My Italy

"Your Majesty, these are the casualties of our officers and soldiers."

In the kingdom, Admiral Yagier, the Minister of the Navy, submitted to Carlo the casualties of Italian mercenary naval officers and soldiers in the Spanish-American War.

This is a summary of information detailing the casualties of Italian naval officers and soldiers.

As soon as Carlo opened the information, the number of casualties was written in the first article. 447 people were killed, 249 were seriously injured, 351 were slightly injured, and 19 were missing, for a total of 1,066 people.

This casualty is enough to account for half of the Spanish navy's casualties, which also shows that Italy is definitely doing its best in this naval battle between the United States and Spain.

"What does Spain say?"

After briefly flipping through the information in front of him, Carlo put it down and asked General Kia Gil.

"Spanish Navy Minister Admiral Cervera expressed his gratitude to our country's naval officers and soldiers. He said that he would ensure that the pensions of the injured and injured Italian officers and soldiers were paid on time."

After listening to Admiral Yagir's answer, Carlo shook his head. "This is not enough. Your navy also needs to provide a pension. These officers and soldiers who were killed or injured on the battlefield all made sacrifices for the interests of Italy. We cannot let them down."

"Okay, Your Majesty, the Navy will provide a pension."

Admiral Yagir certainly understood what the king meant, so he agreed without hesitation.

After Admiral Yagir left, Carlo picked up the casualty information again. These are the most combat-effective officers and soldiers of the navy. If it were not for the benefit of the kingdom, who would be willing to do this. Carlo looked at this document. Each name on it was a living life.

Carlo was not given much time to express his feelings, and an attendant came quickly to report. "His Excellency Bacona, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has urgent matters and wishes to see His Majesty."

Carlo said quickly when he heard that the Foreign Secretary was in an emergency. "Invite him in quickly."

"Your Excellency Bacona, what makes you so anxious?"

Seeing the sweaty foreign minister, Carlo felt a little curious.

"Your Majesty, something happened in the Far East. The empress dowager of the Far East imprisoned the emperor and killed six officials who supported the reform."

"Hundred Days of Reform" A word immediately came to Carlo's mind.

Yes, this is the Hundred Days Reform. Unlike in history, due to Italy's involvement, the calls for reform this time were somewhat muted. However, he was still regarded by the young Emperor Guangxu as a help in seizing power. Of course, the result is still the same, the reform still fails. The only difference is that the time for the reform is no longer 103 days, but only 97 days.

It is easy to understand why Foreign Minister Bacona is so impatient. At present, the Qing Dynasty in the Far East is Italy's largest overseas market. Every year, Italy imports a large number of special products from the Qing Dynasty and exports various domestically produced goods, which is very important to Italy's industrialization.

In addition, after the Qing emperor announced his intention to carry out political and economic reforms, European countries burst into praise and cheers.

European countries are not afraid that you will industrialize, but they are afraid that you will not industrialize, because this will allow each country to earn more profits.

The reason is very simple. Do you need capital for industrialization? What if you are short of money? It doesn’t matter whether banks in various countries accept any mortgage and provide loan services. If you have money, do you still need to buy various machines, hire teachers and scholars, and purchase various technologies? The money is spent as quickly as it is borrowed (purely a left- and right-handed game).

When the debt piles up, banks in various countries immediately change their faces and ask you to pay back the money. If you don't have money, then I'm sorry. The armed debt collection teams in various countries are skilled in their business and will ensure that you voluntarily sell your son or daughter to repay the debt. If that’s not enough, then sell yourself.

Therefore, industrialization is a dangerous road, and countless countries have fallen on this road.

Italy, which occupied the first place in the Qing market, was even more eager to get the biggest share of the Qing industrialization cake. (Officials including those in Rome also thought so, and Carlo could not dispel the good ideas of officials and businessmen. Could it be that he said that the Guangxu Emperor could not succeed? How did he know?)

Therefore, during the Qing's political reform, Italy was even more involved and expressed its willingness to provide support to the Qing, whether it was academic or technical.

Led by Italy, all countries were afraid of losing the opportunity and expressed their willingness to provide support for the Qing's reform.

Okay, now it gets interesting.

Countries were betting on the Qing Dynasty's reform, but the empress dowager directly overturned the table. Instead of eating the meat, he got aroused.

How could this not make the Foreign Secretary feel angry? It was fine before the offer was made, and now after the offer was made to whet his appetite, he directly said no more. How could he not make people angry?

"This news is really troublesome."

What could Carlo say? He directly took over what the Foreign Secretary said.

"Your Majesty, this is not the worst. According to the report from our Jia Liwen company, the empress dowager wants to depose the emperor and establish a new emperor. In this case, the situation in the Qing Dynasty will be in turmoil, which will be very harmful to our country's market in the Far East. Unfavorable. So I called Jia Liwen directly and ordered him to express our country's attitude, and other countries also expressed their support for the emperor."

"You have done a very good job. I highly approve of your handling of Far East affairs."

What can Carlo say? This has triggered him to go to Beijing to practice boxing. In order to avoid being caught by crabs, Carlo directly changed the topic.

"Things in the Far East do require attention, but we need to pay more attention to the Munich schedule."

Carlo's words directly drew the Foreign Secretary to the most important thing recently. That's right, the fate of the emperor in the Far East is still lower than the upcoming talks between the three monarchs and the prince.

Yes, the most important thing for Italy right now is the gathering of the Three Emperors in Munich. This gathering was actually an enhanced version of the gathering between Carlo and the Kaiser a few years ago. William II also wrote to Carlo many times about this. This year, the party finally took place, with Kaiser Wilhelm II as the host, Carlo from Italy was definitely going, and Crown Prince Ferdinand from Austria-Hungary was the host.

The content of the negotiation is actually not simple. It is an expanded version of the last German-Italian naval cooperation. It is planned that the three countries will jointly promote the development of each country's navy. Of course, in addition to the navy, Carlo also wants to expand technical exchanges to the army and even civilian technology. Of course, this requires a long way to go.

"Your Majesty, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made preparations for the Monich talks. In addition, we have also negotiated with Germany and Austria. In addition to naval technical exchanges, we will discuss other technical exchanges."

"So, have you discussed when to leave?"

"We've talked, Your Majesty, do you think it's okay next month?"

"Then next month."