Chapter 84 News
The ship passed through the Far East and finally stopped at the port of Mombasa in East Africa.
With the help of a telegram from East Africa to Europe, Ernst learned the news that Maximilian I had been successfully rescued.
What is laughable is that after Maximilian I found out in East Africa that it was Ernst who sent people to rescue him, he refused to return to Europe no matter what and stayed in the East African colony and refused to move forward.
He also sent a telegram asking his son-in-law, whom he had never met, not to tell the Habsburgs about his whereabouts.
Ernst did not dare to act on his own, and after receiving the news that Maximilian I was safe, he still informed Queen Dowager Sophie.
In fact, European countries had received the news as early as after Mexico announced that it would execute Maximilian I, and many royal leaders asked Juarez not to execute Maximilian I.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire was naturally included, but Maximilian I was too stubborn. When the people who took the three were running away, they called him along. He still wanted to live and die with Mexico, but was finally captured by the Juarez government.
Although Queen Carlota sought help from Europe, other countries did not have the ability to send troops to Mexico or did not want to interfere in the situation in Mexico. The Austro-Hungarian Empire had just experienced defeat in the Austro-Prussian War and was confronting Italy in the Mediterranean. Naturally, its navy did not have the extra capacity to go to the Atlantic to interfere in Mexico's internal affairs.
Therefore, all countries could only send a telegram to persuade Juarez to change his mind, but Juarez still insisted on executing Maximilian I.
Just when Juarez was sure of victory, Ernst's men caught him off guard. They didn't really think that everything had to be done according to the country's rules, did they?
Ernst, who had no moral principles, used the most unpretentious means from ancient times to the present to pull Maximilian I out of the quagmire of Mexico.
At that time, Mexico had just experienced a civil war, and there were many warlords in the country. The chaotic situation can be imagined. Not to mention the current situation, even in a few hundred years, Mexico would be like this.
Such a Mexico naturally had low administrative efficiency, which gave Ernst's people the opportunity to escape from Mexico, this troubled place, in one fell swoop.
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"God bless..." Queen Mother Sophie felt relieved after hearing that her son was safe and sound.
It was impossible for the Mexican government to release the news that they had lost their emperor, especially when they didn't even know who had kidnapped the emperor.
So before Maximilian I arrived in East Africa, no other country except Ernst's people knew that someone had kidnapped Maximilian I in front of the Mexican government.
"Ernst, thank you so much this time. Why didn't I think of using mercenaries to rescue Ferdinand (Maximilian I)?" Franz said self-reproachfully.
Franz could only think of mercenaries. In fact, for such an important mission, Ernst naturally would not use mercenaries.
Mercenaries only do things for money, and they may waver when things become impossible. Ernst is sure that if mercenaries are used to carry out the rescue plan this time, there will definitely be people like Qin Wuyang who are frightened out of their wits in The Assassination of Qin by Jing Ke.
After all, Mexico is such a big country, and Juarez is now in charge of the overall situation. If you go against him, it is no different from going against the entire Mexico.
Therefore, the people involved in this operation must be loyal and not waver because of the difficulty of the operation. Ernst does not have any death squads, so he can only use the students of the Hechingen Military Academy.
For the students of the Hechingen Military Academy, Ernst was like their living parents. In addition, the academy taught them loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, so they had a fanatical worship for Ernst and the Hechingen royal family.
Now that we have loyalty, everything else is easy. As early as after the marriage, Ernst arranged for a group of students with excellent academic performance to join the special operations team.
They were trained for several months, and at the same time, intelligence on Mexico was continuously collected and the action plan was constantly changed in a targeted manner.
This was why the students of the Hechingen Military Academy came to the rescue just before Maximilian I was about to be executed.
"Your Majesty, in fact, no one would have thought that both Juarez and King Maximilian I were rather rigid. One was willing to execute a monarch regardless of international public opinion, while the other would rather die for his country than to coexist with Mexico, a terminally ill country." These were the true words.
If Ernst had put himself in Juarez's shoes, he would never have disgusted the royal families of European countries. The United States next to him is the real threat. You still ignore the intervention of European countries and insist on disgusting the monarchs of various countries. When the Americans come in the future, Mexico will really be unable to resist.
Don't be fooled by the hypocritical hope of the US President Juarez to spare Maximilian I. I guess the Americans were very happy when they heard that Juarez was going to execute Maximilian I.
Americans have always coveted and been wary of Mexico. Even as soon as the Civil War ended, the first thing the U.S. government did was to send people to the U.S.-Mexico border to spy on military intelligence.
When the US government heard that Juarez was still fighting guerrilla warfare, it was overjoyed and immediately shipped weapons and ammunition to Mexico to support his overthrow of the monarchy.
If one were in Maximilian I's position, he would have thought that Mexico was a quagmire that was beyond help.
With a start like Mexico's, there must be someone ruthless enough to carry out drastic reforms in Mexico, as Mexico is already relatively weak vis-à-vis the United States.
If we cannot form a united fist, we will be eroded step by step by the Americans.
But Maximilian I was a liberal. If that was the case, why did he go to Mexico to be the emperor? I really don't understand his train of thought.
This reminded Ernst of Franz's son, Crown Prince Rudolf, who was also a liberal and even hated the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Later, he publicly declared that he wanted to be the president of both Austria and Hungary.
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Poor Rudolf finally committed suicide with his mistress in extreme depression, and did not become like his uncle and bring disaster to his country.
There is definitely something wrong with the education of the Austro-Hungarian royal family! I wonder how Princess Karina is doing! You know, the education of the first two was personally managed by Queen Mother Sophie, and Princess Karina was brought up by Queen Mother Sophie herself since she was a child.
Ernst looked at Karina, the little girl in Queen Mother Sophie's arms. The eleven-year-old girl only knew that her father's life was saved by the person in front of her. The grandmother was in a much better mood, and her big watery eyes looked around curiously.
He still looks very smart, at least there is light in his eyes, not the lifeless look. Most people with depression are depressed and their faces give off a sense of hatred and bitterness.
It is obvious that Karina has no worries. Perhaps because they are both women, Queen Mother Sophie did not involve politics in her education, nor did she emphasize any responsibility, so Karina grew up in a very relaxed environment.
(End of this chapter)
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