The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

"Dear Your Majesty... Your accusation is regrettable, but I still thank you for writing to me and asking me instead of accusing me of crimes that do not exist in my heart. You should understand that if it is really me Having planned that riot and supplied them with guns and explosives, the riot that night would not have stopped outside the gates of the palace gardens..."

"But I don't deny your speculation that someone may be behind this riot. According to my investigation, the anger came from a rumor. The owner of the wallpaper factory did not say that he would lower the wages of the workers; on the contrary, he He is a sympathetic rich man who often helps the poor. The only time he mentioned workers’ wages in public was that the price of bread should be lowered so that workers can afford it with their own wages—this sentence Clearly grossly misinterpreted, perhaps intentionally distorted..."

When Grace received a letter from the Earl of Arundel, she already knew that she was wrong in her accusation against him.

Although the Earl of Arundel took advantage of the violence at the right time, it seemed that he really did not want the violence to expand.

The riots that night were just the beginning.The next morning, many shops were looted, especially grain stores and bakeries, and the houses of wealthy merchants were set on fire.The court no longer dared to send troops to suppress it, and the riot lasted for two full days, and even spread to other provinces.At least 50 people were killed in the unrest.

In the end, the Earl of Arundel urgently summoned all the famous civilian representatives and asked them to give speeches in various squares. Many priest representatives who were not of noble origin also joined them, and jointly persuaded the poor to be more patient and wait for the national conference to be held.

At the same time, the Earl of Arundel also formed a National Guard, composed of former Royal Prison Garrison and some property owners who can use guns, to patrol the streets to prevent violence from happening again.The commander of the National Guard was the Earl of Arundel himself.

Order was quickly restored on the street, and it was controlled by civilian representatives headed by the Earl of Arundel. Everyone was looking forward to the convening of the national conference with great enthusiasm.

Compared with this, the interior of the palace was in a state of depression, and the most common sentence Grace heard was: "Why did this happen all of a sudden?"

But is it really "suddenly" like this?

Grace no longer wanted to say things like "I warned you a long time ago". He just warned the ministers in a more forceful tone: "In the beginning, the people only hoped that the nobles could pay taxes fairly. This is a reasonable request. You But they refused; that's why they want to fight for more political rights and have more say in the national conference."

Now his allies have regretted it and have to give up, hoping to return to the moment when the people asked them to let the nobles pay taxes, and then readily agreed to the people's request.

It is a pity that it is too late, the people have already felt their own strength, they no longer beg for mercy and concessions, but come to take it with their own hands, and want to take back more.

"Is it really necessary to vote by head? Then...the priests have also rebelled, and the court and nobles will have no advantage at all. Who knows what demands they will make?" a minister said.

"No matter what they ask, if they vote according to the number of people, their wish can be realized, and the palace government will cease to exist." Another minister said immediately.

"But if you don't agree to them, more serious riots will definitely break out. This is the capital!"

"Some troops should be transferred back from the front line. The crisis in the capital is obviously more serious now."

Grace slammed the table hard, and asked sternly: "Who dares! The frontline battle is stalemate, and no one is allowed to move the frontline troops!" He turned his head to look at the king, "Your Majesty, have you thought about why the Royal Prison was besieged? Why? Is the army from the Royal Prison defecting? If you bring back the troops from the front line, can you guarantee that they will definitely be on your side? At least the colonel I know went to the front line because he didn’t want to point his guns at the starving peasants adventurous."

"The troops on the front line will not be reduced, Grace, don't be in a hurry." The king said, "I have already promised how to vote in the national conference, and I can't go back on it. But I will ask the Habs royal family in the neighboring country Help. We had an agreement that if a riot breaks out in one country, the other side will send troops to help put it down. Now is the time."

"What does it mean to send troops to help put down the riot?" Grace asked immediately.

"That is, they will station troops outside the border. If there is a large-scale riot in the provinces, or if there is a more serious violent riot in the capital, they will come in and suppress it."

Grace felt very disturbed, "Let foreign troops enter our territory?"

The king pondered for a moment, then nodded: "But we have no other choice, as you have seen, that kind of violent riot is more dangerous...Maybe we are lucky, when the national conference is held and the people are satisfied, we will be able to settle down."

Grace became more and more disturbed and bit her lips hard. He saw the king's eyes were very sad.

Soon, he received a letter from Allen and William from the front. They reported to him that he was safe, and said that they heard about the capital at the front, praised him for handling it well, and hoped that he could pay attention to safety.

They did not mention the removal of the troops, which shows that the king was not lying.Two days later, the king moved to the summer palace with Grace and all the palace guards, and the capital was no longer safe for them.

Grace can't remember what happened afterwards, and he may never be able to figure out what happened.

He only remembered that the summer palace in winter was a bit gloomy, and he hardly went to the lake, because the lake was frozen and covered with snow, so there was nothing to see.

Then came that dreadful afternoon when he was sitting in a council room at the summer palace, meeting with the king and ministers to discuss how to bring down the rising price of bread.

Then there was a sudden commotion outside, many people shouted and ran around.But in fact, there should not be many people, because many court nobles had already fled abroad before moving to the Summer Palace.

The king hugged him out of the conference room, but was immediately escorted by the guards to walk in the opposite direction.He remembered that the captain of the guard who was familiar with him said: "The civilians are about to attack, the guards refuse to shoot, run away!"

He remembers yelling at Eva and Anna, "Get out of the servants' passage!" but they followed him, which was heartbreaking.

They were later stopped by a group of shabby-dressed women, and the two at the head brought a document before the king, who signed it almost without looking at it.

The women cheered, surrounded him and the king, and forced them into a decorated carriage, where the women were to take them back to the capital.

No one dared to stop them, because behind the women was the National Guard, but the command was not the Earl of Arundel, but someone else; and on both sides of them were the rebellious court guards.

Only a small bodyguard and a Swiss mercenary remained on the side of the king and queen, and the king said to them in German: "Put away your guns, you have done your duty."

That was the most difficult part of the road. It took nearly a day to complete the two-hour drive, because the women who escorted them walked on foot, and after entering the capital, both sides of the road were also occupied by crowds of onlookers. Almost impossible to pass.

Once upon a time when Grace and the king were parading in a float, people cheered and cried at him, threw flowers at his feet, and he was once cut by a rose thorn.But now people are staring at him coldly, and the women are singing "It's going to be okay" over and over again, but the lyrics are slightly changed. It'll be fine." Of course there's "What We Are", which has been trending lately, and a song I haven't heard before: "That Lying, Liaring Bitch Grace".

The author says:

The title of the song itself is even worse... After the power of the nobles was challenged by the common people, the king chose to side with the nobles.And Louis XVI of France has been swaying between the nobles and the people, and finally chose the nobles.Some people say that Louis XVI is too slow, and some people say that he should choose a commoner, but I feel that he really has no choice.From the perspective of the source of power, the king is the biggest noble. Choosing a commoner is tantamount to betraying the foundation.Everyone was ignorant about this time, and they were still ignorant for decades to come. They didn't know why it happened "suddenly".And Chris has more willpower than Louis XVI, so he can handle some crises that Louis XVI did not handle well, but where the class antagonism is there, his willpower becomes a bad thing... such as force, Louis XVI has always was avoiding bloodshed, but Chris wasn't.