Rebirth of the Spanish Empire

Lafite asked about whether the Spanish government's diplomatic direction in the next five years will mainly focus on its allies? Whether it is the expansion of new allies or coordination and competition with major powers, this has attracted the attention of all concerned about this aspect, especially the ambassadors of foreign countries.

Alfonso didn't keep everyone present waiting for long, but after a pause, he answered immediately.

"Allies"

Gu Weijun and the others saw that Spain's allies and major powers all smiled relaxedly, but they were also very understanding. After all, although Yuan Shikai's reasons have caused uncertainty between the Republic of China and Spain, as far as the southern "government" is concerned, Spain is a real ally, especially in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian. In these three places, signs of Spanish aid and friendship can be seen everywhere.

As officials under Lu Xun's leadership, they were Lu Xun's very trusted and valued friends. Naturally, they also felt closer to Spain, which had always supported them, and viewed this matter from the perspective of the same allies. [

Although Spain has not lost touch with its major allies in recent years, it has continued to develop bilateral relations with its major allies to increase points. This is the reason why the major allies have always maintained relations with Spain.

However, although their allies also feel Spain's continued attention, Spain's foreign expansion in consecutive years has seen new allies appear one after another. As a result, these long-term allies feel that their only relationship with Spain is somewhat undermined by these. The country's assumptions diluted Spain's attention to them.

Especially like Portugal, which was originally the only one to enjoy the benefits of being a unique free trade ally with the Spanish economy, Portugal has now reached nearly 90% of its per capita economy.

However, as other countries, such as Chile, Ecuador, and even Siam, which are resource countries at the same time, joined in, their resources were imported into Spain, which reduced the importance of Portugal's economic share in Spain. Therefore, But the good thing is. After several years of development, Portugal has now moved beyond the point of making a living by selling resources and has become a semi-industrialized country. Together with the colonies of Angola and Mozambique, these two colonies are even larger than Spain itself. The input of resources allows them to receive a lot of benefits.

However, the worried attitude when they learned about Spain's many free trade agreements is still fresh in their memory, so they will not forget it. This is natural. Spain's old allies, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, are now in the same position as Portugal. The four major economic countries in South America have begun to lose their position on Spain's strategic chessboard in South America due to the addition of Venezuela, Colombia, and Mexico. , and it is also facing competition from these countries.

Now is the time when these countries are discussing how to respond. Gu Weijun and Lu Zhengxiang heard that the three countries of Mexico, Venezuela, and Mexico have now grouped themselves into a group to fight against the four old South American countries. Now they are seizing their respective positions deep in the heart of Spain and striving to receive more attention from the Spanish "government".

This is also the origin of the four Caribbean countries versus the four South American countries that are now circulated in major newspapers. The seven South American countries are like this. The Kingdom of Siam, the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Portugal, and the Rashid family on the Arabian Peninsula, which rules most of the Hijaz Kingdom, have already taken the initiative to prepare for the establishment of the Kingdom of Hijaz. Of course, the five countries of the Rashid Kingdom, and the twelve countries combined, naturally know what their mentality is.

So now hear the words of Alfonso XIII. Naturally, he breathed a sigh of relief. As for big countries such as Britain, Germany, France, Russia and the United States, the world is only so big and there are only so many independent countries. Spain's territorial expansion and the expansion of its allies in recent years have made them feel very complicated and worried. They are worried that the other party will set their sights on themselves and their colonies that day. Among them, France and Britain are the most worried. After all, although France has far fewer colonies than the United Kingdom, it is not much different from Spain's overseas territories except Antarctica.

Like Gabon and Central Africa, France knows that it is very helpless and can only passively accept Spain, a country that has far surpassed itself economically and has begun to be as good as and even surpassed its own military.

It is precisely because of this that it feels the biggest worry. Worried about the example of Spain being used in the Arabian Peninsula between Rashid and the Saudi family. It was used on its colonies, to divide its colonies, and to resist their French sovereign state. And then indirectly control these countries. Because of this, France became the most powerful country among all the great powers. The country most willing to see Spain refrain from expansion.

As for Russia, it is already suffering from Spain's entanglement with other powers in the Far East to break up their territory. This naturally makes them more aware of it, so it is not inferior to France. The same is true for the UK. Although the UK has continued to interact with Spain in the world in recent years, who doesn't know that global interests are the foundation of the UK's power. The continued expansion of Spain's global interests has threatened the UK's number one position in the world. status, so George V was always wary of Alfonso XIII, his cousin-in-law whom he valued very much.

As for Japan and the United States, they are a little disappointed. The reason for the loss of the United States is very simple. Compared with other big countries, it has more or less various colonies overseas. In the past few years, it has made a lot of gains. However, the United States is a very big country. exception.

It is true that due to the continuous suppression by Spain, he is still in the same state as a few years ago. Only the Hawaiian Islands and Wake Island continue to exist in the Pacific, and Alaska even feels the threat from the Far Eastern states now occupied by Spain, and even Therefore, due to Russia's practice of deploying only a small number of troops in the Far East, the Spanish army was shattered with one blow. However, the United States had to increase the Alaska Army to an unprecedented record of 10,000 troops out of the 160,000 troops. Knowing that there was no threat from Russia before, there were only a thousand troops there.

The United States has also completely lost the competition with Spain in South America. Now, only Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and other small Caribbean countries, as well as Argentina in South America, are economically isolated by the United States. It continues to stand by the side of the United States, and almost everything else has fallen into the arms of Spain (except for Brazil, which has a close relationship with the United Kingdom, and a few small Atlantic colonies of Britain, France, and Germany)

All of these have caused great trauma to the United States, and the U.S. "government" has a lot of resentment towards Spain for this. Of course, this is something deep in its heart.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the United States wants Spain to continue to expand, so that it will reduce Spain's attention to South America. They even hope that Spain will collide with other big countries in the expansion, and then fight Get up, this can reduce Spain's national power. In this case, the United States can even stand up and take revenge. Therefore, what Alfonso XIII of Spain said now made them feel disappointed.

Different from the same view as the United States, Japan's disappointment is that although the troubles with Spain in recent years have attracted a lot of criticism for Japan, it has also received benefits, such as Maluku in Dutch Indonesia. Islands, this allowed Japan to gain a base in Southeast Asia. Although Japan is still at war with Russia in the Russian Far East, with Japan's national power and military power, as long as other major powers in the world will not intervene In the war between them, they all even sided with Russia, so Japan can definitely benefit from Russia this time.

Therefore, Japan has already enjoyed its food. They were about to continue to show off their skills, but they were cooled down by Alfonso XIII's words. This made the Japanese ambassador wonder how to call Tokyo back later, because before, he had also received a request from Tokyo. He continues to seek to strengthen the land-grabbing cooperation between Japan and Spain. Now it's better, but Spain's withdrawal makes him don't know what to do.

As for the Republic of China, Spain's statement is naturally the best, because for them, Japan's threat is not the slightest. At this time, the reduction of Japan's external absorption of nutrients is a powerful check and balance on Japan. , which also provided more valuable time for the development of the Republic of China. In fact, they also knew, [

Sooner or later, China and Japan will have a war, but they don't know when. Therefore, they are trying to buy more time to deal with the future war between China and Japan. Now Spain's actions make Japan not overwhelmed. In the case of sexual victory, more attacks on China will lead to more hesitant opinions, as well.

Of course, in fact, as a result, China will have to be more careful and vigilant about Japan. After all, just like the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, Japan, whose national power now exceeds China, who knows whether they will be stimulated by Spain's non-expansion policy. Take the risk of directly invading China alone. After all, in this case, from the position of the major powers, it seems possible that they will remain non-contact and watch the war between the two countries. So, this is something they should worry about. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote and vote monthly at Qidian.com. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m to read.

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