King's Landing in France

Chapter 370 The fate of Louis Capet (third change)
As soon as Talleyrand returned to Paris, he ran to Fouché.

"How things are going in Paris these days, my old fellow, Minister of Police—oh no, Minister of Police."

Fouché: "They made a provisional constitution to replace the 1791 constitution. I read the draft, and there are many clauses restricting the power of the military and the power of the first executive."

Talleyrand: "Really? I wanted to say that they are looking for death... But our Lord Frost is a person who really wants a republic, and maybe he will ignore this constitution."

"It's possible." Fouché shook his head, "Do you know where the best part is? These provisions are in line with the views of Rousseau, Montesquieu and Voltaire. If Frost objects to these The terms are tantamount to slapping yourself in the face."

Talleyrand curled his lips: "It's terrible. The current situation in France requires someone who can unite the royal party and the blue party at the same time. Frost is obviously the most suitable. But he is not tough, and the country is going to be turbulent. .”

Fouché: "Yes, he said something about establishing a new production relationship and vigorously developing industry. However, all these require a stable society. Nothing can be developed if it is always so turbulent."

"Then are you going to vote for the provisional constitution?"

"How is it possible? If His Excellency Frost becomes tough at any time, you will lose your head if you vote for it."

As Fouche and Talleyrand looked at each other, the two old foxes smiled knowingly.

**
In September 1794, An Ning led the brigade and escorted Louis Capet back to the court.

When he entered the city, he put Louis Capet in a prison wagon and paraded along the streets.

The French people enthusiastically expressed their feelings towards Capet. Since the prison van entered the city, the things thrown at the van have not stopped.

Louis Capet even wondered if he would be killed by an egg.

The parade did not stop until it reached the parliament hall.

All the generals under An Ning came back this time. Before entering the city, they finished freshening up at the Palace of Versailles and put on the new general uniforms specially prepared by Lazarcano. Flickering, it looks like a thief.

And An Ning was still riding his white horse at the front of the queue, and it seemed that in order to distinguish himself from the generals behind him, he deliberately wore a not-so-new military uniform.

In fact, An Ning originally wanted to play a trick and wear a colonel's uniform to pay tribute to Nasser, but he dismissed this idea when he thought that there was another man named Gaddafi who was also a colonel for life.

After all, Gaddafi's fate was more miserable.

After dismounting, An Ning and a group of generals waited at the gate of the parliament for soldiers to escort Louis Capet over.

Then he personally escorted Louis Capet into the parliament hall.

All the members of the parliament stood up and applauded, and the citizens watching from the stands also applauded vigorously. The entire hall was filled with applause.

After the thunderous applause fell, An Ning took a step forward, pressed both hands on both sides of the lecture table, glanced back and forth at the crowd, and then said:

"Everyone! The first siege of Free France has been crushed by us! All the kingdoms participating in this attack have been defeated by us except Spain!"

The reason why there is no Spain is because Spain itself is not in a good state. Since 1793, Spain has experienced a large-scale harvest failure. Now it is suffering from a famine. It is impossible to send many troops to attack France. The few troops sent were also beaten by French local troops. go back.

Yes, the expeditionary force sent by Spain was beaten back by local troops and militia.

As for why An Ning didn't send a general to attack Spain, it was of course because he had learned a lesson in the history of another time and space.

—Things are always so bad in Spain (violin playing).

Now that everyone has voted, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Talleyrand, is sent to Spain, and it is estimated that he will bring back a contract soon.

That's why An Ning can declare loudly here that "the siege against the Republic has been crushed by us."

The applause rang out again.

This time, An Ning didn't wait for the applause to subside naturally, but raised her hand and made a flattening motion.

"We have achieved a great victory that has never been seen before! First of all, to the south of us, there appeared the Italian Republic, which followed the same organizational principles as ours and was a great achievement of Enlightenment thought!
"And in the war that just passed, the Italian brothers sent [-] of their best sons to help us defeat the evil, traditional, old-fashioned Holy Roman Empire!

"To the east, on the ruins of the Holy Roman Empire, a new republic has begun to cry! The Austrian Republic marks the end of a centuries-old HRE that was neither Holy nor Roman nor an Empire!

"Also in the east, in Bavaria and Hesse, the new republic is taking shape. In time, the German nation will become an independent nation and establish a unified country, a republic!

"And to our north, the Low Countries have formed an alliance with us! Although the Low Countries started as a classical commercial republic, after so many years of development, especially the development of maritime trade, they have also become industrial and commercial like us. A prosperous republic, a nation of citizens!
"Of course, many kingdoms were left behind in this war, such as Spain, Prussia, and Sweden and Russia that did not participate in the war, but we have pushed our ideal, which is to liberate all of Europe, a step forward. stride!"

The voice fell, and there was another thunderous applause.

An Ning took the initiative to suppress the applause again, and then continued: "Can we make peace? I don't think so. The feudal monarchs will not sit idly by and watch themselves be destroyed. Although a revolution broke out in Prussia itself, it is temporarily unable to deal with us, but we It must be remembered that there is Sweden, and Russia, and even Ottoman Turkey! These kingdoms have hatred for us!
"They are afraid of us, especially the United Kingdom across the sea. They clearly hacked the king themselves, but they want to be hostile to us who exiled the king!

"The war is by no means over, it is now nothing more than an indefinite truce. We must be ready, ready for peace to end at any time!

"Of course, this is still very far away. According to my guess, we will have peace for the rest of 1794. So we can use this time to discuss how to deal with Citizen Louis Capet! As far as I know You know, he was king of France!"

When An Ning said this, the audience burst into laughter.

Anning also intentionally QUE Louis XVI: "Citizen Capet, have you ever served as the king of France?"

Louis XVI hesitated a few words before nodding: "Yes, I have served."

"Then how do you evaluate your governance?" An Ning asked again.

Capet replied tremblingly: "I... I am bad, I am guilty!"

An Ning shook her head: "No, you are indeed guilty, but you are also credited. You funded the establishment of the world's first republic without a king! Without you, the United States of America would not have been established! Without the United States, we would not be able to realize , It turns out that there can be no king!
"This is your great achievement!"

An Ning looked around the entire parliament again.

"I propose that the citizen of Louis Capet be exiled to the United States of America!"

(End of this chapter)