I was a tycoon in World War I: Starting to save France - Chapter 594

c586 You are the hope of France, General

In less than an hour, the states of Ciel and Gamelin were completely changed.

The documents were delivered to Charles’s desk one after another. At first there were not many, just one or two, but soon there were more. After half an hour, there were so many that Charles was in a hurry.

This is determined by “hidden rules”, or it can be said to be the choice of grassroots officers and soldiers. More importantly, it is “those who follow me will prosper and those who go against me will perish.”

If an officer commands the army with an order signed by Gamelin, he will be regarded as a “target”. As long as there is a war, he will be “narrow escape”.

But holding an order signed by Ciel is equivalent to holding an amulet, and commanding the soldiers is easy, and no one dares to resist.

The officers were not fools. When they realized this, they immediately rushed to Shire and recognized Shire’s command.

An hour later, even Gamelin’s confidants had to report the situation to Charles.

This is not what the staff wanted, but reporting to Gan Molin has lost its meaning: the decision-making power is not in Gan Molin’s hands, and it does not matter whether Gan Molin knows or not.

Charles quickly signed the document and asked the staff the same three questions as before:

“Is there a review list?”

“Yes, General.” The staff officer replied quickly, running to his seat like the wind. He flipped through the documents for a while and then hurriedly returned and handed the documents to Charles: “It’s all here, General. This is already Reviewed, this is the list to be reviewed.”

“Where’s the banned list?”

Another staff officer hurriedly handed it to Charles: “The dozen people who were just put into the solitary room are not on the list. I will verify it immediately.”

Charles said “hmm” and asked again: “If I want to go to the solitary confinement room, is that okay?”

“Of course, no problem, General.” The staff officer replied: “You can go at any time. Do you need me to make arrangements for you?”

“No.” Charles shook his head: “Order General Christian to send a force to surround the solitary room and not allow anyone to move the prisoners.”

“Yes, General.”

One of the purposes of the Parliament was to punish the mutinous representatives, and Ciel had promised to protect their safety. This was one of the focuses of the “battle” between Ciel and the Parliament.

Charles was worried that the Parliament would take advantage of this “transfer of power” to secretly transfer the mutinous representatives.

If the Council succeeds, even if Charles regains command as he wishes, his reputation among the soldiers will still be weakened.

Things turned out as Charles feared. When Christine led an infantry battalion to surround the solitary room, a dozen cars were trying to take advantage of the chaos to move the “prisoners”.

When the other party was discovered, they also shouted that they were acting under orders and ordered Christine to give way.

Christine took the order document, glanced at the signature on it, and answered unceremoniously:

“The commander of the 6th Army is Charles, all other orders are invalid!”

“Gamelin is only taking over the command temporarily while Charles is on vacation.”

“The German spies obviously didn’t understand the situation. When they forged the order, they thought the commander had not returned.”

The subordinates understood:

“Yes, they were spies for the Germans.”

“These idiots, they were exposed!”

“They want to take our people away, right under our noses!”

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Not surprisingly, these “German spies” were severely beaten by the angry soldiers, and each one had a bruised nose and face.

If Ciel hadn’t appeared in time to stop them, several lives would have been lost.

Charles saw Jeremiah and Darlan among the “prisoners” being escorted. They were tied up, but they looked at Charles with grateful faces.

Darlan was even more grateful. He was born into a noble family and knew what was going on. His father was a lawyer, who was later elected as the mayor of Nehak City and a member of Congress. He was also the Minister of Justice in Merlin’s cabinet more than ten years ago ( 18 years ago, later retired and died in 1912).

Darlan knew the parliament’s methods and knew that the parliament would definitely punish the mutinous representatives to death in order to shock the entire army.

Otherwise, there will be another mutiny.

As long as the mutinous representatives are convicted and executed, or even belittled and smeared in public opinion, no one will be willing to take the lead in mutiny in the future.

They use the same method to deal with workers’ strikes: they can let go of ordinary workers, but they cannot let go of worker representatives.

Darlan understands what this means. This is not just death, but also a complete loss of honor, dignity, etc., and may even affect the family.

He had given up hope when he was put into solitary confinement.

He had thought about Ciel’s promise.

But that was just a promise. How could Ciel fight against the Parliament for a promise?

Only a fool would believe that such a person exists in this world.

This is French politics. What they want is interests rather than justice, no matter who they are, there are no exceptions.

However, when Ciel stood in front of him, he realized that he was wrong. Ciel was not that kind of person. Ciel was the exception!

“Gentlemen.” Charles stood among the soldiers and gave an impromptu speech:

“These people who are being interrogated and imprisoned, we should know why they are.”

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“If it was because of mutiny, then they should not be the only ones arrested.”

“They are being held because they are representatives of the soldiers, they say what you want to say, they fight for the interests of all soldiers.”

“More importantly, there’s nothing wrong with their negotiation demands.”

The soldiers nodded in agreement with Ciel’s words.

Charles continued:

“Is it wrong to reject meaningless attacks? No, I don’t think so!”

“I think it’s the officers who don’t fully consider the lives of soldiers, who attack for the sake of attack, and who drive soldiers to the battlefield to die for the sake of their own ranks who are wrong.”

“Their behavior is extremely irresponsible, a crime, a murder, and is destroying the foundation and beliefs of France!”

The soldiers cheered to show their support for Charles.

Charles seemed to be speaking for the soldiers, but in fact he was consolidating his own reputation and status.

Among all the generals, only Charles was the one who “considered the lives of soldiers” and ensured that every attack was “meaningful”.

Therefore, supporting the view of “rejecting meaningless attacks” is actually supporting oneself.

The soldiers responded again and again:

“You’re right, those officers should be locked up.”

“They should fight like Charles!”

“What’s hateful is that there are still people who want to deprive Charles of his command and allow those officers who can’t fight to tell Charles what to do!”

…

When the shouting subsided, Charles continued: “So, I think the interrogation and confinement should end immediately, and all the prisoners should be acquitted and reinstated. What do you think?”

The soldiers shouted loudly with their fists clenched, and some untied the ropes on the “prisoners”.

After the “prisoners” were untied, they rushed forward to salute and shake hands with Charles.

Darlan was one of them. He held Charles’ hands tightly with both hands, his eyes full of admiration. It took him a long time to say a few words, his voice choked with sobs: “You are the hope of France, General! We need you!”