Chapter 259 Royal Guards

Chapter 260 Royal Guards

Joseph remembered that the Duke of Orleans was sent to the guillotine by the Jacobins in history.

I didn't expect that the Jacobin leader would help his son to fight a lawsuit now. It always makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

Desmoulins praised again: "You, you are really famous in the legal world. Such a big case, you are asked to defend."

Robespierre's defense success rate in recent years has been very high, especially the successful defense of Mr. Wiesel who was sued for installing a lightning rod a few years ago, overturning a series of previous precedents and making him famous throughout France. In history, he was also elected as a representative of the Estates General.

Robespierre smiled and said, "I am just one of the lawyers of the Duke of Chartres."

Joseph thought for a moment and suddenly interrupted, "Mr. Robespierre, do you think the Duke of Chartres should get the Duke of Orleans's inheritance?"

"Yes, Your Highness." Robespierre nodded, "The Duke of Orleans died in a riot, and his legal heirs should inherit the inheritance."

"Haven't you heard that he was guilty of treason?"

Robespierre said solemnly, "Your Highness, you know that there are often similar political conspiracy theories in the Palace of Versailles. I believe that the Duke of Orleans will not..."

Joseph smiled and gestured to Emman, "Please return to the High Court."

"Okay, Your Highness."

An hour later, in the file library of the High Court, Robespierre flipped through the thick evidence, his face turned pale, and his teeth creaked.

As a senior lawyer, he could easily tell that the evidence should not be forged. His Royal Highness the Dauphin said that there were still a lot of evidence in the evidence room, but he felt that there was no need to see it.

Not to mention the Duke of Orleans colluding with the British, letting French banks inject a large amount of capital into British industries, or inciting the nobles to refuse to lend to the government, just the last one, instructing the Marletto brothers to kill people, forcing the Minister of the Interior to maliciously allocate reserve grain, causing riots in most of France due to food shortages, should make him go to hell!

Robespierre felt a little dizzy. He was deceived by a conspirator like a fool for so many years! In the end, he had to help his son to ask for the inheritance...

When he came out of the High Court with a dejected look, he saw the prince who was still waiting for him, and immediately said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, I know what I have to do!"

"Ah?" Joseph said, "You should join the Notary Investigation Bureau and find people like the Duke of Orleans as soon as possible."

Desmoulins nodded on the side: "I, I also hope you can join the investigation bureau."

"Thank you for your trust, I will seriously consider it." Robespierre bowed a little absent-mindedly and was about to leave.

Joseph suddenly remembered something and asked hurriedly, "By the way, have you seen the information from the Duke of Chartres?"

Since it is a lawsuit for inheritance, the lawyer must first know what inheritance there is.

Robespierre nodded: "Yes, Your Highness, I have seen it."

"Then can you tell me how much the total amount of inheritance involved is?"

Robespierre hesitated for two seconds and whispered: "About 60 million livres, not counting villas, real estate and the like."

Joseph's eyes lit up immediately, this is rich!

After deducting the cost of police reform, there is still 50 million left. Including fixed assets, well, this guy has quite a lot of real estate, and there are also start-up funds for tax reform and industrial development.

Robespierre said again: "Your Highness, I will never let this guy who persecutes the poor people get what he wants."

After that, he said goodbye and left.

Desmoulins saw that his friend looked wrong, so he also bowed to Joseph and said goodbye, and then quickly chased after him.

Joseph got back on the carriage and headed for the Paris Police Academy.

An hour and a half later, the car stopped in front of the office building of the police academy. This time, Joseph did not disturb the trainees who were training. He first attended a tactical command class, and then called Berthier, Frient and other officers to a meeting.

"I think everyone should have heard about it." Joseph looked at the officers on both sides of the long table, "According to the military reform plan, we will establish a general staff.

"After the general staff is officially put into operation, it will replace the Minister of War and carry out the overall planning and deployment of the war. The Minister of War is only responsible for the final signature and confirmation. "

The officers were a little surprised when they heard this. They had previously thought that the general staff was like the staff in the legion, just assisting the Minister of War in making decisions, but they didn't expect it to be a combat command department.

Joseph continued: "General Berthier has previously compiled the responsibilities and requirements of the general staff into a book, and now he will explain it in detail to everyone. After that, please carefully study the new combat mode under the dispatch of the staff. "

Of course, although it is said that Berthier compiled it, in fact, the main framework was provided by Joseph. Berthier, as the designer of the concept of the General Staff in history, made this department come into being 6 years earlier with the help of the latter, and it was much more perfect.

Berthier bowed to Joseph, and then signaled the orderly to distribute the "Functions and Requirements of the General Staff" to everyone: "The General Staff is mainly responsible for research on all aspects of war and formulating the maneuver and combat plans of the troops.

"It also includes plans for mobilization and campaign implementation.

"According to the request of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, even logistics supply, map planning, daily training and exercises will be the responsibility of the General Staff. "

You know, the outcome of wars in this era depends largely on the personal experience and even intuition of the commander. This will lead to great uncertainty.

Even a god of war like Frederick II can be careless sometimes. A mistake by the commander can result in the death and injury of a large number of soldiers, or even the failure of the battle.

The staff system is to use the professional and technical means of a large number of staff members to collectively formulate combat plans to avoid commander mistakes to the greatest extent. It is an advanced combat command model that transcends this era.

This model began to appear with Berthier and fully demonstrated its power during the Franco-Prussian War. It can be said that the biggest contributor to Prussia's victory over France at that time was the Chief of Staff Moltke.

After Berthier finished his introduction, Joseph signaled to everyone: "The cabinet meeting will soon pass the proposal to form a general staff."

"General Berthier will temporarily serve as the second chief of staff. "

Berthier was the chief of staff of the Emperor in history. He was better at this than commanding troops.

But now his military rank is only brigadier general, so he can only temporarily serve as the "deputy chief of staff". However, there is no chief of staff now, so he is actually in charge of the staff.

Joseph continued: "In addition, Her Majesty the Queen has agreed that the Berthier Corps will be officially named the 'First Corps of the Royal Guards', and the police academy students will be the 'Second Corps of the Royal Guards'."