Chapter 259 Royal Guards Corps

Chapter 260 Royal Guards Corps

Joseph remembered that historically the Duke of Orleans was sent to the guillotine by the Jacobins.

Unexpectedly, the leader of the Jacobin faction is now helping his son fight a lawsuit, which always feels a bit inconsistent.

Desmoulin praised again: "You, you are really, really famous in the legal community. I, I'm coming to you to defend such a big case."

Robespierre's defense success rate over the years has been extremely high, especially in the past few years when he successfully defended Mr. Wieser, who was sued for installing lightning rods, overturning a series of previous precedents, making him famous throughout the law. Historically, he was also elected as a representative of the Estates-General.

Robespierre smiled and said: "I am just one of the lawyers of the Duke of Chartres."

Joseph thought for a while and suddenly interrupted: "Mr. Robespierre, do you think the Duke of Chartres should get the inheritance of the Duke of Orleans?"

"Yes, Your Highness." Robespierre nodded, "The Duke of Orleans died in the riot, and his legal heir should inherit the inheritance."

"Didn't you hear that he was guilty of treason?"

Robespierre said solemnly: "Your Highness, you know that there are often similar political conspiracy theories in the Palace of Versailles. I believe that the Duke of Orleans will not..."

Joseph smiled and gestured to Eman: "Please return to the High Court."

"Okay, Your Highness."

An hour later, in the archives of the High Court, Robespierre turned over the thick evidence, his face turned pale, and his teeth creaked.

As a senior lawyer, he could easily tell that the evidence was not forged. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that there were still a large number of exhibits in the evidence room, but he felt it was no longer necessary to look at them.

Not to mention the Duke of Orleans colluding with the British, allowing French banks to inject large amounts of capital into British industries, or inciting the nobles to refuse loans to the government, but only the last one, instructing the Mallet brothers to kill people, in order to force the Minister of the Interior to maliciously allocate grain reserves. , causing most of France to riot due to food shortages, he should be sent to hell!

Robespierre felt a little dizzy. He had been deceived by a conspirator for so many years like a fool! Finally, he has to help his son get the inheritance...

When he came out of the High Court with a dejected look on his face and saw the Crown Prince who was still waiting for him, he immediately said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, I know what I am going to do!"

"Ah?" Joseph said, "You should join the Notary Investigation Bureau and find people like the Duke of Orleans as soon as possible."

Desmoulin kept nodding at the side: "I, I also hope that you can join the investigation bureau."

"Thank you for your trust, I will seriously consider it." Robespierre bowed somewhat absentmindedly and was about to leave.

Joseph suddenly remembered something and asked hurriedly: "By the way, have you seen the information from the Duke of Chartres?"

Since you are going to file an inheritance lawsuit, you must first let the lawyer know what the inheritance is.

Robespierre nodded: "Yes, Your Highness, I have seen it."

"Then can you tell me the total amount of the inheritance involved?"

Robespierre hesitated for two seconds and whispered: "Not counting villas, real estate, etc., about 60 million livres."

Joseph's eyes suddenly lit up, he was mad now!

After deducting the cost of police reform, there is still 50 million left. Including fixed assets, well, this guy has quite a lot of real estate, and he also has the start-up funds for tax reform and industrial development.

Robespierre added: "Your Highness, I will never let this guy who persecutes the poor people get his wish."

After saying that, he said goodbye and left.

Seeing that his friend looked strange, Desmoulins hurriedly bowed to Joseph and said goodbye, and then quickly chased after him.

Joseph got on the carriage again and rushed towards the Paris Police Academy.

An hour and a half later, the car stopped in front of the police academy's office building. Joseph did not disturb the trainees who were practicing this time. He first went to listen to a tactical command class, and then called a meeting with Berthier, Friant and other officers.

"I think everyone has heard about it." Joseph looked at the officers on both sides of the long table, "According to the military reform plan, we will establish a general staff.

"After the General Staff Headquarters is officially put into operation, it will replace the Minister of War and carry out the overall planning and deployment of the war. The Minister of War is only responsible for the final signature and confirmation."

All the officers were a little surprised when they heard this. They had previously thought that the General Staff was just like the staff in the army, only assisting the Minister of War in making decisions. They did not expect that it turned out to be the combat command department.

Joseph continued: "General Berthier has previously compiled the responsibilities and requirements of the General Staff into a book. Now it is up to him to explain it to everyone in detail. Later, please also carefully study the new combat mode under the dispatch of the General Staff. ”

Of course, it is said that Berthier compiled it, but in fact the main framework was provided by Joseph. Berthier, as the designer of the concept of the General Staff in history, with the help of the latter, made this department come into being six years ahead of schedule, and it was much more complete.

Berthier bowed to Joseph, and then motioned to the orderlies to distribute the "Functions and Requirements of the General Staff" to everyone: "The General Staff is mainly responsible for research on all aspects of war and formulating the maneuver and combat plans of the troops.

“It also includes plans for mobilization and campaign implementation.

"According to the request of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the general staff will also be responsible for logistical supplies, map planning, daily training and exercises."

You know, the outcome of wars in this era depends largely on the commander's personal experience and even intuition. This creates great uncertainty.

Gods of war who are as powerful as Frederick II sometimes make mistakes. A mistake by the commander may result in the death or injury of a large number of soldiers, or may directly lead to the failure of the battle.

The staff system uses the professional and technical means of a large number of staff members to collectively formulate combat plans to avoid commanders' mistakes to the greatest extent. It is an advanced combat command model that transcends this era.

This model began to appear with Berthier and fully demonstrated its power during the Franco-Prussian War. It can be said that the biggest contributor to Prussia's defeat of France at that time was Chief of Staff Moltke.

After Berthier finished his introduction, Joseph signaled to everyone: "The cabinet meeting will soon pass the proposal to form a general staff.

"General Berthier will temporarily act as the Second Chief of Staff."

Berthier was historically the emperor's chief of staff, and he was better at this than commanding troops.

But now his military rank is only Brigadier General, so he can only temporarily serve as "Deputy Chief of General Staff". But now there is no chief of general staff, so he is actually in charge of the staff department.

Joseph continued: "In addition, Her Majesty the Queen has agreed that the Berthier Corps will be officially named the 'First Regiment of the Royal Guards' and the police academy students will be the 'Second Regiment of the Royal Guards'."