Fox of France

The French State Council did propose relevant bills, and not just one. The first motion asked the French government to publicly condemn the atrocities committed by the British government.

Everyone doesn't care much about this bill. Anyway, the French government condemns the British government, or the British government condemns the French government. Over the years, it has become the norm. Basically every once in a while, the French government will condemn the British government for destroying free trade; and similarly, every once in a while, the British government will condemn the French government for grossly interfering in internal affairs. So condemn it, condemn it. Anyway, according to the usual practice, after the condemnation is over, everyone will continue to do business together.

But this time the situation seems to have changed again, because the French State Council also proposed a proposal requiring the government to establish a "Human Rights Review Committee" to review the human rights status of other countries in the world every year and publish relevant white papers on a regular basis. The French government can take corresponding actions against these countries based on this white paper.

Although this bill still leaves a lot of ambiguity and does not require the government to take any immediate action, with this excuse, the French government can investigate various British goods at any time and impose temporary punitive measures. taxation. Of course, according to this decree, these temporary tariffs should be used to help those who are "persecuted by tyranny."

Theoretically, it is not certain whether this tax will be collected. If the French government thinks it is unnecessary, then it can not collect it. Maybe, every year when the white paper on human rights is published, the French government will take out this special tariff. , to frighten and frighten the British, so that they will make concessions in some respects that are beneficial to France, and then they may not do anything.

But this time, the French seemed to be playing for real. As soon as the State Council passed the bill, Napoleon immediately stated that a special tariff of 15% would be imposed on British textiles entering France to use To help those "British textile workers" who were persecuted.

Napoleon announced that any British textile worker could go to the French embassy or consulate in the UK, and after passing the "basic French test", he could get a payment from the French embassy or consulate to leave the UK and go to the European continent The money for the ticket. (This money is of course paid for by the increased tariffs from British textiles, or to put it more plainly, by British money) Then, after arriving in Europe, they can get a relatively favorable rate from the The Louisiana Development Bank received a loan to pay for a boat ticket to Louisiana and to settle in Louisiana. (As for the money, it is said that it was actually shared between warring Spain and the Mexican Republic.)

Immediately afterwards, the Paris Municipal Department announced that they would rename the street where the British embassy in France is located to "Textile Workers' Street" and the small square in front of the British embassy to "Collia Square". At the position facing the entrance of the British embassy, ​​there are statues of Mr. Kolia, the president of the "Textile Workers' Union", and other victims. It is said that the famous sculptor, the Italian Antonio Canova, had taken up the task and had left Rome for Paris.

In fact, when Paris City Hall made this decision, the reaction across Europe was rather strange.

The British government protested loudly, of course, and threatened to change the name of the street where the French embassy is located to "Avenue Louis XVI". In this regard, the Paris City Hall said: "London's business is none of my business." Napoleon said: "We do not interfere in the internal affairs of Britain."

As for other European countries, the Republic of the Rhine Union and the Republic of the Netherlands naturally applauded loudly-they have long disliked British textiles. On the other hand, Austria, Prussia, Spain, and Russia remained silent, because fundamentally, they did not want troublesome things like trade unions to appear on their side.

However, for most European cultural people, France's performance really moved them. The famous German playwright Johann Christopher Friedrich von Schiller issued a statement in a newspaper, praising France for adhering to the purest ideals of the Great Revolution in this matter, worthy of being the champion of the whole of Europe, and even the whole world. Lighthouse and hope. At the same time, he also said that he was going to write a play for the British textile workers to commemorate their great struggle.

Immediately afterwards, the famous musician Beethoven also expressed that if Schiele completed this work, he hoped to adapt this work into an opera.

Of course, Beethoven was very busy at this time, because he had just accepted a commission from France to compose a set of suites for the Olympic Games, which had interrupted the millennium.

In addition to these people, there are more literary youths, even British literary youths, who are firmly on the side of France.

But this trick of the French also caused headaches for the British. First of all, although the entire "Textile Workers Union" has been eliminated, at least on the surface, people in the police department and textile industry guilds all know that things are not that simple at all. Among other things, except for the president Kolya, none of the other representatives of the United Trade Union were arrested. There are reports that some representatives have taken refuge in the French embassy or consulate. But under such circumstances, it is unlikely that the British will go directly to the French embassy to arrest people-if they really want to do this, it will mean war. And if the problem with France can be resolved through war, why is there such trouble now?

However, this also gave the British a little opportunity for internal propaganda, that is, to promote those worker leaders as "traitors". Anyway, although the French have been protesting, the British have at least superficially controlled the situation through the control of the news.

But then, something unexpected happened to the British. In the streets and alleys of London, leaflets signed "Union of Textile Workers" began to appear.

"Any results from the analysis of the leaflet?" asked Sir Huey. During this period of time, these leaflets that appeared suddenly brought him a lot of pressure. The "Textile Workers Union" is still in action. They are now showing their existence to the whole of London and even the whole of England through these leaflets. And these days, they are still secretly leading those workers, and the strike of textile workers is still going on. Of course, the production is maintained by introducing new workers and arresting the unemployed, and then renting them out to the factory as convicts, but the production efficiency of the factory has indeed dropped significantly.

This is also normal, because the labor efficiency of convicts is not as good as that of free workers. They have no hope, so they will use all means to slow down their work. More importantly, although there are whips waving on their heads, as the government Slaves, they still have something to eat. In addition, they will use all possible methods to destroy the machine, because then they can rest.

So whenever possible, factory owners preferred to use free workers rather than government slaves.

Generally speaking, in the stalemate between workers and business owners, workers are at a disadvantage. Especially after the Pakistan Trade Fair has passed and the big orders have been basically obtained, the time that the factory owners can stand in a stalemate is always far longer than that of the workers. Because even if the factory owners lose a few days, the loss is limited, and they may be able to get back by increasing labor intensity. But as long as the workers do not work for a day, they will starve. This unequal situation is also one of the reasons why they dared to push the police to attack the "Textile Workers Union".

However, things have changed a bit. First of all, these leaflets were distributed everywhere, successfully attracting the attention of some so-called "charitable organizations". So these "charitable organizations" actually went to places like Petticoat Lane and set up porridge sheds.

These charitable organizations are not only set up by some British people who have been brainwashed and confused by the French, but also the more troublesome ones are set up by the French. And it is rumored that behind those French charities, there are some businessmen from France and the Netherlands to support them. These merchants know that the British have a large number of unfinished orders, which is of course a good thing. But if the strike persists, the liability for incomplete orders could make England's textile industry weep. Once such a phenomenon occurs, it will be a huge victory for the textile merchants in the Netherlands and France.

Therefore, although emotionally, these guys who are also capitalists are naturally more sympathetic to those British capitalists on this issue because of their own butts, but considering that not having those British guys is very important to them, they still come up with Come on, make trouble for those British people.

Of course, in order to ensure the success of the trouble, or to put it more clearly, to ensure that the British dare not use violence to break the situation and directly overturn the table, they even found someone who is very influential in the whole of Europe and has a lot of free time. , the big man who is very nosy came to preside over this matter himself.

This big man is naturally Pauline Bonaparte who impressed many British people.

In Petticoat Lane, accompanied by a group of people including Jacques Coulen, the first consul of France, the sister of the president of the French Academy of Sciences, the most famous female writer in France, the mother of science fiction, Pauline Bonaparte, Wear a typical French worker's attire - a rattan hard hat, a blue canvas denim jacket and a pair of blue canvas denim trousers to serve the workers with cereal and potato porridge.

In this era, Polina's outfit is really shocking, and many people even say it is "immoral". But that's still nothing? Because Polina actually felt too hot, so she unbuttoned the opening of her jacket, revealing the white shirt inside. On the white shirt, there is also a picture of Fei Jin's head, and this sentence: "Persevere until victory!"

At the beginning, the Metropolitan Police Department really had a plan to violently overturn the table, but when Paulina, a big trouble who can walk, appeared, the Prime Minister immediately sent someone to notify the police department, so don't act rashly.

Pauline's presence, and her publicity, of course made those conservatives resent her. But such a shocking approach, and her initiative to serve the poorest and most needy people among the poorest people, made her add another saint of the poor, or the saint of the people, after the saint of Toulon. The title of the saint.

Under the guidance of her glorious image, the status of women in France has been greatly improved. For this reason, in later generations, the standard bearers of the women's liberation movement often regard Paulina as the pioneer of this movement.

Since there is nothing to do with the charity activities of the French, the London Police Department can only find trouble with those leaflets printed underground. Generally speaking, to print so many leaflets, you really need quite a lot of machines, and these machines take up a lot of space, and the sound when they are running is hard to conceal, so logically speaking, these things should be very easy to find. But until now, the police department has still not been able to find out where the printing factory hidden in the slums is.

"Your Excellency, after we analyzed the leaflets, we made a discovery - we suspect that these leaflets may not be printed with a printing press as we imagined, but with some kind of method that we are not familiar with. It's technically done," said a technical official.

"Lloyd, what did you find?"

"Director, do you still remember the typewriters we imported from France? These leaflets are all typed out of a typewriter. You see, their letter f is missing a piece in this position. Among all their leaflets, All the f's are exactly missing one piece at this position. This is a typical feature of a typewriter, and it is absolutely impossible to have such a phenomenon in typesetting and printing." Lloyd replied.

"Could it be that they typed out so many leaflets with one typewriter?" Chief Xiu Yi asked.

"Of course it's impossible," Lloyd replied, "but I'm afraid our previous assumption that there must have been a factory building and a noticeable noise might be all wrong."

In one of the safehouses Jacob Coulant had prepared for his former companions, Buck was watching Oliver remove a stencil from his typewriter. He took the stencil and walked to the other side of the room, where There was a small hand-cranked machine. He carefully loaded the stencil paper on the drum of the machine, added the ink, and then began to shake the handle next to it. Every time the handle was turned, a printed leaflet would be printed. The runner brings out. And on the other side of the room, the butcher—no, the butcher in the past, Fagin now, was shaking another mimeograph. Fagin never dies, Fagin lives forever.