After a three-day private visit, Emperor Richard quietly returned to the court.

With the help of Zheng Yuan, the head of the royal secretariat, there were very few people in the court who knew about it, and they were all given a gag order.

Only the commander of the Royal Praetorian Guard, Admiral Liu Wu, was secretly worried; His Majesty the Emperor, if this is addictive, what can be done?

A series of policies related to the vital interests of the common people were promulgated by the imperial court, which refined and improved the current social system, and were uniformly implemented by the imperial government.

It wasn't long before 1871 quietly came......

Paris, Europe

When Kaiser Wilhelm I was crowned Emperor of Germany at the Palace of Versailles on the outskirts of France, the Germans continued to raise the price of peace after months of shelling.

In addition to the cession of land, the amount of war reparations rose from 500 million to 5 billion francs.

Paris was besieged for more than seven months, and the French bourgeois Orleanist government was forced to agree to the peace offer of the German Empire due to internal and external difficulties.

This sparked the anger of the citizens of Paris, and the Paris Revolution unsurprisingly broke out, known as the "Paris Commune".

The class oppression and national capitulation policy of the French bourgeois government aroused the extreme discontent of the broad masses in Paris. On March 18, 1871, the workers of Paris staged an uprising, overthrowing the rule of the bourgeoisie and establishing a new revolutionary regime. Commune elections were held on March 26, and the Paris Commune was proclaimed on March 28.

Adolf Thiers, the head of the Provisional Government, who had been expelled by force, led the members of the government and the army to retreat to the Palace of Versailles on the outskirts of the city, and his government was also known as the Versailles government in European opinion, and the army was called the Versailles Army, in order to distinguish it from the Paris Commune.

With a peace treaty between Germany and France, Germany had to support the Adolf Thiers government in its counterattack on Paris and secure its power for the sake of the German Empire and the real dividends of winning the war.

Otherwise, the peace treaty that has been concluded is just an empty piece of paper.

Just like the defeated treaty signed by the fallen French Emperor Napoleon III, no one will admit it in France now, and it will be ruthlessly discarded like a fart paper.

As a result, the German Empire quickly shifted its policy from attack to support.

From the beginning of April, more than 100,000 French officers and soldiers captured in the fortress of Metz were successively transferred to the Adolf-Thiers government and rearmed, which made the Versailles army under the Thiers government rapidly increase in strength and immediately organized a major counteroffensive against Paris.

On 2 April, the Courbe-Bois region on the outskirts of Paris was captured by Thiers' Versailles army. The Paris Commune had organized a counteroffensive the next day and had tried to capture the area of the Palace of Versailles, but had failed.

More than a month later

Issi Fortress

His Royal Highness Tang Li Kun, who was wearing the uniform of a major general of the Tang Empire, held the binoculars with a serious expression, looking at the devastated fortress of Issi in front of him, and the war had turned this beautiful area into hell.

The brutal and bloody battle between the Versailles army and the armed civilians of the Paris Commune has been going on for more than a month, and the air is filled with the unpleasant smell of corpses and gunsmoke.

His Royal Highness Tang Li Kun slowly lowered the telescope in his hand, his young face looked resolute and calm, revealing a maturity far beyond his age.

He is good at European history, and over the years, he has studied and experienced major European events in depth, and has grown into a European expert, and can look at this French disaster with a more rational eye.

The Franco-Prussian War was not yet completely over, and the protagonists of the war had been transformed into the civil war between the Versailles government and the Paris Commune, which really made people feel ironic.

The fortress of Issy, located between Versailles and Paris, became the focus of contention between the French Civil War.

The bloody battle had been raging for more than a month, with charred corpses, broken guns, and broken wagons and cannons everywhere in sight, and the battle was fought by French on both sides, the Versailles army on one side and the armed citizens of the Paris Commune on the other.

In the face of the Orleans army, which was armed with a large number of field artillery and had extensive combat experience, the defeat of the Paris Commune, lacking artillery and logistics, was almost a foregone conclusion.

"My dear Highness, when do you think these French will be able to reoccupy Paris and get rid of these reckless and troublesome revolutionaries?" The speaker was Albert, Crown Prince of Saxony, the commander of the German Twelfth Army, who was more than ten years older than Don Likun, but the two had a very close relationship.

After the signing of the peace treaty with the government of Adolf Thiers, the German army was largely idle, moving from offensive deployment to occupation posture and waiting for the war to end.

Emperor Wilhelm I returned to Berlin with Prime Minister Bismarck and a large number of officials to preside over a series of matters such as the country's industrialization and the restoration of the national economy, and the senior military officials were also idle.

The town of Versailles is surrounded by many palaces, where German generals often host lavish aristocratic banquets, and it seems that the fortress of Issy and the artillery are two worlds apart.

Indeed, what did the civil war of the French have to do with the Germans?

His Royal Highness Don Li Kun casually threw the telescope to the attendant military attache beside him, glanced at Crown Prince Albert and said;

"I know what you're thinking...... Dear HRH Crown Prince Albert;

The Germans could not wait to reap the fruits of victory, the defeat of the Paris Commune was already doomed, what difference did it make whether the war ended in May or June?

Even if it drags on until July, it will only be more casualties.

Failure is nothing more than a little sooner and a little later.

After studying European history for so many years, I have gained a better understanding of the brutality of wars in Europe.

It is especially touching to see the armed citizens of the Paris Commune who have fallen on the battlefield one after another, defending the city they love with their blood and lives.

And the troops who shot these Parisian citizens with guns had fought alongside them more than a month earlier.

Reality is so magical, yet so cruel.

I can feel it

The Paris Commune will have a profound impact on the whole world, and this is a group of revolutionaries who have sacrificed their lives for noble ideals, and you should be vigilant to guard the fence to prevent the revolutionary wave from sweeping across Europe.

Fortunately, we are separated from Europe by the vast Atlantic. ”

"Oh...... Your Highness Kun, you are really unkind. Crown Prince Albert screamed reproachfully, took the coffee cup from the hand of the guard officer, took a sip and said;

"It's not as easy as you say, the war is not over yet, our army is fighting the Italians in the south, it's the army led by the damned Garipoli.

Now that the French are in a state of confusion and extreme danger, with the resurgence of the Jacobins, and impulsive Proudhonism, mixed with International Socialism, Blanquism, and more liberal republicans, who knows what else?

A large group of anarchists came together and with a reckless impulse to overthrow the world.

Oh...... Oh, my God!

The war opened a Pandora's box, and the first to be unlucky were the French. ”

His Royal Highness Don Li Kun also had a cup of hot coffee in his hand and walked down the hill against the backdrop of artillery fire, where a small table covered with a white tablecloth and two small chairs were placed.

He sat down in one of the small chairs, took a sip of his coffee, and then placed the cup on the table, and ate the delicate pastries on the table with his hand.

Crown Prince Albert came over and sat down, unceremoniously enjoyed the exquisite pastries, nodded and said as he ate; "I like your cook, Your Highness Kun, have you ever thought about letting him work in a different environment?"

"That's an officer, not a servant."

"It's a pity, I found that you people in the Tang Dynasty are very good at cooking food and have many unique skills, just like these Frenchmen."

"It stems from the ancient cultural traditions of the East, which are different from the Western aspects of music, food and morality, such as the chopsticks we use when we eat, which embodies the unique Eastern philosophy."

"It's hard to understand, it's such an obscure culture!"

"Just get used to it." His Royal Highness Don Li Kun patted the crumbs on his hands, took a sip of coffee, and continued; "Born out of a love of French art, the Reich had an art appreciation and acquisition team that wanted to follow the Germans. Initiation of legal acquisitions after entering Paris. Acquire some art at a fair price and hopefully get some security. ”

"That's fine, I'll explain it." Crown Prince Albert nodded in agreement.

Don't look at the current offensive of the Versailles army on the battlefield, it seems to be in control of the situation, in fact, the German army is the one who talks about it in the entire Greater Paris area.

More than 100,000 German troops are still besieging Paris, and only on the battlefield that is deliberately left behind, the bloody civil war between the two French sides, such as the current fortress of Issy and the future urban area of Paris, will become a battlefield of artillery fire.

As long as the Germans stopped supplying arms and shells, and stopped supplying logistical supplies, the Versailles army would be dumb in minutes.

Of course, supporting the Versailles army is not without a price, and this will have to wait until the victory is won.

The excesses of the Paris Commune not only made the Thiers government extremely hostile, but also the German government and the surrounding European kingdoms very worried, and they were bound to die in the place where they would die.

Today's Paris Commune implemented "equality between men and women", demanded "separation of church and state", hoped to obtain "the autonomous status of Paris", advocated the importance of education, advocated the public ownership of enterprises, announced the abolition of all state expenditures for religious affairs, confiscated church property and returned it to the state, abolished the high salaries of government employees, abolished bank interest and rent, and a series of measures, each of which was deviant, touched fundamental interests, and aroused a strong hostile attitude of the ruling class and the bourgeoisie.

With all the enemies around it, the chances of the Paris Commune winning the final victory were infinitely close to zero.

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