18th century total war

Chapter 122 The First French Republic

In the middle of 1791, the "French Patriot" controlled by the Gironde party, a large branch of the Jacobin Club, openly criticized King Louis XVI, claiming that "Louis XVI has personally destroyed his throne." '!
Subsequently, this newspaper published articles attacking the king one after another, clearly asserting that after breaking his oath, the king was incompatible with the constitution.

As a result, the Jacobins and the constitutional monarchy parties completely split, and a fierce political struggle ensued!

The Girondins, headed by industrial and commercial capitalists, took advantage of the public opinion they controlled to gradually become the leader of the Jacobin party (mainly relying on the ability of 'banknotes'), and set off a republican movement to dethrone the king in Paris and even the Kingdom of France!

However, the Fayant faction represented by the liberal aristocrats such as Lafayette and some financial bourgeoisie, that is, the constitutional monarchy faction, stubbornly believed that "France cannot be without a king" and resolutely suppressed the Jacobins led by the Girondins. The republican movement, and successfully suppressed the riots caused by the first republican movement!

After the repression by the ruling Fayan faction, the Girondists and the more radical Montagne faction in the Jacobin Club, and the sans-culottes groups led by small and medium-sized capitalists such as Robespierre, Danton, and Marat, began to unite closely and conceived together. Raise the Second Republican Rising Movement!
The term no-culottes group comes from the common citizens of Paris in the Kingdom of France, who were called sans-culottes because they were poor and unable to buy trousers.

This group is the backbone of the Paris Revolution, and it is also the group with the highest revolutionary enthusiasm (because they are too poor and cannot afford to eat, so they are eager for change)!

After King Louis XVI escaped and died, the sans-culottes were gradually attracted by the Jacobin Club, and the small and medium owners and capitalists in the Jacobin Club who had more contact with the sans-culottes group gradually became the revolutionary leaders and political speeches of the sans-culottes group people.

In the middle of 1792, after foreign interventionists invaded Verdun, the angry Parisian citizens, under the leadership of the closely cooperating Jacobin, successfully forced all the constitutional monarchists headed by the Feuillants to resign, and the Girondists officially ascended to the highest position in France. throne, and renamed the Kingdom of France to the First French Republic at the first moment!
France's highest political body also changed from the Legislative Assembly to the National Convention, controlled by the Girondins.

In this victory, the Girondins seized political power arbitrarily, which made the radical mountain faction of the Jacobin Club with the sansculottes movement very dissatisfied, and the cooperation between the two parties cracked.

The political groups of the Girondins, in order to make themselves appear more independent and noble, no longer identify themselves as Jacobins, but name their own parties after the Gironde province, the hometown of several bigwigs in the Girondins, or they will also It is called by outsiders the leader of the Girondins, Brissot, as the party.

The Girondins in power gradually parted ways with the Jacobin organization, treating the Jacobins as their subordinate institutions and servants, and driving them at will.

However, the Girondists are relatively moderate. Although they banned the power of King Louis XVI, they did not persecute King Louis XVI and his family, but were only placed under house arrest in the Tuileries Palace.

When the news that the Kingdom of France became the First French Republic spread to the Normandy region, Li Wei had already used up the remaining 6 glory points.

This time, Li Wei trained all sharpshooters, raising the number of sharpshooters to more than 9600.

Obviously, Levi has trained a large number of sharpshooters suitable for mountain jungle warfare, which means that Lin Dengwan's plan is on the right track.

The establishment of the First French Republic caused an uproar in the Normandy and Brittany regions controlled by the Li Wei regime. Li Wei took the opportunity to send people to post announcements everywhere, and ordered the Brittany and Normandy regions to exclusively "National Honor" The newspaper published the declaration of the establishment of the new government.

Controlling public opinion is a political consciousness engraved in the bones of Levi, whose soul comes from the 21st century.

As early as when he controlled the entire territory of Brittany, he had already set up the Propaganda Department. At that time, the Propaganda Department was almost like a newspaper office, mainly responsible for the distribution and professionalism of the "National Honor Newspaper" created by Li Wei himself. Recruitment of technical personnel, preparation of local newspapers, etc.

Even the fiefdoms of the traditional nobles must only circulate this newspaper.

That's right, under Li Wei's rule, all newspapers are illegal organizations. If you want to open a newspaper office, there is only one way to 'join' the newspaper office of "National Honor Newspaper" and list it, and then every content of the newspaper needs to be reviewed by the Propaganda Department .

And when the Propaganda Department issues tasks, it must take a unified step with the "National Honor".

In the era without the Internet, it is not difficult for the government to control public opinion. The only obstacle is how much money to invest.

The establishment of the First French Republic surprised Li Wei, but it was not that Li Wei had any enmity with Louis XVI, who had never been masked (just because he didn’t know him, Louis XVI didn’t know Li Wei and didn’t believe in Li Wei, so he didn’t make it public. Supporting his rebellion, giving Livy legal support).

The government agencies under Li Wei's command, especially the Propaganda Department, reacted quickly and publicly declared that they would restore the former French Kingdom in Normandy and Brittany, and respect Louis X who was under house arrest in the Tuileries Palace in Paris. Six is ​​king!

Li Wei's idea is very simple. Since the revolutionary parties in Paris don't want the golden signboard of Louis XVI, then Li Wei, who lacks orthodoxy, is not polite to use it!

Anyway, the hostile revolutionary government of Paris... Oh yes, it is now called the National Convention. After hearing that Li Wei restored the old French kingdom and respected King Louis XVI, it is even more impossible to release King Louis XVI for himself. uneasy.

You must know that the people of France, especially the foolish people in the countryside, may have hatred for the nobles, but they still have a good impression of the king.

These foolish people have long been bound by the idea of ​​loyalty to the king for generations.

In France before the Paris Revolution, the concept of 'I am the country' was popular. The people and the army were not loyal to the country of France, but to the King of France!
Residents of big cities are more impacted by new ideas, and their ideas are reversed faster, but those foolish people in rural areas, even if they break through the castle of their noble lords, may not oppose the King of France on their heads.

The reason why those French nobles in exile have always been supported and followed is because they have always insisted on the legitimacy of the king!
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