Just after Germany issued a statement supporting Japan, Hirofumi Ito immediately told the whole of Europe through German newspapers what kind of country is, turning right and wrong, and driving the country out of North Korea, saying that they had never been to North Korea.

"The Japanese really do play rogues, they are simply a country of a rash." Princess Katrina Kaif said angrily.

The cute CEO just smiled faintly, "Forget it, don't think about these unpleasant things. Can you meet the Spanish King Alfonso XII today?"

Princess Katrina Kaif said oh, "Yes, your majesty, this time it's really thanks to the Spanish Queen Maria Christina who had met in Italy before. It was her help that we got this opportunity."

"It's true. This is one of the few opportunities we can see the monarch of European countries!" President Meng was very satisfied with this result. Regardless of whether there were any gains or not, being able to directly meet the monarch of a country is at least a good opportunity.

"It's more than that. I heard that Alfonso XII is a man with little ability. The most important thing is that we can meet their prime minister Antonio Canovas del Castillo."

During the 1868 Revolution, Alfonso XII's mother was deposed.

He was taken away from Spain by his mother and received a good education in Paris, Vienna and Britain. Isabella II officially announced his abdication in 1870, hoping that this move would help Alfonso regain the crown, but the Spanish parliament chose Amedio de Savoy, son of King Vittorio Emmanuel II of Italy, to serve as the king.

After ascending the throne, Amedio de Savoy was overwhelmed by the Carlos War, the activities of the republicans and the internal strife of the aristocratic groups.

In 1873, Amedio de Savoy voluntarily abdicated in a chaotic situation, clearing the obstacles for Alfonso XII's arrival in power, and the Bourbon dynasty was restored.

On December 28, 1874, the royalist general, Arsenho Martinez de Campos, launched a coup and declared Alfonso XII the king of Spain.

Alfonso XII returned to China to take power the following year (1875).

Alfonso XII finally suppressed the Carlos riots in 1876 (the so-called Second Don Carlos War).

The heir of Carlos, Don Carlos Jr. (he called himself Carlos VII), was defeated, and the Carlos faction has never posed a threat to the Spanish throne.

In the same year, Alfonso XII ordered the parliament to draft a new constitution in an attempt to introduce a British two-party system in Spanish political life.

During the reign of Alfonso XII, the most influential powerful minister was Prime Minister Antonio Canovas del Castillo (founder of the Spanish Conservative Party).

Although Spanish Prime Minister Antonio is not an iron-blooded politician and has no ambition to win the royal power, he is also a Bismarck-like figure in Spain.

That is why Princess Katrina Kaif is happy that she has the opportunity to meet the King and Prime Minister of Spain at the same time.

Spain's continued struggle with hostile countries, causing territorial, trade and religious conflicts, all causing Spain's national strength to begin to decline in the mid-17th century.

In the Mediterranean, the Kingdom of Spain fought frequently with the Ottoman Empire; on the European continent, France gradually became stronger; overseas, Spain first competed with Portugal, and later rivals also included England and the Netherlands.

Moreover, Britain, France and the Netherlands supported maritime robbery, Spain used excessive military power in its territory, the government's corruption gradually became serious, and the military expenditure led to economic stagnation, which eventually led to the decline of the empire.

The Utrecht Peace Treaty in 1713 caused Spain to lose its remaining territory in Italy and the Low Countries, ending the history of its continental empire.

Spain's situation improved in the future, but politics in Europe has always been a second-rate country.

However, Spain has maintained and expanded its colonial empire.

In the 19th century, the impact of the Peninsula War caused the South American War of Independence, which led to the declaration of independence of the countries (1808-1833).

The subsequent revolution caused Spain to lose its colonies near the Caribbean Sea. The Spanish Empire retained considerable territory in the Caribbean Sea (Spanish Cuba and Spanish Puerto Rico), Asia (Spanish Philippines), and Oceania (Spanish Guam, Spanish Micronesia, Spanish Palau and the Spanish Northern Mariana Islands), until the Spanish-American War in 1898.

Spain should have been able to restore the afterglow of its empire, but Napoleon's rise in France failed its desires.

The main overseas territory that Spain lost in the 19th century was the vast Louisiana territory. It stretched north to Canada and was obtained by cedes of France in 1763.

In 1800, French emperor Napoleon regained his rule in accordance with the third treaty of St. Ildefonso signed by secretly, and sold it to the United States (Louisiana purchased land in 1803).

In the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the Spanish main fleet was destroyed by the French army, reducing Spain's ability to defend and maintain its empire.

In addition, Napoleon's army invaded Spain in 1808, effectively cutting off the connection between Spain and its empire. But in fact, what ended its Americas was internal disputes.

Napoleon sold Louisiana territory to the United States in 1803, causing a dispute over the border between the United States and Spain. The US government believed that Spain's West Florida was also within the scope of land purchases and asked Spain to return the land.

Spain protested for this, believing that the scope of Louisiana's land purchase only involves New Orleans and opposes the US's demands.

In 1810, a rebellion broke out in Louisiana at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The United States took the opportunity to expand its territory eastward and forced Spain to submit. Finally, the two countries signed the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819, and Spain ceded the two places to the United States and sold the entire territory of Florida to each other.

In 1808, the Spanish king was deceived and his country was annexed by Napoleon without firing a single shot.

But the brutal French army aroused the Spanish uprising and continued to launch guerrilla warfare (Goya's classic works depict the scene of the war).

Napoleon jokingly called this Peninsula War his "ulcer".

Later, Spain had a power vacuum for nearly a decade, and the turmoil lasted for decades. It caused a civil war due to the succession issue. Later, the Republic was born and finally developed liberal democracy. In the 19th century of the First Sanyi, Spain lost many colonies, leaving only Cuba, Puerto Rico, as well as remote areas such as the Philippines, Guam and the adjacent Pacific islands, as well as the Spanish Sahara, parts of Morocco and Western Guinea.

The Latin American War of Independence was triggered by the failure of a British invasion of the Spanish colony.

This happened in 1806 when the Governor of the La Plata River. The defenders of the colony were defeated by a small British army and the Governor retreated to the mountain in a hurry.

In 1807, after the "Criolo" militia and colonial army completely repelled the reinforced British army, they kept thinking about the revolution in North America, so they immediately thought of fighting for independence and encouraged other American regions to follow suit. Since then, a long war broke out in Latin America, leading to the independence of Paraguay (1811) and Uruguay (1815). But Uruguay was later ruled by Brazil until 1828. In the south, José de Saint-Martin participated in the war and was for Argentina (1816).

Chile (1818) and Peru (1821) fought for freedom; in the north, Simon Bolivar and Antonio Jose Sucre led the army, and finally successfully led the six countries of Venezuela, Colombia (including today's Panama, until 1903), Ecuador and Bolivia to achieve independence. In addition, the priest Miguel Hidalgo Costilla, who believed in free thought, kicked off the Mexican independence movement in 1810 and succeeded in 1821.

Central America declared independence in 1821 and merged with Mexico for a time (1822-23). ​​Santo Domingo also declared independence in 1821 and began to discuss joining Bolivar's Greater Colombia, but was soon occupied by Haiti until a revolution in 1844. Since then, only Cuba and Puerto Rico remained in Spain's colonies in the Americas.

Civil strife also occurred in Spain. After the end of the Napoleonic era, a power vacuum appeared in Spain, which was ravaged by war, which disappeared the traditional consensus on sovereignty, divided the country's politics, and caused disputes and wars between the three factions of reform, freedom and conservative.
Chapter completed!