King's Landing in France

Chapter 124

After An Ning left Paris, everything in Paris went on as usual without any impact at all.

Lafayette is still struggling to maintain his position, facing impeachment from all sides.

The Constituent Assembly is still wrangling over the details of various bills.

The people of Paris are still worrying about their livelihood. The only thing to be thankful for is that because of two consecutive years of bumper harvests, the price of bread has remained at a level that most people can barely accept.

On Kongta's side, An Ning was busy inspecting her manor.

Before he confiscated the church's real estate, he didn't have time to examine it carefully. He was too busy at that time, so he swallowed all the land deeds and settled down.

Now that An Ning is free, he takes the title deed to inspect his confiscated real estate every day, and finds out that good guy, at least [-]% of the land around Konta is in his hands.

These lands are so big that An Ning rides a horse for a day, and they are still within their own land boundaries.

Moreover, there are many completely uncultivated forests in these lands, and many manors are also in a semi-abandoned state, probably because the church does not have enough manpower to run these manors.

After discovering this, An Ning decided to set up a company to run these manors, and recruit workers from Paris.

An Ning named the company Konta Development Company—no way, he is a bad namer.

In order to run the company, An Ning still needs a lot of people with management experience. Konta has no such talents. Even if all the intellectuals in Konta are invited, it is not enough.

So these talents can only be found in Paris.

For a while, people in Paris had a new destination: to the Conta.

Those who couldn't get along in Paris, and those who wanted something new to look forward to, all flocked to Conta, and got a brand new field under the arrangement of the company.

An Ning's approach even inspired the gentlemen of the National Assembly, and soon the National Assembly began to send commissioners across the country to count the confiscated church properties, and then rent them out to those willing to reclaim them at a very low price.

Not long after that, the Parliament passed the Land Picking Act, and began to pick up land across the country. All unowned land found in the process of picking up land was nationalized, and then leased to farmers for use.

Yes, An Ning actually inadvertently promoted the land reform in France, which would have taken some time before it was implemented.

With the implementation of the Land Acquisition Law, the government's financial situation has further improved, and the problem of depreciation of bonds has also been alleviated to a certain extent.

Then in November of 1790, the Clergy Act was promulgated, in almost the same time as the original history.

After the Clergy Law was promulgated, there was an immediate uproar across the country.

Many priests in conservative areas refused to swear allegiance to the country in accordance with the priestly law, and they became the so-called dissenting priests. Patriots from all over the country immediately followed the priestly law to mobilize people to arrest these dissenting priests and hang them all.

And that sparked massive unrest in conservative areas.

For farmers in conservative areas, they may have been baptized by the priest of the nearby church from birth, their wedding ceremony was presided over by the priest, and the weekly services were also organized by the priest. The meal was also received by the priest...

It can be said that these priests, or in a more formal name, "priests of the church", are the organizers of rural life. The rural people may not know who their lords are, but they must be familiar with the priests.

Now that these priests were hanged for refusing to take the oath, one can imagine how angry the peasants would be.

In addition, after the revolution, the peasants in the countryside hardly enjoyed the benefits of the revolution. Although they burned the land deeds of the lords, they still did not get the land. Not that much money.

I didn't get the ownership of the land, but I still have to pay the same tax.

Moreover, in the past, the taxation in rural areas was collected by local officials selected from among the local residents, but now they are dispatched from the city. These strangers are domineering and domineering when they arrive in the countryside, making many unreasonable demands.

So, since the Revolution, the peasants have had enough.

The accumulated dissatisfaction reached its limit immediately after the city gentlemen hanged the local priest.

Then violent eruptions erupted in the last month of 1790.

By 1791, the entire French countryside was in flames of rebellion.

In the words of the game "Europa Universalis", an incident happened that caused the country's stability to -3, and rebels exploded everywhere.

Players usually spend money to increase stability at this time, but the council has no money now-the financial situation has just improved, where did the money come from.

In many places, representatives of parliament were hung from street lamps - as they had hanged Resentment priests.

Patriots supporting parliament were massacred by peasant troops.

Many old aristocrats who lost power due to the parliament took the opportunity to stir up trouble, and the peasants seemed to recall the kindness of the nobles and lords, and supported these old aristocrats one after another.

They forget that just two years before, in the summer of 1789, it was they who had stormed the estates of the gentlemen, burned the deeds, and shouted long live the National Assembly.

Of course, for the time being these rebellions did not affect Paris, indeed not even the surrounding towns.

Because the closer to the big cities, the more the residents are influenced by revolutionary ideas and the more progressive they are. Correspondingly, many priests in these places also support the National Assembly, so most of them chose to take the oath.

The whole of France seems to be divided into two worlds. The place near the city is peaceful and peaceful, and the countryside far away from the city is in chaos.

Among the turbulent countryside, Konta has unique scenery.

Konta is also in the countryside far away from the big cities, but there are no priests who reject the vows in Anning, and those who will become priests who reject the vows have long been dispatched by Anning to work on the farm.

Those who may become rebels have seen the bravery of the National Guard a year ago, and now they are trembling when they mention General Frost.

How could such a person rise up to rebel, he couldn't rebel, he didn't have the ability to know.

With the occurrence of nationwide turmoil, Konta, which was peacefully guarded, became, like several large cities, the target of patriots everywhere.

An Ning has been prepared for a long time. He has built a lot of brand new houses in Konta, just waiting for the refugees to come.

He also arranged jobs for the refugees. For a while, the whole Konta was like Taoyuan Township compared to other places in chaos.

In March 1791, the parliament issued a third order, asking An Ning to lead the army to suppress the rebellion. An Ning wrote back that there were also signs of rebellion in the Konta area, and he must maintain the stability of the Konta area and continue to stand still.

But An Ning felt that the time to fight was approaching.

So he ordered a military exercise to test the results of the National Guard's drills for the past year.

The maneuvers were scheduled for the morning of April 1791, 4.

(End of this chapter)