Confronting the Alps

Chapter 746: Confronting the Alps

Napoleon immediately noticed several heavily emphasized lines at the bottom of the notebook:

After the army entered Italy, soldiers were to be strictly forbidden from looting. All matters concerning the search for supplies and rewards for soldiers had to be carried out only with the signature of Military Affairs Supervisor Major Odorik.

"This will definitely affect the soldiers' enthusiasm." Napoleon frowned helplessly, but this was something the Crown Prince had repeatedly demanded, so he could only enforce it strictly. "I hope Major Odorik is someone reasonable."

However, he had just asked around. This Odorik was the cousin of the captain of the Crown Prince's Royal Guards, so he was probably not so easy to bribe.

Joseph clearly remembered how Napoleon had scraped Italy clean down to the last inch in history, directly causing the Italian Region to hate the French Army to the bone.

Later, when Austria sent troops into Italy during the chaos within the French Directory, they were welcomed by crowds lining the roads and, without much effort, forced the French Army back to the Turin-Genoa line.

Had Massena not desperately held on for more than three months, the French Army might have been driven out of Italy.

Of course, Joseph was not trying to be a softhearted fool.

After all, if they could not make up for their finances from the occupied territories in Italy, would they not still lose money even if they won this war?

But extracting the spoils of war required method and art as well. Robbing by brute force like bandits, as Napoleon had done back then, would only make enemies for France.

Thus, Joseph sent Odorik over, specifically to handle the matter of "restoring their blood" in the occupied territories.

When Lucien saw his brother emerge, he