18th century total war

Chapter 247 Prestige Improvement
"This is a great victory for the French nation. Under the leadership of the wise and mighty Chief Consul Lord Li Wei, our army won the victory with fewer troops and successfully repelled the anti-French alliance. As long as Lord Li Wei continues to lead We, the foreign invaders, will never want to set foot in Paris..."

On the streets of Paris, clerks affiliated with the Propaganda Department were giving hard speeches about the victory of Porcha. This was because Li Wei considered that most ordinary civilians in this era were illiterate and had no money to buy newspapers (they even had to eat). If you are not full, how can you have money?), so I specifically ordered the propaganda department to simply train a group of people to promote "Livy's greatness" in the big cities in the French-controlled area.

This was nothing new; during the French Revolution, street speeches were a favorite of those in opposition parties.

However, the method does not depend on whether it is old-fashioned or not, as long as it is easy to use, Li Wei is a pure pragmatist. Since street speeches have been proved to be effective by French revolutionaries, he naturally does not mind letting the propaganda department use them.

Compared with the street politicians who are worried about being arrested by the city police, the staff of the propaganda department have no scruples in their speeches. They will appear in almost all places where crowds can gather quickly and where there is a lot of traffic.

In Li Wei's cabinet, the originally seemingly inconspicuous propaganda department has been expanding its staffing due to the needs of political propaganda, and it has become the first-ranked department among the dozen or so departments in the cabinet.

Li Wei, who came from the 21st century, imitated the political system of his previous life, so the cabinet set by Li Wei is much more complicated than the cabinets of other countries in the 18th century, and many seemingly inconspicuous and unimportant departments have been promoted to become independent cabinet department.

Therefore, the more than a dozen departments in Li Wei's cabinet have the same status at the legal level, unlike other countries, where there are only a few important ministers in the cabinet, and the remaining departments are subsidiary organizations.

Li Wei's cabinet division of labor is more detailed and clear, which naturally makes the number of senior officials in Li Wei's government much larger.

In theory, government complexity is conducive to improving government efficiency, but considering the immature regulatory system of this era, the greater the number of senior officials, the larger the group of top-level corrupt officials!

Throughout the ages, there has been an unchanging theorem, the heavier and higher the authority of an official, the greater the amount of corruption, and the fewer people who can govern him!
Even after reaching a certain level, ordinary supervisory departments no longer have the power to review the other party, and even have to be constrained by the other party's official position.

Of course, after reaching a certain level as an official, even if you are caught for corruption, in order to protect their image in the hearts of the people, it is impossible for those high-level officials to disclose all the information about their colleagues who have been arrested.

To put it bluntly, who is an official who doesn't have a pile of money under his ass?

If the routines were made public, wouldn't the common people learn to follow the rules?

Therefore, what is made public in the end is generally the part that is responsible for concealing people's eyes and ears, or even downplays it altogether, and does not disclose it to the lower class people at all.

This is a very normal human nature, even ordinary people know that family ugliness should not be publicized!

However, for middle- and low-level officials, there is no need for such cover-up, and the corruption of middle- and low-level officials is often easily witnessed by ordinary people. Covering it up has the opposite effect of covering up others. It would be better if they were all made public. Demonstrate the style of a great country.

Due to the large gap in official ranks, ordinary people will naturally not match up with high-level officials of the country, and the ruling class who truly control the country will not let their reputation be damaged.

Corruption problems have been numerous throughout the ages. Whether in ancient times or in the 21st century, many people believe that being an official is to make money.

Naturally, corruption problems have always existed in Li Wei's government. Even officials who have been enlightened by administration will not refuse all gifts from their subordinates, as long as the other party's request does not endanger the national interests.

Even officials who have been enlightened by the administration are like this, let alone officials who have not been enlightened by the administration?
For this reason, Li Wei also set up a special supervision department in the cabinet to deal with the problem of corrupt officials.

It's just that the Ministry of Supervision has not been established for a long time, and the core of Livy's politics now is war, so the tentacles of the Ministry of Supervision have not yet spread all over France, and have only begun to operate in several large cities that Livy originally occupied and Paris.

In order to put an end to the internal corruption of the Ministry of Supervision, all the officials Li Wei placed in the Ministry of Supervision were enlightened by the administration, and only the lowest-level civil servants were not enlightened by the administration.

Throughout the ages, the power of ordinary public officials has been pitifully small. At most, they can only embarrass the common people. They cannot touch the remaining power, otherwise they can be laid off with just a report.

After all, in the eyes of the bureaucracy, civil servants are their servants, and ordinary people are the sheep of the bureaucracy class. If the servants dare to steal the wool for themselves, can the bureaucrats who are the masters be spared?

It's okay for civil servants to show off their "official power" in front of ordinary people, but if real interests are involved, unless no one exposes them, they will be treated as examples by superior bureaucrats.

The so-called gray income can only be obtained by those who are officials. Ordinary public servants are considered to be doing well if they can just eat and drink.

Therefore, Li Wei has always controlled the bureaucratic class and neglected the civil servant class.

In Li Wei's eyes, as long as the officials are well managed, the civil servants below will naturally be driven and supervised.

Outside the main gate of Paris, teams of prisoners of war wearing worn-out Prussian military uniforms were being escorted in by groups of Black Dragon Legion soldiers, who were much smaller in number than them.

These Prussian prisoners of war will be held in a prisoner-of-war camp that functions as a barracks in Paris. After the reorganization of the French Defense Forces is completed, they will be the next source of training.

These prisoners of war are filled with many Prussian middle and low-level officers, who can just be used directly.

In Bolcha's report, Li Wei realized the language problem in future foreign wars.

The total war system does not provide a language translation function, so Li Wei can only find a way by himself...

Therefore, the plan to cultivate a German-speaking army to conquer the German region in the future appeared in Li Wei's mind.

Because of this, Li Wei would rather risk completely offending Prussia than send all these Prussian prisoners back.

Of course, not all of these Prussian prisoners of war are qualified for training. Those who are older and have health problems will be eliminated. The most important thing Li Wei requires for the recruitment of soldiers is that they must be young enough!

Because the infantry guards who have completed the training are destined to be used by Li Wei for a lifetime (if they are not loyal to Li Wei on the battlefield), the younger the natural age, the better.

And in order to ensure that these trained Guards infantry would not be attrited due to diseases and other problems, Levi also specially found French nutrition and health experts to prepare a rich diet for them.

Of course, nutrition and health experts in this era are generally part-time doctors.

Although modern medicine has not yet started, it has begun to replace the ignorant medicine of the Middle Ages. Many professional doctors understand the various food combinations required by the human body.

It is no exaggeration to say that although Li Wei's infantry guards have no military pay, their food treatment is definitely the highest in the world at present!

With a good food environment and enhanced physical fitness after systematic training, it is almost impossible for these systematically trained soldiers to get sick. Even if it is a powerful plague, as long as they do not take the initiative to die and have close contact, it is difficult to get sick.

Li Wei even thought about the future organization of these Prussian prisoners of war, which was called the French Foreign Legion.

From now on, all non-French soldiers will be incorporated into the French Foreign Legion.

Of course, when the French Foreign Legion expands in the future, there will be a more detailed division of the French Foreign Legion from different countries and regions.

The French Foreign Legion will be separated from the French Defense Forces to form two independent combat arms.

Not surprisingly, there will be only three armed organizations in France in the future: the French Police Force, the French Defense Forces, and the French Foreign Legion.

Both the French National Defense Forces and the French Foreign Legion must go through the transformation of systematic training camps. The French Police Force is a local security force. However, local security Levi cannot rely entirely on the police, and will also distribute the French National Defense Forces to station throughout France.

Especially in large and medium-sized cities, the French Defense Forces must be stationed!
Li Wei never expected that he could use his personality charm to make the French nation spontaneously support him...

The royalist party and the revolutionary party have never disappeared in mainland France, especially the revolutionary party. After Li Wei gradually secured his position as the chief consul of Paris, the originally fragmented revolutionary parties have begun to form groups to keep warm. Public organization activities.

These civil opposition revolutionary parties have been keeping a close eye on Li Wei. Once he endangers the victorious achievements since the French Revolution, or tries to restore the kingdom, these opposition revolutionary parties will immediately jump back.

The most important change of the French Revolution to the French nation is to make most French civilians realize that if they are treated unfairly, they can take up arms to resist the government. This behavior is called 'revolution'!
Revolution is not the same as rebellion, so it is more acceptable to most French people.

Just as the anti-French coalition worried—the revolutionary government established after the French Revolution and the Livy regime are not a threat, and the revolutionary consciousness that the French are exporting is the existence that all European monarchs should be vigilant about!
The reason why the Lindenvan Brotherhood took root in Central European countries is because the ideas of the French Revolution are spreading in Central Europe!

On the contrary, in Eastern European countries where industrialization is equal to zero, the circulation of French revolutionary ideas is very difficult, especially in the Tsarist Russian Empire. The ancient and cruel serf system not only imprisoned the thoughts of ordinary people, but also restricted the personal freedom of ordinary people. Many serfs in Tsarist Russia lived their lives They have never left the village where they were born.

In addition, the conservatives in the Tsarist Empire were also terrifyingly powerful in this era, while the reformists had very little power.

More than 6000 Prussian prisoners of war entered the city, which immediately excited the people of Paris. With the spare no efforts of the propaganda department, Li Wei's perception in the eyes of the Paris people is rapidly turning from negative to positive.

Many Parisian citizens who used to like to curse Livy suddenly discovered that no matter how many shortcomings Livy had as a ruler, at least he was better at fighting!
Such a reason is enough to conquer the hearts of most people!
However, some people in Paris are happy and others are sad.

The royalist party hidden in Paris (the royalist party is an illegal organization at this time, so it can only hide in the hidden front), and the revolutionary party with the Paris Commune at its core, seeing the image of Li Wei in the minds of Parisians, was overwhelmed by this After a victory that saved a lot of money, they all felt depressed.

The Black Dragon Legion has once again proved their fearless combat power of winning more with less.

The news that the Austrian army voluntarily retreated was not a secret among the upper echelons of Paris, but those who knew the news did not dare to disclose the news at all, slapping the "face" of the overall victory that the Li Wei government's propaganda department called.

The reason is very simple. At this time, refuting the propaganda of the Livy government will be severely punished by the Livy government, and it will not have any effect.

Whatever the truth, the Austrian army had indeed retreated, and with so many Prussian prisoners paraded through the streets, no amount of refutation would seem worthwhile.

This is the purpose of Li Wei's order to parade the Prussian prisoners of war.

After a street parade, opposition to the Li Wei government in Paris suddenly fell to a low ebb.

The political power of a country, especially a country still immersed in the glory of the French Revolution, cannot control the entire country simply by convincing the parliament.

The Parliament of the Republic can only be regarded as a gathering place for the top leaders of the Revolutionary Party and celebrities. There are also a large number of revolutionary masses who oppose Li Wei and want to restore the original republican system.

After experiencing the horrific period of Robespierre's administration, many revolutionary masses felt an instinctive aversion to the power of the chief executive and believed that the supreme power of a country should not be controlled by one person. Doing so would easily endanger the lives of most people. Security is always under threat.

The Parliament of the French Republic, which was not originally controlled by Livy, tried to establish a new constitution to restrain and control Livy, but now the Parliament of the Republic has become Livy's mouthpiece. The constitution is naturally in vain, and Livy's power is different from before The period of the Regent in his new kingdom of France was indistinguishable.

This kind of unfettered power is naturally seen by many knowledgeable revolutionaries in society. Their social status may not be high, but they are much better than the sans-culottes. They do not need to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation. Enough time and energy to monitor the government.

With so many eyes watching, no matter how the Li Wei government covers it up, it is impossible to hide the fact that Li Wei has become a real dictator!

If it weren't for the fact that the parliamentarians controlled by Li Wei were suppressed in the Congress of the Republic, a revolution against Li Wei might have broken out in Paris!
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