King's Landing in France

Chapter 181 Gentlemen of Jacobin

An Ning lived comfortably in Milan for a few days.

The Italian cuisine of this era has been fully formed. After eating Italian food for a few days, Anning immediately abandoned French cuisine, although French cuisine is recognized as the most advanced cuisine in this era.

He always feels that Italian food is more suitable for Chinese people, maybe because many Italian dishes use rice?
Anning is in Milan and is particularly fond of a dish called risotto with radicchio cream.The rice used in this dish is from Italy, very plump and round, and full of cheese and butter, it tastes very silky and refreshing.

Ever since she ate this dish, An Ning asked the chef to make it every day.

Then, because of An Ning's great prestige in his army, all the middle and senior officers of the army ate this dish, and then the new dignitaries in Milan also ate it with the French army.

In fact, the planting area of ​​rice in Italy is not large, so the upper class eat radicchio cream risotto directly causing the price of rice in Milan to skyrocket.

Even if it was soaring, it was starting to be out of stock, so the person in charge of procurement in the French army had to sign a contract with an Italian supplier to guarantee the supply of rice to Your Excellency the General.

Yes, rice became the first special offering in Italy, exclusively for His Excellency the General.

After An Ning heard about this incident, she was very surprised, and then began to eat other dishes.

However, after traveling through so many years, finally eating rice still made him feel a little nostalgic.

Speaking of which, the current motherland is still the Qing Dynasty, and the first Opium War will start in 50 years. If I am in good health, maybe I can travel across the ocean and go back to the motherland to see it?

But at that time, An Ning was over 90 years old, and I wondered if she could still bear the journey across half of the earth.

In addition to binge eating rice, An Ning did a few things in Milan.

The first is to completely control the printing presses in Milan, and publish newspapers every day touting that he is the liberator of Italy from France, to build momentum for his future plans.

The second is to ban the money merchants as planned, and open an official currency exchange bank by themselves, using their huge reputation as an endorsement.

Because most of the money merchants are Jews, the banning of money merchants is seen by Italian folks as making fun of the Jews.

The folk reaction to this was: Well done!
An Ning deeply feels that there is a tradition of anti-Semitism in Europe.

As for An Ning's own conscience, just kidding, An Ning is a P Club player, and every P Club player has two solutions when they are short of money: the first is to ask the Pope for generous donations, and the second is to expel Jewish businessmen.

There is no burden on your heart at all, okay?After all, I don’t know how many times this decision has been clicked in the game.

With the smooth progress of making money, An Ning also relaxes.

According to the plan, he sent the Lana Division with poor military discipline to the direction of the Mantua Fortress to monitor the movement of the Austrians, and the Davust Division with good military discipline stayed in Milan to maintain order in Milan.

Masséna's division then continued on its own supply lines, monitoring the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Regarding An Ning's excuse, the Sardinian Kingdom's reaction was no response.

It may be because after the security forces crossed the border, they sent a cart of silver coins collected from Diego to the Kingdom of Sardinia.

With road money, everything is easy to say, right?

Of course, it is also possible that the Kingdom of Sardinia went to Paris to protest, An Ning does not know.Anyway, An Ning's principle is that what happened in Paris is none of my business.

Let the gentlemen of Paris trouble themselves.

During the time An Ning was in Milan, a new king was enthroned in Paris. When the news of the enthronement came, An Ning was drinking tea with Christina, so An Ning jokingly called Miss Christian.

Christina couldn't stop laughing.

By July, news of the armistice finally came.

The Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of France signed an armistice treaty.

Originally, An Ning thought that the gentlemen in Paris would stumbling him and handed Milan back to Shinra. As a result, the gentlemen in Paris were quite upbeat and asked Milan to maintain the status quo in the armistice agreement.

Shinra probably thought about Poland, so he pinched his nose and recognized it.

Thinking about it carefully, it may be because An Ning only occupies Milan, and more than half of Northern Italy is in the hands of Shinra, so the Emperor Shinra is not particularly heartbroken.

If An Ning, like in another period of history, also removes the Mantua fortress and eats up the whole of northern Italy, Shinra probably won't be able to calm down.

After the armistice, An Ning didn't know how history would go.

He decided to stay the same and respond to all changes, and develop himself first.

On the side of Milan, he established a Republic of Milan, endorsed by his own prestige, controlled the republic's right to issue currency, and began to print banknotes in a grand manner, relying on this to grab a lot of wealth.

He also recruited Italian craftsmen and scientists to tinker with steam engines and prepare to promote the industrial revolution in southern France and northern Italy.

As long as there is an industrial revolution, with the strength of the industrial revolution as the foundation, I will have the strength to deal with whatever direction history will develop in the future, right?

An Ning was still in the Republic of Milan and organized a Republic Army.

He asked the tailor he personally found to design military uniforms for the Republic Army. According to his requirements, the military uniforms should use red as the main tone.

Napoleon was very puzzled by this: "Shouldn't it be blue? I think that the army of freedom should basically use blue as the main color."

An Ning shook her head: "No, no, you don't understand, the main force of the Republic Army is Italians, do you understand? Italians have to wear red to be effective!"

Napoleon: "Huh? This..."

An Ning shook her head, smiled without saying a word.

After all, the Italian Sequoia Army is a matter of decades, and it is useless to say it now, let everyone treat it as their own special hobby.

Then the time came to the end of 1792, when another accident happened in Paris.

In France now, economic problems still exist, and the lives of most people are not good.

So in October 1792, another revolution broke out in Paris. The Girondists were overthrown by armed Parisian masses. The masses also rushed into the Tuileries Palace and demanded that the king sign an order to dissolve Parliament.

The new king had no choice but to follow suit, so the Girondists who supported the king fell completely.

An Ning was shocked when he heard the news. He originally thought that the Girondist rule would be stable for a while now, and would not fall as quickly as in real history.

As a result, history turned around and returned to the original track.

It seems that the root cause of the downfall of the Girondins in history was that the domestic problems had not been resolved, and the defeat in the war was only a catalyst.

After the downfall of the Girondins, a new National Assembly was quickly elected, and members of the Jacobin Club occupied the majority of seats in the assembly!

Yes, the Jacobins, he actually came to power!

(End of this chapter)