As early as the Republic of China, French men were tired of endless wars with foreigners. The number of conscripts was 1.5 million, and only 77,000 people served. After Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, French conscription depended entirely on drawing lots. The higher the number of people drawn, the greater the possibility of being drawn into a strong man. If you don't want to be a soldier, there are several ways to escape. The first thing is to study hard and not be cannon fodder. Napoleon stipulated that students from famous universities such as the French Institute of Technology need not be arrested, and artists who won the Rome Prize need not participate in the war. If you really can't be a scholar, you can join the church, and the pastor who gets the position of assistant pastor is not necessarily a soldier. Second, disabled people don't need to be soldiers. In Napoleon's eyes, a height less than 1.54 meters is a second-class disability, while Napoleon's height exceeds 1.6 meters (the so-called height around 1.5 meters is the result of incorrect conversion), so this is not a slap in the face.
In order not to go to the battlefield, the French Iron Man used all kinds of brains to create wounds for themselves. Some of them knocked out all their teeth; Some people struggle for the happiness of the lower body, tossing their little brothers with corrosive chemicals to create the illusion that they have sexually transmitted diseases; Some people make scars and deliberately wrap them with bandages stained with arsenic ... In short, as long as they don't serve as soldiers, some people are willing to let them practice the sunflower collection. The third is to pay money, and some local tyrants are willing to pay a fine of 1500 francs.
Others are willing to pay for others instead of paying, which was also allowed by the French government at that time. With the Napoleonic Wars, the price of alternative currencies rose just like the current house price. In peacetime, as long as 192 francs, you can hire alternative services for one year. By 1809, when the Spanish war was fierce, the price of alternative military service had risen to 5 167 francs. This is already a price that only local tyrants can bear. The monthly salary of a French lieutenant is only 140 francs, which is equivalent to the annual income of a lieutenant colonel.
All the above methods are legal ways, but they are really not. You can also be a deserter, which was not shameful in France at that time. There are groups of deserters in rural France who form a mixed society of bandits, so that many parts of rural France are in anarchy. But I suggest you flee to Paris, when the rivers and lakes in the French countryside are already difficult to mix. Regular troops will regularly sweep, and each gang will limit the number of people to about 40. Exceeding this limit is the target of the French attack. Secondly, the French countryside is well protected and wolves are rampant, so that the French government offered a reward of 150 francs to kill a Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade eater. There are many job opportunities in Paris, and more importantly, Paris has the least efforts to catch deserters.
What are the advantages of deserting in France? Besides saving your life, he can also give you a chance to make a fortune. It is not easy to cross. If you don't make some inventions and speculate, I'm sorry for the education of the motherland. As a traveler, if you write down the time and process of the major battles of the Napoleonic Wars, you can make a lot of money by buying and selling national debt. The last and most important advantage is that deserters can pick up girls. Because of frequent wars, lean men in the French rear are scarce resources for women, and the year with the most frequent wars is also the year with the most illegitimate children in France.
As the saying goes, "reading history can make people wise, and the past does not forget the teacher of the future." However, the role of history may not be as simple as meeting the future. People who read deeply must understand that reading history only gives us greater freedom and initiative to create the future.
Life is not just the present, but also poetry and distance. In Gao's lyric poems, we not only experienced a literary complex, but also pursued inner freedom and feelings. Poetry creates a spiritual utopia for us, while Shi Zhecun makes us more aware of reality. We should not only live in the present, but also live in the future. Follow these classics, follow the footsteps of history, unveil the veil bit by bit, restore the real scene, feel the passage of time, pursue the thoughts of philosophers, explore the spiritual world of mankind bit by bit, and meet smarter yourself day by day.