Rebirth of the Spanish Empire

"What? Say it again!" Alfonso looked at Chirac solemnly. At this moment, he felt how right he was to give him this important task.

"Your Majesty, according to the information obtained by our senior spies in Russia, Russia has been holding a series of high-level meetings in the past few days. After that, Russia began to have frequent and close contact with Japanese diplomats in Russia."

"Japan? Russia and Japan have begun to have close contact. This seems a bit incredible. Tell me, isn't it incredible?" Alfonso looked at Chirac.

Chirac looked at Alfonso XIII for an unknown reason, not knowing why he asked him, but he nodded honestly and said: "It's not just us. Come to think of it, people who know the historical disputes in Russia over the past few decades will not think of Russia." We will start to have close and frequent contact with Japan.”

"Hmph." After thinking for a while, Alfonso suddenly sneered and said: "What is impossible is nothing more than profit. In order to get the benefits that everyone wants, even if it is revenge, sometimes it can be done. Let go, this time Russia and Japan should be no more than this."

Chirac said: "Your Majesty means that the two countries are prepared to choose to cooperate because of this, driven by interests?"

Alfonso nodded.

Chirac was confused by this and said: "But under what interests would they choose to put aside their hatred and compromise and cooperate like this? The scale of the interest transaction here should not be small?"

Alfonso shrugged and said: "How do I know? Then I have to ask them, but one thing is certain, that is, their cooperation is definitely based on sacrificing the interests of other people. As for Which country’s national interests they want to sacrifice belong to, so we have to wait for their intentions to be known.”

Chirac chose to remain silent.

After Alfonso thought for a while, he said: "Keep an eye on the Japanese side immediately. Any disturbance must be understood as soon as possible. After integrating it as soon as possible, it will be reported back. This time, it seems that we We have truly encountered a new opponent that we can regard as a true one.”

Chirac saluted and left quickly.

Alfonso became a little puzzled, in this world. As expected, it's not you who has the final say. A few years ago, I thought I had suppressed France. You can do whatever you want on the European continent, especially if you have good relations with the United Kingdom, but. After that, France broke away from the reins, which made him feel that he was out of control. However, this did not surprise him. After all, politics is often like this. Paul Dume has a Spanish background. Yes, this is when they have evidence, so Spain can make a lot of threats to him to do a lot of work for Spain. However, judging from the current situation, this seems to be overkill, which is why, For a long time, he was unwilling to use these reasons to contact France.

The president of a major European country is being threatened by you. Naturally, the greatest benefits will only be realized at the most important and critical moment. Now, it is not the time yet. In his opinion, it is best to let this secret chess take root in France. As long as they truly gain a foothold in the upper class of France, they can truly and permanently exert an important influence on France.

Alfonso thought sarcastically in his heart: Not only do I want you, Paul Dume, to serve us, I also want your descendants and descendants to become spies for our Spanish royal family, the Kingdom of Spain. I want to drain you dry. As the labor force of generations, we will always be the sword of Bodhidharma hanging above your heads, and will give you a fatal attack at any time.

Although France seemed noisy and lively here, he knew that this was an atmosphere deliberately created by Spain and France.

Thinking of France, he thought of Russia, and he thought of Germany.

This is a country that is old-fashioned but has a very durable citizenry. They seem to have been born as a big country in Europe. But since they began to rise decades ago, they have been out of control, struggling again and again to become a big country. In the process of rising, they were knocked down again and again and rose again and again, defying fate. The tenacity of this nation made Alfonso admire him every time he thought about it. This was purely an appreciation of their national character.

Germany is still fighting against the established powers as before, and Britain, France and Russia are still their main opponents.

However, what Alfonso knew before was different. Now due to the rise of Spain, Russia is no longer the only opponent of these three countries. With Spain, Britain, France, and Russia are no longer able to concentrate on dealing with Germany. I don’t know whether this is Germany’s misfortune, or their great luck. The great luck is that Germany was not suppressed by the full cooperation of the three countries, so that in the end they had no choice but to win in the situation of knowing that they would lose more and lose less. The world can only bite the bullet and face such an unbalanced battle. In the end, when I lost my life, I also lost everything. Now the rise of Spain has given Germany a lot of breathing space.

However, there is also misfortune, and that is the news that Alfonso came back with dumbfounding. It is said that now in Germany, many people are lamenting the rapid rise of Spain, which has actually begun to completely surpass Germany and become the second largest country in the world. Therefore, They began to blame Spain for taking their position, but they did not know that it was because of the rise of Spain that they avoided the danger of being besieged.

The UK has always prided itself on being a balancer as a European outsider. Although due to geographical reasons, they do think it is easy to do this when they maintain the world's largest navy. Especially in today's world, when almost all big countries have coastlines, no country can truly withstand repeated attacks by the British navy, thereby destroying the lifeline of its own country's maritime economy. The consequence of this is that the UK can exert Great influence. This is also the way for Britain to survive as a world power.

The important reason why the United States allowed Britain to voluntarily graft its overseas strength to the United States after World War II was because the U.S. Navy far surpassed the United Kingdom, and the Air Force was another channel that ignored the sea. With the establishment of the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom was already clinging to its position as maritime hegemony and its position in the world as an offensive, retreat and defensive position was gone. At least when facing the United States, they were powerless.

Therefore, the British government and Buckingham Palace at that time, in order to maximize profits, in order to obtain the largest share of the "Marshall Plan" of the United States' rescue plan for European recovery.

As far as Alfonso knows, Britain received US$3.2 billion of the US$13 billion in four-year bailout from the United States starting in 1947, which is almost a quarter, while France, which ranked second, only received US$2.2 billion. West Germany is third with 1.4 billion. However, the British paid a lot of price. As a result, the original British colonial forces in Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. became honorary British governors and supervisors. In fact, the democratic system was close to the American dual-track influence system. The country's economy has become a dependent state of the United States, and its politics are shared by Britain and the United States.

The United Kingdom has even completely expanded its sphere of influence in South America and the Caribbean, except for a few overseas territories of the United Kingdom, especially Brazil. This has allowed the United States to truly make Latin America their backyard, and therefore Let the United States truly surpass the original Britain and become a new superpower, a superpower that is more powerful and more authoritative than the United Kingdom.

The rise and fall of Britain are actually due to their isolation and glorious policy, and the navy is also their most powerful weapon. However, it is also the most important lifeblood of Britain. As long as they are eliminated, Britain will be nothing more than a grasshopper in the future. .

Regarding Britain, Alfonso didn't really want to move them because it was precisely because he understood Britain's famous family and understood what would drive military development in the future world, especially now that he is vigorously promoting Spain to develop in this direction. At that time, he had actually set his sights across Britain, a mountain that everyone in the world now considers insurmountable, and then looked at the future world.

After crossing the UK, Alfonso looked at Italy, a close neighbor of the Mediterranean. To be serious, Alfonso had complicated feelings about Italy. In his previous life, the country he wanted to visit most was Italy, because Italy There are many romantic cultural atmospheres, and there are representatives of civilizations that represent the history of the European world. It is said that among many things in Europe, only Britain and Italy are the best at protecting historical relics, because they are one of the countries that has not been affected by many wars.

But now Alfonso no longer has such feelings, because Spain is actually no better than them now. Even France is still one of the world's historical and cultural collection countries, even comparable to the United Kingdom. .

What reminds Alfonso the most now is the political and military affairs of Italy. What has to be admitted is that Italy, in these, especially military aspects, has become a marginal role among the major powers in Europe. It is not even much better than the Ottoman Empire.

In fact, Italy is a good ally, because such allies are easier to deal with. Alfonso actually doesn't mind helping the other party and making them a big help to Spain. However, the mistake is, Vittorio- Emanuele III's ambition and jealousy caused him to want to be on an equal footing with Spain, and he thought he would start to participate in suppressing and containing Spain's existence.

But these are no longer important, because Italy has become just a chess piece in his hands, just a slightly more important chess piece. (To be continued...)

ps: These posts will be written more around Alfonso XIII, and they will no longer wander around in circles.