Contrary to Mussolini's confidence, opposition to him continued to emerge in Italy in reality. In order to calm down his anger, Mussolini secretly decided to use his confidant Rossi as a scapegoat to thank the public for their anger.
"Minister Rossi, you have been betrayed by Mussolini, run away!" A close friend of Rossi quietly informed Rossi who was dining at the Roma Holiday Hotel during dinner time.
After receiving the notification, Rossi almost subconsciously thought it was a joke. But then he thought about it, there was no way his close friend was joking about the leader's name. It was better to believe it than to believe it wasn't!
Rossi felt extremely sad when he thought that he had been working for Mussolini for four years and had done countless dirty jobs for Mussolini, only to be kicked away in the end.
That night, the Black Shirts surrounded Rossi's home. This organization, which Rossi had grown so powerfully, ended up arresting their nurturer.
Rossi, who had already escaped the police with the help of his close friends, wrote a long letter to Mussolini, denounced his treacherous behavior and announced that he would completely sever ties with him. The day before he was going to send the long letter
, two men in black suits found him.
"Mr. Rossi, you can't send a letter criticizing Mussolini." The leader, a man in black, said calmly.
After hearing this, Rossi was shocked. The other party had already guessed his next move before he even sent the letter. It can be seen that the instigator of the other party was someone who had a deep understanding of himself.
Taking a long breath, Rossi tried his best to calm himself and said: "Since you have investigated everything about me, you can kill me or scratch me."
The two men in suits looked at each other and smiled, "Mr. Rossi, why should we kill you? We are here to congratulate you!"
"Congratulate me?" Rossi said dumbfounded: "Are you here to congratulate me that I am about to be pushed to the gallows by this bastard Mussolini?!"
"Of course not. We are here to help you return to the peak of power." A man in black smiled and said: "You will get help from Germany and become the hero of quelling this chaos."
"What do I have to pay?" Although Rossi still had doubts, he was determined to seize this opportunity no matter what, and seize the olive branch God threw to him.
"Join the German Socialist Workers' Party, and we will seal your files and keep them absolutely safe. In addition, as a senior cadre, join the German Gestapo branch in Italy." The man in black calmly issued this nearly required document.
Rossi's request to rebel against the party and the country.
Unexpectedly, Rossi agreed without hesitation.
Italy is finished, this is the common conclusion reached by the two Gestapo.
Next, the Gestapo special operations team that had just carried out the Night of the Long Knives was liberated, and 300 members were infiltrated into Italy and became Rossi's direct black shirt army. Under the leadership of this force, more and more black shirts
The army joined in confusedly and launched the white terror in Italy.
Many members of the Black Shirts even saluted Minister Rossi, who was on the wanted list. By the time Mussolini reacted, Rossi, the wanted man, had already eliminated all opposition voices for him.
Borrowing Mussolini's name, Rossi ordered the Black Shirts to close and blockade all clubs and party halls in the country, disbanded all "troublemaker" organizations, and even banned many ** secret organizations (Chang Chengtian provided this
A list of Italian "revolutionary groups" summarized by later generations)
The communists in Italy were brutally imprisoned. Under Germany's friendly proposal, they entered the Soviet Union with German help. Of course, many of the senior keynote operatives were killed by Rossi's people in Italy, and those who returned to the Soviet Union were
Some insignificant grassroots personnel. Italy will be the bad guy, and Germany will be the good guy.
The ignorant Mussolini believed that Rossi was cleaning up bad things in his own name to clear obstacles for him and to show his loyalty to him. The guilty leader immediately ordered the withdrawal of the "unjust verdict" against Rossi
"Wanted, two persons in charge were shot. At the same time, Rossi, a man who had made great contributions to the fascist regime, was promoted to deputy prime minister of Italy, and regarded as the number two figure after himself.
At the request of the Gestapo, even though he resented Mussolini's shameless face, Rossi still wrote a letter to Mussolini, praising him as "the heir to the Roman Empire" and "the prophet who represents the will of God."
Rossi did for Mussolini what Mussolini originally wanted to do in history, and said the praise that Mussolini originally wanted to praise himself in history. This made Mussolini regard Rossi as
Confidant. In his opinion, this subordinate who has been working with him for nearly five years has finally come to his senses.
Subsequently, the whole of Italy was filled with false enthusiasm under the fascist propaganda machine. The number of fascist party members increased from 320,000 when they marched into Rome to 1.02 million, more than tripling the number. Among the more than 4 million young people in Italy, more than
2 million people have joined the Black Shirt Youth Vanguard. As a fascist force, the National Guard has been blindly expanded to 1 million people. Its number far exceeds the combined number of the German Wehrmacht and SS next door, and of course exceeds that of the King of Italy.
Government troops in hand.
During the same period, Rossi exported a large amount of wheat to Germany at extreme prices, which even affected Italy's grain reserves. However, as the leader, Mussolini still stubbornly believed that his deputy was earning foreign exchange for the fascist regime. On one occasion
At the conference, Mussolini emphatically praised Rossi, who was loyal and reliable, causing the Italian Food Minister, who was originally prepared to offer advice, to choose to shut up.
In a fit of passion, Italy's great leader Mussolini came up with the idea of ​​dominating the Mediterranean and re-dividing East Africa. A passionate plan was born - to occupy Ethiopia and restore the glory of the Roman Empire!
However, Rossi, the loyal and outstanding second-in-command in Italy, respectfully suggested to Mussolini that it would be best to make long-term preparations for the occupation. Italy at the moment should make sufficient preparations in the dark.
.The Italian people will unite around the voice of the wise and powerful leader, and accumulate strength in the silent place, waiting for the future explosion. To this end, Rossi also quoted an ancient Eastern saying, "If you don't make a sound, it will be nothing, but a blockbuster will make a big difference."
The arrogant Mussolini liked Rossi's arguments very much, which gave him a sense of strategizing. As a wise leader, Mussolini adopted this strategy of "secretly" developing himself.
In a wave of top-down enthusiasm, Italy's supreme leader Mussolini announced that in the future Italy would have the ability to mobilize 8 million troops under one order, and that 8 million bayonets and 2 million more bayonets should be produced within 3 years.
rifles, 5,000 cannons.
Mussolini passionately believed that Italy would become the largest military power in Europe in the future.
