280 The Curse of Luck
"The second anti-French alliance has collapsed, and the rewards of the total war system have not yet been received. Is it because the Swiss War has not ended yet?
It seems that the assessment of war by this comprehensive war system is somewhat different from what I expected.
No, the British have never had an armistice with France. The total war system still settled the rewards, so the evaluation standard for this total war system is not to restore peace with all countries.
Switzerland will not give rewards without a truce, and Switzerland's geographical location just threatens my French Empire and is still on the same front as the previous second anti-French alliance war. Perhaps this is why the total war system does not have settlement rewards.
Can you settle a reward by resolving a war threat in one direction?
So if I let the French Empire and the British government cease to fight, can I settle the reward once?
Unfortunately, the British government cannot cease to truce unless I make concessions and agree to the harsh conditions they put forward.
However, after the end of this Swiss War, if the total war system can settle the rewards, my speculation will be almost true.”
While Li Wei was thinking, the office door suddenly rang.
"Come in."
After Li Wei finished speaking, Manid walked in respectfully.
As the director of the General Administration of Military Intelligence and the helm of the French Empire's intelligence department, Manide is definitely the cabinet minister with the highest frequency of reporting to Li Wei.
However, the French Empire did not have only one intelligence espionage system. To be precise, Manid's Military Intelligence Bureau is more inclined to intelligence, and there is also a secret spy department that has not been disclosed to the public, focusing on cultivating foreign revolutionary forces and doing some shameful activities, which is commonly known as espionage work.
Simply put, the spies of the General Administration of Military Intelligence are like bystanders, while the spies of the Spy Division do all kinds of dirty and tiring work. The Lindenwan Brotherhood is the most successful foreign revolutionary organization developed by the Spy Division.
In the Second Anti-French War, the Lindenwan Brotherhood of the western states of the Holy Roman Empire, under the arrangement of the Secret Spies Division, evacuated all the backbone members in advance (ordinary members are civilians, and it is difficult to give up their hometowns), thus causing the revolutionary organizations of various city-states to fall into silence in a short period of time.
This is naturally to provide a stable environment for the entry of the French Defence Force. No matter what era, revolutionary organizations are equated with chaos and riots!
The Mission Division can control only the top leaders of the Lindenwan Brotherhood, and only the French in the top leaders can control them completely.
If these backbone members of the Lindenwan Brotherhood are not evacuated, the backbone leaders of the Lindenwan Brotherhood, who are unwilling to be lonely, will inevitably lead people to rebel. In the face of revolutionary justice, it is difficult for the top leaders under the Secret Spies Division to convince most of them.
Therefore, it is better to evacuate all at once. After all, no one knew that the French Defense Force would defeat the Holy Roman Empire coalition when evacuating.
After the overall situation is settled, the senior executives of the Lindenwan Brotherhood under the control of the Secret Spies could use the reason to maintain the revolutionary fire to keep the evacuated backbone members in major Central European cities such as Vienna and Berlin that were not controlled by the French Empire.
And it can also control the revolutionary forces of the local Lindenwan Brotherhood.
Although the number of core members of the Lindenwan Brotherhood is not large, most of them are people with firm will to revolution and their average eloquence is good.
History has proved that the most important thing in a revolution is not to be afraid of death, but to have a wise mouth.
The way revolutionary ideas are spread is not much different from religion, but revolutionary ideas are more in line with the real environment and are more convincing than illusory religions.
Even the Linden Wan Brotherhood has borrowed the brainwashing model of pyramid schemes, which is one of the reasons why the Linden Wan Brotherhood can develop rapidly.
If the State Administration of Military Intelligence is Li Wei's eyes and ears, the Mission Division is Li Wei's black hand, specially used to stab the knife in the back.
In the Second Anti-French War, the power of many states in the Holy Roman Empire that Li Wei dealt with was not strong, so naturally there was no need to expose the important piece of the Lindenwan Brotherhood.
You should know that since the Lindenwan Brotherhood has not been launched in a single revolution, it is still a legal social group in many countries.
This type of social group is very common, especially in big cities, where many business owners are the gangsters behind the scenes.
Being a gang leader is not enough to dare to fight and fight ruthlessly. The most important thing is to have enough capital!
Therefore, the boss behind the scenes who can control the underground evil forces in a city has a legal identity, even a real gentleman.
Those who take their younger brother to collect protection fees all day are not considered gangster bosses at all, but can only be said to be the leader of gangsters.
The Lindenwan Brotherhood, lurking in major cities, is a similar gang of evil forces.
In order to make money, the Lindenwan Brotherhood has done a lot of bad things in private, but it is still relatively friendly to the poor (the poor do not have much oil and water to squeeze out, and they are easy to use small favors to promote revolutionary ideas).
Because of this, in many European cities, the Lindenwan Brotherhood and the Davari Mutual Aid Association are regarded as ordinary criminal forces by the local government, and at most they are wearing a vest at the official level.
That is to change to a mediocre gang name.
Of course, the backbone members of the gang know that they are the Lindenwan Brotherhood with a lofty revolutionary mission!
This is mainly to reduce the vigilance of the local government. The government and nobles can allow the "underground emperor" who controls a city to appear, but will never allow the "imperial emperor" who controls a country to be born!
"Your Majesty, there is bad news coming from Spain."
Li Wei frowned. Fortunately, he was already used to Manid's report. Manid's news was often more bad than good!
Because good news between countries is often reported to Li Wei by the Foreign Minister.
"What happened?"
Manid carefully observed Li Wei's face, and only told him in a silence after realizing that his boss had not appeared in anger:
"Your Majesty, the Kingdom of Catalonia was destroyed. This time the Spanish did a very cruel thing. They not only carried out massacres and looting in the city of Barcelona, but also demoted all the surviving people to slaves and moved them to other places to sell.
Then from other places, migrate Spanish civilians to move into the city of Barcelona!
Not only that, the entire Catalan region, the Spanish army was doing similar things. All Catalans who opposed the migration were executed on the spot, and the Spanish Kingdom had enacted a law that anyone who spoke Catalan would be demoted to slaves."
"Haha, hasn't the Kingdom of Spain always claimed to be a civilized country?
Haven't they always claimed that they brought the dawn of civilization to the Native Americans?
Do you dare to do this on the European continent? Is the Spanish royal family not going to maintain their reputation?"
Li Wei sneered.
He was not mocking that the European continent, with the great success of the Age of Discovery, had begun to learn to be a civilized person. The most important one is that the victorious party in the European War will be despised!
No matter what the reason is, doing so will bring the reputation of those in power on the victorious side.
Why did Li Wei’s reputation in Napoleon in his previous life be so bad?
It is because Napoleon loves to loot the city...
The process of looting cities is often accompanied by various vicious incidents such as massacre.
Those soldiers who raped and plundered will not reason with you. As long as they make them unhappy, they will be considered kind-hearted to give you a bullet. It is very common to encounter soldiers who have been distorted by war and torture you before you die.
For example, you can pierce a few holes in your body, then fix it, and watch you die little by little in the pain of blood loss...
There are also things that are often seen in film and television dramas, dragging civilians or prisoners of war behind horses, and then... everyone understands the outcome!
For the affected cities, being robbed by a large army is no different from the arrival of doomsday.
But what the Spanish Kingdom is doing now is much more serious than looting the city. This is the destruction of a nation!
Even if there are Catalans who escape by chance, they have to change their faces for their future life and never dare to use the identity of Catalans again.
This is how a nation disappears.
There are too many such examples in history. Before Genghis Khan's rise, there was no Mongolian ethnic group on the grassland, but after Genghis Khan's rise, there were descendants of Mongolian ethnic group all over the world!
It is not that the Mongols are very capable of nurturing, but that after a large number of nomadic peoples were conquered, they either actively or passively joined the Mongolian group and became part of the Mongols.
The expansion of the Mongols relied on this method to snowball. Not only the nomads in East Asia, but also many nomads in Central Asia and even Eastern Europe were conquered and integrated by the Mongols.
However, after the rise of Tsarist Russia, a massacre of the descendants of the Mongols led to many nomadic peoples in Eastern Europe and Central Asia breaking away from the Mongolian community...
Today's European society is naturally very barbaric compared to the 21st century of Li Wei's previous life, but in the current era, it is considered relatively civilized.
If the Spanish Kingdom massacred the indigenous people from America and other colonies, the Europeans would naturally not feel barbaric. Of course, killing pagans is also a matter of Europeans applauding.
But now the Spanish royal family massacred Catalans and Catholics!
This kind of thing is not small. Even if European countries do not actively promote or even deliberately suppress it, such a big thing will be remembered by future generations.
As long as the Spanish royal family does not unify the continental country and tamper with the history of the continent by themselves, this dark history is a foregone conclusion.
"Your Majesty, the King of Spain, Ferdinand VII, did not give the order voluntarily, but the order issued by the Cabinet, with the acquiescence of the British behind it.
The Spanish cabinet is now in charge of radical nobles. They want to solve the problems in the Catalonian region once and for all, so they do this."
"The Spanish cabinet is thinking well. They issued an order to make Ferdinand VII take the blame. No wonder it was implemented so thoroughly.
Ferdinand VII is a pig, and he didn't come out to stop this order!"
"Your Majesty, Spain's King Ferdinand VII has rarely governed the government now. The cabinet supported by the British is not something he can shake. Moreover, the Spanish cabinet is not good for Ferdinand VII, allowing Ferdinand VII to have fun in the palace.
I heard that Ferdinand VII often holds unobstructed meetings in the Madrid palace and has fun with hundreds of young women at the same time!
He is nicknamed Ferdinand breeding pig by the Madrid people."
"The reputation has become so bad. No wonder Ferdinand VII ignored this order, but the British have built a good puppet.
However, if there is such a king, the Spanish people must be very dissatisfied with it."
"Your Majesty is wise.
The Spanish resentment towards Ferdinand VII is increasing day by day, but the great nobles in the Madrid cabinet are very powerful in the Spanish aristocratic circle. The traditional Spanish aristocratic class is very satisfied with the current Madrid government. The anger of the Spanish people can never confront the guns and cannons of the Spanish aristocrats."
“This is good news.
The more dissatisfied the Spanish people with their government and kings, the smaller the size of the guerrillas will be when we enter Spain.
Those nobles alone cannot fight security wars with us for a long time."
"Your Majesty, this is not the bad news I report. After all, the Kingdom of Catalonia has long been doomed.
What I want to say is that the ship carrying Aragon and his government in exile was captured by the British Royal Navy.
Aragon was unwilling to surrender to the British. The warship he was riding was sent to the bottom of the sea by the British. The exiled government of the Kingdom of Catalonia was wiped out..."
"Damn British!"
Li Wei's face changed and he said angrily.
Aragon was an important piece for him to take over Spain, but he didn't expect to be killed by the British so soon.
In this way, when attacking the Spanish Kingdom, it was difficult for Li Wei to recruit a large number of "pseudo-army" and could only rely on the French Defense Forces to push over...
The damage to the French Defence Force will inevitably increase if it fights like this.
"Sure enough, apart from the full war system, the goddess of luck in this world has never favored me. The ships in Aragon on the vast sea will be caught by the British. There is no luck..."
Li Wei complained silently in his heart, and replied to Manide with a serious expression: "I understand, I will strengthen the troops in the southwestern France defense line."
Soon, Li Wei called the Minister of the Army and ordered him to dispatch the Prussian army in the French foreign corps to go south to strengthen the border with the Kingdom of Spain.
The Kingdom of Spain is now busy cleaning up the Catalan region. Migration and catching Catalans as slaves cannot be completed in a short period of time. Levi has enough time to arrange the southern defense line.
Chapter completed!