Since the suppression of the three uprisings or insurrections of Siber, the Directory's reputation among the people has become insignificant, and its evaluation of the reformers has also been affected.

This change of thinking gave the long-dormant aristocracy and royalists the opportunity to take advantage of the people's dissatisfaction with the Directory and try to re-enter the political arena by presenting themselves as the spokesmen of the people.

In addition to the populace, many of the merchant groups grew tired of the Directory's incompetence and confusion, leading them to join the royalists.

After all, many of the royalists who remained in Siber at this time had already changed their minds, and they proposed to recognize the existing structure since the reform, respect and actively adapt to the rules since the "Mother Law of 2923", so as to gain the favor and support of some merchant groups and be able to run for the National Assembly.

The opportunity taken advantage of this group was the provision of the "Mother Law 2928" (also known as the "Mother Law of the First Year of the New Calendar"), in order to prevent a certain faction from monopolizing the National Assembly for a long time, so the parliament should remove the members with the least assets every year, according to the property situation, a total of one-third of the election.

So in this year's general election, the royalists took advantage of this to return to the political arena, and of the one-third of the deputies who were removed and replaced, seven-tenths were members with royalist tendencies, which was simply choking on the Directory.

What is even more frightening is that the royalists are relatively more organized and concentric than the National Assembly, you must know that after the abolition of the League of Parliamentarians by Ropier, even the Directory era has not been restored, and there is no faction in the National Assembly today that can monopolize the parliament as in the past.

Although during this period there were "false alliances" around the Governor and a few prestigious parliamentarians, but they usually held small seats, and the most powerful faction, Mael, for example, controlled only 5% of the seats in the National Assembly, which was not comparable to the past.

However, this group of royalist parliamentarians was different, although they did not conclude a "false alliance", their own tendencies were self-evident, and after they were elected, they did not hide their purpose, and repeatedly put forward bills to rehabilitate many nobles, posing a strong threat to Mael and these councillors.

You must know that after the Revolution, although the royalist parliamentarians had their own opinions, and it was impossible for the old orthodox and enlightened nobles to be together, within the National Assembly, they all had a common purpose, and thus could be temporarily united.

Even more frightening was the propaganda of the royalists, who used the political chaos of the past few years as an argument to attack the ills of the electoral system, arguing that only by concentrating power on the royal family and restoring the authoritarian era of the past could Siber get rid of this chaos and return to glory.

If it had been more than a decade ago, not many people would have paid attention to this kind of propaganda, but after so much back and forth from Ropier to the Directory, many parliamentarians became confused and confused about the future of reform, which led them to turn to neutrality, or even directly to the reformists.

According to Mael's research, he believes that in just one month, the royalists have spread like a plague in Parliament, and at least a third of the members of parliament will have the same tendencies as the royalists, and a quarter will remain neutral in the royalist vote.

"Our enemies are very cunning, they have stolen seats through all kinds of illegal means, and then entered the parliament under the guise of legitimacy, and if we don't do anything to deal with it, then the gains made so far will be overturned by this group of pretenders!"

Mael made this speech a few days later at an emergency meeting of the Directory's State Cabinet, although in this ludicrous assertion Mael did not adduce any clear evidence that the royalists had "stolen" the seats, and even convicted the legislators who had been legitimately elected on the basis of arbitrary speculation.

However, this statement was strongly supported by Mael's accomplices, and in any case, this group of people were all parliamentarians who had participated in the execution of Seliti III in the first place, and if the royalists returned, Mael and the others probably did not expect to get any good end.

Therefore, on the 18th of August (August), Mael and three other governors of state unified their minds and issued an order directly to the new commander of the Reform Corps, without going through the legal process, to lead his troops into Batiros and expel the "illegal" members from parliament.

After some hesitation, the commander of the Reform Corps chose to refuse, stating: "This parliament is a legitimately elected parliament, I have not heard of any fraud, and this decree has no legal procedures, only the signatures of Mael and the other two governors, so I refuse to obey it." ”

Hearing the answer of the other party's commander, the envoy of Ma'er suddenly became furious: "Isn't the signature of the governor of Ma'er that represents the legal process?"

The anger of the envoy Ma'er had no effect on the general, but the general did not dare to poke this matter out, and in a dilemma, he could only suddenly cover his chest, saying that he was infected with the epidemic and wanted to return to the mansion for a while to recuperate.

Seeing that this was the case, Mael's envoy was at a loss and could only ask Mael, and after hearing that the general would not act, Mael had to temporarily modify the plan and delegate the task of the coup d'état to Orange, so that he could enter Batiros to overthrow the parliament as he had done in the suppression of the "Thermidorian uprising".

At this time, Orange was organizing a cantonment in the province of Athena, when he suddenly received an urgent secret order from Mael, who showed his continued obedience, according to the envoy's report to Mael, claiming that after hearing the order, Orange set off without even eating.

Compared with the commander of the Reform Corps, Orange's behavior is really a heaven and a place, and Mael can't help but be greatly moved, believing that Orange, an old subordinate, is his reliable confidant in the army, and should be greatly promoted.

Orange hurried back non-stop, and arrived outside the city of Batiros on the 26th of August (August), where he took advantage of the night to carry the token and entered the garrison of the Reformist Legion with ease.

This time, some of the soldiers recognized Orange directly, and some soldiers asked directly, "Are you marching to Battyros again?"

Therefore, later generations joked that the reform legions, which were supposed to be born to defend the reform, were not best at fighting, but "marching to Batiros".

After taking control of the Reformers, Orange waited until the day when he gave the order to march, and the gate closest to the Reformers had long since been replaced by Mael's men, so Orange entered the city of Battiros without any alarm.

The reason why Orange had to wait until daylight to march was because it was Mael's request, and Mael would call all the MPs to an extraordinary session of the National Assembly tomorrow, and Orange could take advantage of this opportunity to catch all the MPs.

The theme of Mael's meeting was about the royalists, and of course it did not mean that the royalists could not become parliamentarians, and that they were elected in full compliance with the parent law, so the question that Mael was entangled with was whether it was legal for the royalists to form a faction in parliament to try to restore the "alliance system".

In fact, this issue is quite nonsense, you must know that long before the royalists came in, the daily life of the Governors was to form gangs and attack each other, which is also one of the reasons for the inefficiency of the Directory, so many parliamentarians wondered where Mael had the face to blame the royalists.

However, it was for this reason that Mael concentrated the parliamentarians in the parliament, so that Orange succeeded in surrounding the National Assembly, and surrounded all the parliamentarians.

Orange then called people one by one according to the list drawn up by Mael, and ordered that the members whose names were called were all royalist members and those whom Mael had identified as having royalist tendencies, and that all these people should stay, and the remaining parliamentarians who had nothing to do with the matter could go out.

When most of the deputies heard that their names were not available, they hurried out like passengers who had successfully evaded the fare, but there were some deputies whose names were not called refused to leave the National Assembly: "The National Assembly is where the dignity of the country lies, how can an army decide which members can go out on its own!"

The deputies tried to preserve the dignity of the National Assembly, but after Orange and Mael made eye contact, they ordered the Legion of Reform to force them out by kicking them.

After all the members who should go out had gone out, Orange took out a stack of papers and handed them to the remaining councilors, and the members who received the paper looked up and saw that they were "Pledge to Voluntarily Give Up the Position of Member" and "Confession of Forming a Party for Personal Gain, Endangering the Country", the words in which had already been written, and the task of signing was left to the councillors.

Many members of parliament were furious, believing that this was not only a complete humiliation of their dignity but also a complete humiliation of the National Assembly as an institution, so they not only refused to sign the pledge and confession, but also immediately tore the paper to shreds.

Seeing a few of the legislators who were piercing, Orange knew that he had to convince them before the other councillors could sign them, so he gave an order, and the neat flint guns of the Legion of Reform were aimed at the seats.

Then there was the "raising of the gun" and the "luck of the spirit", and finally before the "salvo" was shouted, the parliamentarians finally gave in and had to sign their names on the pledge and confession.

When the Legion of Reform raised its flint gun and smashed the head of the councillor with the butt of the rifle, Mael, who was standing outside the door of the House, hallucinated that the scene from a few years ago resurfaced before his eyes, overlapping with the scene in front of him.

I remember that a few years ago, the reform alliance that still existed at that time staged a coup d'état, led the army into the House of Lords to drive out the old nobles, and some people smashed the former speaker of the parliament who refused to move Li Xiluo with the butt of a gun, as if it was Ji Weiluo, right?

At this point, the legislatively elected parliament was overthrown by the Directory on the 26th of August (August), which was the "Coup d'état", after which the councillors were exiled to the province of Valle on charges of "endangering national security".

After the coup d'état, Orange was again presented with a medal in the National Assembly for his contribution to the cause of reform. After the ceremony, Orange left Battyros to return to the province of Athena, and before leaving, he looked back at the majestic building of the National Assembly, and felt that neither the National Assembly nor the coup d'état seemed to be enough.

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