King's Landing in France

Chapter 369 The defeat of the first anti-French alliance (second update)

(In fact, the original idea was that Franz ran away and organized an army in Bohemia, but was captured by the Bohemians. But when I was writing, I thought it would be great to be captured by cavalry , I was able to brush up the image of Pomura. I did that. And then I forgot, the original idea was still in my mind... Hey, this is the drawback of the brain-scratching author)

An Ning frowned, he couldn't believe that Carl actually planned to spare his brother Franz.

What did you say that when my brother came back, he would still be the emperor of the Austrians...

An Ning: "Your brother has already signed the edict of surrender and surrendered to us. Now that you return the throne to him, I am afraid that all the people of Vienna will not agree."

Carl was silent: "He... really signed it? I thought it was false information concocted by you."

"Then I bring him here?"

Carl hesitated.He stood on the barricade and paced up and down, silent for a long time.

Next to him, Louis Capet teased: "There is nothing wrong with letting him come back, but I'm afraid there is no need to continue to be the emperor. I think exile is very good."

Karl looked up at the former Louis XVI, and finally made up his mind: "That's the truth. We need to judge him to determine the legitimacy of the Republic."

An Ning shook his head: "No, you can't be exiled! Look at how many problems we have exiled a Louis XVII. My suggestion is to send him directly to the guillotine, and those who rule will not be innocent!"

Carl: "You exiled Louis XVII because he was your wife's lowlander. And for my part, that's my brother. No, I'm going to exile him. I mean, I'm going to call on the new Parliament to exile him! "

An Ning couldn't help but support her forehead.

That's all, since the Grand Duke intends to do this, so be it.

Anyway, this is an Austrian matter, and An Ning is the Lord of France, so he has nothing to do with it.

**
In the months that followed, exile by the Vienna National Assembly did indeed cause problems.

Franz II in exile immediately rallied royalist nobles.

Unlike France, due to the development of industry and commerce in France, the grassroots rule of the nobility in the countryside has disintegrated, and rural life is mainly organized by local priests.

So after the French Revolution, the nobles couldn't get entangled in conscripting soldiers, because the peasants didn't listen to them at all.But after the promulgation of the Clergy Law, those conservative rural areas immediately reversed.

Because the local priest is the organizer of the life of the peasants. Perhaps the peasants were baptized by this priest from birth, organized by the priest for marriage, and buried by this priest when they died.

You suddenly said that this priest did not swear an oath of allegiance to France and was a traitor. If you arrest the priest and replace him with a priest that the peasants do not know, the peasants will definitely rebel.

But Shinra is different. In Austria, the hometown of Emperor Shinra, industry and commerce are not so developed in many places, especially in the southern mountainous areas.

The lord here can still recruit a large number of troops.

The nobles gathered their troops in the southern part of the empire to confront the republic that occupied the most fertile and developed Danube plain in Austria.

Civil war looks imminent.

Grand Duke Karl was still not willing to ask for help from France, and was ready to compete with his brother.

As for Alvinzi, who was guarding a bunch of cities in Bavaria, he chose to surrender after Archduke Karl signed the contract with France on behalf of Austria.

Marshal Alvinzi himself disarmed and returned to the field, and the Austrian soldiers in the coalition army, together with the soldiers of the Bohemian Army, became the backbone of the new Austrian army formed by Archduke Karl.

As for the German troops in the allied forces, An Ning ordered them to be escorted back to France for corvee service.

France is currently undergoing major construction projects. The parliament is planning to widen the main roadways in the country and build canals to connect the originally disconnected water systems to form an efficient water transportation network.

This all requires labor.

Having dealt with the allied forces, Anning lined up his 300,000-strong army on the border of Prussia and Austria.

Of the 300,000 troops, 22 were French and [-] Italians.

Then Prussia lost the desire to fight.

Moreover, there are also a large number of people in Prussia who want to follow the example of Austria. The King of Prussia probably needs to concentrate on dealing with his own domestic problems.

In this way, the participating countries of the first anti-French alliance were only the low countries.

In September, there was good news from Talleyrand that the Low Countries decided to make peace with their French brothers, who were also republics.

Thus ended the first coalition against France.

An Ning was very satisfied with this result.

And he also has a wonderful idea: Look, our fraternal countries are all republics, right? They all support the enlightenment spirit of equality, freedom and fraternity, right?

Then can we form an alliance of enlightened republics?
While An Ning was daydreaming endlessly, someone started to make trouble for him again.

**
That night, Barras paid a visit to Danton.

"Mr. Danton, the formulation of an interim constitution is an excellent opportunity. We can take this opportunity to limit the power of the first ruling! Mechanistically prevent other powers from going to the opposition."

Danton frowned: "No, I won't do anything against Frost!"

"Your Excellency Frost is such a high-minded person, he has countless opportunities to become the king of France, but he didn't do it. We established this mechanism not to deal with Lord Frost, of course not." Ballas pressed his hands on Danton The table in front of me whispered, "We have developed this mechanism to limit the ambitious people in the army! For example, that Bonaparte!"

Danton hesitated for a few seconds: "The parliament will not pass it. No one dares to vote for it."

"Why can't you see the situation clearly? Everyone in the parliament is actually of one mind. They don't want the soldiers to have too much power. Everyone will support it.

"In fact, the process of formulating the interim constitution was very long. Many people participated in this process. If they did not want to limit the power of the military, the provisions of the constitution would not be like this."

Danton: "I will discuss it with other people, such as M. Foucher and M. Talleyrand. He will return to Paris tomorrow, and I will have to talk to them before I can decide."

Barras sighed: "Are you frightened by Robespierre's fate? Why are you so worried? It's just exile. Your Excellency Frost is kind, so you can generously test his bottom line. ?"

Danton: "Because he is benevolent, so test his bottom line? Did you make a mistake?"

"That's politics! Lord Frost is politically immature. He didn't even guillotine the murderer after he was assassinated! No one is afraid of such a man, at least I am not. In fact, everyone in Parliament Don't be afraid, that's why the Constitution is like this!
"What are you afraid of?"

Dandong was silent for a few seconds, then replied: "I'm not afraid, I'm just a friend, I don't want to betray a friend."

"It's not a betrayal, it's helping him restrain ambitious people like Bonaparte!"

Dandong shook his head again and again: "No, no, I won't."

"So, the new interim constitution, you don't plan to let him enter the voting process?"

Danton: "I'll let him go to the voting process, but I'll head the no-vote."

Ballas smiled: "Thank you then. Let me pass the task of passing this bill."

Danton: "Don't tell me that, I never heard you say that. You never came to my place."

Ballas nodded: "Of course, I understand."

After speaking, he turned around and strode away.

Dandong covered his face: "God, I would actually do this... I hope Frost's kindness will run through, I hope..."

(End of this chapter)