Chapter 1615: Intervening in France

Marie accepted this mission; in her view, she had nothing left to lose.

If she could finish off that French person who brought disaster upon them again.

That would be the last thing she wanted to do.

Frederick II soon arranged a coincidental meeting for her, packaging her as a Noble girl favored by Douglas.

A Noble from Hanover led Marie to the meeting.

Before leaving, Ling Chen gave Marie a revolver, his own sidearm, and taught her how to use it.

Marie smiled and thanked Ling Chen for his sentiment, but Ling Chen, a cold person, left without saying a word.

As if he had done a very trivial thing.

Marie kept her emotions buried deep in her heart and followed the Noble from Hanover to embark on her journey.

……

At this time, the fifty thousand elite troops led by Liu Zheng were entrenched in Prague.

Ever since the conflict among the refugees broke out, Liu Zheng had secretly dispatched troops to protect Teresa.

Teresa also used the grain left behind in the church to temporarily appease the refugees.

However, this stable state could only be temporary; as long as the grain problem remained unresolved for a single day, these refugees would still erupt into riots.

Teresa wanted to organize these refugees to work in factories and fields, as they did in the outskirts of Prague, exchanging their labor for grain.

But the refugees had tasted the benefits that violence brought them.

They even understood why Teresa gave them grain: it was because she feared they would riot.

Abandoned by Catholicism and having experienced countless hardships, the thinking of these people had gradually deteriorated; now, Teresa's act of giving alms was merely nursing a tiger that would eventually turn on her.

But there were too few people Teresa could organize and trust right now.

They had no Method at all to use a small number of people to restrain those united refugees.

Teresa watched the grain in the church diminish day by day, yet she could not think of any countermeasure.

She had thought about dividing these refugees, but it was to no avail.

She had also thought about using grain to drive these refugees to work, but she was met with even larger-scale resistance and nearly triggered chaos.

The only bargaining chip she had was grain, but now she was restricted at every turn.

Sometimes Teresa wondered how good it would be if Liu Zheng were here.

But she immediately dispelled the unrealistic thoughts in her mind; she had unknowingly developed a sense of reliance on Liu Zheng.

"Sigh." Teresa looked at the stars and sighed.

Liu Zheng sneezed and wondered to himself if someone was thinking of him.

But then he thought again, there were probably too many people thinking of him, and he couldn't guess which one it was.

Liu Zheng dispelled these thoughts; he was now more concerned with news from Saxony, as the intelligence organization he established in Europe—the Armis Agency—had not provided him with more intelligence.

Only a few people knew that the Armis Agency was the Longyan Intelligence Organization; others were not aware.

For an intelligence organization established in another country like this, the most important thing was security.

Therefore, Liu Zheng did not tell many people.

However, Liu Zheng recently received a very interesting piece of intelligence.

The King of France, Louis XV, had been assassinated; it was said the culprit was a servant who often did odd jobs in Noble households.

There was no instruction from any faction; it was simply because of long-standing resentment toward the extravagant lives of the Nobles.

And as a French commoner, a lowly person, he worked hard with his own hands yet could not get any guarantee of livelihood.

So he resolved to assassinate Louis XV.

Liu Zheng burned the intelligence and fell into thought; the intelligence only explained a little and was not comprehensive.

Actually, if one were to speak of it, this young man assassinating

Louis XV.

Must have felt the impact brought by the Industrial Revolution.

Some Nobles were becoming precarious under the impact of the Industrial Revolution.

France was a Monarchy with highly centralized power, especially after Louis XIV.

For a commoner to assassinate the King of France was simply an impossible thing.

For such a thing to happen, it could only be said that France's internal contradictions were already very serious.

Liu Zheng recalled the revolution that swept through Europe during the reign of the next King of France, Louis XVI, in his previous life.

The French Revolution.

Liu Zheng did not know if it would break out in this world, but he had to take precautions.

France was indeed a threat in his vision.

Perhaps this was an opportunity.

Thinking of this, Liu Zheng thought again of that heaven-sent hero who appeared after the French Revolution, the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who once brought glory to France again!

He did not know if he would appear on the stage of this world once more.

Liu Zheng contacted the liaison of the Armis Agency.

He spoke in the darkness: "I have a mission for you: find a down-and-out Noble named Napoleon; he should be somewhere in the French Empire."

……

At this time, far away in America, Deng En, also a member of the Armis Agency.

Was helping Qin Zhangfeng find that weapons merchant he was familiar with.

Although they had not been in contact for some time and this guy often changed locations, Deng En still managed to find him by relying on his own excellent reconnaissance skills.

Carrying a leather suitcase, Deng En arrived at a tavern with a three-story design; after walking in, Deng En could even hear some sounds from the second floor.

Deng En was stunned; he had not expected such uninhibited cries to come from upstairs.

Still without a wife, he could not help but blush; Deng En calmed his mood, yet he still walked in with a flushed face, looked at the bartender standing there, and greeted him: "Oh, dear Tuck, is he in?"

The bartender, known as Tuck, looked at Deng En and revealed a smile.

"The boss has been waiting for you for a long time."

Just as Deng En was about to leave, Tuck signaled to him with his eyes.

Possessing observational skills far beyond the ordinary, he quickly noticed it.

Deng En asked: "Tuck, what are you trying to tell me?"

Tuck revealed a smile that every man understands and said: "The goods that arrived recently, don't you want to taste them?"

When Tuck said this, his eyes kept looking upward.

Deng En instantly understood what Tuck meant.

Although French law was enforced in the Colonial Area, there were no explicit prohibitions regarding things like streetwalkers.

However, it was not as uninhibited as it was in the Colonial Area, and someone like Tuck, who walked in the darkness, even referred to them directly as "goods," a term highly insulting.

Deng En said solemnly: "Tuck, you know what kind of person I am."

After saying this, Deng En did not stay for another moment, got up, and left.

Tuck did not try to persuade him, but instead watched Deng En go up to the second floor.

This group of people living on the edge of death could lose their lives at any moment, and things like this could release the repressed negative emotions within them.