Chapter 1031 Unscrupulous Ideas and Paying the Bill

Judging from the enthusiastic atmosphere at the scene, Franz knew that this epoch-making military parade was considered a success.

As for whether some of the shocking scenes will bring spiritual discomfort to some audience members, that is none of Franz's business.

Celebrations are meant to be lively. Only more than 10,000 people participated in the military parade. Compared with the huge armed forces of the entire Holy Roman Empire, it was less than one percent. It was enough to prove that Franz was already very restrained.

If you really want to do something, organize tens of thousands of people to conduct an actual combat exercise, and the deterrent effect will be even greater.

But that's enough. Before modern times, there were very few large-scale wars on the European continent.

Most of the impressive battles in historical records are blown out. Perhaps it wasn't the ancients who were bragging, they just wrote history in a bragging way.

For example: In the "History" written by Herodotus, it was recorded that three hundred Greek soldiers defeated 5,283,220 Persian troops.

There's nothing wrong with it, that's how it was recorded, 300 people defeated more than 5 million people.

As for how the war was fought and how it unfolded, it is all mentioned in one stroke, and the whole story is about the bravery of Greek soldiers.

Three hundred Spartan warriors are obviously not enough. If they are all replaced by saint fighters, it may be possible to execute the beheading operation.

As a fellow Roman historian, Appian recorded in "History of Rome": "Caesar attacked Gaul and wiped out 4 million Gaul troops."

Caesar himself wrote the book "Gallic Wars", claiming: "Defeated the 430,000 Gaul army, and no one in Rome died in battle."

How about the specific record, the age is too long, and Franz has been unable to research it. The only thing that is certain is that there were absolutely no four million Gauls in that era.

Of course, these are beyond the reach of the Indian history.

It is recorded in "Makobharata": In the first World War, there were more than 1.6 billion casualties of the royal family. How many ordinary people were killed in battle? Anyway, Franz can't remember.

It really complied with the sentence: "As big as the heart is, the world is as big as it is".

Compared with the achievements of the ancients, the Russo-Prussian War and the Anti-French War are weak.

There is no problem with the bragging style of writing. Perhaps the ancients were writing novels, which were mistaken for history by later generations.

But no one who reads history dares to take it seriously. In fact, limited by the original economic model, most of the ancient European wars stayed at the level of hundreds or thousands.

Using tens of thousands of people to fight is a proper big battle. So this military exercise involving tens of thousands of people is scary enough.

After all, since the birth of many small countries, the highest-level battles they have participated in are only at the level of 10,000 people.

Even the envoys of Britain and Russia, who are great powers, looked unnatural when they left. Whether it was a deliberate act or an expression of true feelings, no one knows.

In short, this military parade of the Holy Roman Empire is on fire. The footage captured by the camera has been edited into a movie at this moment and is being sent to various parts of the world.

In this era of lack of entertainment materials, it is rare to have such a live-action documentary, and of course it will be given to people all over the world to enjoy together.

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It will not be obvious for a while how much influence the world has. Anyway, the arsenal of the Holy Roman Empire has become busy recently.

Aircraft, tank armor, and artillery became the best-sellers in the international arms market for a while, and the supply became in short supply.

What Franz never expected was that the biggest arms purchase order came from rival Britain.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it. The economic crisis is coming to an end, and the financial situation of the governments of various countries has not been completely reversed, and the rich and powerful are only the British.

Whether it is to buy it back to support the scene, or throw it into the laboratory for disassembly and research, you must buy it first.

There are not a few military enterprises in Britain, and there are also many companies interested in researching these equipment. Each family has a few samples, which add up to over a hundred.

Compared with the cost of a capital ship of one million pounds, the price of tens of thousands of aircraft and tanks is really nothing.

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Junior, who has not yet left the Spanish embassy, ​​is lost in thought. The first batch of loans has been obtained, so it is natural to consider consumption if you have money in your pocket.

Seeing the looting of aircraft and tanks by various countries, Junior is also very greedy. The accompanying military representatives nagged in his ears every day.

Greedy eyes are greedy, but Junior is a rational person. Don't blindly be influenced by the outside world and make random decisions.

Aircraft and tanks are good, but is this really what the Spanish army needs now?

That's all for airplanes, they fly in the sky anyway, and they can be used in a wide range of areas, rarely restricted by terrain.

Tank armor is different. The plain area is the king. Once it enters the mountains and hills, it will turn into bronze in seconds.

Spain is no longer the awesome empire on which the sun never sets. The money in the hands of the government is all borrowed from outside, and will have to be repaid in the future.

It would be a tragedy if the money ran out and the rebellion was not suppressed if some savings were not made.

Junior didn't think that the Vienna government's money was really easy to get, and he could ask for it after spending it all.

Even if it is to be someone's younger brother, it must also show its own value. The purpose of the Vienna government to support Spain is obvious to everyone at a glance, which is to act as a pawn to suppress France.

The precondition for support is that Spain can support

To stand up, but also must have a certain military strength.

If the military strength has been unable to increase, then what is the difference between Spain and small countries such as Belgium, Switzerland, and Sardinia?

It is not even comparable to these small countries, not to mention Sardinia. Although Belgium and Switzerland are small, their military combat effectiveness is really not bad.

The two countries combined have almost 30% of the population of France. During the anti-French war, another piece of meat was bitten off from France.

Once the two countries develop, it is not a dream that the national power will reach one-third of that of France. After all, France has been suppressed by the European Union, and it is impossible to let go of its development.

Theoretically speaking, as long as Spain does not perform badly, it threatens France from behind, plus a few Italian states to help cheer. Then even if France is revived, it will be suppressed to death by several neighbors around it.

Without this troublemaker to add trouble, the Holy Roman Empire can let go and challenge the British maritime supremacy.

This is a conspiracy. Knowing that the support of the Vienna government has ulterior motives, the Spanish government still has no choice, and even actively joins in.

For no other reason, Spain also wanted revival. However, resources and space are limited. Hegemons have already emerged on the European continent, and Western Europe's small land cannot accommodate two small regional powers.

Whether it is because of hatred or because of interests, Spain has the inevitable confrontation with France. After the European War ended, Spain became the vanguard of suppressing France.

Even when the colonial rebellion broke out, Spain still had an "elite" army stationed in France. The fact that the Spanish government would rather recruit mercenaries than move this force is enough to explain the problem.

Junior: "What's going on with the Jews, can the follow-up loan be guaranteed?"

No matter what kind of strategic plan, in the final analysis, it still depends on "money". In order to get more money, Junior no longer cared about moral integrity.

Even though he knew that there might be problems with the Jewish loan, for the sake of Aegis, Junior was still happy to pretend to be confused.

Regardless of whether there is a problem with the source of Jewish loan funds, or whether there is a conspiracy in Jewish capital, it has nothing to do with the Spanish borrower.

What Junior signed was an ordinary commercial loan contract, and the source of the bank's funds had nothing to do with him.

Even if something happens in the future, it won't involve him. There is no law anywhere in the world that makes the borrower responsible for the bank's source of funds.

Minister Bullard: "The Jews are holding the contract signed with us, and they are raising money everywhere. I secretly sent someone to attend their lecture in Vienna, and the situation is not very optimistic.

The market has great doubts about our repayment ability. If it is not supported by high returns, I am afraid that there will be no investors to participate at all.

Of course, those Jewish speeches were really good. Even though investors were hesitant, many of them tentatively invested in a sum.

Theoretically speaking, as long as they don't run away with donations, there should be no problem with subsequent loans. After all, there are too many people who have money and no place to invest, and there will always be a few bold ones. "

"Repudiation"?

Do not!

Although the interest on the loan is a little higher, as long as it has the ability to repay it, the Spanish government will not default on it.

National reputation is very valuable. If it is not forced, no government will deliberately renege on its debts.

"Then send someone to watch secretly, and don't take any action for now. As long as the monthly loan can be allocated on time, we will cooperate with them first."

Junior hopes that there will be problems with the creditors, but definitely not now. It's better to wait for them to take all the loans before there is a thunderstorm.

Deep down in his heart, Junior still has an unscrupulous idea, that is: first collect information about the Jews, and after getting all the loans, he will report back and force these guys to run away.

Of course, this kind of thing is also very risky. Once it gets out, the reputation of the Spanish government will be stink, and no bank will dare to cooperate with them.

"The world is as black as crows" is not a joke. Few of the banks these days are completely clean.

The difference lies only in the size of the problem. Once exposed to the sun, most banks will not be able to afford it.

Minister Brad nodded: "No problem, I will send someone to keep an eye on them for a long time, so there will be no trouble."

After a pause, Minister Brad asked: "Your Excellency, have you thought through the issue of military purchases?"

Whether it is to suppress the indigenous rebels in the Philippines or the Cuban independence movement, arms are indispensable.

Spain's industrialization is only halfway through, and its military production capacity can only be said to be "manufacturable". Theoretically speaking, Spain can build independently whether it is aircraft, artillery or tank warships.

Being able to make is not the same as being able to use it, these are two different concepts. Not to mention high-end goods such as aircraft, cannons, tanks and warships, they even have some ammunition production capacity.

Not only is the production capacity insufficient, but more importantly, the cost is high. Their own production cost is almost the same as the selling price in the international arms market, but the quality cannot keep up.

In order to change all this, the Spanish government has also made efforts.

After the end of the Anti-French War, restricted by the Treaty of Vienna, France was prohibited from engaging in military production.

The machinery and equipment for producing weapons were directly confiscated by the Anti-French Alliance and became everyone's spoils of war. They were either dismantled by various countries or put on a fireworks display on the spot.

It's just unexpected that these seemingly precious mechanical equipment are actually tasteless.

Countries that have the ability to use these equipment have already completed industrialization and have their own set of industrial systems, so they don't need these things at all.

Countries that need these equipment are limited by their industrial base and talents, so they cannot use the machinery and equipment they have obtained.

As a member of the victorious country, Spain also dismantled equipment from France. However, it lacked a supporting industrial system and industrial workers, so it could not be put into industrial production at all.

Clearly, Spanish government bureaucrats are not problem solvers. So much so that these mechanical equipment are now lying in the warehouse waiting to rust.

The production line couldn't start, and the ammunition was just one round less, so that the magic equipment in the Spanish army quickly became a fire stick.

When the Spanish government was considering whether to spend a lot of money to start the production line when the French pulled people back, the Vienna government's weapons and equipment assistance also came.

Free things should not be in vain. Under the law of true fragrance, the Spanish army quickly abandoned their magic equipment and replaced them with arcane equipment that performed better on the battlefield.

It turns out that there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world. I took advantage of it in the early stage, and now it's time to pay the bill.

With the end of the Japanese-Spanish War, the era of free arms and ammunition aid also came to an end. In order to meet the needs of the war, the Spanish government had to purchase ammunition from the Holy Roman Empire.

Junior: "Our funds are limited, so we can only save some money. For the purchase of ordinary weapons, armor and ammunition, just purchase according to the list prepared in advance.

For the time being, only 20 bombers will be purchased for the aircraft, and the armored tanks are not very useful, and these things are not needed to deal with the rebels. "

Let the foreign minister decide on the procurement of arms, and Junior has nothing to say. Is this out of "trust" or out of "trust"?

There is no way, what the Spanish bureaucrats are best at is to reap benefits. The people below are also not professionals, including military representatives are all civilians.

Since everyone is a layman, it is better to let the layman with integrity do it. At least Junior, as the foreign minister, will not be so short-sighted that he wants to take kickbacks from it.