"Your Majesty, I think Cavour may make a big move in the near future!"

In response to de Ruiys' extraordinarily correct nonsense, Jérôme Bonaparte shrugged his shoulders in response to de Ruiz.

"Of course I know Cavour will be making a move in the near future, and his next target is probably the Apennines!

Now I just want to know if the French Empire can profit from Cavour's next move!"

To the question posed to him by Jérôme Bonaparte, de Ruiz did not know how to answer it.

For now de Ruiys had no idea what Cavour was about to do.

Had it not been for the information from Pessini from London, de Ruiys would not have even known where Cavour was now, let alone determined that Cavour wanted to make trouble in the Apennines.

Today, de Ruiz could only learn about Cavour's actions in London from the limited information that Pesini had transmitted.

After a brief moment of silence, de Ruiz opened his mouth to Jérôme Bonaparte and replied, "Your Majesty, I am sorry!

Since the Foreign Ministry's current focus is not on the Apennine Peninsula, I can't predict exactly what Cavour will do next!"

In order to prevent His Majesty from being angry at the ineffective handling of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, de Rum added another sentence, "However, according to my personal understanding of Cavour, Cavour probably will not put the Kingdom of Sardinia in the whirlpool, and it should only be Giuseppe Garibaldi on the table!"

In other words, Giuseppe Garibaldi is likely to be an important pawn in Cavour's stirring up the Apennine Peninsula!"

After listening to de Ruiz's analysis, Jérôme Bonaparte bowed slightly.

If de Ruiz judged Cavour's actions based on the intuition of a diplomat, Jérôme Bonaparte judged Cavour's actions on the basis of the trajectory of history.

Although the current history is very different from the original history, the choices made by Jérôme Bonaparte's firm historical trajectory will not differ much.

Just like the Kingdom of Prussia, which was suppressed by France and Austria one after another, there was still a von Bismarck who tried to unify Germany.

Cavour of the Kingdom of Sardinia will also be indomitable and try to unify the Apennine Peninsula with the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Thus, Jérôme Bonaparte speculated that the collaboration between Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi was probably similar to the original historical trajectory.

It's just that this Cavour has to maintain a more cautious posture than the Cavour in the original history.

"If Cavour wants to succeed in disrupting the Apennine Peninsula through Giuseppe Garibaldi, then Giuseppe Garibaldi must choose a country to attack, as he did in 1848!

Only the seizure of the political rights of one country can shake the rights of the entire Apennine Peninsula!" Jérôme Bonaparte also said to de Ruiz, "Which country do you think Giuseppe Garibaldi would have targeted?"

After carefully sifting through all the countries of the Apennine Peninsula in his mind, de Ruiz replied to Jérôme Bonaparte, "Your Majesty! If I were Cavour, I would have persuaded Giuseppe Garibaldi to place the first country to attack in the Kingdom of Naples!"

"Why do you have such a judgment?" Jérôme Bonaparte looked at de Ruiz with a scrutinizing gaze, and then asked rhetorically.

Historically, Giuseppe Garibaldi did follow Cavour's instructions to attack the Kingdom of Naples, but the Kingdom of Sardinia had become a hegemon in Italy.

With the exception of Venice, which was still in the hands of the Austrian Empire, and the Papal Territories, which were still in the hands of the French Empire (the Papal Territories had been completely lost, and the Pope had lost two-thirds of the land), the whole of north-central Italy was under the control of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Cavour then drove Giuseppe Garibaldi to Naples and expelled the Neapolitan royal family from Italy through Giuseppe Garibaldi's hand, thus unifying the Kingdom of Sardinia

The vast majority of regions.

However, the situation is very different from history, the Kingdom of Sardinia did not annex the central and northern territories, and the four kingdoms of Central Italy, Venice and Lombardy, were still under the direct and indirect control of the Austrian Empire.

Even if Giuseppe Garibaldi expelled Naples, they would not have been able to face the armies of the Austrian Empire.

"Your Majesty, only the Kingdom of Naples can be subverted in the entire Italian peninsula!" De Ruiz said to Jérôme Bonaparte.

Immediately afterwards, de Ruiz told Jérôme Bonaparte about the current state of affairs in the Kingdom of Naples and the state of life of the people living under the Kingdom of Naples.

Jérôme Bonaparte couldn't help but laugh angrily when he heard about the current state of the Kingdom of Naples.

At the beginning, he tried hard to persuade Francesco, the crown prince of Naples, to be kind to the people under his rule, and at the same time to put on a constitutional posture like the Kingdom of Sardinia, because only in this way could the people under his rule not oppose him.

As a result, Francesco did not seem to listen to Jérôme Bonaparte in the slightest, and continued to disobey the opinion of the Neapolitan people.

The current kingdom of Naples is like a country in the crater of a volcano, and it only takes a little turmoil for the whole country to be directly overwhelmed by the outpouring of national anger.

"It seems that the Kingdom of Naples will not be able to withstand Giuseppe Garibaldi's attack!" Jérôme Bonaparte frowned and replied to de Ruiz categorically, "We must be mentally prepared for Giuseppe Garibaldi to occupy the entire Kingdom of Naples!"

De Ruiz was skeptical of Jérôme Bonaparte's unfavorable judgment that the Kingdom of Naples would be able to withstand Giuseppe Garibaldi's attack.

After all, Cavour would not have been able to provide Giuseppe Garibaldi with no more than 3,000 men (Cavour actually provided only 1,000 men).

This number of troops is really not enough compared to the 40,000 standing army of the Kingdom of Naples.

"Naples still has an army of nearly 40,000 men, and no matter how bad they are, they will be able to hold out before the Austrian Empire supports Naples!" De Ruiz said cautiously to Jérôme Bonaparte.

"Mr. Ruiz, the collapse of a regime is often instantaneous!" Jérôme Bonaparte replied to de Ruiz, "Giuseppe Garibaldi did not have to deal with an army of 40,000 men at all, because these soldiers, like the people of Naples, were generally dissatisfied with the rule of the Kingdom of Naples!"

They will not obey the king's instructions at all and make a fuss with Giuseppe Garibaldi!

If the king's orders were too strong, they would even become part of Giuseppe Garibaldi's army!

The only thing the king of Naples could trust was his Swiss guards!

However, the number of these Swiss guards was so small compared to the population of Naples!

It was difficult for the Kingdom of Naples to hold out until the Austrian Imperial reinforcements arrived!

What's more, it is also unknown whether the Austrian Empire would be willing to send troops to support the Kingdom of Naples!

The Austrian Empire has not yet recovered from the economic crisis of two years ago!

If we force our forces, the Austrian government will probably have to borrow again!"

Although the Austrian Empire grew at a pace that was more than a fraction of that of the historical Austrian Empire, the consequent debts also plagued the Austrian Empire.

Especially after the economic crisis of 1857, the thriving industry of the Austrian Empire was transformed into a sunset industry in the blink of an eye, hundreds of banks and factories went bankrupt, and the unemployed nearly clogged Prague and Vienna.

Had it not been for Jérôme Bonaparte's willingness to lend a helping hand to the Austrian Empire in 1858 (on the condition that the aid was to help the French Empire persecute the Kingdom of Sardinia), the Austrian Empire would have been overwhelmed by debt.

Even with the "aid" of the French Empire, the economy of the Austrian Empire was in a state of recession.

The only possible result of the forced mobilization is to squander all the money that is left in the state treasury.

More likely, it is necessary to borrow from the outside world to be able to fight a decent battle.

The only countries in Europe today that can lend money to the Austrian Empire are Britain, France, and the Free City of Frankfurt.

However, now that Cavour must have received some support from the Kingdom of Britain, it was almost impossible for the Austrian Empire to borrow money from Britain as easily as it had done in the Napoleonic Wars.

Although the Free City of Frankfurt and the Austrian Empire belonged to Germany together, it was not only the Austrian Empire that affected the city of Frankfurt, but the Kingdom of Prussia also had a greater influence on Frankfurt.

Excluding Britain and Frankfurt, the only country that could be given to the Austrian Empire was the French Empire.

Thinking of the impending embarrassment facing the Austrian Empire, Jérôme Bonaparte had a gloating smile on his face.

Although the United Austrian Empire was Jérôme Bonaparte's basic national policy, Jérôme Bonaparte did not mind giving the Austrian Empire a little trouble.

It was in the interests of the French Empire to maintain an Austrian empire, which was large but not strong.

The Austrian Empire, which was too strong, would unconsciously integrate the situation in Germany, and the Austrian Empire, which was too weak, could not suppress the Kingdom of Prussia.

Therefore, Jérôme Bonaparte had to get his hands on it.

"Your Majesty, you need the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to cooperate with your actions!"

De Ruiz understood that Jérôme Bonaparte already had a countermeasure in mind, and that he had summoned himself only to get the Foreign Office to cooperate.

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