King's Landing in France

Chapter 206 General Frost has long expected so
At this time, Paris is in chaos.

Rich businessmen are dragging their families and wanting to leave Paris with their property, but the citizens of Paris think that they are surrendering and betraying Paris, so they spontaneously organize to surround them.

Since the beginning of the Great Revolution, the masses in Paris have been armed. Almost every household and every man in trousers has hidden more than one weapon.

As a result, gunshots continued throughout the city from morning to night, and rich people who wanted to run were hung up on lampposts in Paris every day.

Everyone is looking for reasons for the huge defeat of the French army: why is Frost in Italy invincible, but Dumourier on the Rhine lost so badly?
There must be some reason!
So a logical inference emerged: the same French army was able to win more with less in Italy, winning consecutive battles, but was defeated in the Rhine River. It must be because some traitors did not want the army to win!
Coupled with the news that the Austrians would massacre the city after they invaded Paris, the Parisians began to frantically eliminate the traitors they thought were under the pressure of fear.

The old aristocrats who corresponded with foreign countries were the first to bear the brunt, followed by wealthy merchants and bankers.

Anyway, someone must be responsible for the failure of the French army.

These accelerated the escape of the old nobles and big businessmen, and many people did not hesitate to use secret channels to escape from the city of Paris secretly.

For the people of Paris, this has become the most favorable proof that these people are traitors: If you are not a traitor, why are you running away?

As a result, the huge city of Paris was immersed in blood and terror every day.

At this time, instead of stopping the terror and stabilizing the situation, the parliament stepped forward to promote the whole situation.

Danton delivered a speech in Parliament on December 12: "This Paris has always been lurking with enemies! Those old nobles have only pretended to be on the side of the people from the beginning!

"Their general representative, the King of France, has gone to Austria! Who can guarantee that His Majesty the King has no intention of going to Austria?"

As soon as Anton finished speaking, Mr. Philip Equality below stood up and objected loudly: "No! My son is not an enemy of the people! Neither am I! I have always stood on the side of the people! You see, I even changed my name to Got Philip Equality!

"No one is more pro-tricolor, no one is more revolutionary than me!"

Dandong stared at the Duke and snorted unceremoniously: "Who knows! If changing your name can prove your loyalty, then everyone would have changed their name a long time ago!

"And you think about it, the series of bills proposed by the parliament these days are aimed at advancing the Konta model to the whole law, and as a result, these bills are all stuck with the king!

"In my opinion, the king is the biggest traitor! We must immediately search the king's palace, confiscate all documents and letters, and set up a special committee to review these!"

Immediately, a representative of the Pingyuan faction stood up and objected loudly: "I object! How could anyone be so unreasonable to His Majesty the King?"

Dandong: "You actually object! I think you are also a traitor! France is already in danger. At this time, only terror, complete terror can completely crush all kinds of traitors entrenched in the country and save France!"

"You are a bloody mouth!" Someone immediately stood up and said angrily, "I think you are the enemy of France. After suppressing it with blood, a clean France will be dedicated to the Austrians!"

Danton was about to retort when Marat stood up: "We are friends of General Frost! The general is behind the parliament! The general has been winning victories for France! Just imagine, if the general was on the Rhine front in the first place, How could there be such a failure?

"Then the question is, who pushed the general to the Conta! Who is it? Whoever pushes the general away is the enemy of France!"

As soon as Mara finished speaking, someone stood up slowly: "Mr. Mara, you are not an official committee member, and you have no right to speak here."

Because members of parliament cannot be re-elected by the bill proposed by Robespierre, Mara, who was a member of the previous term, cannot be elected in this term.

However, the Jacobins, who hold the power of the parliament, established an observer system. Because of the great reputation of the People's Friend among the people, Marat returned to the parliamentary venue as an observer.

For this reason, the opposition in the parliament did not take this matter lightly and attacked the Jacobins in power.

Some of the former Girondins also took the opportunity to attack, and also sought to attend the meeting as observers.

This has always been a contradiction in the parliament, but now it has been intensified in the context of the emergency on the front line.

Marat: "I'm here, isn't it just to tell you what the people think?"

Marat turned to the Parisian people who were listening in the stands on both sides of the parliament. These days, because of the emergency on the front line, anxious people flocked to watch the parliamentary meeting, and the stands had already been packed.

Not only the stands, but every window of the parliament venue was filled with anxious people.

Marat shouted to the crowd: "The French want General Frost back, and want to punish those traitors who pushed out the general! The Parisians want to see the blood of their enemies!"

The crowd burst into cheers.

Sometimes it is like this, and whoever gets the cheers of the audience is right.

Amid the cheers, Robespierre stood up.

The Incorruptible is still wearing his trademark green overcoat, though he's wearing a new wig, making him look even more dignified than before.

Robespierre walked to the podium, and Danton immediately made room for him.

He glanced at the auditorium, and said loudly: "Now, there are two top priorities: first, to liquidate the traitors! And the hidden traitors! Second, to welcome General Frost back to Paris and let him preside over the Parisian affairs. defense!
"In addition, Frost has long described the source of the strength of the Revolutionary Army! He believes that the self-awareness of citizens is the source of the strength of our army after the revolution! Do you understand? Citizens are our strongest And a powerful weapon!

"So in order to deal with this terrible situation, I believe that a conscription bill should be passed, and every citizen should go to the front line to defend France! I have calculated that if this bill is passed, it should allow us to quickly recruit more than 30 soldiers. new force!"

The whole auditorium was in an uproar.

Members of Parliament, as well as the onlookers in the stands and on the window sills, talked a lot.

Robespierre asked sharply: "Why, are you unwilling to defend France?"

The people looked at each other in blank dismay.

Robespierre said to himself: "Yes, of course you don't want to, because France is the king's France, not the France of all citizens!

"I think it's time. First, the king is the general representative of the traitors, and all forces against France are gathered around the king!
"Second, in order to arouse the citizens' desire to fight, France should become France for all French people! For this reason, we must let the king become eternal history! France should become a republic!"

Robert Spil paused, and added: "General Frost, I have long expected it!"

(End of this chapter)