Rebirth of the Spanish Empire

While the major political giants in the United States are talking about the talent war because of the center bomber, they are also arguing over this matter in the UK.

Churchill believed that Britain should move slightly closer to the United States, so that Spain could understand that Britain was a world power with the most important influence on Russia, and let Spain show more respect when facing Britain.

The Fisher people believe that they should be on good terms with Spain and buy this type of aircraft. Therefore, the two sides are at loggerheads on this issue.

Foreign Secretary Edward. Gray and Lord Chancellor Lloyd. George was on Fisher's side, and Richard, Secretary of War? Haldane, Home Secretary, stood with Winston, the Business Secretary. Churchill changed.

The only ones left are Asquith and Edward VII. [

The reason why Foreign Secretary Gray did this is naturally from a diplomatic perspective. Spain is a big European country. Britain is in Europe, and to a large extent, whether it goes south or east through the Mediterranean, The United Kingdom must deal with Spain, and more importantly, Spain is only inferior to the British power in the Indian Ocean, and is even stronger than the British in the Pacific. In these two comparisons, the British Why is there no friendship with Spain? This is why Britain and Spain formed a secret alliance. It is precisely based on this that, in the view of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain is the best ally to safeguard British interests.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd. George's view is that Spain is now the largest economy in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. The Spanish are famous for their wealth. Many British companies are working hard to expand the great Spanish market and control it with those in the United States. The capitalists in Congress are different. Everything there is determined by the interests of the capitalists. Not only do British industrial products encounter strong opponents everywhere, there are also reasons for political assistance to enterprises, which makes the British face difficulties there. Fair treatment, and Spain has the same country-to-country, government-to-government, and business-to-business competition system as the UK. Naturally, Spain is more in line with the ideal partner of the British industry, and more importantly, now Spain is already a technologically advanced exporter than the United States in many aspects.

British companies can learn more of Spain's advanced technology, instead of absorbing British advanced technology and using it to compete with Britain like the United States, and even bringing British talents to the United States.

In his eyes, Spain's technology is more advanced than that of British companies, and British companies' technology is more advanced than that of the United States. Naturally, Britain looks to Spain and is unwilling to let the United States learn its own technology and let them catch up with it. The principle is as simple as this. Therefore, from an economic perspective, he prefers Spain to the United States.

Haldane's reason is simpler. Naturally, on the issue of military expenditures of Churchill, the Minister of Commerce, Churchill is a strong supporter of the Army's increase in military expenditures and opposes the expansion of the Navy's military expenditures. This is equivalent to Churchill being the Army's member of the cabinet. He was an implicit ally in China, and such an ally should naturally support him. Therefore, he was happy to see Churchill arguing with Fisher of the Navy, because only in this way could Churchill be tied to an Army tank to pay for the Army's military expenses. Serve.

Asquith's attitude is very ambiguous. From a standpoint, he should support Churchill. After all, many people know that Churchill is his confidant. It is precisely because of this that many people see Asquith. Si was very surprised when he sat there silently.

In fact, Asquith was also in trouble because before this meeting, they had already held a meeting of three people, Edward VII and the Foreign Secretary Edward. Gray.

It is precisely because his view of leaning closer to the United States was criticized by Edward VII that he has now chosen to shut up.

Seeing those strange looks, he could only smile bitterly in his heart, but at the same time, he pretended that the matter had nothing to do with him.

"Cough cough cough cough" Edward VII wanted to cough out the stuffy feeling in his heart, but the choking inside made him unable to stop.

"Let's stop this matter. Put it aside for now. I plan to personally talk to Alfonso XIII during the meeting in Copenhagen on May 1st, and then make a decision. There are other things we should be concerned about. Yes, in the Philippines and Cuba, the independence activities currently being protested by people in the two places have intensified. Please tell me what should be done next."

"Your Majesty, I think that since they know no good, we should send troops to suppress them, so that they will calm down after seeing blood." When speaking, Secretary of War Haldane said that the navy is the most important thing that Britain relies on. This is something that the whole world knows. It can be said that the Army has been suppressed by the Navy for hundreds of years. Although he does not want the Army to catch up with the Navy's position in the British side, at least, He believed that the Army should also develop a reputation in the world, so he never missed any opportunity for the Army to demonstrate its capabilities.

"Your Majesty, I think it is enough to use the navy as the main force for effective intimidation. After all, countries are now developing their economies rapidly. If we are hungry and suppress them and send out the army to carry out bloody suppression, then in the end, In the end, we are the ones who get hurt.”

"How do you say this?" Haldane looked at Fisher dissatisfied, his eyes full of provocation.

However, Fisher ignored the other party and only continued: "Look at the rapid economic development of Spain there, and the same is true of the German Empire. These are all based on the absence of war in the country, and those two places are our One of the economic growth points, the population there can consume our products and provide us with a lot of labor force. If it is a small conflict, it is okay, but if it is not handled well, it may become a national problem and become a comprehensive new conflict, at that time, our contribution will be huge, so I think we should learn from Spain’s policy of governing the colonies, and effectively appease them is the best policy.”

"Yes, this method is good, Prime Minister. I think this method of the Lord of the Navy is good and a feasible and good strategy."

Asquith naturally had no reason to object.

Haldane did not dare to object at this time, but instead looked at Churchill and said: "I agree too, by the way, Churchill, as you said last time, Spain's allies are all competing for this weapon. Doesn’t it mean that the Ottoman Empire is also interested in introducing it? Your Majesty, I think we should prevent them from obtaining such weapons. After all, this is very dangerous for our Middle East policy..."

"What, the Ottoman Empire actually wants this weapon, no, absolutely not, cough, cough, cough, Asquith, wait a minute, call Eugene and tell him that Britain does not want this kind of thing to happen there. Weapons, this is our bottom line..."[

"It seems that we really pushed them into a hurry and they started to get a little scared."

"This is understandable. Almost all of the British territory in the Middle East was built on the basis of the Ottoman Empire. In the hearts of the Ottoman Empire, if Russia helps Serbia, Bulgaria and other countries to become independent, it is If the Ottoman Empire is the first enemy, then what the British do in the south is definitely the second enemy of the Ottoman Empire. The British know that they have something evil in their hearts, so they are naturally afraid that the Ottoman Empire will become stronger. Hehe, Your Majesty, this can be regarded as our A trump card for us”

"You want to say that we can use the Ottoman Empire as a bargaining chip with the British. When the British are tough on us, we will buy more weapons for the Ottoman Empire to make the British headache. If the British are more friendly to us, If our requirements are met, we can appropriately reduce this kind of arms sales. In short, we can use the Ottoman Empire as our arms purchaser, which can be a bargaining chip that other countries will be afraid of."

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister, I think there is more than that"

There are only three people in the conference room now, Alfonso XIII, Prime Minister Eugene, and Foreign Minister Trini.

"Oh, I'd love to hear the details."

Trini's diplomatic ability is obvious to all in Spain and even the international community, so his words are, to a large extent, very informative. Alfonso and others naturally want to hear his opinions.

"I think we can also kidnap Russia. Since Britain is so afraid that we will sell weapons to the Ottoman Empire, we can also state our request, that is, Russia will deploy a large number of troops and weapons there to threaten the Ottoman Empire. Empire, so when the Ottoman Empire feels threatened, as one of its strategic partners, we are naturally obliged to help the other party. Therefore, in such a situation, I think if the Ottoman Empire puts all these weapons on the Russian-Austrian border If so, the British will naturally have no reason to say anything. In order to reduce the Ottoman Empire's arms purchases, the British should shift the pressure to Russia."

"The most important thing is that the Ottoman Empire has actually been kidnapped by us. As long as we sell weapons to them, they will see the United Kingdom, Russia and even Serbia increasing their weapons. Under this premise, The Ottoman Empire can only follow suit and purchase weapons, and our weapons sales ensure that we have another stable customer."

Alfonso naturally understands that this is feasible, because this is how the United States' Middle East policy will proceed decades later. At that time, it was a confrontation between Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries and Iran, but now it is replaced by the Ottoman Empire, Russia and the United Kingdom. Such a policy is even more Adaptation, after all, made the Ottoman Empire a more unified country.

"But what if the German Empire steps in?" Eugene said worriedly.

"This prime minister is relieved. Have you forgotten that the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire are also one of the sworn enemies because of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Under such premise, the German Empire dares to threaten its only ally and enemy with weapons. Do you have any dreams of your own?”

Today's first update was originally updated yesterday, but I haven't finished it yet, so I put it here. Today's third update is 9,000 words, and there are two more updates during the day.