The wealthy businessmen were dragging their families and wanted to leave Paris with their property. However, the citizens of Paris thought that they were surrendering and betraying Paris, so they organized spontaneously to surround them.
Since the beginning of the Revolution, the masses in Paris have been armed. Almost every house and every trousers man has more than one weapon hidden.
As a result, gunshots were fired throughout the city from morning to night, and rich people who wanted to escape were hung on Parisian lampposts every day.
Everyone is looking for reasons for the huge defeat of the French army: Why did Frost in Italy win all the battles, but Dumouriez on the Rhine lost so miserably?
There must be some reason!
So a logical inference emerged: the same French army was able to win with less in Italy and win consecutive battles, but it was defeated on the Rhine. It must be because there were traitors who did not want the French to win!
Coupled with the unknown news that the Austrians were going to massacre Paris after they invaded Paris, forced by fear, the Parisians began to frantically eliminate the traitors they considered.
The old aristocrats who had correspondence with foreign countries were the first to bear the brunt, followed by wealthy businessmen and bankers.
Anyway, someone has to be responsible for the failure of the French army.
These accelerated the flight of the old nobles and big businessmen, and many people did not hesitate to use secret passages to escape from the city of Paris secretly.
For the people of Paris, this has become the most favorable confirmation that these people are traitors: If you are not a traitor, why are you running away?
As a result, the huge city of Paris was immersed in blood and terror every day.
At this time, instead of stopping the terror and stabilizing the situation, the Parliament stood up to promote the entire situation.
Danton gave a speech in Parliament on December 20: "There are always enemies lurking in Paris! Those old aristocrats have only pretended to be on the side of the people from the beginning!
"Their general representative, the King of France, has already gone to Austria! Who can guarantee that His Majesty the King has no intention of running to Austria?"
As soon as Anton finished speaking, Mr. Philip Equality stood up and objected loudly: "No! My son is not an enemy of the people! Neither am I! I have always stood on the side of the people! You see, I even changed my name to
Phillip Equality!
"No one supports the tricolor flag more than me, and no one is more revolutionary than me!"
Danton stared at the Duke and snorted rudely: "Who knows! If changing one's name could prove one's loyalty, everyone would have changed their name long ago!
“And if you think about it, a series of bills introduced by the Parliament these days are aimed at promoting the Konta model across France. As a result, these bills have all been blocked by the king!
"In my opinion, the king is the biggest traitor! We must immediately search the king's palace, seize all documents and letters, and establish a special committee to review these!"
Immediately, a representative of the Pingyuan faction stood up and objected loudly: "I object! How can anyone be so unreasonable to His Majesty the King?"
Danton: "You actually object! I think you are also a traitor! France is in danger. At this time, only terror, complete terror, can completely crush the various traitors entrenched in the country and save France!"
"You are a slanderer!" Someone immediately stood up and said angrily, "I think you are the enemy of France. After suppressing it with blood, a clean France will be dedicated to the Austrians!"
Danton was about to retort when Marat stood up: "We are friends of General Frost! It is the general who is behind the parliament! The general has been winning victory for France! Just imagine, if it was the general who was on the Rhine front at the beginning,
How could there be such a failure?
"Then the question is, who pushed the general to go to Konta! Who is it? Whoever pushes the general away is the enemy of France!"
After Mara finished speaking, someone stood up slowly: "Mr. Mara, you are not an official member, and you have no right to speak here."
Because members of the Assembly cannot be re-elected due to the bill proposed by Robespierre, Marat, who was a member of the previous term, cannot be elected this term.
However, the Jacobins who controlled the parliament established an observer system. Marat returned to the parliament as an observer because of the huge popularity of the Friends of the People newspaper among the people.
For this reason, the opposition in the parliament took this matter as an excuse to attack the Jacobins in power.
Some former Girondins also took the opportunity to launch an attack and sought to attend the meeting as observers.
This is a contradiction that the parliament has always had, but now it has been intensified in the context of the emergency on the front line.
Marat: "Am I not here just to tell you what the people think?"
Marat turned to the Parisian people who were listening in the stands on both sides of the Parliament. Due to the emergency at the front these days, anxious people came in droves to attend the Parliament meetings, and the stands were already packed.
Not only the stands, but also every window of the parliament venue was filled with anxious people.
Marat shouted to the people: "The French want General Frost back and punish the traitors who have sidelined the general! The Parisians want to see their enemies bleed into rivers!"
The crowd cheered.
This is sometimes the case, whoever can get the cheers of the people watching is justified.
Amid cheers, Robespierre stood up.
The Incorruptible is still wearing his iconic green coat, but he has a new wig and looks more majestic than before.
Robespierre walked to the podium, and Danton immediately made room for him.
He glanced at the auditorium and said loudly: "Now, the top priority is two points: first, to completely liquidate the traitors! And the hidden traitors! Second, to welcome General Frost back to Paris and let him preside over Paris.
defense!
"In addition, Frost has long described the source of the strength of the revolutionary army! He believes that the independent consciousness of citizens is the source of the strength of our army after the revolution! Do you understand? Citizens, we are the strongest
And a powerful weapon!
"So in order to deal with this bad situation, I think a conscription bill should be passed, and every citizen should go to the front line to defend France! I have calculated that if this bill is passed, we should be able to quickly recruit more than 300,000 people
new force!"
The whole synagogue was in an uproar.
The congressmen, as well as the citizens watching on the stands and windowsills, were all talking about it.
Robespierre asked sternly: "Why, aren't you willing to defend France?"
The people looked at each other.
Robespierre said to himself: "Yes, of course you don't want to, because France is the king's France, not the France of all its citizens!
"I think it's time. First, the king is the general representative of the traitors, and all forces that oppose France gather around the king!
"Second, in order to stimulate the desire to fight among citizens, France should become the France of all French people! For this reason, we must make the king an eternal history! France should become a republic!"
Robespierre paused and added: "General Frost, I have long expected this!"