Hearing the appalling figure of "300 million Aegis", if Weissenberg was not used to seeing strong winds and waves, the wine in his mouth would have to be spit out.
Frankly speaking, at this moment, he really wants to counter-offer "3 million". It's just considering that doing this is too child's play and will damage his stalwart image.
"Your Excellency Minister, are you kidding me! Throughout human history, there has never been such an expensive colonial transaction.
Only half of the valuable land in Morocco is. According to your quotation, the average unit price per square kilometer of land is as high as 150 Aegis.
At this price, you can go to your country to buy land. Except for the surrounding areas of cities, most of the land in rural areas of your country is also at this price. "
This is an exaggeration. Although the land in Spain is not valuable, it is not cheap to 150 Aegis per square kilometer.
Unless it is the worst mountain, it is estimated that it can be bought together with the uncultivated area.
No matter how bad the land is, as long as you can buy it. By this year's standards, the land in Europe must be the most expensive.
In the absence of special resources, the worst mountains in Spain are also more expensive than the fertile fields in Morocco.
This price is determined by market supply and demand. Compared with colonies with vast areas and sparse populations, Europe has more people and less land, and the price of land naturally rises.
Brad was unmoved: "If you simply calculate the land value, the Moroccan region is indeed not worth 300 million Aegis. But with strategic and political values, it is completely different.
When your country gets the Moroccan area, it locks 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 following international competition.
If your country is willing, you can also take the opportunity to buy Portuguese Africa. I don't think the Portuguese government will refuse it.
Everyone has withdrawn, and the British family alone will not last long. Sooner or later, the African continent will be your country's possession.
In addition to the strategic value, the political value is equally plentiful. The Holy Roman Empire, sitting on the Mediterranean Sea, is the real Roman Empire.
Recreating the glory of Roman times is definitely an important plus for your government. Don't you want to accomplish this great cause, Your Excellency? "
It is impossible not to be impatient. If it weren't for the fear of bad influence, the Vienna government would have already started to take action against Morocco.
Napoleon's lessons learned, in order not to draw hatred, after becoming the hegemon of the European continent, the Vienna government has always been cautious.
Knowing that the Moroccan region is of great significance, the Vienna government has restrained its desire, just to show it to European countries to show that its new tyrant is harmless.
There is a reward for what you pay for. After a political show, the vigilance of European countries towards Shinra has indeed dropped a lot.
The Anti-Shinra Alliance will not appear at all, but the Vienna government has been trapped because of this, and it is difficult to continue to expand externally.
If you can't expand, then don't expand, anyway, Shinra is full.
The current top level of the Vienna government is a bunch of old men.
Knowing that winning the Morocco region can win the name before and after his death, and bring himself a higher historical evaluation; but in order to avoid stimulating European countries and lead to the emergence of the Anti-Shinra Alliance, everyone just held back.
Facts have proved that the world is still "prudent is king". The more restrained the Vienna government showed, the more restless the Spanish government became.
Especially after the Spanish-Japanese War, the Spaniards, who were severely beaten by the society, successfully realized the lack of their own strength and restrained their ambitions.
After a few more rebellions, the fully awake Spanish government finally realized that Morocco was in their hands, and that was a hot potato.
Although the Spaniards have never heard of the allusion of "feeling a mischief", everyone still understands the truth.
Anyway, I can't eat it myself, so I might as well take this opportunity to exchange a large amount of money from the Vienna government, and by the way, I can also repay the favor I owed to Shinra.
The added value brought by Morocco is too great. Even if this transaction needs to be paid, the Vienna government must take care of the Spanish government.
Facts are facts and must be acknowledged. As Shinra's foreign minister, Wesenberg can't do anything helpless
"The Minister is right, the Morocco region is indeed of great significance to the Holy Roman Empire.
I would also like to agree to the deal if possible, but your country's appetite is simply too great.
After all, Morocco is an independent country. Your country has never really controlled this country, and now it is only a nominal suzerainty that can trade with us.
The Moroccan area is of high value, and that was established under your country's complete control, but now your country is not doing that.
Nor do I 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 cannot do this, then at the highest premium, I can only give 30 million Aegis. "
The reserve price means that there is no reserve price. Before that, Wesenberg did not know that the Spaniards were so determined to sell Morocco, and the Vienna government naturally did not discuss it.
Weissenberg had no idea how much Morocco was worth without having done an assessment in advance.
What's more, the value of this thing has always been determined by demand. The more you need it, the higher the price that can be given, and the 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 negotiate. In such a large-scale transaction, it is not about buying vegetables in a vegetable market, and a transaction can be concluded in a few words.
For the Vienna government, the most important thing is to be able to get the Moroccan area without causing adverse effects. The price is not important.
The Spaniards talk about the value of Morocco to Shinra, and Wesenberg talks about control. Anyway, he can be sure that the Spanish government will not be able to win the Morocco region.
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The reception has never been a place of secrecy. The Spanish government wanted to sell the Moroccan area, but it never thought of secrecy.
Although it was determined that the Vienna government was the sole buyer, there was no logic in anything involving politics.
If the news is spread out, 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 too low. The main reason is that the Spanish government's price is too high. Even if someone wants to grab food, there is no money in their pockets!
"300 million Aegis" is more than 1,000 tons of gold. There are only two countries in the world with such financial resources.
It just so happens that these two companies are in a state of competition again, and it has not been a day or two for the two countries to make trouble with each other. The purpose of the Spanish government is self-evident.
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London
Prime Minister Robert Cecil has had a headache ever since he received news that the Spaniards were interested in selling Morocco.
Frankly speaking, Robert Cecil is also a badass. 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 before are all weak.
"The Spaniards are going to sell Morocco, what's going on and why haven't we heard from them before?"
No doubt, this is nonsense. Britain and Spain first forged a relationship on the Philippine issue, and then they got into trouble on the Cuban issue.
As an old-school imperial Spaniard, he also has a temper. No matter how much he hopes the British will jump out and raise the price, it is impossible to send it to the door by himself.
Foreign Secretary David Cameron: "The Spanish government has suffered financial problems after years of war, and the high debt has weighed on them.
In order to get out of the financial crisis, they had to find a way to save themselves. The Moroccan region was nominally a Spanish colony, but they never really controlled it.
From the beginning of the colonization to the present, the Spanish government's benefits from Morocco are far less than what they paid.
Colonies that don't make money are worthless. For the Spanish government, Morocco is a tasteless, unfortunate piece of chicken ribs. "
"His tasteless ribs, my bear's paw".
Morocco, which was meaningless to the Spanish government, became invaluable in the eyes of Britain and Shinra.
Admiralty Flora: "Anyway, we can't let the Moroccan region fall into Shinra's hands, or else we're done in the Mediterranean."
As a world hegemon, Britain has tentacles all over the world. In such an important area as the Mediterranean, the British naturally also had a layout.
Half of Tunisia and the archipelago of Malta are the harvest that the British cultivated in the Mediterranean.
In the middle and early 19th century, Britain even used these tentacles to control the hegemony of the Mediterranean.
It is a pity that the glory is in the past tense. With the rise of France and Austria, Britain's hegemony in the Mediterranean was soon suppressed by the two regional hegemons.
In the Shinra era, the situation worsened. Not to mention hegemony, the main force of the Royal Navy dare not easily set foot in the Mediterranean.
If Morocco fell into the hands of Shinra now, then the door of the Mediterranean Sea would be completely closed to Britain. Malta and Tunisia, once military powerhouses, will also become meaningless.
War Secretary Skybrough: "Sir is right. No matter what, we must not let Morocco fall into Shinra's hands. We must break this deal, preferably by taking Morocco."
It is definitely problematic to have the army and navy that should be opposed to each other 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 Morocco, as long as you are willing to spend money. The question is what should we do after winning Morocco
Everyone knows what is going on in Africa. Our colony in South Africa has shrunk to the Cape of Good Hope; our colony in East Africa is now less than half of its peak.
If it weren't for the fact that we stationed heavy troops to stabilize the situation in the later period, we would have been driven into the sea by those greedy barbarians.
Although Morocco has the Sahara Desert blocking the enemy in the south, it also faces threats to the east. It just happened to hold the gateway to the Mediterranean Sea, and it belongs to the battleground of the military.
If you want to defend this land, it is difficult to do without 200,000 troops. If we have a war with Shinra, even if we deploy 500,000 troops, we may not be able to hold it. "
It's not that Cameron looks down on the lobster soldiers, it's just that Britain has given too little resources to the Army. There is no noodles, how can we make bread
Don't look at Britain's wealth and wealth, but that's just the accumulation of hundreds of years of colonization. Simply calculating the government's revenue, Britain is already far behind Shinra, even with colonization.
In the context of the full development of sea power, to develop another continental army, it is necessary to hollow out the British government.
The Secretary of State for War, Skyebrough, said, "The difficulty is indeed great, but we have no choice, don't we
In the face of the Holy Roman Empire, the empire has already retreated again and again. We have lost the European continent, and if we lose the African continent, what will be left of the empire
Maybe everyone will think that the empire has little interest in Africa, and if you lose it, you will lose it. Anyway, we still have Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.
However, under the ebb and flow, the power of the enemy becomes stronger day by day, but the empire declines in constant retreat.
It won’t be long before…”
Either fact or alarmist. It is an indisputable fact that Britain is going downhill.
The Victorian era was the peak of Britain, and it was also the beginning of a period of prosperity and decline. With the rise of Shinra, the era of the replacement of old and new overlords has come.
As an old-fashioned empire, if Britain did not want to decline, it had to find a way to hold down Shinra.
The British government has worked very hard, but manpower is no match for the general trend. In the face of Shinra, who was pressing forward step by step, Britain seemed very passive.
After hesitating for a while, Prime Minister Robert Cecil said slowly: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent someone to reveal to the Spanish government that the Empire intends to buy Morocco.
At the same time, it was announced that Shinra was coercing the Spanish government and wanted to occupy the Moroccan region. Create public opinion pressure on the Vienna government.
When necessary, the Empire can stand up and publicly support Spain in sending troops to occupy Morocco, disrupting their negotiation process as much as possible.
Even if they can't stop them from making a deal in the end, it can't let Shinra easily take Morocco. "
Knowing that it was the calculation of the Spanish government, Robert Cecil had to cooperate. From the standpoint of Britain, I would rather cheap the Spaniards than allow the Holy Roman Empire to easily get Morocco.
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