18th century total war

Chapter 6 The Uprising Breaks Out
"Master, Paris has established a Constituent Assembly, which put the king's rights under the constitution, and the constitutional monarchy party has become the biggest beneficiary of this great revolution."

Joseph stood in front of Li Wei's desk with a slightly hunched back, reporting.

"How is my father?"

Li Wei asked with a frown.

“The Lord and his wife have been protected by God and have not been harmed in any way, and they have entered the newly established Constituent Assembly as members of the Royalist Party.

The master is worried that you will be in danger if you stay here, young master. Recently, many noble castles have been broken by rioting farmers. This matter is being discussed in the Constituent Assembly, but no consensus has been reached, so the master hopes that you will return to Paris, where would be safer. "

"Back to Paris?

Less than half a month ago, many people died in Paris!
I will write to my father.

Is there anything else? "

"Master, many farmers' gatherings have been found in the countryside near the town of Charles, and people from the security station have been expelled. Do you need to send troops to arrest them?"

"Is there a list of the main messengers of the rally?"

"I'm very sorry, but people from the security station cannot enter the gathering place. Those farmers are very hostile to the people from the security station."

"Without any list, how can I send troops?

We can't arrest all the farmers, so who will give us taxes and food for farming?

I hope you will be fully prepared next time you report something like this to me, Joseph!

After all, you are my father's most trusted old buddy. "

Li Wei said meaningfully.

Joseph was silent for a moment, bowed and said, "Follow the young master's instructions."

After leaving Levi's room, Joseph put on his wide-brimmed top hat, frowning and glanced at the closed door.

'What the hell is this Levi trying to do?
Doesn't he want to nip the danger in the bud and wait until the second peasant uprising occurs before sending troops to suppress it?

What good does it do him? !

Or, did Li Wei just want to have a fair reason to arrest a large number of young and strong people to fill the labor camp he established?

Damn it, if Li Wei continues to toss Charles' territory like this, the next quarter's tax revenue will be ruined!

No, I want to report the matter here to Lord Earl, and let Li Wei's father deal with this troublesome little guy.

It would be best to deprive Li Wei of the control of the first-line infantry regiment. It is too reluctant for a 16-year-old boy to control a thousand-man regiment. '

Li Wei didn't know that Joseph was going to report to his father, or that Li Wei, who had a comprehensive war system, didn't care.

Because Livy knew very well that his father had taken root in the city of Paris and would not leave Paris unless he was forced to a corner or the king left the Paris area.

That was the center of the French Kingdom, and no nobleman with political ambitions would give up his position in Paris.

At this time, the thoughts of the French nation had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. At least for those citizens who often had access to newspapers and other reading materials, they had already identified themselves as the French nation.

There is no popular basis for separatism during this period.

Of course, the ignorant peasant class is easy to fool, and their national concept is relatively weak, but now that they have stepped into industrial civilization, it is impossible to win victory by relying on peasant uprisings!
The reason why the Paris Revolution was able to achieve such rapid results was because there were benefactors (bourgeoisie), speculators (liberal aristocrats), greedy people (church leaders who wanted to seize more rights), power holders (dissatisfied with The great nobles of the king's absolutism) jointly promoted!

As for the Parisian bourgeoisie, they were nothing more than cannon fodder for the revolution.

Look at those people sitting in the Constituent Assembly, how many of them are from the bourgeoisie?
The worst are petty capitalists!

Louis XVI did not have the ability to govern the country as his ancestors did, and he also wanted to impose higher taxes. As a result, he even lost the autocratic monarchy system established by his ancestors...

Li Wei knew that once the upper and lower classes of the Kingdom of France saw the weakening of the authority of the monarchy, which they had not been able to reach in the past, any ambitious people would jump out and carve up the power of the Kingdom of France!

At least, this was the cause of the chaos during the French Revolution in Li Wei's previous life.

"Those people probably haven't grasped the true meaning of power coming out of the barrel of a gun, especially those high-ranking church leaders and great nobles, really think that a constitutional assembly can take power back from the king?

When the king's prestige is pierced, the citizens of Paris who have lost their awe will be the sharpest revolutionary blades!
During this period, I must speed up the strengthening of my strength. If I have an army of [-] brainwashed by the total war system at this time, I can commandeer Paris the moment the Great Revolution breaks out, even if I turn King Louis XVI into a puppet No one dares to resist!
It's a big deal to fight a civil war, anyway, it's all white people who die..."

Two days later, Li Wei finally received the good...bad news he had dreamed of—a large-scale peasant uprising broke out in the Charles family's territory!
This time it was no longer a single village, but except for Charles Town, almost all the subordinate villages had people participating in the uprising.

Interestingly, the leader of the rebel army was a foreigner named Polcha Kiss.

This is not because of the strength of the intelligence system in Li Wei's hands... Oh, by the way, Li Wei does not have an intelligence network!
That Borcha took the initiative to let people publicize his name, but after a failure, this one has grasped some of the true meaning of rebellion-let the big guys know his name first, and spread his reputation.

Only when he has a great reputation will people go to him.

The farmers in the Charles family's territory even admitted to a foreign leader that one can imagine how miserable they were oppressed by Li Wei and how deeply they feared him!
If it weren't for the fearless Borza to take the lead, perhaps the peasant uprising would never have erupted in the Charles family territory, provided that Li Wei and his first-line infantry regiment were still in the town of Charles.

When the uprising broke out, the Borza tandem gathered more than 2000 people!
And everyone has weapons in their hands, even if these weapons are mainly various agricultural tools...

In addition, the rebel army led by Bolcha also obtained hundreds of muskets.

As a matter of course, these are the spoils of war that Bolcha led to raid the security station.

Because Charles Town has a first-line infantry regiment to maintain law and order, the security station moved to nearby villages outside the city a few days ago to supervise the villages. As a result, Bolcha led people to break into them immediately.

The people in the public security station didn't resist at all when the battle started. When they saw groups of farmers rushing towards them holding farm tools, they dropped their muskets and ran away...

"Interesting, after raiding the security station, that Bolcha didn't lead people to attack Charles Town, but continued to pull people in the surrounding countryside!"

(End of this chapter)