MTL - Restart Spain-Chapter 15 public opinion war
"Recently, my country and the German Empire reached an agreement,
The Kingdom of Spain officially sold 500 of the latest ESP1875 rapid-fire guns to the German Empire in exchange for the German Empire's heavy industrial technical support to the Kingdom of Spain.
According to the details, the ESP1875 rapid-fire artillery sold by the Kingdom of Spain this time was researched by the Chinese Army in response to the increasingly fierce continental struggle.
Whether it is the rate of fire, the range, the weight, it is far beyond the best artillery in the world, ranking first in the world,
According to His Majesty King Alfonso XII, this type of artillery has been fully installed in the entire army recently.
His Majesty Alfonso is deeply worried about the combat effectiveness of the army. Since the Carlos War, he has already started to transform the army.
Now that the best artillery in the world has appeared in Spain, we can't help but believe that our army is already at the forefront of Europe.
This is an exciting thing. Since the British Industrial Revolution, our country has lagged behind European countries in every aspect.
This makes us have to accept the fact that we have become a second-rate country, and now the emergence of the ESP1875 rapid-fire gun marks that our country is on the road to rejuvenation..."
In the latest issue of Le Monde, the headline focuses on the Spanish-German transaction.
It has always been the Spaniards and other countries to buy weapons, but this time it was the other way around, and the buyer was the German Empire, the strongest army in Europe.
All this makes ordinary Spaniards excited, and the long-term decline has made Spaniards unable to lift their heads in front of the races of other European countries.
Even in the United States in later generations, the status of Hispanics is far inferior to that of white immigrants from other countries.
The compulsory education law has brought benefits to the people, but this transaction has made the Spaniards feel proud.
As the world's first global colonial empire, the world's first empire on which the sun never sets, the feeling of decline makes these proud Spaniards unbearable.
Even other countries that are also great powers even call Spain a second-rate imperialism, which means that Spain is a second-rate country.
And those who have the same experience as the Spaniards, such as Portugal and the Netherlands, may withdraw from the list of powerful countries because of their small size and small population.
But Spain is different. Spain, a regional power, has rising capital.
Unlike the lively and festive look in Spain,
The Germans would feel somewhat unbelievable that the Germans who own the Krupp company would go to other countries to buy weapons.
When the publication of the "Berlin Zeitung" appeared, the Germans' reaction was even more intense.
"This ESP1875 purchased from Spain is the best artillery in the world today, she is an epoch-making weapon, his data is as follows
The rate of fire..."
It is understandable that the Germans responded fiercely. When any German sees his proud fist product being beaten in all directions by a second-rate country that has already declined,
This sense of disparity is really unacceptable.
"Our military enterprises must find out their own problems. This is not an alarmist. The Spaniards can come up with an epoch-making weapon, why can't we Germans come up with it?
Our army and its equipment have always been our pride, and if we stagnate because of this, everything we get now will eventually be taken away by our enemies with profit.
This time it's a Spaniard, next time it might be a French, an English..."
This is the most representative speech for those who think that the German military industry is standing still.
"We shouldn't put too much pressure on our business, the Spaniard's artillery is just a small accident,
And our country's military industry, with the exception of this artillery, is always the first and second in the world. At least the French are always our underdogs, right?
And the government took the lead in introducing this state-of-the-art artillery, which gave us more measures to deal with the threats of the French.
"We should be grateful for our government's responsiveness..."
This is the support group. Relatively speaking, the support group has an overwhelming advantage over the opposition.
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In the middle of Spain and the German Empire, the French government was disrupted by this sudden transaction.
"This is a shameless betrayal, the Spaniards betrayed us, the ungrateful Spaniards betrayed us."
This is almost the unified caliber of the whole of France.
Isabella II, the mother of King Alfonso XII of Spain, after her government was overthrown, it was the French who accepted the abject queen.
And it was the Queen who cheered for Alfonso XII in France that indirectly allowed Alfonso to ascend to the throne of the King of Spain.
Therefore, in the eyes of the French, Alfonso XII is a blatant betrayal and ungrateful.
As for the Spaniards, before Alfonso XII came to power, the French government intervened too much in the internal political affairs of Spain, which made the Spaniards unite less interested in the French.
As King Alfonso XII, he knew that on the road to the rise of Spain, the biggest enemy was England at sea and France directly bordering on land.
There is no period when two great powers that border each other on a large scale will have the experience of getting along in a friendly way.
The Germans and the French have fought for centuries, and in the heyday of Spain, there were countless battles with France, big and small.
The most recent war was Napoleon's devastating blow to Spain, and it has only been sixty years since today.
It is unrealistic to expect the Spanish to like the French, just as the Koreans support the Japanese.
"Spain's behavior of selling weapons to the Germans is undoubtedly fueling the Germans' determination to attack our country again. Spain's betrayal has made all French people angry, so we strongly condemn Spain's behavior."
French Foreign Minister Decaz delivered a speech the next day, which summed up the above paragraph.
If the Spaniards re-emerge as a great power, the French will face the same situation as the Germans, that is, fighting on both sides...
And the Spanish newspaper Le Monde naturally made a counterattack in the face of the French's statement:
"Spain and the French have never entered into any alliance, and there is no way of betrayal. The nonsense of the French has made all Spaniards angry,
If the French think we are their little brother, they are wrong. Spain is an independent country with its own rights.
We are not afraid of any provocation. "
Le Monde's answer is not to be outdone. Although Spain has fallen, the old empire still has the confidence to be scolded by the nose. This is naturally not the style of the Spaniards.
At this time, Alfonso XII of the Royal Palace of Madrid did not have any emotional fluctuations.
The French's reaction was as early as he expected, and it was reasonable. If the French didn't respond, then Alfonso would panic...
(The ecstasy of the milk method, Spain will compete with the French for Morocco later, paving the way first)
