Fox of France

　　 Although Joseph's history is not good, he also knows that Aunt Sophie is too optimistic. There are more things going on.

　　 On the 19th, the Constituent Assembly also left Versailles and returned to Paris.

As soon as the Constituent Assembly returned to Paris, Congressman Mirabeau put forward such a proposal: “Let the king abdicate and pass the throne to the prince. Considering that the prince is still young, according to French tradition, a distinguished man The great nobleman served as the regent and handled government affairs for him."

　　 Everyone knows who the noble nobleman mentioned by Mirabeau is. Both of the king's younger brothers have been in exile, considering their attitude towards the revolution, it is naturally impossible for them to assume this position. Therefore, there is only one candidate, and that is the Duke of Orleans.

　　 This proposal has won the support of many parliamentarians, because the parliament did not believe that the king who was forced to return to Paris would sincerely support constitutionalism. They felt that allowing such a person to stay on the throne would bring various uncertainties to the constitutional government.

　　 Suddenly, the throne of Louis XVI became precarious, and people could even hear people shouting "Louis Seventeen Thousand Live" on the street.

　　 It is said that the Duke of Orleans has been waiting for this day for a long time, but things suddenly changed. The Duke of Orleans suddenly accepted the advice of the Marquis of Lafayette and left France and went to London as the ambassador to Britain.

　　According to the general idea, the Duke of Orléans would never leave France at this time, because it was almost an exile. But it is said that after a close conversation with Lafayette, the Duke of Orleans accepted this request. Then there were rumors that the Duke of Orleans accepted such a request because he had done some shameful things secretly and was discovered by the Marquis of Lafayette. It is said that a priest friend of the Marquis de Condorcet found some evidence of his unfavorable activities and told Condorcet about this, and Condorcet provided the news to the Marquis de Lafayette. It's just that Lafayette is a kind person, and he doesn't want to make these things public and ruin the Duke. But he also believed that the Duke's continued stay in the country would endanger the country, so he forced the Duke to leave France.

　　Of course, there are other rumors, such as that His Royal Highness Gao Fengliangjie, he knows his identity and influence, if he is the regent, it may be an interference to democracy, so he took the initiative to leave France.

　　 But Joseph still feels that the first rumor may contain more truth.

　　 After dissuading the Duke of Orleans, Lafayette then attacked Mirabeau. He used the same method to try to get Mirabeau to leave France and go to Constantinople as the ambassador to Turkey. But Mirabeau stood firm, and he refused the request. However, Lafayette still gave Mirabeau a heavy blow. He instigated the parliament not only to reject Mirabeau's proposal that MPs should serve as ministers in the government, but also to pass a resolution prohibiting them from serving as ministers. Completely blocked Mirabeau's way of serving as minister.

　　 By this time, Lafayette seemed to have fully grasped the overall situation. There seemed to be only one problem to be solved before him, and that was finances.

　　 At the beginning, one of the important reasons why the king convened a three-level meeting was because he encountered unsolvable financial problems. Today's social situation is completely different from before, but financial problems are still very prominent.

　　 Now the royal family has left Versailles, and some of the nobles attached to the royal family have also fled abroad. The expenses spent on them are greatly reduced. If in the early years, the royal family's expenses could be compressed to the point where it is today, then France would really not have a financial crisis. However, the current situation is very different. Although the royal family's expenditure has been reduced, a new problem has emerged.

　　 Just like the problems revealed by the second law of thermodynamics summarized by the descendants of Clausius and Kelvin, there is no way in the world that can reduce part of the entropy without increasing the entropy of the entire system. The royal family's expenses were compressed, but other expenses suddenly increased.

　　 First of all, the conservative aristocrats who were unwilling to lose their past status were instigating rebellions everywhere. In order to suppress them, more money is needed. For many years, France has always been the leader on the European continent, but there are many countries that covet the status of France.

　　 For example, the Habsburg family in Austria has always wanted to restore the glory of the so-called "Holy Roman Empire". Although their empire is neither sacred nor Rome, nor is it an empire, apart from the abundant princesses, there is no glory at all.

Although in the Seven Years’ War, Austria and France “turned enemies into friends”, (As a result, France suffered a great loss in this war. What is particularly interesting is that before this, France, whether it was an alliance with heretical Turkey, to deal with pious The Catholic Habsburgs, and the Protestants in the Thirty Years’ War allied with the Catholic Habsburgs, and achieved great success. However, once they joined forces with the Catholic Habsburgs, It was a terrible defeat. It can be seen that God’s will indeed hopes that France will fight against Catholicism. Well, although France imprisoned the Pope, ally with pagans to fight Catholics, and Protestants to fight Catholics, I know that I am God’s. Good boy.) But if France reveals its flaws, Habsburg may be happy to take advantage of France.

　　There are also those lowland countries, as well as Prussia and Russia...On the European continent, which country does not want to take advantage of France’s problems? Not to mention that there is a European shit-chucking stick in the west-Britain. If they didn't take the opportunity to rush up, and tore off a few pieces of meat on France, then they were not worthy of calling never to mess with John Bull.

　　 So in order to guard against these neighbors, France must rectify the army. And the French army, well, just as King Louis XVI thought the army was very unreliable, the parliament just couldn't trust the French army.

The high-ranking officers in the French army are all nobles. They and those nobles who have gone abroad and are ready to lead the way for Austria, Prussia or the British army are relatives, just like the later Hugo in his "Nine Three As described in Nian, the commander of the Republican Army, Guo Wen, is the grand-nephew of the rebel commander, Marquis Rondenac. In 1993, Guo Wen was very loyal to his ideals and to the revolution. But in reality, who can guarantee that the noble officers in the army are truly loyal to the parliament? Who can guarantee that once the Count of Provence or the Count of Artois comes back with foreign troops, they will not turn to each other?

　　Some impatient congressmen even proposed that all noble officers should be replaced by third-rank officers. However, this kind of mindless proposal is simply not feasible. Because the so-called third-rank officers are not only too small in number, but most of the time, they are at most a lieutenant-in fact, there is no "German" in the name, and it is very difficult to be a second lieutenant. These people may be okay to command a platoon and a company. If they want them to suddenly command a corps and go to war, it is simply going to die.

　　 In fact, even the legislator who proposed this motion understands that this is a motion that is too stupid. However, the legislators who proposed this motion are not fools. When they proposed this motion, they knew that the motion would definitely be rejected. (If this were not the case, they would not have proposed such a bill at all.) Such a bill was proposed only to let those who support them see how they are loyal to the people.

　　 This is also a common fault of the electoral system, that is, in order to gain the support of voters, you must be more radical than others, even in future generations. For example, if people care about environmental protection, you must support turning off dangerous nuclear power, dismantling thermal power that pollutes the air, blowing up hydropower that disrupts fish migration and changes the stress on the ground, and cutting off can cause infrasound pollution and threaten birds. Wind power in China... Finally, you can only support pure natural and pollution-free "power generation with love" ~www.novelmtl.com~ To solve the problem of unreliability of the army, it still needs money. First of all, we must ensure the income of the army. It is said that the reason why the king gradually lost control of the army is because he often owes the army wages? The parliament must truly control the army, at least it must not make the army hungry.

　　The second thing is to build a real military force loyal to oneself. The British Parliament in the west can control the overall situation, isn't it because they have a "parliamentary" army? (The British navy, police, and later the air force were all called Royal. Only the army did not add the word "Royal" in front of it, because the army belongs to the Parliament.) The British army is a new one from Cromwell The model army was developed. Today's National Assembly is also very eager to have a new model army of its own.

　　 The closest thing to the "New Model Army" is naturally the "National Self-Defense Army." But the National Guard is still only a militia organization. Although Lafayette worked very hard, but time was limited. To be honest, at least for now, the National Guard is still just a mob. It takes not only time but also money to turn these mobs into "new model troops".

　　 There are also various old and new national debts, which add up to 4.5 billion livres. Just interest is a huge figure, and all this weighs on Congress almost breathlessly.

　　 It is impossible to rely on debts, because these debts are borrowed from the richest third-class decent people, who are now the foundation of this country.

　　 Facing the predicament, some lawmakers have been discussing in private whether taxation should be increased, which is politically incorrect. But no one really raised this point. But Lafayette is not in a hurry, because his friend Bishop Talleyrand already has a solution.