King's Landing in France

An Ning: "Isn't this normal? Is there any man who doesn't like to brag? Especially when we get together. As long as you don't brag when you report the military situation, seek truth from facts, and don't be so serious at other times."

Napoleon pouted: "Obviously you still taught me to pay attention to seeking truth from facts!"

Christina smiled and said, "It seems that he is not only your little follower, but also your student."

An Ning: "No, I'm in the same grade as him, just a little older than him, so I just imparted some life experience to him."

At this time, the coachman knocked on the front window of the car: "Misters and ladies, we have arrived at the post station. We need to change horses. You can come down and have a rest."

Christina responded loudly, "Understood."

Soon the carriage stopped, An Ning got out of the carriage first, and then turned around to help Christina.

Christina wore a green dress today that was very suitable for outings. Because it was not a dress, there was no low placket, and the chest was tightly covered.

But the girdle at the waist still highlights her wasp waist, and by the way lifts her chest muscles into a very stalwart appearance.

Christina smiled and said, "Don't stare at my breasts, you should go and see Alexandra, she will be delighted."

An Ning: "Did that Alexandra also join the queen's guard?"

"Yes, we will be on duty together at Versailles."

An Ning: "Well, maybe we will have a chance to meet again in the future."

——During the Great Revolution.

In terms of time, this Alexandra should be able to witness the landing of the French crown.

Napoleon also got out of the car, but he deliberately distanced himself from An Ning and Christina, and stood alone in the distance to stretch his muscles.

At this moment, there was a commotion nearby.

A group of farmers angrily surrounded a - farmer standing on a box?

But the farmer had a belt tied around his shoulders, and An Ning realized that this might be the legendary bailiff.

The French tax bailiff is not a fixed official position. In fact, in the French countryside at this time, because the aristocrats and lords are no longer in charge, the task of collecting taxes has always been borne by the farmers themselves in turn.

That is to say, farmers would take turns serving as bailiffs, collecting taxes from their neighbors.

Because everyone in the village knows the basics, and the taxes in the French countryside have always been heavy, so everyone is impoverished.

The bailiff was shouting at the top of his lungs: "I don't want to collect the tax! Don't say you can't pay it yourself, I know it!"

Another farmer yelled: "What about you! You have an old hen! You should pay more tax!"

The bailiff: "I paid it! That's why I came to collect you!"

"I don't believe it! Your old hen is still there!"

An Ning silently watched the peasants making noise.

These peasants knew that they were destitute just by looking at their appearance.

But this will not reduce the king's tax.

Amid the noise, An Ning vaguely felt that something was brewing, and in a few years, it would erupt in an astonishing manner, shocking all the courts in Europe.

Chapter 051: Returning to the Parisian Circle

Although there was a slight delay on the road, An Ning arrived in Paris on time.

The place where Napoleon lived this time was the dormitory of the Paris Military Academy, and he got off the car not long after arriving in Paris.

An Ning went directly to the house given to him by the Duke near the Royal Palace.

Although the house had not been lived in for five years, it looked as if An Ning had just left yesterday, and the tables in the room were not even dusty.

Probably the Duke asked someone to clean it yesterday.

An Ning once again settled down in Paris, and that night he took a taxi to the monastery where the Breton club was located.

When Fanny sent him to the car, she had a weird expression, so An Ning couldn't help explaining: "I'm going to see an old friend I haven't seen for many years, don't think too much about it!"

Fanny: "Even if you go to a brothel tonight, I won't say much. After all, Brienne has nothing, and there are only village girls who smell like hay in that kind of place."

An Ning: "I feel like you've improved in your sharp tongue after five years in Brienne."

"I'm just making a normal comment." Fanny paused, "So, have fun tonight."

"Let's just say I didn't go to that kind of place..."

"I wish you and Mr. Danton a happy bridge game."

An Ning pouted, and got into the carriage.

Carriage through the streets of Paris at night.In Briena, the streets are completely dark at night, and the municipality has no money to support the workers who light the street lamps every night, and there are no street lamps in the city.

When the Great Revolution comes, the citizens of Brienne should have a headache with what to hang the noble lord.

But Paris has street lamps and lamp bearers, and the roads at night are shrouded in gray light.

An Ning arrived at the brightly lit monastery. Standing outside, she could hear the sound of bridge playing inside.

An Ning entered the door with ease.

The table near the door happened to be Danton, Mara and others, and they turned their heads when they heard the door knock.

Dandong put the card directly on the table, stood up and opened his arms: "Look! Who is here!"

For some reason, Dandong's words reminded An Ning of "American bullying", or the dubbed version of CCTV's translation accent.

An Ning sighed a little, he had been time-traveling for five years, yet he could still remember the story before time-traveling, he thought he was already an authentic resident of the [-]th century.

He shook his head, then held Danton's extended hand: "Good evening everyone, I'm back from Brienne!"

Marat: "Your sergeant's uniform really fits you well. We're going to call you Sergeant from now on!"

An Ning: "I won't wear this suit for a long time, because I have already entered the Military Academy in Paris."

Dandong said in surprise: "A commoner, enter the military academy! The people in the academy will definitely not be able to help but challenge you to duel all day long."

An Ning: "Then let them come. My individual performance in Brienne is the best in the whole year. Even the swordsmanship instructor was defeated by me."

This is true. After An Ning has learned swordsmanship for five years, her own skills and the external automatic anti-reverse are already invincible.

An Ning's friends laughed, and Mara said excitedly: "Then we will wait for you to make those nobles look good!"

An Ning: "By the way, on the way back, I witnessed the scene of farmers resisting taxes. His Majesty the King is going to raise taxes again?"

"It's just that tax collectors are sent to various places to collect this year's tax, but it shouldn't be long before the king will propose a tax increase bill." Danton replied, "You can't hear these things in Brienne, right? You probably I don't know, the King fired that able Chancellor of the Exchequer, Necker, as if for advising our deficit queen to spend less."

An Ning: "I guess it won't take long for the king to get that banker back. After all, he is really short of money now."

A long-faced gentleman interjected: "Even the genius who figured out a way to borrow money to support the Queen's expenses is helpless at this time."

An Ning: "Who is this?"

Danton immediately introduced: "You don't know, this is our new friend, Camille Desmoulins, who is also a reporter. He has been writing articles in newspapers for many days to criticize His Majesty the King.

"Camille, this is Andy Frost, the force responsible for our small group."

The long-faced gentleman nodded: "I guessed it, Mr. Megatron Paris' noble killer. I heard that you planned to use legal means to deal with the threat of the country marquis?"

"Yes." An Ning nodded, "Personally, I don't like fighting."

Everyone burst into laughter, as if An Ning had told a very humorous joke.

Danton: "Don't you know? Since you went to Brienne, Mirabeau has been telling people all day long the story of you throwing gloves in people's faces, and you said you don't like to use knives and guns, like Say the deficit queen doesn't like wasting money, no one will believe it."

——Damn it, Mirabeau, the damn wine-monger, what the hell have you done!

Mara curled her lips: "That deficit queen doesn't like wasting money? How is this possible! The Palace of Versailles dances and dances every night, and can spend tens of thousands of livres in one night. I really don't understand why anyone is willing to borrow money. Give the money to the king, let me tell you, the king's creditors should unite and force the king to pay back the money!"

Danton explained in An Ning's ear: "Mara is no longer a doctor, and now he writes specifically to criticize the current situation. He seems to think that this will make France a little bit better."

An Ning shook her head: "It's useless, France can't get better just by relying on these things, it will have a big fight."

Marat shook his head: "How can you say that? Although we can't see any direct effect, our continuous appeals will always be effective. The gentlemen of the Supreme Court also read our newspapers. It is said that the king himself Look! As long as we..."

An Ning interrupted Mara's words: "So what if the king reads your newspaper, he is just a locksmith, and he is expected to carry out top-down reforms, unless his queen is replaced by Queen Theresia."

Queen Theresa of Austria introduced many enlightened reforms and gave Shinra a big sip.

Dandong sighed: "Why is Teresia's daughter like this?"

An Ning: "God knows. There are probably some things that cannot be passed on...inherited."

An Ning almost said the word "inherited", since Mendel hadn't been born yet.

Everyone shook their heads together.

Marat: "Let's play bridge! I've won this one! Come on, give me the chips."

An Ning: "Who is willing to make room for me? I haven't played bridge for five years, and now I'm a parallel importer who can be bullied casually."

Dandong: "Sit in my seat! I'll give you advice."

Chapter 052 The Curtain Opens

Thus the gentlemen of Paris, playing bridge and drinking coffee, commented on their king.

It seems that Louis XVI never thought that he would have any bad results if he let the gentlemen talk about him like this. He never thought about controlling all kinds of speech in Paris society.

Or maybe he thought about it, but couldn't do anything about it, because he was still financed by borrowing from Parisian bankers.

And those great nobles who lent money to the royal family happened to be the driving force behind the prosperous publishing industry in Paris.

People like the Duke of Orleans supported Mirabeau and wrote a bunch of little yellow books about the queen.In this situation, it is basically impossible to control speech in Paris.

After arriving in Paris, An Ning brought Napoleon into the Parisian social circle, and then he soon realized that he forgot one thing: when he approached Napoleon five years ago, he blew up the Republic of Corsica as a Parisian The well-known "paradigm of freedom".

In reality, however, most gentlemen in Paris don't even know where Corsica is.

Napoleon, who discovered this, had a tantrum with An Ning, but fortunately, his position in An Ning's heart finally overcame this small flaw.

After accepting this, Napoleon began to tirelessly popularize science with people in Paris, saying that the establishment of the Republic of Corsica was earlier than the British Thirteen Continental Colonies.

But it didn't take long for Napoleon's efforts to stop.

Because of the bad news from Corsica, Napoleon's father, Carlo Bonaparte, died.

The main source of income for Napoleon’s family is the salary of his father Carlo who manages the royal nursery in Corsica. Napoleon’s elder brother Joseph Bonaparte is not a housekeeper. Although the priest’s salary is very good, he can’t give much to subsidize it. household.

Once Carlo died, the financial burden of the family fell on Joseph, but Napoleon suspected that his brother could not afford it.

An Ning still had a small amount of money at this time, and he still had no use for the money sent by the mission system back then, so he proposed to lend it to Napoleon so that he could finish his studies first.

But Napoleon refused.

He decided to stop all social activities from that day on, concentrate on his studies, strive to graduate from the Paris Military Academy ahead of schedule, and go to the army to eat military pay.

Since then Napoleon has disappeared from Parisian society.

Then An Ning was ridiculed, "Your little follower suddenly abandoned you."

It didn't matter to An Ning. Napoleon began to bury his head in his studies and strive to graduate early. This was all in line with history. There is nothing wrong with letting history follow the original direction.

The main thing An Ning does in Paris is socialize, and his plan remains the same: meet as many bigwigs as possible, and ride the fucking wall!

So An Ning did his best to "collect stamps" everywhere. He had already collected stamps from several bigwigs of the Girondins, and the rest was to expand his foundation in the Peiyang faction.

It's a pity that most of the Peiyang faction are aristocrats, and they are relatively traditional aristocrats. These people don't think much of a cobbler, so the progress of stamp collection has been greatly delayed.

As a soldier, Lafayette would occasionally chat with An Ning.

But Lafayette's goal is also very clear. This guy obviously wants to use the title of "Founder of America" ​​to squeeze into the upper circles of Paris, and An Ning is obviously not counted as a member of the upper circles.

In the end, An Ning still felt comfortable getting along with the Jacobins. These people were all civilians, they didn't have that kind of identity barrier, and they regarded An Ning as one of their own.

When the time entered 1786, the Supreme Court of Paris rejected Louis XVI's tax increase request again and again. The king once planned to send tax collectors to scrape land, but the gentlemen of the Supreme Court sent people to recover it.

The king's finances are getting more and more difficult, and it is said that the queen has begun to wear old clothes.

Marat wrote a report, angry at the queen's extravagance and waste. The article also brought Robespierre who was far away in Arras, saying that Robespierre had been wearing the same green coat all the time. University, and it is a disgrace that the queen wears a brand new dress every ball.

In May 1786, Napoleon received his second lieutenant rank ahead of schedule.

Anning gave him a set of officer uniforms as a gift—the school-issued uniforms were too big for Napoleon, making him look like a walking coat rack.

As a symbol of an officer, Napoleon got his own sword, but on the day of awarding the sword, he told An Ning: "My sword belongs to me, only the belt belongs to France, and I will never wield my sword for France."

An Ning responded: "Of course, just follow your heart."