Chapter 10

The Austro-Prussian War can be said to be the only major event before the Spanish Revolution.

Gao Da's suggestion achieved good results, and the harvest was that Vittorio Emanuele II attached more importance to Gao Da's ideas and also allowed Gao Da to have greater autonomy.

For Gao Da, the most important thing at present is to find some subordinates with qualified abilities, at least not to the point where he needs to do everything himself.

Although the palace also has attendants to order around, this is ultimately the servant of his father Vittorio Emanuele II, and his loyalty is not necessarily qualified.

It is not very appropriate for Gao Da's status to get to know some high-level military officials and generals, but it is no problem to get to know some students of the same period in the military academy.

Except for Defense Qiao Di who went to the Turin Military Academy with Gao Da, the only students of the same period who were familiar with Gao Da were Andrew Luo Suo of the infantry major and Ka Man Aiesipoxituo of the artillery major.

These two guys were about the same age as Gao Da, and they were also the companions Gao Da had the best relationship with in the entire military academy.

Andrew Luo Suo was a short little fatty. Although he looked honest on the outside, this guy had many crooked ideas, and Gao Da also took a fancy to his flexible mind, and his ideas could be said to be unconstrained.

And Ka Man Aiesipoxituo was the opposite, the whole person was tall and thin, looking malnourished.

If Gao Da didn't know that Ka Man's background wouldn't be enough to be hungry, he would even suspect that this guy was hungry and thin all day long.

The two fat and thin guys plus Defense Qiao Di, who was already in his 20s, were the assistants Gao Da could rely on for the time being in his plan.

The background of the two fat and thin kings can be trusted. Both were Savoyards, and after the Savoy region was ceded to France, the whole family moved to Turin.

Whether it was Savoy or Turin, they were the base camps of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which was also the reason why both were able to enter the Turin Military Academy.

Gao Da's dress and temperament seemed to be worlds apart from the ordinary students of the military academy. Perhaps the two saw some clues, but they all tacitly kept silent.

After all, if Gao Da wanted them to know, he would naturally tell them actively. Since he didn't tell them now, it was naturally not the time for them to know.

After the end of the Austro-Prussian War, Gao Da's daily schedule became very simple. Except for occasionally asking Luo Lun about the layout and development of the newspaper, Gao Da spent most of his time returning between the military academy and the Turin Palace, occasionally inviting Andrew, Ka Man, and Defense Qiao Di to hold gatherings. Although the days were not wonderful, they were still interesting.

And in the continuous study at the military academy, Gao Da also discovered the only possible change since he traveled to the present, that is, his physical fitness had been greatly improved.

The body before this could be said to be sickly, with major illnesses often and minor illnesses continuously.

But since Gao Da came to this world, not only did his body completely improve, but he even became a little more sturdy through the practice of the military academy.

Gao Da's three meals a day had never been missed. Gao Da, who was not short of nutrition, was only 15 years old, but his height had already reached 1.7 meters, which could be considered a standard tall person.

Coupled with his handsome appearance, as well as the noble temperament of royal family members and his wealthy family background, Gao Da became the object of admiration for many Italian noble ladies.

It was just that the age of this body was too young, otherwise Gao Da would not be able to hold back the eye-catching of these noble ladies.

However, love is love, for his future wife candidate, Gao Da still wanted to consider it carefully.

Although the West does not engage in the set of sky-high bride price, it is undeniable that a good wife can indeed bring him huge benefits.

The country behind the wife is also Gao Da's help, and Gao Da hopes to choose a princess from the two more powerful countries of Germany and Russia to marry.

As for the current European hegemon France, it is not in Gao Da's consideration. If the Franco-Prussian War develops as it did in history, the French royal family will not exist for a few years.

The study time of the Turin Military Academy is 3 years, and after graduation, you can basically enter the Italian army as a bottom-level officer.

Of course, if you enter the Turin Military Academy for further study as an active officer or soldier, you only need two years to graduate, and your rank will be increased by at least one level.

Gao Da is naturally the first way. If he enrolls in 1866, he needs to wait until 1869 to graduate.

However, this does not conflict with Gao Da's plan. After all, the Spanish Revolution broke out in 1868, and after the First Spanish Republic perished, the monarchy would be restored in Spain.

After graduating from the military academy in 1869, Gao Da still had one year left. By the time Amadeo became the King of Spain in history, Gao Da would also be 19 years old, meeting the scope of Spain's choice of king.

In the busy military school life, time passed very quickly.

On May 30, 1867, Gao Da attended the wedding of his brother Amadeo and Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, and presented them with gifts.

The marriage between European royal families in this era is still very chaotic. If Gao Da remembers correctly, the second marriage object of his brother Amadeo is the daughter of his own sister, Marie Letizia Bonaparte.

Nothing major happened in 1867, and 1868 was still very lively internationally.

First, US President Andrew Johnson became the first president in US history to be impeached by Congress, but he was lucky enough not to be impeached by one vote and continued to stay in the presidential seat.

Compared to this lucky US President, Queen Isabella II of Spain was not so lucky.

As the first generation of the empire on which the sun never sets that had withdrawn from the historical stage, Spain's rotten kingdom rule had already appeared in an extremely serious polarization situation.

The noble class was extravagant and wasteful, making a fortune in the fields of railway investment and real estate investment. Just the residence built in Madrid by a guard in Andalusia was mocked by the public as being covered with inlaid diamonds, which was enough to prove the luxurious life of the Spanish noble class.

But contrary to this was the hard life of the Spanish farmer class and worker class. Farmers only had the right to use land but not ownership, and the bad economy made Spanish factories constantly close down.

The impoverished farmers and workers broke out one parade and uprising after another, so they were cruelly suppressed by the Spanish government, but the anger of the people was constantly accumulating.

Finally, the anger was ignited.

In September 1868, exiled soldiers led by Francisco Serrano and Juan Bautista Topete, who had been elected as a member of parliament, led supporters to launch a larger-scale uprising.

Because it broke out in September, this revolution was also called the September Revolution by the Spanish people.

The rotten kingdom government could not suppress the big explosion-like revolution at all, and farmers and workers actively and enthusiastically joined this uprising activity, sweeping most of Spain in a short time.

What's more terrible is that Queen Isabella II of Spain's control over the army was not so perfect.

For this absurd and extravagant queen, the soldiers had no good feelings at all. The defection of a large number of government troops accelerated the revolution process of Spain, and the Kingdom of Spain perished.

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