Chapter 850 An Unimagined Road (Part 2)

Chapter 850 An Unimagined Road (Part 2)

Louis-Philippe wrote an edict of abdication before leaving:

“Today, my God-given Louis-Philippe of Orléans, surrenders my country and my throne to my grandson, the Count of Paris.

May he fulfill the mission given to him by God. "

Louis-Philippe obviously wanted to give up his job to keep his commander-in-chief, which was not uncommon in European courts.

The king of Bavaria was also forced to abdicate before, and then passed the throne to his son, maintaining the rule of the Würtersbach family.

In fact, Louis Philippe had another consideration, that is, the Count of Paris was just ten years old, and the Duchess of Orleans was a woman with no political experience.

Because of these two conditions, theoretically if the Count of Paris succeeds to the throne, Louis Philippe will most likely continue to hide behind the scenes and control the country.

The Duchess of Orleans rushed to the House of Representatives with her son as soon as she learned of Louis Philippe's abdication, but reality gave her a hard blow.

First, the parliament refused to recognize her power, and then Republican member Dinoyer led a crowd to attack the parliament.

The Count of Paris was knocked down, and if the Duchess of Orleans had not protected her son with her body, the former would have been trampled to death.

Afterwards, the Duchess took her eldest son and Prince Edward to embark on a great escape. The angry people failed to find the King and threw the King's throne in the square and burned it.

Against the backdrop of the firelight, people sang "Marseillaise" again.

At this time, the French republicans had an absolute advantage, but the "Reform" and "National" factions were at odds.

The former hopes to implement universal suffrage and reform the existing economic and political systems, while the latter hopes to implement trade protection policies, implement a real property election system, and expand the voice of the emerging industrial bourgeoisie.

The property election system adopted by the Orleans Dynasty actually still involved many nobles, and the king's power was too great.

However, since the Paris uprising, the members of the House of Lords have become as evasive as the king.

In addition to the "Reform" and "National" factions, there are actually Regency and Orthodox factions.

Naturally, the regent was the Duchess of Orleans who was unwilling to fail. She found Odilon Barrow who was also unwilling to accept the defeat. The two parties hit it off and decided to continue the matter.

The orthodox faction is the faction headed by the Duchess of Berry, the mother of Count Chambord, who hope to restore Bourbon orthodoxy.

But with the promulgation of the provisional republican government, the efforts of the two duchesses failed.

In order not to repeat the tragedy of Louis XVI, both the Duchess of Orleans and the Duchess of Berry quietly left Paris.

The orthodox king, Count Chambord, did not care too much about the situation in Paris. At this time, he just wanted to make Fribourg what he wanted.

Louis-Philippe had arrived in Alsace-Lorraine, and the local governor greeted his Majesty's arrival with a confused look on his face.

However, Louis Philippe ordered the arrest of high-ranking officials in Alsace-Lorraine as soon as they met, and listed dozens of crimes against them.

At the same time, he also ordered to exempt Alsace-Lorraine from taxes for three years. The effect was naturally immediate. Louis Philippe's reputation changed directly from a cruel and murderous tyrant to a deceived wise king.

In fact, Louis Philippe has already prepared for the worst at this time. If necessary, he will go to the German Confederation Congress to ask for help like the old Couldre did.

That’s right! When you are shameless enough, the French pretender to the throne can even claim to be the Duke of the German Confederation and at the same time request the protection of the German countries from harm from France.

Louis Philippe also had something to say, "The Bourbons can be orthodox, but my Orleans family can't?"

By this time another pretender to the throne had returned to Paris, and Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was still an unknown figure.

No one thought that this fugitive who had just escaped from prison would do anything, but he knew very well that it was time to act.

At the same time, a little man returned to Lyon. To be honest, people here are still more afraid of soldiers. After all, the two bloody massacres are still fresh in people's memories.

But when people saw the officer's appearance clearly, they breathed a sigh of relief. It was Charles Duchardt, a child born and raised in this city.

He brought back a lot of food, medicine, as well as clothing and fuel.

"Brother Charles!"

Several children ran over crying. These were children from the slums and could be considered relatives of Charles Duchardt.

While he asked his adjutant to lead people to distribute supplies, he asked about the situation in the slums.

"Is everyone okay?"

"It's not good at all! Heavy rain, floods, famine, plague, many people died, and a new group of gangsters arrived in Nancheng."

"Don't worry, leave it all to me."

"Brother Charles, are you still leaving?"

Ciel nodded, knowing that his mission was far from over.

February 17, 1848.

The day after news of the pope's request for the Austrian Empire to withdraw from Italy reached Vienna, a demonstration of unprecedented scale broke out in Vienna.

The reason for the march was not to respond to the call of Pius IX. In fact, on the contrary, people felt that the government should not make concessions to the Papal States.

It was understandable that the previous concession was because of the invasion of the territory of the Papal States, but this time it was completely Pius IX's face-changing output.

Although Metternich had not done anything, people had already identified him as the culprit of this incident.

After all, without the previous concessions, there would be no further advancement at this time.

In fact, people don't care what Metternich did. In Austria, civilians, nobles, and businessmen have already had enough of this greedy and autocratic prime minister who likes to work.

Bureaucrats and politicians also disliked Metternich because he was too fond of playing power.

Scholars and artists alike disliked Metternich because his censorship affected their work.

Nationalists suffered years of repression, again because of Metternich. Coupled with the natural and man-made disasters in recent years, people are in great need of an outlet.

There is no doubt that Metternich is the most suitable target. At this time, it can even be said that Metternich united the opposition.

Although overthrowing the imperial family might have been more effective, the Austrians were not actually ready to leave the imperial family.

At this time, the proportion of republicans in Austria was very small, and there were only a few people such as Gushan Casse and Alexander Bach.

Count Latour, the Minister of War, discovered the seriousness of the situation and immediately dispatched three regiments of troops to protect the Prime Minister's Office.

The Austrian imperial government was more dominant than in history, so the government did not force Metternich to resign immediately under pressure.

Count Latour is a hardliner and a veteran of the anti-French war. He is extremely hateful.

These three regiments were carefully selected by Count Latour, who felt that as long as the government did not back down, the common people could not win.

Count Latour was so confident in his choice that he was even prepared to go to the front line himself.