Fox of France

Robespierre has indeed published several articles recently, strongly opposing the arguments of some hardliners in parliament to launch a pre-emptive war against Austria.

At any given time, Parliament is full of radicals. Because generally speaking, members of parliament do not have to bear political responsibility for their words and deeds, because they do not have the right to make decisions. In this way, the councilors become a bit like the former speech officials of the Eastern Big Eater, who can talk nonsense without any scruples.

On the other hand, in a large group of congressmen, if someone wants to stand out and become the leader of the congressmen, there must be some way for everyone to see him clearly in a crowd of people; His voice could still be heard amid the din of people.

To do this, the first method is like Mirabeau, who is half a head taller than others, with a height of eight feet and a waist circumference of eight feet. Be seen at a glance. Coupled with the naturally loud voice, it sounds like he has practiced the lion's roar, and he can easily cover other people's voices.

It's just that this method requires too much innate conditions, and not every congressman has the ability of Mirabeau. In fact, since Mirabeau was defeated by the disease, there has been no such person in the French Parliament. Therefore, the remaining congressmen can only use the second method, which is to sensationalize the public, using horrifying topics and horrifying propositions to attract attention. Anyway, Members do not need to bear the responsibility, isn't it just nonsense? Who wouldn't? Therefore, the more brainless appealing to emotions, the more brave and resolute regardless of the consequences, the more you can lead the trend.

Just like Citigroup in the later generations, when a certain leader was still a senator, he proposed many times to break off diplomatic relations with Dongdaeguo and restore diplomatic relations with Wadao. When he became the commander-in-chief, he completely forgot about these things, and took what he said at the beginning as the emission of greenhouse gases. Only my lord, the emperor, quit the group when he said he would quit the group, and repaired the wall when he said he wanted to build a wall. He is really a sincere gentleman who is rare in the history of Citigroup.

As this is the case in parliament, irrational views naturally tend to prevail. At this time, institutionally speaking, the king with veto power is needed to step on the brakes. Yet the King simply didn't want to put the brakes on the issue, since he was equally eager for war. In the queen's view, if war breaks out, the divided France is simply vulnerable. At that time they can rebuild the kingship under the protection of the Austrian bayonet. Therefore, the king has no intention of stepping on this brake at all. What's more, since the escape incident, although the parliament has determined that the king was held hostage and restored all the king's authority, the king has lost the trust of most of the members. No good.

According to Napoleon's analysis, in terms of interests, the only people who really love peace sincerely are those in the Jacobin Club. But the Jacobins have too few seats. Before that, they were able to stop the plots of the Feiyan faction many times, relying on their tacit alliance with the black party. Even so, in the parliament, they can only do more than succeed and fail. Now in this matter, the black party will not stand on their side, so relying on them alone, now they can't even "make things worse".

In order to solve this problem, Robespierre called several of his good friends together to discuss countermeasures.

"Everyone knows that a war today will only benefit those people." Robespierre said, "If the war fails, it goes without saying that all the achievements of the revolution will disappear, and France will go back to the past again. And if the war is won? Then some people can establish a personal military dictatorship as the "hero who saved France". Therefore, our most important task now is to prevent as much as possible war."

"Maximilian," Marat began, "I can write articles to expose the royal family and call on the people to be vigilant against the conspiracy in the frenzy of war. But how much effect it will have, I am not sure. You know, my articles are very important to the Parliament. Basically no impact."

Marat's "Friends of the People" newspaper can be said to be famous in Paris. Especially before the king fled, he reminded the people more than once in the newspaper to be vigilant and prevent the king from escaping. At first, his statements were regarded by most people as unfounded nonsense, and Marat was also regarded as a grandstanding clown. But the facts have proved his foresight, so now the influence of "Friends of the People" in Paris has greatly increased, but because of the position, this influence is still limited to the middle and lower classes in Paris. In Parliament, Marat did not have enough influence.

"Unless there is another revolution..." said Saint-Just.

"The time is not yet ripe." Robespierre shook his head.

"We can think of ways to promote the maturity of the time." Saint-Just continued.

"Tell me what you think?"

"We can put forward a series of proposals in the parliament that are beneficial to the people of Paris, but they will inevitably be rejected by the parliament, such as limiting the price of food, prohibiting speculation, controlling the issuance of coupons, and avoiding excessive issuance. (In fact, later, Jacob After Bin Pai came to power, he did not issue less finger coupons)" Saint-Just said, "They will definitely veto these proposals, and every time they veto, the people will be educated, and they will be more disappointed with the parliament of those gentlemen , their anger will burn even more vigorously, and at a certain time, when they completely see that the current parliament does not represent France, they will definitely launch a revolution again."

"However, Louis, doing so will also speed up their pace of waging war." Robespierre said, "We will do what you said. But now, we urgently need a method that can slow down the pace of war." method. Even if only for a moment. Lafayette is already paying his soldiers finger coupons. This has naturally brought a series of complaints in the army and the National Guard. There is no doubt that, It will damage his influence with the army. We only need to hold him for a while, and he will not be a Caesar!"

"Joseph Bonaparte is under Lafayette. He is a very smart man. We might as well discuss it with him. Maybe he will have a solution." Saint-Just said.

"Looking for him?" Robespierre frowned, "I think Mr. Bonaparte is actually very unwilling to interfere in these matters of ours. And he has done us a big favor last time, and was punished for it." Some loss. Recently Lafayette moved him and his brother from some key positions."

"Mr. Bonaparte won't care about it." Saint-Just said, "Mr. Bonaparte is indeed not willing to interfere too much in politics, and his interest is more on the side of nature—it's natural, Because he is very talented in those things. But you also saw what happened last time. M. Bonaparte is a moral and decent man. His loyalty to France and to the revolution is beyond doubt. I think As long as we reach out to him, as long as he can, he will help us."

"Are you talking about that Corsican nobleman?" Mara said with a mocking tone, "How can a nobleman gain your trust like this?"

"Can the nobles of Corsica be considered nobles?" Saint-Just said, "Besides, the nobles are not necessarily unreliable, and the common people are not necessarily loyal to the revolution, for example..."

"Well, Louis, I know that although you are not a nobleman, there is a 'de' in your name. But you think he can do it? Is he the wise Solomon? If he is really so smart, he will It will not be impossible to solve the 'four-color problem'. (Obviously, the setbacks received on the 'four-color problem' still make Ma La a little bit bitter.) The solution does not necessarily lie with him, but I also have a solution here!"

When Saint-Just heard Mara talking about the word "de" in his name, he wanted to argue with him immediately, but when he heard that he later claimed to have a solution, he suppressed the anger in his heart. Yi asked, "What can you do?"

Marat rolled her eyes at Saint-Just, but ignored him. Marat was ugly, and he knew he was ugly. Like most other ugly people, he hated the handsome guys the most, not to mention the guy who was so handsome as Saint-Just The guy who violated the laws of nature naturally made Mara even more angry when he saw it.

"Mr. Mara, what do you think, let's discuss it together." Robespierre said.

Marat can give Saint-Just a supercilious look, but he can't treat Robespierre like this. So he said, "Lafayette is a hypocrite, and a coward! Let's call him out for his conspiracy, and he won't have the guts to do it..."

Speaking of this, Mara laughed like a night owl: "Hehehe, maybe, in order to prove his innocence, this hypocrite will act like he will work with us to avoid war. Mr. Robespierre, do you For this kind of thing, the effect of my newspaper is limited, you'd better publish some articles like this yourself. Believe me, it will definitely work. What I am best at is dealing with these hypocrites."

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After the meeting, Marat left quickly, and Saint-Just bid farewell to Robespierre. Robespierre saw that Saint-Just's mood didn't seem too high. Then he said to him: "Louis, Mala is like this, covered in thorns all over. Whoever he talks to, he can piss him off. But don't take him too seriously, his ability is not bad. , and he is very loyal to the revolution, and he is honest and self-disciplined. After getting in touch with him a lot, you will know that Marat is actually a good person.”

"Mr. Robespierre," said Saint-Just, "I don't think about Marat because of his attitude. I just wonder, can his method really work?"