Chapter 266: Curtain call
Half a year after Arthur and Char last met, Arthur began to take Mordred to give lectures and lectures to the workers and peasants in the south and some intellectuals, conveying his thoughts.
At first, there were only a few sporadic people who came to the class, but as these people spread what they had learned, more and more people came to the class over time.
Arthur knew that it was useless to just rely on lectures to spread an idea, and during his time teaching Moremod, he summarized what Char taught him and what he had studied over the decades.
He is the author of many books, such as "Critique of Britannian Society", which deals with historical materialism and the contradictions of current society, and many books on political economy, which analyze the political economy of Britania as a whole.
He also published a book describing the production process of capital and the current exploitation and oppression of society by the aristocracy.
In his project, he divided his ideas into three parts: philosophy, political economy, and scientific theory, and all his books expounded on these three parts.
These books are undoubtedly forbidden in the current Britannian society, and they cannot be widely circulated.
But through the operation of the secret agency that Arthur created himself, these ideas were successfully delivered to the seeds that he had planted in the country early on—aspiring young people who had embraced the new ideas he had left behind in West Fran, and who had ideals and ambitions.
Let them really understand the country, and have a clearer understanding of the country, about their future.
The fire was spreading rapidly across the empire at an alarming rate, without the upper echelons of the hierarchy even before they could react.
The following year, Arthur officially issued the Britannian Revolutionary Party Manifesto in Mercer's name: the platform of the League. Encourage the oppressed to unite and wage a revolution to overthrow the oppressor and the monarchy and eventually establish a society ruled by the people.
At the end of 1803, Arthur, under the name of Mercer, along with Moremod, and a dozen other aspirants from different classes of society, officially secretly proclaimed the founding of the Britannian Revolutionary Party in a church in the Steam Capital.
We began to build a secret revolutionary organization organized by democratic centralism to make organizational preparations for a protracted people's war.
Of course, at this stage, the protracted people's war in Britannia was still in its infancy.
A year later, in 1804, the Revolution broke out.
With the impetus and active participation of the working class and other oppressed people, the Brucellos d'Azoris launched in December 1805 in the Steam Uprising.
The uprising lasted 9 days and caused riots and uprisings elsewhere.
In the end, however, the revolt was bloodily suppressed by the aristocratic army, but it also marked the end of the tyranny of the Britannian royal family.
The order for the bloody repression was not given by Arthur, but Arthur also acquiesced to some extent, and the actions of the state were seen as the manifestation of Arthur's will.
Arthur the Great's national reputation began to tilt in the other direction.
After that, the armed struggle did not stop because the large-scale uprisings were suppressed, and guerrilla warfare was waged everywhere.
The Brotherhood was united, and many members of the Brotherhood broke away from the Brotherhood at the direction of Heilang and became a member of the Brotherhood.
These clandestine fighting forces organized armed demonstrations everywhere and assassinated bureaucrats, functionaries and even aristocrats who were oppressive and unpopular, heinous and despicable.
In this way, the party used tactical offensive to carry out strategic defense, and retreat warfare to provide effective cover for the reorganization of the organization, thus accumulating experience in armed struggle for the party.
At the same time, in society, the various forms of armed struggle launched by the party have strengthened its influence.
After 1805, due to internal contradictions, the party suspended the armed struggle.
Despite the suspension of the armed struggle, the party did not abandon its preparations for a violent revolution, and used any place available for propaganda as a fighting arena for propagating ideas and raising revolutionary consciousness.
At the same time, the actual preparation of an armed uprising was carried out in secret.
The preparations for these armed uprisings, such as the manufacture of bombs and the collection of weapons, actually honed the party and its mass organizations to a certain extent, and promoted the enhancement of their combat effectiveness.
In 1806, the Council of Nobles, sensing the threat of the Cloth Party, began its first major encirclement.
At this time, nearly fifty years have passed since that world war, and Britannia has not had a war for nearly fifty years.
Military experience is far inferior to what it used to be, and even among the most elite Royal Celtic Knights, there are only a handful of people who have experienced real warfare.
Therefore, even after launching a large-scale encirclement and suppression, the Bu Party still used its own popular base and guerrilla warfare to successfully break through the encirclement, and gradually joined forces with the Bu Party forces in various places.
Britannia's upper parliament introduced a series of economic reforms over the years, including privatization.
It is undeniable that this reform has allowed Britannia's economy to grow steadily.
However, due to the extreme injustice of its predatory privatization reform, the people at the bottom did not profit much from the development of the economy, but on the contrary, the private property of a considerable part of the peasants was damaged, and social dissatisfaction rose sharply.
Later, Queen Guinia, of Britannia, cheated on the Knight Captain of the Royal Order, and the two absconded to West Farland.
The queen was a native of West Francis and the daughter of the president of West Franc, and it was natural that West Francis took in the outlaw couple.
Arthur demanded that President West Francis hand over his daughter, but President West Francis was unwilling and told Emperor Arthur to respect the freedom of love.
Arthur the Great was naturally furious, and chose to declare war on West Francis and send troops, and once again carried out the imperial expedition.
Everyone thought that Arthur the Great would win again this time.
But what is surprising is that it seems to be because he is old and frail, and his brain is sluggish, and it seems that he is carried away by anger.
Arthur the Great stubbornly marched alone with his army, surrounded by the army of West France, and was almost captured.
However, he eventually broke through, but most of the troops he brought in were captured.
Although he successfully returned, his image of invincibility in the hearts of the people was also destroyed.
The people who witnessed his legend in the past are gone.
After this battle, the remaining young people naturally began to gradually become skeptical about Arthur the Great's past achievements.
They began to question whether the history they knew was the result of Arthur the Great's beautification through power.
But the war didn't stop, and an enraged Arthur declared an all-out war against West France!
As Char said, if you want these nobles to hand over the land in their hands, then you have to start a war of internal purge.
Therefore, war cannot be avoided in any case, because when the people's endurance comes to an end, then there will inevitably be internal chaos.
For Arthur, since the war is destined to start, it is natural that it must be done once and for all, otherwise the symptoms will not be cured, and there will only be more wars in the future.
And as technology advances, the longer it drags on, more people will die.
Therefore, the current chaos in Britannia is for the stability of the future, for the stability of future generations and the happiness of a hundred years.
For Arthur, these costs were affordable.
He had been preparing for this revolution for more than 40 years, and at the moment, everything was beginning to develop as he thought.
In 1808, Arthur the Great was assassinated by assassins, and although it was unsuccessful, it also seriously injured Arthur the Great, and this assassination caused tensions throughout the country to become increasingly intense.
A month later, the party took the lead in planning an anti-imperialist war demonstration in Steam to demand an end to the war, which then spread to the surrounding big cities and gained the support of the anti-war activists.
On March 8, Moremod, who was already an important figure in the party, led his armed forces to attack the imperial capital while Arthur the Great was leading his army to attack the West French Empire.
The city, which was saved by Arthur decades ago, suffered a belated bloodbath decades later because of Arthur!
Roaring flames engulfed the ancient city, and war spread through it.
Arthur went through reform after reform, taking most of the nobles out of his land, tying them to the imperial capital and becoming members of the noble council.
In other words, the nobility of the whole of Britannia was basically in the imperial capital.
Angry people stormed their mansions, smashed their looted balm, overthrew the statue of Arthur the Great, and the former Founding Emperor, all the symbols of the monarchy were removed.
People have had enough of the oppression of emperors and nobles.
This chaos is not a simple coup d'état, but a revolution from below.
The aristocratic class, once high above, has lost its last strength to resist.
Fear and flames burned the city, and the battle was almost one-sided.
Arthur transferred the Royal Celtic Knights, and the combat effectiveness of the guards stationed in the imperial capital can be described as miserable and ridiculous.
The tens of thousands of troops were easily dispersed under the onslaught of the revolutionary army, and some even defected directly and joined the ranks of the revolutionary army.
Under the operation of a behind-the-scenes will for decades, there are few remaining possibilities, and victory can only belong to the people, to the future
All that remains is the final reckoning.
Kill all the nobles who refused to surrender, confiscate their property, settle their sins, and overthrow this rotten dynasty.
The roaring sound from the people spread to every corner of the entire imperial capital.
"Kill the nobles!"
"Make them pay!"
The roars are coming and going, and the will of the people has set off a raging wave that will completely change the sky of this country!
At the top of the Baal Cathedral in Britannia, Heilang, dressed in a thorn service, stood silently overlooking the city that was about to be engulfed in flames.
Although there is the influence of dragon blood, the years still leave many traces on his body, and his hair and beard have turned gray, which is much older than in the past.
But those eyes are brighter and more energetic, and although the body is old, the spirit and will are more vigorous than that of young people.
Over the decades of his business, the Brotherhood had become a vast organization spanning several continents, and its role in the war was decisive.
He has read all the books written by Arthur, and he has a clearer understanding of the world, and he also has a more intuitive direction for the future of this world.
Therefore, at this moment, he is just like Arthur at the beginning, without any confusion.
At the moment, everything is moving forward as they expected.
The vow he made in the past to kill this era in the face of the will left behind by that legendary hero also seems to be fulfilled at this moment.
But there was not the slightest joy in his heart.
The reason why the Brotherhood came into contact with the Cloth Party was promoted by Arthur.
Heilang and Arthur met in a decisive battle in the Western Empire more than forty years ago.
In addition, Helang also met Ramses II, the current Great Pharaoh of the Great Egyptian Empire, and the national conditions of that country are different from Britannia, and the feudal monarchy may be the most suitable for them.
Of the three, Arthur had a particularly good relationship with him, and could even be said to be a close friend.
After that, they talked for a long, long time, and Arthur conveyed many ideas and ideas to Helang, and Helang also told him about his decisions and plans.
Their goals and thoughts were almost identical, and they became friends almost quickly, and they never stopped exchanging letters for decades.
So, Arthur's plan, he is one of the few people in the know.
When Arthur revealed all his plans to him late one night.
He shuddered and lost sleep for three days and nights.
He couldn't describe how he felt at the time.
Shock?
Move?
Maybe there are both, or maybe there is a kind of sadness that is difficult to erase.
But what he knows is that this may be the best moment for him and his friends to realize that ultimate ideal, the faith and will that they have carried out for decades.
So, he agreed.
Therefore, he stood here.
The president of West France was also a participant in the plan, he was a member of the Brotherhood, all the wars were superficial, and the soldiers were mostly taken prisoner.
He worked to minimize the sacrifice in the stage of this transition of power.
He seemed to sense something, and slowly raised his head to look into the distance, at the end of the plain, in the direction of the Maria Mountains.
A group of cavalry was heading towards the imperial capital on the Great Plains of Maria, the Royal Celtic Knights led by Arthur the Great.
When Arthur the Great was young, he fought against the invasion from the West French Empire with this knight order, and officially started his own legend.
Decades later, most of the members of the Celtic Order who once accompanied him have long since died, and even if they are alive, they can no longer fight on their horses.
But Arthur is still the same Arthur.
However, the ending may also be diametrically opposite.
He will no longer be able to save the Imperial Capital.
But he will save Britania and save the future of this country
This legendary emperor will come to an end today
(End of chapter)