Chapter 1080: Shit Stirrer On Line

  Chapter 1059 – Shit Stirrer On Line

Hearing the appalling figure of “300 million guilders”, if it wasn’t for Weissenberg, who was used to big waves, the wine in his mouth would have to be spewed out.

Frankly speaking, at this moment, he would like to make a targeted counter-offer of “3 million”. Only to consider that doing so is too childish, detrimental to his own image of greatness.

“Your Excellency, you are joking! Throughout the history of mankind, there has never been such an expensive colonization deal.

The Moroccan region has only half of the valuable land, and according to your offer, the average unit price per square kilometer of land is as high as 150 divine guilders.

At such a price, one could even go to your country’s mainland to buy land. Aside from the areas around the cities, the vast majority of rural land in your country is also at this price.”

This was an exaggeration, although the land in Spain wasn’t worth much, it wasn’t as cheap as 150 divine guilders per square kilometer.

Unless it was the worst mountainous land, counting the uncultivable areas together, it was estimated to be able to be bought.

It doesn’t matter how crappy the land is, as long as it can be bought. By these days’ standards, land in Europe has to be the most expensive.

In the absence of special resources, the worst mountain land within Spain is also more expensive than the good land in Morocco.

This price is determined by market supply and demand. Compared to the sparsely populated colonies, Europe is a place with a lot of people and little land, and the price of land naturally rises with it.

Brad was not moved and said: “If you simply calculate the value of the land, the Moroccan region is indeed not worth 300 million Guilders. But with the addition of strategic value and political value, it is completely different.

Your country got the Moroccan region, it locks the gateway to the western Mediterranean, can easily turn away the British.

After turning the Mediterranean Sea into an inland sea, in the next international competition, your country is inherently invincible.

If your country is willing, you can also take the opportunity to buy Portuguese Africa, I think the Portuguese government will not refuse.

With everyone out of the picture, the British alone won’t be able to hold out for long, and sooner or later the African continent will be your country’s for the taking.

In addition to the strategic value, the political value is equally rich. The Holy Roman Empire sitting on the Mediterranean Sea is the real Roman Empire.

Recreating the glory of the Roman era is an important plus for your government. Don’t you, Your Excellency, want to accomplish this great deed?”

It was impossible to be unmoved. If it wasn’t for the fear of bad publicity, the government of Vienna would have made a move on the Moroccan region long ago.

Napoleon’s forewarning in order not to pull hatred, after becoming the hegemon of the continent, the Vienna government has always been careful.

Knowing that the Moroccan region is of great significance, the Vienna government still restrained the desire, is to do to the European countries to see, showing that their new hegemon harmless.

There are payoffs, after some political show, the European countries on the vigilance of God Luo really dropped a lot.

The Anti-Shinra Alliance would not appear after all, but the Vienna government was also trapped as a result, making it difficult to continue its foreign expansion.

If you can’t expand, then just don’t expand, the Shinra have already had their fill anyway.

Now the top of the Vienna government are a bunch of old men, long past the age of two, doing things is completely “stable” word first.

Knowing that taking the Moroccan region, can win the name after life, bring higher historical evaluation; but in order to avoid stimulating the European countries, resulting in the emergence of anti-God Luo alliance, everyone is hard to hold back.

Facts have proved that this world is still “the prudent man is king”. The more restrained the Vienna government was, the more restless the Spanish government became.

Especially after the war between Japan and the West, the Spaniards, who had suffered from the poisonous beating of the society, successfully realized the insufficiency of their own strength, and restrained their ambitions.

After a few more rebellions, the Spanish government, fully awake, finally realized that the Moroccan region in their hands, that is a hot potato.

The allusion to “the crime of harboring the jade annulus”, although the Spaniards have not heard of, but the reason is still understood by everyone.

Anyway, they can not eat, might as well take this opportunity to change a large amount of money from the Vienna government, and by the way, can also be owed to God Luo before the favor to return.

Morocco brings too much added value, even if this deal is the need to give money, the Vienna government must also read the Spanish government’s good.

Facts are facts and must be recognized as such. As foreign minister of the Shenroe, Weissenberg could not yet do anything to play the helpless thing

“The Minister is right, the Moroccan region is indeed of great significance to the Holy Roman Empire.

If possible, I would like to agree to this deal, but your country’s appetite is simply too big.

No matter what, Morocco is an independent country. Your country has never really controlled this country, and what it can now take out and trade with us is only a nominal suzerainty.

The high value of the Moroccan region is based on your country’s complete control, but now your country is not doing that.

I also don’t demand that your government be able to take full control of the Moroccan region. As long as you crush the Kingdom of Morocco and establish the initial social order, we will pay the 300 million Shendian.

If your government is unable to do that, then at the highest premium, I can only give up to 30 million divine guilders.”

The reserve price is that there is no reserve price, before this Wessenberg did not even know that the Spanish determination to sell the Moroccan region is so big, the government of Vienna naturally did not discuss it.

No prior assessment, the Moroccan region is worth how much money, Weissenberg heart also has no bottom.

What’s more, the value of this thing, never look at the demand set. The more the need, the higher the price that can be given, the premium is a very normal thing.

Not sure how much it is worth, then it is good to pay back the money on the ground. Anyway, the most important thing in negotiation is to talk, such a large transaction case, and not a food market to buy food, a few words can reach a deal.

For the Vienna government, to be able to get the Moroccan region without causing a bad influence is the most important, the price is actually not important.

The Spaniards pulled the value of the Moroccan region to the god Luo, Weissenberg talk about control. Anyway, he was sure that the Spanish government could not get the Moroccan region.

……

A reception is never a place for secrecy, and the Spanish government’s desire to sell the Moroccan region was never meant to be secretive in the first place.

Although it was determined that the Vienna government was the only buyer, there is no logic in anything once politics is involved.

By getting the news out, in case any country had a brain fart and jumped out to compete with Shen Luo, wouldn’t it be more likely to sell for a good price?

Of course, the probability of that happening was too low. The main reason was that the Spanish government was asking for too much, and even if someone wanted to take it from the tiger’s mouth, they didn’t have the money in their pockets!
“300 million guilders”, translated into more than a thousand tons of gold. There are only two countries in the world that have this kind of financial strength.

It so happens that these two are in competition, the two countries are not a day or two to mess with each other, the Spanish government’s purpose is self-evident.

……

London.
Prime Minister Robert Cecil has had a headache ever since he received the news that the Spanish were interested in selling the Moroccan region.

Frankly speaking, Robert Cecil is also an unlucky man. Right out of the gate, he has been presented with Britain’s biggest rival in three hundred years.

Compared to the current Holy Roman Empire, the Spain, Holland, France and Russia that were encountered earlier were all weak.

“The Spaniards want to sell Morocco, what is going on, why didn’t we receive news before?”

There is no doubt that this is a nonsense. England and Spain had first made a row over the Philippines, and then followed it up with a falling out over Cuba.

As old-school imperial Spaniards also have a temper, even if they no longer want the British to jump out and raise the price, it is not possible to send themselves to the door.

Foreign Secretary Cameron: “Years and years of war have left the Spanish government with financial problems, and the high debt has overwhelmed them.

In order to get out of the financial crisis, they had to find ways to save themselves. Although the Moroccan region was nominally a Spanish colony, they never really controlled it.

From the opening of the colonial curtain to the present, the Spanish government from the Moroccan region to gain, to be far less than they pay.

A colony that doesn’t make money is worthless. For the Spanish government, the Moroccan region is a piece of chicken ribs that is tasteless to eat and a waste to discard.”

“His chicken ribs, my bear’s paw.”

The Moroccan region that was meaningless to the Spanish government became valuable in the eyes of the two countries, Britain and Shinra.

Minister of the Navy Flora: “No matter what, we can’t let the Moroccan region fall into the hands of Shinra, or everything we have in the Mediterranean is over.”

As the world’s hegemon, Britain’s tentacles were all over the globe. With the Mediterranean being such an important region, the Britons naturally had a layout.

Half of Tunisia and the Maltese Islands were the harvest that the British had plowed out in the Mediterranean.

In the middle and early 19th century, Britain even through these tentacles, once controlled the hegemony of the Mediterranean.

Unfortunately, the splendor is a thing of the past, along with the rise of France and Austria, Britain’s hegemony in the Mediterranean was soon suppressed by the two regional hegemony.

The situation worsened even more when it came to the era of Shinra. Not to mention the hegemony, the main force of the Royal Navy did not dare to easily venture into the Mediterranean Sea.

If even Morocco now fell into the hands of Shinra, then the door to the Mediterranean Sea was completely closed to Britain. Malta and Tunisia, which were originally military strongholds, would also become meaningless.

Minister of War Skebro: ”Sir is right, no matter what, we can’t let the Moroccan region fall into the hands of Shinra. We have to sabotage this deal, and it would be best if we could take Morocco.”

To be able to make the positions of the army and navy, which were supposed to be antagonistic, suddenly become aligned, that was definitely problematic.

Aside from major national interests, that would only be military spending. Compared to the former, the latter actually has a bit more energy.

“To take the Moroccan region is simple, as long as one is willing to throw money at it. The problem is after taking the Moroccan region, what should we do?
What is the situation in Africa, we all know it well. Our colonies in South Africa have now shrunk to the Cape of Good Hope; our colonies in East Africa are now less than half of what they were at their peak.

If we hadn’t stabilized the situation by stationing heavy troops at a later stage, we would have long since been driven overboard by those greedy barbarians.

Although Morocco has the Sahara Desert to block the enemy in the south, but the east is also facing the same threat. It happens to be the gateway to the Mediterranean Sea, and it is a place where soldiers must fight.

If we want to defend this land, it’s hard to do so without 200,000 troops. If war breaks out between us and Shinra, even if we deploy half a million troops, we won’t necessarily be able to hold it.”

It wasn’t that Cameron looked down on the lobster soldiers, it was really that the resources that Britain allocated to the army were too little. How can you make bread when you don’t even have flour?
Don’t look at Britain’s wealth, but that’s more just the accumulation left over from hundreds of years of colonization. Simply counting the government’s financial income, Britain has been far behind the god Luo, even with the addition of colonization is the same.

In the context of the full development of sea power, and then get a continental army out, have to empty the British government.

The Minister of War, Mr. Skebrew, did not buy it, saying: “The difficulties are indeed great, but we have no choice, do we?
Facing the Holy Roman Empire, the Empire is already retreating again and again. We have already lost the European continent, if we lose the African continent, then what is left of the empire?
Perhaps people will think that the Empire’s interests in Africa are not big, so losing it is just like losing it, anyway, we still have Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.

But with this and that, the enemy is becoming more powerful day by day, while the Empire is declining in constant retreat.

It won’t be long before ……”

Whether factual or alarmist. It is an indisputable fact that Britain is going downhill.

The Victorian era was the pinnacle of Britannia, and likewise the beginning of the transition from prosperity to decline. Along with the rise of Shinra, it was again the era of the replacement of the old and new overlords.

As an old-school empire, if Britannia did not want to decline, it had to find a way to hold down Shen Luo.

The British government has already worked very hard, but manpower is no match for the momentum. In the face of the tightly pressed Shinra, Britain appears to be very passive.

After hesitating for a while, Prime Minister Robert Cecil slowly said: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent someone to the Spanish government to leak, the empire intends to buy the Moroccan region.

At the same time released news that Shen Luo is bullying the Spanish government, want to occupy the Moroccan region. Creating public opinion pressure on the Vienna government.

If necessary, the empire can come forward to openly support Spain to send troops to occupy the Moroccan region, as far as possible to disrupt their negotiation process.

Even if we can’t stop them from reaching a deal in the end, we can’t let Shen Luo take the Moroccan region easily.”

Knowing that it was the Spanish government’s calculation, Robert Cecil had to cooperate. Standing in Britain’s position, it would be better to cheapen the Spaniards than to let the Holy Roman Empire easily get the Moroccan region.

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(End of chapter)