Chapter 88: ,crisis

With Fouché cast this vote, the fate of Louis XVI was basically decided. Because Fouché voted for the 355th vote in favor of the death penalty, which is only six votes away from the 361 votes that could cut the head of Louis XVI, and behind Fouché, there is no vote yet. There are still many mountain members. Their attitude is relatively firm and it is almost impossible to defect. This is not necessarily the case for the remaining Brissot MPs. It can be said that the overall situation has been determined. Immediately afterwards, a new traitor appeared among the Brissots behind Fouché. As a result, out of 720 votes, 387 votes in favor of the death penalty, and the remaining 300 Thirty-three votes supported the pardon. The death penalty of Louis XVI was approved, and this will be the second king sentenced to death in Europe.
In fact, there are financial reasons for trying the king. As the king was sentenced to death, the property of those exiled nobles was declared confiscated and used as collateral to issue more coupons. If everything is normal, these lands and properties will give France's finances a long buffer period. However, in any era, war is a bottomless financial pit. At this time, the war between France, Austria, and Prussia was not over yet.
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After taking Belgium, the French army began to repair. Joseph, who had nothing to do, also took his brother out, wandering around the streets of Aachen.
Although they were walking around, the two brothers paid attention to something different. Napoleon carefully observed the layout of the streets of Aachen. By the way, he demolished the city a hundred times through simulated street fighting in his head. . As for Joseph, he was certainly not so boring. He just found a small detail: the price of goods in Aachen has risen significantly, and the shops on the street seem to be repelling to French people, especially those in military uniforms. Once, when he and Napoleon came out without wearing military uniforms, they walked into a tavern and asked in German, "Do you have brandy?" The shop owner immediately replied, "Yes, yes. You pay with Mark?" A flower smiled on his face.
"Can't Riffel?" Joseph continued to ask.
"River? Silver? Silver is fine, but we don't accept coupons." The boss replied.
"Silver." Joseph said, dropping a few silver coins on the counter.
"That's good." The shopkeeper said happily when he saw that Joseph took out silver coins, "a livre."
"Huh? Wasn't it one livre and two cups before?" Joseph said in surprise.
"That was before the French came." A voice came from the side, and Joseph turned his head and saw a red-haired young man with a glass of frothy beer in his hand. Seeing Joseph's gaze, the man raised the wine glass in his hand towards him and smiled slightly.
"Yes, that was before the French came. Since the French came, the price of everything has gone up." The shopkeeper also said.
This is also a normal thing. Generally speaking, soldiers who die or die are always willing to spend money. Where the soldiers of the brigade get to, it is always easy to cause certain industries, such as wine, and certain indescribable industries to have a hot business and increase prices.
"So the shop owner should have made a lot of money, right?" Joseph asked with a smile.
"Where is it," the boss shook his head. "It was okay at first, but now, they are all holding a small piece of paper, and they ran over to drink—hey, isn't this a lie? Of course I won’t Yes, and as a result, I was beaten by them. They also said that they don’t charge me any vouchers, which is a counter-revolutionary. They also threatened to hang me on a street light pole! Now we dare not refuse them. Pieces of paper, but good things have to be hidden in advance so they don’t see it."
In France, in order to ensure that the coupons can be accepted, the parliament has indeed enacted a decree prohibiting merchants from collecting coupons. If the merchant insists on not accepting the ticket, it is indeed possible to be chandelier. (Of course, French businessmen also have their own ways of coping) But this is not France.
But the soldiers can't help it, they can't help but come out to relax, spend money?
In the beginning, when the front line was very critical, in order to boost the morale of the soldiers, the French government smashed the pot and sold iron. The soldiers were paid with real metal currency. However, since the War of Valmy, the government began to show coupons in the military pay for the army, and after the victory of the Battle of Hotmap, the proportion of coupons in the military pay exceeded that of the metal currency. Once on the guillotine, there is no metal currency in the military pay.
Of course, this is what Di Maurier said, and it is also said that at this special moment, in order to stabilize the situation, the military payment sent by the government to Di Maurier is still metal currency. But General Du Mourier exchanged all these metal currencies for notes himself, and then distributed them to the soldiers.
And this statement even has a certain basis, because there are always small vendors who do a special kind of business near the French army barracks, which is to exchange coins for pointers. Of course, this exchange ratio is much darker than in France. The soldier who didn't want to be exploited furiously beat a certain businessman, and also snatched the two hundred silver livres beside him, and finally threw him four hundred paper livres.
General Du Mourier, who had never cared about such things, was furious about this, claiming that this lawless act was really a heinous crime and caused the people to complain. It is really not enough to kill the civilians. Then he hung up those soldiers, which was regarded as a correct military law.
However, many soldiers suspected that the reason why General Di Mourier, who had never cared about this kind of thing, was so angry was probably because he was the backstage boss of those merchants who exchanged notes. This irresponsible conjecture quickly spread throughout the army, making the morale of the army even worse.
Joseph threw two livres to the shop owner, took two glasses of brandy, the queen called and stared at the street, thinking about how to ambush a cannon there, and then the cannon blasted his mother Napoleon, leaning on Sit down by the street window.
The two of them just sat down and took a couple of sips. They heard a noisy mess outside, followed by gunshots, and then exclamations and cries, mixed together and messed up.
"What's the matter?" Joseph stood up and looked out.
A man hurried in, and shouted palely: "French, the French robbed something and killed someone!"
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In a short period of time, the French lost their hearts in Belgium. At the beginning, at least most ordinary people in Belgium were really looking forward to the arrival of the French army. But the various actions of the French army turned their dreams into nightmares. Many of the guys who flirted with the French when they ruled in Austria are now hooking up with Audi again. It can even be said that once Austria begins to counterattack, the whole of Belgium may stand up against France.
However, in order to solve the financial difficulties and prepare for the upcoming second round of intervention-the war cost so much money that it is no longer enough to confiscate the land of the royal family and some nobles-the French government needs Get more money from Belgium.
The National Assembly sent a large number of special commissioners to Belgium in order to get more money from these places.
Direct plundering is obviously inefficient and will cause a lot of trouble. Even just economically, it may not be worth the gain. Therefore, the leaders of the National Assembly came up with such an idea.
Everywhere, war should be accompanied by revolutionary measures. No matter where it is, all the property of those churches, nobles, and all their lackeys who hate revolution should be confiscated and used for the cause of revolution. (Mainly used as collateral for coupons) In addition, the eleven taxes and sovereignty of the liberated areas are all abolished, and the old taxes are abolished, and taxes are increased for the local rich. All administrative systems in the liberated areas must be reformed, and only those who swear to freedom and give up all privileges have the right to vote and be elected. At the same time, in order to prevent coins from flowing into these areas and flowing out of France through this area, the use of coins in these areas should be prohibited, and the use of coupons in these areas should be compulsory~EbookFREE.me~ They felt that by doing so, the The people at the bottom and the feudal masters at the top were separated.
The MP Kampong who made this proposal declared: "Fire at the palace and give peace to the hut. This way we can stand up anywhere."
This proposal was supported by the majority of parliamentarians and passed smoothly. However, Robespierre said to Dandong privately: "Kampong's idea is beautiful, but I always worry that in actual implementation, it may be out of shape. And we actually lack the guarantee of this. The ability of a decree not to be distorted. I am worried that this beautiful decree will become a nightmare when it is implemented. What's more, even in China, not many people are willing to accept the vouchers..."
"The road to is often paved with goodwill." Dandong said, "However, at present, we can only do this."
In order to effectively implement this decree, the parliament sent 30 special commissioners to Belgium at one go, and Cambon, who proposed this plan, was naturally one of them.
But as Robespierre feared, in many cases, once the policy falls to the implementation level, it will be completely deformed. Those special commissioners are in power, and most things can be done first and then decided by one word. They even surpass the so-called imperial ministers in the past. However, not every commissioner is an "incorruptible" like Robespierre. It can even be said that the vast majority of special commissioners are taking advantage of this opportunity to enrich themselves.
In just a few months, only Camponte’s staff raised up to 64 million livres for the Republic in Belgium, but the whole of Belgium, including those the French planned to win over, lived in the "hut. "The bottom layer inside is full of resentment towards the French.