My Italian: Chapter 457 end of the victorian era

Since it is decided to build a new type of battleship, of course, preliminary preparations are required. First of all, the blueprint work must be checked and filled, and then the construction phase of the shipyard.

At present, the new warship is still in the stage of checking and filling leaks, so it has not yet entered the formal construction.

At this time, a great event that shocked the world spread. That is, Alexandrina Victoria, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Queen of India, who ruled the British Empire for 64 years and led the British Empire to its peak, died on January 22, 1901.

The news was a sensation for the whole world, but also for Italy.

"Then let the Prime Minister lead the team to London."

In the palace, Carlo looked at the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in front of him, and stated the specifications of the diplomatic mission sent by Italy this time.

Of course, Carlo will not take this trip to London lightly. In addition to the funeral of Queen Victoria, who is worthy of the British, it will also be the enthronement ceremony of the new King Edward VII.

This is the time when dignitaries from all over the world gather, and Italy, as one of the few great powers, certainly can't be shabby. It is necessary to send high-level foreign diplomatic missions, at least at the level of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, or they will deliberately despise the British Empire.

Of course, if it is higher, the Prime Minister can lead the team. If it is more important, Carlo himself will lead the team.

However, Carlo himself was not interested at all. First, he was unwilling to stay in the UK for so long, and secondly, there were many dignitaries from all over the world, but it was unlikely that he wanted to talk about anything. Moreover, the Savoy family has not been married to the British royal family, so why rush to the past. Therefore, the best candidate is the Prime Minister, no one else.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Regarding Carlo's roll call, Prime Minister Antonio had actually anticipated it for a long time. It was basically only suitable for him to lead the team. After all, it was indeed inappropriate for his own monarch to go.

Leading the team to London to attend the funeral of the old king and the enthronement of the new king is actually not a big relationship with Italy.

To be honest, the current relationship between Italy and the UK is a bit delicate. The rapid development of Italy in recent years has made the relationship between the UK and Italy a bit delicate. The relationship between the two countries has been relatively close from the beginning, and gradually transformed into a normal relationship. Especially after Italy won the war with the Ottomans, the diplomatic relations between the two countries have fallen sharply.

You must know that at the beginning, many weapon technologies in Italy could be obtained from the British Empire. For example, on the Galio-class battleship, the 460mm main gun used was Armstrong's masterpiece. In the subsequent naval guns and even power and other technologies, the United Kingdom has helped a lot.

However, in recent years, as Italy has become more and more inclined towards Germany and Austria, the relationship with the United Kingdom has gradually changed from friendly to normal relationship. It has become a difficult thing to obtain technology from the British Empire.

Of course, this is also a very normal thing. The substantial increase in Italy's strength has of course made the British Empire feel that its position in the Mediterranean is threatened.

"By the way, what's the current situation in the Far East?"

At this time, Carlo suddenly asked about the Far East.

Let him ask this, of course, there is a new situation in the Far East. This time, the countries jointly taught the empress dowager, and it was not difficult at all in combat. The total strength of the intervention army of more than 70,000 countries (this is the actual strength of the war) is simply not something they can resist.

The army is invincible in the Far East, and it is not at all that the old-fashioned army in the hands of the empress dowager can resist. Not to mention the ambiguous attitudes of the southern provinces, and the fact that they declared neutrality, which can also reveal a lot of problems.

In addition, in this coalition operation, the French army finally used its secret new 75mm rapid-fire gun with a rate of fire of fifteen rounds per minute, which shocked the officers of other countries.

The German officer who finally saw the new French 75mm rapid-fire gun quickly informed Berlin of the situation. This made the German Army once again put pressure on Krupp to come up with artillery with a rate of fire comparable to its opponents as soon as possible. As for the Italian side, the Ministry of the Army also requires the major arsenals to come up with designs that are comparable to their opponents. However, in addition to this, the Ministry of the Army also requires countries to come up with plans for large-caliber long-range artillery.

At present, the problem of the new French artillery is not urgent, after all, there is still time.

At present, in the Far East, the most urgent problem of all countries is the problem of the Russians.

That's right, the Russians. The Russians are not at all honest in this war of intervention in which countries are involved.

It only sent one division to join the coalition (more than 13,000 people), ranking fourth in the number of troops sent by various countries. (Germany sent more than 24,000 troops because of the Philippines, followed by Japan with 18,000, Italy with 14,000, Britain with 12,000, and France with 3,500 people; 800 in the United States, 400 in Austria-Hungary.)

However, compared with sending only 13,000 troops to join the coalition, Russia sent more than a dozen troops into the northeastern part of the Qing Kingdom. In the name of punishing the Qing Dynasty, these Russian troops not only occupied various cities in the Northeast, but also swept away the local government household registration, fields, minerals and other materials. In addition, the Russian army claimed that in order to maintain local law and order, it also tried to send officials to the local area to manage the local Russian army and the name of its own people.

Everyone is a thousand-year-old fox, who doesn't know who, and the Russians' obvious move has made all countries very dissatisfied. Co-authoring us to intervene in the Qing Dynasty, are you working for the Russians?

Faced with the actions of the Russians in the northeast, all countries agreed that the Russian army in the northeast must be included in the coalition.

Obviously, this is to restrain the Russian troops in the northeast, and when the countries withdraw their troops, these Russian troops in the northeast will also retreat together.

As for the unanimous attitude of various countries, the Russian side strongly opposed it, claiming that the army in the northeast could not be included in the coalition army.

At present, countries are negotiating with the Russians, and this is what Carlo asked about.

"Your Majesty, the Russians in the Far East have a very vague attitude, but they still don't agree with the army in the northeast being incorporated into the coalition. For this reason, the attitudes of the countries are also inconsistent."

The attitudes Bakona said were inconsistent, mainly from Germany and France, who were reluctant to take a tough stance on Russia.

Among them, France will not be mentioned. France and Russia are allies, and they do not want to offend Russia on the issue of the Far East. As for Germany, too, there is only one word to describe it.

Throughout Germany's eastward expansion in Russia, the attitude is basically instigation, this is to reduce the pressure on its own east.

"We don't care about other countries, but on the issue of the Far East, our country must insist that the territorial unity of the Far East must be guaranteed, and we can also let the Chinese minister in the Far East make a public statement. Our country firmly resists the move to split the Qing country."

"As ordered, Your Majesty, I will send electricity to Minister Jia Liwen when I go back."

Carlo's attitude is very understandable, because in addition to satisfying the feelings of the previous life, it is also good for Italy. The joint intervention of various countries in the Qing country this time will definitely affect the senses of the people of the Qing country towards Italy. At this time, they publicly declared that they wanted to protect the territorial integrity of the Qing country, which was a gesture of goodwill.

Although I was involved in this intervention war this time, it was only because I was forced to. In fact, I still wanted to make friends with the Qing Kingdom. Of course, the deep-seated reason is that Italy does not want to fall out with its largest overseas market. This is all a matter of economic interests. Although the Qing Dynasty will face the largest indemnity situation, the market in the Far East will not decrease at all, but will accelerate the start of the country's industrial development ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Thinking of the indemnity, Carlo couldn't help but ask. "What's the current discussion about Qing's indemnity?"

"At present, the total amount of indemnity has been negotiated by various countries. If each Qing country pays one tael of silver, the Qing country will compensate 450 million taels of silver."

This is consistent with history, and this high reparation is also a humiliation, and everyone lost a silver or two. At present, the annual fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty is almost 100 million taels, which directly requires four and a half years of fiscal revenue to compensate. This has far exceeded the losses of various countries and the cost of sending troops.

However, I saw that Bakona then continued to speak. "At present, all countries have reached a consensus on the reparations, that is, if Russia announces the withdrawal of its troops from the northeast, it can get the first share of the reparations."

When Bacona said this, Carlo immediately understood. This is to spend the money of the Chinese people to get the Russians to evacuate.

This abacus is a good one, but unfortunately Maozi is a person who can't remember what to eat. It is difficult to satisfy St. Petersburg. It is impossible to say that it is like the history of the withdrawal of troops and the first share of the indemnity. The result was delayed and delayed. , that is, do not withdraw. In the end, the British Empire sent thugs to Japan, and it took a lot of education to let the Russians take back their claws.