King's Landing in France

When Dandong saw Robespierre, he smiled and said, "Maximilian, you seem to have been wearing this green coat for a few weeks."

Robespierre: "To be honest, I only have one coat. Does this club determine the value of a person's speech by the number of coats?"

Dandong was slightly embarrassed: "No, of course not."

"Occasionally, I go to see the speeches of the Academy of Sciences, especially the public experiments of Mr. Lavoisier. Before Mr. Lavoisier, we thought that combustion was due to phlogiston. This is an era of change. We One should not stand on the basis of pre-existing concepts and think that certain things cannot happen, otherwise it will be as ridiculous as those old pedants who laughed at M. Lavoisier."

Robespierre said and looked at An Ning: "Although I personally can't imagine an era in which all naval warships burn coal, I won't say that it must not happen."

——After working for a long time, you still don’t believe that the era of burning coal will come.

An Ning: "We have already used steam engines to draw water and transport coal in mines. Why can't we believe that steam engines have entered our lives more widely? We will have steam-driven cars and ships, and steam-driven spinning machines. "

"I agree with that statement too, why not?" A new voice joins the conversation.

When An Ning saw the speaker, she immediately frowned, because the speaker was a bit ugly.

"Now is the era of great technological development. I just wrote a paper and sent it to Mr. Lavoisier not long ago, but I haven't received a reply yet." The ugly buddy said so.

Everyone was silent for a while.

Seeing this, Mirabeau immediately came out to continue the topic. He said to An Ning, "Let me introduce something. This gentleman in the green coat is Maximilian Robespierre, the Roman you are looking for." man. And the man who devoted himself to scientific achievement was Jean-Paul Marat, a physician by training."

An Ning was shocked, okay, Robespierre, Danton, Marat, plus a core group of Saint-Just Jacobins will all be alive.

But considering his age, Saint-Just should be a young lady now.

Robespierre looked at An Ning suspiciously: "Are you?"

Mirabeau immediately introduced: "This is the civilian swordsman who defeated Reginald yesterday, Andy Frost from Caen."

Robespierre frowned slightly: "Reguinold was defeated? When did it happen?"

"Just yesterday, this was the hottest news yesterday." Dandong laughed, "Didn't you read yesterday's extra?"

Robespierre: "A duel is worth a credit?"

"After all, it's that Reginald, you should have been humiliated by him too?" Danton asked.

It appears that Reginold often humiliates people of commoner birth.

Robespierre: "I don't have that impression. So, Mr. Frost, what's your business with me?"

An Ning: "I may be sued by Reginald's father, the Marquis Richard, so I need a lawyer who is willing to fight for civilians to defend me."

Robespierre: "Of course it's fine, but I'm a law student who just finished his degree and I don't have any experience in litigation. Is that okay?"

Dandong interjected, "He's fine, after all, he's always ranked first in college."

Robespierre didn't deny it, but looked at An Ning seriously and asked, "Why do you think the Marquis would sue? Is there something wrong with the duel process? Didn't enough witnesses be found?"

"No, there are witnesses from both parties and a third party, and doctors confirmed that Reginald died on the spot." An Ning answered truthfully.

"Even if the Marquis can't sue, you don't have to worry at all."

An Ning: "I'm just in case..."

"Just in case, you'd better recall the process of the duel carefully, and help me determine where the other party may attack, so that I can prepare. Did any accidents happen during the duel?"

An Ning was about to answer no, but suddenly remembered what Reginald's cronies had done, and told Robespierre in detail: "There was indeed an accident. After the duel, Reginald's friends wanted to Shot at me, but the pellet was unloaded and rolled out of the muzzle before the shot was fired."

Robespierre frowned: "Who shot you?"

An Ning was stunned, he didn't even know the name of Reginald's friend.

It was Mirabeau who solved the siege: "It's Cuile Moore, one of Reginald's best friends, who seems to be a playmate Reginald brought from the countryside. It is estimated that his parents should be servants of the Marquis's family."

Robespierre nodded, and asked again: "Did everyone present see Quill Moore shoot you? Is anyone willing to testify?"

Mirabeau patted his chest: "I was there and witnessed the whole process with my own eyes."

Robespierre nodded: "I understand. I speculate that the Marquis may be making a fuss about the validity of the duel. Once he can prove that the duel has violations, he can accuse you of murder."

An Ning: "You mean he might slander me for shooting in a duel?"

"Yes, after all, there was a gunshot at the meeting place. The noble ladies onlookers may not know who fired the shot, they will only tell the court that the shot was fired at the scene. It should be easy for the Marquis to bribe several witnesses to falsely accuse you of firing the shot. .”

Robespierre seemed to be full of confidence: "You don't have to worry, the current French judiciary is no longer able to turn black and white by spending a few dollars of perjury by the Marquis."

Danton: "After all, the justices dare to veto the king's decision."

Marat: "If the post-mortem doctor is found, it should be able to prove that Reginald died of a knife wound."

An Ning nodded: "I will look for it, and Mr. Mably, who is my witness, should also testify for me."

"Marbury? The guy who demanded the equalization of the rich and the poor?" Some people frowned. "I don't like that guy. How did he get involved in this matter?"

An Ning spread her hands: "When I threw the glove at Reginald, Marbury happened to be speaking next to him. He witnessed the whole process, so he volunteered to be my witness."

Mirabeau: "By the way, the third witness to the duel was the priest Sieyes."

As soon as the words fell, Dandong said, "Your lineup of witnesses is full of guys who oppose the privileges of the nobility. I'm beginning to believe that this is a murder. You guys really agreed to kill that guy, right? "

An Ning: "I've only been in Paris for a few days, and I didn't know Mr. Marbury and Mr. Sieyès at all before that."

"Master Marquis certainly doesn't believe this."

Robespierre: "It doesn't matter whether he believes it or not, what matters is whether the judge believes it or not. So when will this lawsuit start? Where is Lord Marquis now?"

An Ning: "Should be on the way to Paris."

Robespierre was stunned for a moment: "How can he sue you without being in Paris? Through an agent?"

"No, I haven't been charged. I'm just planning for a rainy day."

——Actually, it was because I had a nightmare about being sold by a lawyer, so I first found a reliable lawyer.

Robespierre looked a little speechless: "Okay, just recently I just finished my exam and got my degree, and I don't have anything to do. You have to come to me a few days later, maybe I'm going back to Arras .”

Danton was slightly shocked: "You still want to go back to Arras? I thought you would stay in Paris and work as a lawyer."

"The priest of Arras sponsored me to study at the Louis the Great School in Paris, and also sponsored my tuition fees at the University of Paris. I have to go back and serve my hometown." Robespierre replied seriously.

Danton: "You don't miss life in Paris at all?"

"For someone like me who only has one coat, there is no place to miss in Paris except the high cost of living." Robespierre shrugged, "Of course, I admit that exchanging opinions with everyone in the club is a good thing." It’s a nice thing to do, but that’s about it.”

After finishing speaking, Robespierre looked at An Ning: "I will stay in Paris for a while. If you are sued by the Marquis, please find me as soon as possible. I will write you my address. Whether I am there or not, you will You can leave a message for my landlady."

Chapter 028 Future thighs, let me hug

After finishing the business, An Ning chatted for a while with the future Jacobin magnates about coal-burning warships and vehicles.

Everyone was led by An Ning, and after talking about the future with great interest, the topic naturally became war-related.

"I heard that the situation on the front line is very bad," said a gentleman with a face reminiscent of V for Vendetta. How did you fight Frederick together with Shinra and Russia?"

Mirabeau whispered in An Ning's ear, "This is reporter Camille Desmoulins, Danton's good friend."

When Dandong heard Mirabeau's words, his eyes suddenly fell on An Ning: "Hey, friends, isn't there someone who just came back from the battlefield? Just ask him what's going on on the battlefield?"

Everyone turned their heads to look at An Ning.

Robespierre: "You actually came back from the battlefield?"

Danton: "You should really read yesterday's extra. Frost is a war hero."

An Ning waved her hand: "Where is the war hero? I am a military musician. I rescued the daughter of the Duke of Orleans, Christina, when I was defeated."

Robespierre looked confused: "Why is the daughter of the Duke of Orleans in the army?"

Camille Desmoulins immediately replied: "Probably as a bartender in the stragglers? In order to ensure the morale of the stragglers, there will always be a barmaid going to the front with a wine jug on their backs. Take a sip of wine."

The cohesion of the troops in this era is not high. The reason why the troops have to line up in dense formations to shoot is mainly to ensure that the troops will not be defeated. Once the formation is disbanded, the privates with low desire to fight will soon collapse.

Skirmishers need to fight in a loose formation, so they are generally composed of robbers and criminals, and they will be matched with female wine waiters in this way to improve morale and desire to fight.

The barmaids are generally young and beautiful girls. They will carry wine bottles, fight with skirmishers, and walk through the hail of bullets.

The first time An Ning knew about this was watching Hugo's masterpiece "[-]".

He thought it was a unique system of the National Guard of Revolutionary France, but Camille Desmoulins' words showed that this configuration had already existed.

After Camille Desmoulins finished speaking, Marat immediately retorted: "How could the Duke let his daughter become a barmaid? Those people are to some extent military gangsters, mainly used to motivate the hooligans who form the skirmishers and robbers. A decent man would never go to skirmishers, let alone a duke's daughter."

An Ning: "Actually, the Duke's daughter disguised herself as a male and charged along with the line infantry."

Danton: "And you saved her, with what, your drum stick?"

An Ning: "Actually, I was stunned by the cannon. When I woke up, the drum was broken. I don't know where the drum stick went. The whole battlefield was shrouded in darkness. The Germans—I mean, the Prussians were far away. Clean up the battlefield.

"At this time, the captain pretending to be the princess pulled my leg and asked me to take her away. I said fuck you, didn't you see the injury?"

Everyone laughed together.

Robespierre didn't laugh, but asked An Ning seriously: "I don't understand, why did the princess dress up as a man to go to the battlefield? He's not that Miss Oscar."

An Ning shrugged: "I heard that she wanted to enroll in Brienne's military academy in order to prevent the Duke from arranging a marriage for him."

Danton: "Does she want to be the modern Joan of Arc? But it's a coincidence that she happens to be the daughter of the Duke of Orleans, corresponding to the girl of Orleans. But Miss Joan of Arc didn't lead us to victory."

Camille looked at An Ning: "How did we get defeated? Tell me, is it a tactical error? Outflanked?"

An Ning shook his head: "No, at least I didn't see being outflanked. We confronted the Prussians head-on on the plain, and then we were defeated by Prussia."

"Damn it, why?" Marat slapped the table down. "How are we French worse than Prussians?"

The crowd was silent.

Seeing the situation, An Ning said, "My personal feeling is actually related to Frederick the Great's reforms. The soldiers of the Prussian army are former serfs liberated by the emperor, handicraftsmen and small producers in the cities.

"They believed that the Kaiser was the first public servant of Prussia, and that they were equal before the law, like the officers and lords. They believed that they were fighting to defend their Kaiser and to defend the good life they got.

"Our soldiers are different. Our soldiers don't want to fight this war at all. They are just animals driven onto the battlefield by the nobles. Once the nearby nobles fall, they will retreat."

After An Ning finished speaking, the gentlemen looked at each other in blank dismay.

Dandong summed up An Ning's words: "You mean, the enlightened political system has led to a difference in the desire to fight between soldiers on both sides?"

An Ning: "That's what I mean."

Dandong had a pensive expression on his face: "It's very insightful, I've never thought about it from this aspect."

An Ning continued: "Look, after I actually experienced the battle, I found that the skirmisher tactic is actually the most appropriate tactic, but everyone still shoots at each other in a dense formation. The main reason is that once the line infantry disbands, Immediately, morale and cohesion cannot be maintained.

"But our army has only a small number of skirmishers, because we can't find so many prisoners and hooligans willing to go to war, but Prussia can use skirmishers in large numbers, because their morale and cohesion are high enough, so they disbanded the army. After taking shape, he will not turn his head and run away.

"So we didn't lose to the Prussians, we lost to Prussia, which had carried out a series of enlightened reforms, in terms of social system.

"To change this situation, it is not enough to just rectify the army, there must be more profound reforms."

After that, the army of Revolutionary France was able to fight. In addition to high morale, another reason was that citizens who had awakened their national consciousness could use a large number of skirmish tactics.

In Fage's army, sometimes half of an infantry regiment can be divided into skirmishers, and the ratio is even higher than that of Austria, which has a tradition of using skirmishers.

An Ning, as a military enthusiast in the era of queuing and shooting, talked freely in front of many people.

Everyone listened intently to An Ning's words and nodded repeatedly.

After An Ning finished speaking, Robespierre suddenly said: "According to what you said, if we really build a society based on social contracts and everyone is equal as Rousseau said, the combat effectiveness of our army will also be greatly improved? "

An Ning nodded: "Yes, I think so."

Dandong: "That's very insightful. Are you really just the son of a cobbler? Could it be that the rumor is true? You are actually the heir of a hermit nobleman?"

An Ning: "Why can't a cobbler's son speak insightful words? All people are born equal. A cobbler's son can win a duel, and he can also talk loudly. Birth does not determine everything."

After the words fell, several people around him looked at each other, and then Robespierre took the lead and began to applaud: "Well said! I am also a commoner, and I support your point of view!"

Mara: "At this time, we should have a toast, and then shout together Long live the common people!"

The crowd shouted unevenly: "Long live."

People who were chatting next to each other looked over.

Dandong patted An Ning on the shoulder: "To know such an interesting person as you, today's trip to the club is worthwhile, even though I'm not from Brittany."

An Ning nodded: "It's a pleasure to meet you too."

——Of course I'm happy. When the Great Revolution breaks out, I'm still counting on the big brothers' thighs to give me a hug.

Danton: "I'm still studying for a law degree in Paris, and I hope to see you here often in the future."

An Ning's system popped up a line of prompts: [George Jacques Danton's favorability for you has been raised to friendly. 】

An Ning looked at Dandong with a regretful expression: "It's a pity that I will go to Briena to study at the military academy soon."