Versailles is worse than being queen

◎Blade and Fire◎

At nightfall three days ago, the wind howled in the suburbs of Paris, and the Candela barracks lit up in the night.

"Damn it, the money is always delayed, and it is unambiguous that it will kill us."

Lieutenant General Sacco threw the finished wine bottle on the ground, and there was a bang, and the wine bottle rolled to nowhere.

The night wind was bitingly cold, he put on his hat indiscriminately, wrapped his coat tightly and walked towards the main building of the camp.

Whether the country has money or not, the soldiers who fought the war know best.Since decades ago——the old pervert of Louis XV, the army has often been in arrears with military pay, and later often used butter instead of military pay.

Conscription is compulsory, and all men of eligible age are required to serve six years; but there is no money in the treasury, and the king, to keep an army, has to ask the first-class nobles and priests for money--and they see, almost Each of the king's demands for taxation was dismissed by the courts.

The king did not trust them either.The guards at the Palace of Versailles are all specially hired Swiss - those gringos get more money than they French regulars get!

joke!One day they will fight the British again, should they expect the Swiss to die for them?

Sacco opened the curtain cursingly and walked into the hall.

"Stinky pigs! We're going to war—" His voice suddenly disappeared in his throat.

"What are you doing?"

His soldiers were all fully dressed and sat in the vestibule holding muskets or swords.At this moment, everyone's eyes were on him, but no one spoke—this scene was so weird that his alcohol-burned brain suddenly went cold.

"What the hell is he doing? Rebelling?" He raised his voice angrily.

At this time, there was a sudden "bang" from behind the door.

As soon as Sako turned his head, two low-ranking soldiers from Lyon closed the door behind him.

A bloody smell rose suddenly.

With a bang, something fell heavily to the ground as the door closed.

A certain military instinct for danger suddenly rose to its peak.

But before he could react, a sharp blade was on his throat - the little lieutenant colonel from Corsica was holding the sword.

"You just said, where are you going to fight?" Napoleon looked gloomy.

"..." Sacco lowered his eyes to look at the sword's edge against his throat, and then glanced at the ground—it was a corpse.

The body of his adjutant.

"What are you going to do?" Sako forced his composure, "The king has given an order, we are going to besiege Paris and defend the king..."

"The Queen has also given orders." The lieutenant colonel interrupted him coldly, "Defend Paris, defend the Queen."

Sacco was mostly sober.

This is to mutiny?What a joke!

"You are the army of France! Who are you fighting for?"

Napoleon sneered.

"Of course we are fighting for ourselves—Mr. Lieutenant General, maybe you don't know that the Queen has issued an order that all soldiers in her army can be promoted to officers or even generals, no matter what their origins are."

"Long live!" Some people couldn't wait to cheer, "Long live the queen!"

Shaco shivered, and suddenly realized something that he had never noticed before——

Almost all of the soldiers under him are third-level civilians.

According to the law all along, they are not eligible to be promoted to commanders, and the most respected officers are the privilege of nobles.

But among these young men who have gone to the battlefield and killed people, who doesn't aspire to become a leader that everyone admires?

"Furthermore, the queen has made a guarantee—her army will receive the payment of military pay first, and will never default."

Napoleon grinned a gloomy smile, "Then we also want to ask you, Lieutenant General Sako."

"Who are you going to fight for now?"

An hour later, the smaller mutiny initiator came out of the curtain and walked into the waiting room on the other side.

He clapped his hands in the cold wind to wipe off the bloody smell on the gloves.

"Please tell Your Majesty that the Candela Barracks belongs to her."

"Next, we'll find the other barracks," he smiled, "and tell them—they have two options."

……

Antanya finally got the news from the army, so she didn't hesitate anymore, and immediately sent a notice of the third-level meeting.

As a witness of the French Revolution—and a crushed one at that—she never doubted the power of the fully mobilized Parisian people.But she is not sure how far the people of Paris have come. In any case, all the forces that can be used must be grasped.

Due to the perennial forced conscription and lack of payment of military salaries, and the fact that the romanticized wars in the Middle Ages have increasingly revealed their true and cruel side, the army is no longer the situation where nobles accounted for the majority, but There are a large number of young people who have no land, no family property, and almost no other way of earning a living-but because of the restrictions imposed by military officers on their origin, they have no hope of climbing up.

Back then, from the very beginning, a considerable number of soldiers in the army took a wait-and-see attitude towards the Great Revolution.

Later, the army completely abandoned the king and became members of the National Guard.

At the moment, the Tuileries Palace is preparing for the convening of a three-level meeting.

The so-called three-level meeting is a level representative meeting that originated in the French Middle Ages.The first class is priests, the second class is nobles, and the third class is commoners.The three-level conference roughly embodies the entire French national society-thus, more than 400 years ago, Philip IV convened the first conference in order to confront the Holy See, defending his tit-for-tat opposition to theocracy by voting "on behalf of the entire French society" that power.

Since then, the three-level meeting has been held 21 times, each time when the country encounters huge financial or political problems, or when huge disputes are difficult to decide, and is used to ask the people's opinions to pass major decisions.

As the royal power continues to strengthen, it has been 170 years since the last meeting was held.

In the last life, holding the third-level meeting again almost directly detonated the great revolution.

At a time when everything is in turmoil, there is nothing better for rallying public opinion — and focusing on enemies — than a three-level meeting.

Louis XVII has issued a statement from the Palace of Versailles, denouncing this as "a hypocritical show without any legal effect", and many nobles living in Versailles have declared that they will never participate in this third-level meeting.

But it doesn't matter.The scale of development in Paris has long been far beyond the control of Versailles, and there are enough people here to form a meeting—people in the third level can’t wait for more vacancies in the first and second levels, and are calling Ratio to set meeting seats.

That would give them an overwhelming majority.

Recently, Paris has been very lively.

Although the southwest corner has been attacked several times by the army dispatched by the king, people soon discovered that the army did not seem to launch too violent an offensive.With the protection of the city wall, the current offensive can't affect them much-not to mention, many soldiers were originally from Paris.

Soldiers often try to sneak into the city at night, not wanting to stay in the barracks anymore - after all, the city and the outside of the city are like two worlds, one has money and the other has no money.

Paris is too big, and the army dispatched by the king still needs to come from various places. Now it is impossible to surround the entire city, let alone cut off the trade between here and the northeast.

As a result, some Parisians flocked to the southwest wall to guard it, and more people are taking to the streets with unprecedented enthusiasm.

Because this is the first time they have discovered that they seem to have the right to decide who can become the ruler of France.

"The law is the will of God, and it is sacred and inviolable." The priest said in a red robe. "The law has long stipulated the French succession system. Don't forget that if you destroy the sacred tradition, God will punish you..."

"Why do we listen to child molesters talking bullshit here?!" Someone yelled, "If God knows that you are here to deceive the people in his name, I'm afraid I'd like to send you all to hell now! "

Similar arguments are played out every day.

"What qualifications does that woman have to lead this country?"

"Who do you care to lead this country? I only ask you, why don't nobles and priests pay taxes! Why should we feed them with our hard-earned money?"

"This country is not fed by nobles and priests. We sustain it—France is ours!"

Several demonstrations are held on the streets of Paris every day. Representatives of chambers of commerce from all walks of life jumped onto the high platform of the square to give speeches, calling out that this is an opportunity not to be missed——

On this day, just in the middle of such a procession, there was a sudden cry of terror in the distance: "Fire! Fire!"

The fire has not yet been seen, but billowing smoke can be seen coming from the distance of the city.

"Over there is... the Louvre!" People were shocked.

The Queen is in the Louvre.From there the order to convene the three-level conference was issued.Their hope for the future is there - under the threat of fire.

Finished!

When the people arguing on the street from far and near came panting nearby, they realized that they were late——

Someone is already here to deal with the fire.

After the renovation a few years ago, a strange-looking red metal pier that can be seen everywhere in the streets of Paris is now connected to a long water pipe. A team of soldiers deftly raised the water pipe high and pointed it at the place where the smoke came out.

Four or five water dragons sprayed to a height of tens of meters, quickly covering the places where the fire broke out.The moment the red flame hit the water dragon, a large amount of thick smoke burst out, and then quickly extinguished.

People have never seen such a scene.

Prior to this, the fire could only be saved within the first ten minutes of the occurrence.When a house is on fire, people carry buckets of well water and river water and pour it on the burning furniture, hoping to salvage some property - and once the building burns, there is no way to stop it before the fire burns all the fabrics inside. it.

In the vast majority of fires, the fire does not end until the entire building is reduced to the stone of the building itself.

In most cases, the only way to fight the fire is to run away.

But at this moment, the fire succumbed to the water curtain falling high, and the scene of the fire demon being conquered by people appeared so vividly before people's eyes, as if some kind of miracle described in the Old Testament came to the world.

No, people have never really realized at a moment like now that the news of inventions published in the newspapers, the dust and mud of Paris construction that countless people complained about, are the symptoms of some great changes.

In this noisy and chaotic era, the people of this city are gaining more power to change the world in a real sense.

◎Latest comments:

[It suddenly occurred to me that I had seen this sentence before, "Marie Antoinette, as long as she wants to, and with a little effort, all the diplomatic clues of the Kingdom of France will completely pass through her palm, and the whole of Europe will be ruled by three women. Empress Laycia, Marie Antoinette, and Ekaterina of Russia."]

【come on! Come on】

[The heroine can grasp the hearts of the people at home, but it will be difficult to handle it diplomatically.The United Kingdom can be held back by the War of Independence, but other European countries are more difficult to deal with]

【Ah ah ah ah ah ah】

[Why does it feel a little short today]

[This chapter finally patched up some loopholes and seized the military power.If the heroine takes the path of a constitutional monarchy in the future, there are still diplomatic relations to consider, because her title is always wrong, and her words are not right...Napoleon can overthrow the dynasty and claim the king by himself, but the heroine can't do it casually, because she is from Austria Princess. .I hope that this aspect will be considered when I write it, and I will round it up a bit]

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