18th century total war

Chapter 280 The Curse of the Lady Luck

"The second anti-French alliance has disintegrated, and the rewards of the total war system have not yet arrived. Is it because the Swiss war is not over yet?
It seems that the total war system's assessment of the war is somewhat different from what I expected.

No, the British have never ceased war with France, and the total war system still settled the rewards before, so the evaluation standard of this total war system is not to restore peace with all countries.

If there is no armistice in Switzerland, there will be no rewards, and Switzerland’s geographical location can just threaten my French Empire, and it is still in the same direction as the previous war of the Second Anti-French Coalition. Perhaps this is because the total war system does not have settlement rewards s reason.

Is it necessary to settle the reward once to solve the threat of war in one direction?

Then if I let the French Empire and the British government cease the war, can I still settle the reward once?
It is a pity that there is no possibility of a truce by the British government unless I make concessions and agree to their harsh conditions.

However, after the end of the Swiss War, if the total war system can settle rewards, my guess is almost established. "

While Levi was thinking, there was a sudden knock on the door of the office.

"come in."

After Li Wei finished speaking, Manid walked in respectfully.

As the director of the General Administration of Military Intelligence and the head of the intelligence department of the French Empire, Manid is definitely the cabinet minister who reports to Li Wei most frequently.

However, the French Empire does not have only one intelligence and espionage system. To be precise, Manid’s General Intelligence Bureau is more inclined to intelligence, and there is also a secret espionage department that has not been disclosed to the public. It focuses on cultivating foreign revolutionary forces and doing some shady things. People's activities, also known as espionage work.

To put it simply, the spy of the General Administration of Military Intelligence is like a bystander, while the spy of the Secret Service is doing all kinds of dirty work. The Lindenwan Brotherhood is the most successful foreign revolutionary organization developed by the Secret Service.

During the Second Anti-French War, the Lindenwan Brotherhood of the Western States of the Holy Roman Empire, under the arrangement of the Secret Service, evacuated all the key members in advance (ordinary members are civilians, it is difficult to give up their hometown) , As a result, the revolutionary organizations of various city-states fell into silence for a short period of time.

This is naturally done to provide a stable environment for the entry of the French National Defense Forces. No matter what era, revolutionary organizations are equated with chaos and riots!
The Secret Service can only control the high-level members of the Lindenwan Brotherhood, and only the French among the high-level people can be fully controlled.

If these key members of the Lindenwan Brotherhood are not evacuated, when the armies of the Holy Roman Empire are defeated, the backbone leaders of the Lindenwan Brotherhood who are unwilling to be left alone will inevitably lead people to rebel. In the face of revolutionary justice, the Secret Service will control It’s hard for senior executives to convince most people.

Therefore, it is better to evacuate all at once. After all, when evacuating, no one knew that the French Defense Forces would be like a broken bamboo and defeat the Holy Roman Empire coalition forces.

After the overall situation is settled, the top leaders of the Lindenwan Brotherhood under the control of the Secret Service can use the reason of maintaining the revolutionary fire as an excuse to leave the evacuated key members in Vienna, Berlin and other major cities in Central Europe that are not under the control of the French Empire.

And it can also control the revolutionary forces of the local Lindenwan Brotherhood.

Although there are not many key members of the Lindenwan Brotherhood, most of them are people with a firm will to the revolution, and their average eloquence is good.

History has proved that the most important thing in making a revolution is not not to be afraid of death, but to have an eloquent mouth.

The way of dissemination of revolutionary ideas is not much different from religion, but revolutionary ideas are closer to the real environment and more convincing than illusory religions.

Even the Lindenwan Brotherhood has borrowed from the MLM brainwashing model, which is one of the reasons why the Lindenwan Brotherhood can develop rapidly.

If the General Administration of Military Intelligence is Li Wei's eyes and ears, then the Secret Service is Li Wei's black hand, specially used to stab the knife in the back.

In the second anti-French war, the many states of the Holy Roman Empire that Li Wei dealt with were not very powerful, so naturally there was no need to expose the important chess piece of the Lindenwan Brotherhood.

You must know that since the Lindenwan Brotherhood has never launched a revolution, it is still a legal social organization in many countries.

Such social groups are very common, especially in big cities, where many business bosses are gangsters behind the scenes.

To be the boss of a gangster is not enough to be daring to fight, to be ruthless, the most important thing is to have enough capital!
Therefore, the boss behind the scenes who can control the underground evil forces of a city has legal status legally, and is even a true gentleman.

The kind of guy who takes his younger brother to collect protection fees all day long is not considered a gang boss at all, but the leader of a gangster.

The Lindenwan Brotherhood lurking in major cities is an evil force like this.

In order to make money, the Lindenwan Brotherhood has also done a lot of bad things in private, but it is still relatively friendly to the poor (the poor don't have much money to squeeze, and they are easy to bribe with small favors to promote revolutionary ideas).

Because of this, in many European cities, whether it is the Lindenwan Brotherhood or the Davari Mutual Aid Society, they are regarded by the local government as ordinary evil forces, and at most they wear a vest on the official level.

That is, put on a mediocre gang name.

Of course, the key members of the gang all know that they are the Lindenvan Brotherhood with a noble revolutionary mission!

This is mainly to reduce the vigilance of the local government. The government and nobles can allow the emergence of an 'underground emperor' who controls a city, but never allow the birth of an 'emperor' who controls the underground world of a country!
"Your Majesty, there is bad news from Spain."

Li Wei frowned. Fortunately, he was used to Manid's reports, and Manid's news was often more bad than good!

Because the good news between countries is often reported to Li Wei by the foreign minister.

"What happened?"

Manid carefully observed Li Wei's face, and after realizing that his boss did not show any anger, he said in detail:

"Your Majesty, the Kingdom of Catalonia has been destroyed. This time, the Spaniards did a very vicious act. They not only carried out massacres and looting in Barcelona, ​​but also degraded all the surviving people into slaves and moved them to other places for sale. .

Then from other places, migrate Spanish civilians to live in Barcelona!

Not only that, throughout Catalonia, the Spanish army is doing similar things. Catalans who opposed the migration were all executed on the spot, and the Spanish Kingdom has promulgated laws. Anyone who says Catalonia Anyone who speaks the Niya language will be relegated to slavery. "

“Haha, hasn’t the Kingdom of Spain always claimed to be a civilized country?
Haven't they always claimed to have brought the dawn of civilization to the Native Americans?

Dare to do this on the European continent. Is the Spanish royal family not planning to maintain their reputation? "

Li Wei sneered.

He is not mocking. At this time, with the great success of the Age of Discovery, the European continent has begun to learn to be civilized people. The most critical one is that in the European War, the victorious side will massacre the losing side. Disdained!
Whatever the reason, doing so would tarnish the reputation of those in power on the winning side.

Why was Napoleon's reputation so bad in the history of Li Wei's previous life?

Just because Napoleon loved to sack cities...

The process of looting the city is often accompanied by various vicious events such as massacres.

Those soldiers who rape and plunder will not reason with you, as long as they make them unhappy, giving you a bullet is considered kind. When you meet soldiers whose minds have been distorted by the war, they will torture you for a while before you die. Very common.

For example, poke a few holes in your body, then fix you, and watch you die little by little in the pain of blood loss...

There is also what is often seen in film and television dramas, dragging civilians or prisoners of war behind the horse's ass, and then... everyone knows the end!
For a disaster-stricken city, being ransacked by a large army is no different from the end of the world.

But what the Spanish kingdom is doing now is much more serious than looting the city. It is destroying a nation!

Even if there are Catalans who escaped by chance, they have to change their appearance for the future life, and never dare to use the identity of Catalans again.

This is how a nation disappears.

There are too many examples of this in history. Before the rise of Genghis Khan, there was no Mongolian ethnic group on the grasslands, but after the rise of Genghis Khan, there are descendants of the Mongolian ethnic group all over the world!
It is not that the Mongols are very fertile, but that after a large number of nomads were conquered, they either actively or passively joined the Mongolian ethnic group and became part of the Mongols.

The expansion of the Mongols relied on this method to snowball. Not only the nomadic peoples in East Asia, but also many nomadic peoples in Central Asia and even Eastern Europe were conquered and integrated by the Mongols.

However, after the rise of Tsarist Russia, a massacre was carried out on the descendants of the Mongols, which caused many nomads in Eastern Europe and Central Asia to break away from the Mongolian ethnic group...

Today's European society is naturally very barbaric compared to the 21st century in Levi's previous life, but in the current era, it can be considered relatively civilized.

If the Spanish kingdom massacred the natives of the Americas and other colonies, the Europeans would naturally not feel barbaric. Of course, killing heretics is also something that the Europeans applaud.

But now the Spanish royal family is massacring Catalans and Catholics!
This kind of thing is not small, even if European countries do not take the initiative to promote it, or even deliberately suppress it, such a big thing will be remembered by future generations.

As long as the Spanish royal family does not unify the European continent and tamper with the history of the European continent, this black history is a certainty.

"Your Majesty, King Ferdinand VII of Spain did not issue the order on his own initiative, but from the cabinet, with the tacit approval of the British behind it.

The current Spanish cabinet is run by radical nobles. They want to solve the problems in Catalonia once and for all, so they do this. "

"The Spanish cabinet thought well, they issued an order to blame Ferdinand VII, no wonder they carried it out so thoroughly.

Ferdinand VII is a pig, and he didn't come out to stop the cabinet from issuing such an order! "

"Your Majesty, King Ferdinand VII of Spain is now rarely governing. The cabinet supported by the British is not something he can shake, and the Spanish cabinet is also good to Ferdinand VII. Ferdinand VII is allowed to be in the palace. Have fun here.

I heard that Ferdinand VII often held naked meetings in the Royal Palace of Madrid, having fun with hundreds of young women at the same time!
He was dubbed Ferdinand the Pig by the Madrid populace. "

"The reputation is so bad, it's no wonder that Ferdinand VII ignores such orders, but the British have set up a good puppet.

However, with such a king, the Spanish people must be very dissatisfied. "

"Your Majesty is wise.

The Spaniards' resentment towards Ferdinand VII is increasing day by day, but the powerful nobles in the Madrid cabinet are very powerful in the Spanish aristocratic circle. The traditional Spanish aristocracy is very satisfied with the current Madrid government. The gun confrontation of the Spanish nobles. "

"This is great news.

The more dissatisfied the Spanish people are with their government and king, the smaller the guerrillas will be when we enter Spain.

Relying on those nobles alone will not be able to fight us for a long time. "

"Your Majesty, this is not the bad news I reported, after all, the Kingdom of Catalonia has long been doomed.

What I'm saying is that the ship carrying Aragon and his government-in-exile was captured by the Royal Navy.

Aragon was unwilling to surrender to the British. The battleship he was on was sent to the bottom of the sea by the British, and the exiled government of the Kingdom of Catalonia was completely annihilated..."

"Damn Brit!"

Li Wei's face changed, and he uttered angrily.

Aragon was an important pawn for him to take over Spain. He didn't expect to be killed by the British so soon.

In this way, when attacking the Kingdom of Spain, it would be difficult for Li Wei to recruit a large number of 'puppet troops', and he could only rely on the French Defense Forces to push them all the way...

The damage caused by such an attack on the French Defense Forces will inevitably increase.

"Sure enough, except for the total war system, the goddess of luck in this world has never favored me. Aragon's ships will be captured by the British on the vast sea. No one else has such luck..."

Li Wei complained silently in his heart, and replied to Manid with a serious face: "I know, I will strengthen the defense line in southern France."

Soon, Li Wei called the Minister of War over and ordered him to dispatch the Prussian Legion of the French Foreign Legion to go south to strengthen the border with the Kingdom of Spain.

The Kingdom of Spain is now busy cleaning up the Catalonia area. Migrating and capturing Catalonians as slaves cannot be completed in a short time. Livi has enough time to arrange the southern defense line.

However, Li Wei did not mobilize any army to attack the Kingdom of Switzerland. It has always been Li Wei's strategy to deal with the enemies in one direction first.

(End of this chapter)