Chapter 496: Outbreak of the Roman Uprising

  Chapter 485 – Outbreak of Roman Uprising

The crisis of faith is a problem and equally an opportunity. At this time the Holy See was preoccupied with itself, creating favorable conditions for the government to meddle in the internal affairs of the Church.

The government had the right to discipline the clergy, so from now on the Church could only pretend to be a grandchild.

Otherwise, it will investigate you for violating canon law, and I dare not say that it is not a problem to find out seven or eight out of ten clergymen who have violated canon law.

The remaining two or three should not be complacent; if they have not violated canon law, it is only temporary, or they have not been found out. As long as the government is willing, sooner or later it can find out the problem.

Franz is not the only one who has fallen on his sword. The crisis of faith has greatly diminished the status of the Church in the eyes of the people, and governments are coincidentally cutting back on the privileges of the Church.

With the end of this storm, the battle between the imperial and divine powers that had lasted for a thousand years on the European continent also came to an end. This time, the imperial power won a complete victory, and the Church lost the chance to turn the tide.

This is all in the future, Napoleon III now can not enjoy the fruits of victory, chaotic ideas continue in France to refresh the public’s three views.

The people against the Church and the people in favor of the Church fought in the streets of Paris, and some people moved their guns. In the end, it was Napoleon III who ordered the garrison to save the day and quell the battle

The lurking revolutionaries thought that the time for revolution had come and jumped out to make things happen, and for a while Paris was in chaos.

Paris was in chaos, and the Italian region was in even greater chaos. The chaotic situation allowed the revolutionaries to see an opportunity.

Mazzini, the founder of the Italian Youth Party, and Garibaldi, the leader of the Italian National Independence Salvation Army, had secretly returned to their country and were ready to launch an armed uprising to overthrow the French.

Before the uprising could begin, there were divisions within the insurgent army. Ideological leader Mazzini and military leader Garibaldi had a clash of ideas.

Garibaldi said passionately, “Napoleon III’s behavior has caused a break with the Holy See, which now hates to kill him.

Now is the best opportunity for us to unite the power of the Church to start an uprising and overthrow the French in one fell swoop.”

The Italian Revolutionary Party’s power was very limited, and internally it was divided into more than ten organizations, large and small, and all of them were only temporarily united under the mediation of the British, but in reality they still acted internally in their own way.

In order to drive out the French at an early date, Garibaldi advocated uniting with the Church and utilizing the strength of the Papacy to overthrow the French.

Mazzini righteously said, “No, to unite with the corrupt Papacy is not a revolution at all, it is nothing but to give Italy a new ruler.

The purpose of our revolution is to drive out the French, overthrow feudal rule, and establish a united, free Italy.”

Feudal rule in the program of the Young Italian Party also included the Papacy, and from the beginning the two sides were on opposite sides.

This idea, which had already spread widely in the Italian regions, was shared by most of the revolutionaries.

The initial goal was to drive out the Austrians, but now it was changed to the French, and apart from the practical necessity, it was the result of a compromise between the parties.

In order to minimize the difficulty, the revolutionaries decided to choose France, the number one enemy, as the enemy first, and then consider the Austrian issue after driving out the French.

The divergence in philosophy divided the revolutionaries. It was not that Garibaldi and Mazzini both disregarded the general situation, but it was useless for them to compromise personally.

Both views had a group of supporters within the Revolutionary Party. Anyone who knows the hardest thing in the world is to get their ideas into someone else’s head.

After the French suppression, the mainstay of the Revolutionary Party were now hot-blooded youths and idealists, and these people were very firm in their revolutionary stance. A determined viewpoint cannot be pulled back by nine oxen.

Before the uprising had a chance to break out, the Revolutionary Party was internally divided. No, they were never unified, even the revolutionary leaders had more than ten, only Garibaldi and Mazzini were the most influential.

The former led the armed revolt and was the force of the Revolutionary Party; the latter was the proposer of the idea of the great unity of Italy and was the ideological leader of the Revolutionary Party.

Talking about the uprising or launched, John Bull’s money is not good to take. The revolutionaries were unproductive, and without the financial support of the British gold masters, they would have been starved to death sooner or later.

In fact, in this era, many revolutionaries in Europe were hanging on to their heads. With lofty slogans in their mouths, they were doing the work of thieves and prostitutes behind their backs.

It can’t be helped, people have to eat. The revolutionaries are no exception, either they embrace a golden leg or they have to feed themselves.

“Self-support” is not so easy, the revolutionaries are not one or two, and there is the problem of low-eye, want to support this large group of people, not so simple.

It’s not easy to support a large group of people. It’s better to expect the people to donate than to ask the capitalists to donate. The revolutionaries were basically wanted criminals, and could not be seen in public in the country.

Ordinary people didn’t have a few dollars in their pockets to begin with, and even if they were willing to give generously, it would still be a drop in the bucket, and they could only make do with quantity. This in turn increases the risk of exposure, and there is no secrecy when more people know about it.

In the end, we can only count on the capitalists to pay, after all, their strength is strong, just need to contact a limited number of capitalists, will be able to raise a sum of money, the risk of exposure is greatly reduced.

However, capitalists are not good at taking money, people risk their lives to support the revolution, that is also to be rewarded.

Waiting for the revolution to succeed to get a return, that was impossible. Not many capitalists would be that stupid, and most would not look favorably on the revolutionaries.

Even if the revolution succeeds, it doesn’t mean they will be able to take power. Not many capitalists would do a deal where they only invested and didn’t see a return.

In order to obtain funds, it is not surprising that they would do a job for these gold masters that cannot see the light of day. In many cases, the revolutionaries are like white gloves, specializing in doing the dirty work for the capitalists.

Of course, a large part of it is also taking the fall for people. It’s not uncommon for the police to blame the revolutionaries for cases they can’t investigate.

There are naturally many decent revolutionaries, except that these people are usually poorer and need to go out and work to earn money.

Most of the revolutionary organizations couldn’t even raise enough money to start an uprising, so they had no choice but to contact foreign powers for financial assistance.

Even if they knew that they were working against a tiger, reality forced them to compromise.

The Italian revolutionaries chose to compromise in the face of the reality that no one could be confident of victory against the French if they did not have supporters.

This is also the pot of Franz, when the fight against the Kingdom of Sardinia was too hard, hit the self-confidence of the Italians, so that they have a strong sense of fear of the Great Powers.

Later, when Garibaldi led the popular uprising in Naples, he was severely beaten by the French, which made them realize what “power gap” was.

The Italian revolt was also the result of coaxing and deception by the British. The government in London assured the revolutionaries that they would organize the intervention of all European countries as long as the revolt was successful.

Had it not been for the British endorsement, the revolutionaries would not have dared to let go. After all, it was only a short time ago that they managed to escape the French and went into exile from Italy to Britain.

Garibaldi did not believe in the promise of the British, and if he had a choice, he would not have wanted to start an uprising at this time. To increase his chances of success, he chose to drag the Church down with him.

“Dear Mr. Mazzini, the most important thing now is to drive out the French and make Italy an independent nation, all other issues can be postponed.

The issue of the Church, if the revolution succeeds, we have plenty of time to deal with it; if the revolution fails, Napoleon III will deal with it for us.

At this point, the uprising is on the verge of happening. For the sake of victory, we must compromise.”

There was nothing wrong with this argument; Napoleon III was suppressing the Church, and if there was a ready-made excuse to send it up, he certainly wouldn’t miss it.

Mazzini reluctantly accepted this argument, not accept it also can not, the British spent a large price to send them back secretly, not to make some noise out, how can account for it.

But it wasn’t easy to convince his men. At least now the reason is not enough, want the idealists to compromise, that is not generally difficult.

……

With a lot of stumbling, the Italians still launched an armed uprising just before Christmas 1870, and with the covert help of the Church, the insurgents captured Rome in one fell swoop.

The Italian region was in an uproar, and under the instigation of the revolutionaries, there were numerous uprisings all over the country, as if a new wave of revolution had broken out.

The sudden uprising in Rome was like a hot slap in the face of Napoleon III, casting a shadow over the newborn Great French Empire.

In Versailles Palace, the furious Napoleon III immediately roared: “The Ministry of War immediately send troops to suppress, at all costs, give me as soon as possible to extinguish this rebellion.

Hang the heads of the revolutionaries, yes hang them, no mercy this time, no amnesty.”

Obviously, by this time Napoleon III was furious. There were too many bad things lately, and it had already exceeded the limit of his tolerance.

Minister of War Patrice McMahon hurriedly replied, “Yes, Your Majesty. We have already made preparations, and the counterinsurgency forces will start today.”

His Majesty the Emperor was angry, so he had to show maximum efficiency. Patrice McMahon still knew the severity of the consequences, no matter what this gesture had to be made.

To have the troops depart for the suppression of the rebellion on the same day, it was indeed a little bit tight in terms of time. But it does not matter, as long as their own troops move, then they can give the emperor an explanation.

This is the embodiment of political art, it must be done beautifully. Revolutionary party strength is not yet by Patrice McMahon on the heart, in his view as long as the large force arrived, at any time can be suppressed rebellion.

The only difficulty lies in how to wipe out the enemy without leaving hidden dangers for the future.

(End of chapter)