Chapter 1059

Hearing the appalling figure of "300 million Aegis", if Weisenberg hadn't been accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves, he would have spit out the wine in his mouth.

Frankly speaking, at this moment he really wants to counter-offer "3 million". It's just that it's too child's play to do so, and it will damage his stalwart image.

"Your Excellency, you are joking! Throughout the entire history of mankind, there has never been such an expensive colonial transaction.

The valuable land in Morocco only accounts for half. According to your quotation, the average unit price per square kilometer of land is as high as 150 Aegis.

At such a price, you can go to your country to buy land. Except for the surrounding areas of the city, most of the rural land in your country is at this price. "

This is an exaggeration. Although the land in Spain is worthless, it is not so cheap that it costs 150 Aegis per square kilometer.

Unless it is the worst mountainous area, counting the areas that cannot be cultivated together, it is estimated that you can buy it.

No matter how bad the land is, as long as you can buy it. By the standards of the year, land in Europe must be the most expensive.

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

This price is determined by market supply and demand. Compared with colonies with vast land and sparse population, Europe has more people and less land, and land prices will naturally rise accordingly.

Brad said unmoved: "If you simply calculate the value of the land, the Morocco region is indeed not worth 300 million Aegis. But if you add strategic and political value, it will be completely different.

Once your country has acquired the Morocco region, it has locked the gateway to the Western Mediterranean, and can easily keep the British out.

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

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

Everyone has withdrawn, and the British family alone can't last long. Sooner or later, the African continent will be in your country's pocket.

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 definitely an important plus for your government. Don't you want to complete this great cause, Your Excellency? "

It is impossible not to be moved. If it weren't for worrying about the bad influence, the Vienna government would have already taken action against Morocco.

Napoleon's lesson from the past is that in order not to attract hatred, after becoming the overlord of the European continent, the Vienna government has always been cautious.

Knowing that the Morocco region is of great significance, the Vienna government still restrained its desire, just to show it to European countries, to show that its new overlord is harmless.

If you pay, you will be rewarded. After a political show, the vigilance of European countries towards Shinra has dropped a lot.

The anti-Shinra alliance will finally not appear, but the Vienna government is also trapped and it is difficult to continue its external expansion.

If you can't expand, then don't expand, anyway, Shinra is already full.

The current high-level government in Vienna is a bunch of old men, who have already passed the age of the second year of middle school, and the word "stability" is the first word in everything they do.

They knew that taking the Morocco region would win them both life and death, and bring them a higher historical evaluation; but in order to avoid stimulating European countries and leading to the emergence of an anti-Shira alliance, everyone just held back.

Facts have proved that this world is still "the prudent is king". The more restrained the Vienna government showed, the more restless the Spanish government became.

Especially after the Japanese-Spanish War, the Spaniards, who were severely beaten by the society, successfully realized their own lack of strength and restrained their ambitions.

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

Although the Spaniards have never heard of the allusion of "the crime of carrying a jade", everyone still understands the truth.

Anyway, I can't eat it myself, so I might as well take this opportunity to exchange a large sum of money from the Vienna government, and by the way, I can also pay back the favor I owed Shinra.

The added value brought by Morocco is too great. Even if this deal requires money, the Vienna government must also like the Spanish government.

Facts are facts and must be acknowledged. As the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Shinra, Weissenberg can't do anything to be helpless

"The envoy is right, the Morocco region is indeed of great significance to the Holy Roman Empire.

If possible, I also want to agree to this deal, but your country's appetite is too great.

After all, Morocco is an independent country. Your country has never really controlled this country, and what can be traded with us now is only a nominal suzerainty.

The value of the Morocco region is high, which is based on the fact that your country has full control, but now your country has not achieved this.

I also don't ask your government to have complete control over Morocco. As long as you defeat the Kingdom of Morocco and establish a preliminary social order, we will release the 300 million Aegis.

If your government can't do this, then I can only give you 30 million Aegis at the highest premium. "

The reserve price means that there is no reserve price. Prior to this, Wesenberg did not know that the Spaniards were so determined to sell the Morocco region, and the Vienna government naturally did not discuss it.

Wesenberg thought about how much the Morocco region was worth without prior assessment.

There is no bottom.

What's more, value is always determined by demand. The more needed, the higher the price that can be given, and a premium is a normal thing.

If you're not sure how much it's worth, just pay it back on the ground. Anyway, the most important thing in negotiation is to talk. Such a large-scale transaction is not buying vegetables in the vegetable market, and a deal can be concluded in a few words.

For the Vienna government, the most important thing is to be able to obtain the Morocco region without causing adverse effects, and the price is actually not important.

The Spaniard talked about the value of the Morocco region to Shinra, and Weisenberg talked about control. Anyway, he can be sure that the Spanish government cannot take down the Morocco region.

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The reception has never been a place to keep secrets. The Spanish government wanted to sell the Morocco region, but it never thought of keeping it secret.

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

If the news is spread, if any country gets into the water and jumps out to compete with Shinra, wouldn't it be better to sell it at a good price?

Of course, the probability of this happening is extremely low. The main reason is that the Spanish government's asking price is too high. Even if someone wants to steal food, they have no money in their pockets!

"300 million Aegis", converted to more than 1,000 tons of gold. There are only two countries in the world with such financial resources.

It just so happens that the two are in a state of competition again, and it has not been a day or two since the two countries have troubled each other. The purpose of the Spanish government is self-evident.

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London

Since receiving the news that the Spaniards intend to sell the Morocco region, Prime Minister Robert Cecil has had a headache.

Frankly speaking, Robert Cecil was also unlucky. As soon as he took office, he ushered in Britain's biggest competitor in three hundred years.

Compared with the current Holy Roman Empire, Spain, the Netherlands, France, and Russia encountered earlier are all weak.

"The Spaniards want to sell Morocco, what is going on, why didn't we hear the news before?"

There is no doubt that this is nonsense. Britain and Spain first formed a bridge over the Philippines issue, and then had an awkward relationship over the Cuban issue.

As an old-school imperial Spaniard, he also has a temper. No matter how much he hopes that the British will jump out and raise the price, it is impossible to send it to their door.

Foreign Secretary Cameron: "The long years of war have caused financial problems for the Spanish government, and the high debt has weighed them down.

In order to get rid of the financial crisis, they had to find a way to save themselves. Although Morocco is nominally a Spanish colony, they have never really controlled it.

From the opening of the colonial curtain to the present, the Spanish government has gained far less from the Moroccan region than what they paid.

A colony that doesn't make money is worthless. For the Spanish government, the Moroccan region is a piece of tasteless food and a pity to discard it. "

"He's chicken ribs, my bear's paw."

The Moroccan region, which is meaningless to the Spanish government, has become invaluable in the eyes of Britain and Shinra.

Secretary of the Navy Flora: "In any case, we cannot let the Morocco region fall into the hands of Shinra, otherwise everything we have in the Mediterranean will be over."

As the hegemon of the world, Britain has tentacles all over the world. In such an important area of ​​the Mediterranean, the British naturally have a layout.

Half of Tunisia and the Maltese Islands are the harvest of the British in the Mediterranean.

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

It's a pity that the glory is in the past. With the rise of France and Austria, Britain's hegemony in the Mediterranean was soon suppressed by the two regional hegemons.

In the era of Shinra, the situation worsened. Not to mention hegemony, the main force of the Royal Navy dare not easily set foot in the Mediterranean.

If even Morocco falls into Shinra's hands now, the door to the Mediterranean Sea will be completely closed to Britain. Malta and Tunisia, which were originally military powerhouses, will also become meaningless.

Minister of War Skybrough: "The Jazz is right. In any case, the Morocco region cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of Shinra. We must destroy this deal, and it is best to win Morocco."

It is absolutely problematic that the positions of the army and the navy, which should have been opposed, suddenly become the same.

In addition to major national interests, there is only military spending. Compared with the former, the energy of the latter is actually stronger.

"It's easy to win the Morocco region, as long as you are willing to spend money. The question is, what should we do after we win the Morocco region?

Everyone knows what is going on in Africa. Our colony in South Africa has now shrunk to the Cape of Good Hope; our colony in East Africa is now less than half of its peak.

If we hadn't stationed heavy troops in the later stage to stabilize the situation, we would have been driven out of the sea by those greedy barbarians long ago.

Although Morocco has the Sahara Desert blocking the enemy in the south, the east is also facing threats. It just happened to guard the gateway to the Mediterranean Sea, which is a battleground for military strategists.

If you want to hold this land, it is difficult to do it without 200,000 troops. If a war breaks out between us and Shinra, even if we deploy 500,000 troops, we may not be able to defend it. "

It's not that Cameron looked down on the lobster soldiers, it's that Britain allocated too few resources to the army. If there is no flour, how can bread be made?

don't look down

Britain is rich and powerful, but that is more of the accumulation left over from hundreds of years of colonization. Simply calculating the government's fiscal revenue, Britain has fallen far behind Shinra, even with colonization.

Under the background of fully developing sea power, if we create another continental army, we must hollow out the British government.

The Secretary of State for War, Skelbrew, did not buy it and said: "The difficulty is indeed great, but we have no choice, right?

Facing the Holy Roman Empire, the empire has retreated again and again. We have lost the continent of Europe, and if we lose the continent of Africa, what is left of the empire?

Perhaps everyone will think that the interests of the empire in Africa are not great, and if it is lost, it will be lost. Anyway, we still have Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.

However, under the ebb and flow, the enemy's strength became stronger day by day, but the empire declined in constant retreat.

It won't be long before..."

Whether it is fact or scaremongering. It is an indisputable fact that Britain is going downhill.

The Victorian era was the pinnacle of Britain, and it was also the beginning of a turn from prosperity to decline. With the rise of Shinra, the era of new and old overlords has come.

As an old-school empire, if Britain does not want to decline, it must find a way to hold Shinra down.

The British government has worked very hard, but manpower is overwhelming. Facing the pressing Shinra, Britain seemed very passive.

After hesitating for a while, Prime Minister Robert Cecil said slowly: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent someone to disclose to the Spanish government that the Empire intends to purchase the Morocco region.

At the same time, news was released that Shinra was intimidating the Spanish government and wanted to occupy Morocco. Create public opinion pressure on the Vienna government.

When necessary, the Empire can stand up and openly support Spain to send troops to occupy Morocco, disrupting their negotiation process as much as possible.

Even if they can't stop them from reaching a deal in the end, they can't let Shinra easily take over the Morocco region. "

Knowing that it was the calculation of the Spanish government, Robert Cecil had to cooperate. From the standpoint of Britain, I would rather make the Spaniards cheaper than let the Holy Roman Empire easily acquire the Morocco region.

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