The Sun Never Sets In Spain

On December 25, 1870, this was probably the worst Christmas ever the French had ever had.

The Prussian army entered the city on Christmas Day. After entering the city, it immediately took over the defense of Paris and confiscated the existing artillery and ammunition. Even the French army had to get the permission of the Prussians to get the ammunition.

The second step is to repatriate those soldiers who refuse to cooperate.

The current total force of 320,000 in Paris is too much.

The mob gathered temporarily can only help defend the city or deal with the invaders, and they will only add to the chaos in the political struggle.

Under the negotiation between Nasan and Prussia, Paris disbanded nearly half of the militia in two days.

These militiamen were all people who did not perform well in the previous wave of protests. After confiscating their weapons, the combat power in the three hands rose instead of decreasing.

Seeing that the situation was initially stable, King William I, who was far away in Berlin, proposed to come to Paris for a military parade.

In history, he came here to hold the coronation ceremony, but now South Germany is still under military occupation, and the reunification of Germany is naturally impossible to talk about.

In fact, Prussia had long wanted peace, but Ludwig II, who was in exile in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, had no intention of making peace with Prussia. He always used his mouth to encourage the Bavarian people to resist.

Nazionale signed a peace agreement with Prussia, and Ludwig II increased his contacts with the government of the South French Republic.

In short, as long as Prussia does not return Bavaria to him in its entirety, he will always be the most determined protagonist.

Bavaria even recognized him as a king. The once powerful German unificationists and republicans gradually declined with the occupation of their homeland by Prussia.

The Nuremberg Republican government under the control of Prussia was not recognized by the people at all.

William I thought of solving these problems by showing military power.

It is a pity that the idea is good, but it has met with unanimous opposition from both sides.

Needless to say, France, this time the peace is basically in vain in their propaganda caliber. The reason why they paid 400 million francs was to redeem the captured soldiers.

You Prussia read the soldiers on the Champs-Elysees, what else would the emperor do if you take three?

Prussia’s opposition was more out of security considerations. Once William I came to Paris, there were definitely not a few French who wanted to die with him.

The king's death is trivial, and both the French and the French will be immortal.

However, William I's proposal was only supported by Bismarck.

The combination of the iron-blooded prime minister and the king can't be beaked, and it is impossible for Nasan to fall out with them because of this incident.

After all, he just turned around in the street and wouldn't pass the Arc de Triomphe. He could only pinch his nose to recognize it.

In this way, Prussia set a plan for a military parade on January 5.

At this time, the stalemate on the Italian-Austrian battlefield was gradually broken.

Austro-Hungary is far better than Italy in any aspect. Although the buff of the local defense war is very strong, it can't reverse this decline.

The front line between the two sides has long stretched from the Venetian border to the territory of Lombardy.

In three days at most, Milan, whose fortifications are not very strong, will fall under the control of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The Italian-Austrian battlefield has not received as much attention as the French-Prussian battlefield, but its cruelty is worse.

In the early stages of the French army’s battles, they were all professional soldiers, while militiamen were used in defensive battles. Generally speaking, the military literacy of the combatants was quite high, and the battle was mainly based on artillery suppression and rifle firing.

Italy is using militias to fight on the ground, and artillery support is also scarce.

Their officers have repeatedly used the tactics of pure infantry charge, which is equivalent to the Italians using their lives to make up for their weakness in firepower.

From October 13th when the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Italy, to the end of December now, in just one and a half months, the Italian army lost more than 250,000 people.

If you don't count the people from Metz Fortress, this number of casualties exceeds the sum of the French and French sides.

Although Italy did not take the initiative to count the number of casualties, the soldiers are not blind and must know that their comrades are constantly dying.

Italy is on the brink of collapse in all aspects.

Alfonso had already voted for it. This is a completely hopeless war.

Prussia was deeply involved in French affairs and would rather not come to help during the military parade, and could not count on it at all.

Looking at the overall situation, Italy's only chance to change its destiny is when the law-Prussian stalemate has declared war on the law to allow Prussia to fulfill its obligations in the North-South Alliance and drag Prussia into the water.

It's a pity that Italy was afraid of a third-line war. In addition, at that time, Pau France seemed to be able to play almost the same, and finally missed the opportunity.

The reason why King Vittorio did not surrender now was because his desire for revenge was on the rise, he just wanted to kill a few more Austrians before he was defeated.

Anyway, after the war, there is a high probability that he will return to the King of Sardinia. These soldiers and supplies have nothing to do with him.

In Southern Italy, the Italian government has given up its encirclement and suppression of the Naples rebels.

Without a common enemy, the fragile alliance between the rebels instantly collapsed and internal fighting began.

The main belligerents are the Republic of Naples and the Kingdom of Naples, but apart from them, there are many other factions.

For example, the Naples National Workers' State, the Naples Military Council... and even forces that want to merge into Spain.

The land of Southern Italy has been affected by too many foreign thoughts, and the interests of all parties have been difficult to coordinate due to the many changes of ownership in recent decades. It is not surprising that it has become a pot of porridge.

The Kingdom of Naples, which has the most forces among these forces, has only more than 6,000 people, and it can't be crushed by strength at all.

The only two who can help them decide the winner are Britain and Spain.

It is a pity that Britain has no interest here and is not interested in it.

Spain was warned by the United Kingdom not to continue to stretch out its hands, and could only wait and see the changes.

Without the interference of external forces, the chaos in Naples may have to continue for some time.

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In foreign countries, even the wealthy French are not in the mood to celebrate the holidays, but the Spaniards are starting to prepare for the second new year after the end of the civil war.

The first new year is still very difficult, and the food has to be borrowed from France and then bought from France.

Now only a year later, Spain's food crisis has been greatly eased.

At present, the self-sufficiency rate of local food has reached more than 85%. It only takes a period of time to develop and integrate the farmland and pastures of Sicily and Sardinia, and Spain will become a grain exporter.

The benefits of high grain production are obvious. In the past, food prices in Europe would skyrocket as long as they warned against Spain, but now they are all flat.

In bakeries or supermarkets in major cities such as Madrid and Barcelona, ​​one peseta can buy a full 10 palm-sized pieces of bread.

An ordinary worker in Madrid who does heavy physical work earns almost 3 to 5 pesetas a day, and buying all the bread is enough for a family of three to eat for three or four days.

Even if I don't have work every day, the pressure in life is much less than in the past.

As long as a man is healthy and willing to work, there is no problem supporting himself and his family.