Chapter 774 Little Brother

Napoleon Panama, a little Corsican, was painted a lot on horseback to make up for his height, which was a really big horse for his height, but he kept it under control, The galloping horse stood up, finally stopped, obediently obeying his command.

Speculators are like adventurers, and they are almost social Darwinists. They don't care about the overall situation. They are not lenient at all when they make a fortune. After all, after this opportunity, will there be any similar opportunities in the future? I don't care.

This kind of person is hated by ordinary people, but it is also these people who will go to hell as long as they see a profit.

Gold panning is also a kind of speculation. Some people will fail, and some people will become rich overnight like Molly Brown. Almost all the early pioneers in California were speculators.

The United States is a paradise for speculators and adventurers. They believe that there are no rich and powerful in front of bullets. Their economy is active, and at the same time there are ups and downs. Those who want to live a "stable" life cannot bear this stimulus.

The reason why the French Revolution caused such intense turmoil may be related to the famine. Ordinary civilians could not afford to eat bread, and the nobles who had nothing to do were still in trouble. What's more, wasting food was purely asking for death.

The smell of boiled meat is extremely sensitive to hungry people, just like a drop of blood dripping into the sea, sharks can smell it from a long distance.

A hungry person is an angry person. It is useless to say anything at this time, only violence is used to suppress it. After the people of Paris captured the Bastille, Louis XVI sent troops to suppress it. Will people stop when they see their comrades dead? ? No, they would think they were large enough to overwhelm the king's army.

At that time, people had become zombies, and using rifles had no effect at all.

October 1795 was the grape harvest season in France. General Menoux, the commander-in-chief of the Paris Armed Forces who opposed the new constitution, screamed for restoration, preparing to overthrow the Directory regime established after the Thermidor coup. The royalists were preparing to attack the Tuileries Palace, the seat of the National Assembly, and restore the Bourbon dynasty.

The people of Paris are tired of the power change since the French Revolution, and they do not have a good opinion of the Directory, and take a cold-eyed attitude towards the incident. The Thermidor Party members are all good at playing tricks, but they are completely laymen in the military field. They can only command five or six thousand soldiers. The power ratio is very different, and the hearts of the people are fluctuating, and the morale of the army is unstable. undoubtedly.

The royalists celebrated with each other, and have already started activities for the celebration and personnel arrangements after the success of the incident.

On May 2, 1795, after the Thermidorian coup, Napoleon came to Paris, hoping for a new appointment. The Committee of National Salvation sent him to the Vendée to suppress the rebellion, but not as commander of artillery, but as commander of infantry.

His specialty was artillery, and his transfer from artillery to infantry was unable to make use of his specialty, and he had a violent quarrel with the military officer in the National Salvation Committee. In view of his refusal to accept his appointment, the National Salvation Committee ordered his name to be removed from the roll of active duty generals. He lived in a house not far from Victory Square on Meile Road, and began his previous life of poverty.

He was very poor then, and his boots were in bad shape and unoiled, and his whole appearance was sickly because of his thin body and yellow complexion.

Injustice preoccupied him, and his desire to make a difference tormented him. He could no longer mingle among the crowd, and he resolved to leave France and go to Constantinople to serve the Ottoman Maharaja.

Due to his ill-fated life and poor life, Napoleon had the idea of ​​suicide. However, he finally passed this level and did not become a prisoner of the god of fate. He continued to delve into political and strategic issues to prepare for his grand ambitions one day.

Sure enough, not long after, the intricate political struggles in France once again pushed Napoleon onto the political stage in Paris, allowing him to play an extremely important role. After the Thermidor party defeated Jacobin, they dissolved the Paris Commune and the revolutionary committees everywhere, closed people's organizations and clubs, and abolished various commercial restrictions including the price limit law. The activities of getting rich and getting rich are rampant like never before. Banquets, orgies, sensuality, and appalling indecency prevailed. The hunger and poverty of the common people are in stark contrast to the extravagance and pleasure-seeking of the bourgeois nouveau riche. The common people in Paris can no longer bear it. The hungry masses marched to the National Convention building and broke the gate of the National Convention.

The National Convention sent troops to carry out a bloody crackdown on the starving masses, sending many to the guillotine.

The bourgeoisie will not bring equality and freedom to the people. These people have been fooled by them. The rioters have reached about 40,000 in Paris, while the troops loyal to the National Convention are only about 5,000. The army was far away from Paris. Coupled with the perverse behavior of the Thermidorians, the National Convention lost the support of the masses, and the rule of the Thermidorists was in jeopardy.

The National Convention of the Thermidor Party decided to remove General Menou from his position and arrest him, and appointed Ballas, a famous figure of the Thermidor Party, as the commander of the Paris Armed Forces.

He is extremely confident, good at rhetoric, and good at playing tricks. He can not only protect himself in factional struggles, but also be good at adapting to the wind. Although he had experienced a period of war life on land and at sea, he was not a professional soldier. At this time, he thought of Napoleon.

As an excellent artilleryman, Napoleon suppressed the rebellion and the first thing he thought of was how to use cannons.

The cannon is also known as the God of War. Only the scene like a meteorite falling from the sky can make people regain their rationality and fear. There are 40 cannons idle in the Sablon barracks in the northwest of Paris. Napoleon immediately assigned the cavalry captain Murat to lead 200 soldiers. Haul the cannon around the Tuileries.

Fire, launch, reload.

Fire, launch, reload.

There is no need to aim and attack indiscriminately. Anyway, as long as the front of the position is all enemies.

After leaving behind 200 corpses, the royalist faction fled in a hurry, dragging the wounded. At this time, another rebel army of 5,000 people rushed to the Tuileries Palace again. Napoleon led artillery to carry out a violent bombardment. The next morning, the rebel headquarters announced their surrender. The rebellion was put to rest.

Napoleon captured Venice, Italy in 1797. The French needed money and food to stabilize their economy. Unfortunately, the Venetians were not as rich as they thought. There were only a large number of famous paintings that could be robbed. In 1805, Napoleon captured Genoa and confiscated all the assets of the bank. , and this is how he reversed the fortunes of France.

French men respect Napoleon and even regard him as a national hero, even though he once destroyed the republic and proclaimed himself emperor.

Sometimes girls think that money is blown by the wind, or that food is manna, which falls from the sky. When they understand that food is grown from the soil, their brains will be sober, that gorgeous rococo style The skirts and silk shoes are not suitable for working in the fields.

How to price food is a problem that men deal with. What women can do is to respect the farmers who grow food.

A man is afraid that a woman will look down on him, and a woman is afraid that a man will kill her.

The ridicule of women will make them do irrational things. Peasant uprisings in China are basically earth-shaking. In the West, there are bourgeoisie and proletariat among them, but these people were farmers before they went to the cities and became proletarians.

Jean Jacques Rousseau called on those peasants to return to the countryside and stop going to the city, but the reality is that the church and the rich have taken the land away, and they have nowhere to go back.

In addition to eating, people also need to wear clothes. Dry manual labor clothes wear out quickly. Gold diggers wear wear-resistant jeans. The cloth used to make jeans is sailing cloth. In the 18th century, no one thought of using canvas to make clothes.

Look down on poor men who one day come to power will take revenge like a radical like Robespierre, leader of the Jacobins, who killed her Girondin husband and asked her "Look well, do you regret it ?”

Faced with such a terrifying person, few have the guts to say "no regrets". She probably will cry again.

Women's tears are as bitter as sea water, but in Pomona, St. Paul's Square, I saw a straight drinking fountain, and the water flowing out of it was actually fresh water.

"Who built this?" Pomona asked two locals.

Both Gianluca and Monica shook their heads to express their ignorance.

"Is this a cat's head or a lion's head?" Severus asked, looking at the spouting beast's head.

"Alisandro said that it was Mussolini who allowed them to live a modern life." Pomona looked at the rushing tap water and said, "Isn't it a pity that such precious fresh water is wasted so much? "

"If Sandy was here, he would definitely take a few swigs to prove that there is no waste." Monica smiled and rolled her eyes. "What an idiot."

"Even the devil can do two good things to buy people's hearts." Pomona sighed.

"Maybe it's the same as the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, speaking Parseltongue towards it will open it." Severus said whimsically.

"That dragon's head has a snake's head, and this is a cat's head. Tell me a few cat words." Pomona said provocatively.

"This is a lion's head." He said slyly, "I don't know how to bark."

"Meow~" Pomona meowed like a cat, "You try it too."

He laughed, as if it was naive to dislike her.

"There are legends that Francis communicated with the birds, and he lived for a while on San Francisco Island," Gianluca said.

"I know, that's why I believe you protected the Templars," Pomona said. "During the Witch Trials, you didn't burn a single wizard."

"You're profiteers, but not downright bad," Severus said. "Does Francis like to chat with pigeons?"

"Don't say that!" Pomona screamed, and the old bat smiled smugly again.

In fact, the scene looked very holy. The monks in white robes talked to the white doves of peace. Unfortunately, the doves in Venice are black and have red eyes, which looks a bit scary.

The reality is often not as beautiful as imagined, but it is very real, and it is more trustworthy than whitewashed lies.

The bells of St. Mark's bell rang again, as did the bells of St. Paul's.

Although it was not so loud that the bell towers of churches all over the city were ringing, it gave people a feeling that something big was about to happen.

It's like a big shot is coming.

"Do you think the Pope will come to Venice?" Pomona asked. "I remember he likes to travel."

"Do you believe the birds will surround Francis while he's preaching? Like a Disney princess." Severus asked the two young men meanly. "When he sings, the birds are drawn to his voice."

"Shut up, wizard." Monica said disgustedly.

"You actually know Disney princesses?" Gianluca smiled evilly. "You also watch cartoons?"

Severus wanted to say something, but he left with a scowling face.

Pomona was half dead with rage.

Severus was born in the Muggle world, who didn't watch cartoons when Muggle kids were young? It was nothing to be ashamed of, but he himself felt very ashamed.

"Fool," she murmured, and hurried after him, and Gianluca laughed smugly, as if he had won a game.