King's Landing in France

Chapter 265 Archduke Karl Receives Enlightenment

While cleaning the battlefield, Napoleon saw Archduke Karl who had woken up.

Then Archduke Karl touched his nose.

Napoleon: "Don't worry, your nose is not broken."

Carl: "You really are not from aristocratic background, and you don't pay attention to etiquette at all."

Napoleon: "Then you are wrong, I am a nobleman registered with the Civil Service Bureau."

"Oh is it? Where is the territory?"

Napoleon hesitated, because he was a nobleman who had been communicated with the French king, and his father was just a man who helped the French king manage a garden on the island of Corsica.

In desperation, Napoleon blew directly: "Corsica is all my territory!"

"You are the Duke of Corsica?"

Napoleon adhered to the belief that as long as I am not embarrassed, it is others who are embarrassed, nodded and said: "Yes, the Duke of Corsica, you are a Duke, and I am a Duke, neither of us should look down on the other."

Carl: "I'm still the emperor's third brother."

"I am a student of Frost," Napoleon added after a pause, "the most proud one!"

Karl seemed to be remembering something, and suddenly he realized: "You are that Corsican follower of the cobbler..."

Napoleon: "Bastard! Call His Excellency General Frost!"

Napoleon was going to give Karl a slap, but in the end he held back.

Carl: "I don't mean to offend, but the nobles around me call it that, I'm used to it. Sorry."

Napoleon: "You don't know how great your Excellency General Frost is! Think back to how you seem to be defeated. Do you know that as early as 1784, Your Excellency the General foresaw how great the national army would be after the rise of the nation-state? Terrible fighting power!"

Carl frowned: "1784?"

"Yes, at the Brienne Military Academy, Frost told me at that time that the entire European army is now the private soldiers of the nobles. The soldiers don't want to fight, so they have to be restrained in a dense formation and Noble officers surrounded the soldiers before they could charge under fire.

"But nation-states are different. Soldiers fight for their nation and their motherland. Every soldier is full of desire to fight."

Grand Duke Karl showed an enlightened expression: "A nation-state... everyone is full of desire to fight... that's why you can use skirmishers to attack!"

Napoleon: "Right! Of course we are forced to do this, because our troops can't walk in line at all. It's better to charge as skirmishers."

Archduke Karl looked thoughtful.

Napoleon saw that he was lost in thought, so he didn't bother him, but turned his head and explained the matter to his chief of staff.

After a while, Napoleon continued to look at Archduke Karl after explaining the matter, and found that he was also freed from contemplation.

Carl: "So, Frost foresaw the present situation as early as 1784?"

"That's right, he also told me that the Republic will explode with astonishing fighting power. Is he right? You have already experienced it yourself."

Karl nodded: "Yes, I have felt it. Before we got news from the French nobles who defected to Austria, we thought it was just a bunch of mobs, but we didn't expect another mystery."

Napoleon showed a disdainful expression: "Huh, those nobles who defected are really shameful. They do such things, and they have the nerve to say something noble. How can such a person be noble?"

"Don't say that, the nobles only need to be responsible to the superior feudal lords. You have forced the biggest lord king to abdicate, and they naturally have no obligation to stay in France."

"This is the most ridiculous thing!" Napoleon pointed to Carl's nose. "Oh, sorry, I just point at it out of habit. When I argue with Andy, I will point at each other like this."

"Andy." Carl nodded, without saying anything, but made a gesture of invitation, signaling Napoleon to continue.

Napoleon continued: "From now on, there will be no such ridiculous feudal affiliation. In the territory of the Republic, there is only one nation called France. The object of all people's allegiance is the French nation and the Republic as the representative of the nation!

"The end of the lords has come!"

Karl: "You will be surrounded by kings all over Europe."

"Let them encircle and suppress!" Napoleon said with a fearless air, "The Republic will not fail, and Frost will not fail!"

Karl looked at Napoleon and seemed to be shocked by the fanatic aura exuding from Napoleon.

Napoleon spoke impassionedly, then finally calmed down, and finally remembered what he came to find Grand Duke Karl: "By the way, I came to you to inform you of what will happen to you in the future. I will put you under house arrest first. In the fortress, and then ask the National Assembly in Paris for instructions on how to deal with Emperor Shinra's younger brother."

Carl: "Will I be executed?"

"If it was in the past, probably not. You signed an agreement not to participate in the war against France for one year, and then asked your brother to send a ransom, and then you can return to China intact. I mean, except for those who were beaten Beyond the nose."

Carl: "And now?"

"I can't say. Now Paris is executing nobles and royalists like crazy. You should be a royalist, right?"

Karl had a speechless expression: "I am the royal family of Habsburg, can I still be a republican?"

"It's impossible. The French king's sister and father are republicans, hardcore." Napoleon shrugged, "In France, there are quite a few republican nobles. After all, this is Rousseau, Voltaire and The hometown of Montesquieu. And I am also a republican."

Carl: "I think you're a Frostite."

"It's true to say that, but Frost is a hardcore republican, and he is the head of the Jacobins' Big Four."

Carl raised his eyebrows slightly: "The Big Four? Now there are only three left."

"What?" Napoleon was shocked. "Three? Who is dead? Anyway, it can't be Frost's death. His life is hard, and he is the one who bears the destiny."

Carl: "Marla."

"Oh, it's the newspaper writer, he's dead." Napoleon paused, "Andy... Frost must be very sad, after all, he's been a friend for so many years. If I'm by his side, I can have a drink with him. "

After finishing speaking, he shook his head again: "But it's okay now, he has Miss Christina to accompany him. If it was Frost from before, I would definitely be worried. Anyway, things are like this, before Paris issues punishment on you, take it easy Live in the fort. But I can tell you that in the French army, officers and soldiers eat the same food in wartime, and this is a tradition started by Frost."

"I heard that he wants to drink the best red wine, do the soldiers have it too?"

Napoleon: "That's limited to the battlefield. On the day of the battle, he will pour a glass of red wine, and then admire his troops—that is, us—to crush the enemy. See you later."

After Napoleon left, the staff officers who came with him also filed out and closed the door behind them.

Grand Duke Karl sat in the empty guest room of the fortress, thinking about the conversation just now.

"Republic...National state...Soldiers who know why they fight..." What Napoleon said just now seemed to have some kind of magical power, and it grew wildly in the mind of Grand Duke Karl.

(End of this chapter)