On April 15, 1863, the Kingdom of Sardinia passed a nationwide referendum, electing Napoleon III as king and drawing back the curtain on France's annexation of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Without question, this referendum could not possibly have involved the entire populace. Those qualified to vote were all prominent figures in society who supported France.
More than six hundred representatives of the Kingdom of Sardinia unanimously elected Napoleon III as king. Multiply that number by ten thousand, round it off, and it became the entire Sardinian populace electing Napoleon III as king.
Before this, everyone implicated in the regicide case had already been tried. The dead were dead, the imprisoned were imprisoned, and those who fled were wanted.
In short, regicides had to go to hell. That was the shared will of every monarchist nation.
As for the truth of the matter, it was no longer important. Every last trace had been dealt with by the French. Overturning the verdict was impossible.
Those who had escaped disaster from prison were all smart people. At the first opportunity, they had cooperated with the French.
To put it bluntly, everyone knew that the so-called suspects were absurd from the start. Those who had truly been involved had either fled or been executed.
Now that the French wanted to annex the Kingdom of Sardinia, they naturally had to purge dissidents. But they needed a pretext; they could not simply kill people at will, could they? Taking the opportunity to fabricate false and unjust cases was a pretty good method.
Now that all the foreign delegations had left the Kingdom of Sardinia, with the French dominating the scene alone, naturally everything was theirs to decide.
Once the referendum results emerged, the international community was naturally in an uproar. The nations had tacitly accepted France's