Chapter 492: Conclusive Evidence (Recommended, please read!)

Chapter 493 The evidence is conclusive (recommended, please read it!)

"How is this possible?" The square-faced middle-aged man who raised the question before shook his head vigorously. "Mr. Pauly may go to the United States to escape, but he will never join the French!"

"Mr. Cesare, then why did he swallow up Chalmers' money to fund the Restoration Organization?" Bartolio said coldly.

"Obviously, Mr. Pauli went to the United States to retire." Girolamo immediately added, "He used the 25,000 pounds as a pension."

Everyone nodded:

"This is probably the only explanation."

"He may have also received some money from the French."

"This is not surprising. If he had not compromised, he would probably have been assassinated by the French."

Only Cesare still didn't want to believe it, but he couldn't find a reason to argue, so he just shook his head.

Girolamo put on a sad expression, looked around the crowd and said:

"Gentlemen, let's not talk about the money. I think of a more important thing. We will hold a riot in Calgès soon. If Mr. Paoli hooks up with the French, the riot will become very dangerous. ”

Bartolio immediately frowned and nodded:

"You are right. But the riot has been prepared for a long time. If it is canceled based on our suspicions, other members of the organization may not agree."

The Corsican Restoration Organization has a large number of people, with nearly 40 members of parliament and important leaders in total. The seven of them alone have no power to change the riot plan.

Girolamo pretended to think for a while, looked at a few people and said, "I have an idea. But it may make Mr. Bartolio take responsibility."

"You tell me, I will do whatever you want for the restoration of the country."

"On behalf of the people of Corsica, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you." Girolamo patted him and continued, "You are responsible for liaison with London. You can tell Mr. Paoli that Calgese is out of business. There were some accidents, and after everyone discussed it, it was agreed that the date of the riot should be advanced three days.

"And the rest of us are not allowed to leave here from now on to ensure that the news doesn't leak out.

"If the French are prepared by then, it means Mr. Pauly betrayed us."

Bartolio suddenly frowned deeply. If there is nothing wrong with Paulie, then he is betraying the organization by doing this. But if Paulie really colludes with the French, he can save a large number of members of the Zionist organization who participated in the riot.

He quickly made a decision, nodded and said:

"Okay! I agree with your plan and am willing to bear the consequences."

He firmly believes that Poly has embezzled everyone's funding, so what he does will only serve the organization.

Half a month later...

As soon as the sky dawned, hundreds of people with their arms wrapped in red cloths carrying unknown objects silently poured into the Cargès City Hall, with people joining them constantly along the way.

When they arrived in front of the city hall, the leader took out a long strip of something from the cloth bag behind his back and waved it vigorously. Before they could shout, a large number of troops suddenly appeared all around - due to the Corsican decree It is not smooth and police reform has not been carried out so far, so public security is still the responsibility of the army - surrounding people wearing red cloth strips and pointing flintlock guns at them.

Immediately, an officer shouted: "I order them all to be arrested for rioting."

As soon as he finished speaking, several people wearing red cloth banners protested tremblingly:

"Sir, we just came to the city hall to ask for an increase in wages."

"You have wronged us. We really did not engage in riots."

"You see, we are just poor porters..."

As he spoke, he took out a wooden sign from the cloth bag and raised it with the words "3 francs monthly increase" written on it.

The officer was a little confused and ordered someone to check. Sure enough, he found that everyone was carrying wooden signs, banners and the like, without any weapons.

He had no choice but to take away the first few people for questioning, while the others could only be sent away.

That afternoon.

In Girolamo's home, seven members of the National Restoration Organization were sitting around casually with gloomy faces.

After a long while, Girolamo broke the silence: "We must thank Mr. Bartorio for saving the Restoration Organization."

After hearing this, everyone nodded to Bartolio to show respect. If he hadn't tested Pauli, hundreds of members of the organization involved in the riot would have been arrested.

"I just did what I had to do."

The latter waved his hands tiredly, and then said in a cold voice:

"It is now clear that Paulie betrayed everyone. I only told him that the riot would be three days in advance, so he must have leaked the news to the French!"

Everyone nodded in agreement with this conclusion, but in fact they fell into a blind spot in their thinking——

Although no one involved in the planning that day had left the room, the matter of rioting three days in advance could be discussed in advance and Girolamo would bring it up. The Corsican army just waited for the date to go to Carrese to perform.

This time, even Cesare, who had trusted Pauli the most before, remained silent. He lowered his head and clenched his fists, his eyes filled with anger.

Bartolio continued:

"I believe that Oscar Pauli can no longer be allowed to serve as the leader of the Zionist organization, and he should be expelled from the organization!"

Girolamo didn't expect that his lines would be snatched away again, so he hurriedly added:

"I agree! It has always been us who have taken risks to promote the Restoration Movement, while Paoli has only been hiding in England to give orders. Now he has betrayed us!"

Cesare also shouted:

"He is not worthy of leading the organization! Get him out!"

Battorio nodded and sighed:

"Then we will contact other members separately and expel Paoli at the next rally!"

The next day.

The seven Corsican members reunited at Girolamo's house. There were six more senior members of the Restoration Organization and a middle-aged man with gold-rimmed glasses and a slightly fat body.

Battorio bowed to the middle-aged man with glasses and then introduced him to everyone:

"This is Mr. Chalmers. He is very famous in Scotland. I think everyone should have heard of his name."

More than a dozen people in the room greeted Chalmers respectfully.

This is the "big brother" who once spent 25,000 pounds on the organization. Everyone seemed extremely attentive and enthusiastic.

Chalmers nodded in return, then his expression became serious, and he said in a deep voice:

"I recently came to Ajaccio to invest in vineyards, but I heard about Mr. Pauli, which made me very sad and angry!"

He raised his arms again and said in a high voice:

"But the great cause of national restoration cannot be interrupted by him alone! Here, right in front of me, there are many brave national restoration fighters."

He looked around at everyone:

"So, I decided to take out another 20,000 pounds to help everyone run for Corsica parliament next year! This time without the obstruction of that bastard Pauli, the national restoration forces will definitely be able to control the parliament in one fell swoop!"