18th century total war

Chapter 266 Difficulty in Promoting National Thought

The French Defense Forces who harvested the Italian region and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia can finally return home.

This time the three-step looting plan was done pretty well, because the bottom of the society with the largest proportion of people was not targeted, and the troops were not sent to dangerous rural areas, so the French Defense Forces did not suffer any losses.

Even if there were sporadic mobs, they were quickly suppressed.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that the French National Defense Forces disarmed and disbanded all city police forces before taking action.

The withdrawal of the French National Defense Forces left a mess at the same time. Since the French National Defense Forces disbanded the police and security forces early, the original government also "disappeared without a trace" because of the harvest of the wealthy and middle class, so the French National Defense Forces withdrew. The Italian region and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia immediately fell into anarchy!
Those middle-class families arrested by the French Defense Forces who were not redeemed were all executed.

In other words, in the cities and wealthier towns in the Italian region and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia, the entire upper class and the middle class have experienced a gap, leaving only a group of uneducated bottom-level residents.

What will these lower-class residents do when they discover that government and law have suddenly disappeared?
The answer is self-evident...

Ironically, because the French Defense Forces left behind huge fixed property 'wealth' to the lower-class civilians in Italy and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia before leaving, many low-level civilians with little knowledge believed that the idea of ​​the French Revolution was very unacceptable. Sri Lanka.

Therefore, after the withdrawal of the French Defense Forces in many large and medium-sized cities, the people spontaneously formed the so-called republican government. Fantastic flags...

Unfortunately, it didn't take long for these newly established 'republics' to be 'defeated' by the private guards gathered by the native nobles hiding in the countryside.

The withdrawal of the French Defense Forces took away all the available arms and a large amount of raw materials for making arms. The newly established 'republics' had no source of weapons at all. A group of ragtag people armed with kitchen knives and wooden sticks defended a republic that they themselves did not quite understand. , one can imagine how funny the battle process is...

Basically, as long as the noble private guards on the opposite side fired a round of gunfire, the so-called Republican Guard collapsed.

Of course, this kind of republic that has failed to establish a perfect government is itself a joke.

To the despair of the native Italian nobles and nobles of the Kingdom of Sardinia who were restored to the country, the French Defense Forces completely destroyed the economies of the rich Italian region and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia!

There are even a group of poor people holding property certificates issued by the French Defense Forces, occupying houses that do not belong to them at all!

The originally gorgeous private mansions immediately turned into chicken coops and kennels after these civilians moved in. Many private mansions even had a lot of human and livestock excrement!

When the king of the Kingdom of Sardinia returned to the palace in Turin and stepped on a lump of chicken manure, he was so angry that he almost fainted...

This is only a small problem. The most serious thing is that many states in the restored Italian region and the returned Kingdom of Sardinia do not recognize the real estate certificates issued by the French Defense Forces at all, otherwise those nobles would lose their homes!
The common people at the bottom who don't even have enough to eat are naturally unable to fight against the aristocratic class who have returned from restoration. They have mercenaries around them!

And the support of the British!

Yes, when the Livy regime raised its butcher knife against the upper class society in Italy and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia, the London government very skillfully jumped out to play the good guy and bought people's hearts. It even allowed various states in the Italian region to The establishment of a government in exile overseas has made preparations for the French Defense Forces to fall into a security war if the French Defense Forces do not withdraw.

It is a pity that the French Defense Forces withdrew, which made the plan formulated by the London government to further weaken the French Republic's national strength be thrown into the trash before it was launched.

Of course, this does not prevent the London government from instigating the upper classes of European countries to strongly condemn the Levy government's disrespect for the honor of the nobility, and to protest the most serious!
Protest and condemnation, this kind of political voice is something Levi is very familiar with.

Isn't the other side's protest and condemnation just exposing the weakness of the other side not daring to start a war?

A biting dog will not protest and condemn, but will only issue an ultimatum!

Therefore, the London government was once again ignored by the Levy government.

The withdrawal of the French Defense Forces has made the upper class and middle class in the entire Italian region cry. More than [-]% of the families of these two classes have a blood feud with the French Defense Forces!
Of course, it also includes the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

However, the last trick of the French Defense Forces to buy people's hearts has allowed various states in the Italian region to incite public opinion of ethnic hatred, with little effect.

Most of the urban civilians in the Piedmont and Italian regions of the Kingdom of Sardinia have received fixed property benefits distributed by the French Defense Forces.

Instead, the restored Italian states and the returning Sardinian Kingdom took back their first fortune in life!
The common people who are generally illiterate are not very smart, but they are not stupid either. The property in their hands was forcibly taken away by the new government. How could they be foolish enough to follow the propaganda of the new government and fight France desperately?
Even many Italian civilians with extreme hatred of the rich hoped that the French army would kill them again. If the French army recognized the fixed property they distributed, wouldn't they be the propertied class?
As a result, the French Defense Forces made a lot of money in Italy and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia, but it did not allow the reorganized troops in these two regions to explode into combat effectiveness.

After all, compared with the vast poor class, the number of the upper class and the middle class is small after all.

It is impossible for the upper class to join the army. Even if they join the army, they will be gilded as officials. The middle class was killed the most by the French Defense Forces this time. After all, the middle class itself does not have much wealth, and very few can buy themselves. Most of them were arrested. middle-class families were guillotined by the French Defense Forces...

Many of these beautiful girls were even brought back to France. It is estimated that the French Republic’s Jiaofang Division will launch a new product——Italian Meijiao Niang soon.

Therefore, it is impossible for the middle class with a sharply declining population ratio to have many people join the army.

In the end, the bulk of the source of troops still fell on the civilians at the bottom. The actions of the French Defense Forces to buy people's hearts made these civilians at the bottom not have much resentment towards the French.

Even the restored Italian state and the Sardinian royal family can see that the reorganized army at home is no different from before.

This made many Sardinian nobles and Italian nobles unable to understand. In their eyes, the French Defense Forces caused unimaginable losses to the Italian region and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which was better than burning the city to a piece of white ground. Diu, why don't these pariahs hate the French army very much?
On the contrary, they have great opinions on the new government!
These untouchables can't get over their heads. How can the industrial certificate issued to them by the French be valid in front of the new government!

What's more, the French National Defense Force even sent the private property of the royal palace to those civilian families in a group!

Every room in the palace is occupied by a commoner family!
The palace hall is the public property of the civilian families who live there...

The French Defense Force dared to give it, and these ordinary people dared to live in it!

The governments of the Kingdom of Sardinia and many Italian states felt that they had understood the righteousness by not executing those rebels (mainly because too many civilians were distributed real estate and were worried about causing civil uprisings), yet they dared to resent the new government!
The aristocrats did not understand the thoughts of their own common people, and those illiterate people naturally did not understand the behavior of the new government.

As a result, after such a round of harvesting, the Italian region and the Kingdom of Sardinia were still the same as before. No matter how hard the governments of the Kingdom of Sardinia and many Italian states tried, they could not inspire the anti-French sentiments in the army composed of poor people.

Some people in the Italian state governments even wanted to promote the nationalism that came out of the French Revolution, but this idea was quickly rejected.

Nationalism can certainly bring about explosive fighting power and let soldiers in the army know why they are fighting.

But the horror of the French Revolution is vivid in everyone's mind. According to the nationalist precedent of the French Revolution, the noble colleagues present here should all be sent to the guillotine!
Therefore, even if everyone knows that nationalism is the best way to awaken the Italian army, for the sake of their own lives, they still dare not use it.

On the contrary, the London government across the sea has been privately instigating the aristocrats of the Italian region and the Kingdom of Sardinia to promote nationalist ideas. We don't use the French Revolution. We can modify it.

However, there are only a few theories that nationalism stimulates the morale of the army. If it is really changed beyond recognition, it will have no effect. The nobles of the Italian states and the kingdom of Sardinia are not fools. How could they trust the conspiracy of the British?

Even though the Italian regional states and the Kingdom of Sardinia have received funding from the British, they all know that the British are trying to unify the Italian region into a big country. Only in this way can they have the capital to confront France.

Once the Italian region is unified, the London government will have another chess piece to disrupt the situation in Europe.

For the London government, the more powerful countries on the European continent, the better. What the British fear most is that there are only one or two hegemonic countries left in the European continent. In that case, the European continent will not be far from true unity.

The London government still has a clue. They know that no matter who unifies the European continent, they will eventually target the British mainland across the strait.

And the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, even if its colonies spread all over the world, it is impossible to confront the entire European continent!

Therefore, it is the fundamental national policy of the London government to divide the European continent and keep the European continent in an era of fragmentation and mutual checks and balances for a long time.

Only when the great powers of the European continent are drawn into the energy of other great powers, can Britain unscrupulously develop its power around the world, plunder wealth from all over the world, strengthen itself, and eventually become the world's hegemon.

In Levi's previous life, the division of the European continent before World War II was inseparable from the efforts of the British shit-stirring stick.

The London government has always maintained a political strategy of suppressing others.

The major European countries are not unaware of the sinister intentions of the London government, but they cannot refuse the olive branch offered by the London government. After all, no major European country is willing to give up the power to dominate the continent.

Especially when we are weak, uniting the Brits against the European boss is a temptation that no rational government of a major country can refuse.

Even if the London government's international credibility is not that good...

Throughout the history of continental Europe, the most ruthless allies are the London government, and none of the major European countries that cooperated with the British did not suffer in the end.

Now that France is under the leadership of the Livy regime, its military strength is expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye. The London government naturally hopes that the Italian region can be completely unified into a country, and then used to check the growth of France.

The countries around France, the Kingdom of Spain is a clown in the eyes of the London government, the Holy Roman Empire has just been defeated, and the lowlands are a piece of fat in the eyes of the Livy government. If the Italian region is not unified, the French army will fight there sooner or later !

It is a pity that the state governments in Italy do not want to unify the Italian peninsula, but they all want to be the one to unify.

As a result, the strength does not allow it. Only the most powerful Sardinian Kingdom has this ability. Therefore, except for the Sardinian royal family who expressed their interest in the instigation of the London government, the other Italian governments are perfunctory.

Don't even think about nationalism that promotes the unification of the Italian peninsula!
In the end, the London government only persuaded the Kingdom of Sardinia to promote nationalism, and it was only the promotion of the conservative situation.

Revolutionary concepts such as freedom and equality have been cancelled.

Freedom is impossible. If the serfs are all free, who will the nobles enslave?

Equality is even more impossible. The nobles with a small number of people rely on class nobility to rule the majority!

In any case, being so organized by the French Defense Forces, the Italian region can be regarded as the germination of nationalist ideas.

The origin is the Kingdom of Sardinia.

The London government was instigating the unification of Italy with great fanfare, so it was naturally impossible to hide it from Livy's General Intelligence Bureau. However, Livy had seen the combat effectiveness of the Italian army that had awakened its national consciousness in his previous life, and did not take the British plan seriously at all.

Even if Italy itself is not unified, Li Wei will send troops to unify!

At this time, Li Wei was receiving the 'gift' from Carl.

(End of this chapter)