Chapter 11

Seeing the Spanish Revolution spreading rapidly to Ma Deli like a lit fire, this Queen Isabella, whose private life was extremely chaotic, finally panicked.

Facing the multiple-choice question of resistance or escape, Queen Isabella did not hesitate at all, taking her family and fleeing north to France in a hurry.

The queen's escape also accelerated the Spanish Revolution, and the revolutionary army entered Ma Deli without any effort and declared the demise of the Kingdom of Spain.

On October 8, 1868, Francisco Serrano appointed himself President of the Provisional Government, and Juan Primo, who had great prestige in the revolutionary army, served as the Minister of Land Forces of the Provisional Government, and Spain officially entered a state of extreme chaos.

Whether this vigorous great revolution is the savior of the Spanish people is not yet known, but the chaotic situation in Spain has created an opportunity for Cuba, far away in the Americas, to strive for independence.

On October 10, Cespedes Borja del Castillo, a famous Cuban planter and great lawyer, led a group of Cuban patriots to launch an uprising near Yara in the eastern Oriente Province, and issued the Gula Call to all regions of Cuba, calling on all Cubans to fight for freedom, equality, and independence.

This was a heavy blow to the hastily established Spanish Provisional Government, because Cuba was one of the few regions among the remaining colonies of Spain that could bring positive returns.

The Cuban War of Independence not only forced the Spanish Provisional Government to send troops to suppress it, but also made the newborn government face huge military expenditures in a situation of extreme financial difficulty.

But this was not the only problem faced by the Provisional Government. The revolution was successful, but the Provisional Government had not yet controlled the entire Spain.

At the same time, how to stabilize the rule of the Provisional Government and establish an administrative system completely different from the former monarchical kingdom government was the biggest problem at present.

And the Provisional Government was not monolithic, and the relationship between major classes and forces was also like fire and water, and the chaotic situation of the Provisional Government was not much better than the former Spanish Kingdom government.

The initiators of this revolution were the Spanish upper-class bourgeoisie and liberal figures, whose original intention was to overthrow the former monarchy and establish a democratic monarchy with power concentrated in the national government.

But the Spanish petty bourgeoisie, workers, and farmers had had enough of the oppression of the monarchy and nobles, and they wanted to establish a federal republican government with decentralized but unified management, and agreed to use a president to replace the king to manage the entire Spain uniformly.

Gao Da was also nervously paying attention to the situation in Spain. The good news is that Italy and Spain are separated by the sea, and only one France is separated on land, so news is still transmitted very quickly.

At this time, the last thing Gao Da wanted to hear was that the Spanish Provisional Government decided to abolish the monarchy, which also meant that Gao Da would completely lose contact with the Spanish throne.

Time came to November 9, and the Spanish Provisional Government finally promulgated a decree on the establishment of a parliament and announced that it would hold parliamentary elections next year, that is, in February 1869.

Although this decree did not mention the composition of the future Spanish government, everyone who paid attention to Spanish news understood that the result of the parliamentary election could determine the fate of Spain.

If the big capital and liberal reformists obtained the majority of the parliament, then the new parliament would have the power to promulgate bills on constitutional monarchy.

Similarly, once the worker or farmer class obtained the majority of the parliament, then the monarchy of Spain might disappear, and the republican system might also walk onto the stage of Spain.

As far as the current situation is concerned, there is still a high probability that the situation in Spain will develop as it did in history.

Primo, who supports constitutional monarchy, still controls the power of the Spanish government and is likely to gain an advantage in the parliamentary election a few months later.

And the time of the parliamentary election is also worth pondering. From the establishment of the Provisional Government to the parliamentary election, it is only four months, and from the promulgation of the decree to the parliamentary election, it is less than three months.

It is difficult for these three months to change the attitude of the Italian people, and it is also difficult to change the forces of those nobles and big capital in Spain.

However, in order to make his plan more secure, Gao Da decided to blow some wind for the Spanish people.

What wind to blow? Naturally, it is the wind of advocating monarchy.

As for the harm brought by the Spanish Bourbon dynasty to the Spanish people, it can all be attributed to the rule of the absurd and lawless Queen Isabella.

Gao Da also has a basis for advocating the wind of monarchy.

The current world's strongest navy is definitely Britain, and Britain is a constitutional monarchy. The world's strongest army should be France (the afterglow of Napoleon), and France is also a monarchy.

The old great powers in Europe, Russia, the Austrian Empire, and the emerging great power, the Kingdom of Prussia, are all monarchies, and even Italy, which has just achieved unification and squeezed into the great powers, is also a monarchy.

Looking at the whole world, the only non-monarchical country among the great powers at present is the United States, and the United States at this time is not so powerful in the eyes of Europeans.

The rise of the United States has to wait until after World War I and World War II. The United States in this era does not have such an exaggerated industrial and economic scale.

Since most of the powerful countries in Europe are monarchies, what reason do the Spanish people have to voluntarily abandon this very advanced system?

As for the failure of the former monarchy, it was all the fault of the Bourbon family and Queen Isabella. If everyone wants to blame, blame Queen Isabella.

Gao Da did this not only to keep a trace of trust in the monarchy in the hearts of the Spanish people, but also to make the Spanish people hate the Bourbon dynasty and Queen Isabella as much as possible.

Only in this way will the Spanish people not be so exclusive to the foreign dynasty, and Gao Da's hope of entering Spain will be much greater.

As for the Bourbon family, Queen Isabella, and the famous Alfonso XII, anyway, they have been sucking blood in Spain for decades, and it is time to make some contributions to the Spanish people.

And this is not considered a smear on the Bourbon family. Queen Isabella's rule in Spain is well known, and it is mainly absurd, lawless, and barbaric and chaotic.

If the Spanish people can no longer trust the Bourbon dynasty, the Carlist rebellion that has plagued Spain for a long time can also be properly resolved.

After all, the Carlists are also Bourbon family members, and the chaos in Spain also has their credit.

On November 27, 1868, the Italian 24-Hour Sun, which was already on fire, published an article on "We Want Bread, Not a Republic," and it spread rapidly to northern and southern Italy.

The main content of this article was to tell about the advancement of the current monarchy and the success of major European monarchical countries, and to express that monarchy is the most reasonable choice for European countries, and the republican system is a deformed evolution for Europe.

Regardless of whether this article makes sense, for the European monarchical countries at this time, such an article is definitely better than nothing.

It is better to publish such articles in newspapers than to publish those articles advocating republicanism and liberal democracy. At least such reports will not make the public dissatisfied with the monarch's throne.

Under the situation that no country opposes it, this report also began to spread in a small range along the Mediterranean coast, especially in Mediterranean countries centered on Italy.

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