18th century total war

Chapter 232 Stay in Paris
The influence of the establishment of the French Directorate far exceeds that of the Northern Army Group.

The entire area controlled by the French Revolutionary Government has undergone changes under the shocking actions of the Directorate.

Large-scale public demonstrations broke out in many cities that supported Jacobin.

Even though the reputation of the Jacobin dictatorship led by the National Salvation Committee headed by Robespierre was so ruined, many people still favored the Jacobins.

After all, Jacobin has become a symbol of the French Revolution.

Unfortunately, the number of people demonstrating in these demonstrations was not large, and they were quickly dispersed by police and even city guards in various cities.

Subsequently, the government used the wealth saved by disbanding the army to appease the civilians in major cities, and those people who were interested in Jacobin quickly left Jacobin behind under the comfort of the government's relief food.

These are simple people, they are willing to obey whoever can give them food, and even if there are a few Jacobin extremists who are not reconciled, it is difficult to continue to agitate public opinion.

The reason is simple. The Jacobin extremists who lost their power cannot spend enough money to win over people's hearts.

Yes, people's hearts need money to buy!

This is the same even in the 21st century!
For the sake of money, a group of poor people can be pulled out anytime and anywhere to give the capitalists a platform to build public opinion.

Even things like votes are not worth much in the eyes of ordinary people. The US imperialist presidential election seems to be democratic, but isn't it just a game of throwing money?

By distributing various shopping coupons to the public, or directly distributing free fried chicken and coke at the venue where the candidates speak, they are used to attract votes...

This method is too common.

It often costs tens or hundreds of dollars to win the vote of a voter. This is already a high price!

So, as long as you have money, you can use money to create a presidential position...

Of course, this is the practice of capitalist countries.

Because of this, any election that follows public opinion is actually unfair. Because of the greed of human nature, even the working people can be bought with money. What else in this world cannot be bought?
As for the future of the country after electing a trash president?

Sorry, those ordinary people who receive petty profits will not consider such long-term issues, even if the future of this country is closely related to their lives.

Li Wei has seen this kind of thing too much in his previous life. When the epidemic broke out, the gun-toting mobs of the US imperialists had already confronted the police and the army, as if a civil war was about to break out.

The results of it?
After the money printing machine in the United States started to exert its strength, it directly relied on the distribution of money to quell the internal troubles and won the support of a large number of American civilians.

No way, no one doesn't like a government that pays money at every turn, even if this government is doing nothing and watching a large number of civilians being infected and dying in the epidemic!
This is the short-sightedness of the people!

It is also the bad nature of human beings.

Are the American people so stupid that they cannot see the dangers of an out-of-control epidemic to their own lives?

But under the temptation of money, they chose to shut up!

Now the French Directory's tactics are similar. They did not directly issue banknotes with negative credibility, but directly distributed relief grains. Naturally, it was easy for the Directory to gain the support of people all over France.

The label of Jacobin evil could no longer be argued against.

At the same time, the fighting between the Livy government and the Directory also stopped. After all, the Directory had liberated its armed forces!
The army currently under the control of the Governor-General can only be used to maintain basic law and order, not to mention fighting against Li Wei's Black Dragon Army, whether it can beat Li Wei's standing army is a question.

Of course, under such a good situation, the peace talks between the two sides started very smoothly.

Li Wei did not break his promise. This kind of self-disarming government, Li Wei is not willing to let them step down, otherwise France, which has become accustomed to revolution, may have a second Jacobin, a second Robespierre!

Politics is full of compromises. What Levi lacks now is not glory points, but training time that consumes glory points!

Of course, Li Wei has not forgotten to thank those top financial capitalists in Paris who have already drifted across the Atlantic Ocean.

Without their bottom line, even if the finances of the French revolutionary government collapsed, it would not collapse to the point where banknotes would directly become waste paper.

However, the peace negotiations between Livy and the French Directory made the Anti-French Alliance very unhappy.

In the London government, Prime Minister Peter unsurprisingly received a joint combat plan from Prussia and Austria, an important member of the Anti-French Alliance.

Prime Minister Pitt handed this plan within the anti-French alliance to the cabinet ministers for circulation.

“Robespierre died, ironically not at the hands of Levi as we predicted, but at the hands of his own people.

The financial capitalists in Paris were really ruthless, and Robespierre was completely tricked to death by these people.

Without the exhaustion of the financial capitalists in Paris, with the prestige of Robespierre, the people of the Directory would not dare to do anything. "

After reading the document, the Minister of War did not accept Prime Minister Pitt's remarks, but analyzed from a military perspective: "The combat plan given by the Berlin government and the Vienna government seems to me to be more feasible.

The French Revolutionary Government's former Northern Army's Fatis Division has begun to retreat, and they are about to return to Paris to disband.

Now Fatis is leading the army to plunder in the Austrian Netherlands, and it is estimated that he is not ready to continue to hold on.

Without the obstruction of the Northern Army Group, the Prussian-Austrian Allied Forces could not only regain the lost ground, but also invade the Calais region of France and even the Picardy region all the way, approaching the outside of Paris!
Today's revolutionary regime in Paris is very empty, and most of the troops have been disbanded due to military expenditure issues. I think that even the Italian coalition led by the Kingdom of Sardinia can make a breakthrough in the Alps.

Apart from the Kingdom of Spain, I can't think of an attack by the Anti-French coalition in any other direction that would fail.

As for Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion, they are currently busy taking over the southern part of France. They don't have a month or two to go, let alone support the eastern and northern theaters of France, and even Paris may not be able to enter.

This is the best opportunity to weaken France, Mr. Prime Minister, we cannot give up. "

"That's right, Li Wei's black dragon army showed too much fighting power. If Li Wei is allowed to inherit all the population and territory of France, in time, Li Wei will train a hundred thousand black dragon army, and France will even become stronger than Louis XVI's time." strong.

However, in this joint operation plan, it is hoped that our country will annihilate the main fleet of the French Navy, completely control the sea power in the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean, and cut off France's sea support routes.

Secretary of the Admiralty, what do you think? "

Even Prime Minister Pitt is unwilling to offend the Lord of the Navy who controls the Royal Navy in Great Britain.

In the British Empire, the Royal Navy is the spiritual symbol of the British people.

Of course, the title of the British Empire was self-proclaimed by the British and was not recognized by the European powers at this time...

However, Britain does have the strength of an empire. The current British naval power is well-deserved No. 1 in the world, far behind France and Spain, which are ranked second and third.

However, based on the number and quality of warships, if the Spanish and French navies are combined, they are slightly stronger than the British.

This is why Britain has been driving a wedge between Spain and France.

Originally, Spain and France were both under the rule of the Bourbon family, and it was very difficult to separate. However, since the outbreak of the French Revolution, the relationship between the Kingdom of Spain and France has dropped to a historical freezing point. The British have been working hard to win over the Spanish royal family diplomatically.

After Li Wei invaded the Kingdom of Spain and occupied Madrid, the Spanish royal family Carlos IV had a great change in his impression of Britain because of the help of the British.

Many of the weapons and equipment used by the Spanish Army to attack Catalonia are imported from the United Kingdom.

The British refurbished the flintlock guns eliminated by the army and sold them to the Spaniards as new guns, not only making money but also earning the friendship of the Spaniards...

"The Royal Navy is willing to fight to the last minute for the good of the British Empire!"

The Secretary of the Navy replied to Prime Minister Pete without hesitation.

It's not that the Secretary of the Navy is flattering, but that the Royal Navy now has the confidence!

Since the outbreak of the French Civil War, the French Navy has been neglected. The Paris Revolutionary Government, which controls the French Navy Fleet, has devoted all its energy and financial resources to the Army in order to suppress Li Wei's rebellion. Arrears!

Under such circumstances, not to mention increasing the number of ships, the French Navy can't even get much maintenance costs for the original warships, and its combat effectiveness is naturally decreasing day by day!

Even in order to save military expenses, the naval fleet did not leave the port if it could not leave the port. Several of the large-scale departures were all because Li Wei's army fought over and had to leave the port that was about to be occupied to avoid being captured by Li Wei's army.

Now that the French Revolutionary regime's Directorate has dragged down the army, a large financial consumer, the navy's military expenditures can finally be credited normally, but the recovery time is too short, and there is no time to recover blood.

Even many French navy sailors have returned home long ago. Now the French navy is busy sending people everywhere to retrieve and demobilize sailors...

Against such a navy, if the British Royal Navy continues to shamelessly engage in sneak attacks, the odds of winning are definitely over [-]%!

Today, Li Wei and the Directorate of the French revolutionary regime have no energy to focus on the navy. When will we not steal it now?

What's more, there is also the cooperation of the Spanish fleet!
The British Royal Navy and the Spanish 'Invincible Armada' raided the French semi-crippled fleet. Isn't this a must-win battle?

Li Wei did not know that the French navy, which had not yet reached his hands, would be destroyed soon.

However, Li Wei was not in the mood to deal with the naval issue at all, because after Fatis robbed the Austrian Netherlands, he took the Lindenwan Brotherhood and his followers and disappeared, and the Northern Army had just arrived in France. The frontier dissolves itself...

At the same time, the Prussian-Austrian Allied Forces, which had been waiting for a long time, easily regained the Austrian Netherlands. At the same time, the Italian Allied Forces led by the Kingdom of Sardinia began to attack the Alps, which was empty of troops, and captured a border city in one day!
Before the end of the French civil war peace talks, the anti-French alliance aggressively exposed its fierce minions and began to pull wantonly on the land of France.

However, the full-scale attack of the Anti-French Alliance indirectly accelerated the negotiation process between Li Wei and the Governorate. The Governor-General did not expect the attack of the Anti-French Alliance to be so fast, and wanted to welcome Li Wei into the city of Paris as soon as possible and make Li Wei the first consul. throne, and then let Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion resist foreign enemies!

For this reason, the Directory made compromises on many anxiously negotiated treaties, not only completely banned the National Salvation Committee (after the members of the National Salvation Committee were killed, they were not banned, but selected many new members, but lost the leadership of the National Salvation Committee. powers) and reorganized the National Convention.

Combined the National Convention and the Directory to form the Assembly of the French Republic.

This is actually a weakening of the revolutionary regime, and many government departments of the revolutionary regime were closed.

However, when Li Wei proposed to close the Paris Commune, he was strictly rejected by the Directory.

The reason is simple: they were unable to shut down the Paris Commune.

The people in the Directory did not hide it from Livy. They told him frankly that once they ordered the closure of the Paris Commune, revolution would probably break out again in Paris.

The roots of the Paris Commune were much deeper than that of the so-called Robespierre.

Because the Paris Commune itself is a shadow government composed of civilians.

Most of the voices of Paris citizens come from the Paris Commune. Although they do not hold much power, they have important public opinion guidance in Paris.

Once closed, it will cause very serious consequences.

After Li Wei learned of the news, he suspended this condition, and asked Karl to temporarily suspend military operations, and transferred the main force of the first division of the Black Dragon Army (since the destruction of Gascoll's second division, only the first division in the organization of the Black Dragon Army ) accompanied him into Paris.

Li Wei attaches great importance to his own personal safety. At this time, if he wants to enter Paris, where the revolutionary enthusiasm has not abated, he will naturally bring most of his own armed forces.

The Directory had no objections to this, and the citizens of Paris had some complaints, but it did not affect the government's decision-making.

In the middle and late 1795, an important milestone affecting the future direction of France appeared.

Li Wei personally led more than 2 infantry guards, marched into the gate of Paris, and moved into the Tuileries Palace on the same day!

The palace where Louis XVI was once imprisoned!

The Guards infantry and the Guards soldiers of the Directory peacefully handed over the defense of Paris. Livy had very friendly conversations with many bigwigs of the Directory. Livy even stated in public that he would never carry out restoration and that France would always be a republic. world!
Of course, the moment Li Wei entered Paris, the Kingdom of New France disappeared, even though the Kingdom of New France had never been recognized by the European continent...

(End of this chapter)