18th century total war

Chapter 20 Declaration of Human Rights
Li Wei's resolute actions have indeed offended many people, but his status as a baron and the status of the first legal heir of the Charles family, so that these people can only go to Vannes, the capital of the Morbihan province, to sue .

There is no way, this is all happening in the territory of the Charles family, and the Kingdom of France is not without greedy nobles who intervene in the pornography and gambling industries to make money.

Even the evil forces in many noble territories are thugs and lackeys trained by the nobles, specially used to do dirty things.

Aristocrats want face, and many things are not good to do by themselves, so naturally they need the people below to do them.

For example, some bandit forces in the fiefdoms of the nobles obviously have few guns, but they have been unable to destroy them for a long time. Why?

Because there are people covering it, and the nobles want to kill someone without enough reason, these people come in handy.

The European aristocracy is not much different from the Eastern bureaucrats and gentry class, and is even more unscrupulous, because the European aristocracy has greater privileges.

The industrial and commercial bourgeoisie in the Kingdom of France are obviously richer and wiser than most aristocrats, so why are they always suppressed by the two upper classes?
It's because of the privileges of the nobility and how ruthless and black they are!
It is useless for you to spend a lot of money to find a top lawyer to win the lawsuit, and you will directly find someone to assassinate you behind your back. Anyway, you have no noble status, and death is not a big deal!

If it hadn't been pushed to the limit, how could the rich bourgeoisie in the Kingdom of France recklessly promote the outbreak of revolution?

They have plenty of money and live even more luxuriously than the nobles. Revolution is a double-edged sword that can hurt others and yourself!

Those shrewd big capitalists must understand the dangers of the revolution, but they are still willing to spend a lot of money to support it secretly, because they have no safe reliance in the French Kingdom under the autocratic monarchy!

They need rights, at least they need to restrict the rights of monarchs and nobles, so that they dare not kill themselves recklessly.

Without power, no matter how much money you have, it can easily become someone else's wedding dress.

Today's Levi is in the territory of the Charles family, which is a good illustration of this point. Many bigwigs in the porn industry have worked hard for decades, but they were all cut off by Li Wei, and they all became Li Wei's industry!
Those who are obedient are lucky enough to be able to occupy the position of younger brother, but those who are disobedient will die without knowing how.

As for the thugs they raised, even Martin's men couldn't do it, let alone fight against the regular army. The thugs probably scared away when they heard that they were fighting the regular army...

With the concentrated confiscation of a large number of industries and "corrupted property" in the Charles family's territory, Li Wei finally got rid of the financial crisis, and successfully completed the third training period, with a full 3000 line infantry under his command.

Li Wei did not establish a new line infantry regiment, but integrated the newly trained line infantry with the original first line infantry regiment.

The establishment is still the first line infantry regiment.

Supreme Commander Gascoll Owen was promoted to colonel, and the entire [-]st Line Infantry Regiment was divided into three line infantry battalions.

Each battalion has 1000 people, which is definitely a large establishment in the Kingdom of France.

Although European countries now have a military rank system, it is still relatively chaotic. Not only are the officers' positions corresponding to the military ranks of various countries different, even the same military force in the same country is also different.

For example, some infantry battalions have only three or 400 people, while others have more than a thousand people.

Of course, this disparity in military strength is mainly related to the respective chief officers and regions, because most of the armies of this era were established by one or several chief officers to recruit troops.

Even many regular armies were reorganized from the private army of the nobles. Anyway, the officers of the regular army are also nobles.

This can also be regarded as a compromise to deprive the nobility of military power.

Colonel Gascoll of the First Line Infantry Regiment also served as the commander of the first battalion and personally led one battalion. The commander of the second battalion was Lieutenant Colonel Karl.

Yes, the major who was in charge of cleaning Joseph and his party was also promoted.

To expand the army, you need to be promoted in the first place.

The reason why people in the military like the country's military expansion is because the expansion of the army means that they have a greater chance of promotion and more military positions will be vacant.

In charge of the third battalion was Foster, another major from the original first-line infantry regiment, who was also promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Gascoll, Carl, and Foster were all members of the guard sent to Levi by Earl Charles. Gascoll was the captain of the guard, and Carl and Foster were originally Gascoll's cronies.

In other words, these three people were originally from Earl Charles!
Of course, now he is Levi's biggest fan.

This is also the reason why the three of them were able to obtain a high position directly after the first training period.

The first line infantry regiment was formed from scratch, so Li Wei could only promote based on proximity. Unless he performed well during training, he would be promoted additionally.

That Borcha is, although the other party is of ordinary origin, he has fought many battles with thousands of peasant rebels and burned a noble castle, so he is very suitable to be an officer.

The brainwashing of the total war system does not turn people into fools, it just imprints an indestructible idea of ​​loyalty in their consciousness.

Just as Li Wei watched his strength increase with satisfaction, bad news suddenly came from the Constituent Assembly in Paris!
The province of Morbihan is located in the Brittany region in the northwest of the Kingdom of France, so it is not close to Paris, and the news received is delayed for several days.

This time, the news Levi received had a great impact on his power in the Charles family territory, because it was the "Declaration of Human Rights"!
During the Paris Constituent Assembly, all aristocratic privileges were abolished, local guilds were abolished, and church properties were confiscated and auctioned off!
Obviously, the traditional feudal aristocracy and church forces were completely defeated in the constitutional assembly...

This is not unexpected, because the traditional feudal nobles do not represent the entire aristocratic group. Even the top nobles are divided into liberal nobles and royalist nobles!
Because most of the liberal nobles are capitalists and financiers, they have money and connections!

And the church in the Kingdom of France is a big fat pig without teeth. Without the three major hierarchical systems, the church is not even as good as the nobles!

The competition for parliament is based on who has more money and who has more supporters. Obviously, the traditional feudal nobles and church forces are inferior to the bourgeoisie and their allies in both aspects.

Thus, the Declaration of Human Rights appeared!

The people of Paris were boiling, and as the news spread, the whole of France fell into a carnival!
Liberty, equality, and fraternity are realized in the form of law at this moment!

(End of this chapter)