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When Prince Metternich, the adviser to the Austrian Empire, quietly entered Milan in an inconspicuous carriage, the entire city of Milan was still unaware of his arrival.

Even General Albrecht, the Governor of Lombardy-Venice, was the same, so when Prince Metternich's carriage arrived at the Governor's Palace in Milan, the soldiers in charge of guarding the gate of the Governor's Palace stopped Prince Metternich's carriage Come down and ask Prince Metternich to show the relevant documents.

Prince Metternich in the carriage opened the car, and then took out a Metternich family emblem and handed it to the soldier.

"This is..." The soldier who had never seen the family emblem looked curiously at what Prince Metternich gave him, and asked suspiciously.

"You hand this thing over to your Governor Albrecht, and you will understand everything!" Prince Mette responded emphatically.

"Please wait a moment!" The soldier immediately changed into a respectful attitude and responded to Prince Metternich, then turned and walked towards the Governor's Palace.

After a while, the soldier quickly returned to the gate of the Governor's Mansion, followed behind him by a group of soldiers wearing light blue military uniforms of the Austrian Empire and wearing various medals on their chests.

When these soldiers arrived at the gate of the Governor's Mansion, the leading soldier immediately raised his hand and asked the soldiers behind him to stop. He came to the side of the car door alone, and saw Prince Metternich pretending to be asleep inside the car door through the car window.

Immediately afterwards, the soldier opened the car door cautiously, and shouted softly, "Your Excellency, Your Excellency!"

After hearing the shout, Prince Metternich slowly opened his eyes. He looked at the soldier standing at the door of the car, with a kind smile on the corner of his mouth, and said lazily, "So it's Albrecht! You Why did you come here yourself!"

"Your Excellency, Prince Metternich, I just had nothing to do in the office, so I came here!" Albrecht Friedrich Rudolph, Governor of Lombardy-Venice, son of Grand Duke Karl, and famous general of the Austrian Empire Responding to the 85-year-old old prince in front of him in a submissive tone.

"It's really hard for you to come here!" Prince Metternich said to Albrecht slowly.

"No hard work! No hard work!" Albrecht said flatteringly in his tone, "You are the one who really worked hard! Nothing happened along the way!"

"Not this one!" Prince Mette responded to Albrecht shaking his head.

"That's good!" Grand Duke Albrecht replied with a smile, and then changed the topic and said, "Why don't you enter the Governor's Palace first, and then we can talk!"

"Yes!" Metternich nodded, and continued to sleep with squinted eyes.

Albrecht closed the car door, and then gave the coachman an order to enter the Governor's Palace.

Driven by the driver, the carriage entered the courtyard of the Governor's Mansion.

In this courtyard full of Renaissance buildings and statues, the driver stopped the carriage again, and Grand Duke Albrecht hurried to the carriage when he saw this, and opened the door for Prince Metternich in the carriage.

Prince Metternich, who was in a dozed state, slowly opened his eyes that seemed to be able to see through everything in the world, then got up and got off the carriage. ....

When Prince Metternich stepped into the courtyard, his eyes looked around from time to time. He remembered the scene where he met Marshal Radetzky here many years ago, and he couldn't help but sigh, "Hey! Unexpectedly, time It’s been so long and nothing has changed here!”

"Yeah! Dozens or hundreds of years may be a long time for us, but for these buildings, it is just a fleeting moment!" Albrecht also said with emotion.

"Forget it! Don't talk about this!" Prince Metternich's eyes were slightly sad, and he shook his head in response to Albrecht.

"Don't talk! Don't talk!" Albrecht also noticed that Prince Metternich was in a gloomy mood at this time. He guessed in his heart that it should be caused by the scenery in front of him and the death of Marshal Radetzky. He quickly changed the subject and said , "Go! I'll take you in!"

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Under the leadership of Prince Metternich, he stopped and stopped along the path in the courtyard, and soon came to one of a group of palaces in a governor's mansion.

Entering the palace hall, Grand Duke Albrecht quickly introduced Prince Metternich, "Your Excellency, behind me are the members of the Governor's Palace!

This is my chief of staff, Benedek, and this is the commander of the Lombard 1st Division..."

Grand Duke Albrecht introduced his subordinates to Prince Metternich in turn, and Prince Metternich smiled and nodded to the subordinates introduced by Albrecht to show his approval.

After introducing each of his subordinates, Albrecht took Prince Metternich to visit the combat command room of the Governor's Palace.

In the combat command room, Albrecht looked at Prince Metternich expectantly, and asked solemnly, "Your Excellency, is there any latest instruction from Vienna!"

Prince Metternich smiled slightly, then nodded slowly to Grand Duke Albrecht, "The Vienna side has indeed ordered me to send you the latest instructions!"

Albrecht, who received an affirmative answer from Prince Metternich, and the general behind him showed excitement in their eyes. They worked hard in Lombardy for nearly a month to prepare for this moment.

"Your Excellency, when can we start formal operations!" Grand Duke Albrecht asked Prince Metternich excitedly.

Prince Metternich said slowly, "The purpose of my visit this time is to give you the final combat order, and to deliver an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Sardinia!

In other words, you cannot take any action until the ultimatum reaches the hands of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

When the ultimatum arrives in the hands of the Kingdom of Sardinia, if the Kingdom of Sardinia does not give us a satisfactory answer within the stipulated time, then you can start to act! "

"Understood!" Grand Duke Albrecht nodded and responded to Prince Richard Metternich, and then he suddenly thought of something, and asked again, "By the way, as far as I know, France has not yet agreed with Sardinia. The Kingdom of Niah officially broke off diplomatic relations, will this cause unnecessary trouble to our actions!"

Although Albrecht's attitude was very tactful, Prince Metternich understood that Albrecht was worried that the French Empire would interfere with the Kingdom of Sardinia, which would likely cause a war between France and the Austrian Empire. ....

"You can rest assured that the French Empire will not help the Kingdom of Sardinia because of this incident!" Prince Metternich responded to Albrecht confidently.

On the issue of the Kingdom of Sardinia, neither Prince Metternich nor Count Bauer thought that Jerome Bonaparte would repent.

After all, the Austrian Empire did not completely destroy the Kingdom of Sardinia, but weakened the Kingdom of Sardinia.

"In that case, then I will prepare immediately!" Grand Duke Albrecht replied to Prince Metternich.

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Immediately afterwards, Prince Metternich appointed officers from the Governor's Office to Turin to hand over the Austrian Empire's ultimatum to the Austrian Empire's ambassador to Sardinia, who then passed it on to Victor Emmanuel II hands of the world.

The officer set out from Milan in accordance with Prince Metternich's order. After several hours of fast riding, he finally arrived at the border between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia that night.

The Sardinian army on the border hurriedly took a defensive posture after seeing the Austrian imperial officer.

The Austrian officer hurriedly dismounted and made a gesture of surrendering with both hands. Seeing this, the Sardinian officer hurriedly asked, "What are you here for?"

The Austrian imperial officer hurriedly responded in Lombard, "I am here to deliver a letter for His Majesty Franz Joseph of the Austrian Empire!"

"Send the letter? To whom?" the Sardinian king's magistrate asked again.

"Of course it was given to you, His Majesty King Victor Emmanuel of the Kingdom of Sardinia!" the Austrian imperial judge then replied.

"I see! Come here!" The Sardinian King's officer waved at the Austrian Emperor's officer

At the same time, the Austrian imperial magistrates were able to enter the borders of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Immediately afterwards, at the invitation of the Sardinian king's magistrate, the Austrian imperial magistrate rested in the Sardinian military camp for one night, and set off for Turin again the next morning.

After a few hours' train ride, the Austrian imperial magistrate arrived in Turin.

The Austrian officers descending from the Turin railway station hurried to the Austrian Imperial Embassy in Sardinia.

After a meeting with the ambassador at the embassy, ​​the Austrian imperial magistrate passed on the ultimatum handed to him by Prince Metternich to the ambassador in Sardinia.

After seeing the ultimatum, the ambassador to Sardinia showed a surprised expression on his face.

As the ambassador of the Austrian Empire to Sardinia, he ~www.NovelMTL.com~ didn't know this until now.

To be on the safe side, the ambassador to Sardinia asked solemnly, "Is this ultimatum really from Vienna?"

"Your Excellency, this ultimatum was indeed given to me by Prince Metternich!" the Austrian imperial officer swore to the ambassador in Sardinia, "If you don't believe me, you can send someone to Milan !"

[There is no radio station between Turin and Milan! 】

"In this case, I will go to the Royal Palace of Turin now!" The ambassador to Sardinia chose to believe the Austrian imperial magistrate.

After all, he is not unaware of the frequent transfers of the Austrian Imperial Army in the border areas recently.

For this reason, Victor Emmanuel II of the Royal Palace of Turin asked him several times what the Austrian Empire wanted to do.

It now appears that the previous mobilization of the Austrian Empire in the border area was to attack the Kingdom of Sardinia.

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