Thus, after a month in Westphalia, William and his delegation left the territory already under the rule of the Britons, with a heavy, dissatisfied, and depressed heart. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info returned to their country.

Although very dissatisfied, very unhappy, very uncomfortable. But William still tried his best to control himself not to break out, and not to oppose all this.

At least for now, he's not ready. And before he was ready to take charge of the world, he had to endure the system, and he reluctantly accepted it all with pleasure.

The commercial agreement with Breton was finally signed with great difficulty.

Although there were quite a few setbacks during the negotiations, at least, the final result made William feel gratified. That is, he still has access to the market in Briton. Although in terms of tariffs, the Britons have abolished the support policy for the Hereford family, and did not give preferential tariffs, but at normal levels. However, William is already very content with this result.

He had already realized that he was going to completely withdraw from the Briton market.

It was already much better than the worst he had expected.

Moreover, from this point of view, William also somewhat saw the mind of the Britons people, or the Breton mainland faction in power today. If they could, they would still be willing to give the Russian-Gothic Empire some benefits to settle William and his allies.

It is also important to note that William actually had access to a much larger market than before, and was subject to fewer restrictions and hindrances - because the entire empire was now effectively unified by the Britons.

The Brittons, who expected the ease of circulation of goods and the expansion of their markets, abolished commercial taxes, trade barriers, and various customs within the empire. From the de facto formation of an imperial customs union.

In this case, the merchants of the Hereford family also benefited.

From this point it can be seen that the Britons were far more enthusiastic about trade and commerce than the feudal lords of the empire who were behind the times.

"In that way, the merchants of Briton must be happy, right?" William couldn't help but think, "In addition, the benefits they have gained must soon make up for the resources and wealth lost by the war...... What a profit. Thinking so in his heart, William's mood was somewhat complicated.

Although he had gained a lot of benefits from the system, he still felt awkward - yes, he really felt awkward. Because it was all done under the auspices of the Britons. And it was not done under him, or any of the Gothic monarchs.

It was as if Wilhelm's Prussia had formed the Customs Union of North Germany, which was indeed a very meaningful thing. But if this customs union is not led by Prussia, but by Britain, then it will be very embarrassing.

"Ah, what a ......" William didn't know what to say for a while.

At the same time, William also secretly made up his mind.

Although the relationship with the Marian lady before, and in the next few negotiations, the relationship with Victoria was very bad. But when the dust settled, William decided to repair his relationship with them.

Yes, at least with his own lack of strength, William has to play by the rules of their game. He also decided to hide his ambitions and desires for the time being under this so-called Westphalian system. Follow this rule for the time being and accumulate strength. Until you have the ability to break all these constraints and shackles.

"So, let's be happy for a while. William thought to himself: "Get excited for a while, and immerse yourself in false prosperity." One day, you will find that what you have built is nothing more than an empire on sand. If you experience a little wind and waves, it will collapse in an instant!"

Thinking so in his heart, William's mood improved a lot. In the following period, his mood improved, and his work became smoother to some extent.

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In 1746, the war that had ravaged the mainland finally subsided. Thanks to a series of policy stimulus and capital injections from the Britons. The original territory of the empire began to become stable. The drastic decline in the number of refugees made William very uncomfortable - it cut off his population from foreign aid. Next, it is almost impossible to obtain a large number of immigrants.

However, in the summer of that year, another upheaval gave William a new source of population movement.

That is, Visigothic.

As Louis XVI continued to pervert, the situation in the Visigothic kingdom became more and more unstable. Maybe it's because his mind hasn't been clear lately, or maybe it's for some other reason, or because in fact the vast majority of Visigoths have had enough......

All in all, in the summer, on the twelfth day of June, a big event took place in Paris, the capital of the Visigothic kingdom.

There was a riot. The workers and citizens of Paris were finally not satisfied with mere demonstrations, strikes and verbal protests.

During a march to protest against Louis XVI's court expenses and increased their taxes, several soldiers who were maintaining order were injured by stones thrown by the townspeople. Because of this, some of the soldiers lost their minds - and probably feared that these bastards would attack them as if they were attacking their comrades.

So they made the decision to strike first.

After this, the soldiers attacked the demonstrators, most of whom were bare-handed, so the citizens were no match for the soldiers. It was quickly dispersed.

If it weren't for the reservations of the soldiers, and the vast majority of them just used long poles to smash and whip, then the citizens who hung up at this moment would never be the dozen or so people counted afterwards.

Naturally, this incident caused an uproar in Paris, and many people had ulterior motives to propagate that this was a prelude to the king's preparation to send an army to suppress the people by force, or before long a large army would enter and kill all these kind, industrious, simple and innocent people.

Of course, this is a lie. In fact, Louis XVI did not even know about this riot. Or in his opinion, all the people in the whole of Paris, one counts as one, in fact, he doesn't care if he kills them all.

Of course, you can't expect this era, when literacy rates are usually only ten percent, or even lower, and the vast majority of the general population is illiterate, and people have more than enough discernment. Naturally, in this case, the chaos expanded.

First of all, a group of drunken citizens, armed with some old-fashioned muskets, sticks, spears, pitchforks, etc., were quite excitedly led by a group of activists towards the Bastille. Then he easily captured this fortress with "great symbolic significance".

A total of 954 people took part in the storming of the Bastille, the oldest of whom was 72 years old and the youngest was 8 years old. It was a laundry manager who blasted the suspension bridge cables with a cannon. The first to storm the Bastille was a carpenter.

At first, people were just shouting outside, asking the officials guarding the Bastille for gunpowder and bullets. Knowing that the incident was not easy to handle, the guard officer invited the two leaders in at 10 a.m. to discuss it over lunch in order to stall for time. But Louis XVI never received the notice, and he even wrote "nothing" in his diary that day, until the middle of the night when he learned about it. In the castle, the officials refused to hand over the gunpowder to the masses, and the discussions were fruitless.

Hours passed, and there was still no news, and the crowd outside began to get anxious, because they all "knew" that the Bastille was a "place where human life was", that hundreds of people were tortured inside, and that the two leaders might have been arrested. So they began to riot again at half past one in the afternoon, and broke the iron cables of the outer wall of the city gate bridge, and rushed to the inner ring of the castle. The officials began to make trouble, and because of his indecision, he simply could not make a decision himself. But his soldiers couldn't do it anymore, and they began to fire at the insurgents with guns and cannons from the rooftops, windows, and towers.

The insurrectionists, who rushed to the front, were overwhelmed by the stormy fire, and could not approach the Bastille, so they returned fire from the surrounding barricades. They had no cannons, only some old cannons found from all over the place, and even rusty ancient cannons cast hundreds of years ago to join the fight. They had no gunners, only a few people who volunteered to come out and open fire.

A liquor seller named Shaw Lai actually became a gunner. However, these ancient and old cannons finally roared in the hands of the insurgents who had been aroused by the fighting. Rows of shells slammed into the prison walls, filling the air with smoke and brick debris. However, because the wall was too thick, it could not be breached, and the insurgents had already suffered casualties.

An hour passed, the battle made little progress, and the siege of the Bastille grew. The people were in a hurry, and some of them simply took two torches and bravely rushed to the arch and set fire to the guards room and the military canteen of the fortress, but there was still nothing they could do about the fortress and the tower. A wig-maker tried to set fire to the fortress's saltpeter vault with torches, but was unsuccessful.

Someone shouted: "Mix phosphorus and pine resin and burn the enemy's artillery!" but the gun position was too high to reach.

At this time, another loud voice came from behind the position:

"We need real cannons and real gunners now!" so everyone calmed down, and they all waited, looking. More than two hours later, a powerful cannon was pulled in, and experienced gunners were found.

After a while, heavy artillery fire was fired at the Bastille. Finally realizing that there was nothing he could do about it, he threatened the crowd to flee by blowing up the castle with tens of thousands of pounds of explosives, but the crowd refused. On the way to a hospital for "trial," he yelled "Kill me!" and was kicked to death by the crowd when he saw one of his commanders beaten to death. After that, the crowd cut off his head and used it for demonstration.

In the end, the crowd found that there were only seven prisoners in the prison, one of whom was a prisoner of "debauchery" (the Marquis de Sade) who had been arrested by the royal secret letter from a noble family, two were identified as mentally ill, and four were forgers.

Although the results are slightly ...... That, but that didn't stop the crowd from cheering, taking the capture of the fortress, the well-guarded fortress, the symbol of power as a sign of their success.

It is for this reason that more people are joining the ranks.

The Visigothic kingdom of the eighteenth century was a densely populated country with at least 200,000 inhabitants in and around the capital Paris. The vast majority of these residents became rioters because of excitement and incitement.

So, things finally got bigger.

“...... Hm. All in all...... Slightly ...... Well...... What should I say?" after receiving the report from the Cheka members, William was very embarrassed about this matter.

How to say that? Well, how should I say it? It doesn't seem to be a good evaluation, right?

The most important point is that this "righteous uprising" failed.

Although William's world is much the same as the original Earth, there is one difference here that Louis XVI is closer to a tyrant than to a good old man.

When he heard about the civil riots, he gave the order almost without hesitation.

In the shortest possible time, tens of thousands of heavily armed Janissaries were mobilized. Including a cuirassier regiment and an artillery regiment, a large number of professional soldiers were thrown into the repression...... And then the victory was easily won.

The passion of these righteous mobs was instantly stifled by the onslaught of the cuirassiers, by the bombardment of artillery, by a large number of soldiers who carried bayonets and stabbed mercilessly.

These Praetorian Guard soldiers were not native Parisians, or even Visigoths. They came from various states of the Ostrogothic Empire, and even some mercenaries from Asturias and Briton.

These people don't care about Parisian feelings - some of them don't even understand Visigothic Gothic. So, there's no pressure on them to deal with these guys.

A riot was gone. Hundreds of citizens were killed. Some of the people who took the lead in making trouble were beheaded. Many more were so frightened that they dropped their weapons and fled back to their homes, pretending to be kind and writing "I am a good citizen" on their heads.

But martial law and curfew were imposed in Paris for a week. Martial law was not declared until it was confirmed that the matter had settled down completely.