Chapter 2294 scarletwoman (eight)

As Bonaparte said before, peasants are rarely literate and have no broad vision for the world. These industrious peasants can never see beyond their farms and their favorite markets. They are satisfied. In the life at hand, tame to obey the preaching of the church.

   For those who belong to the past, their only hope is to live well in the unchanged world, and "change" is not necessarily a good thing for them.

The French take it for granted that the priests are the kind of fools, and that the villagers will be deceived. When they occupied Belgium, they demolished many cathedrals and seminaries, and preached "freedom and equality" to the Belgian people. , which aroused fierce resistance from the locals.

  The Jacobins were in power at that time. In Condorcet's vision, the public spirit of the whole nation should be shaped through the philosophy of enlightenment, but Robespierre and Marat opposed this.

All in all, the education reform was a catastrophic failure. Thousands of new primary schools were not established. The original French secondary schools, higher schools, and even military academies were abolished. Only science, business and agriculture were taught. The central school was opened, and it was also opened to Belgium and the Rhine region, exactly as it was established in mainland France.

  This is also the focus of Robespierre's reforms-equality, including test scores, should be regardless of high or low, but personality must be perfected.

The general in charge of the attack on Belgium at the time was Jourdan, the son of a surgeon, and just a month before the Thermidor coup, the Austrian army in the Low Countries had been organized in Fleurus by Carnot and Saint-Just. The artillery attacked, and it was indeed the ground shaking. The Austrian equipment was better, but it was beaten to the ground.

After this campaign, the French occupied Brussels again, and occupied Liege and Antwerp almost at the same time as Robespierre fell. Even if the fresh water would freeze, the river outside Amsterdam froze in 1795, and it will still be in Amsterdam. It is still rare for the ships of the British Royal Navy cruising outside the city to freeze and allow cavalry to cross the river on horseback.

Self-confidence makes things happen, and the importance of soundness of character is also here, but the interim representatives of Brussels, Antwerp, Mechelen, Leuven, Namur jointly drafted a manifesto, refusing to recognize the French orders and the general principles of the French Revolution. world principles, namely "Liberty and Equality".

The revolutionaries didn't believe it at first, they felt that most Belgians were just being fooled by fallacies and prejudice, coupled with some gossip, by the French exiles who betrayed the tertiary council and worked for the old rulers eyes. But to the Belgian commoners, the French were no different from the Austrians who were the former rulers. They did not resent being occupied. What angered them was the contempt of the priests and the faith of the outsiders.

They set up sentries outside the church, seized sacramental items, crosses, jugs and silverware. Whether it was day or night, there would be clashes between Belgians and French soldiers, and the Jacobins were insulted, attacked and chased in the street. , and even sentries would be killed. But they are still very popular in some places, such as the "little fishmongers" in Brussels, who were oppressed by the big fishmongers at first, but later they found that the new order rescued them, so they changed their beliefs and did not want to continue to be "priest" and friars" deceive, support defenders of human rights.

  Originally, the French government agreed to give minimal interference to the Netherlands, letting the Dutch themselves shape the future of their republic. He did not set foot on Dutch soil, but what happened to the Industrial Credit Bank?

   At this time, someone refuted that Augereau's dissolution of the Dutch Parliament was not an interference? Does the "Governor of the Netherlands" amend the constitution and install his own people as interference? They are the people of the French government. Napoleon's shot will at least put them at ease.

There are quite a lot of pro-British, pro-Prussian and exiles in the Netherlands. After the French army crossed the frozen river in 1795, they swept away the monarch and the British-Prussian forces. Compared with the well-organized French army, when the British-Prussian army retreated Whoever looted entire cities and villages was like a re-enactment of the Seven Years' War.

   Unlike the "Potato War", the Seven Years' War was famous for arson of cities and field battles that caused heavy losses.

History is written, and the standards for measuring justice are different for individuals and nations. Since Henry IV, France has wanted to become the suzerainty of the small German princely states, but the king of France during the reign of Frederick II was Louis XV, by comparison, is more difficult to deal with Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Maria Theresa of Austria.

Frederick promised the French king to use the Rhine River as the border between the two countries, but he expected that sooner or later the French would still cross the Rhine River. At that time, the British expanded their colonies and lacked soldiers, so they "purchased" soldiers from the German princes. The public price of each soldier is 7 to 8 pounds, the actual transaction price will be higher, and half of their wages will fall into the pockets of the princes.

   Since Frederick I, the German princes have been learning Versailles. In short, as long as France is clamped to the Rhine border, Prussia can continue to expand on the right bank of the Rhine. Prussia is the "natural enemy" of the church state. They were born with the task of secularization. How could it be possible to send an ambassador to the Vatican as a special envoy.

The death knell of    the subjugation of the country has been sounded. Some people choose to take advantage of the opportunity to make a profit, and some people vow to resist, poison Napoleon, and make France in chaos.

Alexander VI had a poison called Cantrella. The composition of this poison was unknown. One was because the technical conditions at the time made it impossible to test it, and the other was because the victims who died in Cantrella were all red. Cardinal, no one wants to dissect the remains of a cardinal.

  There are so many poisons in the world, plant, animal, chemical synthetic, who knows which one is?

   Reconciliation with the Church was an advantage of Napoleon, but he did not apply it fully, and to make matters worse, no matter how much Bonaparte tried to disguise himself as the "Sun King," there was a past that followed him.

He used to be a Jacobin, and it was because of the excavation of Robespierre Jr. that he made his debut at the Battle of Toulon, and because of his close relationship with the Jacobins, he was investigated after the Thermidor coup, and It was hidden in the snow for a period of time, and it was not until the Portuguese Moon Riot that Balas remembered it.

How could the people who fired at the people get the love and support of the people, but when Napoleon ran back to Paris from Egypt, he was greeted like a hero. People still believe that he can create a new world and open a new and happy century.

   "Did the others not notice the abnormality that happened just now?" After a while, Georgiana asked.

   "Some people have noticed." Matilda looked at the serious-looking members of the Guard. "The atmosphere has changed now."

   "They didn't say anything?"

   "Just be ignorant," Matilda said. "Everyone is watching."

  Georgianna looked around. There were several eyes looking at her just now, and now they all turned their eyes.

   "Continue to inquire," said Georgiana.

  Matilda looked very unhappy.

"What's up?"

   "Everyone knows that I am your maid. As soon as I approached them, I changed the subject. I also asked others to inquire about those just now."

  Georgianna wanted to curse, but then she held back.

   She oversimplified the problem, thinking it would be easy to popularize beet growing in Belgium.

   She was so wrong, and then she remembered the "clothing conference" held in Bruges, and she wanted to go back in time.

   It seemed that Bonaparte scolded her right last night, but in Belgium it was the key point.

   She wanted to ask Matilda to get something to drink, but then she remembered that the drink might be poisoned, so she gave up.

   Heck, when will this dance end?

   (end of this chapter)