The Sun Never Sets In Spain - Chapter 147

In a salute of attention, Alfonso walked to the door of the Workers’ Institute, where a red ribbon was tied.

In fact, it is said that the ribbon has not been cut when the construction is completed this year. At most, the launch of the new ship will cut the ribbon. In a sense, this is Alfonso’s first.

After all, just the building itself cost 400,000 pounds, and there is even more to build an ironclad ship.

Alfonso naturally hopes that the people can recite his kindness.

Now it seems that the effect is not bad, at least it has attracted attention.

In the passionate “Royal March” melody, Alfonso and Isabella solemnly dropped the scissors.

“Long live the king!” The cheers resounded instantly.

Ordinary people were very happy, but the officials and soldiers on duty were very nervous. This kind of ceremony seemed to them to be too civilian. The distance between the king and the nearest citizen was only 100 meters.

This distance, what if there is a gunner?

Among other things, Italy definitely has this motive.

Even if there has been a search beforehand, it is difficult to guarantee foolproof.

Alfonso is calm and composed. He tested it a few days ago, and now those bullets with a muzzle velocity just below the speed of sound can be grasped with his bare hands, and the palms are scratched at most, there is no risk at all.

And until the entire ceremony was completed, there was no assassin to verify his strength, I have to say that it was a bit regretful.

At the end of the ceremony, Edward dropped Iwakura and got into Alfonso’s carriage.

He said casually: “These Japanese people are really annoying. An old man is close to me, and a foreign girl is almost the same.

They came to see you first, as if you were importing large quantities of Japanese bamboo? What do you want bamboo for? “

Alfonso stared at him for a while, and only after making sure that he was really talking about a topic casually, he said: “State secrets, no comment.”

“Haha.” Edward laughed, not angry, but guessed: “Do furniture? Or… did you develop a bamboo boat? It runs faster than a wooden boat?”

Alfonso really stunned. He looked at Edward for a long time before he said quietly: “Aren’t you a top student at Oxford University and Cambridge University?”

“Isn’t that all I haven’t graduated.” Edward said calmly.

“…In short, you’ll know after a while.” Alfonso said, “I can earn you a fortune then.”

“That’s all right, I’ll wait.” Edward grumbled twice, “You don’t know, those women can spend too much money, no matter how much money…”

While Edward was chattering about his romantic history to Alfonso, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was in **** battle with Italy.

It has been more than half a month since Austria-Hungary declared war on Italy. The frontline force has reached 270,000, and another 200,000 are deployed on the Prussian-Austrian border.

Austria-Hungary is worthy of the name of a great power, with a population of 35.7 million and high industrialization. It didn’t take much effort to mobilize more troops than Italy.

A few days ago they had been urging Spain to open up a mid-line battlefield, but they have not urged anymore.

Because during Edward’s stay in Spain, peace talks have made progress.

After capturing Sardinia and Sicily, Spain passed a military order to stop attacking British merchant ships, including merchant ships in the high seas and ports, as long as they were flying the British flag.

Even at a glance, it can be seen that it is a counterfeit British ship from an Italian ship, but Spain also has one eye open and one eye closed.

Whether to attack or not depends entirely on the order of the day, and under the instruction of the high-levels, let him maintain a state of being hungry and starving.

Therefore, the blockade of Italy has actually been lifted. Every day, nearly a hundred merchant ships go back and forth between Britain and Italy, constructing Italy’s maritime lifeline.

The cost of doing this is of course high, but it is better than having no bullets in the gun-life is still more precious than money.

To retaliate, Italy did not even comment on the occupation of Sardinia and Sicily, nor did the official newspapers say revenge.

They even further evacuated the troops outside the city of Rome, leaving the besieging army only 30,000 people, less than the besieged side.

High-level Austrian-Hungarian officials speculated that Spain might have been threatened by the United Kingdom and had to give up the opportunity to continue to expand the results.

The specific reason is unknown, but the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not have much dissatisfaction with this.

Because after they declared war, Spain did not make peace immediately, but continued to capture Sardinia and Sicily, maintaining a low-intensity blockade, and helping them share the international pressure.

To be honest, this is enough for a country that is not an alliance.

Let alone singled out, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is not afraid of Italy at all.

After France shifted to the defense of Paris, Austria-Hungary temporarily stopped declaring war on Prussia and put all its focus on the war against Italy.

If France can counterattack later, then the Austro-Hungarian Empire may have a share of the pie, but with this great disadvantage, don’t expect the Austrians to die for the French.

Mobilized Austro-Hungary and Italy were completely unable to resist, and the Setekomoni defense line, which had been stable for more than half a month, was finally breached.

Behind the plateaus and mountains are the endless plains of Venecia. The tides of German and Hungarian cavalry galloped here and quickly drove Italy across the Minsio River.

On November 3, the Austro-Hungarian Empire restored its 1866 territory.

However, the war is so easy to win, how can it be ended like this? There are not many opportunities for expansion in Europe.

The ambitions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not stop, they focused on Lombardy.

This place was ceded to the Kingdom of Sardinia due to the help of the French during the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859. It is one of the richest places in Italy-one can even be eliminated.

To be honest, they have a legal basis for this, and no one can deny the legitimacy of the Vienna Conference.

However, the local people are obviously reluctant to return to the embrace of Austria.

The annexation of Lombardy by the Austro-Hungarian Empire is the same as the annexation of Sicily by Spain. It does not conform to popular opinion.

However, what is better about Sicily than Lombardy is that the population of Sicily is 1.5 million less than that of Lombardy.

Moreover, Southern Italy is much poorer than Northern Italy, and its resistance to merging into rich countries will correspondingly be much smaller.

But Lombardy is richer than many places in Austria. Since they stay the same everywhere, they naturally prefer to stay with their compatriots.

With the blessing of nationalism, the power that can be used for local defense is amazing.

The Lombards, who were not willing to join the army to fight Rome before, joined the Italian Self-Defense Force spontaneously at this time.

In just one week, a militia with a total strength of 120,000 rushed to the Minzio River Defense Line.