18th century total war

Chapter 35 Inefficient Parliamentary Systems

In the Kingdom of France, in the municipal building of Rennes, the capital of the Brittany region, a final decision-making meeting is being held on the 'bad' situation in the province of Morbihan.

It has been more than two months since Li Wei broke through the city of Vannes and looted the entire city. Since the news came, the regional council of the Brittany region has been arguing about this issue.

On the one hand, it is the pressure from the Paris government, and on the other hand, the existence of Li Wei's rebels makes it difficult for the Brittany region to collect a full amount of taxes from the Morbihan province!
After the French Revolution, the Paris Constituent Assembly adopted a hierarchical parliamentary system. The autonomy of local regions and even provinces was greatly enhanced, but this does not mean that localities do not need to pay taxes to the central government!
In fact, after the Paris Revolution, the autonomy of the local government increased, but the Parisian government's control over the local area has not weakened at all!
For no other reason, all local committees and assemblies have their legal basis from the Constituent Assembly.

The committee is actually a resident office elected by the parliament, and the parliaments at all levels are the highest administrative and judicial institutions of local governments at all levels.

Of course, the speaker of the parliament often also serves as the chairman of the committee, and there is not much difference between the two, and the permanent committee members are all selected from among the members.

The reason why there is an extra committee is mainly because there are too many members of the parliament, and it is impossible to gather together for a long time. Not to mention that it would be a huge burden on the local government, and it would also cause a serious waste of human resources at the top of the government.

After all, those councilors are not the only professions of councilors. They all have very prominent identities in society and their own industries.

They cannot sit in an office in a municipal building all day long and deal with government affairs.

Only a streamlined permanent rotating committee composed of several people is needed to maintain the management of the local government. After all, there are still a large number of officials under each government.

Today's local parliamentary system in the Kingdom of France is actually modeled after the British parliamentary system and the state assembly system of the United States of America.

There are still many flaws.

The most serious thing is that the local councils and the committees elected by the councils lack powerful regulatory agencies. It is no exaggeration to say that the local councils are local emperors. What a problem!
For example, people like Gibbon are doing it, and even the Provincial Council sometimes reports directly to the Paris government instead of reporting to the immediate superior of the Brittany Regional Council.

After all, the political philosophy of the Paris Revolution is equality, and different levels of parliament just have different positions. It doesn't mean that you are a member of a regional district and you are inherently nobler than a provincial member!

This actually completely broke the traditional inherent political hierarchy of the Kingdom of France.

Even an ordinary city councilor, as long as he has contacts and money, he can bring the lawsuit all the way to the Paris government!
As a result, the political situation in the Kingdom of France actually became more enlightened, but also more chaotic.

Just like the Li Wei rebellion, more than two months have passed, and under the pressure of the Paris government, the Brittany region actually held a final decision-making meeting instead of sending troops to encircle and suppress Li Wei.

This efficiency is slower than that of Louis XVI.

After all, Rennes, the capital of the Brittany region, is not too far from the Morbihan province.

In the era of the absolute monarchy in France, if there was a rebellion in the local area, you only need to report to the king. The king nodded, and the armies of the various provinces immediately gathered to encircle the rebels.

How can it be like now, with the pressure from the Paris government, the Parliament is still arguing all day long, just over the proportion of troops allocated to a province, the parties have argued countless times, and no one is willing to spend more money to send more troops!
After all, once the army comes out, it will be ten thousand taels of gold!
Greater autonomy also means that local governments have more places to spend money, so there are constant quarrels in parliament.

Fortunately, the authority of the Constituent Assembly of the Paris government is still there. After all, everyone did not dare to delay for too long. The troops from all provinces have already assembled, and it is only a matter of issuing orders from above.

"Everyone, news has come from Paris that the father of the leader of the rebel army, Levi Charles, and the current leader of the Charles family has been hanged in Paris.

The attitude of the Paris government is becoming more and more severe. To deal with this traditional feudal aristocratic reactionary force, we should unite all forces and suppress it with thunderous force.

We have wasted more than two months. Now Li Wei is training the army to prepare for war in the traditional territory of the Charles family. Today we will assign the combat tasks of the troops in each province. "

Wallace Hall, Speaker of the Brittany Region, made a statement with righteous words.

In fact, before convening this decision-making meeting, everyone had already discussed the proportion of their own troops and the direction of attack, as well as the areas they would be responsible for occupying, etc.

This meeting was nothing more than making the countermeasures discussed in private public at the meeting, and it was also an official military order for the troops gathered in the border provinces of the Morbihan province.

There are four provinces in Brittany. In addition to Morbihan, they are Finistere to the west of Morbihan and Amor-sur-Mer to the north of Morbihan. department and the department of Ille-Vilaine to the east of the department of Morbihan.

The city of Rennes is located in the province of Ille-Vilaine, which is both the capital of the province and the capital of the region.

The three provinces gathered heavy troops in the three directions of the Morbihan Province, and the total strength of each direction was no less than [-]!
Of course, the quality of the army is hard to say...

The forces gathered in the three provinces are mainly composed of local garrisons reorganized from the local public security bureaus, part of the city guards transferred, and militias in towns and villages.

There are also regular troops, but the number is very small, and the proportion is very low, and they are also scattered among the various units to serve as grassroots units to enhance the combat effectiveness of those 'parallel imports'.

The Kingdom of France, which had been at peace for a long time, also faced the problem of low combat power of local troops.

The combat effectiveness of the regular army is very strong, but the regular army is rarely scattered in various places, and most of them are deployed on the national border and the capital.

The Paris area alone has gathered more than half of the regular army of the Kingdom of France today!
As for the strength of Li Wei's rebels, because of the imperfect intelligence system of this era and the exaggeration of Gibbon and his party, the Brittany District Council generally believes that Li Wei's rebels have nearly [-] people.

Well, the 2 black dragon army reported by Yoshimoto earlier, under the brave resistance of Yoshimoto and his party, more than [-] were wiped out!

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