On August 18, 1810, the island of Leon in the Gulf of Cadiz in the Mediterranean.

This is an island less than 10 kilometers away from the southern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. An ancient monastery erected on the island high ground, and it represents the temporary location of the Spanish resistance government, the Parliament of Cadiz.

With the brilliant victory of Sueche and Desai in Spain and Portugal in a series of glorious victories, Marshal Sirte, who was inspired, also increased the encirclement and suppression of various rebels in the Andalusian region. As the location of the Spanish resistance camp, Cadiz is facing an increasingly strengthened continued offensive by the French army, and most of the city is under the terrorist threat of heavy artillery by the French army. For security reasons, the members of the parliament accepted the suggestion of the interim Speaker Earl Tolero and temporarily transferred the field to the island of Leon to avoid the French firepower.

There were 115 members of the parliamentary meeting, and 14 were absent from the middle due to illness or other reasons. Within the entire Cadis Parliament, the reform and progressives had rapidly expanded their power due to strong support from the British cabinet and occupied two-thirds of the majority. Similarly, the conservatives became minorities and their power weakened, with only about 30 people.

In accordance with the "rationalization suggestions" of the British Cabinet and the British envoy (the fact is forced), starting from late June, more than 100 representatives of the Cadiz Parliament had a heated discussion on the issue of how to formulate the constitution. Because the wings of the time traveler were inciting, the time of the convening of this constitutional conference was nearly two months ahead of the original history.

In July, the Cádiz parliament appointed the Regent, headed by General Brock, to perform several functions of the Spanish resistance to the government. However, the Regent's voice was weak and most of the power was still in the Parliament and the various Parliament committees.

In August, the Constituent Assembly of Cadiz passed the Publishing Act with a vote of 68 to 33, which initially determined that the Spanish people enjoyed the freedom of speech and publishing. However, in terms of abolishing the feudal lord system, abolishing the feudal privileges of landlords, formally recognizing the identity of non-noble officers, and other sensitive core issues, the opinions of conservatives and radicals were severely different, so the discussion became a debate, and the debate became arguing, and the debate was deadlocked.

As a member of the South American colony (American faction), 28-year-old Simon Bolivar is tired of the endless debate and noise in the Constitutional Assembly. Two months ago, he originally visited London as a diplomatic envoy to the Governor of the Venezuelan colony, but a week ago, Simon Bolivar suddenly received an inexplicable appointment.

According to this appointment, he had become a member of the parliament representing the Venezuelan colony and would attend the ongoing constitutional conference of the Cádiz parliament. It was the former colonial parliamentary who unfortunately died of illness on his journey. Like other Western colonial representatives (Americans), Bolivar did not play any role in the parliament at all, and no one was willing to respect their opinions.

For Bolivar, he had a very controversial experience. Eight years ago, Bolivar, who was only 20 years old, served as the first ruler of the republican France. Now the emperor of the French Empire, Napoleon Bonaparte, was the attendant of the attendant of Napoleon Bonaparte. At that time, Simon Bolivar admired Napoleon's talents and achievements very much, and fell in love with Paris frantically. But soon, General Napoleon became emperor, and Bolivar despised his personal ambitions in public, and then broke the heroes of the Great Revolution era.

Bolivar's personality is complex and interesting: distinctive, brave, and romantic. He is handsome and handsome, talented, and has many romantic events. He did not participate in the discussion meeting this afternoon, and used the excuse of physical discomfort to go to the beach to enjoy the scenery.

Standing on the top of the cliff, looking at the waves hitting the huge rocks on the shore violently, one wave after another, feeling the caress of the cool sea breeze and listening to the rapid breathing of the waves. Gradually, Bolivar found himself blending with the sea in front of him.

Suddenly, he remembered his generous oath on Mount Sacro, Rome, Italy: As long as his motherland, Venezuela will not escape the colonial rule of the Spanish Kingdom and be liberated, he will fight for the whole day. However, what is ridiculous is that he is now fighting for the Spanish predicament. Opposite the island of Leon, the port of Cadiz under the French siege still rumbling.

When the bronze bell on the monastery bell rang at 2:00 p.m., Bolivar decided to go to the noisy vegetable market (Constitutional Convention) and at least fulfilled the duties of the colonial MP, although it seemed too boring.

When he turned from the cliff to the road, he saw a luxurious four-wheeled convertible carriage sailing towards the monastery. Bolivar knew the carriage, which belonged to the Speaker Earl Tolero. But the person sitting in the carriage was not the Speaker Earl who was presided over the meeting in the monastery, but a stranger. Aptly speaking, it was a French colonel in a red, white and blue uniform, accompanied by Member Paracius.

Bolivar frowned slightly, thinking in his heart: "Two months ago, did the Cádiz parliament pass a collective resolution to hold any form of peace talks with France before the French army withdrew from the Iberis Peninsula? Why did the French envoys allow to come to Leon today, and did not cover the French colonel's eyes with black cloth strips."

Jose Passel, who was sitting in the Speaker's carriage, also noticed the colonial MPs on the roadside, which were white ribbons wrapped around the other party's waist representing the MPs, and the colonial badges were retained on one side of the brim of the hat. Both of them were nobles. After looking at each other, Passel and Bolivar slid over the hat with their right hands, saluting and greeting each other.

"Who is he?" After the carriage drove past the colonial MP standing by the road for hundreds of meters, Passel asked to the confidant of Speaker Parasius who accompanied him to Speaker Cadiz.

"Your Excellency, he is Simon Bolivar, a colonial parliamentary from Venezuela!" Paracius said respectfully. Just as he treated the Earl of the Speaker, he smiled flatteringly at the envoy of Duke Hruna.

"Bolival!?" Passel said twice and recalled some records of this person by the Special Archives of the Military Intelligence Bureau. The so-called special archives were the head of the Intelligence Analysis Department of the Military Intelligence Bureau at that time. Major Passel asked intelligence agents from all over the country to pay close attention to hundreds of important figures in accordance with the special order of Duke Hruna.

"If possible, can you convey to me that at noon tomorrow, I would like to invite this Simon Bolivar member to lunch alone." The French envoy made a seemingly rude request to the Member Paracius who accompanied him.

"Of course there is no problem! Those members from the colonies do nothing every day. He will definitely not, and he will not dare to refuse your kind invitation!" The members who accompanied him said flatteringly.

In Parasius's opinion, Duke Hruna's envoy should have taken a fancy to some specialties of the colony. Since Colonel Passel arrived in Cadiz on a boat the day before yesterday, his primary job was to spend a lot of time to visit ocean merchants from colonies in the Mediterranean islands, Asia, North Africa and South America, and signed a series of trade transportation and procurement contracts with them.

In order to dispel the concerns of merchants, the Duke's envoy directly used gold as settlement currency with an incredible high price (relatively), and also prepaid some of the gold in advance, purchasing commodities including natural rubber, cinchona frost, cotton, tea, saltpeter, sulfur, bird droppings, volcanic ash, and some seemingly useless ores.

Just like, the plenipotentiary diplomatic envoy representing the Duke of Hruna, the first police minister in Manresa's cabinet, became a minister of state who served in economy and trade. Of course, he was also the "French" most popular among colonial merchants and ocean ship owners.

However, Colonel Passel's ultimate mission (has been promoted to two levels) is obviously not just these. The above-mentioned business events are nothing more than handling according to the instructions of Duke Hruna and Prime Minister Say. The main purpose of his trip was to urge the Parliament of Cádiz and the Regent to accept the peace proposals proposed by Duke Hruna two weeks ago or the threat of war.

Since Desai decided to completely eradicate Catalonian restless forces led by Amat, Colonel Passel, the police minister of Manresa's cabinet, was appointed by the Duke of Hruna to be fully responsible for the matter. During this period, the Ministry of Military Security, the Military Intelligence Bureau, the local security regiment, and even the cabinet government led by Say will cooperate fully.

If you want to resolutely and thoroughly cleanse all rebellious forces, you must start from the political, military and diplomatic parties, which is a comprehensive consideration of Colonel Passel. Among them, political affairs are mainly the specific responsibility of the Manresa Cabinet; in terms of military, the Ministry of Military Police and the Security Force are working together to prepare; in terms of diplomacy and intelligence, the Bureau of Military Intelligence and the Ministry of Police are also working secretly.

The external forces supporting Bishop Amat mainly come from three aspects: first, the British cabinet, especially the British Foreign Secretary Richard Wellesley, who was strongly hostile to Andrew Desay; second, the Roman Catholic Church, whose special envoy to Manresa, always did not agree to the removal of Amat's Bishop Barcelona; third, the parliamentary government of Cadiz, representing the Spanish rebels, was loyal to Bishop Amat, and his Catalan rebels, still entrenched on the island of Palma descent in the Mediterranean (Balleari Islands) and refused to surrender to Duke Gruna.

Now, the above situation has undergone major changes. In just one month, 25,000 soldiers from the Desay Division advanced rapidly. Under the command of the Duke of Hruna, they surrounded and annihilated the Spanish army, captured the Evora Fortress, conquered the mountain defense line, and forced arriving in Lisbon. In order to avoid the 40,000 British Expeditionary Force and 30,000 Portuguese friendly forces, and at the same time, they were trapped in the huge clamp-shaped encirclement of the two French troops, the British Foreign Minister had to lower his high head.

Before rushing to Lisbon for negotiations, Richard Wellesley also needed to communicate and report with the Prime Minister's Cabinet in Downing Street and the Parliament Building in Whitehall. Before this, he had written to his younger brother, the British ambassador to Portugal, instructing Henry to make a clear statement in his early negotiations with Andrew Desay that the Imperial Mediterranean Fleet and the British Cabinet would not interfere in the internal affairs of Catalonia-Aragorn. The only premise is that the Desay Division shall not take the initiative to attack the British-Portugal coalition forces in the north.

At the same time, the unshakable firm stance of the Roman Catholic Church began to loosen. In addition to the rapid fall of Lisbon, the reason was that in addition to the rapid fall of Lisbon, the cardinals who presided over the Privy Council of the Holy See, the most important thing was that Pope Pius VII, who was imprisoned by Napoleon in Savona Castle, sent a secret letter to the Privy Council of the Roman Catholic through a devout Catholic.

The specific content of the secret letter is unknown, but the next day, the cardinals secretly passed a resolution in the Privy Council, accepting the candidate for the Archbishop of Catalonia appointed by the Duke of Gruna. As for Bishop Amat, who enjoys a high prestige among the Barcelona nobles, they will only remain as the regional bishop of Barcelona.

After clearing the above two obstacles, Desai and Pasceller focused on the Cádiz parliament, which is currently the only support for the rebel forces in Barcelona. For this reason, the spies of the Military Intelligence Agency began to spread a large number of rumors in Cadiz and other places, claiming that the Desai division was about to end the Portuguese war. After handing over Lisbon's defense to Madrid, Duke Hruna rushed eastward soon and headed to the southern coast of Spain to participate in Marshal Sirte's Andalusian theater, and besieged the rebel forces, including Cadiz.

This rumor that was difficult to distinguish between true and false immediately caused great panic in the Cádiz parliament. Now, under the fierce attack of the French army of Sirte, the Cádiz government army is in danger. If the elite Desai division that can compete for combat is good, the biggest nemesis of the Spanish army, who joins again, will inevitably repeat the mistakes of Sevilla.

The only thing that is thankful is that the French army commanded by Desay has not taken action yet, but his plenipotentiary, Colonel Passel, has rushed to the island of Leon, waiting for negotiation and compromise with the Cádiz parliamentary government, or to conduct a sinful deal.

On the evening of August 18, the interim Speaker Count Tolero ended the Constitutional Assembly early. He secretly convened several core members of the parliamentary government, including the Prime Minister of the Regent, General Brock, who represents the interests of the military; the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, the leader of the progressive faction; the Deputy Chairman of the Finance Committee, the main representative of the conservatives, Earl Belarus Osto; the Spanish Cardinal, Louis de Boert, who always held a neutral position; and the interim Speaker Count Tolero, who was on the left in the middle.

After more than 8 hours of overnight discussion, these five members of parliament who actually took charge of the 300,000 resistance army of the Kingdom of Spain finally made a painful choice to split the Kingdom of Spain.

They will represent His Majesty Pedinan who is under house arrest and tens of millions of Spanish nationals, and publicly recognize Andrew Desai's supreme rule over the three regions under his control or will be under control. At the same time, Desai will also make a written guarantee that 15 years later, that is, in August 1825, the final ownership of the above three places will be voted by the people of Catalonia, Aragon, and Valencia.

In other words, the Cádiz parliamentary government will maintain a reciprocal friendly relationship with the Manresa government. The former no longer openly or secretly incites and supports any forces against the rule of the Duke of Hruna; in exchange, the various troops commanded by Desai no longer participate in the suppression of the Spanish government forces (guerrillas) loyal to His Majesty Pedinan and Cadiz.
Chapter completed!