I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 764: Franz II's "All in" (The last monthly ticket in 24 years)
The voting results came out in just over ten minutes - 80 votes in favor, 2 abstentions, and no vote against.

From this moment on, the Wallonia region of the Southern Netherlands officially became three provinces of France.

When Chevennemand read out the results, the hall erupted in warm cheers.

I don't know who started shouting:

"Long live His Majesty the King!"

People immediately started to chant:
"Long live His Majesty the King!"

"Long live France!"

"Long live His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"Ahaha, we're all French now!"

After everyone gradually quieted down, General Gaillard waved his arms again and said loudly:
"Well, now we must use all our energy to ensure one thing, that is, France wins this war."

The Chamber of Commerce members all nodded.

Gaillard continued: "I suggest that we immediately start recruiting soldiers on a large scale and send them to the Brussels front to reinforce the French army... Oh, no, to reinforce our army!"

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Vienna.

Schönbrunn Palace.

British Foreign Secretary Lord Grenville and Marquis of Wellesley bowed to Francis II together, gestured to the Prussian Foreign Secretary next to them, and then both left the Grand Gallery.

Wellesley listened to the faint curses coming from behind him, turned his head and said to Grenville: "Why did you deliberately reject the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire?

"There is no need to expect the Dutch Army to be strong enough to fight. After the defeat of Prince Coburg, there is no army on the Western Front that is strong enough to resist the French.

"Based on the situation on the battlefield, the Duke of York should send troops to reinforce the Southern Netherlands as soon as possible, otherwise the situation there will soon become unmanageable."

Just two days ago, news of the Austrian defeat in the Southern Netherlands reached Vienna, a full week after the Battle of Wavre.

Britain, Austria and other countries did not know that Joseph had already surrounded Brussels and his 3-strong army was launching a fierce attack on the city.

Just now, Grenville rejected the Duke of York's request to reinforce Prince Coburg on the grounds that "Vienna acted on its own and launched an attack on Wallonia prematurely, which led to the current bad situation."

According to the strategic plan previously formulated by the coalition forces, Prince Coburg should launch an attack at the same time as the coalition forces on the Rhine line, so that the French army would be unable to focus on one thing and would be vulnerable under tremendous pressure.

However, in order to gain more say in the battle on the Rhine line - a large number of German states are located on both sides of the Rhine, and demonstrating Austria's strong military strength here will help unify these small states in the future - Francis II decided to resolve the war in southern Germany as soon as possible, and then transfer Prince Coburg's army back to the Rhine area.

However, the Austrian army on the Western Front was the one that was defeated the fastest, so much so that Franz had to lower his face and ask the British army for help...

Lord Grenville smiled:

"The Austrians have to be taught a lesson.

"Besides, only if His Majesty the Emperor is anxious will he be willing to devote all his strength to the war."

Wellesley frowned: "But the situation on the Western Front can't be delayed any longer..."

Grenville nodded. "You are right, but if I am not mistaken, His Royal Highness the Duke of York should already be on his way to the Southern Netherlands."

Wellesley sighed, "Originally, this army was supposed to attack Luxembourg, but because of the Austrians' short-sightedness and underestimation of the enemy, it had to be dragged to the southern Netherlands." Grenville smiled and said, "Come to think of it, aren't our masters also short-sighted and underestimating the enemy? If you were in charge of the army, you would definitely not be lingering in Utrecht until now."

Wellesley is the current British Secretary of State for War and has been leading the reform of the British Army, but he is too young and inexperienced, so the responsibility of commander-in-chief of the British Army this time falls on the shoulders of the British Prince, the Duke of York.

To be fair, the Duke of York's military ability was definitely top-tier in the UK, but in Grenville's eyes, his old friend Wellesley was the best person to command the British army.

Wellesley shook his head: "You can't blame your Highness for that. The quality of the soldiers under his command is very poor. It would be the same no matter who replaces him."

Grenville looked at him and said, "By the way, when can your new army be deployed to the battlefield?"

"The war broke out too early. They haven't even got all their weapons," Wellesley said, frowning. "It's all because of that damned gaslight scam that bankrupted a lot of factories in London. That's why the production of new guns has been very slow."

"how long will it take?"

"We can now produce 1300 per month, and we need about 5 more."

Yes, one of the most important military reforms of Wellesley was to imitate the French percussion cap rifle.

When he saw this weapon for the first time, he immediately realized that future battlefields would be dominated by it.

So after he became the Minister of Army, he immediately called on the arsenal to carry out imitation.

Thanks to Britain's developed processing industry and a large number of skilled craftsmen, after spending one year and four months and investing nearly 100,000 pounds, they finally succeeded in replicating the percussion cap rifle.

Although it is slightly inferior to the Auguste 1788 model in terms of accuracy, it has at least made up for the generation gap.

However, the London Gaslight Incident followed, with a large number of downstream factories going bankrupt, seriously affecting the manufacturing progress of the arsenal.

With Wellesley's generous funding support, the arsenal built its own entire industrial chain, which increased its production capacity.

However, up to this point, not all of Wellesley's 3 new troops were equipped with percussion-cap rifles.

noon the next day.

Lord Grenville was once again in the Great Gallery.

Franz II winked at Baron Turgut with a stern face. The latter took a deep breath helplessly and said to the British: "Your Majesty has decided to accept the suggestion you made yesterday.

"Our country will begin a general mobilization and send 5 to 7 more troops to the Rhine front within six months."

What he said meant that he would drain Austria's national strength to invest in the war.

At the same time, it also means that the emperor will cede interests to aristocratic groups such as Hungary and Bohemia in order to win more support from them.

"You have made the right decision." Grenville saluted Francis II. "Then our country will also increase the loan amount to help you maintain the army's operations."

Turgut continued: "Your Majesty will then summon the various states of the Holy Roman Empire and ask them to send more troops."

Before this, Francis II had declared war on France in the name of the Holy Roman Empire. Theoretically, all the Holy Roman states had joined this war.

However, most of the German states that had already achieved de facto independence were unwilling to get involved in this mess, so only a few actually sent troops.

This time, Grenville asked the Holy Roman Emperor to force the various states to send troops, otherwise they would face joint punishment from Austria and Prussia.

(End of this chapter)