Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1322 Smith and Schmidt (Part 1)

  Napoleon was surrounded by many greedy people.

  After Madame Montesquieu entered the "court", she once heard that someone flattered Bonaparte like this: severe illness requires strong medicine, and dictators are gods who come from all over the world to ease the plight.

  That was written by Montesquieu, and it’s a great skill to take it out of context.

  In front of the dictator, the law was silenced, and the monarch bowed his head. Fortunately, he was only selected for a while, and his power was limited to the item he chose, otherwise he would become a tyrant.

This mode of coexistence between monarchs and ministers reminded her of Voldemort and Death Eaters. This is obviously not what a "winner" should be. If it was before, Georgianna would persuade Napoleon to stay away from those greedy and get close to the truly virtuous ministers. Later she found out that her previous ideas were completely idealistic.

  Sharptar has a good character, he can't do speculative things like buying food.

  Napoleon needs admirers, no one will worship a grass-roots people. When everyone is telling the truth to you, they are not afraid to offend you. They will lack awe of you.

When everyone is talking nicely, if Leoncourt and Mr. Martin’s allies tell him the truth, not only will it be annoying, but it will also make Napoleon feel that they lack awe, so Georgiana told them and shut up. ,less talking, more working.

   Haughty young people certainly can't accept it, but Mr. Martin and Leon Coul are both middle-aged and elderly people who have experienced great ordeal, and their anger is not that big, so they can't bear it.

  She asked Mr. Martin to change the horse purchase. Theoretically, he should buy horses and war horses. However, he later saw cavalry feeding oats to war horses in the Vincent Forest, and she knew the seriousness of the matter.

  The land in France has been reclaimed by farmers as farmland, and the inefficient growers can't support it, let alone the pasture for horses. In the past, people only ate white bread, which led to the continuous increase in the price of wheat, while the price of oats was relatively low, which could be used for horses instead of forage.

After you buy the horse, you still need to raise it. It may not be possible to fight Prussia in one or two years, but famine is an imminent problem. The forest is closed, but it cannot stop the hungry from entering the mountains to poach pine cones, pheasants, Napoleon The land with forests will be rewarded to the generals, and the land with vineyards will be rewarded to civil servants. The old system also had a collection system to deal with famine. The edible food in the forest has been raided once, and the price of goods has not been increased. The "lords" felt that their conscience had been right. Those civilians would ruin their prey if they entered the mountains again. And the forest may cause conflicts at that time.

  Mushrooms can be dried, and meat can be made into jerky, but the taste is unbearable for soldiers, let alone civilians.

So she asked Mr. Martin to buy a bad horse. Even if people can’t accept eating horse meat for a while, it can be stored as canned meat. After a while, the price of meat will increase. People who don’t eat meat for a long time will even know horse meat. Want to eat.

She felt that Napoleon who ate cat meat was understandable. He was so busy and didn’t have time to find her. What she didn’t expect was that Martin got back the gun and the information he just said. He just said that. , As if he was bribing the money to buy horses for intelligence.

  Napoleon was most annoying about others doing ultra vires, he said the word double agent.

  The little **** couldn't control her emotions. She often blurted out the wrong words. Severus also blurted out the words "mudblood" to Lily that ended their childhood friendship.

   Rather than being sad that she was suspected, she wanted to know the authenticity of this information. Why did the Germans bomb their fortresses?

   But this is obviously not something women should mix up. She felt that she shouldn’t intervene, but Napoleon let her stay here to listen.

  She knew that he took Josephine on his expedition to Italy. She accepted a lot of honors from noble ladies. If a man has made great achievements, a woman needs to see it to have a sense of accomplishment.

  The problem is that she has no idea what the situation is now, she only knows that the Corsican temper is coming up again.

  He has always been gentle to women, but much harsher to men. She doesn't want to experience the taste of being scolded as a man.

   "Who can tell me where Ulm is?" She looked at the men in the room in confusion.

"Ulm is the first natural base to enter Germany. It is located on the Danube River. Occupying it can facilitate random operations on both sides of the river." General Bertrand said. "It is the most suitable location for major warehouses on the largest river in Europe. For us, this fortress is located at the exit of the Black Forest Mountains, which is equivalent to the fortress of Kailasko we encountered after crossing the Alps."

   "Why did it explode?" She still asked inexplicably.

   "There are too many things in it, and I can't get it in a short time." Mr. Martin said, "We stock a lot of supplies like in Strasbourg."

   "Are you going to blow up Strasbourg?"

  Napoleon took out the pipe and started smoking.

  She probably understood that the Germans were afraid of the French invasion, so they planned to blow up the warehouses and fortresses that stocked a large amount of war preparations and not give them a foothold to invade Germany.

  The French in the 21st century don’t know what they will feel after hearing this.

  "You bought the Ulm guard?" Napoleon asked Mr. Martin.

"No, it is a friend of the occupied area, because he replaced the vassals and became an Austrian official in the "Kamp-Fomeo Agreement". They eagerly hope that you can lead them to victory and end the rule of the Junker nobles. He gave the gun." Mr. Martin said again.

   "What are you talking about!" Georgiana asked again.

   Bonaparte smiled smugly, but did not explain to her, Mr. Martin continued.

  The Junker nobles locked the peasants firmly on the land and built organizations such as "peasant shelters." The "Camp-Femio Agreement" allowed the bourgeoisie to replace vassals and become officials of the empire.

  Industry needs labor, and there is no way to develop industry without releasing farmers from the land. Moreover, these bourgeois officials have a foresight to see the benefits of business tax, but they are blocked in Germany.

   Milling tax They also knew that the Junker nobles also had mills. In short, the various privileges of the Junker nobles restricted their reforms. The guns shipped from the arsenal showed their support for Bonaparte.

  But the lord’s police made them dare not be blatant. The plan to blow up Ulm with explosives came from Vienna. The man in charge of this plan was a colonel surnamed Schmidt.

   There are 17,000 ordinary citizens in Ulm. The explosion may affect them, but the supply line is a lifeline. In 1712, Prince Eugen of Austria attacked the fortress of Landreich. After obtaining all the supplies he needed via the Scarp River, he transported them to the Prince’s warehouse in Marching. He hoped to rely on a long, weak defensive force. The fortress line can **** a large convoy without the use of troops, so a covered road with a seven-legged length was built, which the soldiers called the Paris Road.

Every day, there are convoys carrying supplies from Marching to the barracks. There are no great obstacles on this transportation line. After the French Marshal Villars ordered people to break down the pontoon bridge erected on the Erde River, this one was used to protect Paris. The Austrian reserve team on the road was isolated. When Prince Eugen rushed to rescue him, he could only watch the army wiped out from the other side of the river. With this battle, Villar regained a large area of ​​land and turned the French border into peace.

  If you change to Napoleon himself, you will be supplied from Marching once a month. There is no need to repair any fortress roads. A reliable **** will be used to ensure the safety of the large convoy, or a reliable bridgehead fortification will be built to prevent the river and bridge from being occupied by the enemy.

  This is a replenishment method for local wars where there are only tens of thousands of people participating in the war. The speed and load capacity of using wooden rails have increased. This transportation line has the value of protection and can provide replenishment for larger wars.

The generals and staff members met to study this. Should a reserve team be set up to protect the supply line. If the defense is too weak, the enemy will break through. If too many people are left, the number of soldiers directly used for combat will be reduced. 200,000 people are participating in the war, and more people are maintaining supplies. The enemy's domestic operations are not as long as the expeditionary army's supply line, and more troops can be used.

  The track from France to Strasbourg is easy to repair, because France is unified.

  The track in Germany is not easy to repair. Everyone can see that the road will be a hen laying golden eggs in the future. All the electors want this road to pass through their own territory.

When there was chaos in Germany, it was the French's turn to invade while they were in chaos. If Ulm really had explosives, and Napoleon settled in the fortress without knowing it, he would have killed France if he killed it. .

   "This is probably the case." Mr. Martin gave the closing remarks.

   "Do you understand?" Bertrand asked Georgiana like a kid.

  "Are these military secrets?" she asked pitifully.

   "What do you think, Mrs. Spy." Napoleon said coldly.

   "I am not a spy!"

   "What's your husband's last name?" He said in a terrifying tone.

   "...Smith."

  "Has he contacted Angkian?"

   "Who is Angkian?"

  Everyone is silent again.

   "Not all British civilians will come into contact with the royalists." Mr. Martin said, "I will do it."

  (End of this chapter)