Chapter 1025: Evacuation

In fact, on the one hand, the city of Paris did have a special charm at that time, and on the other hand, it was because France still had spare power at that time, and the generals of various countries were trying their best to restrain their soldiers.

"The Austrian Empire has issued a statement that Austria will not invade French territory, but it also hopes that some people in the French Parliament will not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries."

In fact, Franz had issued this statement a long time ago, but Dan Gira did not make it public in order to maintain national hatred, as well as the tension and oppression of the war.

It's just that the government's means of controlling public opinion in this era were still very simple, so the Austrian agents only used a few means to make the matter public.

Generally speaking, it is to find a printing house directly, and then print thousands of leaflets and newspapers, and then give them to some newsboys or poor children in the slums.

These people will do anything and dare to do anything for a few copper coins (centimes, one franc is 100 centimes), and almost no one can find clues from these people, or these people are full of clues so that everything is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

As long as these leaflets get into the hands of some gentlemen, they will spread this information on the spot and tell those illiterate passers-by.

Although Dan Gira had known about this statement for a long time, he couldn't help but curse when he heard others mention it.

"You still say you are not a traitor? You actually believed the lies made up by the enemy! You are spreading rumors here to confuse the people! Guards! Guards!"

Seeing that the opponent was about to jump off the wall, the congressman shouted loudly.

"This is the French National Assembly! It is not your Dan Gira's one-man show! What right do you have to order the guards to arrest me? You tyrant!"

"Down with the tyrant!"

Another congressman took advantage of the situation and shouted loudly. The two guards who were about to step forward were stunned in place. They didn't know what to do.

So more congressmen shouted the slogan "Down with the tyrant!" After a shoe was stuck on Dan Gira's face, countless congressmen picked up shoes, chairs, notebook racks, and pens to greet the former leader.

Just a few minutes later, Dan Gira was breathing out more than breathing in, and it seemed that he was going to die, but no one was willing to take responsibility, let alone call a doctor.

In the end, the leader of the National Newspaper passed away in such a frustrated way, but as the saying goes, a group of dragons cannot be without a leader, and the members of the National Newspaper pushed the previously disgraced Lamartine to the front.

However, due to the fact that at least two German coalition forces could enter France at any time, coupled with the frequent urgent reports from the front line, the parliament still passed a "Wartime Code".

However, some changes were made to the content, such as changing the proportional collection to a fixed amount.

According to this "Wartime Code", 35 million French will pay a war tax of 20 francs per person, so that the Second French Republic will have enough financial strength to survive the crisis.

On the other hand, Lamartine is actually an anti-war activist. He does not want to continue the war with the German coalition forces, but he, a puppet, cannot convince the parliament.

So this genius poet thought of a compromise, which is to kick the ball to the British. He personally wrote a letter for help and had it sent to Britain.

Lorraine, under the city of Metz.

Louis Wilbard, the deputy of Lamosilier's expeditionary force, was far less tough than Lamosilier. Even though he was in a strong city, he immediately chose to surrender after receiving the symbolic surrender letter from the coalition forces.

Tens of thousands of French troops were in a strong city like Metz. If it weren't for the epoch-making weapon of the airship, Albrecht would not even intend to touch it.

It would take several months to attack such a strong city, and the casualties would be calculated in tens of thousands.

However, the coalition soldiers were very dissatisfied because they had already fought in Salbourg and wanted to create some tragedies to express their anger.

But Franz would not give them this opportunity. At this time, Lieutenant General Monta had led the coalition military police to control the occupied area of ​​Lorraine.

Before they handed over these cities to the Orleans Dynasty, the coalition soldiers must abide by the laws of the Confederation.

As for Louis Wilbard, he probably never dreamed that he was not only allowed to leave with his troops with flags and weapons, but also allowed them to take away their own supplies and legally purchased property.

At the same time, in order to prevent the coalition forces from causing trouble for the surrendered French army, Albrecht almost escorted the French army out of the country by the Austrian army along the way.

This behavior of the Austrian army made the towns that wanted to resist along the way either choose to welcome the royal army or flee back to France with the French army.

In fact, this is exactly what Franz wanted, which is much better than pushing forward all the way or suppressing the French to deter the towns along the way.

Albrecht did not understand Franz's approach, but he did not advocate indiscriminate killing. He also despised those guys in the coalition who ran back after the battle and asked the French to repay blood after the battle.

Albrecht also began to realize the limitations of the so-called nationalism. They are more of an emotional catharsis and contagion. If they are not properly guided, they can easily go astray.

But Albrecht became even more curious. Franz obviously had the ability, so why didn't he stand up?