254 Great Cleaning
Li Wei naturally saw the difficulties encountered by the Kingdom of Spain and the Invincible Fleet running away from the Mediterranean by the British Royal Navy.
Unsurprisingly, the political achievements of the military alliance between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Spain emerged!
The main energy of the most active London government in the anti-French alliance was placed on the Spanish.
Without the British's trouble, Levi could carry out a drastic cleansing of the French mainland.
That is, the idiot Carlos IV, would agree to form an alliance with the French Republic at this time.
After all, the French Republic is obviously disgusted by thousands of people in Europe. French revolutionary ideas have spread from Central Europe to Italy and Southern Europe, and even the Balkans have shown signs.
It’s just that the Ottomans’ religious control was very strict, and revolutionary ideas spread extra difficulty in spreading on the territory of the Ottoman Empire.
As for the territory of Tsarist Russia in Eastern Europe, the enslaved serfs were unable to spread revolutionary ideas at all.
Although the serf system was backward, it was indeed an effective means to control revolutionary ideas.
In addition to the Ottoman Empire, the entire Europe, the spread of French revolutionary ideas on Tsarist Russia fell to a standstill.
However, Fatis also had a talent in politics. He found that the French revolutionary ideas could not spread in Tsarist Russia, so he sent people to establish a Davari Mutual Aid Society with Tsarist Russian customs in the big city of Tsarist Russia.
The Davari Mutual Aid Association no longer promotes French revolutionary ideas, but instead unites the poor at the bottom with the gangster situation, allowing the poor to join the association to unite and keep warm.
Since it was developed in cities and did not spread revolutionary ideas, the Davari Mutual Aid Association was regarded as ordinary gangs by the local governments of the Tsarist Russian Empire. Gangs were too common in the cities of Tsarist Russia, and some Tsarist Russian nobles even took the initiative to find the Davari Brotherhood to do some shameful activities.
For example, helping a Tsarist Russian nobleman assassinate his wife's lover!
All commissions of the Dawarri Mutual Aid Association have internal statistics, and it is found that the most business dealing with aristocratic men and women is the one that handles the most!
Because the Davari Mutual Aid Association is well organized, the commissioned tasks are completed at a high rate and quickly gained a reputation in the upper class in the city. More and more Tsarist Russian aristocrats and government bureaucrats are willing to ask them to entrust their help.
This has made the development of the Davari Mutual Aid Association very smooth.
The concept of the Davari Mutual Aid Association is completely different from that of the Lindenwan Brotherhood, which has put the Davari Mutual Aid Association on a unique path. Moreover, the Davari Mutual Aid Association is far away from the Central European city where Fatis is located, as the Davari Mutual Aid Association develops and grows, Fatis' control of them has become increasingly difficult.
Fatis once tried to send absolutely loyal brainwashing soldiers over, but found that even if the French solved the language problem, they seemed out of place in the Tsarist Russian Empire and could not integrate into the Davari Mutual Aid Society.
After realizing that Davari Mutual Aid would be at risk of being out of control, Fatis made a bold and risky decision. He led the teams such as Wright to move collectively to Tsarist Russia to directly control the Davari Mutual Aid.
The Secret Spies Division of the Livi government also lost contact with Fatis and his group after Fatis moved to Eastern Europe...
Before leaving, Fatis handed over the Lindenwan Brotherhood developed by Central Europe to the control of the Spy Division.
Aren, who was originally responsible for contacting Fatis on a single line, took over as the leader of the Lindenwan Brotherhood of Fatis' development in Central Europe.
Of course, these are all things on the hidden front and have no impact on the international situation in Europe.
In the first half of 1796, the Paris Cabinet Government established by Li Wei announced the abolition of the Paris Commune and all revolutionary clubs, and declared that any situation of the revolutionary party is an illegal organization!
Ironically, this decree aimed at targeting the French Revolutionary Party was passed unanimously by the Parliament of the French Republic, which was originally regarded as the base of the revolutionary party!
What is even more symbolic is that the Levi government directly dispatched the first legion of the French foreign legion, the Prussian Legion, to implement this decree.
In order to make the operation sudden, the Prussian Legion launched a raid on the Paris Commune and issued a decree. When most Paris citizens learned the news, all clubs in the Paris area were closed, and a large number of revolutionary members reported by members of the parliament of the French Republic were arrested...
In just one day, thousands of members of the Paris commune and revolutionaries were arrested in the Paris area, all of whom were imprisoned in labor camps.
Almost all the people in the Paris Commune were caught and the ban on the Paris Commune naturally came to fruition. Without the Revolutionary Club, the citizens of Paris were like flies without a leader, and could not do anything except to be angry but not speak out.
At this moment, in the parliament of the French Republic, the parliamentarians with high reputation among the people stood up and appeased the citizens of Paris. The citizens of Paris did not even show up in the end!
The thousands of Paris revolutionaries arrested, together with the revolutionaries arrested in the previous purges in southeastern and southern France, were sent to the military camps, and brainwashed and trained to a division-level unit of 10,000 people.
After the brainwashing ended, the Li Wei government began to expand the purge of revolutionaries, and the knife fell on the capitalists in the Paris region who had connections with the revolutionary party.
The sacred and inviolable law of private property was regarded as waste paper at this moment. The Wallace Business Alliance controlled by the Secretary of Industry and Commerce Wallace ushered in a carnival. They accepted a large amount of Paris industries without paying any price.
All are property confiscated by the government.
At this time, the land reform policy had been carried out throughout France. French farmers had no idea of rebelling under the land reform policy of the Levi government.
After the outbreak of the Paris Purge, the countries of the anti-French alliance thought that France would once again trigger a revolutionary wave, but the vast townships were very stable. Before the revolutionaries in the big cities could organize mass demonstrations, they were arrested and imprisoned by the local French Defense Force, who had been prepared.
In just one month, more than 10,000 revolutionaries in France were arrested and put into labor service offices. Before the revolutionary party of the entire French Republic recovered, they were dismembered by the Li Wei government in an organized and hierarchical manner, without causing any social unrest.
These revolutionary members from all over France, among which the young and strong, were selected into the military camp and trained to become the second division-level unit of 10,000 people.
At this point, the scale of guard infantry under Li Wei's command officially exceeded 200,000!
These brainwashed revolutionary members transformed into soldiers returned to their hometowns to show up and praise the Levi government.
Even though these brainwashed revolutionaries no longer had their original eloquence and wisdom, they still achieved considerable results.
This purge killed very few people. The arrested revolutionaries finally changed their minds and loyally supported the Li Wei regime, which made the French people confused. The enthusiasm for revolution was extinguished before they could rise...
The implementation of the land reform policy has allowed most French farmers to regain land farming, and the number of people who starve to death is rapidly decreasing. In addition to the borders of the Rhine region still breaking out from time to time, which is relatively chaotic, the entire French territory has entered a period of stable development.
After solving the revolutionary party problem, Li Wei began to attack the aristocratic class in the country again.
All the noble fiefs were taken back and distributed to the local people to cultivate, but the power of these nobles did not disappear. The Li Wei government promised them to go out twice the original fief, but these all require external wars to obtain.
In other words, the Li Wei government used a bunch of empty checks to recover the fiefs of the French nobles...
However, even the revolutionary party was silently destroyed by the Li Wei government, so these French nobles naturally did not dare to be angry, not to mention that their privileges were not banned, and there was still hope in the future.
With the record of the French Defence Force, these French nobles who defected to Levi felt that the French Defence Force would definitely defeat the anti-French alliance.
At that time, we can easily cut off a piece of land from the anti-French alliance countries and arrange them, the small nobles.
The French nobles who defected to Li Wei were actually big landlords, and the truly powerful French nobles would not defect to Li Wei at all.
After solving the aristocratic affairs, Levi promoted many bills through the parliament of the French Republic that were conducive to consolidating his own power.
The most important points are:
Levi's CEO was changed to lifelong system.
All armed forces in the French Republic are the Chief Commander.
"Marseille" was declared a banned song in the French Republic.
All opposition parties will be banned. In the future, no parties or any non-government-identified organizations will be allowed in the French Republic.
In addition, Li Wei also closed more than 100 newspapers in France, making all newspapers in France praise Li Wei...
In addition, Li Wei asked the Bank of France to print a new version of the franc banknotes, using gold and silver as reserves, that is, the gold and silver standard system.
This is naturally not as good as the gold standard system, but France's gold reserves are too small, which is not enough to support the banknote exchange system, so it can only temporarily adopt the gold and silver standard system.
The front of the new version of the Franc is a side portrait of Levi wearing a marshal's uniform!
In addition, Li Wei also made an act that made the French people angry and lost. The flag of the French Republic changed from a red, white and blue tricolor flag to a black dragon flag!
In fact, in this political reform, except for not ascending the throne and becoming emperor, Li Wei is no longer different from the real French emperor...
The reason why he did not ascend the throne and became emperor is mainly because the Pope is a member of the anti-French alliance and is an opponent of the Levi government, so it is naturally impossible to crown Levi and become emperor.
As for just arresting a bishop of France, Li Wei felt that his or her stature was too low, so it would be better to crown himself than to do it.
Life all requires a sense of ritual, let alone becoming emperor?
Li Wei’s failure to proclaim himself was not only considering the orthodoxy of European countries, but more importantly, he felt that proclaiming himself without a sense of ritual was imperfect.
It would not be too late to become emperor after conquering the Pope.
Anyway, the French Defence Force's strategic plan is to attack the Italian region and turn Italy into a French European colony.
The Li Wei government first destroyed the revolutionary party and used land reform to appease the French peasants who occupied the majority of the population, and finally carried out political reforms.
When the red, white and blue flags were lowered and were banned by the Black Dragon Battle Flag, many French citizens in cities cried bitterly. Under the threat of the French National Wehrmacht, they did not dare to speak out except to swallow the bitter fruit into their stomachs.
Without the revolutionary party taking the lead, what else can these ordinary people do?
However, it is relatively ignorant and the rural French areas, which are not greatly affected by revolutionary ideas, do not have much feelings about the changes in the national flag. The new government's land reform policy has been supported by them.
The state-owned land system allows French farmers to own land they can control. In addition to being unable to buy, sell and transfer, it is many times better than before!
Of course, if there are French farmers who do not want to farm, they can find the local land bureau. This department is a local department under the jurisdiction of the Land Management Department of the Liwei government, which is specifically responsible for land reform and land application, exchange, transfer and other matters of French farmers.
Li Wei was worried about the land reform policy and set up a special land department...
As long as French farmers can ensure that they do not abandon the land after transfer, they can go to the local land bureau for certification, but a certain amount of handling fees are required.
Of course, such private transfers are actually made with money.
However, after the transfer, both parties must ensure that the land is not abandoned, otherwise it will be illegal!
Since the land is owned by the state, French farmers who cultivate the land must pay an additional national land tax in addition to the original tax.
In fact, it is the cost of land lease.
Not very high, generally only about 50% of the land output.
Well, the Li Wei government doesn't think it's high.
Of course, compared with the previous landlords, you should know that the original fiefdom nobles took away 100% of the grain harvest, because the French peasants were the serfs of the nobles!
Even some free people will be exploited in various ways, and the land they plant can only meet the basic food needs at most.
Now after the land reform, the French government has only taken away half of the harvest. Compared with the two, the French farmers are naturally very satisfied.
The local land bureau is not a small department. They need to inspect the cultivated land in the area they are responsible for every quarter to ensure that no land is abandoned or wasted.
At the same time, it is also a kind of supervision of land harvest, preventing French farmers from storing land from privately concealing the harvest and reducing the land lease fees they pay themselves.
If you want to evade taxes, it won’t work for Levi!
Chapter completed!