18th century total war

Chapter 17 Mayor
While the prisoners of war led by Porcha were undergoing the second phase of 'thought transformation' at the Charles Town training camp, peace gradually returned to the Charles family territory.

At the same time, Li Wei began to plan for the next plan.

Martin Clive, Anne's biological father, relied on investing in Livy, the legitimate son of Earl Charles, and sold a large amount of arms to Livy at a profit, thus becoming the president of the Charles Town Commercial Guild.

The business scope covers the entire Charles family territory!

In the province of Morbihan in the Brittany region of the Kingdom of France, Martin, the head of the commercial guild, is not considered a figure at all, at most he can be regarded as a country rich man, but with the support of Li Wei, in the Charles family Territory Martin is already one of the few people standing at the top.

Now that Joseph and his party have been purged, Martin has implicitly become the second person in Charles town.

Martin not only controls all the gun workshops and gunpowder workshops in Charles Town, he is also the helm of the underground evil forces in Charles Town, and he has hundreds of gunmen under his hands!

These gunmen are usually the arms dealers and escorts under Martin's command. They often fight against bandits, and their combat power is far superior to those wastes in the public security station.

Of course, for a businessman like Martin who has no aristocratic status, if he really wants to make trouble, he will definitely be suppressed immediately!

In fact, Martin who can grow to this stage is the result of Li Wei's support. Li Wei supports Martin not only to save money by buying large quantities of arms, but also to cultivate his cronies in the town of Charles.

It's a pity that in the Kingdom of France before the outbreak of the Paris Revolution, the status of merchants was not as high as those of capitalist factory owners, let alone compared with nobles. Joseph and his party did not regard Martin as an opponent at all.

At this time, this underground power boss, who had a peaceful face but had no idea how many lives he had tainted behind his back, stood in front of Levi's desk with a top hat in both hands like a child in training, with a flattering smile on his face.

"Mr. Clive, don't be nervous, we are old friends, just find a chair and sit down."

In the Western world, generally only close people will call each other by their first names, and when they are not familiar with each other or greet each other in public, they always use their surname as a prefix.

However, there are also accidents here, for example, the high-ranking nobles will not be subject to such constraints.

Some nobles like to let others call themselves with their own noble title, or the place name of the noble's fiefdom, or even directly call their own name, so as to distinguish them from their own family.

Of course, the latter are rare, and Li Wei is such a person!
This kind of nobleman who likes to be called by his first name instead of his surname is either arrogant or very confident in himself, and he doesn't want outsiders to remind him of the glory of his family behind him.

For example, Li Wei, the Napoleon the Great in world history in his last life, liked outsiders to call him Napoleon, not Bonaparte, because the family was nothing to Napoleon, and it was he who supported the family alone, not the family for him. Bring on the glory!

After Levi came to the territory of the Charles family, he emphasized that outsiders must call themselves Baron Levi, or Lord Levi, Your Excellency, etc., and must use his first name as a prefix instead of a surname!
This is also one of the reasons why Joseph's old Charles family members were dissatisfied with Li Wei. They only regarded Li Wei as a rebellious heir of aristocrats who were arrogant, and they were unscrupulous because they were the only male in the Charles family.

However, as the first-line infantry regiment formed an army and showed fanatical loyalty to Li Wei, the name of Li Wei as a prefix gradually spread, and everyone dared not say that Li Wei was an arrogant person.

With a gun in hand, it can deter most people after all.

That is to say, Joseph did not succumb to Li Wei relying on the prestige of Earl Charles behind him, and then he died...

Martin Clive is Anne's father. Strictly speaking, Martin can be regarded as Levi's father-in-law.

However, Annie is not Li Wei's official wife, and it is impossible to become Li Wei's official wife.

In this era, it is impossible for a son of an aristocrat who has the first legal right of inheritance and also has a formal aristocratic status to marry a commoner woman as his wife, and that may affect his right of inheritance!

Being well-matched is especially important in this era. Europe is a society that is very particular about blood.

Therefore, no matter how good the relationship between Annie and Li Wei is, they will always be just personal maids. Even if they give birth to a boy baby for Li Wei, they will still be the sons of concubines and will not have any inheritance rights.

Levi's father, Earl Charles, left many concubine brothers and sisters for Li Wei in Paris, and each of them relied on Earl Charles' income to eat and die. The biggest wish in this life is to rely on his cheap father to be able to work in the court. title or as a civil servant of the capital government.

Even if they were nobles, their starting point was higher than that of real commoners.

At least there are people in the government, jobs are not a problem!

In the harmonious society of the 21st century, there are countless children of all kinds who enter jobs through the back door, let alone this decadent and backward era?
Government work is not comparable to business and factories. If you enter the government, you will have a solid job and have the opportunity to be promoted to power. Unlike business and factories, you may lose your underwear!

Therefore, most of the rise of the civilian class in this era relied on doing business and setting up factories, and even speculatively entered the financial industry that the nobles were not familiar with. It was difficult for those government officials to get involved, and there were cakes from the two upper classes.

Of course, the same is true of the military system. The officer class has almost always been firmly controlled by the aristocracy.

Even with the victory of the Paris Revolution, the noble officers in the army have not been purged.

Unless the aristocratic class of the Kingdom of France completely collapses, it is impossible to eradicate these 'tumors'.

Because of this, Martin didn't expect Anne to give him much pillow talk. He has also met Li Wei many times. .

Of course, Martin has no objection to this. In this era, being used by a serious traditional nobleman is an opportunity for many nouveau riche to fight for!
After Li Wei saw Martin sitting down a little stiffly, he said with a smile: "The town of Charles has wiped out the rebels and the remnants of the enemy. It is still inappropriate to control the army for a long time. Joseph and many officials of the town government died in the war.

I wonder if Mr. Clive is interested in being the mayor of Charles Town?
Don’t worry, Mr. Clive, the Charles family will not send a new general manager here. The mayor of Charles will have all the powers of the mayor! "

(End of this chapter)