18th century total war

Chapter 168 Cheering Paris

"Long live the revolution!
for freedom!

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On the Place de la Revolution in Paris, ordinary citizens gathered spontaneously, waving the red, white and blue flags, with expressions on their faces as if they were on drugs, cheering, singing and dancing to celebrate the many victories from the border.

The victory over the coalition forces of the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal was not on a large scale, and the Kingdom of Spain did not intend to retreat (the 'cheerleaders' sent by the Kingdom of Portugal were subconsciously ignored by the people of Paris), so the citizens of Paris did not think they could Really beat the anti-French coalition that looks pretty scary.

However, when the news of the defeat of the anti-French coalition led by the most powerful Prussian-Austrian coalition and the defeat of the tens of thousands of Italian coalition came back, the people of Paris were boiling.

The seemingly very powerful anti-French alliance failed to even invade the mainland of the great French Republic. This is based on the premise that there is a Levi rebel army with superb combat power in the French Republic!

Such a great victory did not require the Jacobin National Salvation Committee to send people to call for it. As long as the news spread, Paris citizens and even all the big cities in the areas controlled by the Paris Revolutionary Government spontaneously held numerous celebrations.

In order to mingle with the people and stand in line with politics to protect their lives and property, the capitalists donated generously, providing free drinks and cheap brown bread for the celebration!
This scene gave the people of Paris the illusion that the French nation had stood at the pinnacle of the European continent!
Looking at the long list of country names among the members of the Anti-French Alliance, anyone who can count will feel proud from the bottom of their hearts.

The cohesion of the French nation exploded again at this moment!

Due to the particularity of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army, the improvement of the cohesion of the French nation means that the morale of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army will be higher and more stable!
After all, soldiers in the National Salvation Revolutionary Army will also receive letters from their families and know good news in various senses.

The Paris Revolutionary Government led by Robespierre naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and began to negotiate with the suppressed domestic financial capital with a large amount of confiscated fixed assets.

This means that Robespierre no longer intends to use the Revolutionary Tribunal to target financial capitalists!

The reason is simple, military expansion and war are too expensive!
The French people below don't know how bad the current revolutionary government's finances are. Even if many family properties have been confiscated, except for cash, those goods need to be liquidated!

Now the French Republic has been fighting a civil war for several years, during which time it will join some anti-aggression wars. The domestic nobles have been completely defeated and the bourgeoisie suffered heavy losses. The international trade blockade and political isolation policy against the French Republic have already begun.

This led to a very real problem. It became more and more difficult to realize the non-cash goods confiscated by the French revolutionary government.

In this era, the aristocrats themselves represent the rich. With the aristocrats gone, more than half of the rich people will be lost. The rest of the wealthy people in the capitalist world will be terrified by the revolutionary court. Many people ran away in private. That is, they began to secretly transfer assets abroad, and did not dare to buy confiscated goods auctioned by the French revolutionary government.

In addition to arable land, fixed property, including real estate, has fallen again and again.

The most worthless thing during the war is the house. If one day the battlefield spreads to the vicinity of your own property, after the war, the house is not destroyed, it is God's favor...

Therefore, apart from the fact that the real estate prices in Paris have not plunged (Paris is the capital and is considered to be the safest, and a large number of new politicians have been born here, and they have the money to buy houses as real estate successors), there is no place where the real estate prices in other cities are not the same. Reduced price.

No one took over these fixed assets, and the French revolutionary government naturally returned less and less funds. At this time, Robespierre could only bow to the financial capital world!
Foreign financial capital circles do not have the courage to try the guns of the Anti-French Alliance, so the financial capital circles that Robespierre cooperates with can only choose domestic ones.

Fortunately, Robespierre hadn't dealt with the banking industry before, and there were still many financial capitalists left in Paris, who wanted to escape but didn't dare to escape...

Robespierre personally brought people to the door to offer favorable political conditions, especially the legal protection treaty for the financial capital circle, which will be written into the treatment in the constitution. After throwing it out, the financial capitalists in Paris knew that the National Salvation Committee finally recognized Cowardly!

The financial spring they have been waiting with trepidation has arrived!

In fact, the financial capitalists in Paris at this time did not have much cash. The riots in Paris brought back and forth to change the government. The losses of these rich people were not low. It was not that they were robbed, but the main reason was that many political investments were lost...

However, who said there is 'no money' without cash?
Those fixed properties are in the hands of the revolutionary government, and there seems to be no other way to withdraw funds other than auctioning them off, but it is completely different when they are in the hands of financial capitalists. After all, people in this era still don’t know much about finance. The 'leverage effect' of the world!
Robespierre's political IQ is very high, and his eloquence in winning people's hearts is also quite good, but his financial and economic knowledge is only a little bit better than ordinary people. After establishing a friendly and win-win cooperation model, what a heavy burden it will put on the French revolutionary government!

However, Robespierre has at least achieved his goal, and can continue to maintain the consumption of the expansion training of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army, and the subsequent all-out war against Levi's rebels!

Amidst the cheers in Paris, Li Wei on the other side was frowning.

In Li Wei's eyes, the anti-French alliance was originally a kind of assistance, but he never expected that this "assistance" would help the French Revolutionary Government to further unite public opinion and boost the morale of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army even higher!

This kind of news can be known by Levi's General Military Intelligence Bureau through casual inquiry. Under the French revolutionary government, both the military and the civilian population have become unwavering in their belief in the final victory of the revolution.

The momentum that Livy managed to build up, which made many French people doubt whether the revolution would achieve final victory, was ruined by the anti-French alliance...

At this time, Li Wei finally no longer had expectations for the anti-French alliance. Except for the British who had never landed in the entire anti-French alliance, almost all of them were beaten up by the French revolutionary government!
Of course, not all news is bad.

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(End of this chapter)