King's Landing in France

Kano: "I am better at organizing troops and raising supplies. To put it bluntly, I am more suitable to be the Minister of War than the Chief of Staff."

An Ning: "After you join, I will appoint Lazar as the director of military supplies, and do what he is better at."

Berthier curled his lips and said, "Do you really not care? You can ask other people to know that during the battle between you and Lafayette, I once suggested that Lafayette use cavalry to kill you! "

An Ning smiled: "At that time we were the enemy, and there was nothing wrong with killing the enemy. You did everything a chief of staff should do, you deserve praise!"

Berthier stared at An Ning, silent for a long time, and finally made up his mind: "Okay! You have said this to this point, and if I don't agree, it will seem too pretentious!"

An Ning was happy, and stretched out her hand: "Come on, let's do something big!"

Berthier took An Ning's hand firmly.

Chapter 152 The commander's eyes fell on Italy

After Berthier became the chief of staff, the efficiency of the clerical work of the security forces has improved to a higher level.

Lazare Cano is also a rare office talent. He can handle many documents quickly, but he is still a step behind Berthier.

Berthier may have accumulated enough energy during the house arrest before, anyway, after taking office as chief of staff, he has shown amazing energy.

Seeing how he worked crazily every day, An Ning suddenly understood why Napoleon was in command without Berthier as if he was a different person.

That's the role of a great chief of staff.

After throwing the paperwork to Berthier, An Ning can finally focus on the progress of the situation in the whole world.

Entering October, there is good news and bad news from the north.

The good news is that Prussia has temporarily given up its plan to intervene in France because it wants to concentrate its efforts on confronting Ekaterina's Tsarist Russia and strive for more interests in the issue of partitioning Poland.

The bad news is that Austria has already acted, and the Austrian army led by Wumze has left the Austrian mainland and drove over through Bavaria and other countries.

When An Ning received the news, he was stunned for a moment, thinking why the Austrian army had gone to another country's territory, and then he suddenly remembered that there is still the Holy Roman Empire at this time, Bavaria and other countries are all members of the Shinra, so it counts "Domestic" in Austria.

In other words, although France does not border Austria, but bordering Shinra is equivalent to bordering Austria-a bit of a mouthful.

The Shinra army has arrived on the border of France, and it may not be long before they enter France. The Emperor of Shinra, Leopold II, has just taken over the throne from Maria Theresa for more than a year, and he plans to fight for himself The younger sister regained a veritable throne.

In this way, the Austrian Legion led by Wumze on the northern border of France, and the Austrian Italian Army led by Beaulieu of Milan in the south are eyeing it. It can be said that the situation is not optimistic.

Many letters have come from Paris, urging An Ning to lead the army back to Paris immediately and preside over the defense of Paris.

After all, there is no Maginot Line now, and Bouille on the northern border has rebelled against the parliament. The Austrian army can easily drive straight in and take the Île-de-France.

Under such a situation, the parliament has declared that An Ning is not a traitor, but Lafayette is a traitor. The parliament was deceived by Lafayette and the king, and now it realizes its mistake.

Not only was An Ning not responsible for his own reforms in Konta, but he was also given the title of a general who saved the country.

However, An Ning originally thought that the parliament would pass the law on dividing land along the way, and advance the reforms that the Jacobins later implemented, but he was wrong.

Not only did the law to divide the land not pass, but the law to abolish the king was also in fierce tug-of-war.

Yes, even though the king is rich and treasonous, the parliament still refuses to abolish the king.

It seems that nothing can be done overnight.

In history, after the king fled, France supported the king for a year, and finally decided to cut off his family in 1792.

An Ning didn't care, and just stayed in the south.

Under the joint promotion of Berthier and Lazar Cano, An Ning's army strength increased to [-], and the area of ​​control also more than doubled.

These newly expanded control areas, because they were worried that An Ning would come to carry out the street lamp decoration competition, voted to cut their own meat and distributed the fields to the farmers.

The big merchants made a choice to cut off the flesh of the old nobles to please the beasts that were close at hand.

And the peasants were clear, and everyone praised General Frost.

The effect of the large-scale land division is that the original turmoil in these areas quickly subsided, and the economy improved instead. After the meat was cut, the big businessmen suddenly found that they had more money.

So they also started praising General Frost.

Although the old trousers in the city did not get any benefits in this process, they also had a new destination: to join the National Guard.

Because there are so many people who want to join the army, announcements have been issued in various places, clearly indicating that the local self-defense forces have been fully recruited.

So many old trousers began to drag their families and travel across mountains and rivers, and went to Konta.

An Ning struggled with how to deal with these people.

He couldn't recruit all these people into the army, because he didn't have that much money-his army was all paid in real money, and the expansion was too big at once, and he couldn't afford it.

Now the military salary of 3 people is enough for An Ning to have a headache.

Although he confiscated a large amount of church property, it was not unlimited.

But the large amount of labor gathered in Konta cannot be left here alone.If they don't have enough to eat, they will cause trouble. After all, they are all citizens who have been baptized by the Great Revolution.

An Ning had no choice but to set up government-run factories and let them support themselves with their work.

Then there is a problem.

During the war that ended ten years ago, France signed a treaty with Britain on tariffs, and British industrial products could enter France unscrupulously.

At this time, Britain was the number one industrial country in Europe, and its industrial products were cheap and of good quality. When it entered France, the handicraft industry in France was completely destroyed.

If it weren't for the fact that Britain is not yet a complete industrial country, I am afraid that all handicraft producers in France will be unemployed.

By the way, the great revolution in France is also due to the British industrial products. The dumping of British industrial products made many handicraft workshop owners in France go bankrupt, and the people lost their jobs.

In order to have a market for her government-run factory, An Ning had to use the army to set up a checkpoint and impose tariffs on imported British industrial products.

Anyway, it's very strange. After killing the feudal lords in the country, France finally had a unified market. Now An Ning has cut off another piece of this unified market.

All in all, in October 1791, Anning had more headaches than usual.

The foreign situation, the domestic situation, and the economic problems in her own territory all made An Ning feel overwhelmed.

An Ning began to miss the bad times.

You said that it would be great if you don't have a head, as long as you put it on, how comfortable it is.

Troubled by these problems, for the first time after An Ning traveled, she began to want to get something that fit her identity as a traveler.

For example, launching the Industrial Revolution and promoting the steam engine in southern France.

But he immediately encountered a problem. He only knew that the steam engine boiled water and then let the cylinder push the piston to work, but he didn't know what it was like.

There was no way he could rub the steam engine with his hands.

There are also three major things for ordinary time travelers: blowing glass, making soap, and inventing penicillin. He only knows the superficiality of all of them, and this superficiality is still seen from the history of time travel.

It's impossible for him to rub these things with his hands now.

So all he can do is to issue an announcement and invite engineers and scientists from all over the country with generous subsidies to see if he can make a miracle.

But these are long-term things, and it will be many years before they really bear fruit.

The only good thing is that one of the engineers who came to An Ning knew how to make a spinning jenny, so the efficiency of An Ning's spinning factory was not bad.

But none of these can quench my thirst.

An Ning had to find a way to enrich her financial resources before the wealth she obtained from plundering the church was exhausted. Only when she had money could she expand the army.

An Ning thought about it day and night, and finally realized that she could only go the old way, killing people and setting fire to the gold belt.

He set his sights on Napoleon's dragon: Italy.

Italy is very rich.

The Northern Italy region is not large in terms of area, but it provides a quarter of the tax base of Emperor Shinra.

A quarter!

An Ning has already figured it out, whatever the north likes to do, as long as Leopold II declares war, I will go to Italy.

Moreover, going to Italy can not only solve financial problems, but also attract talents.

One of Napoleon's fiercest generals, Massena, is in Italy at this time.

So in October 1791, An Ning already had a full set of plans in mind, waiting for Leopold II to declare war.

Chapter 153 You are declaring war, Shenluo Tianzheng!

On October 15th, news finally came from the north that General Bouille had begun to march towards Paris.

An Ning was very happy to get the news, and thought that Leopold II was going to declare war soon.

As a result, after waiting for a few days, Leopold II remained completely silent.

An Ning has already ordered the troops to prepare to go to Italy, and as soon as war is declared, he will go to Italy to find Marshal Beaulieu of Austria.

As a result, Bouye went to Verdun, Emperor Shinra hadn't declared war yet, An Ning paced back and forth in front of the map every day, thinking what are you doing, Leopold II, fast God Luo Tianzheng, how much can you carry in a bag of rice? Floor!

Several letters a day from Paris, urging An Ning to go north to defend Paris.

An Ning is also in a dilemma. The Holy Roman Empire did not declare war, and going to Italy by himself is an undeclared war, and the teacher is unknown.

If you go north and declare war halfway, it will be embarrassing. If you go north, you must use 3 people to face the two enemy forces of Bouye and Austria.

The key point is that there is no money to go north, and you can't return for blood transfusions to let Lazar Kano conscript. He can only fight to the end with these 3 people.

While An Ning was hesitating, several military officers who came to An Ning brought back the latest news from Paris. Paris was already mobilizing. The revolutionary people of Paris refused the treasonous royal family to return to Paris and joined the army one after another.

Some bank owners were also worried about liquidating old accounts after the restoration of the royal party, and funded the National Assembly with money, so that the troops received relatively sufficient military pay.

The number of National Guards in Paris has expanded to more than 8.

A few days after the news came, new news came. The French army led by Dimouriez defeated Bouye's royalist army in Verdun and killed a large number of enemies during the pursuit.

The letters from Paris for help stopped at once, and a few days later, new news came that Dumouriez had been commended and promoted to lieutenant general-this is an honorary title.

The news came one after another, and the National Assembly in Paris started its propaganda machine, obviously trying to promote Dumouriez as the "French God of War" not inferior to An Ning.

General Bouille took the remnants of the army and ran directly out of the border, taking Louis XVI and the queen into exile in Austria.

Until this time, Leopold II had not declared war.

An Ning could only lie dormant in the south of France with a depressed face.

In addition to reading all kinds of information every day, he went to the engineers and scientists he had recruited to see the steam engines they were tinkering with.

At this time, after all, it was only half a century before the completion of the first industrial revolution in 1840. Many technologies that were the cornerstone of the industrial revolution had actually appeared, and most of the technological bottlenecks that restricted technological development had actually been overcome.

An Ning wants the kind of "qualified time traveler" who knows how to make cement and make soap. At this time, he can completely throw off his arms and work hard.

Unfortunately he is not.

He could only watch the recruited engineers fiddle with it.

However, An Ning still has some gains in this regard. On December 1791, 12, a British infantry major who admired his achievements brought Anning a Ferguson breech-loading rifle.

The major just heard that Your Excellency General likes new weapons, so he brought them here as a gift, and didn't have any more ideas at all.

After all, the British army generally believed that this difficult-to-produce rifle would hardly have any major effect.

But as soon as An Ning got the gun, he felt like a treasure, and immediately handed it over to the craftsmen gathered in Konta to imitate it.

The imitation work was completed quickly, but at this time, the craftsmen still thought it was just a whim of His Excellency the General.

But soon, An Ning gave the craftsmen a new order: to redesign the rifle, split it into a series of parts that are more suitable for production, and then try to use the assembly line to produce it.

Yes, An Ning doesn't know how to rub cement and soap by hand, but he understands how an assembly line works.

The assembly line can be used to reduce the man-hours and cost of producing Ferguson rifles.

Only then did the craftsmen and generals realize that An Ning really planned to equip a breech-loading gun.

Davout first objected, on the grounds that the reloading process of breech-loading guns is completely different from that of front-loading guns, which would invalidate the training of troops and require retraining.

Berthier believed that breech-loading guns were flashy and did nothing but make resupply more difficult.

Napoleon accepted new things very enthusiastically. He specially ordered a breech-loading gun and played with it every day.

Then he made a request to the engineers, hoping to have a gun that could be loaded from the breech.

Napoleon also plausibly said: "Hey, you can magnify the gun twenty times. What's so difficult about it? Work harder!"

Then the engineers really took out the breech-loading gun. As a result, on the day of the test firing, because the breech block was locked too badly and the air leak was serious, the gunner who fired the test was burned, and Napoleon himself burned his arm.

All in all, in the last few months of 1791, An Ning almost gave up the idea of ​​going to Italy, and was ready to concentrate on promoting technological innovation in his hometown.

But at this time, the situation quietly changed.