Fox of France

Early the next morning, Joseph went to work as usual. How would Lafayette react, he thought, on the way? Will he be notified directly that his job has been canceled because of the changing situation? Or even put a seal directly on his office door?

But when Joseph got there, he realized that he might really be worrying too much. His post is still there, and all kinds of things to be dealt with are still there waiting for him to deal with.

When it was time for lunch, Kano from next door came in.

"Joseph," Kano said, "I heard what happened last night, you did a great job!"

"Lazar, I..." Before Joseph had time to say anything, he heard Kano continue to say happily:

"You know? Joseph. I used to think that you would be a good logistics organizer and an excellent staff member, but you would definitely not be a good commander. Although you are sharp and meticulous, you can come up with many good ideas, but the key Sometimes, he lacks courage and cannot make decisions. But your younger brother Napoleon is very decisive and a natural commander..."

"What the hell? I can come up with a lot of good ideas, but I lack courage and can't make a decision? Isn't this saying that I'm 'reckless, and always plan'? This is Prime Minister Cao's joke. ?” Joseph was thinking like this, but he heard Kano continue:

"But judging from your decision yesterday, my view is completely wrong. You are a persistent and decisive person! You are usually cautious and meticulous, but you are brave and firm at critical moments! Joseph, you have the potential to become a great commander. potential."

"But I still don't know how to face Lord Lafayette." Joseph said a little nervously.

"I haven't met the general yet. But I think the general is a sensible person." Kano said, "You are so worried today, why did you say such things yesterday?"

"Under yesterday's situation, I have to do this. Even if the general thinks about me because of this, I must do this." Joseph said, "But General Lafayette is a very good person, and I have always respected him, I don't want to lose his friendship."

Joseph knew that Lafayette valued Kano very much, so he also tried to use Kano to try to ease the relationship with Lafayette.

Kano laughed and said, "If General Lafayette was someone who put the interests of France before his own, he wouldn't bother with you because of what happened yesterday. And to be honest, yesterday he It is indeed out of style. If he puts personal grievances before the interests of France, why should we have such a friend? Well, don't think too much. We do things openly, as long as we are worthy of our own Conscience is enough, why worry so much?"

"This is really a Kano-style answer. This person doesn't bother to explain these things. If you expect him to communicate with Lafayette as an intermediary, I'm afraid you can't count on it." Joseph thought so.

At this time, a messenger came in and said to Kano and Joseph: "The general has something to do, please go over there."

Joseph and Kano followed the messenger to see Lafayette anxiously. Kano smiled at Joseph and said, "Don't worry, I will support you."

When seeing Lafayette, Joseph was still a little guilty, but Lafayette didn't mention what happened yesterday at all. He just asked about the progress of some projects as usual.

After talking about work, Joseph and Kano said goodbye and left. After going out, Kano said to Joseph:

"Look, I said the general wouldn't care about it."

After hearing this, Joseph just smiled, but thought in his heart: "How could Kano be so straightforward? Lafayette didn't mention this matter, which shows that he minds this matter very much."

Of course, if Lafayette took the initiative to mention this matter and comforted Joseph, telling him not to care, Joseph might think that Lafayette had special ulterior motives again.

"'What can I do with you? What I don't get, I worry about getting it. What I get, I worry about losing it.' Confucius seems to be talking about me. But this is really reasonable. , As expected of a master. If Kano knew what I was thinking, I’m afraid he would judge me that way. But at least one thing can be guaranteed, that is, Lafayette will not do anything to me in a short time.” Joseph thought so.

It was quiet for a while after that, as Lafayette and his friends seemed to have the situation under control. The king swore an oath to the constitution, and Lafayette, with a splinter group from the Jacobin club, established a separate Feuillon club. He had formed an alliance with the "black party" who supported the king, and decent people who could pay the election deposit, and he seemed to have firmly controlled the situation.

And the remaining democrats, the remnants of the disbanded Cotterier Club, and the marginalized leftists in the government and parliament have also invested in Robespierre's Jacobin Club, almost at the At the same time that the rightists have achieved a great alliance, the leftists have also quietly formed their great alliance.

Now that Lafayette and his friends had gained the upper hand, they certainly hoped to strengthen their position. So in Dubore, Barnave and the Lamer brothers mentioned that they tried to use their current dominant position in the parliament to amend the constitution, give the king more power, restore some rights of the nobles, and set up the House of Lords. In order to win over the "black party"; increase the election margin to ensure that all "decent people" can be elected in the future; allow members of parliament to be re-elected and allow members to serve as ministers to ensure that their own people can get long-term benefits.

Although in terms of numbers, the Feyan faction plus the Black Party, plus those who tend to them, already have a majority in the parliament, enough to pass such a resolution. But none of those proposals passed the vote. Because it was not just the Jacobins who opposed these proposals, nor just a part of the "respectable people" who favored the republic, but also the entire Black Party.

It is said that both King Louis XVI and Queen Mary agreed that Lafayette was a more terrible enemy than those Jacobins. This is also normal, Jacobin did not have much power at the time. Their leader is just a commoner, (no way, in the understanding of the court, commoners are all ignorant SBs) What kind of waves can they afford? The Duke of Orleans who mingled with them is not as good as before. He stayed away from France for more than a critical year, and when he came back, his influence back then had almost dissipated. Besides, that playboy is also a typical guy who can't do anything well. If he was really capable, he wouldn't have driven Lafayette out of the country back then, and he wouldn't have let a commoner become the chairman now. His surname is also Bourbon? How could he be named Bourbon? He also deserves the surname Bourbon?

The King and Queen felt this way, and the people of the Comte d'Artois (brother of King Louis XVI) probably had a lot to do with it. The Earl of Artois was the first nobleman to flee abroad, and he was also the most resolute in counter-revolution among the great noblemen. In a sense, he is one of the people who Mirabeau mentioned to the king and queen that he must be on high alert is the one who is closest to their blood but most wants to drink their blood. But now the king and queen really have no one to rely on, and the king and queen have never believed in Mirabeau.

It is true that the Feiyan faction provided the king and nobles with a lot of benefits, but in the eyes of the black party, those things belonged to them. The guys from the Feiyan faction just returned a small part of what was stolen from them. Like the thugs, those Feuillon guys weren't really that different—they were bloody rebels. Since they are all rebels, of course it is better to let the two rebels kill each other. If they stand on the stronger side and let them knock down the other rebellion, it doesn't seem to be a good thing for restoring the blue sky of France.

In addition, there is another reason for the Black Party to firmly stand on Jacobin's side, and that is the attitude of Austria.

Since the failure of the king's escape, the king and his wife, as well as the members of the royal party, have pinned their hopes on the military intervention of European countries, especially the military intervention of the queen's brother, the Emperor of Austria. They feel that the French army is now severely divided. If European countries unite, they can easily defeat the French army and get France back on the "right track".

However, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria was not very keen on going to war with France, and the reason why he was not very keen was that Emperor Catherine II of Russia was very enthusiastic about armed intervention in France.

The royal families in Europe are all relatives. As long as you look slowly on the family tree, any king can be related to the king of another country, whether distant or close. Catherine the Great and Louis XVI insisted on looking for it, and most likely they could find out some relatives. However, Her Majesty's enthusiasm for armed intervention in the French Revolution did not actually lie in France, but in Poland.

At this time, Dabo Boping was alone in the town, and the glory of hanging Turkey has long been a history. Due to the influence of the wonderful king election system and the nobility one-vote veto system, Da Bobo has gradually weakened. Now he has changed from a lion dominating Eastern Europe to a The little sheep that everyone loves. It's just that there are a little more wolves around the little fat sheep, and the wolves restrain each other, so that the little fat sheep can survive. And Russia is just a wolf coveting this little fat sheep. If there is a war in Europe due to intervention in France, with the size of France, this war will definitely not end in a short time. Those countries bordering France, all their power will be attracted by this war, and then in Eastern Europe, Russia can do whatever it wants.

This plot could not be concealed from Austrian Emperor Leopold II, so he did not want to start a war. He even felt that if a constitutional monarchy could really be established, then the situation in France would be completely acceptable. Because he didn't want to lose both himself and France, but when he looked back, he found that Poland had been divided between the Russians and the Prussians, and he didn't even leave him a sip of soup.

Therefore, in order for the war to break out, the royal party must not allow the constitutional monarchy to succeed.