Calm Before The Storm II

In his study, Renaldo is currently talking to a man in full black tux and a bowler hat, this man is the leader of his spy organization, a nameless orphan in the past, Renaldo named him as Leandro Aragoncillo, a named based on a famous spy in the year 2007, famous for being a filipino spy based on the United States. Although he was captured, he still gave a lot of crucial information to the current Philippine President at the time.

Renaldo ordered Leandro to spread and fan the flames of revolution to various provinces in the Philippines, provinces that have experienced rampant corruption and oppression, he told him to go to the first 8 provinces that rose up against Spain in his past life, namely Manila, Cavite, Bulacan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Laguna and Batangas. Renaldo provided him with financial assistance and some outdated weapons (based on Renaldo's standards) comprised mostly of M93s and Remington Rifles and some krupp guns to arm the Revolution.

Leandro is going to use a different name and establish a Revolutionary Army in these various provinces and meet up with Renaldo's Army at Masbate Island to continue their liberation from Luzon to Visayas and Mindanao. These are the general plans but some things might not work their way, Renaldo also warned Leandro of betrayals from his own people so he should only establish and give high positions to people from his own organization. Although this will prevent the rise of the olden generals of Renaldo's past life, this is also the safest route as most if not all of those generals that rose up in that timelines have different agendas for themselves, just look at what happened during the Tejeros Convention which led to the creation of two factions in the middle of the war, namely the magdalo and the magdiwangs.

With these things settled, Leandro immediately went outside and started to procure the weapons given by Renaldo and to also gather his people and start his mission.

With these things out of the way, Renaldo went to his parent's room, to tell them about what is his plans for the future, as to prevent them from being shocked at his future endeavors.

In a room filled with a victorian style bed with a little bit of the catholic church's influence due to the various saints on the room's mini-altar, his mother and father are currently drinking coffee, his father recently fresh from retirement and his mother, busy taking a break after a tiring day of working at their business ventures in the guild.

At first, Renaldo engaged them with some small talk to lighten up things and to possibly make them let down their guard.

This went on for a few minutes until Renaldo turned serious all of a sudden and spoke up about his future plans and endeavors regarding his planned revolution.

His mother was shocked but supportive of his ideals because she grew up being influenced by the late Enrico, she was also yearning for indepence and inherited his love for the catholic church. Although she is still worried for Renaldo's well-being, especially when it comes to war, she knows that she can't stop her son for doing these things as he has prepared a lot for this day to come.

On the other hand, Renaldo's father Mauricio is having mixed feelings over the things that his son has exposed to them. He has recently retired from the Spanish Army, and is quite grateful towards the rewards bestowed to him by the monarchy. Seeing his son right at this moment, telling things to him that he deems as heresy towards the King of Spain, he is currently facing a dilemma regarding these things.

His son has been a very obedient, mature and intelligent kid throughout his childhood til now, with a really great promise towards his future undertakings, Mauricio greatly loves his son with all his heart, he is very proud of his son's achievements especially his very efficient inventions and methods that affected their financial stability alot to the point that they are currently the richest people in the country, his son is his pride and glory, the shining star in his life, and his greatest creation.

Yet right now, his son is currently planning to go against the monarchy that he has served his whole life from the day of eligibility to join til last month when he deemed that he is rich enough to not work at the army anymore, and instead focus on giving attention to his family. He is conflicted about the current situation on which side he should choose.

Seeing the pained face of his father, Renaldo approached the man and held his father's hands and looked at his eyes, all the while kneeling in front of the guy and said;

"Father, all my life you've always been busy being away in the army, you've seldom gave me and mother your attention and your time, the most time you gave us is when we eat breakfast together every sunday, you've given 4 decades of your life to the monarchy, you've served them for a long time and what has that gotten you? This piece of insignificant land they spitefully called a hacienda? Remember that before I introduced you the agricultural techniques and farming techniques to improve this land, you were struggling to make ends meet because this land was barren, with it's only financial income coming from some livestock? 40 years of serving the monarchy and the maximum rank that you've gained despite your participation in their war against the mexicans was the rank of sargento? With an annual salary of a measly amount just enough not to starve ourselves? Tell me father, what has the monarchy gave those pure Spanish soldiers that are less talented and less excellent than you? THEY WERE GIVEN HACIENDAS TWICE THE SIZE OF OURS, HACIENDAS THAT ARE SO ABUNDANT WE CAN'T EVEN DREAM OF HAVING THEM! Why are you still having these idiotic dreams of equality between us and them? Look around you! Everything you see, every money we earned, every food and clothing that we consumed and use right now came from our own hard work!" Renaldo clenched his teeth while holding his father's hands as firm as possible, to convey his feelings through the thick skull of this stubborn old man.

Looking at his surroundings and then taking a long look at his son, Mauricio sighed, relenting to his son's words and agreeing with everything he's said. Mauricio then took a long breath and puffed up his chest and said;

"I hope that you won't regret your decisions today son. I will use my connections to help you in this war, and I'm also willing to lead your army if necessary"

"There's no need to use your connections father, but you leading an army is probably a good call, A few months from now, I will give you the command of 10,000 russian mercenaries, half of the mercenaries hired by lolo's guild. They will be yours to command and your primary objective will be to sweep northward from here in Navotas up to the babuyan islands, on the way though, you will also be tasked on absorbing people who are willing to take up arms to fight against the Spaniards. After sweeping every Spaniards, you will establish a stronghold on the province of Ilocos Norte, and it is also your job to convert the babuyan islands into a big port island that will be our main port up north which will defend us from invaders if the they ever come. I will give you the blueprints to build the stronghold and the port make sure to follow them to the tiniest detail as it will be crucial to our future defense systems."

Renaldo stood up and reached out to his bag and gave a map and some blueprints to hid father as he said;

"Also, there are certain points of interests along the way that are marked on this map, these points of interests contains foods, weapons and combat vehicles that will smoothen your campaign and will help you in your mission father. I will give you several of my men, one of them, Sergio, will be your strategic advisor and the rest will become the officers in your army that will handle the mercenaries as well as the people that you will absorb along the way.

Mauricio was a bit overwhelmed with the amount of preparation Renaldo has poured into this revolution of his, from simple logistics to even strategic advisors, Mauricio thinks that his son has truly prepared this for a long time, he guessed that this is probably what his father in law and his son were talking about most of the time, it was a pity though that Enrico isn't here to see his preparations bear fruit.

Seeing two of his most beloved men in this manner, Marilou is somewhat affected by this atmosphere, she immediately asked her son;

"Can I help you with anything Renaldo my baby?"

"Actually mother, there is something you can help me with, I hope you help me make this flag and also help me find some musicians that will help me make this song that I made for the revolution, the musicians are responsible for following the music and then a singer is also required to sing these lyrics that I made" Renaldo said, lying through his teeth as the design of the flag is the same as the one in his past life and the song is the national anthem of the Philippines in the past, he thought to himself;

"I'm sorry for those who truly contributed to making the flag and the national anthem but I'll take this one for myself as I will conduct the Revolution a lot earlier than expected."

With these orders and preparations, Renaldo then made his way to his study to make an overall war strategies and battleplans for the liberation of the Philippines a few months from now.