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242 Restoration

"Yes, the strength of the Liberty Alliance cannot be compared with the Livi regime, but we don't need to welcome Louis XVIV.

If France returned to the previous kingdom era, wouldn’t the blood of so many revolutionary ancestors be gone?

What are we looking for in the years we have struggled?

Does it just satisfy our desire for power?

My heart is red, and I will never do such a thing that goes against the original intention of the revolution!

The blood of the ancestors of the French Revolution cannot be shed in vain!

The red, white and blue three-color flag must always stand on the land of France!

To put it bluntly, even if our Free Alliance was defeated by Levi, at least the red, white and blue flags were still flying over France!”

Revolutionary politicians cannot refute the existing situation, they can only stick to the final limit.

If it weren't for this bottom line, under the pressure of Levi's Black Dragon Legion's reputation, the Free Alliance formed in southeastern France would have long turned to the anti-French alliance.

Of course, there are also people in the southeastern region of France who want to surrender to Li Wei, but these people have been suppressed...

Since General Campbell's argument that Levi was murdered in southeastern France, defecting to Levi's regime has become a political mistake.

Most of the troops in the southeastern France were General Campbell's old subordinates, and they were worried that they would be assassinated and dealt with after surrendering to Levi.

Even if it is not dealt with, what kind of preferential treatment can a leader who assassinated their commander give to their old subordinates?

With the establishment of the Free Alliance, General Campbell's old subordinates made great efforts.

When the conservative politician heard the final limit of the revolutionary politician, a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth and asked calmly:

"If Louis XVIII was willing to keep the red, white and blue flags as the national flag of the Kingdom of France, would you be willing to support his restoration and the reconstruction of the Kingdom of France?"

The revolutionary politicians looked at each other and subconsciously retorted: "What we are pursuing is not just a national flag!

There are also political achievements since the French Revolution, previous third-level meetings…”

"Oh, by the way, Louis XVIII has personally promised that after his restoration, he would never adopt the three hierarchies of Louis XVI, and he was willing to recognize the right to civil liberties and equality in France.

Even Louis XVIII was willing to accept the new French Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, and you revolutionaries could retain a majority in the new National Assembly to supervise what Louis XVIII did.”

The conservative politician suddenly interrupted the other party and said news that made the revolutionary politicians frightened!

Constitutional monarchy is the psychological bottom line of these desperate Liberty Alliance revolutionary politicians!

Among these revolutionary politicians in the Liberal Alliance, many of them are senior generals in the army!

If they agree, it means the revolutionary compromise.

By the same token, many of the conservative politicians are also senior generals in the Liberal Allied Army.

The Free Alliance was essentially a turf team built by General Campbell's old subordinates, and was only one step away from the real warlords.

"Louis XVIII is really willing to preserve all the fruits of the French Revolution?"

"No, no, no, not all the results of the French Revolution are correct. For example, the persecution of nobles and church members seriously violates the Declaration of Human Rights.

Nobles and church members are also equal human beings. Why can't they enjoy fair and just French citizens' treatment?

Of course, the privileges of the nobles and church members still need to be banned, but some of their honors and privileges should be preserved. After all, the ancestors of the nobles have shed blood for the current land area of ​​France, and they should have their own glory.

If this war can overthrow Li Wei's dictatorship, we can all become nobles with supreme honors by virtue of our merits, and pass on this honor to the next generation.

And church people serve God, shouldn’t God’s servants receive some preferential treatment?

At least I, a devout Catholic, thinks it is necessary.”

Under this argument, the revolutionary politicians started to talk to each other in a low voice.

The conditions offered by Louis XVIII have met most of their needs. If France really could become such a constitutional monarchy, it would seem that nothing wrong with their loyalty to a king restricted by the National Assembly.

"Gentlemen, what are you still hesitating about?

The Livi regime has not left us with the Free Alliance for less time. There is not much time left before the first batch of reorganized troops of the French Defence Force of the Livi regime completes training.

The urgent time does not allow us to continue to spend it!

We should now unite all forces that can be united and jointly overthrow the dictatorship of Levi who assassinated General Campbell, and establish a true freedom, equality, and fraternal France!

France does not have to be a Republic to achieve this mission, and it is also a privilege to have an enlightened monarch."

Under the urging of conservative politicians, revolutionary politicians finally made a compromise.

The situation is pressing, and they really can't wait. The previous statement that revolutionary politicians wanted to establish the Burgundy Republic was actually a kind of political bargaining chip. The revolutionary politicians themselves knew very well that they could not resist the suppression of the Levi regime's army.

Needless to say, the French Defense Forces who are being trained in reorganization, even the existing Black Dragon Legion is enough to beat them...

Now that I have got what I want, what reason should I refuse?

Louis XVIII has made enough concessions!

Less than a week after the reorganization of the first batch of recruits from the French Defence Force of the central government in Paris ended, most of the towns in southeastern France reached a settlement in Geneva, and the Liberty Alliance welcomed the French king Louis XVIII!

Louis XVIII did not go deep into the big cities in southeastern France, but ascended the throne in Geneva and restored the old system of the French Kingdom!

The reason why the anti-French alliance was eager to get Louis XVIII to ascend the throne and restore the throne, rather than waiting to take the city of Paris to support Louis XVIII, was mainly to pull the army of the Liberal Alliance in southeastern France onto its own chariots and once again kicked off the French Civil War.

This is indeed the case.

After Louis XVIII restored and established the new Kingdom of France, the army of the Free Alliance was immediately reorganized into the Kingdom of France and began to assemble and prepare to launch an attack on Paris.

There was no threat from the Italian coalition led by the Kingdom of Sardinia in southern Paris, but now there was a threat from the Kingdom of France's army.

The new French Army was not only the original Liberty Alliance’s family, but also the mercenaries who had spent a lot of money to gather among the former French nobles who followed Louis XVIII.

The weapons and equipment and training levels of these mercenaries are even higher than those of the Free Alliance army.

After the two troops were reorganized, Louis XVIII also pulled the militias under the Free Alliance into the organization of the regular army, and finally gathered a hundred thousand troops!

With these 100,000 troops, Louis XVIII was qualified to start the French Civil War.

Except for the mercenaries gathered by the former French nobles under Louis XVIII, most of the remaining officers and soldiers were General Campbell's old subordinates and French youths who were resentful to Levi's dictatorship.

If Li Wei wiped out all the 100,000 troops, the southeastern France would completely surrender to Li Wei's feet!

Interestingly, Geneva, the temporary capital of the new kingdom of France, is a typical border city that did not belong to France even many years ago!

Next door to Geneva is the Kingdom of Switzerland, not far from the border of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Although the Kingdom of Switzerland did not join this anti-French alliance, its political tendency has always been on the side of the anti-French alliance. Louis XVIII chose Geneva as the temporary capital. It was obviously ready to run away to Switzerland after the defeat of the Kingdom of France...

There is no way, Levi's Black Dragon Legion is too strong in combat. Perhaps the anti-French alliance is not too concerned, but Louis XVIII, who has been paying close attention to the French Civil War, knows very well what a terrible army Levi's Black Dragon Legion is.

Therefore, Louis XVIII did not have much confidence in the victory of this civil war, and it mainly relied on the offensive of the anti-French alliance. Louis XVIII even positioned his 100,000 army as an "auxiliary army".

From the speed of the advance of the 100,000 troops, it can be seen that Louis XVIII did not expect the 100,000 troops to defeat Levi's Black Dragon Legion, but wanted to wait for the Pakatans and Austrian forces of the anti-French alliance to attack Paris first and then go in with the flow.

Of course, even the 100,000 troops that passively avoid war will be of great benefit to the strategic layout of the anti-French alliance.

More than 20,000 soldiers from the Black Dragon Legion were successfully attracted.

Levi was not worried that the 100,000 troops of the French Kingdom were besieging Paris, but worried that Louis XVIII would let the 100,000 troops go south or west.

Therefore, these more than 20,000 Black Dragon Legion soldiers were used to deploy defenses to the west and south of the French Kingdom.

The sharp political situation has made Paris turbulent again.

The news of the restoration of the French Kingdom was so big that Li Wei's propaganda department could not suppress it at all. Of course, Li Wei did not intend to suppress it either.

Levi's instruction was very simple, and he used the restoration of the French Kingdom to completely defeat the previous Liberty Alliance and General Campbell's old subordinates as traitors.

The entire southeastern French region is regarded as a rebellious regime and prepares for future suppression.

This argument is still very useful to the people of Paris, and even the marches and demonstrations of the people of Paris were suppressed.

The reason for the demonstrations of the Paris people was naturally because of Levi's confusion and anger at the anti-French alliance and Louis XVIII's inaction in restoration.

However, after all, there is a disadvantage of information asymmetry between the people of Paris and the Li Wei regime. Li Wei's propaganda department just distorted the facts slightly, and then used the method of stealing the sky and changing the sun to divert the attention of the people of Paris, which easily resolved the demonstrations spontaneously organized by the people of Paris.

However, the protests of the Paris people were suppressed, and Li Wei's small notebook recorded this. After suppressing the new French Kingdom and driving out the anti-French alliance, the Paris citizens with a strong revolutionary atmosphere would definitely be stabbed by Li Wei.

If it weren't for the overall situation, Li Wei would have already attacked the Parisian citizen class.

The bad effects of the establishment of the Kingdom of France were far more than this reflected in the local French country.

The Spanish Army, which was besieging the last stronghold of the Kingdom of Catalonia, was full of joy after learning that the French Civil War had broken out again, thinking that France would no longer have time to worry about the Kingdom of Spain to the south.

As a result, the morale of the Spanish Kingdom Army increased greatly, and the defense line of the Barcelona capital was retreating step by step.

Seeing that the situation was irreversible, King Aragon took his cabinet ministers and family members to flee Barcelona on a merchant ship according to the previous escape route.

After Aragon and his group escaped, the defenders of Barcelona immediately gave up their resistance, and the Kingdom of Spain officially recaptured the entire Catalonian region!

After completely controlling Barcelona, ​​Carlos IV carried out an organized large-scale retaliatory massacre of the rebellious Catalans at the suggestion of his wife Queen!

The Spanish Army that occupied Barcelona immediately turned into bandits, burned, killed and looted the city without restraint. Tens of thousands of Catalan prisoners of war (including a large number of Catalan militia) were captured by the Spanish Army, causing a tragedy that was no less than that of Marseille!

It can be seen from this that the brutal war and massacre were not original to Li Wei, but rather the characteristics of this era background.

Ironically, since the Spanish Kingdom has endorsed the member states of the Anti-French Alliance, the Barcelona massacre was not reported. The newspapers of the Anti-French Alliance countries only downplayed the matter, calling it the Spanish Army's suppression of the rebellion.

As a result, with such suppression, 80% of the residents in Barcelona have been reduced!

However, the Spanish Kingdom, which occupies the commanding heights of public opinion, is many times stronger than when Li Wei created the Marseille tragedy before!

Except for the people of Catalonia who keep their hatred in mind, the people of other regions and countries have no idea what is happening in the Catalonia region.

In the Kingdom of Spain, this massacre was claimed to be a great victory in the history of the Kingdom of Spain. After all, the Catalan rebellion was successfully established. With the other side's perfect government system and military command system, it was difficult to send troops to suppress the country, which was no less than going to war with other countries.

Such victory is naturally worthy of a special book.

As for the grievances of the Catalan people?

Sorry, dead people can't speak!

The surviving Catalans either hid in the mountains with blocked traffic or had already licked the Spanish.

The Anti-French Alliance was also very pleased that the Spanish Kingdom won the war with the Catalonian Kingdom. When the Spanish Kingdom Army was plundering and massacring the Catalans, the anti-French Alliance countries had begun to urge Carlos IV to back-slaughter the Levi regime from the south!

Now the main forces of the Black Dragon Legion of the Li Wei regime are all in the north, and there are very few garrisons in the south!
Chapter completed!
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