Rebirth of the Spanish Empire

Naturally, the news could not be completely blocked. Among the upper class and European society, the news of this unexpected event had already spread on the 2nd.

On July 3, on the third day of the Madagascar Island War, "International Wire", one of the most famous newspapers in the world, published about the offensive and defensive battle for Madagascar Island, and announced the latest news that Spain will officially announce, The island of Madagascar becomes an overseas state of Spain. Directly under the Spanish central government.

Suddenly. This incident, which had been somewhat silent on the part of the two governments, suddenly expanded dramatically. In less than a day, the world's attention suddenly shifted from Central Africa and the Mediterranean to the world-class island in southeastern Africa.

Now that the news has been revealed, the two countries will naturally not cover it up, especially France.

"We have incredibly accepted the changes brought about by all this. Now we have realized Spain's crazy behavior, and we are completely disappointed with them. Therefore, just before I came to attend this conference, I had already issued an order. , France has officially entered a state of war."

"So, Mr. President, do you think the French government should be responsible for the defeat of this war? What other responsibilities should it bear? According to one of our surveys, your approval rate has become the lowest among all presidents of the French Republic. Yes, the support rate is only 27%, while on the contrary, 59% of the people who do not support you are negative. The remaining people are still hesitating. Regardless of whether this part of the people voted for you, it shows that more than half of the people already support you. There is no trust in the government, and according to our information, it seems that your country’s House of Representatives has officially notified you to participate in the presidential recall case this Friday, July 6. I don’t know, what do you have to say to everyone about this?”

"Which newspaper do you work for?"

"What's wrong, The Times? Does this have anything to do with the nature of the answer?"

"Haha, maybe. Although your problem is indeed not too painful, of course, it is for me. The failure of this war is of course the responsibility of our government. But what I want to say is that the biggest responsibility is mainly Spain, if Spain had not made such a war provocation, the world would not have seen this scene of war, and there would not have been many topics today.”

“Including the presidential recall case?”

"Although I want to deny it, I have to admit it. I was harmed by Spain." Armand Farier smiled bitterly and all the reporters present couldn't help but laugh. Apparently Armand's idea of ​​creating a relaxed atmosphere was realized.

"As for the support rate, this thing is a very good poll, but this time. This poll is indeed very unfair to me, because the French people are angry now. If these polls are If it appears, it will cause a huge blow to my image. Therefore, I hope there will be fewer polls about me in the next period. As for the recall case, what I want to say is that your news is really important. Well-informed, I can only pray that my popularity doesn’t end soon.”

"Using the public opinion survey report again, it is said that in a report in May, your approval rate was far above 40%, and your disapproval rate was also less than 30%. If you really want to calculate the impact of If so, Spain is the culprit for the difficulties you are facing now. What do you think? Also, just now you said that France has entered a state of war. Does that mean that Spain's actions have completely angered your government? , you are going to go to war with Spain."

"Although it is a little inaccurate, there is not a big gap. Therefore, I have decided that if the fate that is difficult to escape in this presidential recall case really befalls me, after being recalled, I will concentrate on I will work on studying Spain and become a Spanish expert following the development of the former president of Spain..."

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German Empire, Berlin.

"We still underestimated Spain's actions on the initiative. We originally thought that after France forced Spain, Spain would counterattack before Spain's actions occurred. However, we were terribly wrong, and Spain did it again. The progress of the war started first, with the recapture of Gabon, the territorial seizure of Central Africa and the French Congo, and now coupled with the beautiful war seizure of Madagascar, I have to say that several territorial battles in Spain have allowed us to see the territory of Spain The essence of the battle, the serial plan"

Moltke is now 62 years old, one year older than Tirpitz, the naval minister of the German Empire. Seriously speaking, the two are the treasures of the German Empire on land and sea, the father of the navy and the king of the army. Both of them were William II's most trusted military assistants, and Theobaden was his assistant in government management. The three of them were William II's most trusted subordinates. Therefore, many times now, the future development plans of the German Empire are discussed in their private meetings before being released in the government.

Two of the three people are from the military. It can be seen how deep the economic militarization under the support of William II has been. The only civilian official in the political militarization is Theobaden, which also proves that William II pays attention to The fact that military development accounts for a large proportion of diplomacy and government management.

Xiao Maoqi's words made the three of them couldn't help but nod in approval. Spain's attacks during this period are indeed surprising. If Central Africa is an unexpected accident, then the island of Madagascar flying southeast is a real accident. Knowing that the French people are disgusted and even angry, they actually solved it in this way directly. Five thousand French troops there. Spain's thorough planning was once again demonstrated.

"I don't know if you have noticed it, but this war has changed us. It is equivalent to the changes in the navy that we realized when Japanese warships attacked the Qing warships in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War. This war also gave us It brings a big hint that submarines really seem to have great war potential.

Although this time the French Navy cruiser was followed by an ironclad cruiser. The remaining three ships were all old-fashioned wooden-hulled cruisers, but all four were wiped out. Obviously, this has proved that Spanish naval submarines have strong combat effectiveness."

After listening to Tirpitz's words, the other three people also showed their thoughts in their eyes. Obviously, they were also aware of this problem. At the same time, they also roughly guessed the reasons and thoughts of Tirpitz. As expected.

"Although the German Empire is currently vigorously developing its navy plan, the British are also vigorously developing it. It is still a double plan. They want their navy to be about twice ours to maintain their naval advantage over us.

Although according to our previous ideas, it is to bring down the other party from the crystallization machine level and put the other party into an economic crisis. But. This idea can be implemented. But the cycle is very long, and we are also faced with the same crisis," he said with a gleam in his eyes: "in terms of submarines. Although we started later than them, we are all on the same level, not like surface ships, where the UK has an absolute advantage in shipbuilding. Therefore, I think the German Empire should make more efforts in developing submarines. "

William II glanced at Little Maoqi noncommittally and saw that the other party had no objection. Even so, he did not rush to agree, but asked about other things first.

"How many submarines do we have now?"

"28 ships"

"Where's France?"

"38 ships"

"Russia and other countries?"

"It is said that Russia has 23 ships, the United States has 50 ships, and Spain is not sure. Their secrecy operations are so good that it is difficult for our people to enter the surface. But in this case, coupled with Spain's military deployment, Look, there shouldn’t be less than 80 ships.”

As soon as Tirpitz's number of 80 ships came out, everyone else and himself took a deep breath of air-conditioning. Although I don’t know how many submarines there are in the waters of Madagascar this time, but judging from other news channels such as France, the number is definitely not very large. The performance of not many submarines is so brilliant, then if other people are added to join Well, what will the record be like? There will be more wooden-hulled cruisers, more iron-clad cruisers, or battleships will also be severely threatened and destroyed.

These doubts made them feel the huge potential of submarine warfare. At the same time, they were moved and very solemn, and they also thought about the factors that the German Empire really needed to develop submarines.

William II couldn't help it anymore and said: "So when will our most advanced U9 submarine be launched into the water?"

It was he who approved the U9 submarine plan. When he approved this submarine plan, which was said to be the most advanced in the world, he was a little dissatisfied. However, he had been obsessed with the navy's plan since he was a child and he was embarrassed to refuse such a plan to attack Tirpi. The confidence of Ci et al. However, she still valued the construction of tall and powerful battleships such as the dreadnought. Therefore, in terms of military expenditure sharing, the submarine plan still received a huge compression space.

Now the revelation brought by the Spanish naval battle made him feel relieved that he had not rejected Tirpitz's plan. At the same time, I also regret my own measures to limit funding.

Tirpitz's heart moved, and he complained calmly: "The original plan was to launch the sea trial in the second half of 1912, but if the funds are sufficient, it can be advanced to the end of 1911, which is the end of next year or around the beginning of 2012."

"confident?"

“Absolutely sure”

"Okay, then now our submarine project, the Nightsong Dreadnought, should be listed as the first-class naval priority project."

William II's words made Xiao Maoqi frown, and he opened his mouth several times to speak. Finally, seeing William II's blazing eyes, he finally chose to remain silent.

What a few of them don't know is that when they are planning such a submarine, other countries in the world are actually continuing to do the same thing, such as France, the United Kingdom, Russia, and the United States, for example, they are now preparing to send their navy. Minister Dao visits Spain to look for Japan to buy Spanish submarines.

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