Olivier saw the place Napoleon III pointed to, a small island near Kalimantan.

It is located in the Balabac Strait, with the Sulu Sea to the east, the huge Qingnan Sea to the west, and the South Vietnam now occupied by France on the opposite side of the sea.

It is indeed a position that is important for France, but a place that can be discarded for Spain.

"Spain is no longer confident in the United Kingdom now, so by handing over this island to us, we can hand over the matter of facing Kalimantan Island to us, but it has helped them a lot."

Olivier said: "Your Majesty is right."

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"Our relationship with Spain is rock solid and our identification with the Spanish royal family has never changed.

The relationship between the two countries is the most powerful cornerstone of peace on the Iberian Peninsula, and no one should shake it. That is the purpose of our two countries.

Here we in France call on Spain and all parties concerned to stop the attack on the Queen of Spain and return to Spain a peaceful national environment"

December 27, 1862.

Prime Minister of the French Empire, Olivier, in Paris, condemned the Spanish rumours for seriously hurting the Spanish royal family, and swore support for the Spanish royal family and the government cabinet.

[To tell the truth, recently I have been using Mimi to read and read books to keep up with updates, switch sources, and read aloud tones, which can be used by both Android and Apple. 】

Followed by countries such as the Netherlands, Tsarist Russia and even Prussia, the foreign ministries of various countries also made moves to support the Spanish royal family.

Seeing the support of so many countries, the Spanish domestic government slowly suppressed the agitation and gradually returned to calm.

But what the people at the bottom don't know is that because of this incident, the queens, nobles, and cabinets at the top have paid a heavy price.

The French Empire bought Balabac Island at a low price in the Far East, Tsarist Russia also bought the Tawi Tawi Islands in the Sulu Archipelago at a low price, Prussia also bought the Tapul Islands next to it, and the Netherlands took the southern part of Mindanao. Sarangani Islands.

The Philippines is so far away from Spain that ordinary Spaniards don't notice any changes.

The three kingdoms of France and Hopp have benefited. Not to mention, other countries will soon find out. Britain, Portugal and even Italy are very dissatisfied. They have done a lot of hard work. .

That's all for the UK, at least they don't take that colony seriously.

But Portugal and Italy are different, especially Emmanuel II of Italy, which is distressing to see.

Portugal has at least a large number of overseas colonies, not to mention the African colonies such as Mozambique and Angola, even the largest country in South America used to be theirs.

Although it is not directly managed now, it is no doubt that Brazil is close to Portugal. After all, the Brazilian emperor is still directly related to the Portuguese royal family within three generations.

Originally, I wanted to be unhappy with Spain in Spain. With the appearance of France and the support of other countries, a royal crisis in Spain ended.

But fortunately before that, he had already taken advantage of the royal crisis in Spain, and had already sent an Italian army south. With the approval of the United Kingdom, he sent 20,000 Italian soldiers through the Suez Canal and landed in Eritrea, ready to go to Egypt. Colonial invasion of Serbia.

This is a stealing move!

Thinking that the Austrian Empire of Joseph I had to prepare 50,000 troops, at this time more than half of the conscription had not yet been drafted.

Emmanuel II was very proud of this.

But what he didn't know was that, with the discord between Portugal and Spain, Emmanuel II was on Ethiopia, and it was the first to strike.

This decision of his detonated the great war in Africa between the powerful countries in Europe and became a powder keg.

Even the British Queen Victoria and Prime Minister Viscount Palmerston, who felt that everything was under control, were unexpected.

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The capital of Ethiopia, Adds Ababa.

King Tewodros II has been a little troubled recently, and he feels a lot of pressure on him now.

Because he suddenly discovered that around Ethiopia, the major European powers have been covered with a wide net, so that the indigenous neighbors around Ethiopia have fallen and become the colonies of these powers.

Prussia in Somalia in the east, the Netherlands in Kenya in the south, the United Kingdom in Sudan in the west, the Red Sea in the north, and Italy in Eritrea in the northwest are all staring at Ethiopia, as if we have become fat in their eyes.

"Salle, how do I feel, it was better a few years ago. Although there were constant wars at that time, it was all a civil war in Ethiopia, but at least Ethiopia was still a forgotten corner of the world at that time. , where is it like now, the world is starting to pay attention to us here?"

The Crown Prince of Ethiopia, Sall Mariam, was silent.

In the first half of this century, Ethiopia was a corner that was easily forgotten. Many warlords and feudal lords in the country were constantly fighting, relying on the terrain of the foothills to maintain this side of the world, and the surrounding areas were all affected by Muslim forces. Surrounded and controlled, it is almost connected to all parts of the world and isolated by sea.

Against this backdrop, his father, Tewodros II, appeared in 1855 as a 37-year-old powder.

According to Ethiopian domestic standards, he is a well-educated son of a nobleman, not only familiar with his country, writing and Christian affairs, but also dabbling in the history of various countries in the world, and even his father knows a thing or two about Shakespeare's plays. .

But the father will not be merciful because of this, he is still very realistic, the father Tewodros II passed the war and won for himself a country that did not belong to him.

Coupled with the tragic situation of the teenagers, the father's eccentric character and temper have become increasingly tyrannical.

Especially every time after winning the war with the surrounding warlords, he has to kill the soldiers of these countries, making the surrounding countries tremble with him.

Therefore, Sall is also very afraid of this father.

"Although it is possible to control the country by military means, now I am overwhelmed by the bad geopolitical situation, the Sudan region in the north.

It was an Egyptian colony earlier, and the Cairo authorities, who believed in Islam, were constantly uniting with the Ottoman Empire from Constantinople, trying to go south along the Nile and the Red Sea coast.

At that time, I was very distressed about this. After all, I was suppressed by the Muslim forces and could not stop the development of the Islamic tribes in the coastal areas.

To this end, I sent a large number of people to ask for help from Western countries, and successively visited the five Western countries of Britain, France, Russia, Prussia and Austria.

But in the eyes of the European powers at that time, it seemed that Ethiopia was a place without strategic value. Compared with Ottoman and Egypt, the interior of East Africa was indeed barren. We do not have the good ports of Somalia, Arabia and Kenya.

Therefore, it is ridiculous that Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, already the cabinet of Viscount Palmerston, did not respond to our request for help.

Other countries are even more reluctant to offend the Ottoman Empire and make venture capital for this, after all, this is to anger the United Kingdom and offend the Ottomans and Egypt.”

Twodros II sneered: "Time has changed, you see, the world pattern has changed now, such a barren place in Africa has become a fragrant nest for European countries, even the great desert of Mali in the west is not spared.

Boy, tell you, Europeans are the most cunning, they have a set order of colonization.

I know what method European governments use when they want to annex an eastern country. They will first send out a biography to carry out biography, soaking up the hearts of the people, and then send a consul to support the biography, and then Let the military do the backing of the consul. "

He said to Sall: "I told the consuls of the French Empire and the United Kingdom in Ethiopia at the beginning that we understood their way of operation. I told them that I was not the native king of Hindustan, no To be fooled like this, I'd rather deal with the invader's army directly on the ground.

That's it"

He once said to the French consul Lejean: "I know what European governments use when they want to annex an eastern country. They send a missionary first, then a consul to support him, and then the military backs up the consul. I am not The native king of Hindustan, no one will be fooled like that. I'd rather deal with the army directly!"

Just when Twodros II was about to teach his son again, an emergency military report appeared.

"Your Majesty, a large-scale Italian army has landed in Eritrea~lightnovelpub.net~ It is said that the size is not less than 20,000"

Twodros II hasn't said it yet, but Crown Prince Sall looks at the Ethiopian military leader Sak in shock.

"Distribution?"

"Your Majesty, in addition to the original 5,000 people in Asmara, more than 10,000 people landed there this time, while Assab in the east originally had only 2,000 people, and now 10,000 people have landed."

"Twenty-seven thousand?"

Tewodros II closed his eyes, and after a long time, opened them, the great emperor who unified Ethiopia showed his pride and said proudly to his son Salle Mariam:

"Salle, let's go, let you see how I defeated the **** in Italy, and let you take over Ethiopia in the future for baptism."

"Father, please instruct." Sall looked at his arrogant father and responded immediately.

"You go to southern Kenya and look for George, the head of the Netherlands there, that is, the former head of the Orange Free State in South Africa, and tell him that we in Ethiopia are willing to help them hold the northern border and support the Netherlands. dominance in Kenya.

At the same time, it is willing to sell the territory to the west to the south of Lake Chou and Amino to the Netherlands. The Netherlands has always been interested in Lake Turkana. I know that we are willing to buy arms from the Netherlands for arms support.

At the same time, they sent people to eastern Somalia to communicate with Prince Frederick Karl of Prussia.

Ask Prussia to support us in military training, and we are willing to sell the eastern territories of Prussia to Kurmis in the north and the Alamo in the south, provided that the two countries sign a 20-year alliance. "

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