Hoffman vaguely guessed something, but his face was unfazed, and asked, "What's going on?" ”

"It's the leader!"

"Leader?" Hoffman asked suspiciously, "What's the fuss about a vacation in Rome?" Assassinated? ”

"This ...... No...... No, ......," Ribbentrop looked very strange, "this, alas...... How so...... Sick. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Bowman laughed out loud with a "poof": "It's worth making a fuss about the leader being sick?" Wouldn't it be nice to rest for a few days? ”

But when the detailed report came up, everyone's faces became very strange:

The leader was not only sick, but very ill, and was said to have suffered a stroke and was delirious. And that's not all, it's because there are very few causes of the disease in the world.

The leader was over 60 years old, and Bertassi was only just over 30, which was really a wolf-like age, and Mussolini was unwilling to "show his timidity", so he often took "helping" drugs, and many times even Bertassi got them - her father was a doctor, and it was normal to get some medicine, and this time he put the medicine in wine as usual.

But she never expected that this time the medicine was overdosed after Ziano let the German agents sneak in, and what is even worse is that Ziano was afraid that it was not exciting enough, so he deliberately leaked a mouth to let Ida and her mother Raguer know that usually Laguer herself may not be very good at Mussolini's affairs, but in front of her daughter and son-in-law, this time she couldn't help it, and rushed into the summer palace that night to break the leg of this Loletto (Milan's famous red light district), so Mussolini was tragic.

When Lagher rushed in to catch the traitor, he happened to be exercising Bertassi's stomach, and the leader, who was already afraid of inwardness, rolled off the bed on the spot under his wife's lion's roar at this critical moment, and collapsed on the ground unable to move, Lagher thought he was playing dead, and picked up a pillow and beat the leader severely, knowing that the housekeeper rushed in and found out that the situation was wrong, the leader's mouth was crooked, and he was confused, and the whole person collapsed completely, and was hurriedly sent to the hospital.

Ziano's original arrangement was to let Mussolini have a serious illness due to irritation and fear, and he could take the opportunity to take the position, but the result of the diagnosis made everyone dumbfounded - the leader was in a hurry and part of the blood vessels in his brain burst, and he actually had a stroke, half of which was paralyzed, and he was only vaguely conscious, and he couldn't even speak.

The news spread quickly, and all the fascist high-ranking people went to the bedside to listen to the leader's "teachings", but the reason for which the leader was staying in the hospital could not be kept secret at all, and it soon spread vividly, adding a lot of jokes.

Mussolini's children also came, and they complained that their mother had beaten their father too hard, but after listening to Ada's explanation, none of them were willing to really sympathize with him.

From his hospital bed, in front of many high-ranking officials, Ada took Mussolini's hand and asked him: "Do you want Count Ziano to succeed you and continue to lead the Italian people?" If yes, you blink a few times. ”

Ziano and his wife have inquired in detail with the doctor in advance, and the problem of the leader will not be good if it is not raised for 3-5 years, and it is not possible to see if it can be better after 3-5 years, so they must think about their future. The couple communicated and decided to let Ida come forward to replace Mussolini to settle the most important heir issue.

Sure enough, Mussolini blinked with difficulty. Although Mussolini's other abilities were traumatized, his basic thinking skills had not been lost: in the case that he could not control the power, it was safest to hand it over to his son-in-law Ziano, at least the son-in-law could keep his posthumous name.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they had heard the news of the secret guard of the German army before they came, and that the Germans might intervene in the event of unrest in the transition of power in Italy. It would be ideal to have Ziano succeed to the throne, because he would be the successor that the leader had already designated, and he would not let others think otherwise; Second, it can also stabilize the situation and prevent turmoil.

On 29 June, the King of Italy accepted Mussolini's request to resign as Prime Minister due to illness - in fact, the letter was written by several dignitaries together, and the leader could only blink his eyes, and even the signature was written by Ida, appointing Ziano as Prime Minister and leading the Italian government. However, the party still retains the title of Mussolini's leader, and refers to Ziano as its deputy leader.

In the early morning of the next day, the relevant announcement was issued: "Comrade Benito Mussolini, the respected leader, who has been engaged in state affairs for a long time, has become ill from overwork, and is seriously ill and unable to continue his work, and is currently recuperating, and according to the request and assignment of the leader, Count Calais Azzo Ziano will succeed him as prime minister and continue to lead the Italian people forward." ”

The official announcement was written in a very good way, but it could only deceive ordinary people who did not know how to do it, and among well-informed people, the real reason for the leader's "illness" had long been completely revealed.

Ziano and other young foreign ministers and maneuvering, obviously also have two brushes, he knew that after succeeding to the throne, the people's hearts were unstable, so he issued orders continuously, Mussolini was also the commander-in-chief of the army, navy and air force, after Ziano came to power, immediately appointed the field marshal Rudolfo Graziani, who had been on the sidelines, but was older, as the chief of the army, and promoted the commander of the Italian fleet, Admiral Ijaquinso, to the rank of marshal of the navy, and appointed him as the chief of the navy, because the air force has always been the reserve of fascist, In addition, Ziano himself understood the Air Force, so he only held the post of Chief of the Air Force.

In this way, the situation in the military stabilized.

Soon after the change of government in Italy, Berlin issued a message that "it supports the political choice of the leader and unswervingly moves steadily with its Italian allies to win the final victory", announcing to the Italian military and political circles Germany's determination to support the Ziano regime.

The third card played by Ziano is to deepen the economic cooperation between Germany and Italy, not only to continue to increase the development of Libyan oil fields, but also to further introduce Germany's chemical, steel, machinery, metallurgical and other industries, and at the same time to admit that it will ratify the relevant EU treaties, realize the benefit sharing of the European common market, and promise to continue to develop the economically relatively backward regions such as the south and Sicily after the war, which again envelops the chaebols and capital oligarchs.

Finally, after good offices, in view of Italy's major belligerents against Britain and its large naval losses (most of which were lost in the Mediterranean), Britain agreed to pay Italy 2,000 aircraft, 1,000 tanks, 2 aircraft carriers (Giant-class), 4 cruisers, and agreed that Italy would occupy 150,000 square kilometers of Italian Northern Rhodesian territory.

With these few measures, Ziano managed to secure his position and survive the turbulent period of the transition of power, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief......