Wild North America 1846

Chapter 565 Changes in Paris
After three days of private visits in disguise, Emperor Li Cha quietly returned to the court.

With Zheng Yuan, the head of the Royal Secretariat, helping to cover it up, very few people in the court knew about it, and all of them were given a gag order.

Only General Liu Wu, the commander of the Royal Guards, was secretly worried; if His Majesty the Emperor is addicted to this, what should he do?
A series of policies related to the vital interests of the people were promulgated by the court, which refined and improved the current social system, and were implemented uniformly by the imperial government.

Before long, 1871 came quietly...

Paris, Europe
The thing that the Europeans were most worried about finally came. Kaiser Wilhelm I was crowned as the German Emperor at the Palace of Versailles in the outskirts of France. The German army never relaxed the siege of Paris.

In addition to the cession of land, the amount of war compensation has also risen from 5 million francs to 50 billion francs.

Paris was besieged for more than seven months, and the French bourgeois Orleanist government was forced to agree to the peace offer of the German Empire due to internal and external difficulties.

This aroused the infinite anger of the citizens of Paris, and the Paris Revolution broke out as expected, known as the "Paris Commune" in history.

The policy of class oppression and national surrender of the French bourgeois government aroused extreme dissatisfaction among the masses of Paris. On March 1871, 3, workers in Paris staged an uprising, overthrew the rule of the bourgeoisie, and established a new revolutionary regime. Commune elections were held on March 18, and the Paris Commune was proclaimed on the 3th.

The head of the provisional government, Adolphe Thiers, who was expelled by force, led the members of the government and the army to retreat to the Palace of Versailles on the outskirts of the city. His government was also called the Versailles Government by European public opinion, and the army was called the Versailles Army to distinguish the Paris Commune.

Since Germany and France have reached a peace treaty, for the benefit of the German Empire and the real dividend of winning the war, Germany must support the Adolphe Thiers government to counterattack Paris and stabilize the regime.

Otherwise, the peace treaty that has been reached is just a blank sheet of paper.

Just like the defeated treaty signed by the fallen French Emperor Napoleon III, no one in France will recognize it now, and it is ruthlessly discarded like a fart.

Therefore, the German Empire quickly changed its policy, from attack to support.

Since the beginning of April, 4+ French officers and soldiers captured by the Fortress of Metz have been successively handed over to the Adolphe-Thiers government and re-armed. big counterattack.

On April 4, the Courbevoie region on the outskirts of Paris was captured by Thiers' Versailles army.The Paris Commune organized a counteroffensive the next day and tried, but failed, to seize the Versailles area.

more than a month later
Fortress of Isi
His Highness Tang Li Kun, who was wearing the uniform of a major general of the Great Tang Empire, held up his binoculars solemnly, looking at the battered Yixi Fortress in front of him. The flames of war have turned this beautiful area into hell.

The brutal bloody battle between the Versailles Army and the armed civilians of the Paris Commune has lasted for more than a month, and the air is filled with the unpleasant smell of corpses and gunpowder smoke.

His Highness Tang-Li Kun slowly put down the binoculars in his hand, his young face appeared resolute and steady, revealing a maturity far beyond his age.

His specialty is European history. After so many years of in-depth research and personal experience of major European events, he has grown into a European expert, and he can view this French disaster from a more rational perspective.

The Franco-Prussian War has not yet completely ended, and the protagonists of the war have been switched to the civil war between the Versailles government and the Paris Commune, which really makes people feel ironic.

The fortress of Issy in front of you is a necessary place between the Palace of Versailles and Paris, and has thus become the focus of competition between the two sides of the French Civil War.

The bloody battle with gunfire has lasted for more than a month. There are charred corpses, broken guns, blown-up carriages, and cannons everywhere. Both sides of the battle are French, one is the Versailles army, and the other is the armed citizens of the Paris Commune .

In the face of the Orleans army equipped with a large number of field artillery and rich combat experience, the failure of the Paris Commune, which lacks artillery and logistics, is almost a foregone conclusion.

"Dear Your Highness, when do you think these French will be able to reoccupy Paris and get rid of these reckless and troublesome revolutionaries?" The speaker was Prince Albert of Saxony, commander of the No.12 German Army, who was older than Don- Li Kun is ten years older, but the relationship between the two is very close.

After signing a peace treaty with the Adolf-Thiers government, the German army basically stayed idle, shifting from an offensive deployment to an occupying force, waiting for the end of the war.

Emperor Wilhelm I returned to Berlin with Prime Minister Bismarck and a large number of officials to preside over a series of matters such as the country's industrialization construction and the restoration of the national economy, and the senior military officials were also idle.

There are many palaces around the town of Versailles, where German generals often hold luxurious noble banquets. It seems that there are two worlds with the bombarded Fortress of Issy.

Indeed, what does the French civil war matter to the Germans?

His Highness Tang-Li Kun casually threw the binoculars to the military attache beside him, glanced at Crown Prince Albert and said;

"I know what you're thinking... Dear His Royal Highness Prince Albert;

The Germans can't wait to reap the fruits of victory. The fate of the Paris Commune has already been doomed. What difference does it make if the war ends in May or June?

Even if it is delayed until July, it will only result in more casualties.

Failure is nothing more than a little earlier, a little later.

After studying European history for so many years, I have a better understanding of the cruelty of European wars.

It is especially touching to see those armed citizens of the Paris Commune falling on the battlefield one after another, defending the city they love with their blood and lives.

And the troops who raised their guns and shot these Parisian citizens fought side by side with them more than a month ago.

The reality is so magical and so cruel.

i can sense
The far-reaching impact of the Paris Commune event will shock the entire world. This is a group of revolutionaries who have dedicated themselves to noble ideals. You should be vigilant and guard the fence to prevent the wave of revolution from sweeping across Europe.

Fortunately, we are separated from Europe by the vast Atlantic Ocean. "

"Oh...His Royal Highness Kun, you are really not kind." Crown Prince Albert cried out with reproach, took the coffee cup from the officer of the guard, took a sip happily and said;

"It's not as easy as you say, the war is not over, our army is fighting the Italians in the south, and it's the army led by the damned Gallipoli.

Now French thinking is messy and dangerous, with the resurgence of the Jacobins, and impulsive Proudhonism, mixed with international socialism, Blanquism, and more liberal republicans, who knows what else?
A large group of anarchists gathered together, with a reckless impulse to destroy the world.

Oh my God!
The war opened Pandora's box, and the first to be unlucky was the French. "

His Highness Tang-Li Kun was also holding a cup of hot coffee as he walked down the hillside against the backdrop of heavy artillery fire. There was a small table covered with a white tablecloth and two small chairs.

He sat down on one of the small chairs, picked up the coffee and took a sip, then put the cup on the table, and ate the exquisite pastries on the table with his hands.

Crown Prince Albert came over and sat down, and unceremoniously enjoyed the exquisite pastry, nodded while eating and said, "I like your cook, Your Highness Kun, have you thought about letting him work in a different environment?"

"That was an officer, not a servant."

"It's a pity. I found that you people in Tang Dynasty are very good at cooking food and have many unique skills, just like these Frenchmen."

"It is derived from the ancient cultural traditions of the East. It is reflected in music, food and moral values ​​that are different from those in the West. For example, we use chopsticks to eat, which embodies a unique oriental philosophy."

"It's more difficult to understand, it's really an obscure culture!"

"Just get used to it." His Highness Tang-Li Kun patted the powder on his hands, took a sip of coffee and continued; "Because of his love for French art, the Empire has an art appreciation and acquisition team. I hope to be able to act with the German army. After entering Paris, I will launch a legal acquisition operation. I will acquire some artworks at a fair price and hope to get some security.”

"That's no problem, I'll explain it to you." Crown Prince Albert nodded in agreement.

Don't look at the current offensive of the Versailles army on the battlefield, which seems to be in control of the situation. In fact, the German army is the talker in the entire Greater Paris area.

10,000+ German troops are still besieging Paris. Only on the battlefields that are deliberately left open, let the bloody civil war between the two sides of France, such as the current fortress of Issy and the future urban area of ​​Paris, will become a battlefield full of artillery fire.

As long as the German army stops supplying munitions, shells, and logistics supplies, the Versailles army will lose its shell in minutes.

Of course, supporting the Versailles Army is not without cost, which has to wait until after the victory.

The radical policies of the Paris Commune not only made the Thiers government extremely hostile, but also made the German government and the surrounding European kingdoms quite worried, and they were bound to put them to death before giving up.

Today's Paris Commune implements "equality between men and women", requires "separation of church and state", and hopes to obtain "autonomous status of Paris". State ownership, the abolition of high salaries for government employees, the abolition of bank interest and rent, and a series of measures, each innovation is deviant, touches fundamental interests, and arouses strong hostility from the ruling class and the bourgeoisie.

With all enemies around, the possibility of the Paris Commune winning the final victory is infinitely close to zero.

(End of this chapter)