The Sun Never Sets In Spain - Chapter 194

The events in Paris quickly spread, and everyone expected Bonaparte’s downfall.

The main reason is that the time card is a bit embarrassing, and it can be said that he died on the eve of peace.

But this is only a few days ahead of schedule. Even if the uprising did not happen, the French would not let go of the third after the withdrawal of Prussia.

After fleeing, Nasan went straight to the largest Prussian military camp in the surrounding area, hoping to borrow troops from the Prussian side to suppress the rebellion.

However, the object of his help was only a lieutenant general, who dared to call the shots for this matter, so he could only wait.

During the next day, the response of the various executive agencies was very consistent, that is, as if there was no such thing.

Seeing that peace is in sight, Bismarck is ready to pack up and go to St. Petersburg to negotiate. How can he take chestnuts out of the three fires at this time.

Alfonso didn’t dare to say a word, and originally planned to play a wave, but considering that France would be of great help to Spain, scolding them would be useless, so forget it.

This time, the Tsar organized talks in St. Petersburg and called it Spain, but Spain has never officially declared war on Prussia, and its contribution is quite limited.

It’s enough for Cruz to take a few people for a run.

No matter how they divide the land, it has nothing to do with Spain.

The main reason for sending volunteers this time is to return the favor. After all, France also sent volunteers during the Spanish Civil War before, and they also helped in all aspects, so they had to pay back.

Although its contribution is greater than that of France, Spain is not at a loss, not only eliminating hundreds of millions of francs in debt, but also in exchange for a promise to occupy Morocco.

The UK has little influence over Morocco. As long as France supports it, there is basically no need to worry about external interference…

Wait, Alfonso suddenly feels that this is going to be a bit of a twist.

Before Spain carve up Italy, the United Kingdom might acquiesce, but now if it occupied northwestern Morocco, the passage to the Mediterranean would be in danger.

At that time, Gibraltar is sandwiched by Spain, and even if the British navy is the largest in the world, there is a risk of being blocked.

… This matter has to be reconsidered, and it is best to find something to divert the attention of the United Kingdom.

Alfonso thought silently, it’s not in a hurry anyway, and the wars are going on every day recently, it’s time to slow down for a while.

The Papal State has accepted Spain’s request some time ago, and instead issued a currency called the new dinar. The reason for this name is to strengthen its currency attributes. I hope everyone knows that although it cannot exchange gold on its own, it has comparable to the value of gold.

That’s right, it can’t be privately exchanged anyway, and the amount of precious metals required is not large, so the gold standard is directly selected.

New dinars are issued by the Bank of Spain and forwarded by the Bank of Rome.

This operation can not only keep the seigniorage, but also take this opportunity to ask the Papal State for reserves.

There is quite a lot of gold in the Papal State. The church has accumulated so many years, whether it is gold jewelry or gold bars.

After several negotiations, the Papal State transferred a total of 55 tons of gold to Spain.

Alfonso estimates that they still have them, but it is not easy to force them too quickly.

This gold cannot be said to be given, it can only be said that it is temporarily kept in Spain for safekeeping. If the Papal State and Spain part ways in the future, they can ask for it back.

In addition to the Papal State, Spain is also very jealous of the precious metal reserves of other small Italian countries. Unfortunately, only the Papal State is fully controlled. If this request is made to other countries, there is a risk of being turned over.

The launch of the new dinar was met with resistance, with German economists blaming it as “another means of reaping the people”.

The Papal State residents didn’t quite approve of it either, only taking the church’s robbery addiction again.

First issue a pile of useless waste paper, buy materials from the public, turn around and announce the abolition, which directly creates a large number of poor people.

With the original virtue of the Papal State, it is not impossible to do it.

In fact, their suspicions are very reasonable. Bisetta is used well, and it is also in the Spanish economic circle.

But they only know one thing and the other, that the new dinar was piloted by Spain. If it can successfully stabilize the currency value, it will become a fairly strong currency.

In the future economic crisis, there will not be a run on the storm, and the depreciation of the face value will be at most.

The risk of economic collapse is relatively small, and it can also help share the pressure of Spain’s over-issued currency.

And Alfonso has a great dream in his heart, that is, to integrate Spain, Portugal, Italy, Morocco, South America…all into one economic circle, how can it be enough to rely solely on the gold standard.

No matter how fast the mining speed of gold is, it is impossible to keep up with the growth rate of the economy. The reform of this modern currency will be done sooner or later.

Therefore, even if the Papal State has repeatedly sent people to come, and even found Alfonso directly, hoping that he will take back his order, he did not agree.

Just let the Papal State let it go, it doesn’t matter if the people don’t accept it for the time being, as long as the currency is slowly sent out through various means.

Of course, in order to dispel the church’s concerns, Alfonso promised that if the new dinar collapsed, Spain would help out, and at that time, all of them could be replaced by pesetas, to ensure that it would not be difficult for the younger brother.

During this period of time, in addition to the issue of currency, another important thing was that the results of the previous discussions in Peru came back.

After half a month of repeated consultations, Peru finally decided to buy Spain’s Castel Feda.

But they also demanded that £280,000 was still too much and they wanted to buy it for £265,000.

The price was slightly lower than expected, so Alfonso was a little confused when Campos reported this.

I don’t particularly care about the 15,000 pounds. The main reason is that Spain still has several boats to sell. If the boat is not opened well, the boats behind will not be able to sell for the price, and it may lose more than 100,000 pounds.

In the future, Spain intends to carry out the custom-made boat sales business.

“Should we hold an auction? Anyway, we have enough ships.” Campos suggested upon seeing this.

“No.” Alfonso was speechless. He thought the Prime Minister had a lot of ways to do it.

Now everyone knows that Spain has several ships to sell. South American countries do not have much demand. One or two ships at most are enough. It is a bright buyer’s market.

The auction may pass in or sell for a lower price than 265,000.

In the end, it was done the old-fashioned way – stuffing the Peruvian envoy with £2,000.

The price didn’t drop much, and it sold for £275,000.