Chapter 1332 prince of peace

When you hold power, there will always be some conveniences provided.

The Paris Library sent two staff members to buy Georgiana a private library containing more than 1,000 books.

She remembered that after the war, the French library's collection of the French Revolution was not as large as the British collection. Maybe she could pass on the news in this way.

But before that, she needed to get a rough idea of ​​who Carno was.

The advantage of not having to eat with Napoleoni was that she could carry the food by herself and read at the same time.

This was what she wanted to do when she was a student.

If there is no meat to eat, she can make cookies. Anyway, the British fellow will not let her go without candy.

This good mood lasted until she started reading about Carno.

In the old days, rich people could pay money to avoid military service. The Ebertists once proposed that the entire population must join the army, especially the rich. Danton revised this proposal and made it more reasonable. Later, Carnot was responsible for drafting a

A decree called the National Military Service Act.

In theory, France has become a country where all the people are soldiers, but in fact, France has only recruited the first echelon, that is, all men aged from 18 to 25 years old, and all the men in the second echelon, 25 to 30 years old, are on standby. It is Dandong

and Carnot's order, France had an army that exceeded the total number of countries on the European continent combined, and Napoleon was promoted to a command position as a result.

The "Civil Code" promulgated by Napoleon in 1801 was improved on the basis of the "Civil Code" drafted by the Robespierre Congress. Danton believed that a nobleman and a villain should use his head to pay for what they had done every day.

For crimes committed, the Suspect Law allows local governments to arrest people at will and still imprison them even after being acquitted.

But these were not the worst aspects of the reign of terror.

The British, like other countries, wanted to take a share of the pie when they saw France falling into civil strife. British warships planned to capture Dunkirk.

Carnot did not regard the lives of the French people at all. When he wanted to attack a place, he relied entirely on human lives. This happened to be what Napoleon hated the most.

If the officer of the 22nd Regiment had not issued a pamphlet, he did not know whether the regiment could still be used, and Napoleon would not have sent the soldiers of this regiment to Saint-Domingue to fight a battle with no return.

He has the ability to control officer promotions at will. If an Austrian officer is 1,000 miles away from the base camp, he is unlikely to be dismissed, while a French officer can be dismissed at any time.

The Vendée Uprising showed that without organization and maneuverability, victory cannot be achieved by just constant activity, fighting and courage.

Carnot asked his soldiers to launch a fierce attack over and over again. He did not consider the casualties at all. The low-level officers were quickly cleared out, but the most capable people would stand out. Kleber, Moreau, Reni

Yeah, Marco, Ney and others were all trained under Carno.

On the Rhine River there are Auch, Dessex, and Saint-Cyr, and on the Apennine Peninsula there are Bonaparte and Massena. In a sense, Carnot's army is the "cradle of famous generals", but

This kind of cradle is not like a military academy.

There is a gap between theory and actual combat. During the Battle of Toulon, he ridiculed the "geniuses" who came with Dopp. The first thing they did when they arrived at the position was to find bunkers. The real battleground on the battlefield did not lie in the repaired fortifications.

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The Vendée Uprising failed in 1794, Lyon and Toulon fell into the hands of the Republican Army one after another, and the French army was able to use its full strength to deal with other areas.

Carnot paid no particular attention to the orders he signed, and gradually organized a large army provided by conscription.

He divided the Republican army into 13 corps. The Spanish war required two corps because artillery could not pass through the Pyrenees. The third corps was deployed on the Italian border, the fourth corps was deployed on the Rhine, and the fifth corps was deployed on the Rhine.

The army was used to deal with the Allies in Flanders.

Because no one can be found who can take on the responsibility of a large force, the remaining troops are deployed in all directions, but for Belgium, they should have an overwhelming advantage in numbers because that is the most dangerous place.

Here the Austrian, Dutch, British and Hanoverian armies were assembled.

The reign of terror at home forced French soldiers to go to the front line to face another kind of terror. The winter that year was extremely cold, and the sea in the Netherlands froze. The French cavalry rode to the fleet frozen on the sea in Amsterdam and accepted the British army.

surrender.

The military representative once told Lucien that the French could not cross the strait. It also depended on the weather conditions. If the British Navy warships were frozen...

The weather in the Little Ice Age was fickle, and no one knew whether a cold winter like that of 1794 would come again. The French acquired Belgium, which was adjacent to the Netherlands, and thus there was another way to block the British from the Baltic Sea to Gibraltar.

possible.

The credit of the French was extremely bad. The King of France slaughtered the Knights Templar because he was short of money. When Louis XV swallowed up the property of the Jesuits because he was short of money, the Dutch became the great savior of France's credit.

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It would be difficult to convince the Jews that the French really planned to sell the land to them. Who knows whether the French would deal with them the same way they dealt with the Templars.

This is probably the situation at the card table. People with chaotic thinking must not play this game. Why did Lucien introduce a "talent" like Carnot to her?

She took a bite of the cookie and crunched it. France was now overheated by the victory brought by Napoleon. Belgium did not need anyone with outstanding military records. Instead, it was Carnot's legal ability that interested Georgiana.

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But just as violence cannot deal with those who act with passion, the law cannot control those who are only interested in profit. On the contrary, terror can make people clear their minds.

After the wave of the French Revolution, Napoleon needed to forcefully promote luxury goods. He even sold luxury goods to Belgium and forced Belgians to buy them. People in the 21st century would never imagine it.

At that time, the wealthy people's consumption was tight enough to maintain their lives, and they did not dare to show off. If they dared to spend money arbitrarily, they would be beheaded by the guillotine.

Civilian law will not be changed easily, but they can add laws at any time to compete with British common law.

Anyway, the army can never be handed over to Carnot, and neither can the police. At most, he can only control the court, which is an injustice to the once powerful Directory.

"You are also a troublemaker, Lucien." She shook her head and continued to read the bloody historical materials.

Napoleon once told her that Spain funded him six battleships. What use were six battleships to the national war?

Spain's relationship with France is not that good either, although they won the Orange War together.

Godoy was a pro-French Prime Minister. In 1792, the Duke of Alcordia was the Prime Minister of Spain. The Duke rejected William Pitt's request for an alliance.

Later, Louis XVI was beheaded, and the Duke of Alcordia agreed to join the alliance. Then the two sides jointly sent troops to attack Toulon, which was very unpleasant. George III was declared the king of Corsica, and Spain's attitude towards the regicide France suddenly changed.

, they now became Napoleon's allies.

And the Duke of Alcordia also became the universally called King of Peace.

Will the Duke of Alcordia replace the weak Spanish royal family and become a usurper?

"Look what good you have done, Mary." Georgiana put down the document and said scornfully.

Marie Antoinette is Georgiana's Dopp, and although she is still very scared, she will definitely attend the ceremony.

How bad the situation could be, she had dealt with it all before.

But no matter how ignorant and playful Mary was, she was still a princess of noble birth. Not only could she bring Austria, a powerful ally to France, but she could also give birth to a child. Louisa also gave birth to the King of Rome for Napoleon, although others called the child a

A mixed bastard.

Peter's reminder is good. No matter how much the ceremony looks like a wedding, it does not have any legal or religious restrictions. It can be understood as being used to make girls happy.

Britain is her backer, and she cannot always help the French.

She needs to get the news out so that the British Navy can clear its head and stop bombarding Copenhagen.

The Prince Regent's Diamond is hidden in the sole of her boot, so can she have someone take it out?

She thought of her playwright Gaudin. How to get him to agree to deliver the message for her?

Not all men will change their flags for women. Napoliani gave up the tobacco tax, but in exchange for the advantage of allowing Britain to expel the royalists, what will the Prince of Wales do?

If he did not agree to the peace talks, it would become an armistice. Britain and France would continue to be hostile. French men would probably stop smoking. Smoking will kill people. If you don't smoke, you will live longer. On the contrary, Britain will be in a deadlock.

Napoleonio was not yet Antony, although he looked very much like it when he betrayed French interests to England.

Quitting smoking and winning, what will French men choose?

She suddenly felt "naughty" again.

Napoleoni said that the so-called neutrality means treating both warring parties equally. If Venice is not its enemy, then Venice should let it do what the Venetians allowed the Austrians to do, or what they did not prevent them from doing.

She was curious about the Corsican reaction after receiving her "invitation".

And she could take advantage of this secret meeting to sneak out of the Grand Trianon, but only if she knew where the British were.

Maybe she could stop for a while on the way to her appointment.

"You are a bad girl, Cecilia," she murmured, and then left the library to find Gordan and her maid.
Chapter completed!