King's Landing in France

Chapter 149 Chaos situation

When the news of Lafayette's failure reached Paris, there was an uproar in Paris.

After the portrait of Lafayette's hanging and Frost's speech were transmitted back to Paris, it immediately caused widespread panic.

The nobles and big businessmen who were still in Paris were so frightened that they dragged their families and ran to the northeast border, blocking the way out of the city.

The target they defected to was obviously General Bouille on the border, where King Louis XVI and his family lived.

It is said that on the way to escape, many aristocratic businessmen tore off the tricolor emblem and put on the iris emblem representing the Bourbon royal family.

The National Assembly did not run away, and the Girondists who controlled the Assembly elected a new National Guard commander, Luckner, to prepare the army for war and prepare to stick to Paris.

But as soon as Luckner took office, the National Guard in Paris mutinied. The soldiers chanted the slogan "Long live General Frost" and poured out of the barracks to mix with the trousers in Paris.

The men in trousers chanted the slogans in General Frost's speech, shouted "hang the traitor who stole the revolution" and "give the country back to the citizens", filling the streets and alleys of Paris.

A mixed brigade of Self-Defense Forces and trousers marched to the seat of the parliament and rushed to the stands of the parliament.

Yes, the building where the parliament is located at this time is still the same as when the Great Revolution was just launched. There are stands, even if you are not a member of the parliament, you can come in and watch the affairs of the parliament.

The trousers occupied the stands, and whenever a member of parliament came to speak on stage, they shouted "return the achievements to the citizens", making it impossible to proceed with the parliamentary proceedings.

In this case, Marat stood on the podium.

"Gentlemen!" said Marat, looking directly at the trousers and the soldiers in the stands as if he were addressing them.

"Gentlemen! At this time, we should really consider whether the decision to label General Frost as a traitor is correct!"

As soon as the words fell, a member of the parliament shouted: "Of course he is a traitor. He violated the basic spirit of the Constitution. Private property is sacred and inviolable!"

The audience in the stands immediately booed mountains and seas, suppressing the refutation of Marat's opinion.

After the boos subsided, Marat continued: "General Frost's speech did point out a problem, that is, ordinary citizens benefited too little during the Great Revolution!"

The audience cheered.

Marat: "Some of you! I know it! In the two years after the revolution, wealth has increased tenfold! Especially Angot, you are a grain merchant, and you have a share of the price increase after the revolution!
"You lowered the purchase price in the countryside, and raised the price in the city! And you also colluded with the city officials in Paris to escape a large amount of market taxes!
"Look at you, all of you are full of brains, but the trousers in the stands, they can't even afford new clothes, because the price of cloth has also increased!"

There was another applause from the stands.

The more Marat spoke, the more passionate he became: "I think General Frost is very right. It is because of you that the people's lives have not improved! This is wrong! We must make changes so that the French All the better for the French to enjoy the benefits of the revolution.

"I think now is a very good time for us to seize the properties of the fugitive nobles and great merchants and distribute them to the poor in Paris!

"There is also rural land, because we insist on the sanctity of private property, so we have formulated a redemption policy, but we never thought that farmers have no money to buy it!
"Frost himself is in the countryside, so he saw through this, and only then did he use the coupons to redeem the land and then distribute the land to the farmers!
"In the end, he was voted by us as a traitor! He is not a traitor, he is clearly solving problems for us!

"I think it's time to cancel the statement of the traitor, and at the same time, refer to his practice and distribute the land to the peasants throughout France!"

The gentlemen of the parliament were in an uproar, but the people in the stands were cheering, and as a result, the voices of the gentlemen of the parliament were suppressed.

When the meeting room became quiet, a congressman stood up, pointed at Mara's nose and cursed: "Are you asking us to abandon the principles stipulated in the Constitution? Private property is inviolable but..."

There were boos again, and someone shouted: "Drag him out and hang him on the street lamp!"

The congressman was so frightened by these words that he sat down hastily.

Marat: "The constitution also stipulates that we are a country with a constitutional monarchy, and now the monarch has run away! I think today we should define the king who communicated with foreign countries as a traitor! Then change it to a republic!
"Since it is a republic, the constitution of the Kingdom of France is naturally countless!"

After the words fell, there was another applause from the stands, and the crowd began to shout "Long live the Republic".

After being quiet again, Mara threw out his trump card: "If we don't change anything today, how do you think Frost will treat the parliament when he returns to Paris?"

The MPs looked at each other.

Marat: "So, I propose to vote now to overturn the resolution that Frost is a traitor, and congratulate him for eliminating Lafayette, the leader of the constitutional monarchy who has been holding the parliament hostage for a long time!

"At the same time, invite him to return to Paris as soon as possible to deal with the rebellious General Bouille!"

**
While Paris was in chaos, An Ning was reorganizing his troops at Konta.

After he executed Lafayette, most of Lafayette's troops who had surrendered expressed their willingness to join him.

Moreover, Lafayette's troops, which were originally disbanded, stopped fleeing after getting the news, turned around and ran back.

Anning assigned the task of reorganizing these units to Lazar Kano.

Lazar Kano was already good at this. After all, in real history, he helped the Republic carry out military reforms and formed a strong army of 700,000. He was nicknamed the "Victory Organizer".

But even Lazar Kano encountered great difficulties in reorganizing these troops.

Because Anning hanged Lafayette's street lamp, the old noble officers did not dare to join Anning. As a result, many soldiers of the army came to seek refuge, and the non-commissioned officers became rich.

Only soldiers, no generals!
Not even Lazar Kano could conjure up a non-commissioned officer capable of commanding a rapidly expanding army.

It takes time to train non-commissioned officers from ordinary soldiers.

Moreover, An Ning had previously regarded the teaching team as a night raid team, but only [-]% of the original teaching team returned after the night raid, and there were not enough people to turn them into non-commissioned officers.

All in all, Anning's officers are busy reorganizing these days, let alone marching into Paris, they can't move at Konta at all.

So An Ning can be said to be passively watching the situation in Konta.

From Austria, came very bad news.

Because Louis XVI successfully escaped from Paris, the nobles who had been driven out of the country by the Great Revolution gathered in Austria one after another, and passed through Austria to Bavaria to the northeastern border of France.

Now General Buye on the northeast border has assembled a very impressive royalist army.

Queen Mary then ran back to her natal home, and now the two great armies of Austria were assembled on the border.

One in Italy, under General Beaulieu, was at Milan ready to attack the south of France through Nice and Provence.

One is east of Bavaria, led by General Wumze, ready to intervene at any time.

In addition, Frederick the Great of Prussia finally arrived, and the new King of Prussia, Frederick William II, was also eager to try and prepare to interfere in France.

The Prussian army, led by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, had also moved to the frontier.

In addition, the trend of the United Kingdom is also worrying.

News from Toulon was that cruisers of the Royal Navy had been seen several times off Toulon.

An Ning gathered the information, and felt more and more that the situation was not optimistic.

But while he was worrying about these things, a painter came all the way from Paris to visit him.

(End of this chapter)