McLaren listened to the story of the Crown Prince of France, his eyes growing brighter.
He could already imagine the scene of countless Irish peasants, in a frenzy, grabbing hoes to fight the British for selling their wheat at a higher price.
Yet before this, when they went to the countryside to give speeches, almost no one responded except for a few minor nobles.
He suddenly felt that the previous revolutionary strategy indeed seemed to have some issues...
Joseph continued to outline his "blueprint": "Once you have a large number of people's support, you can start training an army. To block the sieges of the British army, you'll need at least a hundred thousand troops."
He didn't come up with numbers randomly. Given the mobilization capacity of this era, four million Irish can conscript a hundred thousand soldiers under extreme conditions.