Holy Roman Empire

Hearing the appalling figure of "300 million Aegis", if Wesenberg had not been used to seeing strong winds and waves, the wine in his mouth would have to come out.

Frankly speaking, at this moment, he really wants to counter-offer "3 million." Just considering that doing so is too trifling, and it hurts my stalwart image.

"Your Excellency, you are joking! Throughout human history, there has never been such an expensive colony transaction.

Valuable land in Morocco only accounts for half. According to your quote, the average unit price per square kilometer of land is as high as 150 Aegis.

At this price, you can buy land in your country. Except for the surrounding areas of the city, most of your country’s rural land is at this price. "

This is an exaggeration. Although the land in Spain is not valuable, it is not as cheap as 150 Aegis per square kilometer.

Unless it is the worst mountain area, if you count the areas that cannot be cultivated, it is estimated that you can buy it.

No matter how bad the land is, as long as you can buy it. According to the standards of this year, land in Europe must be the most expensive.

In the absence of special resources, the worst mountains in Spain are also more expensive than fertile lands in Morocco.

This price is determined by market supply and demand. Compared with the sparsely populated colonies, Europe has more people and less land, and the price of land will naturally rise accordingly.

Brad was unmoved and said: "If you simply calculate the value of the land, the Moroccan area is really not worth 300 million Aegis. But if you add the strategic value and the political value, it is completely different.

Your country has secured the Moroccan region and locked the gateway to the Western Mediterranean and can easily shut out the British.

After turning the Mediterranean Sea into an inland sea, your country is inherently invincible in the following international competition.

If your country is willing, you can also take the opportunity to buy Portuguese Africa. I think the Portuguese government will not refuse.

Everyone has withdrawn, and the British family alone will not last long. Sooner or later, the African continent will be in your pocket.

In addition to the strategic value, the political value is equally rich. The Holy Roman Empire, which sits on the Mediterranean Sea, is the real Roman Empire.

Reappearing the glory of the Roman era is definitely an important plus for your government. Don't you think you want to accomplish this great cause? "

It is impossible not to be tempted. If it weren't for worrying about the bad influence, the Vienna government would have already taken action on Morocco.

Napoleon’s lesson learned was that in order not to pull hatred, the Vienna government has always been cautious after becoming the European hegemon.

Knowing the significance of the Moroccan region, the Vienna government still restrained its desire, just to show it to European countries and show that its new master is harmless.

There is a reward for what you pay. After a political show, European countries' vigilance towards Shinra has dropped a lot.

The anti-Shenra alliance will finally not appear, but the Vienna government is also trapped by this, and it is difficult to continue to expand abroad.

If you can't expand, then don't expand. Shinra is already full anyway.

The current senior officials of the Vienna government are a group of old men, who have long passed the second year of secondary school, and they are completely at the forefront of the word "stable".

Knowing that taking the Moroccan region can win the name before and after a lifetime, it will bring a higher historical evaluation to oneself; but in order to avoid stimulating European countries and leading to the appearance of the anti-Shinra alliance, everyone just held back.

Facts have proved that this world is still "the prudent king". The more restrained the Vienna government, the more restless the Spanish government.

Especially after the Japanese-Western War, the Spaniards, who were severely beaten by the society, successfully realized their lack of strength and curbed their ambitions.

After several more rebellions, the fully sober Spanish government finally realized that Morocco was in their hands and that it was a hot potato.

Although the Spaniards have never heard the allusion of "carrying a crime", everyone still understands the truth.

Anyway, I can't eat it anyway, so I might as well take this opportunity to exchange a large sum of money from the Vienna government, and by the way, I can return the favor I owed to Shinra.

The added value brought by Morocco is too great. Even if this transaction requires money, the government of Vienna must take care of the Spanish government.

Facts are facts and must be recognized. As the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Shinra, Wesenberg can't do anything helpless.

"The Minister said rightly that the Moroccan region is indeed very meaningful to the Holy Roman Empire.

If possible, I would also like to agree to this deal, but your country’s appetite is really too great.

In any case, Morocco is an independent country. Your country has never really controlled this country. What you can trade with us now is only a nominal suzerainty.

The value of the Moroccan region is high. It was established under the complete control of your country, but now your country has not achieved this.

I also don’t ask your government to have complete control over Morocco. As long as you defeat the Kingdom of Morocco and establish a preliminary social order, we will be out of the 300 million Aegis.

If your government cannot do this, then at the highest premium, I can only give 30 million Aegis. "

The reserve price means that there is no reserve price. Before that, Wesenberg did not know that the Spanish were determined to sell the Moroccan region so much, and the Vienna government naturally had not discussed it.

Weissenberg is not sure how much the Moroccan region is worth without prior evaluation.

Besides, value has always been determined by demand. The more necessary, the higher the price that can be given, and a premium is a normal thing.

If you are not sure how much it is worth, just pay it back. Anyway, the most important thing in negotiation is to talk. Such a big deal is not buying vegetables at the vegetable market. A deal can be concluded in a few words.

For the Vienna government, the most important thing is to be able to get the Moroccan region without causing bad effects. The price is actually not important.

The Spaniards talked about the value of the Moroccan region to Shinra, and Wesenberg talked about control. Anyway, he can be sure that the Spanish government cannot take the Moroccan region.

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The reception has never been a secret place. The Spanish government wanted to sell the Moroccan region, but it never thought of keeping it secret.

Although it is determined that the Vienna government is the only buyer, there is no logic at all when politics is involved.

After spreading the news, if any country gets into the brain and jumps out to compete with Shinra, wouldn’t it be better to sell it at a good price?

Of course, the probability of this happening is too low. The main reason is that the Spanish government's asking price is too high. Even if someone wants to grab food, there is no money in their pocket!

"300 million Aegis" is more than a thousand tons of gold after conversion. There are only two countries in the world with this financial capability.

It just so happens that the two are in a state of competition, and it is not a day or two for the two countries to make trouble with each other. The purpose of the Spanish government is self-evident.

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London

Since receiving news that the Spanish intends to sell the Moroccan region, Prime Minister Robert Cecil has had a headache.

Frankly speaking, Robert Cecil is also a bad luck. As soon as he took office, he ushered in Britain's biggest competitor in three hundred years.

Compared with the current Holy Roman Empire, the Spain, the Netherlands, France, and Russia encountered before are all weak.

"The Spaniard wants to sell Morocco. What is going on? Why haven't we heard from it before?"

There is no doubt that this is nonsense. Britain and the West first formed a bridge on the Philippine issue, and then they became awkward on the Cuban issue.

As an old-school empire Spaniard, he also has a temper. No matter how much he hopes the British will jump out and raise the price, it is impossible to deliver it by himself.

Foreign Secretary Cameron: "The years of war have caused financial problems for the Spanish government, and the high debt has made them breathless.

In order to get rid of the financial crisis, they had to find a way to save themselves. Although the Moroccan region is nominally a Spanish colony, they have never really controlled it.

From the beginning of the colonial curtain to the present, the Spanish government's gains from the Moroccan region are far less than their contributions.

A colony that is not profitable is worthless. For the Spanish government, the Moroccan region is a piece of tasteless, but unfortunately discarded chicken ribs. "

"He's tasteless, my bear's paw."

The region of Morocco that is meaningless to the Spanish government has become invaluable in the eyes of Britain and Shinra.

Secretary of the Navy Flora: "Anyway, we can't let the Moroccan region fall into the hands of Shinra, otherwise everything in the Mediterranean will be ruined."

As the hegemon of the world, Britain has tentacles all over the world. In such an important area as the Mediterranean, the British naturally have a layout.

Half of Tunisia and the Maltese Islands are what the British cultivated in the Mediterranean.

In the early and mid-19th century, Britain even controlled the hegemony of the Mediterranean through these tentacles.

Unfortunately, glory is in the past. With the rise of France and Austria, Britain's hegemony in the Mediterranean was soon suppressed by the two regional hegemons.

In the Shinra era, the situation worsened. Not to mention hegemony, the main force of the Royal Navy dare not set foot in the Mediterranean easily.

If even Morocco had fallen into the hands of Shen Luo now, then the door of the Mediterranean would be completely closed to Britain. Malta and Tunisia, which were once military powerhouses, will also become meaningless.

Secretary of the Army Skeblu: "The Jazz is right. In any case, we must not let the Moroccan region fall into the hands of Shinra. We must break this deal, and it is best to take Morocco."

It is absolutely problematic that the positions of the army and the navy, which should have been opposed, suddenly become consistent.

In addition to major national interests, there is only military expenditure. Compared with the former, the energy of the latter is actually stronger.

"It's easy to win the Morocco region, as long as you are willing to spend money. The question is what should we do after we win the Morocco region?

Everyone knows what is happening in Africa. Our colony in South Africa has shrunk to the Cape of Good Hope; the colony in East Africa is now less than half of its peak.

Had it not been for the later period that we had stationed heavy troops to stabilize the situation, we would have been driven off the sea by those greedy barbarians.

Although Morocco has the Sahara Desert to block the enemy in the south, it also faces threats to the east. It happened to hold the door to the Mediterranean Sea again, and it was a battleground for military strategists.

It would be difficult to defend this land without 200,000 troops. If there is a war between us and Shinra, even if we deploy 500,000 troops, we will not be able to defend it. "

It's not that Cameron looked down on the Lobster Soldiers, but that the resources that Britain allocated to the Army were too small. Without noodles, how can we make bread?

Don't look down on Britain's wealth and wealth, but it is more of the accumulation left over from colonization for hundreds of years. By simply calculating the government's fiscal revenue, Britain has fallen far behind Shinra, even with colonization.

Under the background of fully developing sea power, to build another Continental Army will have to hollow out the British government.

The Secretary of the Army Skybrook said without buying it: "The difficulty is indeed great, but we have no choice, don't we?

Facing the Holy Roman Empire, the empire has already retreated and retreated. We have lost the European continent. If we lose the African continent again, what is left of the empire?

Maybe everyone thinks that the empire has little interest in Africa, and if you lose it, you lose it. Anyway, we still have Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.

However, the enemy's strength became stronger day by day, but the empire was declining in continuous retreat.

It won’t be long..."

Whether it is fact or alarmist. It is an indisputable fact that Britain is going downhill.

The Victorian era was the pinnacle of Britain, and it was also the beginning of the decline from prosperity. With the rise of Shenluo, it has come to the era of the replacement of new and old overlords.

As an old-school empire, if Britain does not want to decline, it must find a way to hold down the Shenra.

The British government has worked very hard, but it is hard to beat the general situation. Facing the pressing Shinra, Britain seemed very passive.

After hesitating for a while, Prime Minister Robert Cecil slowly said: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent someone to reveal to the Spanish government that the empire intends to buy the Moroccan region.

At the same time, news was released to the outside world that Shinra was threatening the Spanish government and wanted to occupy Morocco. Create public opinion pressure on the Vienna government.

When necessary, the empire can stand up and openly support the Spanish troops to occupy the Moroccan region and disrupt their negotiation process as much as possible.

Even if they couldn't stop them from reaching a deal in the end, it wouldn't allow Shinra to easily take the Moroccan region. "

Knowing that it was the calculation of the Spanish government, Robert Cecil had to cooperate. From the standpoint of Britain, it would rather be cheaper for the Spanish than for the Holy Roman Empire to easily gain access to Morocco.

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