King's Landing in France

Chapter 327 The Covenant
On the second day after their marriage, Christina held a tea party at the Royal Palace to entertain the ladies and ladies in Paris, while An Ning went straight to the National Assembly, where he proposed to let Talleyrand serve as the mediator to the Low Countries. envoy.

In the original time and space, these specific administrative matters were managed by the National Salvation Committee, but now the National Salvation Committee has become a court-like organization, and the administrative power has fallen into the hands of the National Assembly.

Therefore, to appoint Talleyrand as a plenipotentiary mediation commissioner, it must be approved by the National Assembly.

Robespierre was a little surprised to see An Ning in the foyer of the parliament: "I thought you would have an outing with your new wife today or something."

An Ning: "The expedition is imminent, and this is not a good time to go out for an outing anyway."

Robespierre smiled: "You don't have to push yourself so hard, you are already like this, don't we feel ashamed to be lazy at all?"

An Ning: "Come on, let's not care about others, you Maximilian will never be lazy, I understand you."

Robespierre smiled, as if An Ning's words were the greatest affirmation for himself.

At this time, Saint-Just, who was standing next to him, asked: "So what are you doing in the parliament this time? You don't need to come to the parliament to prepare for the war, right? In fact, the Ministry of War is almost an independent institution now, and the parliament has nothing to do with them." Work."

What Saint-Just said is the truth. In order to quickly reorganize enough troops, Lazar Carnot adopted many tough measures, often skipping the parliament to implement some things. As a result, the Ministry of War has now become a A machine that operates independently of parliament.

Many people complained about this, but they were all frightened by An Ning's force, and no one dared to express it publicly.

However, An Ning himself promised that after the extraordinary period passed, the Ministry of War would be reorganized so that it would return to the jurisdiction of the National Assembly, the theoretical highest authority in France.

But now the War Department is an institution beyond Parliament.

If An Ning just wanted to prepare for war, he really didn't need to come to the National Assembly.

No wonder Saint-Just had such doubts.

An Ning smiled and said: "As a general, I am naturally obliged to report the next battle plan to the National Assembly. Many of you think that I have surpassed the Parliament, and some people say that I want to be the Lord Protector, like Cromwell Throwing parliament that way.

"No, I wouldn't do that kind of thing."

Robespierre smiled and said, "Of course you won't, because the republic is your ideal. You said that a long time ago, when we were still called the Breton Club."

An Ning actually doesn't remember whether he started advocating the republic so early. In theory, there should be. After all, he is also from a republic, and the word republic flows in his blood.

An Ning continued following Robespierre's words: "As long as I am alive, I will firmly defend the Republic. Whoever wants to destroy the Republic must step on my dead body."

But Saint-Just said: "But your student Napoleon has been advocating your French Caesar."

An Ning: "I don't want to be Caesar. I don't want to be stabbed to death by a group of people when I give a speech in parliament one day."

At this time, people who got the news came to the hall one after another to greet An Ning.

Although An Ning didn't know most of the people who greeted him, he still nodded and greeted them one by one.

Just when the time before the Parliament was almost running out, Georges Jacques Danton appeared.

He didn't even look at Robespierre at first, but when he suddenly saw An Ning was there, he could only come over with a straight face and greet An Ning and Robespierre.

Robespierre's response was also very dull, and an awkward atmosphere suddenly permeated between Danton and Robespierre.

An Ning was keenly aware of this, and asked, "What's wrong? Are you two fighting again?"

Dandong curled his lips: "I wanted to persuade him to stop killing for the time being, but we broke up unhappy."

An Ning: "Maximilian didn't even want to kill indiscriminately. That's why he established the National Salvation Committee, didn't you? When he established this committee, you also supported it, didn't you?"

Danton: "I support it, because at that time the lynchings in Paris had to be rectified. I can't stand that some people lose their heads just because they don't like the jury."

An Ning: "So what has changed now? In my opinion, Maximilian's National Salvation Committee is playing its due role."

"It doesn't just play its due role. In fact, in the past six months, I have seen innocent people being killed indiscriminately more than once." Danton paused, and gave an example, "For example, Mrs. Roland! She is my The wife's best friend, a brilliant poet, was guillotined for her support of the Girondins."

Robespierre: "Madame Roland is a die-hard Girondist! And she also attacked the National Assembly, intending to overthrow France!"

"Oh come on," Danton said angrily, "If France can be subverted by a woman, then I think it should be destroyed as soon as possible."

An Ning stepped in to smooth things over between the two who started to quarrel again: "The issue of the severity of the sentence can be discussed. I think we can set up a post of special commissioner to supervise the National Salvation Committee in the future, and let Dandong take over the position to supervise the entire trial process!"

Robespierre immediately objected: "No, you may not know, Andy, he has been mixed with Paul Ballas, Fouche and others."

An Ning: "I also received five hundred ounces of gold bars from Paul Ballas."

"That's different, that's your reserve, you did it to stabilize our financial order." Robespierre said, "You have always been thinking about France, and everyone has seen the construction you have done. In my eyes. But he is different, he really joined forces with those opportunists!"

Dandong was furious: "Presumptuous! How can you use such a derogatory term as collusion with me? You damn country bumpkin, you are an executioner addicted to blood after tasting it!"

Robespierre didn't show much anger, but the twitching of his mouth clearly showed that he was very angry now.

"I am for the Republic!" Robespierre almost squeezed out such a sentence through his teeth.

Dandong snorted, "Who knows?"

An Ning was about to continue to smooth things over, but Dandong suddenly pointed at An Ning: "Andy, you too, don't you see the drawbacks of the terror policy? I talked to your subordinate La Salle, he I also have a lot of complaints about the current situation of indiscriminate killings!"

An Ning raised her eyebrows.

He knew that La Salle had changed his mind on the policy of terror since he had been recuperating in Paris for several months after his injury.

An Ning: "Okay, there is an old oriental saying that in troubled times heavy codes are used, and at this stage a policy of terror is necessary to stabilize the situation. But, Maximilian, promise me that when we achieve a complete military victory, it will be over. war, the policy of terror must stop."

Robespierre nodded without hesitation: "No problem. It will last until you, Andy, completely defeat Austria and Prussia and sign the contract!"

(End of this chapter)