18th century total war

Chapter 158

At the beginning of the Revolutionary Tribunal, the support rate was very high. The emergence of the Revolutionary Court made the National Salvation Committee's public support rate increase at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The mentality of hating the rich has expanded infinitely, leading members of the National Salvation Committee who want to win over the people to unscrupulously send special commissioners to local cities and towns to expand the revolutionary courts!

The nobility became the target of everyone's shouting and beating. If the rich did not seek refuge with the Jacobins, they would inevitably be treated the same as the nobility sooner or later.

The original faith umbrella of the church is being faded away by the increasingly extreme National Salvation Committee!
Some members of the National Salvation Committee even openly proposed to outlaw the Christian faith and replace it with a more liberal Protestant faith!
Protestantism is actually a religion controlled by the state!

It is somewhat similar to the Eastern countries of later generations, where religion is located under the political power, rather than belief transcending the secular world.

This is not a big change in the 21st century, but in this era it is a life-changing change!
However, this proposal was not completely passed, because the French civilian class that the National Salvation Committee needs to please, many of them are devout Christians, and they cannot bear the deterioration of their religion!
Among them, Robespierre took the lead in raising objections. He could support the Revolutionary Court, but he could not ignore the role of religious belief in the backbone of France.

Because Robespierre knew that the Revolutionary Court would make the people at the bottom more afraid of the National Salvation Committee, and the people at the bottom would be more united around the National Salvation Committee, but the reform of religious beliefs could easily cause France to split on the spiritual level!
France already had a Livyan rebel army and could no longer afford to be divided...

As a result, the religious reform was adopted as a compromise proposal. The government intervened in religion and banned a series of religious taxes that caused economic pressure on the people.

Of course, church property must also be confiscated as state property.

Confiscated church lands were often auctioned by the government to raise funds or distributed to nearby farmers to win over the people.

The Revolutionary Tribunal allowed the Revolutionary Government of Paris to further cut down the internal discordant voices of opposition. Under the scarlet terror politics, no one dared to refute the leading authority of the Jacobin dictatorship, and the decrees of the National Salvation Committee became supreme everywhere!

No one wanted to be tried by the revolutionary court. There was no defense lawyer, and the judge relied purely on imagination to reason logically. In the end, life and death were decided by a group of illiterate sans-culottes spectators!
This seemingly pleasing measure of public opinion actually means that the people being judged will die without a life, because those sans-culottes with a hatred of the rich will be sentenced to death as long as they don't meet their relatives and friends!
Many sans-culottes even naively believed that by killing the rich and nobles, they would be able to receive the wealth of the upper class and live a happy life with ample food and clothing...

Not to mention how destructive the Revolutionary Tribunal was to French society, but for the current National Salvation Committee, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Because it received a large amount of public support, the universal compulsory military system went very smoothly. The Public Security Commission expanded the army by a full 50 men in just six months!
Most of them are volunteers, not forced to recruit!

They felt sincerely honored. Many sans-culottes who joined the army had personally watched the Revolutionary Court, and excitedly "trialed" several aristocrats and rich men who were originally aloof!

When a person easily kills the rich and powerful who he used to be able to face only humblely, as an inferior person to please the service, this person will naturally become different.

To sum it up in one word - cool!

The civilian class that feels happy is not just one or two, but tens of thousands or even more than [-] people. The larger the scope of the revolutionary court, the more civilian classes will benefit!

This method of gaining public support by killing nobles and rich people is almost a worthless business for the National Salvation Committee of the Paris Revolutionary Government.

what?
You say that this ruined the future of France?

The revolutionary government in Paris was defeated again and again in front of Livy. Before suppressing Livy, the members of the National Salvation Committee did not need to consider future issues...

To put it bluntly, the Revolutionary Court was forced out by the defeat in the Battle of Rouen!

Building an army requires a lot of money, so the National Salvation Committee found a very good reason to target the nobles and rich people.

Of course, rich priests also became targets of hunting.

According to such a method of killing, the revolutionary government of Paris will kill a society without rich people sooner or later...

This is impossible, because during this process, precisely positioned killings will inevitably go astray. Once the guillotine becomes the norm, anyone may go up there and become a weapon used by politicians to eliminate dissidents!

Taylor is such an unlucky guy. Although he is protected by Robespierre, Robespierre also has political enemies!
Not long after Taylor returned to Paris, he was arrested by Robespierre's political opponents in the Revolutionary Court on charges of defeat, and then pushed to the guillotine!

The confidant was simply beheaded, which immediately aroused Robespierre's sense of crisis. He knew that if the development continued like this, it would not only be those nobles and rich people who would be unlucky, but a revolutionary leader like himself might also be pushed to the guillotine!

However, the Revolutionary Tribunal, which has gone crazy at this time, cannot be closed at all, not to mention that Robespierre still needs the Revolutionary Tribunal to kill his political opponents.

So, it didn't take long for Robespierre to testify that Danton had committed the massacre and sent him to the guillotine...

Robespierre dug up a lot of evidence of unjustly killed people. Danton happened to be the main supporter of the Revolutionary Tribunal, and then a shit bowl was buckled up, and Danton was arrested by surprise.

As soon as Danton died, Danton's followers were immediately thrown into disarray, and were sent to the guillotine one by one like Robespierre chopping vegetables and melons...

The political struggle in Paris during this period was all about killing the weeds and rooting out the roots!
Robespierre's actions put the judicial power of the Revolutionary Tribunal over the National Salvation Committee, and even the National Salvation Committee, the highest authority of the revolutionary government, was no longer safe.

Of course, the sans-culottes in Paris were very satisfied. Isn't this the same crime that the emperor broke the law and the common people?

In the Revolutionary Tribunal, members of the National Salvation Committee, who are aloof, will be judged by the people just like ordinary civilians!
Robespierre found that after killing Danton and his followers, he could not stop, because he was likely to become the target of other political opponents.

As a result, Robespierre's political opponents in the National Salvation Committee were sent to the guillotine one by one, including Ebert, who was even more extreme than Robespierre!

The National Salvation Committee began to shrink significantly, and in the end the entire National Salvation Committee was only left with Robespierre's people!
(End of this chapter)