18th century total war

Chapter 88 Target Normandy

Compared with the punitive department like the labor service office, the Jiaofang Division is half-punishment and half-profit, and the profit accounts for a high proportion.

The call girls in the Jiaofang Division, in addition to the women who committed related felonies and the female criminals who voluntarily accepted the "punishment" of the Jiaofang Division, also openly recruited girls, all on a voluntary basis.

Li Wei, who came from the previous world, knows very well how low the business cost of the Jiaofang Division is!

Basically only manual overhead.

As a matter of course, Li Wei has monopolized similar industries in the entire Brittany region through the Jiaofang Division. Similar businesses need to be listed in the Jiaofang Division and accept supervision and super high tax commissions!
In addition, Li Wei also divided Jiaofang Division into three grades: low, middle and high based on his social experience in his previous life.

The high-end ones basically have no fixed places, but some socialites provide 'one-to-one' or 'one-to-many' services to the rich.

To put it bluntly, it is a dedicated special service.

The mid-range is equivalent to the clubhouses and high-end bathing centers in Li Wei's previous life.

The low-end is the level of standing street and shampoo room...

Different grades are suitable for different groups of people. Among them, Jiaofangsi's high-end business is not just enough to have money, but also to become a 'member' to get special services.

In addition to this lucrative industry, Levi also controlled most of the gambling business in Brittany through the Wallace Business Alliance.

The two huge profiteering industries continuously provided Li Wei with a lot of money, which enabled Li Wei to maintain a large number of troops without causing government financial bankruptcy.

If he relied solely on tax collection, Li Wei would have fallen into an economic crisis long ago.

Many insightful people in the Paris government pointed out that the "order" under Li Wei's regime was very dangerous. Li Wei's control over the people below was unexpectedly high, and the administrative efficiency of the government was not inferior to that of the old powerful countries!

Being able to compare the rebel force of Li Wei with the old European powers is already quite a face for Li Wei.

In the past two years, Li Wei is not just a violent soldier, but the establishment of a complete government system is the greatest achievement. This means that Li Wei can use the manpower and material resources of the Brittany region in the war. It's not just a one-shot deal like robbery.

"My lord, good news, the Legislative Assembly of the Kingdom of France officially declared war on Austria yesterday, and the war has broken out!"

Manid entered Levi's office excitedly again, but this time he kept in mind the importance of knocking on the door.

"Then our conditions..."

Manid looked stagnant, lowered his head and said in frustration: "The Vienna government thinks we are a group of rebels, and is unwilling to sign any secret agreement with us, even if it is not made public...

The Berlin government completely turned our people away, and didn't even give them a chance to meet. "

Hearing a similar result again, Li Wei sighed helplessly.

He knows that his influence in this world is still too small. Even if he organizes the Brittany region in an orderly manner, in the eyes of those European powers, he is no better than a clown.

The London government is governed by the bourgeoisie, and they will not reject anything that is beneficial, but Prussia and Austria are absolute monarchies, and the will of the king basically determines everything.

Once an individual's will can affect the country, the inherent concepts of this person will lead the political direction.

Obviously, neither the Austrian royal family nor the Prussian royal family took a fancy to this humble baron who suddenly appeared.

No matter how brilliant a baron's achievements are, in the eyes of those kings, he is probably not worth mentioning, unless he personally defeats them!
"I know, but the plan cannot be changed. At least the British support our attack on the Normandy area."

Li Wei knew very well that after the Legislative Assembly of the Kingdom of France declared war on Austria, with the ally relationship between Austria and Prussia, Prussia would inevitably declare war on France. At that time, it would be a two-on-one situation.

I don't know if the world will form an anti-French alliance, and many countries will besiege France together.

Now that the Kingdom of France has declared war on Austria, it is naturally even more impossible to mobilize the regular army to suppress the Brittany region.

Even the rebellion in the Vendée region, the Paris government of the Kingdom of France did not quell.

However, Li Wei heard that the rebel civilians in the Vendée region had no interest in fighting the Vendée region, and those leading church members and nobles could not fight the Vendée region!

The rebels in the Vendée region were mainly composed of Vendée farmers and mountain people. These people rebelled only because the Paris government wanted to change their traditional life and impose tax increases on them.

Religious belief only plays a leading role.

After the rebels in the Vendée area beat off the National Guard sent by the Paris government, they stopped fighting abroad.

This prevented the rebellion in the Vendée region from spreading and was always confined to one place.

It is about the size of a French province.

After losing the support of most farmers and mountain people, the Vendée rebels walked out of the Vendée area, and were immediately beaten back by the revolutionary iron fist of the Paris government.

Clearly, the rebels in the Vendée were hopeless.

Not only that, at this time the aristocratic rebellion in the entire Kingdom of France was almost quelled, and the suppressed traditional feudal aristocrats were basically divided into three parts.

A part of them took refuge in the Li Wei regime in Brittany, and the nobles in this part are generally rural nobles with small and medium ranks.

Some surrendered to the liberal nobles in power and joined their faction.

The last part is the backbone of the traditional aristocracy. The main body is composed of big aristocrats, all of whom have gone to Austria.

There are only two groups of rebels in the Kingdom of France today, one is the Brittany region where Li Wei is located, and the other is the Vendée region, which is unwilling to leave home too far.

The Vendée region is poor and backward, and the unscrupulous people there have little knowledge, and they are not afraid of suffering or even death. They are not against the revolution, but against the oppression of them by the Paris government.

Therefore, Li Wei, the rebel army in the Vendée region, feels that it is very unreliable. As long as the Paris government changes its strategy and adopts a policy of appeasement, most of the farmers and mountain people in the Vendée rebel army will definitely disperse, which is nothing to worry about.

In fact, the Paris government is already considering this issue after it failed to counter the rebellion.

It is estimated that it will not be long before the rebellion in the Vendée region will disintegrate on its own.

Therefore, Li Wei is unwilling to delay any longer, even if France and Austria have just declared war, the fight has not really started yet, and the best time has not arrived.

Following a series of military orders from Rennes, the First Division of the Black Dragon Legion stationed on the border of the Normandy region began to march!
(End of this chapter)