Of course, the Brixos would not sit still and wait for death. They first proposed a plan to expel all the Bourbons from France.

This plan is not so much for Louis XVI, but for the Duke of Orleans who had changed his name to Philippe equal and his son, Duke of Chartre. They were still people on Robespierre at this time. In the eyes of the Brissots, Robespierre would definitely defend them, and then they could put the hat of "Royal" and "trying to subvert the republic" on Robespierre and the others.

But now is different from the past. The Duke of Orleans' status in the Jacobin Club has declined greatly. Although the Duke of Orleans has changed his name, the big guys in the club actually know that the Duke of Orleans has never wanted a republic, but the Orleans dynasty. Although they are standing together, they are not fellow travelers. Therefore, they spend too much political resources to maintain them, and Robespierre and others will not do this.

The Duke of Orleans himself knew that his status had declined now. In order to increase his weight, he asked his son Duke Chartre (the only king of the "Orleans Dynasty" in the original history, Louis Philip I) to join Dimurier's army with a team of volunteers whom he paid for the armed forces. The Duke of Schalt performed well in the army, and his name was always seen in the good news sent by Dimurier. (Of course, some people with jealousness said that it was because Dimurier took his money)

The Duke of Orleans, no, now he should call him "Philipp Equal". Philipp Equal must not be exiled again. Because the last exile suffered too much damage to him. Now, since Robespierre and others are unwilling to speak for themselves, Philipp Equal must feed himself a bag of salt. He took the lead in proposing that the king, no, there is no king anymore, and now he is going to judge Louis Bourbon's treason. Because if this is the way to deal with this matter, Louis XVI will certainly lose his head, but he will definitely not be expelled.

The Brixos are very clear that because the evidence is conclusive, it is almost impossible to be acquitted as long as the king is on the judgement seat. Once convicted, there is only one punishment for treason, that is, to go to the guillotine.

The Brissos actually did not pay special attention to whether to cut off Louis XVI's head, but they knew that doing so would lead to a more intense struggle in the future: those kingdoms in Europe might unite to siege France; and in France, conservatives and republics had no room for compromise. Once the struggle became fierce, all the so-called "moderates" and "centrics" would be abandoned. Therefore, for the Brissos, the believe that sending the king to the guillotine is equivalent to sending the radical mountain faction or the conservative royal party to the throne of power.

Since the Duke of Orleans cannot restrain the guys of the Mountain Sect, the Brixos can only use the entire European intervention, which may lead to a long-term war to avoid the judgement of the king.

But as soon as this reason was proposed, it was ridiculed by Robespierres. Wasn’t it the Brisso faction who kept going to start a war? Now they love peace? What’s more, the previous war has shown that the army of the feudal lords in Europe is nothing to be scary. If they really dare to interfere in France, then France will export the revolution and let them all be ruined! By the way, this is what Brisso himself said!

In short, it was Robespierre who used the words Brisso said back then to slap Brisso's face. Of course, this is not the most deadly thing. For one hundred, the strongest part of the politicians' body is the face. This part is actually beaten without much impact.

But what's so bad is that this incident caused a storm in the Paris Commune.

Since Bayi left the town hall, the Paris Commune fell into the hands of the Republicans. After the uprising on August 10, the Shanyue people had an overwhelming advantage in the Paris Commune. In the September massacre, those in the commune were more or less involved in atrocities, and some were even directly the initiators and organizers of these violent incidents.

After the front line won, the constitutional monarchy was completely finished, and the Brixos were ready to clear out their former allies and radical mountain factions. One of the breakthroughs they chose was the Paris Commune. Because many people in the commune could be found in the September Holocaust.

However, with the disclosure of the safe incident, the situation completely reversed. The citizens of Paris had already felt in publicity that they or others were too aggressive when the massacre in September. However, as soon as these documents were disclosed, their attitude immediately became: "If I hadn't acted decisively, the Republic would have disappeared!"

Under such an emotion, those of the Brixosos were immediately seen as royalists who defended the king and tried to subvert the republic. If the king could not be tried, the Paris Commune would likely revolt again with the citizens and the National Self-Defense Forces.

Under such circumstances, the National Assembly had to decide to judge the king.

On the day, Louis XVI appeared in court for the first time. He denied all the charges against him in the court.

Louis XVI's defense lawyer De Xiechi questioned the power of the National Assembly: "According to the Constitution, the National Assembly does not have the right to judge the king, because the Constitution stipulates that the king's personal life is not infringed. If we must judge the king, it will lead to a problem. This issue is the legality of the judgment. The law is the basis for us to respect and rely on. If we can violate the law today for this reason, then we will violate the law tomorrow for that reason, and the law will become a piece of empty text. Then, we, including you and me, the legitimate rights and interests of each of us will not be protected..."

This statement did express the voice of some people, and they gave him warm applause.

After the applause slowly stopped, a young man came out. He said to the host: "I have something to say to you?"

"Citizen, your name?" asked the host.

"The representative of the province of Ayna, Louis Antoine Leon Floré de Saint-Just," replied the young man with a handsome face.

"Okay!" said the host, "Citizen of St. Just, please come to the podium..."

Saint Just walked up to the podium, looked around the scene, and spoke:

"The gentleman just gave a wonderful speech on the issue of law. But I think he was probably wrong about the essence of this matter. Indeed, in terms of law, the king cannot be judged. But what we are going to engage in now is not a legal case, but a political event. Louis Bourbon is not a defendant, but an enemy. He can only adapt to one law, that is, the law of nations, in other words, the law of war. Louis once fought against the people, and he was conquered. He was a barbarian who was captured by us, and he was a defeated foreign prisoner! You already know his plan of no faith, and you have seen his army! He was the massacre in the Bastille, Nancy, Maschang, Tune and Duille. What enemies and foreigners will give you more harm?

Indeed, in law, the king is inviolable, and the law is so important. It is the guarantee of the rights of each of us, and therefore it cannot be broken. But, sirs, do not forget that there is another object in law that is more inviolable and supreme than the king, and that is the people of France! When Louis colluded with foreigners, and when he conspired with our enemies for those horrific plans of betrayal and massacre, what was he doing? He was invading the people of France, the more supreme and inviolable object. From the moment Louis Bourbon committed the crime of invading the people of France, he was no longer the king, but the enemy, the enemy of the whole France…”

St. Just walked down from the podium amid applause from the mountain MPs and sat back to his original position, Robespierre.

"Louis, your speech was excellent," said Robespierre, "and it gave me a lot of inspiration."

"Yes, I've spoken so well!" Dandong also praised, "It's hard to imagine that this is your first public speech."

"But my speech did not change their attitude." Saint Just glanced to the right and said this.

"They? They cannot defend the king because the people are not on their side." Robespierre said with certainty.

In the following days, the National Assembly began to hold multiple rounds of debate on how to deal with the king. Robespierre delivered a famous speech in the debate, "Louis will die, because the motherland will live." His speech was immediately printed and widely spread by the Paris Commune. More and more people spontaneously came to the vicinity of the National Assembly. Whenever a member who supported the king to send the king to the guillotine passed by, the people cheered him; and when a member who advocated tolerance and pardoned the king passed by, everyone booed him and threw all kinds of garbage at him.

Time passed day by day, and finally it was the day when everyone was about to vote.

"Joseph, how do you plan to vote?" asked the Brissoite MP Joseph Foucher, the famous philosopher, who was sitting next to him in the same carriage and also belonged to the Brissoite MP Joseph Foucher.

"Of course it's support for forgiveness." Fouche replied without hesitation. His eyes turned, and through the car window, he saw that on the road to the National Assembly, a group of citizens had erected a one-to-one model of a guillotine...
Chapter completed!