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"This is a great victory for the French nation. Under the leadership of the wise and powerful chief consul, Lord Levi, our army defeated the more with less and successfully defeated the Pakatans and Austrian forces of the anti-French alliance. As long as Lord Levi always leads us, foreign invaders will never step into the city of Paris..."
On the streets of Paris, clerks affiliated with the Propaganda Department gave a hard speech on the streets about the victory of Boercha. This is Li Wei. Considering that most of the ordinary civilians in this era were illiterate and had no money to buy newspapers (you can't even eat enough, so how can you have extra money?), he specially ordered the propaganda department to simply train a group of people to promote the "Levi's greatness" in big cities controlled by France.
This is not a new method. During the French Revolution, the opposition party members liked to give the most was street speeches.
However, the method does not lie in whether it is old-fashioned, as long as it is easy to use. Levi is a pure pragmatist. Since street speeches have been proven to be useful by French revolutionaries, he naturally doesn't mind letting the propaganda department take them over.
Compared to street politicians who are more worried about being arrested by city police, the propaganda department staff have no scruples in their speeches. They will appear in almost all places where people can quickly gather and have a large flow of people.
In Li Wei's cabinet, the originally seemingly inconspicuous propaganda department is expanding due to the needs of political propaganda, and it has become the first-ranked department among more than a dozen departments in the cabinet.
Li Wei, who came from the 21st century, followed his political system in his previous life, so the cabinet set by Li Wei is much more complicated than the cabinets of other countries in the 18th century, and many departments that seem inconspicuous and not important have been promoted to independent cabinet departments.
Therefore, the dozen departments in Li Wei's cabinet have the same status at the legal level, rather than just like other countries, where there are only a few important ministers in the cabinet, and the remaining departments are all affiliated institutions.
The division of labor in Li Wei's cabinet was more detailed and clear, which naturally led to a much larger number of senior officials in Li Wei's government.
In theory, the complexity of the government is conducive to improving government efficiency, but considering the immature regulatory system of this era, the more senior officials there are, the larger the group of top corrupt officials!
Throughout history, there has been an unchanging theorem. The heavier the authority of an official, the higher the amount of corruption, and the fewer people can govern him!
Even after reaching a certain level, ordinary regulatory authorities no longer have the power to review the other party, and are even constrained by the other party's official position.
Of course, after you reach a certain level of officialdom, even if you are arrested by corruption, those senior officials will not be able to disclose their old foundations of arrested colleagues in order to maintain their image in the hearts of the people.
To put it bluntly, which one of the officials is not under a pile of money?
If all the routines are made public, wouldn’t the people learn to get the right name?
Therefore, the ones who are finally disclosed are usually responsible for covering up the situation, and even simply downplay them, and are completely undisclosed to the lower class.
This is very normal human nature. Even ordinary people know that family scandals should not be made public!
However, for middle and lower-level officials, there is no need for such protection, and the corruption of middle and lower-level officials is often easily witnessed by the people. If it is covered, it has the opposite effect of covering up the ears and stealing the bell. It is better to just open it and show the style of a great power.
Because the gap in official ranks is too big, ordinary people will naturally not compete with senior national officials, and those ruling classes that truly control the country will not damage their reputation.
There are countless corruption issues throughout the ages. Whether in ancient times or in the 21st century, many people believe that becoming an official is to make money.
Naturally, the corruption problem in the Li Wei government has always existed. Even officials who were enlightened by the administration would not refuse all the gifts given by their subordinates as long as the other party’s request does not harm the national interests.
Even officials who are enlightened by administrative authorities are like this, let alone officials who are not enlightened by administrative authorities?
For this reason, Li Wei also set up a special supervision department in the cabinet to deal with the issue of corrupt officials.
However, the Ministry of Supervision has not been established for a long time, and Li Wei’s current political core is war, so the Ministry of Supervision has not yet spread to France, but has only started operating in several big cities and Paris that Li Wei had occupied.
In order to eliminate the internal corruption of the Ministry of Supervision, all the officials placed by Li Wei in the Ministry of Supervision were administratively enlightened, and only civil servants who worked at the bottom were not administratively enlightened.
Throughout history, ordinary public officials have had little power, and at most they will make things difficult for the people. They cannot touch the rest of their power, otherwise a single report would allow civil servants to be laid off.
After all, in the eyes of bureaucracies, civil servants are their slaves, and the common people are flocks of bureaucracies. Slaves dare to fetch the sheep privately. Can bureaucrats who are masters be spared?
It is okay for civil servants to play with "official power" in front of ordinary people, but if it really involves tangible interests, unless no one exposes it, they will have to be treated as a typical example by superior bureaucrats.
The so-called gray income can only be obtained by officials. If ordinary public officials can eat and drink freely, they are already considered to be doing well.
Therefore, Li Wei has always controlled the bureaucratic class and is relatively neglected by the civil servant class.
In Li Wei's eyes, as long as he is in charge of the officials, there will naturally be someone who drives and supervises the civil servants below.
Outside the main gate of Paris, teams of prisoners in shabby Prussian uniforms were escorted in groups of Black Dragon Legion soldiers, who were far fewer than theirs.
These Prussian prisoners of war will be detained in prison camps with military functions in Paris. After the reorganization of these French Wehrmachts is completed, they will be the next group of trained soldiers.
These prisoners of war were filled with many middle and low-level Prussian officers, and they were just right to use them.
In Polcha's report, Li Wei realized the language problem of foreign wars in the future.
The total war system does not provide language translation functions, so Li Wei can only find a way for himself...
Therefore, the plan to cultivate a German-speaking army to conquer the German region in the future appeared in Li Wei's mind.
Because of this, Livi would rather risk offending Prussia completely than send all these Prussian prisoners back.
Of course, not all of these Prussian prisoners of war are qualified to be trained. Those who are older and have health problems will be eliminated. The most important thing about Li Wei’s requirement for the source of war is that he must be young enough!
Because the guard infantry who completed training is destined to be used by Li Wei for the rest of his life (if he did not fulfill his loyalty to Li Wei on the battlefield), the younger he is, the better.
In order to ensure that these trained guard infantry soldiers will not lose non-combat troops due to diseases and other problems, Li Wei also specially contacted French nutrition and health experts to prepare a rich diet for them.
Of course, nutrition and health experts of this era usually work part-time as doctors.
Although modern medicine has not started, modern medicine has begun to replace the ignorant medicine of the Middle Ages. Many professional doctors understand the various food combinations needed by the human body.
It is no exaggeration to say that although Li Wei's guard infantry did not have military pay, their food and treatment was definitely the highest in the world at present!
With a good dietary environment and enhanced physical fitness after systematic training, it is almost impossible for these soldiers trained in the system to get sick. Even if it is a powerful plague, as long as they do not take the initiative to die and get intimate contact, it is difficult to get infected and get sick.
Li Wei even thought about the future organization of these Prussian prisoners of war, and he was called the French Foreign Legion.
In the future, all the non-France soldiers will be incorporated into the French Foreign Legion.
Of course, when the French foreign legion expands, the corps from different countries and regions will be divided in more detail.
The French Foreign Legion will be separated from the French Defense Forces Region and form two independent combat troops.
As expected, France will have only three armed organizations in the future: the French police force, the French Defence Force, and the French Foreign Legion.
Both the French Defence Force and the French Foreign Legion must undergo a systematic training camp transformation. The French police force is a local security team. However, Li Wei cannot rely entirely on the police. He will also distribute the French Defence Force to the entire French territory to garrison.
Especially for large and medium-sized cities, the French Defence Force must be stationed!
Li Wei never hoped that he could use his personal charm to make the French nation spontaneously support him...
The royal party and the revolutionary party have never disappeared in France, especially the revolutionary parties. After Li Wei gradually settled into the position of chief consul of Paris, the originally divided revolutionary parties have begun to join forces to keep warm, and there are extensive open activities among the people.
These opposition revolutionaries have been staring at Li Wei. Once he endangers the victories since the French Revolution or tries to restore the kingdom, these opposition revolutionaries will immediately rebel.
The most important change of the French Revolution to the French nation was to make most French civilians realize that if they were treated unfairly, they could take the initiative to take the initiative to take the initiative to take the initiative to resist the government. This behavior is called "revolution"!
Revolution and rebellion are different, so they are more likely to be accepted by most French people.
Just as the anti-French alliance was worried - the revolutionary government established after the French Revolution and the Li Wei regime were not threatening, the revolutionary consciousness that the French were exporting was the existence that all European monarchs should be wary of!
The reason why the Lindenwan Brotherhood took root in Central and European countries is because the ideas of the French Revolution were spreading in China and Europe!
On the contrary, in Eastern European countries where industrialization is equal to zero, the circulation of French revolutionary ideas is very difficult, especially the Tsarist Russian Empire. The ancient and cruel serf system not only imprisoned the ideas of the Russian commoners, but also bound the personal freedom of the common people. Many Tsarist Russian serfs never left the village where they were born in their lives.
In addition, the conservatives of the Tsarist Russian Empire were also powerful and terrifying in this era, and the power of the reformists was minimal.
More than 16,000 Prussian prisoners of war entered the city, which immediately made the Paris people excited. With the publicity department's spared no effort, Li Wei's impression in the eyes of the Paris people was rapidly turning from negative values.
Many Parisians who like to curse Livi on weekdays suddenly discovered that no matter how many shortcomings the ruler Livi had, at least they were in war!
Such a reason is enough to conquer the hearts of most people!
However, some people are happy in Paris and are naturally sad.
The hidden royal party in Paris (the royal party was an illegal organization at this time, so it could only hide in a hidden front), and the revolutionary party with the Paris Commune as the core, saw the image of Li Wei in the minds of the citizens of Paris and was relieved a lot by this victory.
The Black Dragon Legion once again confirmed that they were fearless and terrible combat power of winning with less.
The news of the Austrian army's voluntary retreat was not a secret in the upper class of Paris, but those who were familiar with it did not dare to reveal the news at all, beating the "face" of the overall victory as Li Wei's government propaganda department said.
The reason is very simple. Not only will the propaganda of the Li Wei government be keyed in refuting Li Wei government, but it will not play any role.
Regardless of the truth, the Austrian army did retreat, and there were so many Prussian prisoners of war paraded in the streets, no matter how many rebuttals were, they would appear pale and powerless.
This is the purpose of Levi's order to parade Prussian prisoners of war.
After a parade, the opposition to the Levi government in Paris suddenly fell into a low tide.
A country's regime, especially a country that is still immersed in the glory of the French Revolution, cannot simply deter parliament from the whole country.
The Parliament of the Republic can only be regarded as a gathering place for senior leaders of the revolutionary party and celebrities. There are also a large number of revolutionary people who oppose Li Wei and want to restore the original republic system.
After terrifying periods of Robert Spear's rule, many revolutionary masses felt instinctively disgusted with the power of the CEO, believing that the supreme power of a country should not be controlled by one person, so doing it would easily threaten the safety of most people's lives.
The Parliament of the French Republic, which was not originally controlled by Levi, tried to establish a new constitution to constrain and control Levi, but now the Parliament of the Republic has become Levi's voice cylinder, and the constitution is naturally useless. Levi's power is no different from the time of the regent of the New France Kingdom he established before.
This power without any constraints is naturally seen by many knowledgeable revolutionaries in society. Their social status may not be high, but it is much better than those without trousers. They do not need to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, and have enough time and energy to monitor the government.
Looking at the eyes of so many pairs of eyes, no matter how the Li Wei government covers it up, it is impossible to hide the fact that Li Wei is already truly dictatorial!
If it weren't for the suppression of the MPs and tycoons in the Republic's Parliament, Paris might have had a revolution against levied!
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