I Became a Genius Commander at the Academy - Chapter 103

EP.103

Three months later, the Palace of Marseille in the Francois Republic.

“Hehe, Rep. Andorra. Don’t worry, the Francois Republic will stand strong.”

“Who doesn’t know that? “It’s just that the Reich Empire’s tricks have become a nuisance.”

“We are the ones who rose again after ousting the Cafe royal family that brought our republic to ruin 30 years ago. But there is no way the republic could be shaken by just one excommunication.”

They were so relaxed that it would be hard to imagine that they were people who had been informed a week ago that they had been excommunicated by the Pope of the Latina Papal States and that diplomatic relations had been cut off by ambassadors from all the surrounding countries.

So, the butlers, lower-ranking officials, and officers of the Palace of Marseille who watched the event had expectations that the leading figures of the republic, who had defeated the evil imperial family and restored prosperity, would be different.

When the door to the Republic Assembly members’ conference room, called the Hall of Mirrors, was completely closed, the atmosphere between them completely changed.

Not long ago, I seemed to have some composure in the face of a crisis, but now I was gripped with fear, like a prisoner who had been sentenced to be executed tomorrow.

The lawmakers of the republic, who stand at the top of the republic, pointed their pointed fingers at each other and hurled curses at each other.

“President Robes Pierre, are you out of your mind? Didn’t I say that when the Empire attacks the north, it’s a good opportunity for us, so we should at least send them a declaration of war and rob them?! But what is this? “If you have a mouth, please speak!”

“Have you finished speaking? You agreed then! “Now it’s all my fault.”

“No, think about it. “If it weren’t for the sword wielded by the Crown Prince of the Reich Empire named Peter Jaeger, the Empire would have spent at least four years subduing Ludvik.”

“There is no point in saying that you tried hard to do well! Just look at the results! “Results!!”

Because the walls and doors of the Hall of Mirrors were so thick, from the guard outside the door to all the officers and officials inside the castle, it was fortunate that they could not hear the council members panicking and passing the blame.

For the lawmakers, who could be said to be the aristocrats who ruled the republic, the most important thing was who to pass on responsibility in the worst case.

Even if they won the war, they needed someone who could serve as a target for the nobles and citizens who were angry about being excommunicated from the Vatican.

While everyone was passing the blame to each other, Representative Angers, who served as Minister of Finance, hit the desk with a huge book and said,

“Is everyone sane now? If this continues, our republic may fall. It’s a ripple! It’s a ripple! This means that we can no longer do business with foreign countries! Thanks to this, a series of merchants who immediately handed over their products to foreign countries but went bankrupt because they could not receive the money because they had no justification for claiming payment, or who handed over the money in advance but committed suicide without receiving any goods because the contract for supplying the products was invalidated. “There it is!”

Since the members of the National Assembly were also people who did politics with money donated by the representatives of each upper chamber, the downfall of the merchants was like saying that they were only members of the public office and that they were beggars when they knew it.

So, everyone kept quiet as they felt a sense of crisis that if this continued, all of the Republic’s lawmakers might have to hang themselves to death.

“This is Representative Henri, Minister of the Interior. That’s not all. To be honest, being excommunicated from the Church of Deus does not necessarily mean you will go to hell. There are so many among the serfs and ignorant citizens who, upon hearing that they have been excommunicated, are afraid of being thrown into hell! “Aren’t there already a few impure elements who have rebelled against the republican government that caused the excommunication?”

To be precise, nearly a thousand remnants of the nobles who served the former Kafe royal family gathered and attempted an uprising, claiming that they could not recognize the excommunicated government.

In about 20 villages where serfs lived together, a fairly large-scale peasant revolt broke out and caused turmoil.

The Francois Republic government took this opportunity to solve the problem by killing all the remnants of the nobility, and the peasant revolt was barely suppressed by brutal methods of killing the leaders and their families and turning the heat on the surrounding area.

No one knew when the serfs and other peoples, whose obedience to Deusism was deeply rooted in their hearts, would revolt on a large scale like they had done in the past.

So everyone’s thoughts were that the problem had become too big to solve by picking one or two people to blame, putting the blame on them, then hanging them on the gallows and asking for forgiveness from the Holy See.

“This is why we, Francois’s chosen representatives, must enlighten the ignorant serfs and the ignorant citizens. “They tremble and say that they will go to hell because of a single excommunication issued by a secular pope, and they react by not believing that we defeated the vicious Cafe royal family!”

“That’s right. The senior politicians who started the revolution will be saddened when they see this.”

“Furthermore, we have already had the honor of overthrowing a corrupt imperial family once, but this was a double-edged sword. This means that if they find fault with our mistakes and revolt across the country, they could hang or behead all of our republicans!”

Just as the saying goes that when faced with the threat of death, one joins hands even with one’s parents’ enemies to survive, the leaders of the republic who normally fight each other join hands to survive.

However, the opinions of the pro-war faction, led by Robespierre, the chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic, and the anti-war faction, led by vice-chairman Charles, were different.

First, the thoughts of those in favor were as follows.

‘Now that we have joined forces to defeat the rotten Reich Empire, we have been excommunicated from the world by the Holy See. We must withdraw the excommunication by strongly asserting that we won the war because in Deus’s eyes, we are the ones who are just. Then, we should argue that we can’t win bigger because the Juhwa faction don’t fully support the war.’

On the other hand, those who were in opposition thought this way.

‘Once we are victorious in the war against the Reich Empire, we must severely judge the pro-conspiracy bastards who invaded the empire without declaring war, according to the law, and ask the Vatican to revoke their excommunication. Then, secure national interests by reaching an agreement with the Reich Empire under appropriate conditions.’

However, there were cases where they had the same thoughts.

‘What if we are defeated by the Reich Empire in the war? ‘I can’t die, so I’ll hang the head of a member of the opposing faction on the gallows.’

However, it was more advantageous to fight a political battle in a country that had won rather than to gain power by killing the opponent once defeated.

“Then let’s prepare properly for war first. Let’s fight the political battle after we win. If we don’t stop the Reich Army first, we’re finished. Do you agree?”

All the lawmakers nodded at those words.

“Therefore, we must mobilize 100,000 troops to deal with the Reich army attacking from the east. “They had no choice but to come from Sargeminne to Vallon because of supply issues when they marched hundreds of years ago, so let’s build a field fortress at Riera, a strategic point, and wait.”

They have been invading the Republic through this route for hundreds of years, and no one has offered a counterargument to that opinion.

They put their heads together and tried to come up with the best strategy to survive.

“That’s a wise idea. Then how will we persuade the lowly serfs and uneducated citizens?”

At that, one of the lawmakers stroked his beard and said,

“It’s very simple. The devils of the Reich have blinded the Holy Father to the point of excommunicating us, and we can claim God’s justice for the Francois Republic by winning the war. “Isn’t it okay to win anyway?”

The other republican lawmakers also nodded and responded to those words.

“That’s right. If you win, it’s over. If you win.”

“The justice of Deus is with us, the Francois Republic.”

**

Half a year later, I, Peter Jaeger, received an order to create a new brigade for the next year’s eastern Francois expedition.

I officially escaped from the General Staff, where I worked overtime at least four days a week and went to work on Saturdays more days than not, and moved to the Eastern Front.

In addition, many of the soldiers and officers who fought with Ludvik during the Northern Army were deployed to our brigade.

Naturally, Laura also came to work under me.

However, someone who could unexpectedly help me also joined me.

“Loyalty! This is Major Anastasia Kergit. “As of now, I have been assigned to the 12th Brigade.”

Anastasia, who said she wanted to serve under me, and another northern tribal leader came with 200 archers from their tribe.

“This is Charlotte, who has been sent to serve Brigadier General Jaeger according to orders from the Chief of Staff. From now on, wherever I go, I will serve as Brigadier General Jaeger’s hand and foot. Please order whatever you need.”

…… A beautiful girl who gave the impression that His Highness the Crown Prince had a strong influence on her was assigned as my exclusive maid.

I told Laura clearly last time. There is no need to be jealous because I will never touch this girl first.

In the first place, Laura’s father, Captain Benner, also has a dedicated maid, and she knows better than anyone else that this is something that cannot be helped.

There was no way I could be needlessly jealous of the maid.

In cartoons, maids fall in love with their masters, but in real life, that doesn’t happen often.

Above all, I only have Laura.

As evidence of this, we can see that high-ranking people have often refused to go to good restaurants to drink.

A word from the author (author’s review)

The motif of the Francois Republic is the republic of the early French Revolution.

However, the military is not inspired by the military that was 5 minutes ago during the French Revolution.

How can the commander be a physician and the officers only defend or do other things, and then all these people become the main players!

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