The Sun Never Sets In Spain - Chapter 218

Of course, saying that Enrique was fully responsible, Alfonso turned around and called Adolf, urging him to pay more attention to the matter:

“Let the Progressive Guard do a good job of reviewing, and if a priest’s assets are determined to be significantly higher than those of his peers, you will report to me.”

Adolf took on this task with a bitter face, not because he was afraid of offending his colleagues, but because the Progressive Guard did not have a professional discipline inspection department, and it would definitely take more energy to do this.

Seeing this, Alfonso could only sigh silently. At the same time, he was thinking that it was time to set up a professional discipline inspection commission. It would be difficult to prevent corruption from the root by simply relying on force to subdue the world.

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The following week saw the executions in Plaza Mayor proceed smoothly, as did the domestic investigation into church assets.

Even if they knew that the government conducted this investigation for the purpose of property collection in the future, the priests did not dare to provoke any more conflicts. The only thing they could do was to use all means to transfer the property.

Unfortunately, the Ministry of Finance is keeping an eye on this matter, and any apparent suspicious transfers will be subject to strict scrutiny.

The departure of priests and related relatives has also been temporarily restricted.

Coupled with severe punishments, the only thing left for the church is to obey their fate.

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Meanwhile, months of French referendums are drawing to a close.

The alliance of Orleanists and Legitimists won without a doubt.

As far as Alfonso knows, the other party did not take any special measures, and it was a referendum that was won with overwhelming votes.

No way, Bonaparte and the republicans have made compromises to Prussia one after another, only the Bourbon family did not.

According to the previously agreed plan, Henry of the orthodox Bourbons will be the king, and Louis Philippe of the Orleans will be the crown prince.

One is 51 years old and the other is 33 years old, both of which are reasonable in age.

There is no problem with legality. The latter is the distant cousin of the former. In the case of Henry himself without heirs, although Louis Philippe has a distant relationship, he still has the right of inheritance in theory.

As a result, the French people generally accepted the result and said they were happy to see their homeland free from another throne dispute.

Historically, Henry has come to this point almost the same, only he gave up because of the problem of the flag pattern.

And this time… this time is no exception, even if Alfonso persuaded him long ago, and even wrote more than one letter to him, Henry still stubbornly refused any compromise.

He has repeatedly stated in public that he must change the flag back to lilies.

Fortunately, the Bourbon Union today is much stronger than in history. If Henry must realize the lily flag, then they are willing to fulfill this little wish for the king.

So, following the referendum, the French government held a smaller vote to change the flag in the provincial capitals.

Basically, as long as the votes aren’t too badly bad, there’s no problem switching back to the lily flag.

– This is what the French have been busy with lately.

After reading the news, Alfonso was a bit dumbfounded. No wonder the referendum is over, and the French throne is still pending.

As for Nasan, who failed in the election, Alfonso gave him special attention.

After the failure of Nasan, they initially wanted to form a party of kings in opposition similar to the orthodox faction, which was called the Bonaparte faction.

Too bad not every royal family is as entrenched as the Bourbons.

Henry was temporarily entangled with the flag and had no time to control him, but Louis Philippe warned him:

“If you still want to keep your claim to the throne, we will expel the entire family of Bonaparte.”

There is no doubt that the current Bourbon definitely has this strength.

Nasan’s treason for surrendering to Prussia has not yet been tried, so it doesn’t mean that everyone has forgotten about it.

The king of France could start the trial of Nasan at any time, and Nasan was powerless to fight back.

It stands to reason that the royalists don’t care whether the “king” is at home or abroad, and being expelled is no big deal.

But Nasan cares. The Bonaparte family has a big business. If they are really driven out of France for some reason, then France will have to change how much to welcome them back.

Therefore, Nasan has stated in public that since he fails, he will voluntarily abdicate, and he will not be the king of France again in this life, nor will he take any measures to push himself or his descendants to the throne of France.

Obviously, Nassant kept his mind. He only admitted that he abdicated, and did not give up the claim to the throne on behalf of the Bonaparte family.

This, of course, did not satisfy Louis-Philippe, so he dismissed the Red Prince Paul, as well as some other members of Bonaparte who were still in office.

Although he didn’t say it, but thinking about it, they won’t even think about taking any positions in the French government if they take three or four.

From now on, if nothing else happens, the Bonaparte family will be just a wealthy commoner family, without any titles or official positions.

After Alfonso read these reports, he felt very emotional. Bonaparte was only able to be crowned King of France twice because of a particularly good reputation. His legitimacy was incomparable with other traditional royal families.

This defeat in Prussia this time, even if this title has completely turned into a dream bubble, in his eyes, Bonaparte has no chance.

Fortunately, Bonaparte still has a large number of industries in France, and Valencia’s gambling business is gradually on the right track. It is not difficult to maintain a decent upper-class life.

Outside France, Prussia’s momentum was a bit more aggressive.

After all, they are the victors, and the domestic atmosphere should be more united and stable.

Although they owe a lot of debt, the UK has only just lent them out and is not in a hurry for them to repay.

Moreover, the income of North Germany is not as good as that of France, but the wealth of the people is still higher. It is really easy to turn around when it is necessary.

As for France’s 400 million franc war reparations against Prussia, it was paid off as early as 2 months ago. Prussia used this money to provide pensions to the soldiers killed and wounded in the war, and posted some additional money to pay for South Germany and the west of Frankfurt. Several cities have made some compensation.

This is a very good move. Originally, Hesse and other countries were not very happy to mix with the invader Prussia. They preferred to join the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Bavaria.

But when the money came down, most of the opposing voices died down, and it was generally believed that the big brother of Prussia was okay.

Under the Prussian money offensive, the North German Confederation had stabilized a lot and showed no signs of disintegrating.

At present, some newspapers in Germany are vigorously advocating the unity of the German people, hoping to better integrate to deal with threats from all directions.

There has been no official news from Prussia, but according to Alfonso’s observations, the German Empire should be a matter of one or two months.