At the wedding ceremony of the two of them, only Archduke Ferdinand's mother and sisters were present at the wedding ceremony of the Habsburgs, and even his younger brothers did not attend. Although the marriage was very happy and they had a daughter and two sons, Sophie did not have any status in the palace, and could not ride horses with her husband to participate in royal parades, attend state dinners together, or even watch opera in the same box with her husband. When Ferdinand attended the court ball as crown prince, Sophie was placed behind the lowest-ranking royal lady. Only when they came to other lands, to the colonies of the Empire, could they throw off the shackles of the court of Vienna. Archduke Ferdinand felt that his wife could be given the respect she deserved. It seems that the Austrians are really good lovers by nature, but unfortunately they cannot be good soldiers.

In order to demonstrate Austria-Hungary's ownership of Bosnia, the crown prince prepared to inspect Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the Balkans were already on the verge of breaking out. The Balkan Peninsula is located in southern Europe, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, and has long been ruled by the Turks. Since the 19th century, with the decline of the Ottoman Empire, some countries in the Balkans have become independent. Since it is mainly inhabited by southern Slavs, who are of the same ethnic group as the Russians, and because Russia is the main force that strikes and weakens Turkey, the countries of the Balkan Peninsula have close ties with Russia. At the beginning of the 20th century, Austria-Hungary began to intensify its involvement in the Balkans, in particular in an attempt to prevent the union of Bosnian Herzegovina with Serbia, which at the time was still two provinces under Turkish rule. In 1908, Austria-Hungary took advantage of the revolution in Turkey to directly annex Poland and Montenegro, which aroused great anger among the Serbian people. Serbia and Men's Negoro began to deploy armed forces, and Russia was ready to support Serbia in the war against Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary also amassed troops on the border, and war was on the verge of breaking out. At this time, Germany came forward to support Austria-Hungary. On March 21, 1909, an ultimatum was presented to Russia, demanding the immediate recognition of the fait accompli of Austria-Hungary's annexation of Poland and Montenegro, otherwise war would be waged against Serbia. Russia, weakened after the defeat in the Russo-Japanese War and without the support of Britain and France, had to make temporary concessions. Austria-Hungary, with the support of Germany, realized its ambition to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Turkey's crushing defeat in the Italian-Turkish War fully exposed the decay of this empire and greatly encouraged the struggle for national independence and liberation of the Balkan peoples, who had been oppressed by the Ottoman Empire for 500 years. In the Balkans, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece had already established large independent kingdoms, and these countries were actively contemplating alliances and preparing to wage war against Turkey in order to completely free themselves from Turkish domination in the region. In this case, the dead dog of Turkey could no longer be the main target of anger, and the contradictions between the Slavs and Austria-Hungary were the main contradictions, and the visit of the Grand Duke and his wife in this situation could not have been understood by the Serbs other than to humiliate their opponents.

So, on June 28, the second year of the Republic, Archduke Ferdinand, who had committed the second crime, and his wife took a tour of Sarajevo in an open-top car with great interest. For Austria-Hungary, the choice of June 28 for military exercises in Sarajevo was the most important decision, not one of them.

Because this day is the day of national shame for Serbia half a century ago after its defeat in the Battle of Kosovo and its conquest by Turkey. Ferdinand's visit in the image of a conqueror is no less than a parade of Japanese Kabuki floats in Shenyang in 918, and you're sorry for the audience if you don't beat you. As a result, the Serbian "Black Hand" and the Bosnian YMCA worked out a plan for the assassination. Of course, the Archduke Ferdinand, full of romantic ideas, knew nothing about this and were completely immersed in the happy atmosphere of the young couple's vacation.

In the early morning of 28 June, the Young Bosnian Order placed seven Assassins on the street where the Austrian Crown Prince was passing. At around 10 a.m., after reviewing military exercises on the outskirts of the city, the Ferdinands proudly entered Sarajevo in an open-top car. A long line of royal cars slowly drove through the crowded streets, with only a sparse line of gendarmes and police on both sides of the road. Ferdinand sat in the second car and Sofia sat to his right. The head of the Bosnian military junta, General Oscar 61 Potiorek, sat on the left, and next to the chauffeur was the attendant, Count Harahi.

When the convoy crossed the Chumurya Bridge over the Milyatska River in the center of the city and entered the Appel Pier, the first assassin who was ambushed there failed to make a move because a policeman came up and stood in front of him. Another assassin, Chabrinovich, who was not far away, suddenly burst out of the crowd and threw a bomb at the car in which the Ferdinands were riding, which flew towards the Grand Duke's car, but the driver reacted quickly and immediately stepped on the accelerator to speed up. Archduke Ferdinand also saw the bomb, and subconsciously returned his hand to make a blocking motion, and the bomb flew backwards for some distance, landing and exploding not far behind the archduke and his wife, and exploded in front of the third car, injuring General Portiocre's deputy and Sofia's maid. But the Grand Duke and his wife were fine, except that the lady's neck was a little skinned by shrapnel. Ferdinand pretended to be calm and got out of the car, inspected the scene, glanced at Chabrinovic, who was caught by the guards, then boarded the car and waved his hand: "Gentlemen, this man is crazy, let's go as planned." The motorcade quickly drove into the town hall, where the Ferdinand couple attended the welcoming ceremony. It can be said that the assassination at that time was still quite amateurish, and if the Iraqi resistance group was to carry it out, it would have to arrange a big gift bag like a daisy.

But the assassination was not over, and a total of six young Assassins carried out the assassination plan, and they were armed with pistols in addition to bombs. From the time the bomb was dropped to the time the convoy arrived at the town hall, the Ferdinands' sedan drove past the ambush sites of the three Assassins, but none of the three Assassins took action. Archduke Ferdinand then came to the town hall to be welcomed by the mayor. The mayor knew what had just happened, but in his welcome speech he declared: All the people of Sarajevo have great respect for Archduke Ferdinand and are happy with his visit, of course, politics itself is like this, and no one will take it seriously if they listen to it. I dare to guarantee that even if Obama visits Chao Xian, Jin Sanye will be treated politely if he wants to strangle him in private, maybe Peony Peak's performance will have to let Ao Hei watch a full set, which is more blessed than Beijingers.

If Archduke Ferdinand had ended the day's journey as planned, it would have been possible that things would have taken a turn for the worse, and at least war would not have broken out. As a result, the Grand Duke, in order to be cool, or to let Sophie show off as the crown prince's wife all day long, said that there were his own retinue among the injured people just now, and insisted on visiting them in the hospital, showing the monarch's concern for his subjects. The Grand Duke asked his wife to stay to avoid danger, but the lady refused, saying that she would be with her husband no matter what, and she was really a mandarin duck who would never leave her. The archduke and his wife were sent to the ghost gate by the governor of Bosnia, who swore to the Grand Duke that there would be no more danger in Sarajevo, saying that he knew the Serb fanatics well and that they were limited enough to organize only one assassination per day, as if the terrorist organization was run by his sister's family.

Perhaps it was fate that Archduke Ferdinand wanted to draw the end of his life in Sarajevo. When passing through an intersection, the Grand Duke's driver realized that he was taking the wrong route and had to stop and change gears, preparing to make a U-turn. A shocking coincidence arose, when the driver turned around, stopped precisely in front of a Serb named Princip, just a few meters away from him. Princip, who was 19 years old at the time, was the last member of the assassination team and the leader of the assassination team.

It was supposed to go to the hospital, but the driver deflected in the wrong direction and happened to bump into Princip, who was waiting at the corner of the street. The opportunity for assassination came. Princip seized the golden opportunity, pulled out his pistol, and was about to raise his gun to shoot, when a policeman not far from him spotted him and rushed up to grab his arm. What a coincidence. At this moment, a member of the "Young Bosnia" named Mikhailo 61 Psala who had just arrived here waved his hand like a bolt of lightning and punched the policeman in the neck, and the policeman was caught off guard. The gun rang out, and two shots were fired in succession, not only hitting the Grand Duke and his wife, but also taking away the last peace.

If the sedan is moving, it may not be accurate. But at this moment, the car stopped, and history changed course. When the car started again, a stream of blood spurted out of Archduke Ferdinand's mouth, and the Grand Duchess screamed: "My God, what's wrong with you?" After saying this, she herself was shot and fainted, and her head landed right between her husband's knees. The Bosnian governor in the same car thought that the two of them were frightened and didn't take it seriously, but the Grand Duke clearly realized that he had been assassinated. The Grand Duke said, "Dear Sophie, dear Sophie, don't die!" For the sake of our children, you have to live! ”

At this moment someone ran over and surrounded the Grand Duke, tore off his coat, and wanted to check where he was injured, but the Grand Duke held on - because he was a soldier - and said, "It's all right, it's all right." ”

At the same time, the Assassin raised his gun to his head and someone in the crowd stopped him; During the struggle, he swallowed a bottle of cyanide* and tried to kill himself, but he did not realize that the poison was bought from the hands of the street vendors and had expired; He also broke free from the police and tried to jump into the river and drown, but the river was too shallow. This buddy didn't die in three ways, and it's sad enough.

The man who shot and killed Crown Prince Ferdinand, Gafigri 61 Princip, was only 19 years old at the time and a secondary school student. Princip was not alert, and it was a series of fortuitous factors that made him a Serbian national hero for Ferdinand's assassination. Because he was under the age of 20 and could not be sentenced to death under local law, he was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. He also said that he had no plans to assassinate Sophie, and expressed regret over her death, indicating that the young man was still a bit of a gentleman. Princip later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison in October 1914. In prison, Princip underwent surgery to remove his arm for health reasons, and in 1918 he died in prison. In fact, if he didn't die, the lives of more than 10 million undead in World War I would be enough for him.

When the news of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife reached Vienna, it immediately caused an uproar. When the 83-year-old Austro-Hungarian Emperor heard the news, he didn't know whether he was happy or sad, he didn't like this nephew, but he had seen too many unnatural deaths of his relatives: his son committed suicide; One of his brothers went to Mexico to be emperor and was shot; Another brother mysteriously disappeared after relinquishing the title of duke; The worst thing is that his wife, Princess Sisi, was assassinated with a file, and the murderer was a neurotic anarchist who was supposed to assassinate the King of Italy, but because he had no money to buy a train ticket, he assassinated her instead. By this time, the emperor was already a little confused, and his personal secretary remembered that the emperor had said something like this: "A higher force has restored order." Alas, this is something I have difficulty doing. "The old emperor is really confused, he would never have imagined that in order to restore order, there must be an unprecedentedly tragic world war! Although this is not his original purpose, it is not a big deal to watch the excitement.