When he heard that Cavour was going to Paris to seek help from Napoleon III, Victor Umberto's face was apprehensive.

Now, everything Cavour does is a naked betrayal of the French Empire.

If the French Emperor Jérôme Bonaparte knew that they were colluding with the Kingdom of Britain, he would have forgiven them!

Victor Umberto had no confidence in this at all.

Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was standing next to Victor Umberto, opened his mouth to ask Victor Umberto's doubts.

"Are you sure that the French Empire is really willing to abandon the Austrian Empire for the sake of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Monsieur Cavour?"

Faced with Giuseppe Garibaldi's questioning, Cavour smiled faintly, and then responded calmly to Giuseppe Garibaldi.

"To be honest, I'm not sure Napoleon III will abandon the Austrian Empire!

But Napoleon III's diplomatic moves in recent times do have the intention of deliberately alienating the Austrian Empire!"

"Can you elaborate on that?" Giuseppe Garibaldi asked Cavour suspiciously.

"His Excellency Valewski has been transferred from the plenipotentiary of France in the Holy Land (Jerusalem) to the ambassador of France to Prussia!

At the same time, after Mr. Wallewski reported on his work in Berlin a few days ago, he was frequently invited by Sanssouci Palace to attend all kinds of banquets!" Cavour explained to Giuseppe Garibaldi, "I have also heard that Monsieur Valewski regularly makes remarks about the politics of the Kingdom of Prussia during the banquets!"

Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was not politically proficient, did not grasp the subtext of diplomacy in Valewski's series of actions, and asked Cavourdo, with a confused look on his face, "At best, this represents Valewski's own tendencies, and what does it have to do with Napoleon III?"

"Before he became French ambassador to Prussia, Valewski never showed any inclination towards Prussia!

On the contrary, he had been one of the few Polish members of the Tuileries court!" Cavour explained again to Giuseppe Garibaldi.

This time, Giuseppe Garibaldi finally understood what Cavour meant.

The "love-hate relationship" between Poland and Prussia made Walewski, a Polish faction, generally not have much affection for Prussia.

Let Wallewski send a Polish to Prussia to serve as the French ambassador to Prussia, and make some statements in favor of Prussia.

The only driving force behind it could be the emperor who was far away in Paris.

"What the hell is the Emperor trying to do?" Giuseppe Garibaldi muttered to herself.

Victor Umberto was also thinking about the benefits of alienating the Austrian Empire, which had already built good relations, and getting closer to the Kingdom of Prussia, which had been suppressing it until now, for the French Empire.

"Do you remember the theory of the 'natural territory' proclaimed by Cardinal Richelieu of France?" Cavour opened his mouth to ask Giuseppe Garibaldi and Victor Umberto.

Giuseppe Garibaldi and Victor Umberto fell into deep thought at the same time, and after a while, Victor Umberto's eyes lit up and he said to Cavour, "Your Excellency, you mean that Napoleon the third wanted to obtain a part of the German interests through the Kingdom of Prussia!"

"That's right!" Cavour nodded and replied to Victor Umberto, "Now that Germany is generally in a state of equilibrium, it is almost impossible for Napoleon III to get some substantial benefits from it!"

Unless one country can stir up the situation in the German region, as the Kingdom of Sardinia did in the Italian peninsula!

Only in this way will the French Empire be able to take advantage of the fire and annex part of the interests of the German region!"

"However, this may lead to the alienation of South Germany from the French Empire!" Victor Umberto asked Cavour, "If the situation in Germany is destroyed, South

The vassal states of the German regions will not have a good time either!

Just to get certain benefits, to the detriment of a part of potential allies.

Is it too worthless for Napoleon the Third to do this?"

"Humph! Napoleon was a short-sighted man in the third book!" Giuseppe Garibaldi snorted and said coldly, "If Napoleon III was not such a man, then how could he choose to forcibly annex these two regions for the sake of Savoy and Nice, ignoring the simplicity of the Italian nation and the longing for France!"

Victor Umberto turned his gaze to Cavour, and he wanted to hear his analysis of Napoleon III from Cavour's mouth.

"Mr. Garibaldi, what you just said is just one of the reasons!

I was also a little puzzled by Napoleon's third annexation of Savoy and Nice, and in any way a obedient ally was worth more than two pieces of land that no one wanted.

It wasn't until something happened in France some time ago that I had a new guess about Napoleon's motives.

The reason why Napoleon III chose to annex Savoy in the first place had something to do with the public opinion of Nice and France, and you should all know that the establishment of the French Empire was based on a nationwide referendum!

In other words, the French Empire itself was a simple Roman Republic." Cavour vs. Giuseppe Garibaldi vs. Victor Umberto.

When Cavour compared the French Empire to the "Roman Republic," Giuseppe Garibaldi's face grew a little more disgusted.

Cavour did not have a chance for Giuseppe Garibaldi's expression to change, but continued to himself, "In other words, if Napoleon III wants to stabilize the empire, he must always maintain his approval rating at home!

Nothing is more than a war that will give him the support of the general public!

As long as this war does not reach the doorstep of France as it did in the first place!

Thus, Napoleon III unleashed the Crimean War, gaining the support of the French Empire by dismembering the Russian Empire with the purpose of presiding over the Conference of Paris!

However, you also know that popular support is not set in stone!

When the prestige of the Crimean War had passed, Napoleon III had to find a new way to gain the support of France.

It coincided with the fact that the world's economy had been in an upward phase in those years, and the rising economy made the contradictions of France not prominent, and the French Empire passed a few years smoothly.

After the economic crisis triggered by the United States, the French Empire was once again in turmoil.

Napoleon III had to find a new "war" so that he could continue to gain popular support.

Unfortunately, we are at the muzzle of Napoleon III's desperate search for a scapegoat.

In order to maintain his domination at home, Napoleon III seized Savoy and Nice from us.

This prestige allowed him to stand up to the legislature and continue to pursue his policies.

Even so, under the economic crisis, there was still a *** team in Paris, and Napoleon III urgently suppressed the entire team, and martial law was imposed in the whole city!

Just imagine, if Napoleon III had not annexed Savoy and Nice, he would still have the prestige to suppress the legislature, and he would have been able to order the troops of Paris to drive away the *** team!"

Cavour paused, looked at the two in contemplation, and then said to himself: "I think the action after Napoleon III will not be easy, I'm afraid!"

"You mean, Napoleon's third behavior towards Germany was also for the sake of making his throne more secure!" Victor Umberto asked Cavour.

"Napoleon the Third tied the long-standing interests of France to the interests of the Bonapartes!

To create the illusion that only the Bonaparte family could realize the interests of France, so that he and his throne could last forever!

Therefore, Napoleon's third act towards Germany cannot be simply evaluated as for the sake of its own throne, and France itself is also full of ambition for Germany!"

Enriched

Er broke down the seemingly complex problem and put it in front of Victor Umberto, who he hoped would absorb some wisdom from it that he could use in his future reign.

Giuseppe Garibaldi on the side subconsciously glanced at Victor Umberto, and from Cavour's words, Giuseppe Garibaldi wanted Victor Emmanuel II.

The king of the Kingdom of Sardinia, who had combined his own interests with the unification of the Italian peninsula, had to choose to submit to the Kingdom of Sardinia for the sake of Italian unity.

"I see!" Victor Umberto muttered quietly, and then continued to ask Cavour, "So Napoleon III will do to Germany as he did with Sardinia!"

"I don't know about that!" Cavour replied to Victor Umberto, "The German region is different from Italy, and their population is on par with that of France!"

I think the Lancy Empire will not choose to attack the German region directly, but he will choose to support the Kingdom of Prussia against the Austrian Empire!

This is precisely our chance, we just need to keep the French Empire from striking at our confrontation with the Austrian Empire, then we will be invincible!

I will contact in Paris a group of representatives of parliamentarians who are inclined to Italy, and use them to make a plea to Napoleon III!

However, I reckon that this is far from enough to shake Napoleon for the third time!

We must guide public opinion in the Paris region, so that Napoleon III will not dare to act rashly!

Only by making the people of Paris see the unyielding resistance of the Italian people can the sympathy of the Parisian people for the Italians be aroused!"

Cavour then turned his gaze to Giuseppe Garibaldi, and he said to Giuseppe Garibaldi earnestly, "General Garibaldi, it is up to you to keep the French Empire from interfering in the affairs of Sardinia this time!"

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