18th century total war

Chapter 148

"The soldiers and officers of the Maasai Legion went to the designated open space with the red flag. The Maasai Legion, with a scale of 2000 people, caused more than [-] losses to our great Black Dragon Legion. We admire the Maasai Legion, as long as the prisoners of the Maasai Legion stand up , will receive our preferential treatment!"

In the ranks of prisoners of war who had just stepped into the Brittany region, several preachers with good voices read back and forth among the prisoners of war with the manuscripts they had prepared in advance.

These preachers are not officials who have been enlightened by Li Wei's administration. After all, the number of administrative enlightenments is limited, and it is impossible for Li Wei to enlighten everyone...

Of course, the New French Kingdom restored by Li Wei has established a sound administrative system, and a group of enlightened high-ranking officials are dedicated to serving Li Wei. It is naturally not difficult to establish a local government and centralize power.

With a complete administrative system functioning, it would naturally be possible to recruit a large number of literate 'intellectuals' to serve the New Kingdom of France.

Even though the propaganda of the New French Kingdom in the revolutionary government in Paris included almost all the adjectives of the reactionary government, and its reputation among the French people was rotten, but there were still many intellectuals and poor citizens who went to the New French Kingdom to seek a way out.

For example, Artiman, a very famous military expert in France, took the initiative to seek a job under Li Wei.

And he was personally received by Li Wei. In the report of the intelligence department, Li Wei knew that Yatiman was a professional with real talents, so he used a precious administrative enlightenment quota to turn Yatiman into a The Minister of Logistics of the Kingdom of New France focuses on the research and development of military weapons.

In fact, there is nothing to research and develop. In addition to presiding over the deployment tasks of the logistics department, Yatiman is mainly to form a weapon research team, gather weapons and equipment from countries across the European continent, and then conduct tests and data collection. Good products will be imitated!
Although in the queuing and shooting era, everyone used flint-fired muskets, there are still considerable differences in muskets from different countries, such as air tightness issues, barrel quality issues, misfire issues, etc.

The quality difference in this aspect is huge. How to improve the quality of muskets without increasing the cost has always been the focus of the weapons research and development of the European powers.

Artiman's surrender is just a microcosm of the current prosperity of the Kingdom of New France, which means that many people have recognized the establishment of the Kingdom of New France in their hearts.

This is the prestige earned by the Black Dragon Legion with their illustrious military exploits!

Part of the reason is that the time after the success of the Paris Revolution was too short, the degree of fermentation of revolutionary ideas was not enough, and the revolution in many areas was not thorough enough!

In particular, Brittany, the French region that was first controlled by Livy, fell too early and was ruled by Livy, a feudal reactionary who supported the autocratic monarchy, before revolutionary ideas had time to spread. This resulted in There are fewer and fewer people in Brittany who believe in revolution.

After all, the focus of most people's attention is on food, clothing, housing and transportation, rather than sacrificing their lives for the so-called revolution. As the news of the Black Dragon Army's great victories came back, the people in the ruled Brittany region have long been numb. Go and hope for freedom, equality, and fraternity.

Since the establishment of Fatis' flag, the last batch of stubborn guerrilla armed forces have been attracted away, and the Brittany region has truly entered a period of peace.

To put it bluntly, the guerrillas in Brittany were willing to travel long distances to seek refuge with Fatis because they discovered that the Kingdom of New France was increasingly controlling Brittany, and the assistance from the Paris government was increasing. No, they really can't hold on any longer...

If you are hungry all the time, no matter how determined the revolutionary will is, it will be easy to break up!

People can't starve themselves to death!
What's more, most people yearn for revolution, isn't it because King Louis XVI of France failed to fill their stomachs?

The common people in France don't know how much money Louis XVI lost by selling blood to aid the American War of Independence. They only know that where they live, the price of food is soaring, but their income is falling!
This simple environmental change is enough to make most ordinary people rebel.

This is why in the 21st century, the country has been paying attention to the prices of basic food materials such as private vegetable prices, meat prices, and grain prices, and has put an end to all commercial methods of merchants hoarding goods to make money, and even does not hesitate to directly use administrative means to crack down on merchants' wanton price increases!

Because national governments in the 21st century all know that if people do not have enough to eat, it will easily cause unrest. Unrest will cause serious economic losses, which will further lead to more people being unemployed and even not having enough to eat. The resulting vicious cycle , will eventually lead to a national uprising!

Therefore, later generations of national governments could ignore the various hypes and price hikes of other commodities, except for the food ingredients, which were extremely strictly controlled.

Filling the stomachs of the people is the foundation of a country's stability!
Of course, Livy also knew this, so after establishing the Kingdom of New France, he also asked the government departments to make arrangements for the landless peasants.

The biggest advantage of the war is that it caused a large number of population loss, and a lot of uncultivated wasteland appeared, which effectively alleviated the contradiction between more people and less land!

Naturally, this reduced a lot of administrative and political security pressure for Li Wei's New French Kingdom. Many ordinary people who did not follow the revolution were satisfied even if they could only be distributed to the land owned by the state.

If there is land to cultivate, there will be output. Even if Li Wei's New France Kingdom has a higher proportion of state-owned land and agricultural taxation, at least you don't have to worry about starving to death.

What's more, Livy's new French Kingdom regime would also provide loans and distribute farming tools to farmers who farmed the land.

This is also a long-term concealed means of oppressing peasant families by the Li Wei regime. After all, loans need to be repaid with interest!
The cabinet department under Levy has been working on administrative planning that will not let most people go hungry, but also let most people pay as much tax as possible.

No way, the militaristic Kingdom of New France is too poor...

The faces of the prisoners of war sitting on the dirt ground became strange when they heard the preacher's words.

Is the Black Dragon Legion really praising the Marseille Legion by doing this?

More than 1 people of the Marseille Army were annihilated, and it caused more than 2000 losses to the Black Dragon Army. Is this a compliment or an irony?
But for these captured French officers and soldiers, this is not the focus. The preferential treatment of prisoners behind the preacher is what they care about!
Therefore, even if they were not angry in their hearts, most of the captured officers and soldiers of the Marseille Legion took the initiative to walk to the designated position.

Thanks to Fei Tianxiong for rewarding 100 starting coins.

(End of this chapter)