Chapter 379: The Festival is Shattered to the Ground
Chapter 369 – Shattered Sections
Sicily, a manor house within which Gabori and the local revolutionaries achieved a rendezvous.
“Mr. Gabori, our strength was damaged very badly after the last uprising, and we are unable to launch another armed uprising in the short term.”
Local revolutionary leader Drax raised an objection. Sicily has a long history of revolutionary organization, and it was the January Uprising in Sicily that kicked off the Revolution in 1848.
It only had limited influence in Europe and didn’t last long before it was suppressed, with the outside world defaulting to the February Revolution in France as the start of the Revolution.
In 1860, the Sicilian revolutionaries once again launched an armed uprising, and after hearing about it, Gabori organized the famous Red Shirts to enter Sicily, which opened the curtain of the revolution in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
This time and space has changed, in 1860 the Kingdom of Sardinia has fallen into the hands of the French, naturally it is impossible for Gabriele to organize the Red Shirts.
Without a force capable of fighting, this armed uprising in Sicily was once again suppressed, and the local revolutionary organizations suffered heavy losses.
Drax’s opposition to launching an uprising now was also forced upon him. In recent years the government of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies has been watching closely, and the revolutionaries have had to dive, without the ability to grow their forces.
Gabori was not flustered and snubbed, ”Mr. Drax, this opportunity is very rare. Revolutionary organizations in all European countries will start uprisings in January, and we can minimize the chances of intervention by the Great Powers.
If we miss this opportunity, we will have to face not only the government of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, but also the intervention of Austria, France and Spain.
To put it in a demoralizing way, in the face of the intervention of the three great powers, even if we were ten or a hundred times more powerful, I don’t think there is any hope of victory.
The risk of launching an insurrection now is no better than when we face the intervention of the three great powers. If we miss this opportunity, we may not see the revolution succeed in our lifetimes.”
It’s true that people come together to start an uprising; it’s hard to say how useful it will be. Whether the three great powers would intervene was a complete unknown.
Gabori also had no bottom in his heart before he chose Sicily as the first stop of the revolution. The Great Powers are not philanthropists, without lucrative benefits they simply will not help for nothing.
Unless it is determined that there is no way to suppress the rebellion, the government of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies will try to suppress it as much as possible, and will not easily ask for help from the outside world.
This is an opportunity, as long as through the most difficult period, the back of the powers even if they intervene, they gathered a certain amount of power, not so much as a shot out of the gate.
Drax was caught in hesitation, the intervention of the Great Powers had always been their biggest worry. There was even a proposal to keep the king to reduce this risk.
“Mr. Gabori, we can cooperate with your action, but I can only organize a maximum of a hundred or so people to participate in the uprising.”
This meant that Drax gave up the right to dominate the revolution. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to fight for it, but there was no way, there were many revolutionaries in Sicily, but not many who could participate in the uprising.
Not everyone could throw their heads and blood for the revolution. Most people supported the revolution, but only to do revolutionary propaganda, support part of the financial resources, sell their lives even.
Whether it was strength or prestige, Drax could not compete with Gabori, and it was inevitable that he would give up his dominance.
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On January 5, 1865, the Italian National Salvation Army led by Garpoli launched an armed uprising in Corleone, which was also known as the “Red Shirts” because of the red shirts they wore as a symbol.
Three days later, the Spanish Revolutionary Party (PRS) revolted in Elda.
Isabel II had a lifetime of affairs and was not well regarded by the public. Because of her father’s early death, she lacked a monarchical education and her political performance was poor.
In the face of endless revolutions and palace intrigues, she only knew how to cope with frequent changes of government, and in her 25 years of rule Spain changed 34 governments and promulgated 7 constitutions.
If it were not for Spain’s strong foundation, it would have been tossed across the border. Such a background created favorable conditions for revolutionary activities.
However, as the stronghold of the conservatives, the traditional forces in Spain were very strong, although these people did not like Isabel II, but they hated the rule-breaking revolutionaries even more.
With the help of the conservatives, Isabel II was barely able to maintain his rule. This support was not unlimited, and at a later stage the conservatives could not stand her any longer, and when the Glorious Revolution broke out in 1868, Isabel II was forced into exile in France.
Venetia, after a lot of fooling around Stephen and others finally organized a revolutionary force, of course most of them were unaware that they had been added to the revolutionary party.
The Hungarian Independence Organization was divided into small groups and under the banner of the British, French and Austrian Colonial Company recruited a large number of Italians in the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Papal States, Lombardy, and Venetia, and gave them simple military training.
Doing a full show, these colonial companies were real, and Stephen and others used the Americans to register them in England and France.
Adept at acting, they quickly adapted to their roles. Colonial companies employing armed men to open up overseas colonies was also commonplace in Austria.
Only the Austrian colonial team seldom hired Italians, even if hired that is mostly as sailors, laborers, rarely use them on the battlefield.
Romantic Italians are not suitable for fighting, this is the experience summarized over the years.
Of course, there will never be a lack of unbelievers. Although the Italian fighting ability is doubly questionable, but can not stand they are cheap ah!
The overall combat effectiveness is low, but occasionally there are a few other types, aren’t there? If you’re lucky and screen carefully, you can still hire a strong Italian.
Looking at the hands of the large forces gathered, Stephen fell into hesitation, he even wanted to try to really start an armed uprising, maybe successful?
Soon he dismissed this idea, a few thousand armed men converging on the Venetia region, how could it not attract the attention of the local government?
If it wasn’t for the fact that they had already hooked up with the Austrian Intelligence Organization beforehand, it is estimated that they would have been suppressed long ago. Now in fact not much better, if not Vienna intention to remove dissidents, they have no room to play.
Lombardy – Venetia has always been Austria’s most unstable region, of course, this instability does not mean that uprisings break out here every day. In fact, since the Revolution, there has never been an uprising of more than 100 people here.
The main reason was that nationalism was awakening in the Italian region, and many Italians, intellectuals, some capitalists, and the fallen nobility were still thinking about independence.
These people have been in the stage of secret conspiracy, but no substantial action has been taken. Austria, as a state of law, naturally could not criminalize them just because they might have independent tendencies.
The role of Stefan and others came to light, and now they were constantly visiting the big names in this area in their capacity as merchants of the Colonial Company.
Inside the manor outside Milan, members of the Hungarian Independence Organization converged in twos and threes, and Prudence complained, “I’m exhausted, I’ve finally finished my mission, and I don’t know if this is right or wrong.”
Mariut sneered, “Since you’ve made a decision, you can’t regret it. After we finish this play, we are free men.”
Once a person gave up his bottom line, there was nothing he could not do. In order to disappear from the list of Austrian political prisoners, they had to choose to cooperate.
Stefan said cautiously, “Well, since these people are being targeted, even without us other revolutionary organizations will find them.
They’re going to be out of luck sooner or later anyway, so we might as well use the waste to get out of the way for us.
Now that we’ve finished visiting those in Lombardy and Venetia. The next step is the Hungarian region, but in order to avoid complications, we won’t go there ourselves.
Give the list to the people below and let them go and string these members up to start an armed uprising, everyone go and make their own arrangements!
Carefully instruct them not to lose the list. There’s a lot at stake here, and it’s the fruit of our Independent Organization’s years of operation.”
Looking at the serious-faced Stephen, the crowd was too lazy to spit. It was indeed the result of years of operation, the list was all provided by the Austrian Intelligence Organization, they were just responsible for stringing it along.
No, it couldn’t be said to be collusion, exactly it should be dragging these people down.
Now that the domestic situation in Austria is stable, there is no future for rebellion at this time. These people who are deeply influenced by nationalism and want to be independent will not dare to make trouble.
But they propagated nationalism in the dark, let Franz can not tolerate. The enemy on the surface is not scary, the most difficult is always the enemy in the dark.
On the principle of striking first, since these people wanted independence, they were given a chance. It so happened that the Hungarian Independence Organization came to his door, and Franz decided to let them join the Hungarian Independence Organization.
Even if they were not Hungarians, then they could still collude with the Hungarian Independence Organization. In short, Franz was not going to give these people a chance to thrive.
Stephen and the others now had families and jobs and did not want to continue the revolution. He also needed someone who could give an account to the Americans and prove that he hadn’t taken money in vain all these years, and both sides sort of got what they wanted.
These several thousand Italian mercenaries, is a bunch of bad luck. Originally and they have absolutely nothing to do with, now confused to be involved.
Involved a large number of rebels at once, no big case how can it be possible? And they are the triggers of this big case, thousands of armed men started a rebellion, that’s enough to pull in all those involved.
Mariut chimed in, “Mr. Stephen is right, the Spanish Revolutionary Party and the Italian Revolutionary Party both started uprisings, now it’s our turn for a revolution.”
Revolutionizing indeed, except that whose life was being revolutionized changed. Doing the whole show, they can fabricate a lot of letters from big names.
Now it was just a matter of getting to the door. According to the script, they met with an accident, got wind of it, were forced to revolt early, then were brutally suppressed, and finally went into exile.
Since they met with an accident, they naturally had no time to destroy the letters. When the time comes, these letters and the secret meetings before the outbreak of the rebellion will be the evidence to prove that these people support the rebellion.
Stephen said fervently, “Now everyone go and get ready! As agreed, we will launch the armed uprising on February 15, 1865 at exactly 4:30 a.m. Everyone make sure to notify everyone of the news.”
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(End of chapter)