18th century total war

Chapter 91 Plenipotentiary Speaker
"Don't tell me it's difficult. I require all soldiers on the list to have a musket. If the problem is lost or damaged, I will find a person in charge. If the circumstances are serious, they can be hanged!
Now it's war!
Do you know about war?

you idiot!

Tell me these trivial things again, believe it or not, I will let you walk on the gallows! "

Angry roars came from the highest-level office of the city government of Caen, the capital of the Normandy region. Ever since Major General Karl of the Black Dragon Army entered the Normandy region with an army, the frequency of the roars in this office has steadily increased.

By now, there had been few 'peaceful days' in the city of Caen, and the owner of the roar had become even more irritable.

This is not because Senawi, the current plenipotentiary speaker of the Normandy Regional Council, has a bad temper. On the contrary, before the Black Dragon Army invaded Normandy, Senawi was recognized as a friendly person.

He is a true peacemaker.

Of course, because of this reason, when the war was approaching, in order to restore the situation, Senawi began to implement strict military laws and increase the intensity of review. The people below who were accustomed to moderate rule began to make mistakes frequently. I don’t know how many officials were found out for dereliction of duty and corruption. The problem!
Corruption is no problem, Senavi doesn't mind, because he himself is the biggest corrupt official in Normandy!
However, it's your fault if you mess up after you're greedy!
If it was a peaceful time, at most it would be a calm verbal warning, Senavi would never be so angry.

But when the war is approaching, every minute and every second is very important to Senawi, but there are various mistakes, and no matter how good his temper is, he can't help it.

Since the first reprimand and abuse began, Senawi did not try to save his character design. Compared with the friendly character design, the position under his buttocks is obviously a hundred times more important!
War is not an order, and soldiers can go to the battlefield when they gather.

What's more, anyone with a discerning eye knows the quality of the provincial coalition forces in the Normandy region. It is not an easy task to integrate these unprofessional troops. Even on the day when Li Wei captured Rennes, the Normandy region We have started to integrate the provincial coalition forces from all over the country!

The plenipotentiary speaker Senawi served was actually a temporary post created by the Paris government under the pressure of Li Wei's rebellion. You can see from the prefix of the name that this plenipotentiary speaker is completely different from the original speaker of the local council who was only the presiding officer.

It is no exaggeration to say that this plenipotentiary speaker is the boss of the local military and political power, equivalent to a governor.

Only in the two regions surrounding the Brittany region occupied by Li Wei, did the Paris government add the word "plenipotentiary" in front of the speaker.

However, now Senawi feels the pressure that the higher the power, the greater the responsibility. Since the border of the Normandy region was easily torn apart by the first division of the Black Dragon Army led by Major General Karl of the Black Dragon Army, the Paris government's letter has been sent for a day. Tougher than the day.

Up to now, it is even more straightforward to point out that if Caen, the capital city of Normandy, falls, not only will all the positions of Cenavier be wiped out, but from then on, Cenavill's family members and descendants will never be able to enter politics again!
In other words, the Paris government wants to deprive the Senawi family of their permanent political rights!

This punishment is like farting for ordinary civilians. Even if ordinary civilians want to become government servants, it is extremely difficult. Government officials are either backdoor connections or middle-class elite intellectuals. Common people who are generally illiterate and educated, the road to politics It can only be a distant dream.

However, a family of big capitalists like Senawi has a smooth road to politics after the French Revolution. As long as they don't offend the top dignitaries of the French Kingdom, as long as the family's children are willing, it is really not too easy to enter the government's public service system.

Because the Kingdom of France has not yet held a formal unified examination and selection system for civil servants, even if the examination admits civil servants, it is still played by some cities themselves, and most of the civil servants come in from related households.

After the French Revolution, the amount of tax payment was closely related to the local government. The local government was quite kind to those big taxpayers, that is, the big capitalist class. These people are the parents of the local government!

Is it a big deal for the parents to stuff a few children into the 'son's house' to work?

No matter how severe the punishment of the Paris government is, Senawi's gray hair area is as lenient...

He has no way out. He suddenly became the plenipotentiary speaker, and the joy of covering the sky with his hands in the Normandy region is gone.

No matter how high the power is, it will be easily destroyed by war.

Now Senawi understands why those in power in various countries are unwilling to launch wars easily, unless they have absolute advantages and huge interests.

For ordinary people, the cost of war is life, but for those in high positions, war is gambling on the throne under one's own ass!

It's easy to say if you win, but it's hard to say whether you can keep your position if you lose...

After becoming the plenipotentiary speaker, the smart Senawi has also studied various military books, and is now considered an expert in talking about war on paper.

As long as it is not the "second generation" inherited from the parents' generation, anyone who can become a capitalist from scratch is a very smart elite, and these people basically learn everything quickly.

Although Cenavier was not a self-made man, his family's business spread throughout the Normandy region only after he took over.

Senawi's daily rants and changing into a cold and stern face are not ineffective, at least the original lazy political atmosphere in Caen City is gone, and the people below are working hard, for fear of offending the plenipotentiary speaker and causing their own position is unstable.

With the efforts of Senawi, when the forward of Karl's army arrived, what he saw was not a naked city, but even tens of miles away from the real suburb of the city, he saw a continuous line of trenches and chest fortifications!
Senawi has far more troops than Levi did at the time, so he can naturally extend the fortifications to the periphery of the city, lengthen and widen them, build more lines of defense, and deploy layers of defenses.

In the era of artillery, fortifications of the city walls have become dispensable, and the later bastions, under the magical calculation of mathematics, combined with the parabolic shooting of mortars, greatly reduced the defensive effect.

Geometry is really useful in war!

Therefore, only in the rugged mountains and small strongholds in Europe today, bastions can be used for military purposes. In the face of regiments with a large number of artillery, bastions are similar to coffins.

Thanks to Ji Bingtian for the reward of 100 starting coins.

Thanks to Qianmo Lifetime for rewarding 200 starting coins.

(End of this chapter)