Chapter 31: The Carlos Reaction
After a while, Campos came back from his inspection and saw you and me, Alfonso talking intimately.
Seeing that Campos was stunned on the spot, Adolf hurriedly confessed to Alfon, pulled his father aside and whispered something.
What they thought they were doing was quite hidden, but in fact it was all revealed in Alfonso's superhuman hearing.
……
"Dad, how can you not bow to Your Highness?"
"So what are you two doing? Two days so ripe? ”
"I have sworn allegiance to His Highness Alfonso, in the name of the Campos family."
“…… Rebel. ”
"Dad, I know you've always been a supporter of Bourbon."
"The support is true, but I haven't even seen it, and you sold the family without any conditions?"
……
The two talked for a few minutes, and when they returned, Campos bowed to Alfonso and approved of his son's choice.
The 44-year-old Campos is still very handsome, with an angular face, and a temperament cultivated by his perennial military career, he is a very tasteful old man.
No wonder Isabella couldn't help it.
Campos looked up and emphasized to Alfonso: "Your Highness, I would prefer you to lead Spain, but if you must restore Her Majesty Isabella, I hope you can restrain her somewhat." ”
Alfonso was a little embarrassed, this is the obvious ugly words in front, from which you can see how unpopular her mother is.
Historically, Isabella lived in France after the restoration of Alfonso XII.
finally returned to China for a visit, but caused some trouble, scored twice, and was expelled from the country again.
It can be described as hateful to people.
He had to bow his head slightly, and he couldn't say anything more, after all, it was his mother.
Fortunately, Campos did not dwell on this topic, stood up, looked out the window, and said:
"Your Highness, let's do it, it's getting late, and you've been running around for a day, so go and rest first.
Tomorrow I will introduce you to one of the more important people in Catalonia. ”
It was not until 5 o'clock when Campos left, and it was only 6 o'clock after dinner, so Alfonso couldn't sleep after resting so early.
So he took Adolf to the Catalan theater to watch the play, because the actors were all in Catalan, Alfonso didn't understand a word, but he still watched it with relish.
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On the other side, Mario and a few others are having an urgent meeting in the port's office
Barcelona police chief Ugo pushed the door in, his face ugly:
"Guys, we're afraid we have a new enemy, and the police station in the streets of Maputo has sent someone to tell me that Adolfo and Alfonso have been seen in the theater together."
"Bang!"
The others were looking at Ugo, startled by the voice, and turned their heads, and it turned out to be Mario who slapped the table and stood up with an angry face:
"Damn it!"
Seeing that everyone had seen it, he explained angrily:
"I have warned him in the afternoon that he should hide his eyes and send the crown prince back the next day, and now he is swaggering together, which is deliberately against us!"
"Now that Campos has a clear attitude, what do we do next?" Speaking was the director of the Press and Publications Agency, Joan, a Catalans.
It is the nationalism that he has been leading his own people, and he is not strictly a Carlosian, but an independent.
His goal was to separate Catalonia or throw itself into the arms of a richer France.
For this purpose, he and the Carlos faction had a limited cooperation.
But the so-called Carlos faction was in essence ultra-conservative, disgusted with progressive monarchs, supported reactionary monarchs, and tried to restore the glory of the ancient Spanish Empire, which was naturally opposed to secession.
Therefore, the cooperation between the two sides is only superficial, and it is only temporarily united under the pressure of other enemies.
"Send a message to His Majesty Carlos to speed up the training of the army, but be careful not to go to war with the government army (liberals). Let's take a step at a time. ”
Mario said that if Catalonia had remained neutral, they would have been able to start a war with the government forces in a few years, as planned, and put Carlos, the real king of Spain, in their minds, to power.
Now it has been disrupted, and in the future, if you are not careful, it will become a three-way melee, who can feel better.
After the meeting ended, everyone left one after another, but the police chief Ugo found an excuse to run back.
Mario was not surprised to see Ugo sneaking in, he had just seen that the other party had something to say to him.
Ugo carefully closed the door and walked over to Mario.
Looking left and right, he whispered, "Mario, I have an idea, can you see if it's feasible?" ”
Mario smiled: "Did you click Alfonso?" ”
"You have this idea too? Heroes see the same thing! Ugo opened his mouth in surprise.
"Only you will have such thoughts! You stupid pig. Mario was furious.
Ugo is his brother-in-law, and he has always been a reckless man, with a very low level of education, and can only write his own name.
That is, Mario saw it for his sister's sake, and he was loyal, so he threw money and smashed a police chief out.
"Didn't I tell you to read more newspapers? If you don't understand it, let someone read it to you.
Did you know that he was ambushed and killed seven people in one piece? Can you kill him in Barcelona right under the Governor's nose?
And even if it succeeds, this is a murderer! Once discovered, His Majesty Carlos will definitely give up on us, this is my career, yes, but I don't want to die for the cause yet! ”
Ugo smacked his lips, he didn't expect Mario to have this attitude, and he retorted in a low voice:
"Do you really believe that he killed seven of them at a time? I've also seen his portrait, and the police have also reported to me, with little arms and legs, how dare you blow it.
Haven't we done this a lot before? It has never been discovered. ”
Mario was angry, although he was not at the top of the Carlos faction, his position was very important, and he knew the truth about the attack in the first place.
That incident was done by a few radicals within Carlos, who felt that without the prince and Isabella was in exile, they could discuss that the queen could pass the throne to Carlos, and the king would become justified.
Unexpectedly, after suffering such a tragic defeat, Carlos was also furious when he found out, and then disposed of those radicals.
So what can be fake? It is said that one wears seven is one wears seven, do you really think that a few killers can kill this kind of macho man quietly?
It's just that he can't tell Ugo, who knows when the other party will be drunk and poke this thing out.
put on a tough posture: "I said I was not allowed to do it, did I hear it, this is a death order!" ”
Ugo flattened his mouth: "Okay, if you don't do it, you won't do it, don't be fierce." ”