Chapter 1847 Witches and Demons Association (twenty-three)

As long as the problem of farmers' land is solved, the sheep that have been deprived of everything will have their own property and will not take the same desperate risks as the people in the city. When the knife is put on the neck, it is not necessarily that every noble will agree with that person.

The marquises also refused to give up their past dignity and wealth, and some agreed not to charge land rent. As a result, the countryside became a refuge for many nobles, including the Duke of Lyoncourt, who was once a close minister of the king.

Many privately called him His Majesty Napoleon, and the forces surrounding the "Lucky Cook" called him the Führer, which was Octavian's title before he proclaimed himself emperor.

This liberal aristocrat was deeply inspired by the American farm system and hoped to launch an "agricultural revolution" in France. After inspecting France, he gave up this plan and was then sent to Rennes to mainly solve problems.

Rebellion in Brittany.

The lords only came back once when their subjects repaid debts and paid rent, and spent the rest of the time in Paris. Of course they did not care about the security of the countryside. The officers with high salaries became a leave group, usually eating, drinking and having fun in Paris, ignoring their subordinates, etc.

When they return to the battlefield one day, no one will follow them.

The lower-level soldiers of the army where Napoleon stayed before he became famous also mutinied and asked senior officers to give up their gray income. For people who are not in their own world, many people have nothing. The public security in the countryside is very chaotic, not only for some

There are genuine robbers, as well as vagrants who occasionally act as robbers, making vagrants the most terrifying scourge in the countryside.

The old system used light cavalry to capture beggars, and beggars had to swear that they would never beg in the future before being released. To confirm that they would never beg again, they had to find a credible and solvent guarantor to ensure that they work or support them.

As ordinary prisons and workhouses could no longer accommodate new prisons, new prisons had to be built. This operation continued uninterrupted until the end of the old system. In 1778, a law was enacted that the mounted police were not only required to arrest beggars they encountered.

And homeless people, they also have to arrest suspects who are handed over to them. Therefore, the citizens with the most impeccable conduct and the least likely to become homeless cannot guarantee whether they will be imprisoned in a shelter.

The passage of this magical law is indeed otherworldly, but the answer may be found when thinking of the story of "The Blessing of All People". A man who claimed to his wife and concubines that he was treated every day actually went to the cemetery to eat tributes. This law

What was being pursued was begging. In the asylum in Rennes, several husbands were arrested because their wives exposed them, and some wives were also exposed by their husbands and were detained.

The same is true for witch hunting. It is more rampant in the countryside than in the city. A son will expose his mother, and a brother will expose his sister. When someone has a headache or a plague, his first thought is to arrest the witch. While religion brings order, it also brings other problems, such as the agreement between politics and religion.

The signing of the Special Criminal Court and the Special Criminal Court have gradually restored order in the countryside. Villagers pay more attention to public security issues than urban residents. This is a common problem in cities. Public security is not good in places where many people gather. For the whole country, there is nothing more important than restoring public security.

This was a beneficial thing, and Napoleon's reputation was greatly improved, and he could stand shoulder to shoulder with Henry IV and Louis XIV.

But his ambition was by no means to be a French king. Charlemagne was the one who unified Western Europe after Attila. Ruling Italy was close to that goal. Once the "chariot" was in motion, it would crush all obstacles in its path.

, even the Alps have to dig out a road.

The "Lucky Cook" introduced the British railway, which greatly increased the transportation capacity. This time Napoleon asked Ney to send troops to Switzerland, so he used this kind of road paved with wooden tracks to transport cannon.

Tolls are needed to build roads, but local governments rarely use tolls to build roads. Those roads are full of potholes all year round. Bonaparte used the excuse of "buying fertilizer" to seize the tax money and sell the dunghills on the outskirts of Paris.

It was given to several relatively wealthy provinces.

In the end, farmers have to pay for the fertilizer, but even if farmers don’t promote it, they still have to buy fertilizer. If the seeds are planted, even a harvest of 5 times is considered a small loss. The weather and soil fertility will affect the harvest, and they also introduced the Dutch straw.

Horses, slightly wealthier farmers have tried renting farmland with such animals, with moderate results. It can be regarded as an attempt to reform traditional farming methods. In addition, the introduction of agricultural machinery has also released agricultural labor, and industrialization also requires labor.

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Under the feudal system, France's industry lagged "much" behind Britain's. As can be seen from steel production alone, many people are dissatisfied with the fact that the salt tax has been reinstated on imported steel without tariffs.

Originally, the "cook" managed the canteen of the Tuileries Palace, but she was replaced after a collective "food strike" by French senior officials.

The British did not like this policy either. The Treaty of Amiens was called a verdict of national subjugation by the warring factions. The steel group now took a fancy to France's huge market potential and even put a sculpture of Napoleon in their own home.

The carrying capacity of horse-drawn carriages and steam engines is different. Inter-provincial railways have not yet been built because the technology is not up to date, but horse-drawn passenger cars have begun to be laid in Paris.

The carriages in the British city have a limited speed, unlike the French carriages. These things were originally only owned by the nobles. They would basically be fine if they ran over a beggar. If this had happened in England, someone would have beaten the noble.

It is easy to promote potatoes in the UK. In France, 99 out of 100 farmers are unwilling to eat them. In Germany, horses only eat oats, and farmers also eat oats. They are completely unaware that their living conditions are similar to those of animals.

Potato stew was regarded as a "strong recommendation", but fortunately it tasted good, and it was very pleasant to take a hot bath after eating.

The refugees were arrested to solve their jobs. The construction of the canal did absorb a lot of labor, but the number of people fleeing to Paris was still increasing, and there were no shortage of homeless people on the streets. There were also some temporary agricultural workers among them.

, felt that machines had taken away their jobs, and they hated the "cook lady" so much that they even attacked her.

In addition, there is a rumor that is both true and false. She was poisoned and assassinated at St. Luke's Palace. Not everyone was happy to see her alive, making Britain and France become "close allies."

No one pursued the matter, but Bonaparte canceled the Saint-Luc's coffee, and people began to miss the old sidewalk cafe of the Tuileries.

Making sugar from beets was another industry promoted by Bonaparte, but farmers were still unwilling to plant it. France also had tropical colonies like Saint-Domingue. Unlike the Holy Roman Empire, they had no tropical colonies and were forced to invent sugar beet making.

Sugary.

It is difficult to conquer Santo Domingo. Free people are not willing to become slaves. Another problem is that New Orleans is the outlet of the Mississippi River. If you want to transport products from Louisiana, the ports on the east coast are controlled by the Americans.

.Before the church-state agreement was signed, the papal envoy Caprara was kidnapped. The old fool said that he had forgotten who kidnapped him, and then Bonaparte issued a pardon and imposed sanctions on American goods.

Jefferson also raised tobacco tariffs as counter-sanctions, and the British benefited greatly from this.

French people, both men and women, love to smoke. It is as difficult for them to quit smoking as it is for British people to quit drinking. Bonaparte gave private tobacco to the monopoly and collected tobacco taxes. In comparison, the price of British cigarettes is much cheaper.

William Pitt the Younger was obsessed with the corruption of the East India Company. How did a charter of saltpeter from India to the United States, carried by a Danish cargo ship, end up on the desk of the French Ministry of Intelligence?

If the United States wants to buy equipment for making gunpowder from France, it will no longer have to be restricted by Britain in the future.

France wanted British engineers, and a Scottish engineer who had provided a threshing machine to George Washington was poached. Farmers who could not afford the equipment could rent it, and the Paris Agricultural Association proposed farming loans. Generally speaking, when a new monarch comes to power, there will be some

A flattering policy, even Caligula restored the popular assembly banned by Tiberius, but Bonaparte was more unlucky, encountering natural disasters for two consecutive years.

In the second year, even with large-scale sowing, there was still no increase in production, and overall we still lost money.

You can't do it without borrowing money. If the interest rate on borrowing money is too high, it will be like the people in Alsace who took advantage of natural disasters to make loan sharks and take away the land of French farmers. The French are very conservative about borrowing money, unlike the British.

Bankers know the benefits of "credit".

He asked Gabriel Houvral to buy grain, and he bought two million quintals of wheat, but he also asked the King of Spain to issue many blank charters to bring back Spanish silver coins from Mexico.

Is this his only purpose? Of course not, he opened a shipping company, similar in nature to the South China Sea Company, but his ships can really trade in South America. The fleets of Britain, France, and Spain cannot intercept him according to the peace treaty. U.S. warships are in

Morocco caught pirates and didn’t even see the pirates’ sails.

Because no one suddenly thought of how to deal with him, the British solution was to suspend the charter. The French Minister of the Interior also meant the same. Charters would breed inequality, and companies with charters would gain trade priority.

Speculators specialize in places that others would not think of. Napoleon crossed the Alps twice and the Austrians were not caught off guard. Especially the second time, he actually let a group of beggars dress up as soldiers to conduct a review, deceiving spies from all over the world.

The Orange War was not only on land but also on sea. Saint-Cyr, who was planning to attack Lisbon, was blocked by the British navy. The Portuguese bourgeoisie also wanted to imitate France and have a revolution. Later, British warships picked up the Portuguese royal family in advance.

There are legends that they were transported to South America and even moved their capital to Rio de Janeiro, but later they came back from the island when everything was peaceful. The British did not say who provided this information. When someone asked, these lobster soldiers also had ambiguous faces.

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Regarding the issue in Saint-Domingue, the "Cook Lady" gave a piece of information to Lord Mery of the British Embassy in France at the Place de la Vampire where the Industrial Exposition was held. At that time, she was almost arrested for espionage.

This woman once said that Caesar treated Cicero with indifference, Antony was courteous to Cicero but eventually killed him, Octavian showed respect to Cicero but severely suppressed his allies.

Bonaparte made Sieyes the Speaker of the Senate, but cleared other republicans out of the parliament. When people were about to attack him, the "Cook Lady" found these people in her salon and put them

Introduced to other departments.

It was promised in the past that pensions would be provided to the relatives of soldiers who died in the war, but this money was not given. Later, a member of Parliament who was kicked out was responsible for distributing the money to the widows, so that they could at least have money to pay rent.

Women are different from men. They want someone to listen. Josephine and the ladies listened to their difficulties while distributing bread. They were so sad that they shed tears. After they donated the money, the money was distributed in the form of pensions.

The hard times have gone on for too long, and the widows do not dare to spend arbitrarily, so they still save money to pay rent or for emergencies. The congressman expected them to spend more, and the economic stimulus plan did not come true. Even if they had daily necessities, they went to pawn shops to buy them.

During the old system, some aristocratic women knew that civilians lived a hard life, and they were willing to take off the gold and silver threads in their clothes to show frugality. There were also some "marshal's ladies" who were commoners before, but after marrying generals, they lived like noble ladies.

He was surrounded by people everywhere he went, as if he wished he could revive the Versailles ball.

It had been robbed during the Versailles Revolution, and it was lucky that it was not burned down. Later it was simply turned into a military camp.

There was a legend in the palace that Louis XIV actually never left. Josephine was originally the mistress of the Tuileries Palace, but she said that the ghost of Marie Antoinette was there and refused to live there, so she moved back

All the mirrors in Malmaison were covered with black veils.

For a while, Hortense lived in the Tuileries Palace. Later, scandals spread more and more, and she and Louis moved to other residences after their marriage. One of the rumors was that the child in her belly was not Louis's, but

Napoleon's, Josephine was so sad that she went to a hot spring to recuperate. As a result, the First Consul became "ownerless".

The "cook" was moved to the former residence of the Grand Duke of Burgundy. She was probably busy with some experiments, and by the time the scandal broke out, it was already out of control.

Bonaparte had a love affair in Milan. The Italian female opera star named Grassini and her lover, who had been Beethoven's violinist, got together after Napoleon left.

The scoundrels questioned him about that aspect, and they didn't know who gave him six purebred British "bred" horses. They were all white with no hair on them, and the peace treaty almost failed to proceed.

Now that the world is at peace, should the British income tax, the American whiskey tax, and the French tobacco tax all be stopped?

When the tribune was being purged, Sieyes had also undergone changes, but it was the "cook lady" who saved him.

People began to call Sieyes Cicero. As for Napoleon, he said in the Administrative Court: "My political system is to make the majority of people be ruled as they wish. While being Catholic, I ended the war in the Vendée

;While becoming a ***, I gained a foothold in Egypt; while becoming a papal absolute authoritarian, I defeated the priests in Italy. If I rule over the Jewish people, I will restore the Temple of Solomon. Therefore, in St.

In the free quarters of Domingo, I would speak of liberty; in Ile-de-France, and even in the slave quarters of Saint-Domingue, I would affirm slavery, but where it is retained, it needs to be tailored and restricted;

Where order is restored and discipline is maintained, freedom needs to be maintained. I think this is the way to recognize the sovereignty of the people."

This is the key point, who wants to be ruled in a democracy?

The last thing the men in the salon care about is their wives, and vice versa. In an era when people only live in social circles, there is no need to be polite to French ladies, but you must be polite to them.

attentive.

Like an absolute monarch, they have all kinds of strict requirements and cannot be reserved. Men who want to win their favor must put on powder, wear fancy clothes full of lace, rose color, and leaf color, and learn to compliment others.

, says some witty and beautiful words, and looks like a giant doll.

Girls can learn swordsmanship, but it is more like a dance. The servants who serve the Crown Princess drink 12 cups of coffee a day. The Crown Princess also has to pay for this fee, and she actually paid it.

The "cook" gave up the job of hosting the Italians to Madame Tallian, the "Mother Thermidor", who occupied the former princess palace. Madam Tallian happened to be the wife of Gabriel Houvral.
To be continued...