King's Landing in France

Chapter 337
After sending Robespierre away, the time has come to December 1793.

An Ning discovered a drawback after becoming the first ruler.

He had to make an appearance in the new cabinet and deal with day-to-day administrative matters.

In the past, An Ning only needed to worry about military issues, but in military matters, there was Berthier who arranged all the routine matters, and your Excellency, General, just needed to be a hands-off shopkeeper.

Anning can focus more on adopting new equipment, building new factories and fulfilling his plan to become France's version of Alan Greenspan.

But now, in terms of daily administration, he does not have a universal assistant like Berthier, so he can only handle it himself.

The new cabinet office was placed in the original Supreme Court.

In the era of the Bourbon dynasty, although the Supreme Court was called a court, it actually played a role in checking and balancing the royal power, and it was the central institution of the de facto aristocratic power.

The confrontation between the Supreme Court and the royal power is the confrontation between the nobles and the royal power.

So putting the newly formed cabinet here is also considered a kind of inheritance.

Although An Ning was very impatient with the daily work, through these administrative tasks, An Ning finally realized how much chaos had been caused by throwing administrative power to the National Assembly.

Outside of Paris, there is essentially a state of silo, with the local National Assemblies doing as they please.

How much influence Paris has on the place basically depends on the ability of the commissioners sent and whether there are National Guards stationed.

There are National Guards—especially the Self-Defense Forces sent by Paris that have been reorganized by the Ministry of War and are loyal to tranquility—then the local government still takes the decree from Paris seriously.

Where there is no self-defense army, it depends on the special commissioner's ability.

If there is no self-defense army and no special commissioners, then the local National Assembly is basically in a state of autonomy, neither needing to pay taxes to the National Assembly, nor to control the decrees of the National Assembly.

Fortunately, the national consciousness of the country itself has been awakened a lot in France. National assemblies in various places still regard themselves as French, use tricolor flags, and follow Paris in terms of culture.

Otherwise, France would have been in bulk.

After reading the report for a few days in the cabinet, An Ning deeply felt that the most urgent task is to establish a complete administrative organization in the local area and restore control over the local area.

There is a simple way, which is to dismantle some of the loyal troops currently in your hands and disperse them to various places.

Every town with a population of more than 5000, no matter whether there is Lin Dengwan or not, first send a company of hundreds of troops, and then the special commissioner. With the support of these loyal troops of more than 100 people, the special commissioner should be able to quickly suppress the local tyrants .

The problems in towns and cities are actually relatively small in comparison, and the French countryside is basically in a state of no care.

In the previous kingdom era, because nobles and lords from all over the country crowded into the big cities, the rural order based on the aristocratic system had disintegrated, and the actual organizers of the villages were local priests.

Then after the Great Revolution, the Clergy Act pushed many priests to the opposite side of the National Assembly.

The result was that the National Assembly completely lost control of the countryside.

This is also the fundamental reason why a large number of rebellions broke out in Vendée and other places.

Now the rebellion has basically been suppressed by An Ning's troops, but if the control of the countryside is not restored, the British will bring in another Marquis or something, and they can light a fire in places like the Vendée.

Annin decided to pursue throughout France the policy he had pursued in the Conta and the South.

Large-scale land reforms re-established rural order.

Then came the problem.

In the south, after An Ning put forward the idea, the person who actually implemented it was Lazar Kano. Now Lazar Kano is busy organizing troops and raising logistics, so he has no time to take care of this matter.

An Ning is gone now.

He himself will soon go out to fight, and he must leave this matter to someone he trusts.

An Ning had no choice but to choose a chemist named Chaputal from the candidates for the Minister of the Interior in the Napoleon Empire era from memory, and let him be specifically responsible for the task of regaining control of the countryside.

After working in the cabinet for more than half a month, An Ning completely recalled the feeling of traveling back to [-], and had a strong urge to drop the pick.

On his return to the Palais Royal this afternoon, he collapsed on a deck-chair on the terrace.

Fanny: "Do you want me to rub your shoulders?"

"It was a great help." An Ning replied.

The little maid came up and began to trample An Ning's shoulders with a strong force.

The strange thing is that although it hurts to be ravaged, after getting used to it, I feel inexplicably comfortable.

While rubbing, Fanny said, "Recently, Your Excellency seems to be depleted of energy very seriously."

An Ning nodded: "Did you see it? That's right, I now need a second uncle to treat my internal friction."

"what?"

"It's just my babbling, don't pay attention to it. If you don't look at it, you won't know it. Only by looking at it can you know that things in France are so bad."

"I heard that you appointed a chemist to deal with the reform of the countryside?"

"Yeah, it's better than appointing someone like Paul Barras to deal with it. Let him deal with it. Next year, the land in the French countryside will be all his private property."

Fanny: "I've heard that Paul Barras has been bitter about not getting a cabinet ministerial job."

An Ning smiled: "That's for sure, he really invested [-] ounces of gold, but Fouché and Talleyrand, who didn't invest at all, were both on the cabinet list, but he didn't make any money.

"However, apart from complaining, he probably doesn't dare to do anything out of line. Keep an eye on him and his mistress for me."

Fanny: "Ma'am is doing this."

——I asked you to watch.

At this moment, a servant came to announce: "Your Excellency, Miss Bonaparte has arrived."

Fanny: "Here comes your pistachio."

An Ning waved her hand, and then said to the servant, "Let her come up to the terrace."

"I've already come up." Paulina Bonaparte jumped out from behind the servant. "The terrace of the Royal Palace is really beautiful. It has both the garden and the atmosphere of the square outside."

An Ning: "Shouldn't you go back to Brienne?"

"I have learned everything Brienne can teach me, let me accompany you and go out together!"

An Ning: "No, you still have two years left. After you graduate in 1795, I promise you that you will go out with me."

Paulina frowned, pursed her lips, and sat down on An Ning's lap: "I always feel that by 1795, you have already finished fighting the war."

An Ning smiled wryly and said, "I would like to completely end the war in 1795, but those who oppose us may not necessarily agree."

"Then you will defeat them all, so that they dare not have any unreasonable thoughts about France!" Paulina said enthusiastically.

An Ning laughed loudly, and reached out to stroke Paulina's hair.

At this time, the west-slanting winter sun is warm and soft, making everything shrouded in the beautiful atmosphere of early spring.

　I never imagined that one day I would cheer for the tea team... But as the only seedling of TI11, I still hope that the tea team can win tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)