Chapter 1016: Paris is Crying

  Chapter 996 – Paris is Crying

“The international community is putting us under a lot of pressure, now the opportunity has come, we should end this damn war as soon as possible!”

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“No way! Paris is a mess right now, and anyone who gets stuck in it will be buried. Just keep your ears open and you’ll know that the city is now short of food.

The rebels can’t afford to feed the refugees, and neither can we. You know we’ve already resettled three million refugees one after another, if another million were to come, the scene would be unimaginable!”

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“Don’t say it’s so scary, as long as we think of a way, the problem can always be solved. The international community is constantly urging us to end the war quickly, now is the best chance.”

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“The prerequisite for ending the war is that you can afford to feed so many refugees! After the scourge of the chaotic party, it is estimated that the entire population of Paris is now going to be refugees.

We don’t have that much food on hand, and even immediate procurement from abroad will take time. If the chaotic party burns down the city’s granaries, then we’ll really hit the jackpot.”

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The crowd was arguing, which was bitter for Carlos. As the king’s reserve, it was really not appropriate for him to intervene at a time like now.

To support launching an attack would be to cause trouble for himself; to oppose attacking the city, he would be accused of seeing death.

The essence of disputes within the noble group was still because of interests. Vienna could convince the three royalist parties on the issue of the heir, but there was no way to help on the division of interests.

Involving personal interests, no matter who must come forward to fight. The current situation is very obvious, the orthodox nobles are opposed to the attack on the city, the other two factions of the nobles are some support, some opposed.

In essence, this also involves the issue of placing bets. The orthodox faction has always been a supporter of the Bourbon dynasty, and placed a heavy bet on Carlos, once the restoration succeeded as a big contributor, they will certainly get the biggest piece of cake.

The other two factions were different. Those who reacted quickly followed the bet, while those who reacted slowly did nothing, and the battle for the throne was settled.

After the outbreak of the civil war, the nobles who had already placed their bets were the ones who had the money to pay for it and the ones who had the people to pay for it, and they became the core of the coalition army of nobles; the other nobles, even though they also made a great effort, were a step too late, and they were in a secondary position in the coalition army.

If the restoration was accomplished with such smooth sailing, then in the future construction of the government of France, basically this is also the current situation. The core figures would still be the core, and the fringe figures would still be on the fringes.

A portion of the aristocracy, unsatisfied with the status quo, is now clamoring to break through Paris, ready to take over the city’s millions of mouths.

The provisional government had limited food in its hands, and the nobles who had supported the Bourbon for the relief of the refugees had long given generously. Now suddenly increased so many mouths out, food supply will certainly have problems.

Once the food supply is insufficient, the opportunity will come. Want to get through the food crisis, the provisional government will have to ask for help from the nobles who have food, these marginalized guys can return to the center of power.

Power struggles are always cruel, and now the people of Paris have unfortunately become the center of attention for both sides of the game. How the final result, now no one knows, the only certainty is that this quarrel will not end for a while.

The King of the Reserves was not yet a king, and no matter how many supporters he had, as long as he was not officially enthroned, Carlos would not be able to exercise his power as king.

At the moment, apart from trying to harmonize the conflicts between all parties, Carlos as the Reserve King could not do anything, and was only slightly better than the mascot.

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While the nobles were arguing endlessly, the situation inside the city was completely out of control. Once Pandora’s Box is opened, it will be difficult to close it again.

Daniele’s bitter trick has now turned into a sad drama. There is no way, he just calculated the first step right, but overestimated the efficiency of the noble group.

Paris chaos is indeed the best time to send troops to attack the city, but the army is also to be discussed by all parties, not who’s voice is big to listen to who.

Then the tragic scene happened. The bait was soaking, and the fish were still sleeping at home.

Soldiers are non-existent, and people are still busy with meetings. Even if there is an agreement, so many mines outside the city can’t be lined up in a moment.

The noble allies can ink, but the situation inside the city can’t wait. The people of Paris, who protested unsuccessfully, started another uprising in anger. Whether willing or not, now Danielle must first suppress the rebellion.

Can imagine the drama behind certainly not good to sing, did not deceive the noble allied forces in, not to mention what the defeat into victory, even run away from the opportunity.

Not everyone is as full of passion as Daniele, willing to give all for the revolution, more people are still for their own lives. The main reason why everyone agreed to this unreliable and bitter plan was to create a chance to run away.

To be able to become a high ranking member of the revolutionary government, their origins are not too low, and there must be no shortage of connections, or else they would have met God long ago.

France’s nobility is not ironclad, as long as you are willing to smash money, smash a road is not a problem. Really can not, but also to the Russians to buy the road.

Only these have a precondition, must first get rid of the mines outside the city. That thing does not recognize people, who step on it will blow up who.

Originally they were going to drive the refugees to trip the mines, only to be stopped by Daniele. Perhaps realizing the unreliability and seriousness of the consequences of man-made mines, the group accepted the plan of the “bitter trick” with goodwill.

Unfortunately, the plan didn’t change as quickly as it should have, and the audience was blocked out of the theater after the show had already begun, so the show was a waste of time.

The people in the crowd were no match for the regular army, and even though the revolutionary army was a rabble, it was a rabble with weapons, not something that ordinary people could fight against.

But the people have no way back, either to be starved to death, or let go of the fight, in order to survive they can only fight for their lives.

In order to gain the support of the allied forces outside the city, the insurgents even took out the flag of the Bourbon dynasty. A nobleman appeared out of nowhere and became the temporary commander-in-chief of the insurgents.

The effect was naturally there, discovering the presence of his own people, Carlos, as the king of the reserves, still used his energy and airdropped a batch of weapons and equipment to the insurgent army using airships.

Food even if, Carlos is not stupid, know what kind of insurrectionist army, with weapons and equipment can give the enemy trouble; if the drop is food, may not be their own first dry on.

This could be seen from the direction of the insurgents’ attacks, all of which were aimed at food. The so-called strategic places, government buildings and bank buildings were left untouched.

The most tragic scene occurred, around the grain silos of the insurrectionists and the government forces broke out in the war, a time of shouting and killing filled the streets of Paris, not willing to starve the people have joined the ranks of the insurrection.

Blood flowed out of the sewers and colored the Seine River red. The red water of the river printed on the autumn sun, looks particularly bleak. Since then, the French no longer eat fish in the river.

The battle went on from morning to night. Blood makes people lost, in the constant killing the situation completely out of control.

“Played out!”

This was the first reaction in Daniele’s mind. At this point, even if the fish was hooked, they couldn’t reel in the net.

Daniele never dreamed that the revolutionary government would actually stand against all the people in the city. It was important to realize that the initial plan was only prepared to sacrifice a portion of the worthless refugees, and did not include all of the Parisian population.

Unfortunately, the bureaucrats below did not think so; once greed springs up, it can never be stopped. Since it is possible to withhold relief food from the refugees, it is equally possible to withhold relief food from the citizens, only the degree of oppression is not the same.

How could the people of Paris, the most revolutionary people in the world, accept such humiliation? Seeing that the refugees had started an uprising, many people confusedly joined in.

At this point, there is nothing to say, both sides are stained with each other’s blood, only one side will fall before the end.

“A revolutionary government that plays itself to death.” Just thinking of this comment that future generations might give, Daniele’s entire being was bad.

Of course, they were not alone. If you opened the history books of France, you would find that there were several other similar revolutionary governments, they were not the first, and they would not be the last, even if they were to be the antagonist, they still had someone to accompany them.

In a sense, the melee within the city of Paris was both accidental and inevitable that it would happen. From the beginning of the siege by the allied armies of the nobility, food-deficient Paris was doomed to weep.

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(End of chapter)