The Sun Never Sets In Spain

Chapter 28: Governor of Catalonia

The parade against the supermarket ended successfully, but Alfonso did not show up during the whole process.

This is what he wants, and he still has the idea of ​​establishing a holy Spain, how can he become a businessman.

It ended on December 31, the last day of 1868. It stands to reason that the holiday is forgotten, but many commodities will indeed be broken if they are not sold.

So it opened the business urgently, dealt with at a discount, and lost a few hundred pounds, Zana's face looked as if he had eaten a fly.

Alfonso doesn't care about these things, he has once again boarded the train to Biarritz.

Originally, I wanted to invite the Alfonso family to celebrate the New Year together, but it was unreasonable, and the two were not close to this point. What's more, the Western French royal family celebrated the New Year together. What do you want to do?

Back in Biarritz, breathing the fresh air in the town, Alfonso couldn't help but improve a lot.

There are no cars these days, and the transportation of goods depends on horses, so Paris is shrouded in the smell of excrement all year round.

That is, the Champs Elysées where he lives is better, after all, during the day, horses are banned and someone cleans them.

When he went to other areas of Paris, he could ride a carriage as much as possible, trying not to get down to the ground.

Returning to the villa, the queen and two sisters have been waiting in the yard for a long time. Unexpectedly, Isabella's face was gloomy, not at all the way she used to be happy when seeing Alfonso back.

Alfonso stepped forward quickly, gave a few people a warm hug, then took Isabella's hand and asked: "Mom, who makes you unhappy?"

At the same time, he wondered whether the queen's lover did not satisfy her?

But the queen shook her head, nodded again, and said with a little anger: "It's not who makes me angry, but a group of people makes me angry!

I wrote to Carlos and some of his supporters, and they talked about it, but they not only rejected me, but also mocked me! "

After the queen's scolding, Alfonso realized that the queen thought that Carlos was also a Bourbon, and he was a family anyway. When the dynasty was in crisis, it should be the same to the outside world.

So she wrote to them, expressing her willingness to fund her, on the condition that she would help the queen restore, and she would also title them some titles-the result was unsurprisingly rejected.

What can Alfonso say? He can only sigh that the queen is so naive. This is a feudal ruler who has been a smooth child since childhood, just eating, drinking and having fun, hooking up with men.

It is true that the other party is a relative, but the Carlos faction is a political group that has been formed for decades and has strong inertia and clear demands. You want to buy them for the money?

If you really want to conquer so well, the two previous Carlos wars won't be fought anymore.

After thinking about it, Alfonso scolded the queen together: "The Carlos faction is a group of traitors, and that group of liberal officers are also traitors. There is no difference, they are all wolves and dogs..."

The queen gradually felt better when she heard her son curse for her.

Alfonso saw that the timing was about the same, and felt it was time to mention something else with the queen.

After talking with the British and French lottery agencies, he sold the horse betting lottery patent to the United Kingdom for £250,000. Now this thing has nothing to do with him.

Of course, it was also agreed to give priority to the company authorized to Edward.

No way, the United Kingdom is willing to pay up to 15,000 per year, and France is willing to pay up to 10,000, and the patent validity period is only 16 years.

The horse betting lottery application is in a series of forms such as cards and paper rolls. Because of insufficient innovation and duplication of forms, applications in countries such as Pu'ao, Italy, etc. have encountered trouble and require more review.

Even if it is passed, as long as the other party is willing, he can find a way to bypass the patent.

That is to say, Britain and France are more enlightened, and if they are rich, they will honestly pay user fees.

Now, plus the money received from the watch and the original money, Alfonso has £270,000 in cash.

He is going to ask the queen for some more money and do some business.

"Mom, it's impossible to expect Carlos to send a change of heart and Primm's group to reform. We must have our own power."

Isabella's expression froze. Why doesn't she understand this?

"But the existing conservatives have a clear-cut attitude to protect themselves. Those who support us have been destroyed in the previous rebellion. Is it possible to rely on these 200 guards?"

Alfonso is persuasive: "Support can be won. We have money. As long as people who miss the Bourbon dynasty, they are our potential support objects."

"..." The queen was a little hard to speak. She was afraid of hitting her son. In fact, she wanted to say: "People who like Bourbon probably all stood up and died."

Alfonso didn't know what the queen was thinking. If he knew, he would retort in a low voice: "There are still many people who like Bourbon, but very few people like Isabella."

He continued: "Mom, do you know Campos?"

When Isabella heard the name, her expression was a little bleak: "Of course I know. I agreed with him when he was governor of Catalonia. We had a good relationship at one time.

But once he refused my "invitation", and he was dissatisfied with the political situation, and we drifted away. I wrote to him during Primm's rebellion, but he just remained neutral. "

The reason why Alfonso mentioned this person is because historically he initiated a coup, overthrew the Spanish Republic and restored Alfonso XII.

After coming to this era, he also learned about this person in many ways.

Obviously, Campos was a conservative soldier who supported the Bourbon dynasty, otherwise he would not welcome Alfonso back.

Isabella is really too sloppy, making him frustrated.

Isabella's letter is useless, but she might be shocked, and Camposna will bow to her head.

If you can hold Catalonia as the basic plate, and then train more than 20,000 people in Campos's hands, you can move forward and backward freely.

"Can you still reach him now?"

The queen thought about it carefully and felt that Campos was indeed a better breakthrough, with soldiers, money and territory, and did not join any political group in Spain.

Let my son try it. No matter how bad it is, he said: "Yes, conservatives are not willing to help us fight, but it's okay to send a message."

"Then let someone invite his representative to Biarritz, I will talk to him, if possible, I will go to Catalonia to meet him later."

In this situation, the Governor can't just run around, and Alfonso can only make time for a trip to Catalonia.

He wasn't very afraid of encountering traps, his body strengthened much faster than he expected.

Of course he would still die if he was hit by a bullet, but with his current skill, sight and hearing, this kind of opportunity is almost impossible. After all, there is no sniper rifle.

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