Rebirth of the Spanish Empire

"Gaston Doumergue, those two guys have been spying for more than two hours. This is already beyond the diplomatic courtesy visit time. How come they haven't come out yet?"

Katsura Taro said calmly, seemingly unintentionally, "But Spain is a big country, and France should really pay attention to such a country."

Not far from the meeting between the heads of government of France and Spain, in the residence of the Tsarist Russian delegation, the current head of the Japanese delegation, Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Taro, was having talks with Tsarist Russian Prime Minister Stolypin.

Kitaro was originally waiting for Japan and Tsarist Russia, which was in a strategic dilemma, to show weakness to him first. However, the result was that they had no intention of taking action. This made Katsuraro even somewhat doubtful that the Prime Minister of Tsarist Russia was. It wasn't that my brain was burned out, but it was still holding on there. Although Japan has already started a memorandum of understanding with Tsarist Russia, it will still use judo to teach Tsarist Russia a lesson as a polar bear at any time.

However, the polar bears may be too lazy to move because their bodies are too big, so now they can only take the initiative to come to the door, and at the same time, they can also take the initiative = test the other party's tone. Also, this is Katsura's first time with him. Stolypin had a formal face-to-face equal conversation. They had met before, but at that time Stolypin was so condescending in the eyes of Katsura Taro. At that time, Katsura Pin was still a Japanese official. Now many years have passed, and with his own efforts, Stolypin Allow yourself to finally catch up to the other person's status.

Therefore, he is usually quite calm. At this moment, he couldn't help but feel the madman and complacency deep in his heart, and the tone of his words had already been revealed.

Stolypin is very tall in stature, and his face is very square, and he has the face of an honest man. However, if you are deceived by his face, then you will not regret it, in fact. He is a man of great wisdom and foolishness.

In fact. Since arriving here, he has already made several plans, among which, the first opportunity. Even though we encountered a lot of troubles in the Far East. But. He planned to "punish" Japan, a country that had caused heavy losses to Tsarist Russia and felt helpless.

Therefore, I did not take the initiative to visit from the beginning. Unexpectedly, Japan began to fall into a passive position. Then, as expected, the Japanese Prime Minister, who fell into the trap, entered his own network step by step without realizing it. It is really unimaginable that this kind of Japanese Prime Minister actually caused Tsarist Russia to fail at his feet again and again? This made Stolypin a little dissatisfied and embarrassed.

Although his tone couldn't help but be a bit stiff, he still said doubtfully: "Yes, they actually talked for so long?"

A general diplomatic visit only lasts for 20 minutes. If it is between two relatively close countries, then the time will be involuntarily increased to forty minutes, and then for example, for allies, etc. It can be carried out for one hour. Others, unless they enter a state of negotiation, will generally not exceed this one hour range. Now France and Spain have been talking for 2 hours and there is still no sign of it, which makes the two of them pay close attention to each other. There is no need to be surprised by the strange changes in Western France.

"Have they already entered into negotiations?" Stolypin was a little confused. Spain can be said to be the most incredible enemy country considered by Tsarist Russia. On many issues, Spain can actually be said to be a very good country like France. allies, even better than France. Even the two countries seemed to be creating such an atmosphere at the beginning, and even France was helping this. However, with the rise of Spain, France has changed its attitude. , turned to silence. Later, with Spain's expansionism, there was not much remaining land in the world, allowing Spain to attack Tsarist Russia. Spain and Tsarist Russia, which should not have much connecting territory, actually succeeded and failed. Xiao He, there was no real conflict, and Spain's security would not be affected by Tsarist Russia. In the eyes of Tsarist Russia, he was one of Spain's best allies.

But what made Tsarist Russia speechless was that Spain had no such idea, because Spain had just the opposite idea and made a move that made Tsarist Russia extremely angry.

Spain actually created an anti-national wave in Ukraine, Poland, Finland and other regions, which ignited a huge spark among these nationalists. If it had not been forcibly suppressed in the end, the final Tsarist Russia might have been Torn apart.

After that, the two countries had many disputes. This was absolutely unbearable for Tsarist Russia, but in the end it had to be endured because Tsarist Russia did not have a decent navy. The Far East Fleet was originally in the military port in the Far East. It was not bad. One-third of Tsarist Russia's ships had been assembled there, which was comparable to Japan at the time in the Far East. However, at the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan successfully attacked and the entire army was annihilated. , making Tsarist Russia’s navy not bad from now on, even now it can’t compare with Austria. With Spain’s support for Hungary, it is even foreseeable that Hungary will also deploy multiple Dreadnoughts in the Black Sea and Adriatic Sea Ship, this will make Tsarist Russia face great pressure from both the world and the strategic pressure around the Balkans, and the same is true in the Far East.

Therefore, Spain has become a country that Tsarist Russia hates, and at the same time, it is also a place that many people in the country love and hate. After all, Spain's strength is actually a familiar shadow of Tsarist Russia's expansion and development in his own country. Seeing their arrogance at this moment, Stolypin felt a little ironic.

Just the opposite of Spain, France also had no real conflict with Tsarist Russia due to geographical reasons, and in its overseas colonies, so since the fall of the Napoleonic dynasty, the two countries began to slowly get closer and became mutual friends. Diplomatic allies in Europe were used to deal with challenges, including first Britain, then the German Empire, and even previous disputes with Spain. These have allowed the relationship between the two countries to integrate again and again.

One is his country's enemy, and the other is his country's ally. Such a combination, they actually talked for two hours in a closed-door meeting and still didn't come out. Such an abnormality has made even him, who has always been extremely patient, , I couldn’t sit still at this moment.

Katsura Taro secretly thought that it was so dangerous that he almost made a mistake. Seeing Stolypin at this moment, he finally understood that this giant Buddha also had a weakness. However, although this weakness was well covered up, this time But he let his stupidity run into a dead rat. I understand that the prime minister's weakness is actually Spain.

This discovery surprised him, but also gave him a headache. , because he is also an anti-Spanish politician. In Japan, this is no longer a secret. I believe Spain also knows it. Therefore, in the past few years of his rule, the relationship between Japan and Spain has become thicker on the surface. In fact, on the contrary, there is no mutual trust between the two countries at all. The main reason for this is naturally because he has close relations with the United States and the United Kingdom. Unlike the Spanish plot of the older generation of Japanese politicians such as Ito Hirobumi and Yamagata Aritomo, in the eyes of him and young people such as Saionji Konobo, Spain It has become a roadblock to the rise of Japan. If Japan wants to develop, it must kick away Spain as a stumbling block in the Pacific and East Asia. Only then can the Empire of Japan truly rise.

Ito Hirobumi's position is actually understandable. After all, at that time, Japan was very weak in international status, so I had to rely on them to survive. However, with the rise of Japan, among the world's powerful countries Their status has undergone earth-shaking changes. In the past two years, the United States, France, Britain and even the German Empire have all made attempts to woo them. Therefore, their ambitions have broken free from the shackles of the cage. Slowly stretched out their heads. Although the heads were still looking around outside the cage, they were determined not to look back at the cage, because the meaning of this cage had changed dramatically.

Japan no longer needs this cage that locks itself to bind its freedom. So now they have established a strategic partnership with the United Kingdom and have close economic ties with the United States. With these two major partners, political and economic, Katsura believes that this is enough to offset the pressure from Spain. , Therefore, they will continue to complete the task of kicking Spain away, and the first thing to do for this task is to stabilize Tsarist Russia in Europe first, and then Japan will start to deal with Spain with all its strength.

I don’t understand the conversation between these two people. In the White House, Woodrow Wilson is very nervous now, because he never felt that his diplomatic plan would make him lose so much. Be confident.

In the 1912 U.S. election, he took advantage of the internal struggles of the Republican Party to disperse their votes. As the general co-candidate of the Democratic Party, he successfully became a dark horse and obtained the final victory votes, becoming the final winner. , was elected as the 28th President of the United States.

At this time, the United States was a paradise of progressivism. In such a paradise, as a leader-level intellectual, his experience and his prestige allowed him to enter into the expectations of the American people from the very beginning. , so his career in power was also very smooth. Within half a year, he quickly clarified the coordination relationship between the various forces in the United States. (To be continued...)

ps: First update.