Chapter 65: If we don’t fight, we won’t have any money.

  Chapter 65: If you don’t fight, you’ll run out of money

Late Night

In a grocery store in a small alley in the middle of Turin City, three middle-aged men were gathered together, talking in low voices.

The older man asked, “Amor, how is the situation?”

“The plan is going very well, the patriotic fervor of the people is very high, even without our guidance, I’m afraid they will spontaneously go forward to protest!” Amor replied with a smile

“Can’t be careless, the more we get to this kind of moment, the more careful we have to be.”

“You didn’t attract the attention of the bystanders, did you?” The older man asked with concern

“Don’t worry, Carmelo! My current identity is a small patriotic merchant from Venice, now my behavior, but it is completely consistent with my identity.

On the surface, as long as the Sardinian Kingdom occupies Venice, I will be able to obtain a rich reward.

In this situation, my hostility towards Austria is necessary and will not attract attention.” Amor explained

There weren’t one or two capitalists who advocated attacking Venice for the sake of profit, Amor had at most acted a little positively, and that was nothing.

“Well, it’s good that there isn’t. Doing our line of work, the most important thing is to be careful, just complete the task in your hands, never be able to be greedy for more.

Cecilio, how far has your mission gone?” The middle-aged man codenamed Carmelo continued to ask

“It’s not going very well, I’m just an obscure little man, the big newspapers don’t have a shortage of articles at all, at the moment my articles can only appear in the street tabloids.” Cecilio replied helplessly

He was just a literary youth, the articles he wrote could only be said to be good, not to the point of shocking the world, and in the region of Italy where the culture industry was developed, it would not have an advantage at all.

Fortunately, the article he is going to publish now fits the current situation very well, changing the pattern of disparaging the Austrians and advocating the bravery of the Sardinian Kingdom’s army.

Such articles had appeared a lot lately, only Cecilio’s article was a bit more blatant, and the content in it was more radical, just right for the appetite of middle-aged teenagers.

“Don’t be in a hurry, just take your time. The nationalism of the Sardinian Kingdom is somewhat more than we can imagine, even if we don’t lead the tempo, public opinion will likewise force the government to send troops to Venice, now we’re just advancing that time.

Since the heat has already been brought up, whether or not we guided it, it doesn’t matter.

Now we all need to change our propaganda style and publicize Austria’s brutal rule, you can make up whatever content you want, in short, blacken Austria to death.

If you can’t think of anything, then bring out the black history of the nobles and capitalists of the Sardinian Kingdom, change it a bit, and give it all to Austria.” Carmelo nodded and said

Saying this, Carmelo wanted to laugh. He had also set a record, as a spy, actually specializing in smearing his own homeland, this would probably not even be believed if it was spread out.

Including the two minions he had developed locally, neither of them knew that they were serving the Austrian government, Carmelo had always told them that it was a secret British intelligence organization.

Now encouraging the Kingdom of Sardinia to attack Venice, that was to match the British Empire’s strategy of creating a unified Italy.

Under the effect of money + chicken soup for the soul, the two didn’t feel that there was anything wrong with their behavior at all, and they still thought that what they were doing was working for the unification of Italy.

There was no way around it, it was an order given by the country. In order to get the Sardinian Kingdom to send troops to attack Venice as soon as possible, it was now necessary to stir up their national sentiments and put pressure on the Sardinian government.

There were many others who carried out this task, most of them dressed up as British and French intelligence organizations, and some of them even blended into radical groups in a dignified manner.

In this day and age, and there is no identity account book, communication is also very troublesome, casually make up an identity of the Italian region, there is no way to verify.

Plus, the nationalism of the Sardinian Kingdom is high, as long as the identity of a patriot is applied, and what is done is politically correct, even if the identity is found, the Sardinian government does not dare to arrest people easily.

……

With someone leading the rhythm, the nationalists of the Sardinian Kingdom erupted into battle, naturally, even more powerful, and facing the pressure of public opinion, King Charles Albert finally couldn’t hold out.

To know, after the outbreak of the February Revolution in France, the revolutionary flames of the Sardinian Kingdom also began to skyrocket, if not for his bright idea to declare war on Austria to divert the contradiction, now he can still keep the throne are a question mark.

In fact, Charles Albert did not have the intention of defeating Austria, originally he only planned to fight a war, take advantage of a little bit of cheap can give the country on the job.

Now the occupation of Lombardy, has been regarded as overfulfillment of the task, continue to attack the Venice region is too risky, the military chances of success are not high.

“Azeglio, where have our allied troops arrived?” Charles Albert asked with concern

Prime Minister Azeglio’s complexion darkened, the benefits were all eaten up by the Sardinian Kingdom alone, can we expect other states to contribute?

Moreover, the Italian states are seriously affected by Austria, now they are forced by public opinion to participate in this war, they are already reluctant, and there is no benefit to stimulate them, so naturally they will not be able to stop working.

“The 5000 volunteers from Tuscany are already on their way, and are expected to arrive in Lombardy at the end of the month, the 7000 troops from the Papal States have already reached the Adige River, and the 40,000 reinforcements from Naples are expected to arrive in part only in May.” Azeglio replied with difficulty

“Urge them to hurry up, as well as continue to ask the countries to increase the number of reinforcements, in May we must launch an attack on the Venetian region!” King Charles thought about it and said

This was already his last bottom line, public opinion just couldn’t be suppressed. By this time King Charles already regretted announcing the annexation of Lombardy too early, otherwise he could have used the division of Lombardy to hang on to Tuscany.

The idea flickered, and in an age when public opinion demanded great unity, the division of territory was politically fatal.

“Your Majesty, now is not the time to fight the Austrians, at least not until the Austrian civil war has escalated, and after the arrival of the 40,000 troops from Naples, is the best time to launch an attack!” Minister of War Li Qi admonished

Austria has not yet begun to suppress the Hungarian rebellion, this time to send troops to Venice to stimulate the Vienna government, it is unlikely that the Austrian main force will kill the Italian region to come.

Charles Albert helplessly explained, “Militarily, it’s true, but politically we can’t drag this out anymore. There is also the financial problem, the expenditure of occupying the Lombardy region is beyond our imagination.”

(Don’t spit on the name, the Sardinian Kingdom’s Minister of War is indeed called Li Qi when translated, not a Chinese name I made up)

(End of chapter)