C3269 Who cut off their road to riches?

Who cut off whose road to wealth?

The Franco-Prussian War, which was the most real war in the France, was finally complete. France was defeated on the inside.

France lost too miserably in this war. Around six provinces in the north were completely lost, the capital Paris was captured, and the 300 thousand elite troops became prisoners of war. The navy that thought they were proud of was even defeated by a Chinese lone ship!

In the end, the France was so weak that they could not even suppress a small organization of their own country!

Is this still the second most powerful country in the world? Is this still the France of the world's number one army?

There were too many people who didn't understand the gist of it. In fact, only those who had experienced it would be able to understand the meaning behind it!

France's failure, apparently a political upheaval caused by military failure, finally exacerbated the losses of the war, and that was all a facade!

France's failure also has an important internal problem, that is, the domestic ideological community has been divided into two different camps!

The first was the idea of colonization and expansion that the royalist party and the traditional aristocrats believed in as the iron law!

This thought was indeed mainstream in the world at that time, for England was made strong by the colonies, and France itself plundered too much from them.

Needless to say, that canal in Egypt, without the bones of the colonists, could you have built it? Just based on that productivity at that time, how could a person not depend on death to cultivate it?

Whose people died? Of course we can't kill the people of our own race, we still have to drive the slaves from the colony to their deaths!

The land, mineral resources, and natural resources of the weak, including the lives of the weak, could actually be extracted from them and fed back to the France!

This is such a big piece of cake, which powerful country in the world doesn't desire it?

However, although the reasoning seemed right, there was a problem with the distribution of the cake. During the process of the influx of new wealth, the problem with the distribution of the cake was too serious!

The gap between rich and poor, the devil had always been wandering around in Europe, moving people's hearts like a ghost!

In order to maintain the national strategy of colonial expansion, the emperor had to maintain a huge military expenditure.

At the same time, those emperors and generals, as well as the nobles and capitalists, took away the second piece of fat cake, because they were the Leader, the Organizer, and an absolute food class!

The influx of a huge amount of wealth into the France did not bring about the well-being of the people, but rather, it brought about a disaster, a disaster with a disparity between the rich and the poor!

It was because of this huge disparity that caused the discontent of countless citizens. This led to the proliferation of a second thought!

This second kind of thought, should be called conservatism, or called isolationism, is the thought that the United States is actively advancing at this moment!

There were many branches to this idea, such as the socialist parties in the Paris Commune, the progressive intellectuals who advocated republican rule, and even a small number of Nihilists.

They had different ideas, but the general idea was the same. They wanted to stop the militarism, stop giving the super dividends to the aristocrats, and increase the income level of the people!

To put it bluntly, you all ate too much, so you have to share some of it with us. Especially this Gold Swallowing Beast, the army.

The more extreme representatives of these thoughts were of course Blanqui's group of destitute working class, because they had directly chosen the path of resisting by force!

Neither of these thoughts could suppress the other. They had to put the other to death, and the conflict between the two slowly turned into a bloody incident. In the end, it escalated into a civil war!

The secession of this society allowed the France to lose the war between France and France completely. All the profits from the expansion of the Bonaparte Family's territory was taken away by the enemy!

You don't have a good heart, and you still want to fight a national war? Dream on!

Today, McMahon was going to incite the collective anger of three hundred thousand soldiers. He was a general who was good at taking advantage of the soldiers' feelings.

If he wanted these soldiers to become loyal and useful mourners, then he had to make sure that they were clearly separated and let them know where the hatred was coming from!

"Why have we fallen to this state? Who is the culprit? Who are we going to get our revenge on? "

McMahon's question lingered in the hearts of all the soldiers. The Marshal knew that these soldiers were all members of the royalist party, and they were actually the beneficiaries of the first line of thought.

Soldiers were born to love to fight. Not only was it the atmosphere in the army, but most importantly, war could bring great benefits to everyone who participated in it!

If there was a war, there would be high wages. What was the peace period where soldiers paid enough? How many women could he play with? How many bottles of wine can you drink?

However, the allowance during the war was extremely high. He had to at least start off with three times the amount, and that was the least he could say!

After that, the war would come to fruition. After winning the war, all of the enemy's wealth would belong to you, and if you saw anything valuable, you would snatch it. The military officers would turn a blind eye.

That's right, during that era, the armies of Europe and Britain all had a hidden rule, which was the distribution of spoils of war!

A company, after the battle, what standard small spoils of war could be intercepted, what standard large spoils of war had to be handed over.

Some of these had to be handed over, and the rest had to be distributed in proportion to the ranks of the troops.

Look, the army is an extremely efficient harvester of wealth in war, and the property of other peoples is very efficiently looted and redistributed!

The capture of the platoon would be handed over to the Company, the Company would be handed over to the Battalion Regiment, and then to the Regiment. Finally, it would reach the hands of the General or General, and of course the biggest person would be the French Emperor!

McMahon was like this. During a war, he did not need to personally go snatch them, at the end of a regular battle, there would naturally be a civilian officer who would count and calculate, and the additional spoils that he won could be sent home by mail.

It was the same for the whole empire's army, from top to bottom. If you didn't have these benefits, how would they be able to buy land in their hometown?

At that time, someone had calculated that if an old soldier who started serving as a soldier for 20 years and retired after 40, he would follow French Emperor's 20 years of income and buy more than 50 acres of farmland in the countryside!

Furthermore, such a veteran would get a pension of seven to eight hundred francs every year after retirement. This amount of money was an astronomical figure in the countryside. It was enough for him to live a wealthy and well-off life!

From this, it could be seen that the military aristocrat group that the Napoleon Family had established, including all the veteran organizations, was a super huge interest community.

Such a huge community of interests, yet you've destroyed their road to wealth.

Breaking off a person's path of wealth was akin to killing one's parents!