King's Landing in France

Chapter 108
An Ning: "That will be a long time later. It seems that everything is moving in a good direction now."

The Duke laughed: "The parliament is indeed full of optimism. Many people think that the revolution can be over here, and there will be a stable and good life after that. Only a few people are as worried as I am."

An Ning: "Let's not talk about that, everyone is already here, butler, let's serve appetizers."

As soon as An Ning finished speaking, the young master of the Duke's family who had been waiting on the chair patted the table: "That's right, I'm hungry, Dad!"

The Duke sighed, nodded to the butler, and motioned for the food to be served.

**
After dinner at the Duke's house, Christina wanted to stay at home and have a good chat with her parents, so An Ning rode back to the manor in the suburbs alone.

When approaching the manor, An Ning saw a solitary lamp at the gate of the manor in the distance, drifting away from the lights of the manor itself.

An Ning adjusted the position of the saber, so that he could quickly draw the sword later, and then urged the horse forward.

Fanny held the lamp, and stood alone outside the gate of the manor, waiting quietly.

An Ning got off the horse and gave Fanny a hug as soon as she got up.

As a result, Fanny quickly dodged.

Fanny: "Be more reserved, the ladies of the Royal Cavalry Guard live in the back yard, maybe they will see it on the terrace."

An Ning: "Then we'll go into the house later, and we'll hug when we can't see it."

"If you insist on taking advantage of me like this, then I can only obey." Fanny replied, "But I still hope not to do this."

An Ning scratched her head: "Okay, okay, I just haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss you very much."

"It's only been a few months, not too long." Fanny said, and then changed the topic, "I have prepared the bath water, and the bed has been remade, and it is velvet. After the news of your victory came , Many people sent gifts to the manor, I piled up the gifts in the small hall, and prepared a list."

An Ning: "Is that velvet bed a gift?"

"Of course, our own finances cannot afford velvet."

An Ning: "Understood. By the way, you should make preparations. We should move to Konta, and we will live in Konta for a long time."

Fanny: "Are you going to resign as a member of the National Assembly? Isn't this a critical period for the formulation of the Constitution?"

An Ning: "No way, the situation in Konta is not optimistic. So I became the military commissioner of the parliament stationed in Konta, with full authority to deal with Konta's affairs."

"Is this promoted or demoted?" Fanny asked curiously.

"Of course I was promoted, and I became a junior general—no, major general." An Ning replied.

Fanny: "But I heard before that you may be the commander of the Paris Garrison."

"Who said that?"

"That's what everyone said, and you said you're going to divide Lafayette's army in half."

"No matter, in short, you will start making preparations for moving to Konta tomorrow."

Fanny nodded: "Yes, I see. Do you also live in a manor in Konta?"

"No, I live in a big monastery. Because it is a monastery, there is no manor garden, so I don't need to bring gardeners and the like."

Fanny: "A monastery, is it the kind of monastery like a fortress?"

"Yes, it's the kind of monastery like a fortress."

"Understood." Fanny nodded lightly, "Don't mention these things, let's go into the house. By the way, there is something very important that I haven't said yet, young master, welcome back."

An Ning nodded: "Well, I'm back."

**
In the next few days, there was an endless stream of guests from An Ning's manor.

The Duke said that he wanted to introduce the big merchant who made the cannon to An Ning, and the next day the merchant came over with the Duke's letter of introduction.

An Ning bought a hundred of the latest eight-pound guns in one go, and also ordered about four thousand flintlock guns and one thousand rifles with rifles.

The businessman was shocked by the order for the rifle, because only elite hunters in some countries would use this rifle with rifles these days.

This kind of rifle is much more accurate than a smoothbore gun and has a longer range, but it has a fatal flaw: it is now loaded in the front, and in order to maximize the advantages of the rifle, the rifle will require the difference between the bullet and the barrel. The inner wall fits snugly.

Therefore, the rifle reloads very slowly, and it takes a small hammer to hit the cleaning rod hard to finally press the bullet into the innermost part of the barrel.

Because the rate of fire is too slow, the accuracy advantage of the rifle is offset.

In addition, rifles have to be rifled by hand, so the production is very slow and the cost is too expensive.

Therefore, the rifle is defined as an auxiliary weapon, and it is generally handed over to hunters or skirmishers to harass the line infantry brigade.

An Ning wanted to order a thousand rifles at once, which surprised the businessman.

But no one would refuse the door-to-door business, so in the end the businessman agreed with An Ning that the rifles would be delivered in batches, and the production would be gradually completed in the next two years.

When the businessman left the manor, his face was full of joy, obviously this transaction made him very satisfied.

An Ning was also very satisfied, anyway, he didn't pay for it himself, the duke paid for it, the generosity of others is great.

In fact, the Austrian Geraldoni air gun that An Ning most wanted to get.

In this era, there was a kind of air gun hunter in Austria, which once caused great trouble to the French army on the battlefield. It is said that many French troops did not allow air gun hunters to surrender in private, and they would be killed if caught.

It's a pity that the merchant frowned as soon as An Ning made a request.

"Girandoni air rifles are very expensive. Even in Austria, only the royal guards have a small amount of equipment. I can get a few for the major general, so that the major general's guards can equip them. Armed troops are unlikely. "

In this way, An Ning could only give up the plan of getting an air rifle unit.

An Ning has such an idea because when he played "Total War Empire", he used Austria's favorite unit, the air rifle hunter, and had a very high battle loss ratio.

Except for the merchants who came to sell guns, most of the people who came to Anning Manor brought gifts, and some even brought their own daughters.

An Ning is still unmarried, and has suddenly become a favorite in Paris. Many former aristocratic families want to marry their daughters to this former cobbler's son.

Fanny complained unceremoniously: "The nobles who come to sell their daughters look like old farmers who go to the market to sell livestock. At most, the master's living room can be filled with a dozen noble ladies, and it is as lively as a market! "

It's not that An Ning has never thought about taking the opportunity to marry a wife, which can be regarded as fulfilling her obsession in her previous life.It's a pity that I don't know why. Recently, it's popular for ladies in Paris to make their hair very fluffy and afro.

An Ning wanted to complain when she saw the afro, but she lost her desire.

So in the end, no one liked An Ning.

In this way, a week passed, and it seemed that the first anniversary of the Bastille was approaching.

The parliament has designated this day as "Revolution Day" and renamed the original Place Louis XV as "Revolution Square" (after the restoration of Bourbon, it will be renamed again to Place de la Concorde).

The parliament decided that on July 7th, a grand celebration would be held in Revolution Square.

(End of this chapter)