Rebirth of the Spanish Empire.

Chapter 11 The progress of immigration and the development of the world situation
  Two days later, in the Royal Palace of Madrid,

Under Alfonso's order, Prime Minister Canovas and Finance Minister Palacides went to the palace early in the morning to discuss government affairs.

"Report on your work in recent days."

"Your Majesty, we have now called on many civilians to move to Australia and New Zealand through newspapers.

After several months of publicity by our state-owned "El Real de España", as well as private media "Capital Madrid Daily", "Overseas Concern", etc., the number of applicants has now exceeded 500,000.

As long as we continue to publicize, I believe more people will be willing to move. After all, there is so much arable land in those two places, and Your Majesty has also decreed that each person can receive 1000 pesos.

That is the average annual income of civilians in our kingdom now!
  I believe that as long as they have this money and the corresponding land, they will be able to live a good life when they settle down, so there are many people who respond to the call for immigration! Canovas said slowly.

Alfonso nodded and agreed with this statement.

Because Alfonso believes that when people have money and living expenses, their lives will stabilize sooner or later.

Of course, we have to rule out the possibility of encountering natural disasters at sea. Immigrating to Australia and New Zealand is really a good choice for current Spanish civilians.

At least many civilians will realize that living in a new place will definitely lead to less exploitation than staying in Europe, a region full of aristocrats and capitalists.

Immigrating to Australia and New Zealand can make their lives easier. This is the mentality of Spanish civilians now.

"Canovas, what you said is all right, but of course this does not refer to measures, but to process.

Immigration is carried out in a ratio of 6:4 between Australia and New Zealand.

At that time, all the relocated people will be dispersed, the population will be uniformly distributed to various important places, and then each person will be directly given 10 hectares of land for statistics.

Think about it, if we arrange for the immigration of 20 people in Australia.

If a family has four children, it will become at least 20 in 80 years. Coupled with New Zealand's population growth, our population will increase by several million in years.

This is just a short-term goal, Canovas, think about how much Spain's population will grow in a hundred years!
  Because of their departure, more ownerless land will appear on our mainland. These ownerless lands can greatly alleviate the anger of local civilians against the nobles occupying too much land. It can be said that this serves multiple purposes. Alfonso said excitedly.

Canovas and Palacides agreed because it was in their own interests. They themselves are also one of the representatives of the nobility and also occupy a large amount of land!

"Okay, the discussion about the colonies is over.

Our next main topic today: how Spain develops in today's world.

Canovas, as the Prime Minister of the country, you should first introduce to everyone the international environment around us now! Alfonso said seriously.

"Yes, Your Majesty.

Through many British diplomatic actions in history, we know that the British Empire has always practiced a strategy of watching the fire from the other side and taking advantage of the fire, as well as the strategy of knocking down and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe.

When Napoleon led the rise of the French Empire, he saw the huge threat from this British strategy.

So after capturing a lot of territory, including the Holy Roman Empire, Napoleon directly chose to launch an attack on Britain.

But in the end, it led to Britain joining forces with the major European powers to directly defeat Napoleon's French Empire.

Therefore, the British had a huge psychological shadow on France.

So when the Franco-Prussian War ended, the German Empire demanded huge compensation from the French Republic.

And when the fertile land of Alsace-Lorraine in France is to be passed over.

So Britain, already frightened, sided with the German Empire without hesitation.

Later, under the repeated persuasion of German Prime Minister Bimax, he united with the German Empire, Tsarist Russia, etc. to help the German Empire implement Bimax's iron-blooded policy, making the German Empire stronger and suppressing the conflict with Britain. separated by the French Republic.

However, they regret it now.

Because they underestimated the development power of the new German Empire.

Now the new Germany has defeated them in many aspects. "

He took a sip of tea. Because Alfonso loved drinking tea, in most meetings now, ministers usually sit on stools and drink tea. Canovas put down his tea cup and continued: "France and Germany have been feuding since the Napoleonic period.

So from the British perspective, it's like watching the fire from afar. Even helping France is a good choice. "

"Now that I have mentioned it, I would also like to add that I think France and Russia are more suitable for an alliance now."

Alfonso said at this time, and several other people looked surprised.

Alfonso explained to them: "Currently, Tsarist Russia and the German Empire have maintained a semi-alliance status over the years despite being coaxed by the iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck.

But now this alliance is full of contradictions. Tsarist Russia was a large agricultural country, and its industry was indeed very backward.

On the contrary to Tsarist Russia, the German Empire is now an industrial power, but after several years of industry.

It is about to become a trend in European factories, which also caused a sense of crisis in the British Empire.

Now, in order to gain the support of the Junker nobles, German Prime Minister Bimax has strongly supported the Junker nobles, the manor and landowners, and imposed high taxes on imported agricultural products.

This has made Tsarist Russia very dissatisfied with the German Empire.

At this time, the sudden overtures from the French Republic, although this would not make Tsarist Russia immediately change its international stance.

But think about the issue of national strategic expansion. Now Tsarist Russia's westward expansion strategy has been blocked by the German Empire.

Therefore, from a geopolitical perspective, Tsarist Russia and the French Republic have a natural advantage in forming an alliance.

Now if we add Britain as the troublemaker on the European continent, Prime Minister Bismarck and Emperor Wilhelm I of the German Empire will be troubled. "

Alfonso paused after a cup of tea and continued: "Now our neighbor to the north, the French Republic, has always been resentful of the German Empire because of its failure in the Franco-Prussian War a few years ago.

Now the French Republic is rapidly developing its military power and recruiting a wider range of allies to fight against the German Empire.

This of course caused dissatisfaction in the UK, but the UK tolerated it, because now the UK's biggest potential enemies are Germany and the United States.

In particular, the economic development of the United States has been particularly rapid in recent years and ranks third in the world.

Germany's industrialization has entered the forefront of the world, defeating Britain in various fields many times.

This makes the British, who have always had a hegemonic mentality, very vigilant.

Successive U.S. presidents have regarded the maritime power strategy as their primary strategy, rapidly increasing naval power in the Americas. This, of course, aroused strong dissatisfaction from the British Empire. In order to suppress the naval power of the United States, the British transferred more naval fleets to North America to suppress the development of the American navy.

You must know that Britain has always required that its naval power be about two to three times that of the second largest navy.

Now the United States is desperately building naval warships in the Americas, which has strongly stimulated Britain's nerves.

The British now understood that the development of the United States had threatened the hegemony of the British Empire in the Americas.

From this we can know that while maintaining the balance on the European continent, Britain is beginning to prepare for an intervention policy in the Americas!

As for what should we do in the Kingdom of Spain?

What we in the Kingdom of Spain have to do is: get closer to Britain and France.

But while getting close to Britain and France, it also had to maintain good relations with the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Tsarist Russia.

So that we, Spain, can maintain our status as a neutral country in Europe.

Then our Kingdom of Spain will ensure its national security and strength growth under these conflicts in the future.

I believe that by then it may be possible to further reach the strength of a great power like France. "Speaking of this, Alfonso's eyes flashed with light.

The ministers headed by Canovas were also excited!

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(End of this chapter)