Chapter 265 Archduke Karl has gained enlightenment
Chapter 265 Archduke Karl gained enlightenment
While cleaning the battlefield, Napoleon saw Archduke Karl who had woken up.
Then Archduke Karl touched his nose.
Napoleon: "Don't worry, your nose isn't flat."
Karl: "You are indeed not from a noble family, and you have no etiquette at all."
Napoleon: "Then you are wrong. I am a noble registered in the Quanxu Bureau."
"Oh, really? Where is the territory?"
Napoleon hesitated because he, a nobleman, had a relationship with the King of France, and his father was just a man who helped the King manage a garden on the island of Corsica.
In desperation, Napoleon directly boasted: "Corsica is my territory!"
"You are the Duke of Corsica?"
Adhering to the belief that as long as I am not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed, Napoleon nodded and said: "Yes, Duke of Corsica, you are a duke and I am also a duke. Neither of us should look down on the other."
Karl: "I am still the emperor's third brother."
"I am Frost's student," Napoleon paused and added, "the proudest one!"
Karl seemed to be recalling something, and suddenly he suddenly realized: "You are the Corsican follower of the cobbler..."
Napoleon: "You bastard! I want to call you His Excellency General Frost!"
Napoleon was originally ready to give Karl a slap in the face, but in the end he held back.
Karl: "I don't mean to offend, it's just that the nobles around me call you that. I'm used to it. Sorry."
Napoleon: "You don't know what a great man General Frost is! If you think back to how you seemed to be defeated, do you know that as early as 1784, General Frost foresaw how powerful the national army would be after the rise of nation-states?
Terrible combat power!"
Karl frowned: "1784?"
"Yes, at the Brienne Military Academy, Frost told me at that time that all the armies in Europe are now private soldiers of the nobles. The soldiers do not want to fight, so they have to use dense formations to restrain them.
The noble officers surrounded the soldiers before allowing them to charge under artillery fire.
"But nation-states are different. Soldiers fight for their own nation and their motherland. Every soldier is full of desire to fight."
Archduke Karl showed an enlightened expression: "Everyone in the nation-state is full of desire to fight... That's why you can use skirmish formations to launch attacks!"
Napoleon: "That's right! Of course we are forced to do this, because our troops can't march in line at all, so we might as well charge as skirmishers."
Archduke Karl looked thoughtful.
Seeing that he was lost in thought, Napoleon did not disturb him, but turned to explain the matter to his chief of staff.
After a while, Napoleon finished explaining the matter and continued to look at Archduke Karl, finding that he was also freed from his contemplation.
Carl: "So, Frost foresaw the current situation as early as 1784?"
"Yes, he also told me that the Republic would burst out with amazing fighting power. You have experienced it yourself whether he is right or not."
Karl nodded: "Yes, I have felt it. We received news from the French nobles who defected to Austria before, and thought they were just a bunch of rabble. We didn't expect there was another mystery."
Napoleon showed a look of disdain: "Humph, those nobles who defected are so shameful. They have the nerve to say they are noble when they do such a thing. How can such people be noble?"
"Don't say that. The nobles only need to be responsible to the feudal lords above them. You have forced the largest lord, the king, to abdicate. Naturally, they have no obligation to stay in France."
"This is the most ridiculous thing!" Napoleon pointed at Carl's nose, "Oh, sorry, it's just a habit. Andy and I will point at each other like this when we argue."
"Andy." Karl nodded, without saying anything more, but made a gesture of invitation, indicating Napoleon to continue.
Napoleon continued: "From now on, there will no longer be such a ridiculous feudal affiliation. On the territory of the Republic, there is only one nation called France, and everyone's allegiance is to the French nation and the Republic as the representative of the nation!"
"The end of the lords has come!"
Karl: "You will be surrounded and suppressed by kings from all over Europe."
"Let them encircle and suppress us!" Napoleon said with a fearless air, "The Republic will not fail, and Frost will not fail!"
Karl looked at Napoleon and seemed to be shocked by the aura of fanaticism exuding from Napoleon.
Napoleon spoke impassionedly, then finally calmed down, and finally remembered why he came to see Archduke Karl: "By the way, I came to you to inform you of what to do with you in the future. I want to put you under house arrest first.
in the fortress, and then ask the National Assembly in Paris for instructions on how to deal with the younger brother of Emperor Shinra."
Carl: "Am I going to be executed?"
"If it were in the past, it probably wouldn't be possible. You could sign an agreement not to participate in the war against France within a year, and then ask your brother to send a ransom, and then you could return to the country intact. I mean, except for those who were beaten crooked
Beyond the nose.”
Carl: "What now?"
"I can't say. Now Paris is executing nobles and royalists like crazy. You must be a royalist, right?"
Karl looked speechless: "I am a member of the Habsburg royal family, can I still be a republican?"
"Is this impossible? The French king's sister and father are republicans, hardcore ones." Napoleon shrugged, "In France, there are quite a few republican nobles. After all, this is Rousseau, Voltaire and
Montesquieu’s hometown. And I am also a republican.”
Carl: "I see you're a Frostite."
"That's true, but Frost is a die-hard republican. He is the leader of the four Jacobins."
Karl raised his eyebrows slightly: "The Big Four? Now there are only three left."
"What?" Napoleon was shocked, "Three? Who died? Anyway, it can't be Frost who died. He was determined to die. He was the one who shouldered the destiny."
Carl: "Mala."
"Oh, it's the one who wrote the newspaper. He's dead," Napoleon paused, "Andy... Frost must be very sad, after all, we have been friends for so many years. If I were by his side, I could have a drink with him.
"
After saying that, he shook his head again: "But it's okay now. He has Miss Christina to accompany him. If it were the Frost before, I would definitely be worried. Anyway, that's how it is. Before Paris gives you the punishment, relax.
Live in the fortress. But I can tell you that in the French army, officers and soldiers eat the same food during wartime. This is the tradition started by Frost."
"I heard that he wants to drink the best red wine. Do the soldiers also have it?"
Napoleon: "That is limited to the battlefield. On the day of the war, he will pour a glass of red wine and watch his troops - that is, us - crush the enemy. See you later."
After that, Napoleon left, and the staff officers who came with him also filed out and closed the door behind them.
Archduke Karl was sitting in the empty fortress guest room, thinking about the conversation just now.
"A republic...a nation-state...soldiers who know why they are fighting..." What Napoleon just said seemed to have some kind of magic power, growing crazily in Archduke Karl's mind.