"Open the box! Every brave guard will be rewarded with gold!"
Thiers kicked open the wooden box on the ground, and the golden franc illuminated everyone in the room!
"Gentlemen! Everyone will receive a commission of one thousand francs today! This is just the beginning. From now on, everyone will have a salary of one hundred gold francs every week!"
"I just want you to protect me! Protect me with the skills you honed in North Africa, Crimea, Annan, Mexico, Qing Dynasty Beijing... on those bloody battlefields!"
"All I want is for you to believe in me. Believe that Thiers really wants to establish a new order for France! Don't doubt it, follow my orders and crush all thugs who stand in front of me!"
"I can give you gold, glory and even a happy old age in the future! I just want to know if you have the ability to protect me? Do you still dare to kill someone!"
With a bang, more than fifty veterans stood at attention and saluted Thiers, "Yes, Congressman! We can still fight! We still dare to fight! We will help you clean up all the garbage wherever you see it!"
"Very good!" Thiers' blood was racing with excitement. "Here I promise that each person with minor injuries will receive a pension of 5,000 gold francs, and each person with serious injuries will receive a pension of 10,000 gold francs!"
"Sacrificial warriors... Haha... I have raised your family for you. Your children will receive the best education and will have the best jobs in the future!"
"If I can establish a new order! You... will all be rewarded!"
"Come here! Divide the money! Divide the weapons..."
There are a thousand gold coins in each pocket, and they are heavy on your hands! There is not only gold but also various weapons and ammunition prepared by Thiers. Each soldier can be assigned two guns. The rifle is France's most advanced Chaspaud type. The rifling is brand new, and even the sealing butter has not been wiped off. .
The veterans don't care about life and death battles at all. All they care about is whether there is any meaning in working hard. Thiers gave them enough gold and also gave them honor.
The words made these veterans realize that what they did was a very honorable thing, and the morale of the soldiers was suddenly boosted.
It was precisely with these fifty veterans as the core that Thiers saved his life several times during the subsequent wave of the Great Revolution and successfully formed a new government.
Thiers is making preparations, and Gambetta outside Paris is not idle either! This congressman who was sent south by the queen to recruit troops did not actually go far. He had been waiting to see the situation in the Orleans area south of Paris.
Here Gambetta began to give inspiring speeches one after another. It was under his inspiration that nearly 6,000 young men in the Orleans area signed up to join the National Guard.
"Young soldiers! Are you afraid?"
In the boot camp, Gambetta lectured all the recruits in the light of torches: "Look into my eyes, are you afraid?"
"Don't be afraid..." The recruits' sparse shouts were not uniform at all.
Gan Bi laughed, "Telling lies! Who can not be afraid? Who is not afraid in the face of war? In fact, I am also afraid..."
The relaxed tone made the soldiers below relax a lot, but then Gambida changed the subject and said loudly, "Of course I am afraid! What I am afraid of is not my own life and death, what I am afraid of is the suffering of the motherland!"
"Alsace and Lorraine are bleeding and weeping! How many sisters were raped? How many brothers were massacred? How many families were destroyed? Can I not be afraid when I see all this?"
"What scares me even more is that our French ideology is about to be shattered! Can the fruits of our revolution be preserved?"
Gambetta almost screamed with his life, "All men are created equal! This is natural human rights! This is the most precious legacy left by the Revolution!"
"I can tell you now that I will always be a republican! I have been working hard for the republic my whole life!"
"Do you really think that the current war is a war between the King of Prussia and the Emperor of France? You are wrong!"
"Now that the war has spread throughout northern France, the Prussians want to replace our democratic ideas of freedom, equality and fraternity with their high-pressure and cruel feudal rule!"
"Children! If we lose, Paris is destined to fall! The Bonaparte family can escape at any time... Anyway, they also have very rich experience in going down and restoring power!"
"But where can the motherland escape? The Prussians will definitely open their mouths, demand huge compensation and even cut off our land!"
"Who is bleeding? Is it the king and the nobles? In the end, it is our motherland that is bleeding..."
"Prussia under the feudal power system defeated France, a democratic and free country where everyone is born equal? Aren't you afraid of such a result?"
"Children! Stand up and train in the shortest possible time! I will take you and sing the Marseillaise to kill the enemy!"
"Mighty France is invincible! Long live the motherland!"
The soldiers in the audience were all excited. They cheered and jumped, sang Marseillaise loudly, and cheered for the slogan "Long live the motherland." The morale of the entire military camp was boiling.
The local chief executives and training officers who were watching were all dejected. They looked at Gambida in horror, and then looked at the bewitched recruits, and they all took a breath of air.
"Oh God! Is the empire really going to end? Gambida actually advocated republican ideas in public? He actually directly opposed the rule of the French Emperor..."
"This was simply unimaginable before... But what's even more terrible is, why didn't any secret police dare to arrest him?"
"It's going to end! This guy has already begun to prepare for the new country in the future... These new recruits will probably be Gambida's core support force in the future!"
The situation has really changed. Before the Franco-Prussian War, Gambetta's speech would have been absolutely illegal. Any policeman who heard these remarks could arrest him.
But now the people of the entire empire have completely dispersed. The secret police hidden in the audience are like deaf and blind people, pretending that they have seen nothing and heard nothing.
The shouts of the Republic shook the sky, and the singing of Marseillaise woke up the whole city, but they were indifferent!
Of course they didn't dare to take any action. As long as they dared to do harm to Gambetta, the thousands of recruits who joined the army because of him would tear them apart.
Countless local nobles sighed and shook their heads and said, "The building is about to collapse! Everyone in the empire is preparing for the future!"
Whether Gambida or Thiers, everyone is preparing in their own way. Although the means and methods are different, there is a consensus that they are the same.
"Napoleon III... is really going to die this time!"
"This empire is about to perish!"
