Chapter 249 The Blood Talent of the People in the Old District (For the Risland Leader)

Chapter 250 The Blood Talent of the People in the Old District (Additional Update for the R_island Helmsman)

"Hmph, this impolite woman!"

Queen Marie put the silver spoon heavily on the table and chewed the cherry frosting cake in her mouth hard. She felt that even her favorite cake was not fragrant.

The good mood she had chatting with the Count of Artois at noon was gone because of the visit of Madame Adelaide.

The queen muttered angrily:

"Hmph! Why does that old princess who can't get married have the right to dictate French political affairs?"

Yes, Madame Adelaide was one of the people she disliked the most in the Palace of Versailles - the former once wanted to manipulate her and Madame Du Barry to fight in the palace when she just married into the Palace of Versailles, which made her very uncomfortable.

In fact, Joseph also knew that Madame Adelaide was the first person to call the queen "Austrian cousin" behind her back.

With her assisting the old nobles, the efforts of the Count of Artois in opposing the abolition of the privileges of the nobility can be completely offset.

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Provence Province.

Nice.

A middle-aged man in a black short coat and gray cotton trousers stood on the fishmonger's cart, waving his hands and shouting angrily:

"Who moved the food reserves prepared by His Majesty the King for us? It is precisely because of the lack of those foods that the price of bread in the city has more than doubled!

"What do those black-hearted guys want to do?

"They want to murder us!"

The food shortage had just passed, and many people lost their relatives and friends at that time. When they heard his words, they immediately stopped and frowned to listen.

The middle-aged man continued:

"Maybe everyone has seen the news.

"Yes, the names on the deck of cards - Duke of Sevier, Count Sérurier, Duke of Durfort, Duke of Mushi... It was them who stole the food from the granary with despicable means, and then watched us starve to death! "

This speaker was arranged by Mirabeau to Nice.

Joseph had not announced Monod's private transfer order and messed up the grain reserve warehouse, and he had not even arrested Monod until now, just to put the blame on a more important target.

And the news that the Parisians received was that the riots in the south had not been completely quelled - because Joseph needed this uneasy momentum to continue, and needed a targeted "riot".

As for the evidence of the "blame", it was not important at all.

The people just needed an outlet to vent their anger, and they didn't care about any evidence. If those people in the Council of Nobles wanted to defend themselves, they could come to each province in the south one by one. With the current level of information dissemination, even if they could come up with conclusive evidence, it would take half a year to explain it to everyone.

What's more, they had no evidence to prove themselves.

This is the convenience of mastering public opinion. Previously, the great nobles headed by the Duke of Orleans used public opinion weapons to discredit the royal family all day long, and now it was time for them to taste the taste of being blackened.

Joseph was deeply He knew that he could not bring down so many nobles at once, and even for someone like the Duke of Mushi, it would be very difficult to bring down one.

But this is France.

What weapon is the most powerful here?

It is undoubtedly the street riots, the collective protests of the citizens! The blood talent of the people in the old district is no joke, it is a terrifying monster that can even devour the king!

As long as this big killer is used, the Duke of Mushi and the Duke of Durfu will be as fragile as paper.

Even the top nobles like the Duke of Orleans will be easily torn to pieces!

Of course, Joseph knew better that if this big killer could not be controlled, it would bring terrible backlash.

So from the beginning, he was committed to focusing the "monster's" sight within a limited range, and at the same time, all the people leading the "monster" were his own people.

Even the people who would take the blame afterwards were ready.

It was to ensure that the "monster" could disappear immediately after the targeted elimination.

The citizens who were watching the man in the black coat immediately whispered:

"What is the 'playing card' that this gentleman is talking about? "

A young man immediately took out a booklet from his pocket and turned to the first page:

"Ah? You don't even know this? Look, this is it!"

Everyone looked over and saw neatly drawn playing cards on it, with a simple portrait on each card and a name below.

The first one was the Duke of Mushi, and the next one was the Count of Sérurier...

A total of 52 cards, which caught all the high-level officials of the dignitaries' meeting.

Joseph arranged it this way in order to concentrate people's anger as much as possible. As long as the people on the playing cards were blown up, the demonstrators would naturally disperse because they lost their target.

To be honest, the tricky operation invented by the Americans in later generations is really convenient to use.

An old man who was watching pointed at the booklet and shouted to the middle-aged man who was giving the speech:

"Did they really take the reserve grain?"

"That's them!" The latter clenched his fists and said, "They stole all the grain to their own manor!"

Another question was raised:

"But why did they do this?"

"Money, it's all for money! "The speaker in the black coat pointed to the east," They stole the reserve food, and the price of bread in the city would rise due to the food shortage. Then they would sell the food at a high price, and they could easily make more than double the money!

"The lives of you, me and all the poor people have become jingling silver coins in their hands!"

The old man thought of his wife who had starved to death, his eyes suddenly blurred with tears, and he gritted his teeth and said:

"These guys deserve to go to hell! I, I want revenge on them!"

Many people around also thought of their deceased relatives at home, and immediately roared:

"Hang those devils!"

"Revenge them!"

"Make those damn guys pay!"

The speaker standing on the trolley did not expect that it would go so smoothly. He had prepared a speech for nearly an hour later, but it seemed that none of it was used.

He immediately waved vigorously and pointed at Duke Dulfo's manor:

"Let's go! Let's go find that devil to settle accounts!"

The police intelligence agent who had been waiting not far away heard this and winked at the scarred face next to him.

The latter immediately smiled and nodded, led more than 20 young men to the front of the crowd, and shouted:

"I know the way! Everyone, follow me!"

The sense of conformity drove hundreds of people to follow him. There were other speakers along the way calling on citizens to join in, and soon there was a torrent of thousands of people.

The previous speaker in the black coat took a few sips from the water glass handed to him by his companion, and was about to rush to the next location to continue inciting the citizens.

The few police officers standing further away had already been "admonished" by the secret police and had no intention of coming over to meddle in other people's business.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a huge crowd surrounded the manor of Duke Dulfo.

The guards of the manor tremblingly pointed their guns at the angry citizens, until the housekeeper nervously pushed the door open and negotiated with the leader, Scarface.

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