King's Landing in France

Chapter 148 Long Live the Republic
The small municipal square is packed with people today.

The small square was filled with 1000 peaceful infantry soldiers, except for the wounded soldiers, almost all of them were here. There were more than [-] cavalry soldiers lined up on the surrounding roads, and the rest of the space was filled by civilians.

Lafayette was directly sent to the stage set up overnight in the square, and tied to the whipping frame.

Originally, An Ning wanted to repeat Lafayette's stick punishment, that is, tie him to a wheel and beat him to death with a stick, but was stopped by Lazar Cano.

What Lazar Kano meant was that it would be enough for him to pay for his life by hanging in the end.

An Ning thought for a while and felt that what Lazare Cano said made sense. He couldn't tell the French nobles that the tails of rabbits would not be able to grow any longer. In a few years, the Jacobins would all be chopped off. He could only agree. The Chief of Staff made this reasonable suggestion.

After Lafayette was tied up, An Ning walked up to the execution platform and snapped her fingers.

So Lana led two descendants of Lafayette's troops to the execution platform.

Of these two, one is the one whom Lana told An Ning yesterday, whose younger brother was beaten to death with a stick, and the other is a "righteous man" carefully selected by An Ning.

An Ning glanced at Lana and the two, then turned to the audience.

"Everyone! In 1789, that is, two years ago, I personally led the citizens of Paris to storm the Bastille and start this era of great revolution!"

As soon as An Ning finished speaking, the soldiers below began to shout: "Long live Your Excellency, General!"

An Ning had to stop his speech, and made several gestures to suppress everyone's voice.

He continued: "However, two years have passed, tell me, are your lives better than before the revolution?

"During the revolution, you charged forward as citizens, but your sisters and your wives had to sell themselves in order to live!
"Obviously we have got rid of feudal obligations, but we are still impoverished! Correspondingly, those high-ranking gentlemen are full of food and drink, and their mouths are full of fat! They embezzled the achievements of the revolution, and then put We kicked it away!
"Not only that, but they're going after us! Let's take the first one! This is a surrendered soldier from Lafayette's troops, and now they are part of the honorable National Guard of Konta! Let's ask Ask him what Lafayette did to his brother!"

While talking, An Ning grabbed the sleeve of the No. 1 soldier and pulled him to the front, facing the tens of thousands of fiery eyes below.

The man stuttered: "I, my name is Marz. My brother and I served in the [-]nd Battalion of the [-]nd Regiment of the [-]th Brigade of the Paris National Self-Defense Forces. Not long before the expedition to Konta, my brother was not paid enough. , protested to the officers!

"You know, our military pay is paid by coupons. In fact, coupons are nothing. Coupons can still be used in Paris, but they don't work! I don't know what to say. Anyway, the price of bread has increased many times. Sometimes it goes up every three days, but our military pay is still the same as a year ago!
"So my brother went to protest, protested with a lot of soldiers. Then, this man! This man pointed at my brother with his whip! Then my brother was arrested and they tied my brother to a wheel , beaten to death!"

An Ning: "Before killing your brother, did General Lafayette explain what he was charged with?"

Maltz: "No! I'm sure not!"

"What about the trial?"

"No, absolutely not!"

Lafayette said angrily: "You, a soldier, actually mutinied! Do you still have to give a reason? Mutiny is the reason! Is there still a trial?"

An Ning took the executioner's leather whip, and swung a solid whip on Lafayette.

Lafayette howled in pain.

An Ning: "They are your soldiers, but they are also citizens! No one can torture a citizen without trial!"

After whipping the whip a few times, An Ning returned the whip to the executioner, and turned to the crowd gathered in the square.

"That's not all of Lafayette's crimes! Let's call in a second witness!"

Lana grumbled at the second soldier.

The surrendered soldier immediately advanced a few steps, walked up to An Ning, and said loudly, "I am the Paris National Guard, Corporal Defoe, [-]nd Battalion, [-]st Regiment, [-]rd Brigade!"

An Ning: "What do you want to sue?"

Corporal Defoe: "I want to complain, it happened in July this year! In July this year, the citizens of Paris gathered at the Mars school grounds to celebrate the second anniversary of the capture of the Bastille. This is a completely peaceful celebration!"

An Ning: "Are you sure it's a peaceful celebration?"

"I swear, General Frost! Lots of people even thought of going on a hike, with picnic baskets and tablecloths!"

An Ning: "Is there a lady here?"

"There are too many, half of them are women!"

An Ning: "What did Lafayette order you to do?"

The sergeant stared at Lafayette, raised his finger to his nose, and two lines of tears flowed from his eyes: "He, he ordered us to disperse the crowd with bayonets and bullets!"

"It was a riot!" Lafayette yelled.

An Ning: "Going to riot with a picnic basket? You bastard, give me a smoke!"

The executioner raised and lowered his whip, and Lafayette screamed, making people think of a certain ancestor of the beast.

After whipping the whip a few times, An Ning raised his hand and told the executioners to stop. Lafayette immediately said after regaining his strength: "Maybe, maybe there were some misunderstandings, but the situation in Paris was very urgent at that time! Moreover, the parliament Gentlemen also let me take decisive action to maintain order in Paris!"

An Ning: "Are you saying that the gentlemen in the parliament are also at fault? Who asked you to take measures?"

Lafayette: "It was decided by the parliamentary vote! Who voted, it was a secret ballot, so no one knows."

An Ning: "Then we will replace the parliament and let more competent gentlemen enter the parliament! But you, you are unforgivable! You must be responsible for the ladies and gentlemen who died tragically in the Mars schoolyard tragedy today!

"Everyone present is a jury! If they decide you deserve to die, they will all shout the death penalty!"

An Ning stopped, scanned the entire venue, and then his eyes fell on Napoleon below.

Napoleon understood in seconds, and immediately shouted: "Death penalty!"

Immediately afterwards, an overwhelming roar erupted from the entire square: "Death penalty!"

In fact, if you take a closer look, you will find that An Ning's troops are shouting. These people have just won the battle, and they are happy to hang the enemy's coach for fun.

Amidst the overwhelming "death penalty", Lafayette's face was pale, and he stared at An Ning: "You can't do this! There has never been a battle where the commander on one side will be hanged after the battle is over!"

An Ning: "Then start here! First of all, you are responsible for the death of Marz's brother! You murdered him by lynching! Thirty lashes!"

The executioner dipped the whip into the salt water and began to whip.

During the whipping, An Ning turned to the crowd. Amidst the sound of whippings, he said coldly: "It's time to change everything completely. In the fields of France, I have seen enough scenes of starvation everywhere, I have seen enough up!

"France is the France of all citizens, the France of the trousers, the France of the peasants! If their lives are not improving, it is wrong, we are not doing it!
"Just now, Louis XVI has also gone to a foreign country, exposing his traitorous nature! It's time for us to build a country without a king!
"A republic! A country of all Frenchmen! A country of liberty, equality, and fraternity in the true sense!"

Amidst Lafayette's screams, An Ning announced so.

As soon as he finished speaking, Napoleon, who understood him, shouted from below: "Long live the Republic!"

And so the overwhelming Long Live the Republic poured across the square.

An Ning always felt that this square would be called Republic Square in the future.

After the crowd became quiet again, the executioner said to An Ning, "The caning is over."

An Ning nodded: "Choose a street lamp and hang Mr. Lafayette on it."

At this time, there was no such convenient thing as the guillotine.

Executioner: "Just street lamps?"

An Ning: "Yes, this is considered a tradition. Two years ago, the peasants in the countryside sent off their aristocratic masters by hanging them on street lamps."

Several big and round executioners immediately started to untie Lafayette from the whipping platform and dragged him to the street lamp beside the square.

Lafayette screamed: "You can't do this to me! I am a Marquis! A Marquis registered with the Civil Service Bureau! I still have territory! You can't do this to me!"

The executioner put the rope around his neck and hung it up the lamppost little by little.

At first the Marquis struggled, but soon he stopped moving.

An Ning turned to Lazar Cano and said, "Have you written down the speech I just made? Find a painter and sketch the drawing of Lafayette hanging on the street lamp, and then send it together with my speech to Go to every big city and publish it in the newspaper!"

(End of this chapter)