Chapter 2737: Blackened princess!
The Kingdom of Spain formed an alliance with the Kingdom of France, but suffered first before seeing its benefits, and the one who harmed it was the Spanish princess who was born in line. This scene is really bloody!
It turns out that Spain controls a vast area. In addition to its own country and a large number of colonies, it also includes a large number of urban areas such as Naples, Milan, Livorno, and Anzio in Italy, all of which were captured by Spain when it was strong. In 1999, Spain went to war with France, and finally signed the "Cato-Cambrazzi Peace Treaty", which permanently established Spain's sovereignty over a large amount of land in Italy.
Those places belonged to enclaves that were not connected to the mainland. They were governed by duchies, autonomous cities, and small feudal territories. There were many, but they were all loyal to the Kingdom of Spain and paid taxes to the Kingdom of Spain.
Princess Margaret Teresa of Spain became the queen of the Shenluo Empire. Since she ordered war against Spain, she unceremoniously sent the Austrian army and the Nanhua Empire army to fight the door, issued an ultimatum to those cities, and gave them two Path choice:
One is to pay personal allegiance to Princess Margaret Theresa, so that the banner of the Habsburg family can still be preserved.
The second is to resist, and then the city is broken by the Sino-Austrian coalition forces, and it is owned by the Shenluo Empire.
Then there is still a choice!
Overnight, those cities almost announced a change of flag, no longer loyal to Madrid, Spain, but to the Spanish princess Margherita Teresa in Vienna, and paid taxes to her.
The aristocrats and mayors of the city that changed flags feel at ease. They did not surrender to the Shenluo Empire, they did not betray the Habsburg family, nor did they betray Spain.
The meat is rotten in the pot, and it is given to Madrid or Vienna, all following the orders of the Spaniards and the Habsburg family.
Other than that, nothing changed, the nobles kept running and dancing.
Empress Margaret Teresa looked at the letter of loyalty and the expected income in the lower house of the palace, she couldn't help smiling, and she was in a good mood.
The Hofburg Imperial Palace is the palace of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria. It is located in the center of Vienna. It was built according to the terrain. It has been built since 1275 AD. It has been repaired and rebuilt many times. It is divided into two parts: the upper house and the lower house. Each of the two houses has a garden. The upper house is where the emperor works, welcomes guests and holds grand events, and the lower house is used for accommodation.
The palace is magnificent, with gold-framed mirrors, Chinese vases, Western oil paintings, Crusaders' equipment and other luxury items, and its grandeur is even greater than in the past.
In recent years, the Austrian royal family has taken advantage of the good opportunity of the industrial transfer of the South China Empire to invest properly and earn good operating income. Even with the huge increase in royal family income, they have also taken the opportunity to buy a lot of luxury goods. After all, the royal family needs face.
When the family is the queen, as a woman, she is relatively restrained, living within her means, and giving up what she can't buy, unlike Louis XIV who borrowed money when he had no money to spend, and was taken advantage of.
Even so, there are some things that Louis XIV could not buy even if he had money. For example, Marguerite Theresa had eight 2-meter-high ground vases, which painted pictures of various Chinese gods and were placed on the ground. It is full of style.
Louis XIV’s eyes were red when he heard about it, but no matter how much he paid, he could only buy a ground vase with a height of 1.8 meters at most, because the ground vase with a height of 2 meters was bought in Jingdezhen, China, Margot As another empress of the emperor of the South China Empire, Lite Teresa is naturally eligible to own it, while a foreign king like Louis XIV is not qualified to use a two-meter-high ground vase!
Shaking the document, Queen Margaret Theresa said to her chief lady, Countess Gloria: "Your Majesty once told me that if you are in a bad mood, you should eat a big meal or count Qian, the mood will be better, it is really good!"
The newly pledged city districts are expected to contribute an annuity of £300,000 a year to Her Royal Highness.
How much is this money worth?
Calculated at one hundred thousand pounds for a class-one sailing battleship, three ships can be bought.
The first-class sailing battleship is powerful, it is a strategic weapon of that era, and it is an out-and-out country's most important weapon!
The economy of the Italian region is developed, and its land is suitable for farming. It is rich in wheat, olive oil, wine, citrus, etc., as well as leather, shoemaking, textiles, furniture, food, marble mining and shipbuilding, and the financial industry, commercial logistics, etc. Prosperous, the general income of nobles and residents is high, which provides Her Royal Highness with annuities for three Class-1 sailing battleships.
Although she was favored when she was a princess in Spain, how could she get so much annuity, an annuity worth two thousand pounds is not bad.
Now, with the millions of pounds she got when she got married, she set up an investment company to serve her. The business is running properly, and the income is only an annuity of 100,000 pounds.
What a blessing, getting 300,000 pounds at once, can be called a cash cow!
Seeing the golden light in her eyes, Countess Gloria teased her: "Who was crying and not wanting to go to war with Spain?"
"I heard Your Majesty say at the time that war can make you a fortune, it's really good!" Empress Margaret Theresa took the map, pointed at the map and said, "You think we should attack here?"
Bai Nen's slender fingers pointed to the Balearic Islands in Spain!
The Balearic Islands are located in the Western Mediterranean, between the Iberian Peninsula, southern France and North Africa. They consist of a series of islands with a total area of slightly more than 5,000 square kilometers, located 80 to 300 kilometers east of mainland Spain. , consists of two large island groups.
It can be said that this archipelago is the east gate of Spain. Once it is controlled by foreign enemies, it will open Spain's door wide.
Countess Gloria sighed secretly, and said to her little lord: "Princess, you should ask your general!"
"Wow!" Queen Margaret Theresa said briskly.
When she asked her generals, the answer must be to fight, why not fight!
So under the protection of the South China Fleet, a transport fleet carrying 5,000 South China troops and 8,000 Austrian troops headed for the Balearic Islands.
The Balearic Islands are small and can't resist the army. At the same time, there are no Spanish battleships in the Mediterranean Sea. Therefore, the South Austrian coalition forces successfully captured the Balearic Islands, and then raised the flag of the Holy Roman Empire!
Afterwards, the Nanhua Fleet flying the flag of the Holy Roman Empire marched towards the coast of Spain ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to plunder wantonly, seize people's property, transport people away, do what pirates should do, and then share dividends.
Among the pirates who did bad things, the Austrian army was also included.
As a result, the east coast of Spain was deeply poisoned, even more than the North African pirates back then.
So angry that the Spanish court sent Minister of State Valencia Gaja Alba as an envoy to Vienna to question Queen Margaret Teresa, asking if she was still a Spanish princess, how could she start a war against her motherland like this?
Ask her to withdraw the army from the Balearic Islands and return the Spanish enclave in Italy to Spain!
Empress Margaret Theresa calmly said: "I am the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire!"
One sentence made Valencia Gaia Alba stutter, and he looked at the princess he had seen since she was a child, and felt that she was very strange!
In the end, the grey-haired veteran said dejectedly: "Your Highness, you have grown up!" 2084/10188859
