Chapter 834: Dominating Southern Xinjiang (60) The foundation is like floating sand
After Ebbuck was executed, some lawmakers suggested that Zhong Ming, the "Night Demon Slayer", should also be arrested, as he was known to be an early advocate of the Clothless Man.
But this proposal was stopped by Ropier, because although Zhong Ming was an advocate of the Clothless Man Movement, but after Eibak and these people entered the parliament, he began to keep his distance from these people, so he was not deeply involved, plus Ropier respected Zhong Ming's contribution, so in the end, Zhong Ming was only criticized and educated, allowing him to escape.
With Ibak executed, the Clothed Men were suddenly left without a leader, and Ropier took the opportunity to launch a further blow against the Clothed Ones.
On August 28, he passed the "Decree on the Rectification of Clothless Persons", requiring residents everywhere to report whether the Clothless Men have committed crimes, and its purpose is to point at the existence of the Clothless Men themselves, which is the same as last year's "Decree on the Suppression of Clothless Persons".
In the half month after the issuance of the "Decree on the Rectification of the Clothless Soldiers", nearly 10,000 suspects were hanged in the name of the Clothless Soldiers, but this time there was no "Second September Uprising".
Excerpt from "The Ancien RΓ©gime and the Revolution"
"In the era of the Great Revolution, there was an iron law, that is, as long as prices were stable, there would be no unrest in the lower classes of Siber, which sounds like a very simple law, but unfortunately since the bursting of the dragon fruit bubble in 2921, until the end of the reform, there was only one period when prices were truly stable, and that was the Age of Terror. β
"In the early days of the reform movement, when the price problem was not serious, and at this time the attention of politicians was focused on wrestling with Seliti III and the old aristocracy, so the demand for change from the lower classes was buried in these political struggles, and despite the 'December Storms', it remained unguarded. β
"Thus the pent-up anger accumulated into the later period, which became known as the 'Radical Movement', or what Hiariel called the 'Clothless Man' Movement at the time. The difficulty of the 'Clothless Men movement' is not because of how powerful they are, but because they represent the anger of the entire lower class over the turmoil of the past few years. β
"But after the Clothless Movement split with the Civil Rights League, it passed a simple "Decree on the Rectification of the Clothless Soldiers" in Yuyue, which was easily suppressed by Luo Pier within half a month, is this the Clothless Man himself a rabble composed of scoundrels?"
"I don't think that's the case, the real reason for this is that the forces represented by the Clothless in the two periods were different, around the time of the Second September Uprising, the Clothless represented the angry lower classes, but after the Reign of Terror, the Clothless Men led by Eibak split off from the lower classes. β
"The Reign of Terror was the only era since the mid-to-late Revolution in which the number of executions was greater than that of other unnatural deaths, mainly due to the stability of prices, the number of people starving and freezing to death was greatly reduced, which made the basis for the survival of the unclothed man no longer exist, and the majority of the people were unwilling to be used as Ibark's pawns to wave the flag for him. β
This is the reason why Ropier was able to suppress the Clothless Movement so easily, and this is also the reason why after the death of Ropier, the Clothless Movement made a comeback, and 'prices' were the lifeblood of the entire Revolution, and all the struggles in the Revolution were based on prices. β
β...... I think the reason why Ebak was killed was because he didn't understand what he meant to Ropier, and that Arbuck was just a tool for Ropier, and when the tool didn't work well, it should be rebuilt. β
However, with the betrayal of Ji Weiluo and the departure of the unclothed man, Ropier destroyed the foundation of his own rule, and the day of his demise was approaching. β
As later mentioned in The Ancien RΓ©gime and the Revolution, the successive killings of Ivillo and Eibuck brought the NRC to a near paralysis, and Ropier destroyed the foundations of his rule, and he was not far from the day of his own destruction.
And in addition to this, there is the fact that most of the people from top to bottom of Sib can no longer stand the reign of terror of Lopier.
The Legislators and Reformers naturally hated the Reign of Terror because it prevented the Traders from making profits, and the Reformers saw it as contrary to the ideals they had been propagating, and to add insult to injury, even the population was tired of the Reign of Terror.
Although prices were so stable during the Reign of Terror, like a pool of stagnant water, as more and more people go to the gallows every day, the fear of the people grows, and they have forgotten the era of soaring prices last year and are beginning to yearn for an end to the terror.
More importantly, Ropier greatly damaged the interests of the people on the issue of wages, and the original promise of stable prices was to stabilize wages together, but the reign of terror did stabilize prices, but Ropier was soft on the implementation of wage restrictions, and the long queues on the wages that fell all the way down made the people very angry.
The last straw that crushed Ropier was the "Decree on the Rectification of the Salvation Judges" that he was about to issue, that is, to rectify the position of the Salvation Judge.
The criticism of the Reign of Terror by the people of Xialiel is not most, but all the accusations, which are caused by the judges of the salvation of the country, after all, in order to promote a large number of judges in a short period of time, the quality requirements for them really cannot be too high, although Ropier rectified it once a few months ago, he obviously felt that the intensity was not enough.
In Ropier's view, the Salvation Judge is the tool he uses to save the country, and it is natural for him to be fair and law-abiding, which Ropier is really qualified to accuse others, as far as Leng Yi looks at from the system, among all the current parliamentarians of Siber, only 3 have not accepted bribes, and there is no other illegal behavior, only Ropier is left - except for political struggle.
As a man of a certain moral purity, Ropier tolerated the arbitrariness of the Salvation Judge at first, because he believed that the first thing to be eliminated were those who were rightfully opposed to reform.
After half a year of killing people day and night, Ropier believes that this group of people has been initially purged, or dare not show their heads, then the next step is to enter the second stage, except for the unfit people.
One is incompetence, and the other is dereliction of duty, which is very obvious in the group of Salvation Judges, so Ropier first took the Salvation Judge to clean this tool that was already not good, so that he could continue to kill people in line with Ropier's wishes.
Ropier has always scoffed at the so-called ways in which the Sheireaux were reformed through love and peace, morality and preaching, which is why he never argued with the Sheirees, who believed that the "non-minced" reformers had in some way had the illusion that they had obtained power through violence.
Although Ropier thought it ridiculous that the reformers were trying to achieve their ideals, Ropier recognized their ideal world and worked for it, but in a different way.
Ropier's method is very simple, there is only one point, kill, kill the traitors who oppose the reform, kill the traitors who are passive and sabotage and violate the law, and kill all those who do not conform to the ideal world of the reformers, then the ideal world can come.
In fact, when Ropier dreams back in the middle of the night, he often has a whim, thinking that it would be good if he were a god, and that Ropier wants to become a god, not because he covets the immortality and strength of the gods, but because he will have the ability to realize his dreams.
If he could become a god, Ropier would put on the end of the world, kill all the wicked, leaving only the world of good people and babies, and then rebuild civilization from scratch, only then can he create a perfect utopia.
This is also the reason why Ropier has always been extremely unreverent, he feels that the gods are not worthy of being gods, and it is better to worship reason than to worship imperfect gods.
Leng Yi was very surprised and interesting by Ropier's idea, so he deliberately marked Ropier's soul, and when he died, he would take care of him and reincarnate him, give him the power of a god, and see if he could really realize this invaluable ambition in a certain area, and then what the consequences would be.
This idea of Ropier was reflected as early as last year's "Initiative to Replace Old Religious Worship with Rational Worship", but last year this was only an initiative, and the implementation was not strong, and the "Worship Act" promulgated on September 1 was the beginning of Ropier's attempt to officially replace the worship of gods with rational worship.
As a result, the remaining altars were converted into temples of reason, and the priests were forced to abandon the old gods and worship the new concept of "reason" introduced by Ropier, and those who violated the Worship Act were also considered suspects of obstruction of the state.
This also means that after the old aristocracy, parliamentarians, merchants, people, and national salvation judges, even the priests were offended by him, and almost all the forces in the country were offended in one go.
On the 27th of the ninth month of the month of the year, Ropier went out as usual, to the National Assembly to prepare for the start of his day's work, Ropier did not covet pleasures, did not like women, his only hobby was power, because power allowed him to advance every day towards his ideal world.
When he entered the National Assembly, he found that all the deputies were already seated at the table, and when they made a crisp sound when their feet stepped on the ground, all the deputies turned their heads to look at Lopier.
Yes, all parliamentarians, today is not a regular meeting on the 27th, and it stands to reason that all parliamentarians should not be present, and since this happened, it means that something bad will happen.
Ropier, who had experienced a lot of strong winds and waves, subconsciously felt that something was wrong, so he took a step back, but was blocked by the cold iron armor, Ropier looked back, only to see the guards resolutely stop him, while showing a gentle smile and saying: "Elder, the meeting is about to start, just waiting for you." β