Chapter 296 A layman plunges into the whirlpool of Paris
Chapter 296 A layman plunges into the whirlpool of Paris
After the dance, An Ning started plotting a plan to kill Paul Barras without stopping.
This guy was one of the main pushers who sent Robespierre to the guillotine.
After working hard for a few days, An Ning found in despair that her ability to play politics was basically zero and she was completely missing the point.
An Ning had no clue as to who should be approached to collect black materials and what black materials should be collected to send Barras to the guillotine.
The most terrible thing is that because he left Paris for a long time to engage in military affairs, An Ning's current contacts are all in the army, and he is not familiar with any of the gentlemen in the Parliament except the few who used to drink and play cards at the Jacobin Club.
In the military, An Ning can count a dozen people he can trust and assign tasks to them with confidence, but in politics, An Ning can only do everything personally.
These days, An Ning works hard to chat with people in the club and go to the salon to drink tea, just to find a trustworthy thug to deal with Ballas's matter.
After all, An Ning is too conspicuous in Paris, and a lot of people will pay attention to whatever she does.
The result of this activity allowed An Ning to experience the dilemma of that year - no, I can't say that year, because Sir Cumming was not born for more than a hundred years. It should be said that the "future" Sir Cumming was suddenly assigned to engage in intelligence:
His eyes went dark, and he couldn't understand anything. He could only saw and pull his thigh to gain some sense of presence.
In the end, An Ning was a little desperate and thought, let me be the dictator and just drag it up and cut it to save trouble.
But once he becomes a dictator, be it Danton or Robespierre, they will immediately become his enemies.
Especially Robespierre.
That would be putting the cart before the horse.
In the end, An Ning had no choice but to go to her quasi-virtuous assistant to discuss the matter.
At noon that day, he pulled Christina, who was about to go out for a tea party, into a side room of the Royal Palace, and then instructed Fanny: "Make sure no one around can hear us, including yourself."
Fanny bowed silently and left.
Then An Ning looked at Christina seriously.
Christina swallowed: "What are you doing...making me nervous..."
An Ning: "Is there any way to kill Paul Barras?"
Christina was stunned: "Huh?"
An Ning repeated her question in a low voice.
Christina: "Uh...why did he offend you? Why so suddenly?"
In order to change the trajectory of history, we must first kill the culprits who usurped the Republic.
But An Ning couldn't say it so directly, so he took a roundabout way and said, "I have a hunch that speculators like him will be detrimental to the Republic."
Cristina: "Is he already harmful to the Republic now? Wouldn't it be enough to hand it over directly to the National Salvation Committee? If you are the one to report him, he will definitely go directly to the guillotine."
An Ning licked his lips: "This is the biggest problem. He has not done anything detrimental to the Republic, at least not yet."
Not only that, Barras did a pretty good job as a special commissioner in the countryside, and he was a person who had merit in countering rebellion.
Christina looked at An Ning in confusion: "You can't send a person to the guillotine just because you think he will do bad things in the future. Andy, what's wrong with you? This doesn't seem like something you would do as a wise and principled person.
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An Ning was completely unable to refute what his fiancée said.
Christina added: "But I will pay attention to Barras's movements. In fact, I heard some things. There is more than one gentleman in Paris who often writes to Barras, and he also hires someone to give him the daily newspaper.
Send it over quickly.
"Hiring so many riders and horses to do this at this time, Mr. Barras is very rich. Maybe I can collect evidence that he made money."
An Ning: "Yes, that's it! Please."
Christina nodded: "Well, leave it to me. But I still don't understand why you hate Mr. Barras so much all of a sudden. Didn't you get along well with him before?"
——That’s because at that time, I still maintained the thinking habit of sitting on the fence.
An Ning patted Christina's shoulder heavily, and then tried to make amends for herself: "I'm worried about Maximilian. He is too upright and must have offended many people. I always feel that one day in the future, he will...
Sent too many people to the guillotine and ended up being guillotined."
Christina: "Paris is praising him now, because after the establishment of the National Salvation Committee, the number of indiscriminate killings and lynchings has been greatly reduced."
"That's now." An Ning replied.
Christina: "Well, you always have farsightedness that ordinary people can't match. I don't know what you saw, but I will help you."
An Ning: "Also, pay attention to Dandong and understand who he is in contact with."
Christina was shocked: "You want to deal with him too?"
"No, I just want to know who exerts influence on him. The friendship between Danton and Maximilian is actually not as strong as it seems on the surface. I want to ensure their friendship."
Yes, ensuring that Danton and Robespierre do not break is also one of the means to confront history.
Christina nodded seriously: "Okay, I will pay attention."
An Ning breathed a sigh of relief. Although he didn't know whether Christina's skills in this area were reliable, she finally found someone to do the work.
It's a pity that my plug-in can't see the character's panel attributes. If I could see other people's attributes, I would have to find a wife with high plotting ability.
As long as you have a wife with high plotting skills as a spymaster, and work hard to build a good relationship with her and keep the relationship level above 60, you can effectively prevent your character from being killed for no reason - An Ning, a veteran player in the Crusader Kings series
Thought so.
The problem is that An Ning doesn't know how much plotting ability Christina has.
Or you should have double insurance...
After coming out of the side room with Christina, An Ning glanced at Fanny, and suddenly lowered her voice and asked her in a low voice: "Is there any way you can help me get rid of someone?"
Fanny was greatly shocked. She looked at An Ning and replied seriously: "General, I am a maid."
An Ning: "Yes, you are a maid!"
Aren't maids supposed to be all-round spies? When necessary, they can even pull out a Deshka machine gun from their skirts and shoot from a standing position.
The more extreme maids can also throw throwing knives, stop time and throw steamrollers.
Fanny looked at An Ning like she was a fool, and finally made him give up his unreasonable expectations for his maid.
At this moment, Fanny sighed: "It's very difficult for me just to deal with the powerful agents trying to insert themselves into the Royal Palace. Don't add any more burden to me!"
This time it was An Ning's turn to be shocked.
What the hell - you are indeed a maid!
An Ning lowered her voice and continued: "Then if one day, I ask you to serve a certain gentleman a glass of highly poisonous wine, can you do it?"
Fanny stared at An Ning for a few seconds before speaking: "Once some boundaries are crossed, you can never come back. Are you sure you want to change from a hero to a tyrant?"
An Ning originally wanted to say, "No one who rules is innocent," but he hesitated.
At least at this point in time, he still wants to continue to be a righteous hero who is great and upright from the inside out.