While the people of Genoese were panicking, Sean crossed the Ott Mountains and arrived at Fort Patnam.

He deliberately made a public appearance at Fort Partenham and stayed there for a week.

He was interviewed by local journalists and strongly condemned the aggression of the navy, which he considered to be an atrocity planned and directed by the Quds al-Sharif side:

"The best way to pay tribute to the dead is to avenge the death of the Southerners in iron and blood, otherwise it is the most ruthless destruction of life, and the right to defend life and the freedom of the people from fear is the first right." ”

In a meeting with the officers and soldiers of the remaining troops at Fort Partenham, Sean said:

"When our officers and soldiers were fighting foreign enemies on the northern front, braving the hail of bullets and bullets, when we were barely covered with dry food in the cold rain on the march, when we fought against a strong enemy with fearless dedication to defending our homeland, those whom we once called brothers and brothers broke into our homes and killed our parents and brothers.

This is an unforgivable atrocity and a shameless betrayal, and this group of robbers makes us angry and sad even more than foreign enemies.

Relatives are painful, and hatred is fast!

The Genoese must stand up bravely to defend our homeland, where we have the right to breathe freely and the freedom to be free from fear. ”

During a meeting with the miners and employees of the steel company, Sean asked them loudly:

"You have the right to work, the right to work no more than 10 hours a day, and the right to save your wife and children from hunger.

This is a right that you are enjoying, and it is not a gift from God, nor is it a gift from the upstarts of the Holy City.

But many of you may lose it, for Genoa, a land of peace and tranquility, is being eroded and humiliated by all kinds of intrigues and villains, and the invaders are exerting their brutal power on us.

They only talk about destruction, not construction, and while talking about the strict authority of the law, they keep silent about the most basic order and rules, and they only talk about their own freedom, but they deliberately forget to respect the freedom of others.

This is tyranny! This is betrayal! This is also intimidation!

All Genoese and the people living in Genoa should stand up against tyranny and give our wives and children the right to breathe freely. ”

Within a week, Sean had made thirteen public speeches, and the thrust of his speeches spread rapidly throughout Genoa in various ways.

This is Sean's deliberate preparation for public opinion, and various newspapers invariably publish Sean's speeches and public activities.

On November 10, Sean boarded a train and set off south.

At each train stop, local representatives from all walks of life boarded the train to present flowers to Sean and express their support, so much so that it took Sean a full week to arrive in Poitou.

Poitou was full of excited people, with many young people giving spontaneous speeches in the streets, echoing Sean's call to "breathe freely" and "be free from fear." Number Seven

Sean became the spiritual leader of the Genoese.

The reaction of the Genoese business community was the strongest, and the naval bombardment of Poitou, which caused them great losses, demanded a temporary three-level meeting to discuss the financing of the army and the expansion of the army. At the same time, this turbulent era also gave them a strong tendency to break free from the repression of the northern regime, and to cherish the economic freedom they had previously enjoyed in Genoa.

The nobles of the province were relatively silent, and when the emperor became a prisoner, they could not help but feel the sadness of being alone, and their privileges and noble status came directly from the imperial system, but the situation did not dare them to openly express their support for the imperial family, and in fact there was only a nominal vassal relationship between them and the emperor.

The presence of the emperor only justified their name, but this was not the main reason why they enjoyed a prosperous life in Genoa. When Poitou was shelled by the navy, they seemed to have found an outlet and threw all their anger at the Tulip Party because they had lost their allegiance, but even more did not want to lose their homeland.

It was against this background that the extraordinary meeting of the Estates-General of Genoa was convened.

Sean, dressed in a military uniform, is the protagonist of the meeting, and he dominates almost the entire agenda of the meeting.

The meeting decided that from now on, it will not accept any administrative directives of the Europa Republic and will not recognize the tulips as having the right to rule Europa. Taxes are self-financed, and no war materials are allowed to be exported to the north without permission, and if they are violated, they will be severely punished.

Second, the meeting announced that it would lead to the formation of a coalition of the 12 southern provinces, and that the other 11 southern provinces would be welcome to join it, and that the same legal policy and unified tax and industrial policies would be implemented within the alliance. Genoa pledged to provide the necessary support to the other provinces in all respects. There was also an intrinsic need for this, as the turmoil and rupture in the north deprived the Genoese of their most important market.

Thirdly, Genoa would form another five division-sized national armies in three months and form its own naval forces to defend the interests of Genoa and the southerners. Sean, of course, did not allow him to become the commander-in-chief of Genoa's military forces.

This would be tantamount to a de facto declaration of Genoa's independence.

The Genoese had two paths before them, one was to support the restoration of Crown Prince Jean-Sauron, and the other was to genuinely declare independence. But the vast majority of the delegates to the conference, with the exception of a few nobles, did not support the return of the imperial system.

It is obvious that the Genoese people have become accustomed to the enormous benefits of liberal economic development and relatively liberal and egalitarian administrative laws, and do not want the former imperial system to become a shackle to the development of capitalism, and to some extent the most powerful people in Genoa even privately cheered for the fall of the emperor.

Sean had succeeded in becoming the most authoritative person in Genoa and in the whole South, and the shelling gave him a good opportunity.

The economically powerful business community saw him as their fellow travelers, and the aristocracy relied on Sean to protect their interests and what little privilege they had – they had basically been kidnapped by capitalism, and the intellectuals saw Sean as a defender of freedom and equality.

As for ordinary people, what they really care about is whether they can get enough to eat, and when food and clothing are threatened, the person who stands up and claims to guarantee that they will not go back to hunger is the best ruler in their minds.

Joseph Frank watched the Genoese move in these days, and although he and his followers did not give up lobbying, he was disappointed by the facts.

The Genoese did not care about the fate of the emperor, because they had never enjoyed the majesty of the emperor, and they were not concerned about the future of the crown prince, they only cared about themselves.

Frank forgets, however, that when he and his party decided to prepare to form an army in Genoa, Genoa had been frightened, fearing that these exiles from the north would take over the magpie's nest and turn against them.

Sean's victory in the north made the Genoese people find their backbone at once, and xenophobia came into being, after all, the prestige of the Tiger of Europa has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

What's more, this tiger is his own person.