After leaving Windsor Castle, Cavour had another two days of rest and was ready to set off again.
However, a sudden heavy snowfall completely imprisoned Cavour, who was about to set off, in London, unable to move.
The howling cold wind sent snowflakes in the clouds to every corner of London. In just one night, the whole of London was already in a white world.
The streets, houses, and the Thames were all covered in white snow.
Ships docked at the docks on both sides of the Thames River were forced to dock in the ice-blocked channel of the Thames River to wait for navigation due to the sudden heavy snow.
Knowing that he could not leave London smoothly, Cavour had to stop and hide in a hotel to wait for the "revival" of the Thames.
The bored Victor Umberto also decided to take advantage of the period when the Thames was frozen by heavy snow to visit London.
Because Cavour's identity is too sensitive, he is not suitable to accompany Victor Umberto to visit.
So Victor Umberto traveled around London alone every day.
Cavour also understood that children of Victor Umberto's age were at a playful age, and Cavour did not stop Victor Umberto.
I just "told" Victor Umberto to be careful when visiting Britain.
At the same time, he told Giuseppe Garibaldi the news of Victor Umberto's trip, hoping that he could send someone to protect Victor Umberto.
Giuseppe Garibaldi readily agreed to Cavour's action, and he specially sent an entourage to protect Victor Umberto's safety.
However, Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi never expected this.
It was this entourage that exposed Victor Umberto, and at the same time also exposed Cavour, who had been traveling quietly.
The secret police who had been lurking in London to monitor the French republicans living in London discovered the entourage next to Victor Umberto and recognized the entourage at a glance as the guy who followed Giuseppe Garibaldi.
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[ps: Although the task of this secret police is to monitor the French Republicans, because the French Republicans living in London often communicate with Giuseppe Garibaldi and others, they also get to know Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Bodi and his deep entourage.]
When the secret police discovered that Giuseppe Garibaldi's entourage was protecting Victor Umberto, they immediately became interested in him.
The secret police carefully wrote down Victor Umberto's appearance, and then returned to the secret base to draw a rough outline of Victor Umberto's appearance.
After seeing the portrait drawn by the secret police, the leader responsible for commanding this secret stronghold immediately asked the secret police who was the person in the painting.
The secret policeman shook his head and told his leader that he was not sure who the person in the portrait was, but he saw that Giuseppe Garibaldi's entourage was protecting the child in the portrait, and he decided on the identity of the child.
It must not be simple, so I hope he (the leader) can check it out.
After hearing the request of the secret police, the leader of the secret stronghold did not hesitate at all. Taking advantage of the night when no one was around, he secretly entered another secret stronghold to wait for the attaché of the French Embassy in London.
Since the military attache and the secret police agreed to meet every few days, and the most recent meeting happened to be today, the secret police met the military attache very quickly.
As soon as the two met, the captain of the secret police hoped to meet with the British ambassador and said he had something important to repay.
The military attaché was of course unwilling to allow the ambassador to meet with such a secret police force.
Because a plenipotentiary ambassador is different from a military attache, once he is involved in a spy incident, it will cause great trouble to France.
After being rejected by the military attache, the captain of the secret police had no choice but to do the next best thing. He handed the portrait to the military attache in the hope that the military attache would give the painting to the ambassador.
They guessed that the identity of the person in the portrait was not simple, because the person in the painting was protected by Giuseppe Garibaldi's entourage!
After the military attache opened the painting, he looked at it carefully twice, but unfortunately he did not recognize Victor Umberto. He had to take the painting back and told the captain of the secret police that he would transfer the message to the captain.
At that time, the ambassador will transfer the portrait to Paris.
The military attache quietly left the stronghold and returned to the French Embassy alone.
When the military attache returned to the French Embassy, he immediately went to the ambassador's room and knocked on the ambassador's door.
At this moment, the new French Ambassador to London, Pesini (Pessini was re-appointed by the emperor as the French ambassador to London due to his pro-British stance) was preparing to lie on the bed to rest. When he heard a movement outside the room, he immediately
He said toward the door: "Please come in."
The military attache entered the room respectfully, and Pesini then asked the military attaché: "It's so late, what can I do for you?"
"Your Excellency Ambassador, our secret police deployed in London have made a new discovery!" The military attache came to Pesini, whispered to Pesini, and handed the portrait that the secret police gave him to him.
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Pesini took the folded portrait with a suspicious look on his face and unfolded it.
With the help of the weak candlelight in the room, Pesini could clearly see the people in the portrait.
Looking at the familiar person in the portrait, Pesini couldn't help but say, "Why is it him!"
The military attache looked at Pesini with a puzzled face and said: "Mr. Ambassador, what do you think of the person in the painting?"
Pesini raised his head and looked at the military attaché, asking the military attaché word by word, "Where did you get this painting from?"
The military attache reported the situation to Pesini in detail. After listening to the military attache's report, Pesini's expression became particularly arrogant.
"If it is really him, then things will be terrible!" Pesini muttered quietly.
"Your Excellency Ambassador, can you tell me who the person in the portrait is?" the military attache couldn't help but ask Pezini.
Pesini glanced at the military attache and responded calmly, "If the secret policeman who painted this painting is not wrong, the person in the painting should be the son of Victor Emmanuel, King of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Victor Umberto!
It’s normal for you not to know him, even I only met him by chance!”
"Why would a crown prince of the Kingdom of Sardinia stand with Giuseppe Garibaldi's entourage!" the military attache couldn't help but ask Pesini.
"That's why I just said it was bad!" Pesini frowned and said to himself, "It stands to reason that when a person with the status of Victor Umberto comes to London, the London authorities should take it seriously!
Why has Victor Umberto not been received by the London authorities from the beginning to the present, and Victor Umberto should be surrounded by his own entourage!
Why are only Giuseppe Garibaldi’s entourage following!”
"Your Excellency, Ambassador, do you need me to order them to follow you carefully?" the military attache made a suggestion to Pesini.
After Paisini pondered for a moment, he nodded and responded to the military attache, "Okay!"
Then, Pesini added, "But you have to tell the spies who are following you!
Be sure to keep track while keeping yourself safe!!”
"Understood!" the military attache responded.
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Soon, the military attaché conveyed Pesini's order to the secret police lurking in London.
The secret police will dedicate a part of their lives to follow Victor Umberto, and soon they will get information about the hotel where Victor Umberto lives, as well as information about Victor Umberto's entourage.
The secret police put the collected information into the hands of the military attache, who also handed it all to Pesini.
Based on the information collected by the secret police and his own speculation, Pesini concluded that the entourage following Victor Umberto should be Cavour, the former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Cavour, who had been considered a recluse by the outside world, now sneaked into London secretly. At the same time, Victor Umberto was protected by Giuseppe Garibaldi's entourage.
This forced Pesini to link Cavour with Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Considering that Giuseppe Garibaldi has accepted financial assistance from Britain, he seems to be preparing to go to Sardinia to do something big.
Pesini suddenly felt that the Kingdom of Britain seemed to be uniting with the Kingdom of Sardinia to do something.
Therefore, Pesini immediately encrypted the information and conveyed it to Paris through a telegram in the embassy.
After nearly three hours of transmission, Pesini's telegram was finally delivered to the Tuileries Palace in the early morning of the next day.
At this moment, the Tuileries Palace was completely silent, and only a few rooms in the entire palace were still bright.
The telegraph operator who was dozing next to the telegraph immediately became energetic when he heard the ticking sound in his ears.
They quickly took the quills in their hands and carefully recorded the Morse code on the paper.
After all the information was recorded, the telegraph operator found a document for deciphering the encryption code from the drawer for translation.
Soon, all the secret messages from Britain were translated.
The telegraph operator glanced at the secret message in his hand, then turned to look at the time. He thought he would wait until dawn before reporting.
In this way, nearly five hours passed before a coded message from Britain appeared in Jerome Bonaparte's study.
After Jerome Bonaparte took a careful look at the contents of the coded message, a gloomy expression immediately appeared on his face.
After a while, Jerome Bonaparte finally called Basilio to the study.
"Your Majesty!" Basilio looked at Jerome Bonaparte in front of him and responded respectfully.
"You should go to the Quai d'Orsay immediately and tell Minister de Ruiz: I have something to ask him and I hope he can come over as soon as possible!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to Basilio.