Although Joseph's history was not good, he also knew that Aunt Sophie's idea was too optimistic. There were still many things to do later.

On the 19th, the Constitutional Assembly also left Versailles and returned to Paris.

As soon as the Constitutional Assembly returned to Paris, MP Mirapo made such a proposal: "Let the king abdicate and pass the throne to the prince. Considering that the prince is still young, according to French tradition, a noble nobleman with a high status can be appointed as the regent and handle government affairs for him."

Everyone knows who the noble nobleman mentioned by Mirapo. The king's two younger brothers have been exiled abroad. Considering their attitude towards the revolution, they naturally cannot take up this position. Therefore, there is only one candidate, that is the Duke of Orleans.

This proposal was supported by many members of parliament because the parliament did not believe it at all, and the kings who were forced to return to Paris would sincerely support constitutionalism. They felt that allowing such a person to stay on the throne would bring various uncertain factors to constitutionalism.

For a moment, Louis XVI's throne became precarious, and people could even hear their shouts "Long live Louis XVII" on the streets.

It is said that the Duke of Orleans had been waiting for this day for a long time, but things suddenly changed. The Duke of Orleans suddenly accepted the advice of the Marquis of Lafayette, left France and went to London to serve as the ambassador to Britain.

According to general ideas, the Duke of Orleans would never leave France at this time, because it was almost equivalent to exile. However, it is said that after a secret talk with Lafayette, the Duke of Orleans accepted the request. Then rumors spread that the reason why the Duke of Orleans accepted such a request was because he did something shameful behind his back and was discovered by the Marquis of Lafayette. It is said that a priest friend of the Marquis of Condorce discovered some evidence of his bad activities and told Condorce, who provided the news to the Marquis of Lafayette. However, Lafayette was a kind person and was unwilling to make these things public in public, which ruined the Duke's reputation. But he also believed that the Duke's continued stay in the country would endanger the country, so he forced the Duke to leave France.

Of course there are other rumors, such as His Highness, the Duke is noble and he knows his identity and influence. If he serves as the Regent, it may be a distraction to democracy, so he took the initiative to leave France.

However, Joseph still felt that the first rumor might contain more truth.

After dissuading the Duke of Orleans, Lafayette then attacked Mirabo. He used the same method to try to get Mirabo to leave France and go to Constantinople to serve as ambassador to Turkey. However, Mirabo stood up and refused the request. However, Lafayette still gave Mirabo a heavy blow, and he instigated the parliament to not only rejected Mirabo's suggestion that the members of the parliamentary proposal were ministers in the government, but also passed a resolution prohibiting the members of the parliamentary as minister. It completely blocked Mirabo's path to serve as ministers.

By this time, Lafayette seemed to have completely grasped the overall situation. There seemed to be only one problem to be solved before him, that is finance.

At that time, one of the important reasons why the king held a third-level meeting was because he encountered unsolvable financial problems. The current social situation is completely different from the time, but the financial problems are still very prominent.

Now that the royal family has left Versailles, some of the great nobles who are dependent on the royal family have also fled abroad. The expenses used on them have been greatly reduced. If the royal family's expenses could be compressed to the current level in the early years, there would be no financial crisis in France. However, the situation is very different now. Although the royal family's expenses have been reduced, new problems have emerged.

Just like the problem revealed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics summarized by Clausius and Kelvin, there is no way in the world that can reduce part of the entropy without increasing the entropy value of the entire system. The royal expenses were compressed, but other expenses suddenly increased.

First of all, conservative aristocrats who were unwilling to lose their past status were instigating rebellions everywhere. In order to suppress them, they needed more money. For many years, France has been the leader on the European continent, but there are many countries that covet French status.

For example, the Habsburg family in Austria have always wanted to restore the glory of the so-called "Holy Roman Empire". Although their empire is neither sacred nor Roman, nor empire, there is no glory to be said except for the abundant supply of various princesses.

Although Austria and France "turned enemies into friends" in the Seven Years War (as a result, France suffered a great loss in this war. What is particularly interesting is that before, France had achieved great success whether it was a alliance with the infidel Turkey against the devout Habsburg, which believed in Catholicism, or an alliance with the Protestants against the Catholic Habsburg in the Thirty Years War. However, once they joined forces with the Catholic Habsburg, they lost a lot. It can be seen that God's will indeed hope that France will fight against the Catholicism. Well, although I, France, imprisoned the pope, formed a alliance with the pagans to fight against the Catholics, and formed a alliance with the Protestants to fight against the Catholics, I know that I am a good child of God.) But if France reveals its flaws, Habsburg may be happy to take the opportunity to take advantage of France.

There are also those low-country countries, Prussia and Russia... On the European continent, which country doesn't want to take advantage of France's problems? Not to mention that there is a European messenger in the west. If they don't take the opportunity to pounce on them, they will tear off a few pieces of meat from France, then they will not deserve to say that they will never mess with John's bull.

So in order to guard against these neighbors, France had to rectify its army. And the French army, well, just as King Louis XVI felt that the army was unreliable, the parliament could not trust the French army.

The senior officers in the French army were all nobles. They and those who ran abroad and were ready to serve as leaders of Austria, Prussian or British troops were relatives. Just as Hugo later described in his "1993", the commander of the Republican Army, Guo Wen, was the nephew of Marquis Rondenack, the commander of the rebels. In 1993, Guo Wen was very loyal to ideals and revolution. But in reality, who could guarantee that the noble officers in the army were really loyal to the parliament? Who could guarantee that once the Earl of Provence or the Earl of Artois came back with foreign troops, they would not turn against each other?

Some impatient MPs even made a request to replace all noble officers with third-level officers. However, such brainless proposals are not feasible at all. Because the so-called third-level officers are not only too few, but most of the time, they are at most lieutenants, in fact, there is no word "de" in their names, and it is very difficult to be a second lieutenant. These people may be fine to command one platoon and one company. If they suddenly command a legion and fight, it would be simply to die.

In fact, even the MPs who proposed this bill themselves understood that this was a bill that was too stupid to be foolish. However, the MPs who proposed this bill were not fools. When they proposed this bill, they knew that the bill would definitely be rejected. (If it were not the case, they would not have proposed such a bill at all) Proposing such a bill was just to let the people who supported them see how loyal they are to the people.

This is also a common problem of the electoral system. In order to gain the support of voters, you must be more radical than others, even in future generations. For example, if the people care about environmental protection, you must support turning off dangerous nuclear power, dismantling thermal power that pollutes the air, blowing up water and electricity that destroys fish migration and changes the stress of the formation, cutting off wind power that can cause infrasonic wave pollution and threaten birds... In the end, you can only support purely natural, pollution-free "power generation with love".

To solve the problem of unreliability of the army, it still requires money. First of all, we must ensure the income of the army. By the way, the reason why the king gradually lost control of the army is because he often owes the army wages? If the parliament wants to truly control the army, at least it cannot make the army hungry.

The second is to build a truly loyal military force. The British Parliament in the west can control the overall situation, isn’t it because they have a “parliamentary” army? (The British navy, police, and later the air force were all called royals, but the army did not have the word “royal” in front of it, because the army belongs to the parliament.) The British Army was developed from Cromwell’s new model army. Today’s National Assembly is also very eager to have its own new model army.

The closest thing to the "New Model Army" now is naturally the "National Self-Defense Army". However, the National Self-Defense Army is still just a militia organization. Although Lafayette worked very hard, time is limited. To be honest, at least now, the National Self-Defense Army is still just a group of mobs. It takes not only time, but also money to turn these mobs into "New Model Army".

There are also various new and old national debts, which together amount to 4.5 billion livres. The interest alone is a huge number, and all this makes Congress almost breathless.

It is impossible to lose debts, because they are borrowed from the richest third-class decent people, who are now the foundation of this country.
Chapter completed!