King's Landing in France

At this time, someone shouted, "Long live Your Majesty!"

Then the voice of "long live" sounded sparsely.

Suddenly, another more sonorous voice shouted: "Long live freedom!"

Then the crowd shouted in unison: "Long live!"

The deafening response was completely different from the situation where there were only a few people responding to the shouting of Long Live Your Majesty just now.

Louis XVI who heard all this had a bitter face.

The coachman waved his whip, and the carriage with the royal emblem slowly drove away from the Town Hall Square.

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The next day, as soon as An Ning arrived at the Imperial Conference Hall of the Palace of Versailles, she heard impassioned voices coming from the conference hall.

He entered the conference hall and saw a representative in a silver cloak making a speech: "Everyone! The violence is out of control! On the day of the revolution, the people executed the Marquis of Delaunay, and executed him without trial!

"The one who was lynched without trial that day was also the mayor of Paris! He was just appointed mayor by His Majesty the King on July 7, and he has not done anything since he was in his position!

"Gentlemen! Put yourself in your shoes! Think of the violence happening to you! Don't think this is nonsense, the raging people are blind. They can kill these innocent people without hesitation!

"This movement must be stopped before more innocent people die, and the so-called revolution must be completely stopped! Otherwise, there will be no good gentlemen left in this country soon!"

An Ning frowned. He was there when the Marquis Delaunay was executed.In theory at that time, An Ning might have prevented the lynching from happening, but he considered that the Marquis of Delaunay died after the Bastille was breached in history, so he chose to maintain the original track of history.

To be honest, when the Marquis of Delaunay was executed, the scene was indeed a bit bloody, and people couldn't help but sympathize with the Marquis.

While the nobleman continued to talk, An Ning found his companions and asked, "Who is this person?"

Dandong: "I don't know, it seems to be a country nobleman."

Robespierre: "He obviously wanted to arouse our sympathy and let us oppose the revolution through the experience of the Marquis of Delaunay. How is this possible!"

An Ning: "Then you stand up and refute him."

Danton: "Shouldn't you do it? You are the one who broke the Bastille, and you are on the scene. Come on, stand up and tell everyone that the Marquis Delaunay deserved what he deserved!"

An Ningxin said that I was talking a fart, I want to reduce my influence now, how can I become a wall by myself?

Before An Ning could speak, someone suddenly jumped up and interrupted the nobleman's speech: "Enough! I've heard enough of this kind of nonsense!"

An Ning squinted her eyes, looked at the person standing up, and realized that she didn't recognize this guy.

Danton said, "Oh, it's Barnave. He is a very good lawyer and has won many cases."

Lawyer Barnaph said angrily: "You portray these people who were lynched as good people and innocent people, and the people who executed them as evil people! But, let me ask you, is this blood really true? So pure?

"Don't they have any crimes? No! At least as far as I know, the Marquis of Delaunay killed hundreds of people, including children and women!

"If you don't believe me, we can ask Mr. Frost who was there at the time!"

An Ning froze for a moment: "Huh?"

——Don't CUE me!I don't want to be in the spotlight right now!

Barnave turned his head to look at An Ning: "Mr. Frost, tell everyone how many people were sacrificed in the Bastille that day!"

An Ning: "There were a lot of sacrifices. In the urn of the Bastille, blood flowed like rivers. But most of them were men. I didn't see any women died in battle."

Barnave: "Whether there are women or not! Anyway, the defenders killed a large number of people. As the commander of the defenders, shouldn't the Marquis Delaunay pay the corresponding price?

"And the former mayor of Paris, who was executed because he deliberately delayed the distribution of weapons, and the people suspected that he wanted to prevent the revolution!

"So you see, they all deserve what they deserve!"

The corner of the mouth of the noble who was speaking on the stage twitched, but he couldn't come up with a rebuttal.

But Barnave changed the subject: "However, now that the urban order in Paris is out of control, with looting and arson everywhere, we really should stop the radical behavior of the people as soon as possible.

"We urgently need General Lafayette to take firm measures to restore order in Paris."

Lafayette: "I have ordered the National Guard to maintain order in the city. But the Self-Defense Force alone will not work. The parliament should pass a programmatic document that actually recognizes the enlightenment thought and can be used as the basic principle of the constitution as soon as possible!"

An Ning thought no, it's actually very simple to appease the people, just crack down on profiteers who hoard and make bread affordable for the people.

But he didn't say anything. After all, the "Declaration of Human Rights" is also very important. It can be said that it is the general program of the entire French Revolution.

After Lafayette finished speaking, Mirabeau stood up and said: "I think we should start drafting programmatic documents as soon as possible. This is the most important thing now."

Chapter 077 The August Decree

For the next few days, the content of the National Assembly was quite boring to An Ning.

He didn't really care about the principles on which the French constitution was formulated, but he had to pretend he cared when he was in parliament.

To be honest, this is more tiring than expected.

It’s okay to meet those representatives with sharp speeches, you can listen to impassioned speeches, but it’s very sleepy to meet those with poor speech skills.

What An Ning didn't expect was that Robespierre was also in the sleepy category. If you talk to him usually, you think he's pretty good at talking, but he didn't expect that he would stutter as soon as he came on stage.

Robespierre was also stubborn. After failing his first speech, he went up to give a speech the next day. He seemed to be determined to overcome the difficulty of "speech".

An Ning watched all this from the side, thinking that if Robespierre was a beautiful girl, he would probably be in the subplot of "Special Speech Training".

Too bad he wasn't, he was a seven-footer from Arras who always wore the same green overcoat.

An Ning estimated that Robespierre's green coat was as high as a holy relic in the Holy Grail War.

In addition to holding meetings these days, An Ning has another task, which is to drill the artillery unit of the National Guard.

Lafayette threw two hundred men in Anning, equipped with twenty cannons confiscated from various arsenals throughout the city.

These twenty cannons are available in various calibers, including infantry and cavalry. Fortunately, the shells fired by the cannons do not have strict requirements on the calibers, otherwise they would be dragged to death by the logistics.

An Ning could only select six 20-pound guns from the 8 guns, and formed troops around these six guns.

In addition, Lafayette did not assign a resident to Anning, so Anning had no choice but to go to the Duke of Tollestair and ask the Duke for a manor as the resident of his little artillery unit.

The location of the manor is on the outskirts of Paris, just on the way from Paris to Versailles.

Equipped and garrisoned, the little artillery unit was at last somewhat respectable—but only somewhat respectable.

The only difference between An Ning's small army and the mob is that they can at least stand crookedly in a square formation.

When An Ning met them for the first time, there was no one who called to stand at attention, and the group just gathered together, looking at An Ning carelessly.

Faced with such a mob, he was at a loss for a while—what could he do, the sergeant is not a mushroom, it can grow out of the ground.

Later, An Ning held the idea of ​​breaking the jar and said: "Well, it's the first year of freedom, everyone is equal, and there shouldn't be military officers who are superior to control you. In this way, use elections to select non-commissioned officers, right? People recommend themselves?"

Yes, An Ning had no choice but to turn his army into a military MZ. He would not have to spend this effort if he had ready-made non-commissioned officers, but the problem was that he didn't have one.

A group of elders looked at each other in blank dismay, but no one offered to recommend themselves.

An Ning had no choice but to raise her voice: "For non-commissioned officers, I will pay for it myself. In addition to the military salary promised by the commune, I will add another military salary."

Theoretically speaking, a dozen or twenty non-commissioned officers should be enough for a 200-member army. The money given by the system to An Ning ten years ago has not been used very much.

Of course, An Ning's wages with this little money probably won't last long. In the future, he still has to report to the National Guard and get the money from the Paris Treasury.

We'll talk about this kind of thing later, let's build up the troops now.

Faced with the price offered by An Ning, several people were obviously moved.

Finally, a guy with a beard raised his hand: "I want to choose a non-commissioned officer!"

An Ning nodded: "Okay! Let me introduce myself."

"My... my name is Jean, Jean Pole, and they call me Beard. I was in the army, I can do one-two-one, uh... gone!"

An Ning: "Jean Bohr, very good. Does anyone have any objections to Jean Boll's appointment as a non-commissioned officer? If you have any objections, please raise them! We uphold the principle of equality, and everyone can express their opinions!"

No one objected, so An Ning made a decision: "Okay! No one has any objections. Then let's start voting. Those who agree to let Boer serve as a non-commissioned officer, raise your hand."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and raised their hands one after another.

An Ning: "Okay, put it down. Jean Paul, you are now the squad leader of the first squad. I will promote you to corporal, and you will be in charge of the first squad."

An Ning ordered ten people at random, pointed at them and said to Jean Bohr: "This is the members of the first class. They are all your subordinates. You can take them to the side to get to know each other! Are there any more?" Want to be a non-commissioned officer? Come and recommend yourself!"

This time, several people raised their hands.

In this way, An Ning used the method of self-recommendation and collective voting to select twenty non-commissioned officers from the rabble assigned to him.

For the rest of the day, these twenty non-commissioned officers led the troops to conduct basic formation training.

After An Ning assigned the task to the newly elected non-commissioned officer, she took a carriage to the Palace of Versailles to continue the meeting.

He didn't even think that his forced actions would have a great impact on the National Self-Defense Forces.

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While An Ning was holding meetings and training troops, the situation was developing rapidly.

The news of the Paris Revolution spread like flying across France, so people all over the country rose up to overthrow the old ruling institutions, and established the National Self-Defense Forces and the Local Self-Government Assembly.

But in the countryside, the farmers almost all sat and watched the people in the city riot until a rumor spread like wildfire.

It was rumored that the nobles, resentful of the seizure of power by the third estate in the city, were preparing to launch a counterattack in the country, sending robbers into the country, attacking the country, destroying the farms, and killing people everywhere.

A large number of farmers believed it was true, so like their compatriots in the city, they chose to take up arms.

Throughout the rest of July, the flames of rebellion burned throughout the country, the peasants stormed the estates of the nobles as the Parisians broke the Bastille, and sent those who remained in the country to lampposts.

None of this had anything to do with An Ning. For the rest of July, he focused on training the small army he had just acquired.

The time came to the night of August 1789, 8.

That day, the meeting of the National Assembly continued all the way into the evening. Just after seven o'clock, the palace guards entered the imperial meeting hall where the representatives were sitting with candlesticks.

Hungry representatives left the table at this time to go to the next room to get bread and desserts.

An Ning was not hungry, he made a small plate of biscuits next door, and returned to the conference hall while eating.

At this moment, the chairman of the meeting, Mounier, stood up: "Everyone! I just received a letter from a friend who told me about what happened in the countryside of the Vendée! From all sources of information, the countryside has become chaotic. It has become a pot of porridge, and if we do not take decisive measures, it may affect the upcoming harvest season!

"Affecting the harvest season will cause the food supply to continue to deteriorate! Therefore, I think we should suspend the constitutional discussion and urgently pass a decree on rural areas!"

As soon as the words fell, Mirabeau stood up: "What else is there to say, the countryside has actually lost control, and the feudal obligations in the past no longer exist! The peasants are rioting because they are worried about the revenge of the nobles!

"At this time, as long as we tell the peasants frankly that the nobles will not retaliate, the commotion will end!

"I propose to start with the nobles in this meeting room!"

Mirabeau paused, then patted his chest and said: "I, Mirabeau, voluntarily give up all feudal rights including territories, and embrace freedom!"

Immediately, a representative of the old nobles shouted: "Your territory has long since ceased to exist! But our territory is still there, and I still protect the people above!"

After the old aristocracy finished speaking, a representative of the third estate immediately stood up and yelled: "You protect the people? I'm afraid the peasants don't want your protection, right? If you hadn't been a representative in Paris, you might have been hanged by the peasants long ago !"

"You! My subjects love me very much!"

"Hmph, I'm afraid those rural nobles who were hanged by peasants thought so too!"

At the moment when the two sides were tit-for-tat, the Duke of Orleans suddenly stood up: "Enough! The moment we became members of the National Assembly, didn't we decide to attack the feudal system? I think it's time, I, the Duke of Orleans Tollestel, officially give up my feudal power! The people of my fiefdom, from this moment on, become free people!"

After a short silence, the whole venue burst into thunderous applause.

Immediately afterwards, another duke-level nobleman stood up: "I, the Duke of Artois, give up my feudal power, and my subjects will now become free men!"

Another burst of applause broke out in the parliament hall.

Then one after another, big nobles stood up and expressed their abandonment of their feudal power.

The representatives of the third estate had no feudal power to relinquish and could only applaud incessantly.

And the little nobleman who first shouted "I still protect the subjects in the territory" sat there speechless.

Seeing that he seemed to have lost his soul, An Ning shook his head repeatedly and muttered something.

He probably muttered "Crazy, all crazy".

The frenzy of expressing their opinions continued, and some minor nobles also began to follow the trend and stood up to express their abandonment of feudal power.

In fact, they had no choice but to give up their feudal power, because at this time the countryside was full of wolf smoke.

The peasants are furiously smashing all the shackles.

This night of "giving up power" passed quickly.

In the next few days, the parliament was discussing the resolution to completely abolish feudal obligations. Finally, on August 8, the parliament unanimously passed the "August Act" that completely abolished feudal obligations and feudal relations.

The whole decree abolishing all feudal obligations was carried by the stage horses and spread quickly throughout France.