18th century total war

Chapter 283 The Frenzy of Military Expansion Caused by the Military Parade

However, apart from the group of maids, there are also some female bodyguards around Li Wei. These female bodyguards are naturally fair-skinned, beautiful and long-legged beauties, but their status is higher than that of ordinary maids, and they are mainly responsible for personal protection of Li Wei's safety. .

These female bodyguards are all lifelong. Among them, the skilled team leaders and the elderly have been given administrative enlightenment by Li Wei. Li Wei also took great pains for his own safety.

In addition, when Li Wei goes on patrol, these female bodyguards will wear the military uniforms of female guards and be equipped with weapons to protect Li Wei.

Usually they ride with Li Wei in a large carriage specially made by Li Wei, and the driver is also a female bodyguard. There is only Li Wei in the carriage, and the rest are female bodyguards...

But Li Wei, who is afraid of death, rarely goes on patrol if he has nothing to do, even if he goes on patrol, he will take away at least one regiment of guards!
Li Wei did not have the hunting hobby of the traditional nobles of this era, and he only had an average interest in seeing the scenery, so naturally he would not go on patrol frequently.

It took a month for the new troops to be trained in Paris. At this time, the main force of Karl's First Army also gradually withdrew into the French Empire and prepared for a military parade in Paris.

Li Wei claimed to be the emperor of soldiers, and all the regular troops of the French Empire were loyal to Li Wei only!
The regular armies of the French Empire are mainly the French National Defense Forces and the French Foreign Legion. The only difference between the two is that the main body of the French National Defense Forces is French. Even if they are not French, they are foreigners who can speak French, which facilitates unified command.

If there is a language barrier in the army, it will be a big trouble!

The establishment of the French Foreign Legion was actually to solve the problem of language barriers among armies composed of different nationalities.

In this army expansion, Li Wei did not recruit foreigners on a large scale, but recruited troops from the mainland of France.

Nowadays, the French Defense Forces frequently fight abroad, especially the First Army. Most of the troops are not fully staffed, so it is natural to give priority to supplementing the French military.

Moreover, there is another advantage of recruiting troops from the French mainland. Recruiting all the young and strong from poor families can effectively prevent these people from being fooled by the lurking revolutionary party in France.

It is true that there are still signs of revolutionary party activities in the French Empire today, and revolutionary ideas are like a plague, repeatedly suppressed.

It's just that Li Wei has regular troops stationed in major cities in the country. The revolutionary party has no chance to take advantage of it. It can't launch a revolution in the countryside.

If you do this, you won't win many people, and you'll expose yourself!

The revolutionary forces in France are already very weak, and if they take the initiative to expose it, is it because they dislike themselves for not dying fast enough?

What's more, with the successive victories of foreign wars, the economy of the French Empire has begun to recover through the looting of a large amount of wealth. Most French civilians have a busy but safe living environment. Naturally, not many people are willing to kill their heads with the Revolutionary Party career.

If it weren't for the support of the British's overseas financial resources, the revolutionary party of the French Empire would not be able to survive at all.

Consuming the poor young people in France is an effective way to reduce the chance of riots. After all, most of the rioters are young men. Even if the old, young, women and children want to riot, they don't have the ability...

But there is a disadvantage in doing so. Too many French young people entered the military camps and were brainwashed. From then on, they were no longer interested in women and were only interested in loyalty to Li Wei. The population growth rate of the French Empire was worrying.

Of course, this defect was discovered by Li Wei a long time ago, so the Li Wei government once again issued an order to make Pius VII jump.

He asked Pius VI, who had moved to the Vatican in the Kingdom of Italy, to publicly support his own religious reforms in France.

The essence of this reform is to allow men to be polygamous. As long as you have the ability to support enough women, you can marry as many as you want!

Li Wei directly copied the wives and concubines system of the great eastern country. A man is only allowed to have one orthodox wife, but he can have countless concubines. The children of concubines can only be regarded as concubines, not legitimate sons. The legitimate son has the priority of inheritance in law .

If there is no legitimate son to inherit, the inheritance will be distributed to the concubine. However, the inheritance of the concubine is different from that of the legitimate son. Each of the concubines can distribute the inheritance in an equal proportion.

To put it simply, if there is no heir to inherit a big family, once the old man dies, the huge family property will be divided up evenly by all the sons (regardless of gender).

This law seems to respect human rights and the equality system, but in fact it is not a good thing for those rich families. It is forcing those rich people to work hard to create a legitimate son!

In addition, official wives also have a lot of equal rights, unlike concubines who can be divorced by their husbands at will.

A formal wife can only seek divorce through legal proceedings. In principle, both parties must agree. If one party does not agree, the other party needs to provide strong evidence to prove that the other party has committed betrayal or endangered the safety of family property and other vicious events. , you can get divorced.

Divorce without reason is not allowed by law!

This is actually elevating the status of the official wife!

Obviously, this reform of the Livy government is a huge impact on the Catholic monogamy system, no less than slapping the Pope in the face!

If it wasn't for the fact that the second anti-French coalition had just collapsed, and the European countries hadn't recovered their vitality, it is estimated that a religious war would have to start again at this time...

Of course, except for Livy's sphere of influence, all countries in Europe that believed in God were scolding Livy's reform.

Naturally, many people in France and the vassal states opposed it, but they didn't have the guts to sing against the Li Wei government.

Livy was a pragmatist. He didn't care about the opinions of outsiders. He only needed to ensure that this policy would prevent France from having its population growth rate decline due to a large number of young men being conscripted into the army.

In addition, there are many new laws to protect newborns. For example, it is illegal to abandon babies and children. A reward system for reporting has also been established. The crime is very serious!
Abortion of women is prohibited in all parts of the French Empire!
If you don’t want to get pregnant unexpectedly, just stay clean!

Compared with these harsh laws, there are also some more humane laws. If parents do not have the financial ability to support their children, they can apply to the local government to send their children to orphanages.

With the expansion of the empire, Li Wei obviously felt the shortage of troops, especially the large number of troops stationed in the empire, which made Li Wei feel a bit wasteful.

But for the stable development of the empire, it has to do so...

After all, Li Wei's legal orthodoxy was obtained by relying on cannons, and there were not enough loyal garrisons in the local area. Li Wei was very worried that his ruling foundation would be infiltrated by the Revolutionary Party.

If the children in the orphanage grow up, it can greatly alleviate Li Wei's soldier problem. Even girls can be useful when they grow up.

The pretty ones can be selected into Li Wei's harem maids. Girls who have received military training since childhood will become natural female bodyguards when they grow up!

Moreover, these girls were instilled with the idea of ​​loyalty to Li Wei since childhood, and their loyalty is still guaranteed.

As for the unattractive girls (these are the majority), you can prepare for the establishment of a female soldier army.

It is enough to guard the place.

After these orphans grow up, it is estimated that more advanced firearms have been developed. Women can also kill men with bullets, and they can still be used.

After all, this is not the era of cold weapons.

In the cold weapon era, female soldiers really couldn't compare with male soldiers. After all, women's innate physical fitness was much worse than men.

Only in this way can the needs of the total war system be met and Li Wei can stabilize his throne.

In fact, Li Wei's policy is a reference to the Ottoman Sultan's Guards in the history of his previous life.

The Ottoman Empire has such a strong combat effectiveness because they have a tradition of buying orphans and training them from childhood. These orphans will join the Sudanese Guards when they grow up, and they are slaves themselves and are only loyal to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. They are an urgent need for the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. pioneer!
Of course, the fact that the Ottoman Empire was able to beat Europe at its peak was also related to the brutal succession system of the Ottoman Empire.

In order to cultivate the most capable sultan with military capabilities and governance, the Ottoman emperor at that time adopted the method of raising voodoos. The moment the Ottoman emperor died, all the princes with the right to inherit could gather troops loyal to themselves and compete for the throne!
In addition to the civil war election system, you can also get rid of your brothers through court assassination and other methods.

The most powerful sultans in the Ottoman Empire killed all their brothers before the civil war broke out to avoid the consumption of the Ottoman Empire's strength.

Therefore, the royal family of the Ottoman Empire will undergo a major purge every time it alternates.

Under such a cruel succession system of raising Gu, the sultans of the Ottoman Empire did not talk about all their talents and achievements, but at least there would be no faint kings.

It's a pity that there was an Ottoman Sultan who, after killing all his brothers and ascending the throne, couldn't bear to let his descendants go through such a cruel choice and abolished this system.

From then on, the sultans of the Ottoman Empire became worse and worse with each generation...

The ability of the Ottoman Empire to maintain its country for more than 600 years is inseparable from the inheritance system of raising Gu in the early stage of the Ottoman Empire.

It's just that this system is a good thing for the country, but it is a disaster for the royal family.

At that time, the prince of the Ottoman Empire was the enemy of his elder brother and younger brother from the moment he was born, and even many sultans did not let go of their sisters!
Due to the increase in the number of sharpshooters, Li Wei expanded the mountain division led by Lesarite into a jungle field army. In the Swiss campaign, Lesarite has always led his mountain division as a vanguard. He has made great military achievements and was just promoted to the jungle field army. Lieutenant General.

The newly expanded jungle field army has four mountain divisions under its jurisdiction. There are no cavalry units, only a small number of sentry scout cavalry, and the jungle field army is only equipped with mortars, not field artillery.

The remaining sharpshooters were scattered and filled into the other three armies. Many troops added a skirmish battalion or even a skirmisher regiment, which was composed of sharpshooters.

This allows ordinary armies to have the ability to fight in complex terrain.

Sharpshooters and Guards Infantry Within the regular army of the French Empire, soldiers were labeled as arms, and they had a clear division of labor. Officers and generals knew how many Guards infantry and how many sharpshooters they had.

However, the cavalry unit in the French Defense Forces only has the guard cavalry, so the cavalry has not been identified by the label of the unit.

After this military parade, the morale of the revolutionary parties in Paris was demoralized, and many people even lost hope for the revolution. After foreign spies passed this information back, it made governments across the continent even more nervous.

In particular, Prussia, Austria, and Tsarist Russia, the three major European powers, immediately began intensive military expansion and preparations for war.

Seemingly in response to the military parade in Paris, the Berlin government announced a high-profile strategic plan to expand its military by 50 troops, claiming that it would only take eight months to build an elite force of 50 troops!

Of course, everyone knows that's bragging...

It's no problem to train a regular army private soldier in eight months, but if you are an elite, you don't have to talk about it...

The Vienna government originally wanted to follow up, but due to repeated defeats, financial difficulties, and the face-slapping incident of the previous military expansion plan, it did not compete with the Kingdom of Prussia for this limelight.

However, when Tsarist Russia announced its military expansion plan, all of Europe fell silent.

(End of this chapter)