Struggle in Russia

In fact, from the perspective of the world, it is far more than Russia's hell boiling over. The hell in England, the hell in France, the hell in Prussia, and the hell in Austria may as well give way, even more resentment than Russia.

In these countries with more developed capital, industrialization has further polarized wealth and made the living environment of the poor worse. These have led to more grievances in these countries, and compared to the ignorant serfs, workers, especially those skilled workers, are more advanced in thinking and have a stronger sense of struggle. It only takes one spark to detonate them!

End of December 1847. The approach to Christmas should be a sea of ​​joy. But this winter, joy is so far away for the common people in Europe. This winter has been extraordinarily cold and harsh.

From 1843 onwards, agriculture was in dire straits, and the potato, the staple food of the humble commoners, suffered widespread failure in several countries.

For example, in Ireland, where the British colonized, farmers had almost no harvest due to the impact of potato blight. But the British rulers turned a blind eye to the disaster and didn't care about the lives of the Irish.

When the disaster broke out, when the rest of Europe felt sorry for the Irish and launched a charity fundraiser. What did the great Queen Victoria say? The queen decided that there was no humanitarian catastrophe in Ireland, and that there was no need to raise money for Irish lazybones.

When the catastrophe lasted from 1845 to 1847, when millions of people starved to death in Ireland, another million people fled to North America. Only then did the Queen reluctantly admit that a little charity could be done, but don't need to donate too much.

So under the Queen's personal demonstration, the British Empire raised a huge sum of 1,500 pounds for the Irish pariah for disaster relief.

Surprised or not?

That amount of money was not enough to give the Irishman a drink, and the Englishman felt he was being too merciful. It is also said that the potato is the "most unreliable" and "worst food" and is the product of the devil.

They say that eating potatoes for a long time will only bring you closer to hell, and it will naturally make God angry and punish you. Irish lazybones eating devil's food are completely self-inflicted and totally unworthy of sympathy.

This is probably the British version of minced meat. It's as if the Irish are all fools, they don't eat the better bread, they only eat the nasty mashed potatoes, so they deserve to starve to death.

The question is, is this the case? The 8.5 million Irish in 1843 occupied only 5% of the land in Ireland. The rest of Irish land was in the hands of English landowners. To feed more than 95% of the population with a measly 5% of the land, what would you eat without potatoes?

What's more, the Irish are also not allowed to employ more than two apprentices, to study abroad, to apply for degrees and scholarships at universities, to hold public office, jurors, lawyers and teachers, to sit in Parliament, to vote, to Buying land, even personal property is restricted!

For example, the Irish are not allowed to own more than five pounds of horses! It is also forbidden to export goods to foreign countries. Moreover, in order to ensure that the industrialized United Kingdom has sufficient food supply, the barley, wheat, and oats produced on all lands in Ireland must be sold only to the United Kingdom.

To put it bluntly, Ireland is the logistics support center of the UK. Everything produced in Ireland serves the UK. As for the Irish, who cares what they eat!

The Irish may be the worst in Europe because they are too far from heaven and too close to England. But in the winter of 1847, the Irish were not the only ones who felt difficult. In Sicily, Italy, Paris, France, Prussia, the Netherlands, and Austria, the grievances of the people had reached their peak!

They don't have enough to eat or wear warm clothes, they work infinitely long hours, and the working environment is infinitely harsh. It is constantly squeezed until the last bit of value disappears.

Sicily, capital Palermo.

It is a beautiful harbor city on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The warm climate here is suitable for the development of agriculture, and it is rich in citrus, olives and lemons. People living in this city are accustomed to a leisurely life in the Mediterranean style, relying on the sky for food and self-sufficiency.

But this does not mean that Sicilians are all spaghetti personalities, they are not soft, but firm. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Italy was just a geographical concept, and the entire nation was torn apart. The Austrians, French, and British, as long as they were big powers, would have a foot in here, which is even worse than the divided Poland. Not strong enough to go anywhere.

However, with the spread of Enlightenment ideas and the awakening of Italian nationality, more and more Italians are not satisfied with the status quo. They strongly demand to change the status quo of fragmentation, realize the unity of the country and the nation, and drive away all foreign interferencers!

Sicily was also deeply influenced by it. Liberal ideas are widely spread here, and both peasant craftsmen and bourgeois are extremely dissatisfied with their political status, especially Ferdinand II's autocracy and secret police.

In fact, as early as 1837, a revolutionary movement for a constitution broke out in Sicily. But it was strongly suppressed by Ferdinand II. Then another ten years later, in this brutal winter of 1847, Sicilian discontent reached its apogee!

"We must take action! The actions of Reggio Calabria and Messina are our role models! Ferdinand II is not as strong as imagined, and the government is full of our sympathizers!"

"As long as someone fires the first shot in Palermo, then the angry people will take to the streets and Ferdinando II will be sent to hell!"

"At that time, our constitution and our freedom were all there!"

"Guys! What are you waiting for? It's now!"

All kinds of rumors and conspiracies are brewing in the beautiful city of Palermo. Ferdinando II may not have imagined that the revolution that broke out in his capital would soon sweep across Europe, almost establishing a subversive A new world of sex.

At this time, the king was still troubled by the proliferation of liberals, and he was annoyed by all kinds of "heresy" spread from the neighboring island of Sardinia. What kind of trouble do you want.

Aren't you an aristocrat, not enjoying those wide privileges, not content with your own transcendent status?

Why do you want to promote those theories of the devil, well, even if you like to mess around, please stay in your own country honestly, go to the Kingdom of Sardinia and disgust Carlo Alberto, okay?

If Cavour had appeared before Ferdinand II, the good-natured king would not have hesitated to order the arrest of the devil in his eyes. It's a pity that he is beyond his reach. At this time, Cavour is receiving some mysterious foreign friends and talking about things that can shock Europe...