this idea is a way out, and many veterans do not have the courage to fight the Directory to the end, so in the case of the Directory's combination of hard and soft and Orange charm, many veterans choose to submit.
Not all veterans were subservient, but they undoubtedly greatly divided the number of petitioners, and when the number was reduced, the Directory could be free.
Immediately after the ultimatum deadline had expired, the Directory dispatched the National Guard and ordered them to carry out an armed crackdown on the veterans who remained in Batiros.
The crackdown lasted for an afternoon, more than 30 veterans were hanged, more than 5,000 veterans were arrested, and the remaining petitioners dispersed in a hurry, and the "Rainy Moon Conflict" came to an end for the time being.
When the news of the "Rainy Moon Conflict" reached the south, it aroused the interest of the Holy Order Alliance, and some people believed that this was the beginning of the civil war of Siber, and that the rebellion of these veterans would completely tear Siber apart, and the exiled nobles, who felt that their opportunity had come, became excited, and immediately sent their servants to abscond back to Batiros, ready to incite the old soldiers to revolt.
However, due to the lag in the transmission of information, when the spies of the Holy Order Alliance took advantage of the chaos of Siber and finally entered Batiros, they were stunned to find that the "Rainy Moon Conflict" was actually coming to an end, and their group was late.
So some unwilling spies stayed behind and continued to operate in Battiros, preparing to incite dissatisfaction among the people against the Directory, so they forcibly launched a riot, which became the "Thermidorian Rebellion" on the 16th and 17th of Thermidori (June).
The Thermidorian Rebellion was launched on the night of the 16th, and since the organizers were spies, the first thing they attacked after launching the uprising was not the former arsenal or the National Assembly, but the prison.
At this time, Battiros's prison was already full, petty thieves could not be imprisoned, either hanged directly or locked in the observation post, and the prisoners in the prison, except for the most vicious criminals, all violated the "National Security Law", the "Snow Moon Uprising" and the "Muyue Uprising", as well as the veterans who had just been arrested not long ago.
Although these people came from different backgrounds, they all had one thing in common, that is, they hated the Directory so much that after the spy broke the prison, they immediately accepted the Spy weapon and launched a riot against the Directory.
If there is another thing that these people have in common with the people, it is that most of them have military experience, and the insurgents have cooperated with the uprising, not to mention the veterans, who have been trained on the battlefield, so the devastation of this uprising is far more destructive than the previous two.
This group of prisoners who are full of resentment against the Directory, but no matter who released them, even if they were spies of the Parson dynasty? In their eyes now, not to mention the age of terror or the era of Xiari, even the Parson dynasty is better than this Directory with a thousand cuts.
Therefore, after the spies opened the prison and armed the prisoners, it caused great trouble for the Directory, and to add insult to injury, the commander of the Reform Legion actually turned to the royalists, declaring that he was unwilling to suppress the righteous people and refused to bring troops into the city.
With no army to suppress them, the insurgents quickly seized strategic points, and many councillors began to think about the way out, wondering if they were going to escape from Batiros.
At this critical juncture, Mael escaped from Battyros with his usual tricks, this time no longer to turn to the already unreliable Legion of Reform, but to Orange, where Battyros was organizing veterans to reclaim.
Mael, who had fled outside the city, urgently granted Orange carte blanche and ordered him to suppress the riots in the city.
The reputation of "General Yuyue" was almost universally known to Siber, and was worshipped by many soldiers as a model of grassroots rise, and with the fact that there were still some officers in the Legion who were loyal to the National Assembly, Orange was empowered to quickly take control of the Legion.
Orange quickly stripped the Legion of Reform of its command, quickly took the legion into his own hands, and avoided a civil war under the city of Battiros, and then led his army into the town to suppress the rebellion.
Under the suppression of the Improved Legion's psionic cannons, the situation was abruptly reversed, and Orange easily crushed the rioters' struggles, and the "Thermidorian Riot" was only left in waves the next day.
Thanks to the suppression of the Thermidorian Revolt, Orange's waist became stronger, so he gave his first speech to the National Assembly, proposing his new ideas for the veterans' goal of reclamation, and instead of traveling thousands of miles to open up the area, he moved to the province of Athena.
If it was before the internal battle, this proposal would be a joke, because Athena Province is one of the notoriously wealthy provinces in the southern Xinjiang continent, and it has always been overcrowded.
Unfortunately, by this time, Siber had been in the civil war for several years, and the province of Athena had become the front line of Siber's alliance with the Holy Order, and the inhabitants of this land had suffered from the war, and countless people had been killed and fled since the beginning of the war, and the population of the entire province had been completely lost.
It was under these circumstances that the province of Athena had the possibility of being reclaimed for veterans, and it was claimed in Orange's letter that the veteran cantonment could establish strongholds, which would be the best tool for keeping an eye on the walled province of Athena.
Orange's speech was approved by the National Assembly, and with his contribution to suppressing the Thermidorian uprising, Mael gave him full responsibility for the veterans' reclamation and as assistant to the marshal of the Western Front.
The official position of assistant to the marshal is very prominent, which means that after the resignation of the current marshal of the Western Front, the next marshal of the Western Front will be Orange.
The Thermidorian riots have come to an end for the time being, but the impact of the riots is still reveling, which is directly reflected in the upcoming elections to the National Assembly.