King's Landing in France

Chapter 331 Maximilian's questioning
An Ning sighed, and sure enough, she came to this place again.

After deciding to reuse people like Talleyrand and Fouché, Anning predicted that Robespierre would object.

From the very beginning, An Ning didn't expect to use his reputation with Robespierre to slip through, and he carefully prepared his speech.

Now is the time to lay out the rhetoric and test their effectiveness.

An Ning said earnestly, "Maximilian, I..."

Robespierre interrupted An Ning: "I know you must have prepared a very reasonable argument, and you are always exhausted."

An Ning didn't expect that she would be flattered by Robespierre. When did I become a planner?

This was said from the mouth of Robespierre, who never boasted, and Robespierre certainly did not mean to flatter. From his perspective, An Ning is a reincarnated Zhuge who has no plans—well, Robespierre probably didn't know who Zhuge Liang was.

After quickly sorting out her mood, An Ning followed up on what she said just now, and continued her prepared speech: "Maximilian, you should know that there are many officers with flaws in my team, right?
"For example, Lasalle, who is romantic, when he was in Italy, the Austrian army raided overnight and killed the town where he was stationed in the early morning. When the gunshots rang out, Lasalle was still on the widow's bed in the city.

"He rushed out of the house with his trousers up and had to carry his belt with one hand."

Although Robespierre was puzzled as to why An Ning wanted to say this here, he still listened attentively without interrupting.

An Ning: "But then he led the cavalry to counterattack and made great contributions to defending the town."

Robespierre was silent, waiting for An Ning to continue.

An Ning: "Besides lust, La Salle has many other character flaws, but his talent as a cavalry officer is unquestionable, so I put him in a suitable position without hesitation.

"As the commander-in-chief, I cannot not use a person's talents just because he has shortcomings."

Robespierre finally spoke: "What is Talleyrand capable of? What is Barras capable of?"

It's really hard to answer Balas's talent, An Ning, because the merits of Balas that he knows are from Nima's last time and space. In this time and space, Balas didn't pacify the Maritimes, didn't promote Napoleon, but just countered the rebellion performed well in the process.

But Talleyrand can write a lot: "Isn't it his proposal to confiscate church property? Without this proposal, the National Assembly would have died of poverty."

Robespierre: "But what does that have to do with diplomacy?"

An Ning: "You don't participate in social activities, so you probably don't know that Talleyrand is very active in the social arena and is an activist.

"Based on his many performances, I think Talleyrand is capable, and he should be given a try."

Robespierre: "What about Barras?"

"Didn't he perform well in the process of countering the rebellion?"

"Then you conscripted him into the army! But you didn't!"

"Mr. Barras' understanding of the military did not meet my expectations. If you read his counter-insurgency report carefully, you will know that he used his brilliant political skills to unite the local tyrants, and then successfully suppressed the rebellion. "

Robespierre snorted, and muttered disdainfully: "Political artifice, so high-sounding! Isn't it just those little things?"

An Ning took a deep breath.

It was time for the highlight of his expected process of persuading Robespierre.

An Ning did not intend to use her own language here, but to borrow some wisdom from the future.

So An Ning said, "Maximilian, do you know that there is a proverb in the ancient eastern country, which says that when the water is clear, there will be no fish?"

Robespierre asked suspiciously: "Isn't this a Latin proverb? Ancient Eastern countries also speak Latin?"

An Ning couldn't laugh or cry at once. My golden finger, who has always been a good translator, made a fool of himself this time. He directly translated the first half of the "proverb of the ancient eastern country", and then replaced "when the water is clear, there will be no fish" with Latin proverb.

Intelligence is intelligence, but it is a bit strange to be intelligent.

This feeling is a bit like adjusting AI painting, sometimes AI will make some strange slots inexplicably.

For example, there is no chopsticks in the picture of eating noodles, and then it forms a strange cute point, which hits a lot of people, leading to the viral spread of this meme.

An Ning hastily said again that when the water is clear, there will be no fish, and while speaking, she said in her heart: don't translate this time, just throw it out for me.

His silent recitation worked, and this time he spoke Chinese pronunciation.

Robespierre shook his head: "If I didn't know your knowledge well, I would suspect that you were bluffing me. Do you still understand Chinese? Did you learn from Marco Polo?"

An Ning joked, "To tell you the truth, I actually met him in the Bastille."

Here is the use of the Voltaire terrier, which is widely spread in Paris, and even the serious Robespierre can't help but smile.

But he immediately tensed up.

An Ning continued: "This proverb is replaced with a Latin proverb, which is the one just now. Maximilian, most people in this world are selfish and greedy. If we discard all selfish and greedy people, we will fall into There is no one available.

"You are noble, Maximilian, and ideals are the motive force of your actions.

"It would be nice to have a group of saintly people like you, but in reality such people are rare.

"So we have to use those selfish and greedy people, as long as they have the ability, we must let go of them."

Robespierre shook his head: "I don't believe it! I don't believe that without these people, no one would be available!"

An Ning was silent.

In fact, he really knows that there is an organization that is glued together by pure idealism. The motivation of the vast majority of people in that organization is to hope that their motherland will no longer be sad.

But the current Jacobins are obviously not such an organization.

Robespierre was still repeating excitedly: "I don't believe it! I don't believe that if these speculators are driven out, there will be no Jacobins left!"

An Ning looked at Robespierre: "Accept the reality, Maximilian. In fact, after you accept the reality, you will find that it is not as bad as you imagined."

Robespierre stared at An Ning, pointed at him and said, "You have been corrupted!"

An Ning: "I haven't."

"No! You have! I had a hunch since you lived in the Palace of Versailles! You have been corrupted!"

An Ning tried to explain: "I lived in the Palace of Versailles because it was suitable for a barracks. In fact, I did use it as a barracks."

Robespierre: "But that is always the palace, a symbol of imperial power! Yes, you also took the sister of Louis XVII, how perfect!"

(End of this chapter)