King's Landing in France

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La Salle: "Come on, this song is over, you are the second favorite in Paris, and you can't push all the invitations for the tea party."

Napoleon was about to leave immediately, and then suddenly remembered that it was not good to leave Josephine alone like this, so he turned to Josephine and said, "Are you coming too?"

Josephine smiled, "Of course."

Then she took Napoleon's arm very naturally.

La Salle showed a "wow" expression, looked Josephine up and down, and then looked at Napoleon with complicated eyes, which probably meant "how do you like old ones?"

Napoleon was so focused on the dancing between Frost and his sister that he didn't understand the meaning of the bad friend's eyes at all. He dragged Josephine into the ballroom.

The band was playing a fairly typical tango, and Frost, with his arms around Paulina, was twirling on the dance floor.

La Salle: "To be honest, the dance is not bad. After all, as long as there is passion in tango, everything else can be ignored."

Napoleon's attention was on Paulina's face: "God, my sister must be ashamed to death, she is not good at this kind of scene."

In fact, everyone can see that Paulina's face must be hot enough to fry an egg now.

Napoleon was worried at first, but after watching it for a while, he smiled and said, "It seems that Paulina is enjoying it quite a bit, so don't worry too much about him."

Josephine: "You really love your sister very much, Monsieur Bonaparte."

"Of course, my father died early and left when she was five years old. My elder brother actually plays the role of a father. Which father doesn't want his daughter to be good?" Napoleon responded proudly, " Luckily, Paulina has grown up very well, beautiful and capable."

La Salle complained in a hurry: "It's a pity that her child will have to find a nanny in the future."

Napoleon pursed his lips: "There is nothing perfect in this world, and there is no way."

At this time, the tango dance came to an end, and the two people who were dancing passionately stopped after the last note and looked at each other.

Just when everyone thought they were about to kiss, Paulina squatted down and hugged her Jio.

Frost looked apologetic: "I said I would step on your feet, but you don't believe me. That's why I don't dance. I'm really not good at dancing."

Then Frost shook his head and looked around: "So girls, for the sake of your feet, don't even think about dancing with me."

Everyone looked at each other, and then they didn't know which genius was the first to think that General Frost was telling a joke, so they burst out laughing.

This ignited everyone's laughter, and everyone was laughing.

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An Ning scratched her head, he wasn't telling a joke just now, but was just stating the facts.

But everyone seems to regard this as humor, thinking that "His Excellency General Frost" is using his own humor to resolve the current embarrassment.

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

An Ning stretched out her hand to Paulina: "Can you stand up?"

"Of course, no problem." Paulina stubbornly stood up on her own, and then held An Ning's hand.

The petty temper that Paulina showed was actually quite to An Ning's liking.

He was about to lead Paulina to the position when he suddenly saw a rare combination on the dance floor.

Josephine Beauharnet is holding Napoleon's arm!

An Ning was taken aback. He originally thought that Napoleon in this time and space would never get involved with Josephine.

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At this moment, An Ning suddenly felt a bone-piercing terror.

He realized that his real enemy might be the terrifying existence called historical inertia.

At the beginning of Fare, An Ning took the initiative to do a lot of things to maintain the original direction of history in order to allow himself to grasp the flow of history to provide convenience for the fence.

For example, when the attack of the Bastille was blocked, he took the initiative to operate the cannon, for example, when Mirabeau did not stand up and shouted that famous quote, he stood up instead of him, and by the way, he also took the famous quote as his own.

Later, although An Ning no longer forced herself to push history towards the original direction, she didn't care too much about whether history changed.

And now, An Ning's expectation has become to write his own, new history, so he must prevent history from going in its original direction.

Because in the original direction, the real revolutionaries of the Jacobins would kill each other, and finally speculators like Barras would seize the republic.

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Now An Ning wants to completely erase this history and rewrite it into the "good ending" he imagined.

This simple wish had arisen countless times before Traversing in Tranquility.

For example, he once hoped that Compaore would not be corrupted and would continue to stand with Sankara.

He once hoped that Pinochet, facing the temptation of the CIA, would shout "uphold the Constitution" like the loyal general who was assassinated before.

But now, history said to An Ning in a cold voice: "Don't even think about it."

Josephine would still mess with Napoleon, just as Paul Barras would still provoke the relationship between Robespierre and Danton.

At this moment, An Ning looked at Josephine, and suddenly felt a strong sense of crisis. An idea was born in his mind: before Robespierre and Danton broke up, they should kill speculators like Paul Ballas. guest.

The scenes of playing "Crusader Kings 2" back then immediately came to mind, and An Ning instantly thought of countless assassination methods, including but not limited to bombing shit, collapsing balconies, putting snakes into Ballas' bed, and so on.

But all of these have a disadvantage. Once the inside information is leaked, it will have a serious impact on Andy Frost's image.

After thinking about it, An Ning decided to use the most popular method now: make a crime and send the other party to the guillotine through the court.

An Ning was thinking about this while pulling Paulina back to her place.

That's right, you can't stand still.

Even if the opponent is a behemoth called history, I will fight to the last moment.

It's not going to bring me to my knees, thought Andy Frost, a battle-hardened veteran.

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While An Ning was startled by history at the ball, in a club in London, Peter Jr., who was about to be elected as the next prime minister, was also giving a speech.

"Gentlemen, because of the Glorious Revolution tradition, many of us in the UK have a sense of sympathy and understanding for what is happening in France.

"But that's not right!

"Although we launched the Glorious Revolution, in the end we welcomed a new King as Head of Great Britain and Head of the Anglican Church.

"The French actually want to subvert the aristocratic political tradition for thousands of years and subvert the European order! Such a deviant thing must not be allowed!

"European history and tradition are unquestionable facts, like two plus two equals four, like leaves are green in summer!

"Great Britain should no longer be content to simply provoke Europe against France, the British Army and Royal Navy are ready!

"Light a fire to prove that two plus two make four!

"We shall prove with the sword that summer leaves are green!

"we are ready!"

Little Pete's speech received warm applause.

One man, however, was unimpressed: Arthur Wellesley, racking his brains for a sonnet for his goddess, was not listening to the speech of the future Prime Minister.

Chapter 295 A Layman Stuck Into the Vortex of Paris

After the dance, An Ning began to plot a plan to kill Paul Barras non-stop.

This guy was one of the main drivers who sent Robespierre to the guillotine.

After a few days of busy work, An Ning found out in despair that her ability to play politics was basically zero, completely missing the point.

An Ning had no idea who to ask to collect the black materials and what black materials to collect to send Ballas to the guillotine.

The most terrible thing is that because he left Paris for a long time to engage in the military, An Ning's current connections are all in the army, and he doesn't know any of the gentlemen in the parliament except for those who were drinking and playing cards at the Jacobin Club.

In the military, An Ning can count a dozen trustworthy people and assign them tasks with confidence, but in politics, An Ning can only do everything by himself.

These days, An Ning spends her life chatting with people in the club and going to the salon to drink tea, just to find a trustworthy thug to handle Ballas' affairs.

After all, An Ning herself is too conspicuous in Paris, and a lot of people will pay attention to everything she does.

As a result of this activity, An Ning realized the predicament when Sir Cumming was suddenly assigned to engage in intelligence: two eyes Once it's black, I don't understand anything, so I can only saw and stretch my thighs to find some sense of existence.

In the end, An Ning thought a little desperately, I might as well be a dictator, and just drag it up and chop it up to save trouble.

But once he is dictatorial, whether it is Danton or Robespierre, they will immediately become their enemies.

Especially Robespierre.

That puts the cart before the horse.

In the end, there was no other way, An Ning could only go to her quasi-sage helper to discuss it.

At noon that day, he pulled Christina, who was about to go out for the tea party, to a side room in 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... Make me nervous..."

An Ning: "Is there any way to kill Paul Ballas?"

Christina was stunned: "Huh?"

An Ning repeated her question in a low voice.

Christina: "Uh...how did he offend you? Why, so suddenly?"

In order to change the course of history, first kill the culprit who usurped the Republic.

But An Ning couldn't say it that way, so he made a detour and said, "I have a hunch that speculators like him will be bad for the Republic."

Christina: "Is he already detrimental to the Republic? Wouldn't it just be over to the National Salvation Committee? If you report him, he will definitely go to the guillotine."

An Ning licked his lips: "This is the biggest problem. He hasn't done anything detrimental to the Republic, at least not yet."

Not only that, Barras did a good job in the countryside as a special commissioner, and he is a person who has made great contributions to countering the rebellion.

Christina looked at An Ning suspiciously: "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 if you are wise and abide by principles .”

An Ning was completely unable to refute what his fiancée said.

Christina said again: "But I will pay attention to Ballas's movements. In fact, I heard something. There are more than one gentleman in Paris who often correspond to Ballas, and he also specially hires someone to give him the daily newspaper. Send it over quickly.

"Mr. Barras was rich enough to hire so many riders and horses to do it at this time. Perhaps I can collect some evidence of his wealth."

An Ning: "Yes, this is it! Please."

Christina nodded: "Well, leave it to me. But I still don't understand why you hate Mr. Ballas 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 inertia of thinking on the fence.

An Ning patted Christina's shoulder heavily, and then made amends for herself: "I'm worried about Maximilian, he is too upright, he must have offended many people. I always feel that one day in the future, he will because of Sent too many people to the guillotine, and ended up being guillotined."

Christina: "Now Paris is singing his praises, 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 a vision that is far beyond the reach of ordinary people. I don't know what you see again, but I will help you."

An Ning: "Also, pay attention to Dandong and find out who he is in contact with."

Christina was shocked: "You want to deal with him too?"

"No, I just want to know who is influencing him. The friendship between Danton and Maximilian is actually not as solid as it looks. I want to ensure their friendship."

Yes, ensuring that Danton and Robespierre do not break apart is also one of the means of confronting history.

Christina nodded seriously: "Okay, I will pay attention."

An Ning breathed a sigh of relief. Although she didn't know if Christina's skills in this area were reliable, she finally found someone to do the job.

It's a pity that my plug-in can't see the panel attributes of the characters. If I can see the attributes of others, I must find a wife with high conspiracy ability.

As long as you have a wife with a high conspiracy ability as the spy chief, and work hard to build a good relationship with her, and keep the relationship degree above 60, you can effectively prevent your character from being killed for no reason——An Ning, a veteran player of the Crusader Kings series Think so.

The problem is that An Ning doesn't know how much plotting ability Christina has.

Still 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 softly, "Can you 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!"