Chapter 208: ,peace

Napoleon's army entered Berlin. Napoleon personally led the army into Berlin from under the Brandenburg Gate, and severely satisfied his desire to pretend.
According to the rules of this era, after an army enters the city of an enemy country, it is always unavoidable to do things such as robbery, murder, and turning girls into young women, but the French army under Napoleon behaved Very civilized, yes, very civilized. There was neither large-scale robbery and killing nor evidence that when the French left Berlin, the virginity of Berlin women became worse than before the French came.
Strictly speaking, the French army is not a force armed with advanced ideas. The reason why such discipline can be maintained is not because of class feelings or the sense of honor of the soldiers. There is only one real reason, and that is, the French army, especially the French army under Napoleon's command, has extremely high combat allowances. After Napoleon's victory, the combat allowance may be more than the regular military salary for a whole year. This naturally makes the soldiers willing, especially after winning a battle, to observe various disciplines.
The most fundamental reason why Napoleon's army can have such a high allowance is that every time Napoleon wins a battle, he can get money efficiently. The most common way for Napoleon to get money was to hit local tyrants and suppress counter-revolutionaries.
In fact, if His Majesty King Frederick William III of Prussia understood this characteristic of the French army, and noticed that Napoleon did not rob or rob the local tyrants this time, he should know that Napoleon did not want to destroy Prussia at this time. .
Of course, Napoleon would not make a loss-making business, and these allowances must be paid by the Prussians. But the French directly robbed it, and the King of Prussia robbed his own people first, and then handed it over to the French. If the first method is used, the hatred of those Fritz will be concentrated on the French, then the Prussian aristocracy will have the opportunity to use the nationalist set to brainwash the common people and encourage them to sell their lives for themselves; With the latter approach, even though there are middlemen to make the difference, the hatred is also divided a lot by the middlemen, and in order to maintain their own rule, they have to suppress the nationalist stuff.
This is especially true in Prussia today. Even Berlin was lost, and most of the sites still in the hands of the Prussians are in Poland in the past. The people who are still under the rule of Frederick Wilhelm III are already mainly Poles-Prussia is about to change from a German nation to a Polish state. Under such circumstances, the rulers of Prussia, who are dominated by German aristocrats, naturally dare not engage in nationalism.
For this reason, after Napoleon took Berlin, he did not continue to pursue Frederick William III, but stopped in Berlin, waiting for Frederick William III's next messenger for peace talks.
On the other side, when Archduke Karl returned to Austria with that agreement, His Majesty the Emperor felt at first that the agreement required his army to completely withdraw from Italy and he suffered a loss. You know, after the Italians can't keep up with their logistics supplies, his army has captured several Italian cities and even started to approach Milan.
What's more, in the agreement of the Grand Duke Carl, the security issues in the relevant areas adjacent to Italy have not been really effectively resolved. Only God knows how long the "period" of the French "prepared to gradually reduce the sale of weapons to these areas and lead to a final settlement after a period of time" is really true.
Therefore, His Majesty the Emperor was very upset at first, and even a little doubted whether Grand Duke Karl had a problem with his ability. They are not even willing to sign this agreement immediately and make it effective. But when Napoleon swept the entire Prussia like the autumn wind swept the fallen leaves, His Majesty the Emperor immediately changed his attitude. He apologized to Grand Duke Karl and publicly praised Metternich, who had done a lot in signing this agreement, as a manufacturable, and planned to make him the ambassador to France.
Metternich proposed to the emperor that he hoped that the emperor would send him as a special envoy to mediate the war between France and Prussia.
"Your Majesty, if Prussia is too weakened, it will not be good for our country." Metternich said.
So this time, Napoleon waited in Berlin not only for the Prussian messenger, but also Metternich, who came with the Prussian messenger.
Napoleon received the two envoys, and in the beginning of the negotiation he still insisted that one hundred and fifty million francs in compensation should not be less than one Su. But in the end, under Metternich's persuasion, Napoleon finally expressed some kindness and made some concessions. So the two sides signed the "Berlin Treaty" in Berlin.
The "Berlin Treaty" stipulates that Prussia should pay France 100 million francs in compensation, which must be paid in full at one time. For this reason, if Prussians need loans, they can only borrow from banks within the range designated by the French government. As for loan collateral, Prussian tariffs are used as collateral.
In addition, Prussia provides France with unilateral most-favoured-nation treatment, as well as unilateral market access and national treatment. French people do not need any visas for activities anywhere in Prussia; French people can buy properties and engage in any profession anywhere in Prussia, and the Prussian government shall not interfere. After French goods enter Prussia, they only need to pay tariffs (the tariff rate is set by the loan bank union designated by the French government). After that, the Prussian government will not collect any other taxes on these goods from France in any other way.
Give up all the territory west of the Elbe. Of course, these territories will not be incorporated into France, but will be incorporated into the upcoming Free State of the Rhine, a confederate alliance under the protection of France. (After losing the territory west of the Elbe River, Prussia really became a country with a slightly larger percentage of Poles.)
This is almost an unequal treaty that destroyed Prussia. But this is not all the trouble Frederick William III has to face. Encouraged by the terrible defeat of the Prussians, the Polish nobles once again supported those "independence men" to launch an uprising. At this time, Prussia had no power to suppress them. Seeing Prussia would lose more than half of its land and population.
At this time, Prussia’s friendly neighbors Russia and Austria both stepped forward and extended a helping hand to Prussia. They all expressed to Prussia that they are willing to send troops to help Prussia quell the rebellion.
The attitudes of the Russians and Austrians are also very understandable. They have all participated in the carve-up of Poland. If the Poles create a new Poland in the Prussian territory, it will also have a bad effect on their control area. So from this point of view, their help is indeed sincere.
But Prussia dared not accept their kindness in this way. Who knows that after they came, the Polish uprising would eventually be suppressed, but their lands became the land of Russians and Austrians?
So Frederick William III simply came to the second master who didn't bother to do anything, anyway, if he wanted to betray the country, he just sold enough. King Frederick William III and Queen Louise returned to Berlin, and they also hosted a banquet for General Napoleon Bonaparte in the palace in Berlin. During the banquet, the two sides had very cordial and friendly talks. His Majesty, and the beautiful Queen Louise, left a deep impression on Napoleon. Especially after His Majesty the King left early due to physical discomfort during the banquet, the gentle, generous, meticulous and considerate mistress of Queen Louise made Napoleon intoxicated.
It is also based on the description of the famous writer Mr. Alexander Dumas in a novel that was banned because of his morality. When Lucien triumphantly showed off the various mermaids he had hunted, Napoleon dismissed it. Said: "Those of your prey are not very good, there is no one comparable to Queen Louise, that queen, that is the real natural stunner."
So after this banquet, Napoleon went to the Prussian palace under the protection of the French army several times, and quickly reached an agreement with Prussia that Prussia would use domestic mineral resources as collateral, and loan 30 million francs to France for military expenses. Loan agreement. This agreement was named the "Loan Agreement on Rehabilitation Matters for the Realization of Peace and Reconstruction of the Country", referred to as the "Rehabilitation Loan Agreement". Of course, the 30 million francs in the agreement does not require the French to come up with real money~EbookFREE.me~, but directly convert the captured Prussian soldiers, officers, and some of the captured weapons into money and hand them over Prussian.
After the agreement is reached. The French began to withdraw gradually from Prussia, and the captured Prussian soldiers and officers also began to gradually return to the command of King Frederick William III. And began to prepare to calm the domestic rebellion.
As for Napoleon, after leaving Berthier to handle the withdrawal process, he hurriedly took a team to Luxembourg. Now he is going to Paris to harvest his most important trophy.
Relying on sleeping in the carriage all the way, and constantly changing horses, Napoleon drove back to Luxembourg from Berlin in just a week. Then he took a team of cavalry in Luxembourg, dragged the various flags captured by his army in this series of battles, and spent another five days, finally returned to Paris.
This morning, amidst the cheers of the citizens of Paris, Napoleon rode a white horse, surrounded by those soldiers who had returned to the parliament, and reported his achievements to the parliament.
The soldiers threw the captured flags on the steps leading to the main entrance of the Capitol. The proud Napoleon dismounted, stepped on these flags and walked in under the of an elite guard. Parliament building.