Since you have decided to build a new type of battleship, of course you need to make preliminary preparations. The first step is to check for defects in the drawings, and then the shipyard construction phase.
At present, the new warship is still in the stage of identifying and filling deficiencies, so it has not yet entered formal construction.
At this time, a major event that shocked the world spread. That was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Empress of India, Alexandrina Victoria, who had ruled the British Empire for 64 years and led the British Empire to its peak in 1901.
Died on January 22nd.
This news is a shock to the whole world, and also to Italy.
"Then let the Prime Minister lead the team to London."
In the palace, Carlo looked at the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in front of him and stated the specifications of Italy's diplomatic mission this time.
Of course, Carlo will not take this trip to London lightly. In addition to the funeral of Queen Victoria, who is worthy of the British memory, it will also be the coronation ceremony of the new king Edward VII.
This is a time when dignitaries from all over the world gather. Italy, as one of the few great powers, of course cannot be shabby. It must send a high-level diplomatic mission, at least at the level of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, otherwise it will deliberately look down on the British.
empire.
Of course, at a higher level, the Prime Minister can lead the team. If we pay more attention to it, Carlo himself can lead the team.
However, Carlo himself was not interested at all. Firstly, he did not want to stay in the UK for such a long time. Secondly, there were many dignitaries from all over the world in Japan, but it was not possible to talk about anything. Moreover, the Savoy family had no relations with the British.
It's a royal marriage, why rush there in such a hurry? Therefore, the best candidate is the Prime Minister, no one else.
"As you command, Your Majesty."
Prime Minister Antonio had actually expected Carlo's roll call for a long time. It was basically only suitable for him to lead the team. After all, it was indeed inappropriate for his own monarch to go there.
Leading a team to London to attend the funeral of the old king and the coronation of the new king actually did not have much bearing on Italy.
To be honest, the current relationship between Italy and Britain is a bit delicate. The rapid development of Italy in recent years has made the relationship between Britain and Italy a bit delicate. The relationship between the two countries was relatively close at the beginning and gradually transformed into a normal relationship. Especially when Italy won the war
After the war with the Ottomans, the diplomatic relations between the two countries declined significantly.
You must know that Italy could obtain many weapons technologies from the British Empire at the beginning. For example, the 460mm main gun used on the Galio-class battleship was Armstrong's masterpiece. Later, in terms of naval guns and even power and other technologies, the British
A lot of help.
However, in recent years, as Italy has become more and more biased towards Germany and Austria, and its relationship with Britain has gradually changed from friendly to normal relations, it has become difficult to obtain technology from the British Empire.
Of course, this is also a very normal thing. The substantial growth of Italy's strength certainly made the British Empire feel that its position in the Mediterranean was threatened.
"By the way, what's the situation in the Far East right now?"
At this time Carlo suddenly asked about the Far East.
For him to ask this question, it was natural that there was a new situation in the Far East. This time, the countries jointly taught the empress dowager a lesson, and it was not difficult at all in combat. The total strength of the intervention armies of each country was more than 70,000 (this is the number of people actually participating in the war)
military strength), it is simply not something it can resist.
The army is invincible in the Far East and cannot be resisted by the old-style armies in the hands of the Empress Dowager. Not to mention the ambiguous attitude of the southern provinces and their declaration of neutrality, which also reveals many problems.
In addition, in this coalition battle, the French army finally used its secret new 75mm rapid-fire cannon, with a rate of fire of up to fifteen rounds per minute, which shocked the officers of other countries.
The German officer who finally saw France's new 75mm rapid-fire gun quickly informed Berlin of the situation. This allowed the German Army to once again put pressure on Krupp, asking it to come up with artillery with a rate of fire comparable to its opponents as soon as possible. As for Italy
Here, the Ministry of War also requires major arsenals to come up with designs that are comparable to their opponents. But in addition, the Ministry of War also requires countries to come up with plans for large-caliber long-range artillery.
At present, the issue of France's new artillery is not urgent. After all, there is still time.
At present, in the Far East, the most urgent problem for all countries is the Russian problem.
That's right, they are the Russians. In this intervention war involving various countries, the Russians were not honest at all.
It only sent one division of troops to participate in the coalition (more than 13,000 troops), ranking fourth in terms of the number of troops sent by various countries. (Germany sent more than 24,000 troops because of the Philippines.
Next, Japan sent 18,000 people, Italy sent 14,000 people, Britain sent 12,000 people, France sent 3,500 people, the United States sent 800 people, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire sent 400 people.)
However, compared with only sending 13,000 troops to participate in the coalition, Russia sent more than ten troops into the northeastern region of the Qing Dynasty. In the name of punishing the Manchus, these Russian troops not only occupied various cities in the northeast, but also took over the local government's household registration fields, acres of minerals, etc.
All the information was swept away. In addition, the Russian army claimed that in order to maintain local security, it also tried to dispatch officials to the local area in the name of managing the local Russian army and its own people.
We are all old foxes for thousands of years. Who doesn’t know who the other is? Such obvious actions by the Russians have made all countries very dissatisfied. Are we intervening in the Manchu Qing Dynasty to work for you, the Russians?
Faced with the actions of the Russians in the Northeast, various countries unanimously stated that the Russian troops in the Northeast must be included in the coalition forces.
It is obvious that this is intended to restrain the Russian troops in the Northeast. When various countries withdraw their troops, these Russian troops in the Northeast will also withdraw together.
As for the unanimous attitude of all countries, Russia strongly opposed it, claiming that the troops in the Northeast could not be included in the coalition.
Currently, various countries are negotiating with the Russians, and this is what Carlo asked about.
"Your Majesty, the Russians in the Far East have a very ambiguous attitude, but they still do not agree with the integration of the troops in the Northeast into the coalition. For this reason, the attitudes of the various countries are inconsistent."
The inconsistent attitudes Bacona said mainly come from Germany and France, who are unwilling to express a tough attitude towards Russia.
Among them, let’s not talk about France. France and Russia are allies, and they are unwilling to offend Russia on the issue of the Far East. As for Germany, the same is true, and the only way to describe it is to draw trouble to the east.
Looking at Germany's attitude towards Russia's eastward expansion, it is basically encouraging it, in order to reduce the pressure on itself in the east.
"We don't care about other countries, but on the issue of the Far East, our country must insist on ensuring the territorial unity of the Far East, and we can also let our ministers in the Far East publicly express our position. Our country resolutely resists the move to split the Qing Dynasty."
"As ordered, Your Majesty, I will send electricity to Minister Jia Liwen as soon as I get back."
Carlo's attitude is easy to understand, because in addition to satisfying the feelings of his previous life, this matter is also good for Italy. This time the joint intervention of various countries in the Qing Dynasty will definitely affect the Qing people's perception of Italy, and at this time they publicly declared that they would protect Italy
The Qing Dynasty's territorial integrity was a sign of goodwill.
Although I got involved in this intervention war this time, I was just forced to do so. In fact, I still wanted to have good relations with the Qing Dynasty in my heart. Of course, the underlying reason was that Italy did not want to fall out with its largest overseas market.
This is all caused by economic interests. Although the Qing Dynasty will face the largest compensation situation in the future, the market in the Far East will not decrease at all, but will accelerate the country's industrial development.
Thinking of the compensation, Carlo couldn't help but ask, "How are the current talks about the Qing's compensation going?"
"At present, the total amount of compensation has been negotiated by various countries. If each Qing citizen pays one tael of silver, the Qing Dynasty will compensate 450 million taels of silver."
This is consistent with history. This high compensation is also a humiliation. Everyone lost one tael of silver. At present, the Qing Dynasty's annual fiscal revenue is only less than 100 million taels, which directly requires four and a half years of fiscal revenue.
Compensation. This has far exceeded the losses of various countries and the cost of sending troops. It is a vivid display of the law of the jungle.
However, Bacona then continued to say, "At present, all countries have reached a consensus on reparations, that is, if Russia announces its withdrawal from the Northeast, it can receive the first share of the reparations."
When Bacona said this, Carlo immediately understood. This was to spend Qing people's money to allow the Russians to evacuate.
This abacus is a good one, but unfortunately Maozi is a man who only cares about fighting but not eating. I am afraid it will be difficult to satisfy St. Petersburg. It may be like in history, announcing the withdrawal of troops and getting the first share of the compensation, but the result is delay.
, just refused to withdraw. In the end, the British Empire sent thugs to Japan, and it took a lot of education to get the Russians to withdraw their claws.
