18th century total war

Chapter 163 The Financial Gap Has Been Narrowed Just Like This

The Provence region is the region where Marseille is located, and Marseille is the regional capital of the Provence region.

The west of the Provence region is next to the Languedoc-Roussillon region, and further west of this region is the Southern Pyrenees region occupied by the Livy regime.

Toulouse is the capital city of the Midi Pyrenees region.

Li Wei has never figured out why there is no Northern Pyrenees in France, but there is a Southern Pyrenees...

In the Paris region (not a city, but a region much larger than a province!) On the road leading to the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France and the Provence region, there are groups of people every day. Gun-carrying soldiers or civilian husbands and animals of the military supplies transport team trampled on the official road in mighty fashion.

There is no end in sight!

In this era when military transportation basically relies on legs and livestock, logistics transportation is really time-consuming.

In this regard, Li Wei has taken advantage of a lot, because he has been using the elite brainwashing army to fight.

Therefore, the number of troops maintained on the front line is not large. On the other hand, when the revolutionary government of Paris on the opposite side did not use several times its strength to fight against Li Wei's brainwashing army?
From the perspective of the battlefield, this several times the number of troops has a great advantage, but to the logistics, it is a huge disaster!

This is why the Li Wei regime, which is obviously poorer and has an unstable territory, is much easier than the revolutionary government of Paris in terms of logistics and transportation to support the front line.

The logistics materials transported by both parties are not of the same order of magnitude at all!
If the difference in frontline troops between the two sides is only a few times, the difference in the total amount of logistics and transportation may be tens to hundreds of times!
In addition, because the Black Dragon Legion has repeatedly won many battles, it is absolutely possible to get a lot of gains on the battlefield, such as the most common seizure of materials from the defeated enemy!

Once the battle is defeated, it is easy for the rout to run with a musket or simply throw away the barrel of the gun. However, there are countless logistics and military supplies in large and small bags, and they cannot grow four legs to run with them. .

Except for some ruthless people who did not forget to burn their own luggage during their escape, most of the military supplies that were defeated by the French army eventually became the spoils of the Black Dragon Army.

This keeps the Black Dragon Legion's logistical needs low.

It is enough for the fragile logistics line of the Li Wei regime to cope.

This kind of behavior of losing supplies and being seized by the enemy was not a big problem in the early stages of the war between the two sides. However, as the scale of the war between the two sides became larger and larger, and the frequency of battles became more frequent, the Livy regime, which could rely on enemy supplies, quickly gained a financial advantage.

After all, the two sides are fighting a civil war!

The basic situation is that France is as big as the mainland, and the revolutionary government in Paris has lost too much blood, so the Li Wei regime will naturally get more "blood recovery effect" correspondingly.

What's more, when the victorious Black Dragon Legion occupies the territory, it has to search the countryside and blackmail the wealthy people in the city... Oh no, it is to restore the glory of the great French Kingdom and let them contribute Give out your meager financial resources!
Compared with the barbaric robbery in the villages and towns, the Black Dragon Army has always behaved more gentlemanly in the city, only extorting...only reasoning with the big households in the city, fully explaining the hard truth of inexhaustible fishing.

The main reason for doing this is that the farmers in the countryside are relatively ignorant and don’t understand the truth, and they don’t have any family property, and their family wealth is not much. It is easy to scare these rural farmers away by reasoning with them. Let's run together with our stored food!
Therefore, in order to reduce the pressure of logistics supplies, the Black Dragon Legion can only make enough food and clothing by themselves...

On the other hand, in cities, ordinary citizens are miserable beating workers, with a fart of property, and they can't even see the surplus food!
The farmer's uncle's family is farming, and there is no prosperous market economy around, so it is difficult to spend money.

So you must stockpile food!
But the citizens in the city basically use money to buy food, so it is impossible to farm the land by themselves.

Therefore, the migrant workers in the city have no surplus food to grab, and are generally destitute.

On the contrary, those small and medium-sized owners, industrial and commercial capitalists, and even big bankers are called rich!
Of course, it is impossible for Li Wei to wipe out all these people. In this era, the city is a rooster that can lay golden eggs (don’t discuss the problem of rooster laying eggs!), how can it be slaughtered all at once?
Only by maintaining the operation of the city and keeping the factories shut down as little as possible can we continuously provide blood transfusions for the Li Wei regime.

This is why Li Wei's army is more civilized to the city.

Relatively speaking, the rich people in the city are also more 'docile'. They are all people with big families and careers. Naturally, they don't want to fight hard with the big soldiers. They are completely different from the low-level civilians who are so poor that they have only one life left.

Of course, such rich people are willing to listen to Livi's army using bayonets to reason, and then happily buy their lives with money!
As for the migrant workers in the city...

Feel sorry!

too poor!

I can't see it!
Interestingly, Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion's non-destructive measures to the city actually made most cities willing to surrender to the Li Wei regime when there was no hope of victory. Many of the surrenders were initiated by the local city council dispatched!

Who said that after the French Revolution, the local municipal councils were elected according to the amount of tax paid, and the high-ranking people were all rich?
No matter which country you are in, when you really encounter a powerful enemy, the first to attack are those who are rich and powerful.

Those who are fooled by patriotism to go desperately are those poor people who have nothing!
This principle is easy to understand. After a rich man takes refuge in his new master, he is still a rich man, enjoying a successful life with his beautiful wife and beautiful concubines.

But poor people who have nothing are easily attracted by the bright future promoted by the government.

They have nothing to lose anyway, so why not give it a go?
If you win the bet, won't you be able to achieve class leap?

Of course, there are exceptions everywhere. There are also rich people who do not hesitate to lose their fortunes for the sake of patriotism, and poor people who lead the way for their lives but are not accepted by powerful enemies. Naturally, you can also see them.

But special cases and majority are two concepts after all!

The rise and fall of a country never depends on any special cases, but on the majority!
Robespierre knew this truth very well, so in the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation he reorganized, all the low-level soldiers were of civilian origin, and many of them even worked as beggars!
However, it is these uneducated people who, with the efforts of the military preachers, easily succeeded in using revolutionary slogans as spiritual beliefs!

Facts have proved that the more educated people are, the harder it is to have pious beliefs, and the more ignorant people are, the easier it is to pin their beliefs on foreign objects and illusory gods!
(End of this chapter)