Peaceful in Milan, I spent a few days enjoying myself.
Italian cuisine in this era has been fully formed. After eating Italian food for a few days, An Ning immediately abandoned French food, even though French food in this era is recognized as the most advanced cuisine.
He always feels that Italian food is more suitable for Chinese people's appetite. Maybe it's because a lot of Italian food uses rice?
An Ning lives in Milan and particularly likes a dish called chicory cream risotto. The rice used in this dish is from Italy. It is very plump and round, and is full of cheese and butter. It tastes very smooth and refreshing.
After eating this dish, An Ning asked the chef to make it every day.
Then because of An Ning's huge reputation in his own army, all the middle and senior officers in the army started eating this dish, and then the new dignitaries in Milan also ate it with the French army.
Rice is not actually grown in a large area in Italy, so the upper class's craziness in eating chicory cream risotto directly caused the price of rice in Milan to skyrocket.
Despite the skyrocketing price, there was also a shortage of rice, so the person in charge of procurement for the French army had to sign a contract with an Italian supplier to guarantee the supply of rice to the General.
Yes, rice became Italy's first special product, specially supplied to His Excellency the General.
After An Ning heard about this, she was very surprised, and then she started to eat other dishes.
However, traveling through so many years and finally eating rice still made him feel a little nostalgic.
Speaking of which, the current motherland is still the Qing Dynasty. In another fifty years, the first Opium War will begin. If I am in good health by then, maybe I can travel across the ocean to return to my motherland to see it?
But An Ning was already over ninety years old at that time, and she didn't know if she could still endure the journey across half of the world.
In addition to eating rice like crazy, An Ning also did several things in Milan.
The first is to completely control the printing press in Milan, and publish newspapers every day touting himself as the liberator of Italy from France to build momentum for his future plans.
The second is to ban currency merchants as planned, and open an official currency exchange bank by myself, using my huge reputation as an endorsement.
Since most money merchants are Jews, the act of banning money merchants is viewed by Italian people as making fun of the Jews.
The public reaction to this was: Well done!
An Ning deeply feels that Europe has a tradition of anti-Semitism.
As for An Ning's own conscience, just kidding, An Ning is a P player. Every P player has two solutions when they are short of money: the first is to ask the Pope for a generous donation, and the second is to expel Jewish businessmen.
You don’t have to worry about it at all, okay? After all, I have clicked this decision countless times in the game.
As the big business of making money goes smoothly, An Ning also relaxes.
According to the plan, he sent the Lannes Division with poor military discipline to the direction of the Mantua Fortress to monitor the movements of the Austrians, while the Dawu Division with good military discipline stayed in Milan to maintain order in Milan.
Then Masséna's division continued to be placed on its own supply line, monitoring the Kingdom of Sardinia.
The Kingdom of Sardinia had no reaction to An Ning's borrowing.
Maybe it was because after the Peace Troops crossed the border, they sent a cartload of silver coins collected from Diego to the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Everything will be fine if you have road money, right?
Of course, it's also possible that the Kingdom of Sardinia went to Paris to protest, and An Ning doesn't know. Anyway, An Ning's principle is that whatever happens in Paris is none of my business.
Let the gentlemen of Paris worry.
While An Ning was in Milan, over in Paris, a new king had ascended the throne. When the news came, An Ning was having tea with Christina, so An Ning jokingly called her Princess Christian.
Christina couldn't stop laughing.
By July, news of the armistice finally came.
The Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of France signed an armistice.
Originally, An Ning thought that the gentlemen of Paris would hinder him and hand Milan back to Shinra, but it turned out that the gentlemen of Paris were quite upbeat and required Milan to maintain the status quo in the armistice contract.
Shinra was probably thinking about Poland, so he actually pinched his nose and acknowledged it.
If you think about it carefully, maybe because An Ning only occupies Milan and most of northern Italy is still in the hands of the Shinra, the Emperor of the Shinra is not particularly heartbroken.
If An Ning removes the Mantua Fortress and eats all of Northern Italy like it did in another period of history, Shinra will probably not be able to calm down.
After the armistice, An Ning didn't know how history would go.
He decided to remain unchanged in response to all changes and develop himself first.
In Milan, he established a Republic of Milan, endorsed it with his own reputation, controlled the republic's right to issue currency, and began to openly print banknotes, relying on this to seize a large amount of wealth.
He also recruited Italian craftsmen and scientists to tinker with steam engines, preparing to promote the Industrial Revolution in southern France and northern Italy.
As long as the Industrial Revolution takes place and the strength of the Industrial Revolution serves as a foundation, we will have the strength to respond to whatever direction history will develop in the future, right?
An Ning also organized a republican army in the Republic of Milan.
He asked the tailor he found personally to design military uniforms for the Republic Army. According to his requirements, the military uniforms used red as the main tone.
Napoleon was very confused about this: "Shouldn't it be blue? I thought that the free army should basically use blue as the main color."
An Ning shook his head: "No, no, no, you don't understand. The main force of the Republic's army is Italian, do you understand? Italians have to wear red to have combat effectiveness!"
Napoleon: "Ah? This..."
An Ning shook his head and smiled without saying a word.
After all, the Italian Sequoia Army happened decades later, so it’s useless to talk about it now, just let everyone regard it as their own special hobby.
Then time came to the end of 1792, and another incident happened in Paris.
In fact, economic problems still exist in France today, and the lives of most people are not good.
So in October 1792, another revolution broke out in Paris. The Girondins were overthrown by the armed Parisian masses. The masses also stormed into the Tuileries Palace and demanded that the king sign an order to dissolve Parliament.
The new king had no choice but to follow the instructions, and the Girondins who had supported the king completely collapsed.
An Ning was shocked when he heard the news. He originally thought that the Girondin rule would be stable for a while and would not fall as quickly as in real history.
As a result, history took a full circle and returned to its original track.
It seems that the fundamental reason for the collapse of the Girondins in history was that domestic problems had not been resolved, and the defeat in the war was only the catalyst.
After the fall of the Girondins, a new National Assembly was quickly elected, and members of the Jacobin Club occupied the majority of seats in the Assembly!