Wild North America 1846

Chapter 565 The Incident in Paris

Author: Portuguese toothless

Chapter 565 The Incident in Paris

After three days of private visit in disguise, Emperor Richard quietly returned to the palace.

With the help of Zheng Yuan, the head of the Royal Secretariat, few people in the palace knew about the matter, and they were all given a silence order.

Only General Liu Wu, the commander of the Royal Guards, was secretly worried: What would happen if His Majesty the Emperor became addicted?

Policies related to the vital interests of the people were promulgated from the palace, refining and improving the current social system, and were uniformly implemented by the imperial government.

Not long after, 1871 came quietly...

europe paris

What Europeans were most worried about finally came to pass. Kaiser Wilhelm I was enthroned and crowned Emperor of Germany in the Palace of Versailles on the outskirts of France. The German army never relaxed the siege of Paris, and after months of continuous shelling, they raised the price for peace.

In addition to the cession of territory, the amount of war compensation also increased from 500 million francs to 5 billion francs.

Paris was besieged for more than seven months, and the French bourgeois Orleans government was forced to agree to the German Empire's peace demands due to internal and external difficulties.

This aroused endless anger among the Paris citizens, and the Paris Revolution broke out unexpectedly, known in history as the "Paris Commune".

The class oppression and national surrender policies of the French bourgeois government aroused extreme dissatisfaction among the Parisian masses. On March 18, 1871, Paris workers staged an uprising, overthrew bourgeois rule, and established a new revolutionary regime. March 26

Commune elections, the Paris Commune was proclaimed on the 28th.

Adolphe Thiers, the head of the provisional government who was expelled by force, led government members and the army to retreat to the Palace of Versailles on the outskirts of the city. His government was also called the Versailles Government in European public opinion, and the army was called the Army of Versailles to distinguish it from the Paris Commune.

Since Germany and France have reached a peace treaty, for the benefit of the German Empire and to obtain the real dividends of winning the war, Germany must support the Adolphe Thiers government to counterattack Paris and stabilize its power.

Otherwise, the peace treaty that has been reached is just an empty piece of paper.

Just like the defeat treaty signed by the fallen French Emperor Napoleon III, no one in France will recognize it now, and it is ruthlessly discarded like a piece of toilet paper.

Therefore, the German Empire quickly changed its policy from crackdown to support.

Starting from the beginning of April, hundreds of thousands of French officers and soldiers captured in the Metz Fortress were gradually transferred to the Adolphe Thiers government and re-armed. This greatly increased the strength of the Versailles Army under the Thiers government and immediately organized a counterattack.

The Great Counterattack in Paris.

On April 2, the Courbevoie area on the outskirts of Paris was captured by Thiers' Versailles Army. The Paris Commune organized a counterattack the next day and tried to seize the Versailles Palace area, but ultimately failed.

more than a month later

Fortress of Isi

His Highness Tang Li Kun, wearing the uniform of a Major General of the Tang Empire, held up his telescope with a serious expression and looked at the devastated Yixi Fortress in front of him. The war had turned this beautiful area into a hell.

The brutal and bloody battle between the Versailles Army and the armed civilians of the Paris Commune had lasted for more than a month, and the air was filled with the unpleasant smell of corpses and gunpowder smoke.

His Highness Tang Li Kun slowly put down the telescope in his hand. His young face looked resolute and steady, and revealed a maturity far beyond his age.

His major is European history. Over the years, he has studied and experienced major European events in depth, and has grown into a European expert, able to look at this French disaster from a more rational perspective.

The Franco-Prussian War has not yet completely ended, and the protagonists of the war have switched to the civil war between the Versailles government and the Paris Commune, which really makes people feel ridiculous.

The Issy Fortress in front of you is a must-pass between the Palace of Versailles and Paris, and it has also become the focus of contention between the two sides in the French Civil War.

The bloody battle with continuous artillery fire has been going on for more than a month. Everywhere you look is charred corpses, broken guns, blown-up carriages, and cannons. Both sides of the battle are French. One side is the Versailles army, and the other side is the armed citizens of the Paris Commune.

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In the face of the Orléans army, which was equipped with a large amount of field artillery and had rich combat experience, the failure of the Paris Commune, which lacked artillery and logistics, was almost a foregone conclusion.

"Dear Your Highness, when do you think these French people will be able to reoccupy Paris and deal with these reckless and troublesome revolutionaries?" The speaker was the commander of the German Twelfth Army, Crown Prince Albert of Saxony, who was older than Don-

Li Kun is more than ten years older, but the two have a very close relationship.

After signing the peace treaty with the Adolphe Thiers government, the German army basically idled, switching from offensive deployment to occupation force posture, waiting for the end of the war.

Emperor Wilhelm I returned to Berlin with Prime Minister Bismarck and a large number of officials to preside over a series of matters such as the country's industrialization construction and the restoration of the national economy. The senior military officials also took some time off.

There are many palaces around the town of Versailles, where German generals often held lavish noble banquets, which seemed to be a completely different world from the artillery-fired Issy Fortress.

Indeed, what does the French civil war have to do with the Germans?

His Highness Tang-Li Kun casually threw the telescope to the military attaché beside him, glanced at Crown Prince Albert and said;

“I know what you are thinking…Dear His Royal Highness Crown Prince Albert;

The Germans could not wait to reap the fruits of victory. The failure of the Paris Commune had already been doomed. What difference did it make if the war ended in May or June?

Even if it is delayed until July, it will only result in more casualties.

Failure is nothing more than a little earlier or a little late.

After studying European history for so many years, I have a better understanding of the cruelty of European wars.

It is especially touching to see those armed citizens of the Paris Commune fall on the battlefield one after another, defending the city they love with their blood and lives.

And the troops who shot and killed these Paris citizens fought alongside them more than a month ago.

Reality is so magical and so cruel.

I can foresee

The far-reaching impact of the Paris Commune incident will shock the entire world. This is a group of revolutionaries who have dedicated themselves to noble ideals. You should be vigilant and guard the fence to prevent the revolutionary wave from sweeping Europe.

Fortunately, we are separated from Europe by the vast Atlantic Ocean."

"Oh... Your Highness Kun, you are so unkind." Crown Prince Albert exclaimed with an accusing look, took the coffee cup from the guard officer, took a sip happily and said;

"It's not as easy as you said. The war is not over yet. Our army is fighting the Italians in the south. It is the army led by damn Gallipoli.

French thinking is very confusing and extremely dangerous now, with a resurgence of Jacobinism, impulsive Proudhonism, mixed with international socialism, Blanquism, more liberal republicans, and who knows what else?

A large group of anarchists gathered together and wanted to take over the world with their reckless impulses.

Oh my God!

The war opened Pandora's box, and the first to suffer was the French."

His Highness Tang Li Kun also held a cup of hot coffee in his hand and walked down the hillside with gunfire in the background. There was a small table covered with a white tablecloth and two small chairs.

He sat down on one of the small chairs, took a sip of coffee, put the cup on the table, and ate the exquisite pastries placed on the table with his hands.

Crown Prince Albert came over and sat down, and began to enjoy the exquisite pastries without ceremony. He nodded and said while eating, "I like your cook, Your Highness Kun. Have you ever thought about letting him work in a different environment?"

"That's an officer, not a servant."

"What a pity. I found that you people in the Tang Dynasty are very good at cooking delicious food and have many unique skills, just like these French guys."

"It is derived from the ancient cultural tradition of the East, which is reflected in music, food and moral values ​​that are different from the West. For example, we use chopsticks to eat, which embodies the unique Eastern philosophy."

"It's difficult to understand. It's such an obscure culture!"

"Just get used to it." His Highness Tang Li Kun patted the powder on his hands, picked up the coffee and took a sip before continuing; "Due to his love for French art, the empire has an art appreciation and acquisition team.

I hope to follow the German army and launch legal acquisitions after entering Paris. I will acquire some works of art at fair prices and hope to get some security."

"That's no problem, I will explain it." Crown Prince Albert nodded in agreement.

Although the Versailles army is on the battlefield now with a massive offensive and seems to be in control of the situation, in fact the German army is the talker in the entire greater Paris area.

More than 100,000 heavy German troops still besiege Paris. Only the battlefields left deliberately open will allow bloody civil war between the two sides in France. For example, the current Fortress of Issy and the future urban area of ​​Paris will become battlefields filled with artillery fire.

As long as the German army stops supplying arms, artillery shells, and logistical supplies, the Versailles Army will be silenced in minutes.

Of course, supporting the Versailles Army is not without cost. This will have to wait until the victory is won.

The extreme policies of the Paris Commune not only made the Thiers government extremely hostile, but also made the German government and neighboring European kingdoms very worried, and they would not stop until they were put to death.

Today's Paris Commune implements "equality between men and women", demands "separation of church and state", and hopes to obtain "Paris' autonomous status". It also advocates the importance of education, advocates the public ownership of enterprises, announces the abolition of all state expenditures for religious affairs, and confiscates church property to

A series of measures including state ownership, the abolition of high salaries for government employees, the abolition of bank interest and rent, etc. Each innovation was deviant, touched fundamental interests, and aroused strong hostility from the ruling class and the bourgeoisie.

With enemies all around, the possibility of the Paris Commune winning the final victory was infinitely close to zero.

(End of chapter)