The Sun Never Sets In Spain - Chapter 202: Brazil: Building a spy network

After sending Count Guterres away, Alfonso seriously thought about the problem of Brazil.

Brazil now prides itself on the hegemony of South America, and they are.

Spain wants to reconnect with South America, and Brazil is an insurmountable hurdle.

Unless one side steps back, the contradiction between the two is almost impossible to reconcile.

And even if we don’t mention the future, just talking about the collapse of the Spanish colonial empire, this guy has also pushed the lead, and this revenge has not been paid yet.

New hatred and old hatred flooded into his heart, and Alfonso immediately called Adolph and told him what he wanted to do with Brazil.

“…Your Majesty, Brazil is in full swing now, and the emperor’s prestige grows day by day. It’s not easy to handle.”

Adolf frowned and said:

“They have just won a war. Although they owe a lot of money, it does not hurt the fundamentals. It is difficult to start with force.”

Alfonso nodded, he knew it would be difficult, otherwise he wouldn’t have started planning so early.

No way, no way, no way, sooner or later it will be right.

Brazil has the advantage of local advantages. When the confrontation turns to the bright side, the United States will 100% help, and it will only be more difficult.

In fact, he has been paying attention to Brazil for a long time. Now that he plans to start, he immediately has a rough idea in his heart. He just wants to consult Adolf again.

Under the gaze of the king, thousands of thoughts flashed in Adolf’s mind, and finally settled in one place: “Abolish slavery!”

“Abolish slavery, Your Majesty, we can start with abolition of slavery.”

The more he spoke, the more confident he became, and he continued:

“Brazil is currently socially stable and not weak in force, the only problem is that it is still a slave country.

If our people can come out and lead this movement, they can easily become important figures in the Brazilian republican wing.

Let this person take radical measures on all issues, supplemented by the oppression of external forces, and maybe a civil war can start! ”

“…Not bad.” Alfonso smiled: “I still know about the wave of abolition of slavery that has just started in Brazil. Good idea.”

Alfonso is telling the truth. As far as he knows, the Brazilian Empire became the Brazilian Republic because the abolition movement greatly contributed to the power of the republican faction.

In this issue, other countries will be Spain’s help, because the abolition of slavery is the consensus of all advanced capitalist countries.

Now the ships of the British navy are still wandering in the seas of the Atlantic Ocean, and the slave ships meet one after another, and never care who is on the other side.

Even if Brazil’s own resistance is great, this is an inevitable success.

It’s not surprising that Adolf could think of such an operation, after all, he did something similar during the Civil War.

But he could sharply aim at “abolition of slavery”, and he had to let Alfonso take a high look.

During the Spanish Civil War, the leader of this espionage was a lieutenant named Ruben, who had slapped Carlos hard.

After the incident, he was placed under Adolf and his rank was promoted to captain.

It’s not that Alfonso doesn’t want to give him more promotions, it’s mainly that Ruben is too young, and Adolf is the only general who is less than 30 years old.

Moreover, it was Alfonso who was worried that after the Progressive Guard would return to the military order, Adolf, the leader, could not be convinced and was temporarily promoted, that is, he was promoted to major general.

After thinking about it, Alfonso asked, “I remember that Ruben went to be a publicity committee member under you?”

“Yes, Captain Reuben has a good temperament and a firm belief. He has done a good job in this job.”

The king asked this question, knowing that his advice was basically taken.

Sure enough, Alfonso then said: “Then you are responsible for this matter. You and Captain Ruben will choose carefully, and give me a few candidates as soon as possible.”

The reason why there are “several candidates” is because there are so many people who can do things well. There are not many reliable people in Brazil, so it will be more difficult to combine the inside and outside.

“Yes, the task is guaranteed to be completed!” Adolf said solemnly.

Alfonso nodded secretly. Adolf was still very relieved to do things. As the only relatively sound shadow force in the Western world, the Progressive Guard had no reason to miss such a simple task.

Just faking the identity of a British or German immigrant can easily deceive Brazil, who has no experience in this area.

As for bribing Brazilian politicians, arranging businessman sponsorship, and helping to build momentum, Alfonso doesn’t bother to say, that’s all basic operations.

After initially deciding on a plan to set up a spy network in Brazil, Alfonso smiled and said: “But it’s still difficult to weaken Brazil alone. Pedro II may not be able to keep the throne, and the people may not want to fight. .”

Historically, Pedro II had a chance to come back after a coup, but he didn’t want to use civil war to destroy the country he developed himself, so he chose to leave the game in despair, and this time is probably the same.

Adolf respectfully said: “Please give instructions from Your Majesty.”

Unexpectedly, Alfonso shook his head and said mysteriously: “I can handle this matter myself. For some reasons, I can’t tell you for the time being. You just need to know that I will help.”

This time, Adolf was even more curious. The king generally did not hide anything from him. If he wanted to deal with Brazil, telling him directly was a proof.

But Alfonso was reluctant to say it, and he had no choice but to answer and leave.

Watching Adolf close the door of his office, Alfonso sighed silently.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to talk about it, but the impact of this incident is too great. There will be an economic crisis in 1873. Can he say this?

Now that the economies of various countries are developing steadily, there is no such sign at all, and he can’t explain why he knows…

…unless you declare yourself an oracle? It doesn’t seem to work either.

In fact his idea is to short Brazil.

Today’s currency in Brazil is the mirez, a paper currency with silver as a reserve.

Although Brazil produces both gold and silver, given the size of their territory and their location in South America, the output is not much.

In order to deal with the three-nation alliance war that just passed, Brazil printed money with great effort, and used a considerable part of its precious metal reserves.

Moreover, Brazil’s economy has developed well in recent decades. In order to further stimulate economic growth, the Brazilian government has made crazy over-issues, and has also borrowed heavily from the private sector and foreign countries.

These actions have led to a faint trend of uncontrollable inflation in Brazil.

Because of the victories and the rapid economic development, this hidden danger was temporarily suppressed.

In the event of a catastrophe like the 1873 economic crisis, this fragile blood vessel will be exposed to the air.

To put it simply, Alfonso’s plan is to borrow money from Brazil and exchange it for pesetas… It’s still gold, and precious metals can be said to be stable in an economic crisis.

When the economic crisis really comes, then use the gold in your hand to buy Mirez with severe inflation, and use Mirez to repay the previous debt.

Brazil’s economy is so fragile and the economic crisis is so ferocious, there is little risk in this operation.

It doesn’t even need Alfonso to do anything specially, as long as he just promotes it casually, he has full confidence that Mires will collapse.

This operation is also applicable to other countries, but countries such as Austria-Hungary and France are too large to operate.

And now is not the era of free trade, the powerful countries will play all kinds of tricks.

If detected, Spain could be sanctioned or even beaten.

There is no such risk in operating Brazil. Not to mention the moderate size. If they want to play outside the plate, Spain has sufficient reasons to pull in other South American countries to beat him.