The Sun Never Sets In Spain - Chapter 146

In November, Edward has been playing in Madrid for 2 weeks.

During this period, Spain successfully captured Sardinia and Sicily, the whole process can be said to be without blood, and to fall on the brink.

The fate of the inhabitants of the island was doomed as early as the collapse of the Italian fleet.

Especially when the army evacuated, the residents even knew the identity of the abandoned son of their kingdom.

Although this is helpless, people can understand it, but it is always uncomfortable to be abandoned.

Amid this faint resentment, Spanish soldiers stationed in various ports on the island.

Fighting is like combing, bandits are like grate, this is a well-known truth.

The citizens of the port city were full of worries, and even incidents of wealthy people fleeing inland with their families and property occurred.

But day by day, people are surprised to find that, let alone rushing into the city and looting, if you don’t get to the port, you don’t even know that Spain has already occupied the island.

This is the latest occupation policy promoted by the military, that is, self-regulate and apply only under special circumstances.

To be honest, even with the control of the Progressive Guard, the military discipline of Spanish soldiers is not very good, at most slightly higher than the European average, and far from the level of the People’s Army.

However, Sardinia and Sicily are located in Europe. They must be localized in the future, and all risks that may provoke ethnic conflicts must be eliminated.

As a result, the military restricted the soldiers to the port and did not allow them to go out at will.

This method is really effective, and you can’t even see each other, so naturally you don’t need to talk about conflicts.

And this method has another advantage, that is, the occupation cost is extremely low.

For the island, only one or two thousand troops need to be dispatched to control the port, and the entire island can be indirectly controlled.

Gradually, the lives of Italians in the occupied territories became better than before.

Not to mention that the garrison’s munitions are purchased locally, the coal that used to be extremely short of coal and the limited supply of food are now open.

Within a few days, bold people took the initiative to go to the vicinity of the port to start the military business.

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“If this continues, there will not be too much confusion when Italy cedes the handover in the future.”

Campos looked at the military report and was very satisfied.

“This is because we have not changed their living habits.” Alfonso was not so optimistic: “After all, Spain and Italy are two countries, two nations, it will be quite difficult to assimilate.”

“Not to mention that Italy has a profound cultural heritage, even beyond Spain in a sense.

It is in this kind of place close to the mainland, if anything goes wrong, the risk of trouble will be very high.

So Prime Minister, don’t take it lightly. “

“Yes.” Campos said solemnly.

As the only monarch who could open up new territories in decades, Alfonso’s power is better than one day. Even a trusted minister like Campos dare not take his reminder to heart.

“Very good.” Alfonso nodded: “I will come up with a plan for an autonomous region as soon as possible. At present, some people in the country say that the kingdom of Sardinia and the kingdom of Sicily will be formed, but I really don’t want to use the model of the Commonwealth Confederation.”

After taking the order, Campos talked about another thing: “The Japanese who returned to China before are here again. There are a lot more people here this time. They want to see you.”

“Japanese.” Alfonso raised his eyebrows: “Who is the highest rank?”

“You Minister, what does it seem to be called… Iwakura Jusuke?” Campos spit out a somewhat crappy Japanese pronunciation, somewhat uncertain.

Being able to remember a Japanese person’s name is enough to show that Campos knows the other person’s identity.

It’s really high… Right, Sangong!

“Arrange a time.” Alfonso said briefly: “But if you can send officials of this level, I’m afraid it’s more than just coming to see us.”

“Well, a total of more than 100 people came, planning to travel around twelve countries.

And after the other party came to Madrid yesterday, apart from meeting with diplomats, he went to visit Prince Edward as soon as possible. Campos speculated:

“I suspect that the country they really want to deal with is the United Kingdom. The first stop to see us may be just to put pressure on the United Kingdom.”

“Really?” Seeing Campos’s expression a little bit angry, Alfonso smiled indifferently. In his opinion, the difference in strength between countries has a high and low status.

It happened that Edward was in Madrid, and the other party chose to have a relationship with the future King of England. Human nature is understandable.

However, in Campos’s view, this is not the case. Spain has always been a country in the same hierarchy as the United Kingdom. Even though it has declined slightly now, its status is equal.

After continuing to enlighten and exchange some trivia, Alfonso sent Campos away.

He will also go to another event, the ribbon-cutting event of the “Madrid Workers’ House”.

After nearly half a year of construction, a simple but not crude workers’ courtyard has been built.

As a super-large real estate project, it is purely for public welfare. The completion of these buildings is even mentioned in foreign newspapers.

The most expensive real estate this year are almost all churches and castles, and hundreds of thousands of pounds were spent on building dormitories. This is really…too left.

After the Red Prince of France, newspapers from other countries even wanted to give Alfonso the nickname of the Red King.

As the most fierce labor movement in France, even in the war of annihilation, it left him with several newspaper headlines.

Needless to say, Germany, the second most intense labor movement, is a great nobleman who can spend money to repair such things. In their opinion, the ideological tendency is already obvious.

It is said that several German leftist newspapers even want to contact Alfonso to make him an investor.

However, Alfonso is not very sensitive to these ideological matters. His workmanship is a realistic consideration, only for the health and industrial development of Madrid.

Moreover, at the current rate of development, it is the capital of Spain. Maybe this building will be unused in the last ten years.

When Alfonso arrived on the scene in a carriage, Edward was already waiting here, and he was chatting with a Japanese man next to him about something—in English.

“Edward.” Alfonso greeted briefly, then cast his gaze next to him.

Noting Alfonso’s sight, Edward introduced with a smile: “Iwakura Jushi, Minister of Right of Japan.”

Iwakura is a small old man. According to the information, he is only 45 years old this year, but he looks at least 50 and a little short, especially around tall people.

However, he himself was calm and calm. Seeing Alfonso coming, his eyes flashed with surprise, and he respectfully nodded his head as a greeting.

Alfonso really wanted to talk to him. He was also very curious about Japan in this era. The previous Hiroyuki Nishikoji was too low-level to communicate with him.

But now is obviously not the time to chat, because the ribbon-cutting ceremony is about to begin.