Because of his guardianship and fear of Mirapo, the king and the queen did not act according to his advice. From an hindsight, this may be their best opportunity.

Both Mirabo and Lafayette reminded the king and queen on the same matter, that is, their relatives are unreliable. When Mirabo chose the place to escape, he also emphasized that the king must not run too close to the border. One of the reasons for doing this is to avoid the harm of those who have the same blood as the king.

Some people also believe that the king and queen did not adopt Mirapo’s suggestion, in addition to distrust of him, there is another reason, that is, they are not willing to accept constitutionalism at all. Fleeing to Lyon, the power of Lyon alone is not enough to fight against Paris, let alone suppressing Paris. Some kind of compromise may be reached in the end, but this compromise is still a compromise that Paris has the upper hand.

However, in terms of escaping, the queen gradually convinced the king to escape from Paris. It was just that various things made the escape action constantly delayed.

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette can be said to be typical of "born in the deep palace and raised by women". They have no experience in how to plan the escape. If they can trust Mirapo, then this guy who often escapes because of affair and hiding debt can provide a lot of help.

However, on the one hand, neither the king nor the queen could trust Mirabo, and on the other hand, God no longer seemed to favor the French royal family, Mirabo, who had always been filial to him, suddenly died.

Of course, Mirapo was not poisoned by Pierre Belek with aconitum wine. But Mirapo's death is indeed closely related to alcohol. It is said that in the previous period of financial difficulties, he changed some bad habits that would destroy his health, but after obtaining new sources of wealth, his bad habits became worse, such as alcoholism, gluttony and some inconvenient things to describe.

It is said that Mr. Mirapo would be with some prostitutes and have a feast all night. In order to continuously enjoy fine wine and food without being limited by the limited capacity of the stomach and intestines, Mr. Camilla imitated the ancient Roman ancestors. When they had enough food and drink, they would give up some vomiting agent, and then they could continue to eat and drink.

In later generations, people with a little bit of health knowledge know how destructive this practice is, but people of that era did not understand this. Therefore, after another night of banquet, Mirapo suddenly fell ill. The condition worsened very quickly, and not long after, the disease defeated Mirapo.

Although Mirapo was a liar, he was knowledgeable, profound insights, and good at coordinating relationships in all aspects. His death caused the factions in the parliament to lose a coordinator that everyone could accept.

However, Mirabo's death had little impact on Joseph and others for the time being. During this period, Joseph and Napoleon spent almost all their time on how to build their small army.

The scale of this "Red Army" unit was slightly beyond the original estimate. Originally, Joseph and his team only planned to establish a company-level team, but they soon discovered that because of the special attributes of this team, the number of supporting personnel needed by this team was beyond expectations. After careful calculation, with these personnel, the number of people in the entire team would exceed 600 in any case.

The first direct consequence of the increase in personnel is the increase in spending. Just like those stories, a project, the budget and final spending at the beginning, can always be several times different.

Fortunately, after carefully reviewing the project, Lafayette still believed that the money was worth spending, so the project could continue to advance. However, he still said jokingly:

"Joseph, your team of more than 600 people is only 60 people who can rank on the battlefield, and there are less than 200 artillery and cavalry, but there are nearly 400 people in various logistics personnel. At that time, I will drag a team of about 200 people to fight you, and if you are defeated, they will say, "You use 600 people to hit us two hundred people." If I bring a team of two hundred people, you will be the only one who is the warrior..."

Napoleon, who was following Joseph at the time, spoke, "Our team can play at least a thousand people."

When Lafayette heard this, he just glanced at the young man. Obviously, he regarded Napoleon's words as the arrogant and arrogant of ordinary young people. However, Lafayette was a very generous person and he was unwilling to care about the young man, so he just smiled but didn't say much.

With the support of Lafayette, the formation of this army went smoothly. Two months later, most of the personnel and equipment of this army were basically in place, and Joseph and Napoleon began to enter the intense work.

This army is an army of multiple arms. In addition to infantry, there is also a relatively large artillery with eight cannons, Napoleon and Joseph, who both believed that modern warfare was artillery war. In most cases, the combat plan should revolve around how to effectively exert artillery firepower.

Most of the soldiers and low-ranking officers in this unit were selected by Lafayette from the French army near Paris, so after more than a month of training, the entire unit was basically formed. However, what Joseph and Napoleon did not expect was that their first combat mission was not to repair other troops, but to capture the king.

Joseph received the order in the morning. The order was issued by General Lafayette. The general content was that a revolutionary enemy "kidnapping" the king's family and took them out of Paris. So now the general ordered the army to immediately enter a state of alert and be ready to fight at any time.

"The king was kidnapped?" As soon as he received this order, Napoleon couldn't help but sneer and asked, "Who was the one who kidnapped him? I'm afraid it was him?"

"Napoleon, this is not what we should consider now." Joseph said, winking at Napoleon.

Napoleon understood that Joseph must have something to say, but it was not easy to say in front of others. So he shut up and stopped talking.

"Does anyone know which direction the king is going?" Joseph asked the messenger.

"Some say they may have gone to Lyon, and some say they have gone toward Monmedi." The messenger replied, "The Council has sent representatives to chase them in both directions. The general asks you to be prepared for the response at any time. With the order, you must take action."

"Okay, go back and report to the general, we can prepare within ten minutes and wait for his orders at any time." Joseph replied.

The messenger saluted him, then ran out, jumped on his horse and headed for another direction.

Seeing the messenger gone, Napoleon immediately said, "Joseph, there will be war soon!" Joseph noticed that Napoleon's face turned red due to excitement.

"Calm down, the king may be caught back before he ran out." Although Joseph's history is not good, he also knows that Louis XVI finally went to the guillotine. So he was not optimistic about the king's escape at all. The reason is very simple. If the king really ran away so easily, how could he be pushed to the guillotine?

But Napoleon obviously didn't see this. He said, "Joseph, you fool! How could you still have such fantasy! You don't think about how far apart a carriage pulled by two horses can run in one night. I believe the king must have been prepared before this, and there must be people who will pick him up along the way. These people don't even need to do anything else, they just need to prepare another carriage there. Once the king arrives, they immediately change a carriage and run at the fastest speed. If he set out in the middle of the night, by now, he should have reached the border and reconciled with the royal parties and the Austrians. Even if the representatives of the National Assembly run off their legs, they will not be able to catch up with them. I think this math problem is extremely simple, even for a fool like you. I really don't know why you still have such fantasy..."

"I don't know," said Joseph, "I just feel that this is the feeling that our king can't seem to do what you said in a straightforward way."

"Our king is indeed a rude guy, but he is not so stupid, right?" said Napoleon.

"Who knows?" Joseph spread his hands.

However, on the afternoon of the third day, a new order came, which confirmed Joseph's guess that the king was actually intercepted!

"The representatives of the parliament intercepted the King's family in Varenna. Some mercenary cavalry were active nearby, and only a small number of National Self-Defense Forces were responsible for the protection of the King. General Lafayette ordered you to set out immediately to protect the King's family and bring them back to Paris."

The messenger handed over the order signed by Lafayette to Joseph and left. Joseph immediately ordered his subordinate cavalry captain Robert to take the lead with the cavalry, while himself and Napoleon walked behind with the infantry.

Napoleon once wanted to follow the cavalry, but was stopped by Joseph because Joseph did not want him and his brother to show off at this time.

"The situation is still very chaotic. At this time, we must hide our political stance as much as possible. We are different from others. Others must climb up, and they can only rely on sidelines and corruption. But we are different. We can rely on talent and corruption. So we must avoid dangerous sidelines as much as possible." Joseph told Napoleon.
Chapter completed!