This morning, Marat knocked on Robespierre's door excitedly.
Robespierre's landlord opened the door to him.
After meeting Robespierre, Marat's first words were: "It's time for you to get your own house. You have been living in a rented place. You are the Speaker of the National Assembly and you have your own house."
That makes sense.
"There are many people in Paris who want to give you houses. In addition, there are so many dead nobles' properties waiting to be distributed. Just take whichever one you like."
Robespierre waved his hand: "I have never been interested in things for personal enjoyment, and the landlady's craftsmanship is good, and I like it very much."
In this era, the landlord has to take care of the food, two meals a day, and the meal money is included in the rent.
Mara: "After you have your own house, you can hire a maid to cook for you. Let's not talk about it anymore. Frost won the battle!"
"Well, there was a commotion outside just now because of this." Robespierre raised his eyebrows, "Very good, now those people in Paris who place their hopes on foreign powers should restrain themselves."
Marat: "Are you still talking about this? We should take advantage of the power of the victory to further clean up the traitors in Paris! We must strike hard at those worms!"
Robespierre looked hesitant to speak.
In fact, Robespierre was considered a moderate among the Jacobins. It turned out that it was after Marat was assassinated that he felt a real threat and determined to use terror to eliminate all enemies.
As a result, he eventually became the so-called "terrible devil".
Marat was not dead at this time, and Robespierre was naturally still the moderate.
The moderate Robespierre looked at Marat, sorted out his words, and then said: "If Frost wins, those speculators will temporarily restrain their little thoughts. They have always been like this. If at this time,
Continuing to take drastic actions may push them onto the path of opposing the Republic..."
Marat interrupted Robespierre: "Maximilian! As long as they still have second thoughts, they will always rebel, either today or tomorrow! We must take advantage of the fact that everyone in Paris supports us now
, thoroughly cleanse these bastards! Don’t waste Frost’s victory!”
Robespierre: "I mean, anyway, we have Frost as our biggest backer. His military victory would have shut everyone up, so we don't have to..."
"Absolutely necessary! Before Frost returns, aren't we tired of watching the performances of demons and monsters in Paris? These bastards are all enemies of the Paris people. It's time to eliminate them all! I'll go back and write one right away.
An article will be published in tomorrow’s Friend of the People newspaper, calling on everyone to take advantage of Frost’s victory to rise up and report those enemies of the people!”
Robespierre smacked his lips: "Okay, if you want to do this, I really don't have much reason to stop you. After all, it is a good thing to clean up some enemies."
Mara: "That's right! Of course I also understand your concerns. You are afraid of forcing many people who were not prepared to oppose us to oppose us. Don't worry. If these people object, then we will send them away together."
Go to the guillotine! We are worried that we are not cleaning potential enemies thoroughly enough!
"Then we have reached an agreement on this matter?"
Robespierre nodded: "Yes, we have reached an agreement. Are you going to Dandong next?"
"Dandong and Saint-Just both hold the same opinion as me, for sure." Marla excitedly turned and walked to the door, "Then I won't disturb your breakfast time, I still have to write an article!"
Robespierre: "Okay, see you later."
After Marat left, Robespierre shook his head: "This Marat is like a gust of wind."
Among the four giants of the Jacobin Club, Marat was the one who lived the most prosperous life. With great energy, he continued to write articles in the Amicus d'People newspaper, attacking all those who opposed the National Assembly.
Moreover, he has to attend the National Assembly as an observer every day. I don’t know where he gets so much energy.
Robespierre continued to eat the breakfast that was interrupted by Marat. While eating, he muttered: "Frost has won again. Although he thought he would win, he didn't expect it to come so soon."
The Jacobins, including Robespierre, actually knew that as Frost's reputation grew, a de facto military dictatorship would definitely form in France.
When the Girondins were still alive, they used this to criticize the Jacobins many times.
Now that the Jacobins were in power, Frost, as the largest leader among the Four Jacobins, could not stop him from establishing a de facto military dictatorship.
Robespierre was very conflicted at this time. As a true believer in Enlightenment thought, he did not support such a military dictatorship. He believed more firmly in the separation of powers, freedom and equality. A de facto first citizen and this system are
Contradictory.
But as a close friend of Frost, Robespierre was sincerely happy for his friend's brilliant achievements.
In this way, the "Incorruptible One" ate his breakfast in a complicated mood, thinking about what to do.
**
In the next few days, the Jacobins launched an all-out attack.
With Frost's victory, the Jacobins sent many ruthless characters to the guillotine who were originally unable to pry them away.
Marat's Amicus d'Etat newspaper exposed all kinds of enemies of the people every day and clamored for a complete liquidation.
For a time, everyone in Paris was in danger, because according to the standards given by the Friends of the People, most of the leading figures in Paris were likely to be liquidated.
But because Frost won the battle outside, and now there are hundreds of thousands of National Guardsmen waiting to be recruited in Paris, no one dares to go against the Jacobins.
Those National Guardsmen who are waiting to be recruited worship Frost as an idol. If you dare to say a bad word about the General, you are waiting to be paraded on the street with a bayonet by the soldiers.
In fact, some people have been guillotined for "contempting General Frost."
For example, a certain small nobleman had avoided countless disasters by following the wind after the Revolution. He could not escape this time because someone reported that he had scolded Frost together with the nobleman who was killed by Frost in a duel.
Stooges.
The jury in the trial court unanimously believed that this was a great disrespect to the revolutionary hero, and gave the green light to send this little nobleman to the guillotine.
Paris seems to be going crazy these days. Some people even joked that more blood was shed on the guillotine in Paris than on the front line.
Frost knew nothing about this. After he commanded the troops to win the Battle of the Marne, he found that his troops had suffered very little losses, so he started the next step of the battle without stopping.
A new vocabulary was spread back to Paris from Frost's headquarters, called "People's War".
Marat then interpreted the term as "launching a national war against traitors" and took it as evidence that General Frost supported the expansion of the purge.
Time passed day by day, and finally we came to the moment when Marat, the Friend of the People, drew his curtain.