18th century total war

Chapter 108 The White Flag
Why did Li Wei like these traditional feudal nobles?

It is because the thinking of these traditional feudal nobles has fallen behind the times and is very easy to appease!

As long as there is enough land and serfs, these traditional feudal nobles will sing praises for Li Wei!
Compared with the greedy capitalist class, the traditional feudal nobles were like good people in Li Wei's eyes.

Now that Li Wei doesn't need to consider people's livelihood and economy, he naturally doesn't mind building a monopoly business group that lays golden eggs for himself. What's more, the boss of this business group has been converted into an 'administrator' by the system and is absolutely loyal to Li Wei!
How much Wallace is valued by Li Wei, how could Canol and others not know?
That's why they didn't think about surrendering Li Wei!
Confronting Li Wei and preserving the family business in Normandy is the fundamental interest of the liberal nobles like Canol. Even if the plenipotentiary speaker Senavi wants to refute them in this regard, they will stand up and resist.

In addition, the capitalists like Kanol who wear the cloak of aristocrats—the liberal aristocrats—are fundamentally different from pure capitalists like Senavi.

To put it bluntly, Cenavi is a businessman, or an investor in industrialized production, and the family power behind it is based on him, not Cenavi on the family!
On the other hand, those liberal aristocrats occupy more industrial and commercial resources than pure capitalists, and even intervene in the affairs of the army. The families behind them have grown deep roots through hundreds of years of inheritance and accumulation!

If the Wallace Business Alliance wants to monopolize business in the Normandy region, these liberal nobles will definitely be unable to get around it. At that time, Levi will have only two options.

Share the profits with the local liberal grand aristocratic bourgeoisie, or uproot and eat them!
Obviously, the domineering Levi tends to the latter.

This is something that the Canol group cannot tolerate. The liberal nobles in Brittany have suffered this kind of fate before, and they did not even have the chance to become a traditional feudal noble...

On the other hand, a pure capitalist like Senawi, although rich, has an unreliable foundation and a weak family.

The most important thing is that people like Cenavi can make a decision on their own family. Li Wei's control of Cenavi is equivalent to controlling the entire industrial chain behind him, which is much more convenient than the intricate liberal nobles.

And a weak foundation means that it is easier to control, and there is no need to uproot and devour it.

Therefore, Li Wei's acceptance of people like Senavi is much higher than that of liberal nobles.

To put it bluntly, in the current Kingdom of France, it is not the pure capitalists who benefit the most, but the liberal aristocrats. The Legislative Assembly of the Kingdom of France saw this and supported the pure local capitalists as the plenipotentiary speakers for Form a political balance with the powerful liberal aristocrats.

Of course, there is also a political intention to suppress the constitutional monarchy. After all, liberal nobles are generally supporters of the constitutional monarchy.

Li Wei's government agencies in the Brittany region are all on the surface, and people like Senavi and Canol are also very clear about what they have done to take over the entire Brittany region.

Therefore, there is a possibility for Sennawi to surrender, but the Kanol group will never surrender to Li Wei unless they really abandon their family and are willing to work as cattle and horses for Li Wei.

Nowadays, there are many guerrillas in the Brittany region who are the backbone of the children of the local liberal aristocrats.

On the contrary, most of those ordinary capitalists who have no aristocratic status and whose foundation is not solid have been surrendered by the Wallace Business Alliance.

The Wallace Business Alliance in Brittany is now equivalent to the liberal aristocracy in the Kingdom of France under the control of the Paris government, gradually monopolizing the industrial, commercial and financial industries.

The only difference is that the Wallace business alliance is small and united, while the liberal aristocratic capitalists in the Kingdom of France are strong and complicated.

Karl, who was rectifying the army and inspecting the camp, suddenly received a report from the guards. Several peace envoys holding white flags walked out of the third line of defense.

In this era, the white flag does not mean surrender, and the official comment is armistice (better than surrender!).

Of course, the people holding the white flag on the battlefield usually represent a temporary truce negotiation, and the army with a little character will not shoot at the person holding the white flag...

Of course, if the defenders of Caen City were really willing to surrender, Karl would be very happy.

In yesterday's night battle and Kanol's crazy counterattack during the day, although the first division led by Karl won, it also lost a lot of troops.

On Levi's total war system panel, the number of infantry guards has dropped from 17800+ to 16600+.

Due to the large number of captured prisoners of war, Karl is organizing an auxiliary team from the local garrison from the Brittany region to transport the prisoners of war to the rear towns.

In fact, the number of prisoners captured by the First Division of the Black Dragon Legion is much higher than the number of enemies they killed, including the enemy wounded who made up the knife!
After Karl had a pleasant conversation with the negotiating envoys who came holding the white flag, the envoys returned immediately.

Not long after, Kanol and a group of liberal aristocratic generals broke into Senavi's office aggressively with weapons, and even the guards couldn't stop them!

"Sir, I heard that you plan to surrender to Karl of the Li Wei rebels. I want to make sure whether there is such a thing."

There was such a high white flag in the third line of defense. It was impossible for Kanol's people to misunderstand it. Kanol's statement was actually giving Sennawi a step up.

As long as Senawi opens his eyes and tells lies and refuses to admit the surrender and peace talks, Senawi will still be the plenipotentiary speaker!

Cenavi seemed to have anticipated the behavior of Kanol and his group of liberal noble generals. He took a sip of coffee from America and said with a smile, "I did not surrender."

After Kanol and his party heard this, their expressions suddenly softened.

However, Senavi didn't finish his sentence!
Senavi watched the facial expressions of Kanol and his group with great interest, and continued: "I just don't want Caen City to become a hell on earth!"

Kanol's face suddenly froze, and the contrast of being teased immediately aroused the anger in his heart.

"Senavi Speaker, you are treason!

Betray the fruits of the great and holy Paris Revolution!

Li Wei is a perverted and corrupt old aristocrat, have you forgotten who gave you your current status? ! "

Senavi shook his head slightly after hearing this, and sighed: "If you weren't so incompetent, how could I have made such a bad move?
In just two days, the two lines of defense collapsed. If I didn't do this, do you think you could survive a week? "

(End of this chapter)