18th century total war

Chapter 208 Use everything to the extreme
"Lesarit, what happened outside?
Why are there so many gunshots all of a sudden? "

As the head of Li Wei's guard regiment and the current supreme commander of the guards around Li Wei, Lessarit should take on part of Li Wei's secretarial work, especially the information control of the city of Toulouse.

Even if the mayor of Toulouse wants to see Li Wei, he needs to pass the threshold of Lesarit first.

"I'm very sorry to disturb your work.

In the downtown and suburbs of Toulouse this morning, a large number of rioting crowds suddenly emerged from the poor areas and civilian areas. They played banners such as "against the civil war, against the war tax, and against the wartime indefinite labor bill" and aimed at the rich. They marched into downtown and commercial districts, expelled the police there, and started beating, smashing and looting collectively.

I suspect that it was the Jacobin revolutionaries lurking in Toulouse who suddenly attacked Toulouse.

The revolutionaries coerced public opinion to cooperate with their front-line offensive, trying to make the big cities behind us chaotic, and even threatened your life and safety, my lord.

I have dispatched the garrison to suppress it before, but now it seems that the effect is not very good, and the rioting crowd has not been dispersed. "

"War tax?

Wartime Indefinite Labor Act?
Hehe, these Jacobins found a good excuse this time! "

Li Wei narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in a seemingly calm voice.

The war tax is naturally the general term for all kinds of taxes temporarily increased by the Li Wei regime for this war, and it is not specifically aimed at the civilian class. Both the poor and the rich have different amounts of war taxes to pay.

None of the wealthy capitalists who pay heavier taxes dared to speak up, and those muddy legs couldn't help it!
As for the wartime indefinite labor bill, it is a bill aimed at the civilian class.

Because of the war, the economy of both the Li Wei regime and the French revolutionary regime's control area has been severely affected, and it can be called "the people are in dire straits".

This makes it impossible for many civilians to pay the war tax.

So there was the Wartime Indefinite Labor Act as a substitute.

Since you have no money, sell your labor.

In the wartime indefinite labor bill, the most criticized point is to eliminate all idlers in society.

Whether you are a beggar on the street, a loafer, a local hooligan, etc., as long as you are not serious and have passed an officially recognized job, you will be arrested by violent government agencies such as police patrolling the streets, security groups, and garrison groups. , and then forcefully arrange work for you!
In addition, many factories and handicraft workshops have implemented wartime semi-military control in order to improve production efficiency. Let alone weekends, there is no overtime pay!
Of course, civilians who obey the wartime indefinite labor law are not without benefits, at least they can be exempted from war taxes and will not starve to death.

However, the high-intensity labor squeeze and the control of personal freedom, the civilian proletariat like slave labor, has long been deeply dissatisfied with this decree promulgated by the Li Wei regime.

Why did the Li Wei regime never have a logistical shortage during the civil war with the French revolutionary government, which had a higher popular support rate?
It is because of these harsh laws that continue to squeeze the labor force of the civilian proletariat!

The proletariat here is different from the concept of the proletariat in later generations, and it is defined as a group of people who do not have fixed assets of certain value.

If there is only one set of ordinary real estate with low value, it will also be included in the proletarian civilian class.

In fact, being classified as the proletariat by the Li Wei regime is not a completely bad thing, at least the war tax they pay is much lower than that of the bourgeoisie, and if they follow the wartime indefinite labor law, they can also be exempted from all war taxes!
However, during the implementation of the wartime indefinite labor law, because the executors of the middle and lower management are not administrative officials, they do not consider the health and life of the civilian proletariat at all. In order to complete the production targets issued by the above, they wish to Together with the sleep time of laborers are taken up.

There are even many factories that use kerosene lamps and candles to work in 24-hour continuous shifts.

In this era, there is no concept of three shifts, only the concept of two shifts...

This is actually a pretty good working environment. Most factories and handicraft workshops, because they don’t want to bear the cost of lighting tools such as kerosene lamps and candles, only work in one shift. Things within our power.

Those laborers were confined to work, sleep and eat together all day long, and could not go home at all.

Under this kind of pressure, it will naturally cause dissatisfaction among a large number of civilians.

It's just that this kind of dissatisfaction is not enough to erupt so violently without guidance. It's just that Jacobin intervened to make things worse.

It was not Jacobin's temporary layout that caused such chaos. As early as when Li Wei occupied the southern part of France, there were a large number of people who were interested in revolution, and they were also the natural development of the Jacobins.

During the occupation of the Livy regime, the French revolutionary government has been working hard to develop these underground civil forces.

Due to administrative enlightenment, the French revolutionary government could not attack the top leaders of the Li Wei regime at all, and could only develop its influence among the people. This time, the full-scale outbreak was because the National Salvation Revolutionary Army used all its previous revolutionary hidden background, intending to cooperate with the frontline operations.

The French revolutionary government is also desperate, because they know very well that under the suppression of the Black Dragon Army, no matter how violent the civilian movement is, it will be brutally suppressed in the end. Li Wei is not a soft-hearted mediocrity like Louis XVI.

After being suppressed, those left behind by Jacobin will inevitably be uprooted, and the cities in southern France will become the same as Brittany and Normandy, becoming the basic base of Li Wei's regime.

However, in order to win the second all-out attack, the French Revolutionary Government can only make a one-time stud move. Anyway, once the second all-out attack fails, the French Revolutionary Government will fall into a complete passive situation, and no matter how many people are left behind, there will be no chances. What's the point?
The Jacobins who were left behind had no problem doing mass work, but it would be too difficult for them to assassinate the military and political officials of the Li Wei regime. At this time, it is natural to squeeze out the final use value.

Therefore, the disgust of war accumulated in the civilian class for a long time, the dissatisfaction with the squeeze of Li Wei's regime, and the temptation of buying for zero yuan, there was this large-scale riot parade.

"Lessarit, don't overestimate the garrison regiments that have divided the land. If they were really useful, they would have already entered the standing army.

You let the guards of the black dragonflight suppress the mob. "

(End of this chapter)