225 The scumbag moves
London, the capital of the United Kingdom.
"Prince Peter, according to the latest war report we have received, the reactionary revolutionary regime in Paris has been at a disadvantage in this French civil war. Even in the National Convention, the highest legislative body of the Paris Revolutionary Party, there are many people who privately contacted and negotiated with the people of the Levi rebellion regime.
However, Commissioner Robert Spear, the actual leader of the National Salvation Committee of the Paris Revolutionary Government, did not notice the matter of the National Convention at all, and devoted all his energy to defending the Paris region and resisting the military attack of the Levi rebellious regime.
In order to ensure the armed forces in Paris, Commissioner Robert Spear even transferred all the weapons shares that should have been allocated to the training camp of the new recruits of the country-salvation Revolutionary Army into Paris, and formed a large number of armed citizens reserves in the Paris area to guide Paris citizens to conduct basic military training, and publicize the revolutionary accent of swearing to the death to defend Paris.
Although the overall strategic situation of the French Civil War was very unfavorable to the Paris Revolutionary regime, the National Salvation Committee headed by Robert Spear was very determined to resist, even if Robert Spear's prestige in the French Revolutionary Government was no longer as good as before..."
Prime Minister Peter raised his hand to interrupt the report and looked at his Foreign Minister.
"What do Prussia and Austria think about the situation in this French Civil War?"
"Prince Peter, the Habsburgs in Austria and the Hohenzollerns in Prussia were extremely disgusted with the reactionary autocratic regime of Jacobin in Paris. They remained silent about the turning point of this French civil war, and waited for the complete destruction of Jacobin's reactionary autocratic regime to take the next step after the complete destruction of Jacobin's reactionary autocratic regime or Paris was occupied by Levi's rebellious regime.
Compared to the Levi's rebellious regime, the French Revolutionary Party has a much worse reputation among the anti-French alliance countries."
The British cabinet leader kept talking about Jacobin's reactionary dictatorship and Levi's rebellious regime. It is obvious that both sides in this French civil war are not good things in the eyes of the British cabinet...
Austria and Prussia are the main forces of the anti-French alliance. These two countries have maintained a consistent political tendency in dealing with the French Revolution. Therefore, in the eyes of the British cabinet, the opinions of these two countries are the most important to the situation in Europe.
"Haha, is Austria and Prussia planning to sit idly by and watch the Levi rebellion grow?
If they support Louis XVIII, wouldn’t they be afraid that Li Wei will turn against others and continue to maintain the system of the French Republic?
Li Wei has made a speech, and he doesn't care whether France is a kingdom or a republic!"
"Prime Minister, I have also raised this issue with the Berlin government and the Vienna government, but they have reserved their opinions on this.
No matter what kind of force it is, as long as it can destroy the reactionary revolutionary regime of France that killed Louis XVI, it is the result that the Berlin government and the Vienna government are willing to see.
In addition, I personally speculate that the Berlin government and the Vienna government were very shocked by the combat effectiveness shown by the Revolutionary Army of the National Salvation and the Black Dragon Legion, the main force of the Levi rebellious regime during the French Civil War, so they were a little too cautious about participating in the French Civil War."
"How sure are you to make this judgment?"
"At least 60%!
When I was in Berlin and Vienna, I found that with the extension of the French Revolution, similar rumors of revolutionary organizations have appeared in these two top cities in Central and Europe, but they did not appear in the name of Jacobin, but an organization called the Lindenwan Brotherhood.
The Lindenwan Brotherhood has been lurking in civilian areas and slums in big cities for a long time. Although the names are different, the political ideas they promote overlap with the political ideas of the French Revolution.
The Berlin government and the Vienna government attached great importance to this, so they would rather sit idly by and watch the Levi rebellious regime become stronger during the French Civil War than to completely destroy the French reactionary revolutionary regime.
Now the National Salvation Committee led by Robert Spear firmly continues the French Civil War, which just meets the expectations of the Berlin government and the Vienna government. If the reactionary revolutionary regime in Paris agreed to the peace conditions of Livi, Prussia and Austria would not be able to sit still.
That was the best time for us to instigate the two countries to fully use military force against France."
"I understand, the bottom line between the Berlin government and the Vienna government is that France cannot be a republic, and the revolutionary party must be eliminated, right?
The Hohenzollern family and the Habsburg family are really naive. Do they think revolutionary ideas will completely disappear with the failure of the French Revolution?
Revolution is a fierce infectious disease, and those civilians who cannot eat enough are the best breeding ground for infectious diseases. Instead of thinking about eliminating the influence of revolution in China by eliminating the source of the revolution, it is better to think about how to prevent most people from hungry!"
Prime Minister Peter did not hide his ridicule of the two autocratic monarchies of Prussia and Austria.
After all, he is a free party politician, at least that's what he thinks himself!
After hearing the reign of the revolutionary judgment of Peter, the Secretary of the Army next to him reminded him:
"Prime Minister, the Ireland region has been impacted by the ideological impact of the French Revolution in recent years, and has experienced many armed rebellions. The situation is getting worse and worse. What should we do?"
Prime Minister Peter frowned and glanced at the Army Secretary whom he promoted.
"The rebellion is about to be suppressed!
The Irish are not Britons. The British Empire's colonies are everywhere. Do I need to remind you what to do to these disobedient aliens?"
After waiting for this sentence, the Army Minister was overjoyed, but his face was filled with sorrow, and he stammered: "But... Prime Minister, the military expenditure issue I submitted last time..."
Before Prime Minister Pitt could reply, the Navy Minister who had been wandering around the sky immediately jumped out.
"Does the British Empire Army, which had just put down its hoe, need to expand its military preparations for war?"
The Army Minister saw the Navy Minister jumping out to obstruct him again, and was about to swear, but he was immediately stared back by Prime Minister Peter.
"The local army has not had any combat missions recently, and has enough time and energy to suppress the Irish riots. I believe in your ability."
After hearing this, the Army Minister sighed helplessly. Chief Peter's control over the cabinet was not very strong, so he naturally did not dare to refute it.
Although most of the militants in the Irish riots are armed farmers and armed citizens with severely undertrained training, they cannot withstand the mountains and forests of Ireland!
If those Irish Revolutionary Army had all fought head-on with the British Redshirts, the Irish rebellion would have been quelled long ago!
This kind of security war has a high demand for troops, after all, the area of the mountainous areas in Ireland is quite large...
However, the British Empire's military budget was limited, and the British Empire was a maritime power country. The naval ministers had much higher voice than the army ministers. The British Empire's army was the baby raised by stepmothers. It was too difficult to fight for additional military expenditure before the war broke out.
After solving the issue of the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs raised another question.
"Prime Minister, the Kingdom of Spain, Carlos IV, wants us to support the proposal to ensure the national integrity of the Kingdom of Spain in the Anti-French Alliance Conference, and prevent the rebellious regime from using troops to the Kingdom of Spain again after unifying France.
The two sides have not yet ended their war relationship."
"Well, Carlos IV did not make any stupid this time. He said it right. We should let this proposal pass in the anti-French alliance.
In the shortest time, Livi was asked to end the war against the Spanish Kingdom!
France is already strong enough. We must ensure that the Kingdom of Spain has the strength to protect itself. The Kingdom of Spain is an important part of the encirclement of France in the future. A nation like the Catalans, who are ungrateful, does not have the qualification to establish an independent country at all!"
"Prime Minister, will our request for Levi's rebellious regime stimulate Levi?"
“No.
Although Levi was a crazy and arrogant dictator, he still had basic rationality, not to mention that Levi was indifferent and unfaithful. In Levi's eyes, the Kingdom of Catalonia did not have the qualifications, so he made him give up internal unity of France.
Now that Levi's rebellious regime is not far from the victory of the French Civil War, I believe Levi will make the right choice.
Moreover, once Levi terminates the state of war against the Spanish, the Catalans' will to resist will inevitably be greatly hit, and the nail that Levi nailed in the Kingdom of Spain can be completely removed."
"What if Levi rejects our request?"
"This requirement was proposed by the entire anti-French alliance. If Li Wei was so arrogant, it means that he had already been prepared to fight the anti-French alliance to the end. The anti-French alliance naturally could not sit idly by and watch Li Wei unify France!
Didn’t the Kingdom of Sardinia always want to cut off one or two provinces from France?
Hasn’t the Spanish royal family always worried about Li Wei’s revenge?
I believe that if there is support from the anti-French alliance, they will definitely be very happy to act as pioneers.
Just so happened that we took this opportunity to test Li Wei's bottom line.
Is he satisfied only to be the king of France, or wants more?!"
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With the connection between the London government, the anti-French alliance quickly reached an agreement and made a request to Levi.
Revey was asked to stop any form of aid to the Kingdom of Catalonia and stop the state of war with the Kingdom of Spain, and make due contributions to the future of peace between the two countries.
The first requirement was completely fine for Levi, because Levi had not provided any assistance to the Kingdom of Catalonia at all. Levi just used a few administrative quotas to control King Aragon and his important officials of the cabinet.
As for the stopping of the state of war, this does have some impact on Livi. The most important impact is that once Livi stops the state of war with the Spanish Kingdom, he will lose the "Catalan friendship".
This is a political interest, and the Catalans have always been grateful to the Livi regime for helping them establish their country independently.
However, as Prime Minister Peter expected, the friendship between the Catalans was only considered a very cheap goods in Levi's eyes.
If the Catalan friendship can be exchanged for the anti-French alliance without intervening at such a critical moment, Li Wei will be willing to unify France successfully and end the French civil war!
As for the consequences of the demise of the Catalan Kingdom, as well as the losses and even massacres that the Catalans will suffer, they have nothing to do with Li Wei?
Even Livi hoped that the Spanish army would retaliate against the Catalan people, so that the blood feud of these two races would be deeper so that when invading Spain in the future, they would have a large number of Catalan leaders.
Of course, this kind of thought can only be kept in my heart, and if you say it, you will be hated.
Therefore, on the grounds that Li Wei agreed to the conditions given by the Anti-French Alliance and signed a formal armistice document with the Kingdom of Spain.
Declares the official end of the war between the Levi regime and the Kingdom of Spain!
The armistice was widely publicized by the Carlos IV government at home, and the facts were exaggerated, claiming that it was a great victory.
It is threatened that under the wise leadership of Carlos IV, the Spanish people successfully defeated the French invaders led by the evil Levi, and forced the other party to sign a ceasefire agreement...
In short, after reading the newspaper published by the Kingdom of Spain, Li Wei became even more determined to be the first plan to take action against Spain after unifying France!
Of course, Carlos IV did not care about the consequences of offending Levi. This political propaganda was very beneficial to the Madrid government, and the army's will to resist in the Kingdom of Catalonia showed a significant decline.
Who said that the military strength gap between the Kingdom of Catalonia and the Kingdom of Spain is too large?
Originally, many Catalan soldiers believed that the Levi regime in the north would send troops to help when the Catalan Kingdom was facing difficulties, just like last time.
As a result, Li Wei signed a peace agreement with the Kingdom of Spain!
In order to rely on Livi, the Kingdom of Catalonia rejected the "olive branches" sent by all external forces, resulting in the extremely bad diplomatic environment of the Kingdom of Catalonia. There are no friends, but enemies everywhere. There are one member of the Anti-French Alliance, and they all have hostile attitudes towards the Kingdom of Catalonia.
Now, the Kingdom of Catalonia has been abandoned by their biggest backer!
Fortunately, King Aragon and his cabinet firmly controlled the regime of the Kingdom of Catalonia, so they did not surrender to the Kingdom of Spain in anger...
Of course, from the perspective of the Catalan people, the Barcelona regime led by King Aragon insisted on the war strategy of resisting the Spanish Kingdom, which was a very cruel political mistake.
This is a war that will surely be defeated, at the cost of tens of thousands of Catalan people!
Some pessimists even believe that after the demise of the Kingdom of Catalonia, the angry Spanish army will probably massacre a whole generation of adult men!
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Chapter completed!