While David was very busy, Liu Fu also welcomed a guest from afar in the Presidential Palace. This man was called "Costanzo Ciano", an Italian count. At that time, Italy
When the Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted the request for this secret meeting, Liu Fu was very surprised. This Italian Count named Ciano did not know him, so why did he want to meet him? The federal government and the Italian government did not have any close contacts.
With a strong curiosity, Liu Fu still met with the Italian count. According to Liu Fu's aesthetic standards, this Italian nobleman who was about the same age as himself was considered a handsome middle-aged man with thin cheeks.
, tall and tall, with black hair combed back meticulously, and coupled with a shaved chin, he is very classy.
"Mr. Ciano, thank you very much for coming to visit me, but with all due respect, it seems that we don't know each other." Liu Fu hates people who are handsomer than him, and the number of such people seems to be increasing.
There were more, so Liu Fu, who looked unhappy at the other party when he first came up, raised the question rudely.
"Oh, please forgive me. This is indeed the first time I have the honor to meet His Excellency the President. My name is Costanzo Ciano, the current Minister of Transport of the Italian government. Here is the authorization document given to me by our government." Zia
Count Nuo waved his hand and rejected the Italian translation brought by Liu Fu, and answered directly in English.
"Oh? Then what is your purpose of coming?" Liu Fu handed the authorization document to the Italian person in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and after receiving a confirmation, he asked again.
"I also have another identity. I am the special envoy of Prime Minister Mussolini. Due to some reasons, I have to use this secret visit to meet with you. I hope you can understand." Ciano
Liu Fu did not immediately answer Liu Fu's question. It was not until the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials in the room exited that he revealed his other special identity.
"Mussolini...!?" This familiar yet unfamiliar name surprised and excited Liu Fu. In later generations, the only thing Liu Fu knew was that the Italian Prime Minister seemed to be a waste. As a German
Allied countries, apart from holding back the German army in World War II, they seemed to have done nothing to help
What's the business of the mustache? But anyway, to have the courage to stand up and challenge the British dominance in that era, and to firmly control Italy for so many years, this ability is probably not something that a waste can possess, so Liu Fu
I am still very interested in this man who lived in World War II.
"Yes, I am the special envoy of Your Excellency the Prime Minister. I came to your country in this way. I want to talk to you about the Mediterranean issues." Ciano continued to explain his purpose.
"Mediterranean Sea!? Okay. I want to hear what the problem you brought is, please continue." Another place name that had nothing to do with the South China Sea Federation came out of Ciano's mouth, and Liu Fei really couldn't figure it out.
What interaction can the South China Sea Federation have with the Italian government in the Mediterranean? Does Mussolini want the Federation to help him control the Mediterranean?
Liu Fu chatted with the Italian count for a whole afternoon and even had dinner together. When Liu Fu returned to his study, he couldn't help but burst into laughter. After this afternoon's detailed talk, Liu Fu
Fu finally figured out why the Italian government sent a special envoy to find him. To put it bluntly, it was two words: borrow money!
In World War I, Italy suddenly changed from an ally of Germany and Austria to a member of the Entente. It turned its guns to attack its own allies. The ultimate reason was that Italy wanted to monopolize parts of Turkey and North Africa so that it could dominate
Mediterranean. This goal cannot be achieved among the Allies.
Because the Austro-Hungarian Empire originally had conflicts of interest with the Italian government in Trieste and Albania. In the end, after receiving the Allied Powers' commitment to the above-mentioned lands, Italy made up its mind to join the Allied Powers in order to become its own country.
It is understandable to win the maximum benefit.
But reality is often much crueler than wish. After the victory of World War I, the Allied Powers forgot their promises at the Paris Peace Conference and did not allocate all the above-mentioned areas to Italy. In addition, they only gave Italy 10% of the war compensation.
% share, which made the Italians feel insulted. Italian Prime Minister Orlando, who participated in the peace conference at the time, even asked to withdraw from the Paris Peace Conference. However, in the end, Italy, which was relatively weak in national power, had to acquiesce to this treachery.
After the war, Italy's domestic economy was in recession, its career was serious, and it was humiliated internationally, which caused the government's control at the time to decline sharply. This allowed Mussolini to successfully form the National Fascist Party and launch the
After the coup, he successfully became the Prime Minister of Italy, and also won the support of the King of Italy, declaring the National Fascist Party to be the only legal political party in Italy, which meant that Mussolini successfully achieved dictatorship in Italy.
However, the domestic economic situation in Italy was not good at that time, and Mussolini was eager to restore Italy's economic situation in order to prove to the people that their choice was right. Therefore, in the name of the Italian government, he appealed to Britain, France, and the United States.
Other countries have made requests for loans and assistance.
Britain and France directly rejected the Italian government's request. They were also facing the same problem at home. Although the British had a great career, they suffered great damage in World War I. The French were even worse.
The country was destroyed and the colonies in the Far East were lost. Although a lot of compensation and reparations were distributed after the war,
land, but in a short period of time the French have to tighten their belts to live, so they have spare money to give to the Italians. As for the U.S. government, they have no face at all with the Italian government, and not only do they get nothing by lending money to Italy
The benefits may also cause dissatisfaction between Britain and France. Who is willing to do such a thankless thing?
The Paris Peace Conference was insulted, and now the loan money was directly rejected. Mussolini was filled with hatred, but hatred alone could not solve the problem. Even if you hate the other party to death, you can't get a penny in exchange. So Mussolini
Rini searched all over the map all day long, and finally discovered that there was a newly rising power in Asia, the South China Sea Federation.
Although Italy and the South China Sea Federation have formal diplomatic relations, except for some exchanges between the two countries during the signing of the "Washington Naval Treaty", in other fields, the two countries are basically strangers. If you want to go into detail,
Speaking of which, Italy and the South China Sea Federation should be enemies, because when the League of Nations voted, Italy followed Britain, France and other countries in voting for sanctions against the South China Sea Federation.
But Mussolini didn’t think so. There are no permanent interests or eternal hatred between countries. Now the whole world knows that the country the British government is most hostile to is not Germany or the United States, but the South China Sea.
Federation, it not only robbed the British of market share in world trade
Well, it also snatched away the British Malaysian colony in the war a few years ago. In recent years, there has been a trend of intervention in the Middle East. The enemy of the enemy is a friend. Prime Minister Mussolini strongly agrees with this statement.
, now he plans to sell to this enemy of the British to see if he can get some benefits in exchange.
This time, he sent his best friend, Italian Minister of Transport Ciano, to the South China Sea federal government secretly to meet with federal president Liu Fu. Not only was he requesting a loan from Liu Fu, but Italy also did not expect Liu Fu to be hot-headed and give it in vain.
They also brought a condition in exchange for a large amount of low-interest loans from Italy, and this condition was like a very delicious delicacy that made Liu Fu salivate. But under this delicacy, was there a sharp hook hidden under it?
Fu didn't dare to be sure easily.
The exchange condition that Mussolini brought to Liu Fu was that the South China Sea Federation would provide Italy with a low-interest loan of US$2 billion within five years so that Italy could continue to consolidate its colonial speed in Tripoli and Cyrenaica in North Africa, and Italy
The government will lease the Dodecanese Islands to the South China Sea Federal Government as interest on the loan. (To be continued...)
