My Italy

There is something unusual about Heraklion today. The residents have complicated expressions and are talking quietly among themselves. If someone they don’t know breaks in, they should immediately separate and go their separate ways. If the local residents do this, of course something big will happen.

Just last night, the secret police of the Republic arrested more than 20 government officials, including Deputy Speaker Burgan, Education Minister Sparks, and Agriculture Minister Beshim, on the grounds that they were running a secret political party with the intention of overthrowing the government by force.

How could such a big event not surprise the public? Whether they believed it or not, this incident made people stare with their eyes wide open, waiting for the follow-up results.

Of course, for ordinary people, they can only pay attention to the development of the matter. They are not even qualified to know the truth of the whole matter. But for some people, it's a different story.

As long as you pay attention to the daily remarks of the more than 20 people who were arrested, you will find that these people are pro-Greek.

Yes, the group of people close to Greece were also the former Unionists. Even though Crete has established a republic and is no longer the same country as Greece, there is still a group of people in Crete who believe that Crete’s independence is a mistake and is creating division in front of the Greeks. It would be best if Crete turned its back on darkness and merged with Greece into one country.

In fact, these people have always been the targets of severe suppression by President Solari and Parliament Speaker Hibok. Of course, it is very rare to directly arrest them like this. Because these people have a popular base, you need to think twice before moving against them.

Of course, another reason is that these people not only have connections with Greece, but also know how to leverage their strength and have connections with Britain and France.

In the final analysis, Crete was in a good position, although Italy came out on top and exerted sufficient influence on the new Cretan regime. But we must also note that under pressure from Britain, France and other countries, Italy did not even have a single soldier stationed in Crete, which is also very revealing.

This time, in addition to the support of Italy behind them, the attack on these pro-Greek factions was also due to the fact that Greece was defeated by the Ottomans.

After Greece declared war on the Ottomans, these pro-Greek factions jumped up and down, trying to push the Republic of Crete to join the war. These people don't care that there are only about 8,000 people in Crete, including the military and police. Even if they are mobilized, it is only about 20,000 people, and they want to join the war. As the name suggests, it’s time for Osman to pay his blood debt with blood.

Fortunately, President Solari and Speaker of Parliament Hibok, both of whom had great foresight, rejected his rude motion. Then Greece's performance was really ugly. It was defeated by the Ottomans and signed a treaty of defeat.

This made the pro-Greek faction injured for a while, and the most direct consequence was that the number of people who supported them dropped by nearly 10,000.

As for the arrest of the pro-Greek faction this time, it was also carried out by President Solari's most trusted secret police after they relaxed their vigilance. The effect was very good. None of the 21 targets escaped. This time the secret police made a great contribution.

At the center of many people's discussions, President Solari and Parliament Speaker Hibok were asking questions to the people in front of them. This person is Lieutenant Colonel Bilawal Diouf, head of the secret police.

"Have they all recruited?"

Parliament Speaker Hibok asked the lieutenant colonel anxiously. He couldn't help but be impatient, as this matter would become a scandal and would set him on fire. But it won’t work if you don’t do it. If you don’t take advantage of this opportunity, it will be difficult to have such a good opportunity in the future.

"Currently, nine people have confessed, and four others have wavered. If we work harder, we should be able to capture them. The remaining eight people are still gritting their teeth and won't let go. We are working hard."

After listening to Lieutenant Colonel Diouf's answer, Solari looked at his most trusted subordinate and spoke. "So have Burgan, Sparks, and Beshim confessed?"

It is obvious that what President Solari asked is the key question. These three are the leaders of the pro-Greek faction. As long as they confess, the people will believe it.

Faced with Solari's question, Lieutenant Colonel Diouf answered with some hesitation. "Beshim confessed, Burgan and Sparks have not."

Hearing Lieutenant Colonel Diouf's answer, Parliament Speaker Hiebke became anxious, "You have to speed up. No matter what method you use, we only need Burgan and Sparks to plead guilty. We can only give you three more seconds at most." You only have three days, if we can’t deal with these two people, then we won’t be able to end it.”

Hibok was already naked enough, and asked Lieutenant Colonel Diouf to use any method, as long as the result did not concern the process. As the head of the secret police, Lieutenant Colonel Diouf knew a lot of tricks, and this was letting go of his restrictions.

"Don't worry, President and Speaker, I will make them agree within two days."

"Others also need to confess. If there are still people who won't let go at that time, then they will commit suicide out of fear of guilt."

President Solari then added.

It can be seen that these two leaders of the Republic of Crete have dark hearts.

There was no way, the two of them were not so upright originally, and after tasting the sweetness of power, they would use any means to protect their own rights. Moreover, there are only 200,000 people in Crete. It is not that easy to produce politicians here.

But before the three of them could continue their conversation, the secretary's voice came from outside the door. "Your Excellency, the British Ambassador Hawley and the French Ambassador Moreira have requested to meet with you."

"Why so fast?"

Speaker Hibbock was surprised.

"For now, let's leave through the side door."

"Okay, let's leave first."

The Speaker and Lieutenant Colonel Diouf did not hesitate and immediately went out through the side door first.

As for President Solari, he rubbed his sore cheeks and replied. "Invite them in."

Within two minutes, the two ambassadors from Britain and France came to him with angry faces. "Your Excellency, President Solari, we need an explanation as to why your country suddenly arrested more than 20 government officials including Deputy Speaker Burgan, Education Minister Sparks, and Agriculture Minister Beshim. Is this a conspiracy?" ***, we need your answer.”

Faced with the British and French ambassadors who questioned him from the very beginning, Solari did not dare to attack these two people even if he was angry in his heart. Because he couldn't offend any of the British and French people behind him. As a small country with a population of only 200,000, Crete dared to offend these two representatives of the great powers.

"Two ambassadors, I think this is a misunderstanding. Our government also has evidence for arresting them. According to our understanding, Deputy Speaker Burgan, Education Minister Sparks, and Agriculture Minister Beshim had previously been arrested for Our country did not participate in the Greco-Turkish war, but has complaints. They believed that the government should not stay out of the matter, so they wanted to overthrow the government. Of course our government could not let them succeed, so we took them down preemptively."

Although Solari gave an explanation, the two of them didn't believe it at all. "Your Excellency, President Solari, no matter what crime you commit, you need evidence. We only believe in evidence. Please come up with evidence."

"Sorry, the evidence can't be shown to you two yet. It needs to be completed before the investigation is completed."

"Your Excellency, are we like three-year-old children?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean that, but please believe that the evidence will be shown to you two."

"You need to remember your words."

"Will do."

The two ambassadors left again with angry faces.

"Damn it, Diouf needs to move faster."