18th century total war

Chapter 263 The First Anti-French Alliance Broken

"Your Majesty the Chief Consul, the Austrian Foreign Minister has agreed to the conditions we proposed. This is the armistice treaty. Please read it and sign it."

Li Wei took the document handed over by the foreign minister to read, and there were two versions in French and German. Obviously, Li Wei could only understand French...

This is the most important knowledge given to Li Wei by his original body after he crossed over. Li Wei, who has no language talent and is unwilling to waste time learning multiple languages, now only knows two languages, one is French and the other is time travel. Native language brought here.

After reading it, Li Wei nodded slightly with satisfaction, raised his eyes and asked his foreign minister: "Is the Austrian diplomatic envoy still unwilling to come to Paris?"

"Yes, Chief Consul, the senior officials of the Vienna government are afraid of your 'hypnotic ability' and are unwilling to meet you in person, let alone come to Paris."

Li Wei sighed speechlessly after hearing this.

His secret was finally exposed.

This is also impossible. If he does not control the French Republic Parliament, how can Li Wei suppress the French Revolutionary Party and those who oppose him so easily?

However, this shortcut was so terrifying that the governments of various countries in the Anti-French Alliance were convinced of Levi's hypnotism.

Even the governments of the Anti-French Alliance deduced from Livy's behavior that Livy was likely to have set up hypnotic conditions in Paris. Once he entered Paris and saw Livy, he would inevitably be hypnotized and controlled by Livy.

Although the reasons for the speculation are somewhat biased, Li Wei has to admit that there are still many smart people in the Anti-French Alliance, and the steps and procedures of his administrative enlightenment are almost guessed...

Fortunately, in order to avoid causing panic within the country, the high-level governments of the anti-French alliance did not disclose the news of Li Wei's hypnosis, let alone the preconditions for Li Wei's hypnosis.

Therefore, only the top leaders of the countries of the Anti-French Alliance are sure that Li Wei will be hypnotized.

Even some ordinary small countries do not know this information.

After all, the ability to control people's hearts is too terrifying, just like the devil in the human version, it is easy to blow the morale of the country to pieces. After all, human beings are naturally inferior in aura when facing devils.

This is the same as people being afraid of ghosts, an instinct engraved in human bones.

As for promoting Li Wei's hypnotic ability to expand the determination of the people and the army to resist, this idea is too naive.

After all, the French army did not kill everyone on the battlefield. Just like the army of ordinary countries, they would leave prisoners alive, but they would be sent to labor camps to work as coolies.

Faced with the threat of death, even the real devil is willing to take refuge in humans. Once the news that Levi is the real devil spreads, some people may be inspired to fight to the death, but there will definitely be more people who are intimidated by the devil's ability because of fear. Surrender without a fight!

This is why the Anti-French Alliance blocked Levi's hypnotic ability.

Of course, there is another very important point. Everything is based on reasoning. The Anti-French Alliance has no direct evidence of Levi’s hypnotic ability. Even many people in the top government do not believe it, just out of caution and hostility relationship, so he is unwilling to take risks.

After all, the ability to manipulate people's hearts is too heaven-defying. In the eyes of Europeans, I am afraid that only God can do it...

Even Satan, the Lord of Hell in folk myths and legends, only confuses people's hearts and has never been known to completely manipulate people's hearts.

"What about the attitude of the Prussians?"

Li Wei put down the document in his hand and raised his head to ask.

"Returning to the Chief Consul, after the Austrians withdrew from the war, the Prussians were alone and would not continue to fight against us, and the Austrians' negotiating envoys represent the Holy Roman Empire, and Prussia is also a member of the Holy Roman Empire!
After the signing of this armistice agreement, there will be peace on the European continent.

However, there has been no reply from the British side. The British rely on the strait barrier and their Royal Navy to blockade our country.

The terms of the peace offered by the British were harsh, requiring us to withdraw from all lands we had seized after 1790. "

"The British are so arrogant because they have the capital. Our colonial routes have been completely cut off by the British Royal Navy. They have a strategic advantage and naturally they will not easily agree to our armistice treaty.

But the British army is not good. Even if they continue to maintain a war relationship with them, the British dare not land in France.

Just ignore them. "

After the foreign minister bowed and left, Li Wei opened the armistice treaty signed with the Holy Roman Empire again, and couldn't help but draw a smile on the corner of his mouth.

In the treaty, the Austrian Netherlands (later Belgium) was assigned to the French Republic, and the forces of the Holy Roman Empire represented by Austria secretly recognized that France and the Holy Roman Empire took the Rhine River as their natural border!
This is actually acquiescing to Livy's French army to annex all the small German states on the west bank of the Rhine. Without the support of the Austrian and Prussian armies, those small German states would not even have a chance to struggle in front of the French Defense Forces, even if they have military strength. The strongest Luxembourg is just a bigger ant in Levi's eyes.

It only takes three days for the French Defense Forces to destroy Luxembourg!
Of course, it was precisely because of the small population of the German states west of the Rhine that they were abandoned by the Holy Roman Empire.

The bulk of the food in my mouth this time was the Austrian Netherlands, also known as Belgium.

The industrial strength of Belgium is no weaker than that of the Netherlands (northern Netherlands), and it is one of the most industrially developed regions in Western Europe.

In addition, the Holy Roman Empire will also recognize the sovereignty and independence of the various states in the Italian peninsula. That is to say, the younger brothers of Austria who developed in Italy have all broken off the relationship with the suzerain...

Li Wei is temporarily unable to occupy the Italian peninsula for a long time, so the condition proposed is to let the Italians dominate the Italians and let all Italian states maintain their independence.

Of course, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies will definitely be split into the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sicily.

That King of the Bourbons, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies will be stripped of their crown.

Even if Livy withdrew his troops from the Kingdom of Naples, with the endorsement of the Holy Roman Empire, King Ferdinando I of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies would not be able to regain control of the Kingdom of Naples.

The support of the British was far less useful in Europe than the support of the Holy Roman Empire. After all, everyone knew that it was impossible for the British army to land.

What's more, the people of the Kingdom of Naples have just been abandoned by Ferdinand I. How many of them will support the king?

Even the noble class of the Kingdom of Naples was dissatisfied with the escape of King Ferdinando I of the Bourbon family.

You said you couldn't defeat him and led everyone to surrender. First, you said you would resist until the end, and then you rubbed oil on your feet when the enemy troops came over. What does this mean?
Do you treat everyone as fools and stay in Naples to fight the French?
Ever since Ferdinand I made such a coquettish operation of betraying his teammates, his reputation in the Kingdom of Naples has plummeted. Now that he no longer has the endorsement of the Holy Roman Empire, he can only stay obediently on the island of Sicily as the king of Sicily.

The three crowns were downgraded to one. I don't know what turmoil will appear in Ferdinand I's inner world.

This is the sorrow of the monarch of a small country. Under the general situation in Europe, he is completely powerless to resist the choice of a big country.

The current situation in Europe is basically dominated by the five major powers, which were later called the great powers in the Eastern world. They are Tsarist Russia, the Kingdom of Prussia, Austria (now the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire), Britain and Ireland. United Kingdom, French Republic.

As for the Dutch, the navy is not bad, but the army is very hip, mainly because of the small number of soldiers, and in this era, the Dutch maritime hegemony has been replaced by the United Kingdom.

If the above-mentioned five European countries can unite, it will be really simple to unify Europe. It is a pity that the main confrontations on the European continent are these big countries. Other countries either remain neutral or actively or passively choose sides.

As for the Ottoman Empire, although it was also one of the powerful countries in this era, it was not recognized by European countries.

In addition to these territorial concessions in the armistice treaty, the Holy Roman Empire will also acquiesce in all actions of the French army on the Italian peninsula.

This actually tells Li Wei that as long as France does not forcibly annex the Italian Peninsula, the Holy Roman Empire will not interfere whether it is supporting a puppet state or exporting French revolutionary ideas to establish a republic.

Obviously, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire regarded Livy as a dictator influenced by French revolutionary ideas.

As for Li Wei's suppression of the French Revolutionary Party after he took office, it cannot erase his status as a revolutionary in the eyes of various European monarchies.

The reason is very simple. The French Revolutionary Party killed each other and even created a historic revolutionary court murder, which has long been used by the monarchy countries on the European continent.

Li Wei's suppression of the French Revolutionary Party was only seen by the monarchy countries on the European continent as eliminating dissidents.

After all, not a single member of the French Republic's Parliament had been purged, and European governments had long classified them as Livy's faction.

It doesn't mean that if Li Wei raised his butcher knife against the French Revolutionary Party, he would be considered a counter-revolutionary by European countries!

European governments judge whether the French government in power has a revolutionary 'attribute', mainly based on the way the French government handles ancient aristocratic and religious privileges.

After Li Wei came to power, he did not intend to restore the noble and religious privileges at all. What is it not to be a revolutionary?
Even in the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, which is known as the most liberal-minded country, nobility and religion enjoy certain privileges.

Therefore, in the eyes of European governments, Livy was a definite revolutionary dictator, no different from Robespierre before him. At most, he controlled more power.

This means that in this life, Li Wei should never try to become a part of the monarchy countries on the European continent, even if Li Wei ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, it would be useless.

Li Wei also knew this. Before he conquered the entire European continent, he would inevitably be hostile by all the monarchy countries in Europe.

Even in mainland France, there are still some people who tend to be royalists.

It's just that under Li Wei's cruel methods, the royalists did not dare to show their banners.

Even many French commoners regard Li Wei as an extreme faction in the Revolutionary Party.

The French people call Livy's faction the 'Charles Party', but no one dares to say so in public. The Livy government once promulgated a law to control speech. Anyone who criticizes the great French leader Livy and his government , will be arrested and, depending on the seriousness of the circumstances, be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years...

Well, the term "fixed-term imprisonment" was invented by Li Wei. In fact, it means being sent to a labor camp for reform through labor!
The labor service center has now fully assumed the function of a prison. There are even divisions within the labor service center. There is a labor service department that specializes in managing prisoners of war, and there is also a department that specializes in managing criminals with minor crimes. Naturally, there is also a department that manages serious criminals.

Even for these departments, there are subdivisions under their jurisdiction, which will distinguish the elderly, young people (that is, child laborers!), young and strong men, and women who have not been selected into the Jiaofang Division.

Among them, the camps for the elderly basically have no living security, and they have the highest mortality rate among the labor camps!

The workload of the juvenile camp is the lightest, because they will spend a lot of time in compulsory education. In addition to basic literacy and simple arithmetic, there are a lot of history and political textbooks in the education.

This aspect is the responsibility of the education department, which strives to brainwash these young child workers into people who have a good impression of and even loyalty to Master Li Wei.

After all, juvenile and child labor generally will not work for a lifetime, and the sentence will almost expire after they become adults.

The reason why there is no girl camp in the labor office is because no matter what kind of girls they look like, they will be sent to the Jiaofang Division for training.

The reason is very simple. In this era, there are many rich people and bureaucrats who like this kind of tenderness!
Of course, if the ugliness is really shocking, they will be included in the women's camp of the labor force. However, there are only a small number of people in this category, and there is no separate relevant department for management.

The young and strong men’s camp, especially the young and strong men’s camp in the category of prisoners of war, is the most valued by the labor force, and the death rate of the young and strong men’s camp is also the lowest. You will feel the hunger.

The laborers in the Young and Strong Men's Battalion are also a source of reserve troops for the French National Defense Forces. In addition to the labor dispatch department, there are also civilian personnel from the logistics department who come to check regularly.

Different genders and ages in the Labor Dispatch Department work in different directions, fully explaining the ability to do what they can. Of course, the elderly who are deemed by the Li Wei government to be of little use value will do any job, and they will be transferred wherever there is a shortage of people. This is also an important reason for the high mortality rate of the elderly.

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