Chapter 1322 Smith and Schmidt (Part 1)

Napoleon had many obsequious and ingratiating people around him.

After Madame Montesquieu entered the "court", she once heard someone flattering Bonaparte like this: severe illness requires strong medicine, and dictators are gods who come from heaven to relieve difficulties.

That's what Montesquieu wrote, and it's a great skill to be able to quote it out of context.

In front of a dictator, the law is silent and the monarch bows his head. Fortunately, he is only selected for a period of time, and his power is limited to the project he chooses, otherwise he will become a tyrant.

This model of getting along with monarchs and ministers reminded her of Voldemort and the Death Eaters. This was obviously not what a "winner" should look like. If it were in the past, Georgiana would have advised Napoleon to stay away from those who flattered him and get close to the truly virtuous ministers.

Later she discovered that her previous ideas were completely idealistic.

Chapthar is a good character, and he cannot speculate on buying grain.

Napoleon needs admirers. No one will worship a common man. When everyone tells you the truth, they are not afraid of offending you. They will lack respect for you.

When everyone was saying nice things, if Leoncourt and Mr. Martin's allies told him the truth, it would not only be annoying, but also make Napoleon feel that they lacked respect, so Georgiana told them to shut up.

,less talking, more working.

Young people who are arrogant and arrogant will certainly not be able to accept it, but Mr. Martin and Leon Coul are both middle-aged and elderly people who have experienced great hardships and are not so angry, so they tolerate it.

She also asked Mr. Martin to change the matter of buying a horse midway. In theory, he should buy a good horse, a war horse, but later he saw the cavalry feeding oats to the war horses in the Vincennes Forest, and she knew the seriousness of the matter.

All the land in France has been reclaimed by farmers as farmland, and the inefficient growers cannot support themselves, let alone the pasture for horses. In the past, people only ate white bread, which caused the price of wheat to continue to rise, while the price of oats was relatively low.

It is cheap and can be used as a substitute for fodder for horses.

After buying the horse, you have to keep it. The expedition to Prussia may not be possible within a year or two, but famine is an imminent problem. The forest is closed, but it cannot stop hungry people from entering the mountains to poach pine cones and pheasants. Napoleon

When giving rewards, land with forests will be awarded to generals, and land with vineyards will be awarded to civil servants. The old system also had a collection system to deal with famine. The food that can be eaten in the forest has been plundered once, and there is no opportunity to raise prices. "Lord

"We feel that our conscience has been honoured. If those civilians enter the mountains again, they will destroy their prey and the forest, which may lead to conflicts."

Mushrooms can be dried and meat can be made into jerky, but the smell is unbearable even to soldiers, let alone civilians.

So she asked Mr. Martin to buy inferior horses. Even if people couldn't accept eating horse meat for a while, they could make it into canned meat and store it. After a while, the price of meat became high, and people who hadn't eaten meat for a long time would even eat horse meat.

Want to eat.

She thought it was understandable for Napoleon to eat cat meat. He was so busy that he didn't have time to come to her. What she didn't expect was that Martin also got back the gun and the information he just said.

, as if he bribed the money to buy the horse in order to obtain information.

Napoleon was most annoyed by others doing things beyond their authority. He even uttered the word double agent.

The little bastard couldn't control his emotions, so she often blurted out and said the wrong things. Severus also blurted out "Mudblood" to Lily, which ended their childhood friendship.

Rather than being sad that she was suspected, she wanted to know the authenticity of this information. Why did the Germans blow up their fortress?

But this was obviously not something that a woman should get involved in. She felt that she should not intervene, but Napoleon let her stay here and listen.

She knew that when he went on an expedition to Italy, he took Josephine with him, and she received many salutes from noble ladies. If a man does great deeds, he needs a woman to see them to feel a sense of accomplishment.

The problem is that she has no idea what the situation is now. She only knows that the Corsican people's temper has risen again.

He was always gentle with women, but much harsher with men. She didn't want to experience the feeling of being scolded as a man.

"Who can tell me where Ulm is?" She looked at the men in the room in confusion.

"Ulm is the first natural base to enter Germany. It is located on the Danube River. Occupying it can facilitate random operations on both sides of the river." General Bertrand said, "It is the most suitable base for setting up major warehouses on the largest river in Europe.

For us, this fortress is located at the exit of the Black Forest Mountains, which is equivalent to the Fortress of Kerasco we encountered after crossing the Alps."

"Why did it explode?" she asked in confusion.

"There are too many things inside and they cannot be transported in a short time." Mr. Martin said, "We have also stocked a large amount of supplies in Strasbourg."

"Are you going to blow up Strasbourg?"

Napoleon took out his pipe and started smoking.

She probably understood that the Germans were afraid of the French invasion, so they planned to blow up the warehouses and fortresses where a large amount of war supplies were stored to prevent them from invading Germany.

The French in the 21st century don’t know how they will feel after hearing this.

"Have you bribed the garrison of Ulm?" Napoleon asked Mr. Martin.

"No, they are friends in the occupied areas. Because of the Camp-Formio Agreement, he replaced the vassal and became an official of Austria. They eagerly hope that you can lead them to victory and end the rule of the Junker nobles. Those

He gave me the gun," Mr. Martin added.

"What on earth are you talking about!" Georgiana asked again.

Bonaparte smiled proudly, but without explaining to her, Mr. Martin continued.

The Junker nobility firmly locked the peasants to the land and established organizations such as the "Peasant Shelter". The "Camp-Formio Agreement" allowed the bourgeoisie to replace the vassals and become the officials who selected the empire.

Industry requires labor, and there is no way to develop industry without releasing farmers from the land. Moreover, these bourgeois officials had the foresight to see the benefits of business tax, but they were blocked again when they arrived in Germany.

They also knew about the mill tax, and the Junker nobles also had mills. In short, the various privileges of the Junker nobles restricted their reforms. The guns shipped from the arsenal showed their attitude of supporting Bonaparte.

But the lord's police prevented them from brazenly. The plan to blow up Ulm with explosives came from Vienna, and the person in charge of this plan was a colonel named Schmidt.

There are still 17,000 ordinary citizens in Ulm. The explosion may affect them, but the supply line is a lifeline. In 1712, Prince Eugen of Austria attacked the Landresi Fortress and obtained all the supplies he needed through the Scarp River.

, transferred them to the Prince's warehouse in Marching. He hoped that relying on a long, weakly defended fortress line would eliminate the need for troops to escort the large convoy, so he built a covered road seven miles long, and the soldiers took this

The road is called Paris Road.

Every day, a convoy carries supplies from Marching to the military camp. There are no major obstacles on this transportation line. After the French Marshal Villars ordered his people to destroy the pontoon bridge erected on the Erde River, this convoy was used to protect Paris.

The Austrian reserve force on the road was isolated. When Prince Eugen came to the rescue, he could only watch on the other side of the river that the army was wiped out. Villar took this battle to regain a large area of ​​territory, allowing

The French border has turned a corner.

If it were Napoleon himself, he would supply supplies from Marching once a month. There would be no need to build any fortress roads, and a reliable escort team would be used to ensure the safety of the large convoy, or reliable bridgehead fortifications would be built to prevent the river bridge from being occupied by the enemy.

But this is a supply method for a local war, with only tens of thousands of people participating in the war. Using wooden rails to pull goods has increased the speed and load. This transportation line has the value of protection and can provide supplies for larger-scale wars.

The generals and staff members held a meeting to study this. Should they set up reserves to protect the supply lines? If the defense is too weak, the enemy will break through. If too many people are left, there will be fewer soldiers directly used in combat. The so-called million-strong army actually has only

200,000 people participated in the war, and even more were maintaining supplies. The enemy's homeland operations did not have as long a supply line as the expeditionary force, so more troops could be used.

The track from France to Strasbourg is easy to build because France is unified.

The tracks in Germany were difficult to repair. Everyone could see that the road would be a hen that laid golden eggs in the future. Each elector wanted this road to pass through his territory.

When Germany is in chaos, it will be the French's turn to invade while they are in chaos. If Ulm really has explosives and Napoleon has stationed in the fortress without knowing it, France will be in chaos if he blows it up.

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"That's probably what happened." Mr. Martin concluded.

"Do you understand?" Bertrand asked Georgiana as if teasing a child.

"Are these military secrets?" she asked pitifully.

"What do you think, Mrs. Spy?" Napoleon said coldly.

"I'm not a spy!"

"What's your husband's last name?" he said in an eerie tone.

"...Smith."

"Has he ever been in contact with Onkian?"

"Who is Onkian?"

Everyone was silent again.

"Not all British civilians will come into contact with the royalists." Mr. Martin said, "Let me say it."
Chapter completed!