MTL - Restart Spain-Chapter 19 current situation in spain

The reputation of the world's most advanced and powerful army continues to ferment and heat up around the world.

Countries all over the world were shocked by this, making the Spaniards in the world walk a little more arrogantly.

For the spread of Spain's reputation, Alfonso is actually very happy to see it.

Unlike other traversers who like to pretend to be pigs and eat tigers, in this era of the strong eating the weak, if you have power in your hand, you must show it to others.

Only if others think you are strong, then they will not easily rub your beard, and other countries in the world will pay more attention to your opinion.

And when others think you are strong, then you better be really strong, because while they are afraid of you and respect you, they will always think about overtaking you and defeating you.

In the history of the Russo-Japanese War, Tsarist Russia was known as the European road roller, and the mighty gray army frightened the European countries.

European countries were generally optimistic about the Russians before the war.

The Russians themselves believed that they could easily defeat the Japanese.

But Japan is the one who defeated the mighty Russians with a group of peasant soldiers. The Russians' government tax revenue is 10 times that of the Japanese, and the population is three times that of the Japanese. No matter how you look at it, the Japanese cannot defeat the Russians.

But the arrogant Russians blindly believed in their own strength. The Pacific Fleet of Russia's expedition to Japan only had 63 ships, and most of them were old-fashioned warships, while the Japanese Navy had 83 ships, including 4 of the most advanced "Fukushima" in Asia at that time. class" battleship.

The strength on paper has already determined that the Japanese have a greater chance of winning, but the Russians are still willing to believe that they can defeat the Japanese.

This also led to the defeat of the Russians in the Russo-Japanese War. Although the Japanese paid a great price for their victory, what did they gain?

In that era when the white people were invincible, a group of Asians defeated the top powers in Europe, the confidence of the Japanese people was unprecedentedly high, and they truly won the status of the powers.

It seems that he has only won confidence and the status of a foreign power, but this kind of thing is invisible and intangible, but it can make a country united to promote development.

Therefore, the Japanese could even have a relationship with the Americans during World War II. It is indeed the unity of all in Japan to support their development to this point.

While the Russians' defeat may seem to have little effect on the surface, the label of a paper tiger has remained on them.

(I didn't specifically praise people who had a good life in their childhood, I just talked about things. As a Chinese, my position will not change.)

So Alfonso understands that although the title of the world's first army can bring benefits to Spain, it will also bring pressure to the army.

Of course, pressure is a good thing. No one is chasing after him desperately, and there is a high probability that he will only stop. This is not a good phenomenon for an army.

Only pressure can make the Army continue to innovate and learn, and become better and stronger.

And 8 months have passed since 1875. The changes in Spain during these 8 months are like earth-shaking.

With the help of the Germans, the steel industry has officially developed and started production, which will already be able to manufacture protective armor for Spanish warships, and the construction is intensified.

Several large shipyards have also begun to expand and renovate on the original basis. As a naval power in Spain, the shipbuilding industry can be regarded as the only industry that has not fallen.

Four large-scale arsenal industries were officially put into operation, and the Army's replacement of new weapons in just 3 months benefited from their production.

Elementary schools have also sprung up in Spain, and elementary school students are also officially enrolled in school. Although education cannot be effective in a short period of time, it is the foundation of a strong country.

The most representative electric power in the second industrial revolution, although Alfonso intends to develop it, most of the electric power inventions in this period are mainly for civilian use.

In Spain, where everything is prosperous, his development order is ranked after heavy industry and machinery manufacturing, which are the foundation of the 19th century powerhouse.

This is also a helpless move. Although large-scale industrialization has allowed many farmers to enter the factory, the people still have no money in their hands. Now Spain is destined to have no market for the popularization of electricity.

Government investment is not infeasible, but if it is popularized, it will inevitably overwhelm Spain's finances.

The reality is there, forcing Alfonso to temporarily slow down the development of electricity.

The machinery manufacturing industry, that is, the application of the internal combustion engine, is now the industry that Alfonso mainly focuses on and is preparing to develop.

The invention of the internal combustion engine officially announced the expansion of the industry.

Karl Benz, a German, invented the internal combustion engine for the first time in 1879. Since then, automobiles, airplanes, and other traffic roads that we are familiar with in later generations have officially appeared one after another.

Without an internal combustion engine, there would be no aircraft, tanks, tractors, and the future development trends are the mainstream, so Karl Benz, the inventor of the internal combustion engine, is a top priority.

Maybe there are other people who can research this thing in his place, but Alfonso from later generations knows his name, so why bother looking for a replacement?

Now that industrial production and military combat technology have encountered bottlenecks, it is obviously the best way to seek new breakthroughs.

A few months ago, Alfonso XII had ordered people to invite those famous scientists and inventors of later generations,

Here in Alfonso, there is nothing but more. When he knows who and where the talents are, he leaves them without looking for them. For Alfonso, he is more like an enemy.

Among the existing army service equipment, the three fist equipment have been asked for prices long ago, and they came to send orders with banknotes.

After excluding those countries that might be enemies of Spain, Alfonso sold it with a wave of his hand.

These things will be manufactured by the major powers one after another in the next 10 years. Instead of holding them in their hands, it is better to sell them directly at a high price.

Machine guns and cannons are directly sold at ten times the cost. If you don't buy them, go to others to buy them. Do you think others have them?

The huge profits of the monopoly industry may only be in the past few years, and the chaotic 19th century has made the order of the military industry continue to flow.

This high-tech, high-performance and high-acclaimed weapon has flowed into the market, indirectly causing an arms race.

Even the Germans and French had to get involved in the arms race dominated by Spain.

After buying weapons, today when no country has developed smokeless powder, he has to continue to buy ammunition, and Spain can continue to **** blood to develop itself.

(In the 19th century, when technology was not very advanced, it was difficult to give a country this kind of thinking. It would really break the balance of a region in an instant.)

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