My Italian Chapter 549

The world in 1910 was in a peaceful atmosphere, although the smoke of gunpowder over Europe began to fill, but this did not affect the current tranquility.

If there is anything that attracts attention in this peaceful world, it is the news of the death of Edward VII, the monarch of the British Empire this year. The British king, who reigned for only nine years, died at Buckingham Palace on May 6, 1910, from pneumonia.

The Edward VII was known for his romantic nature. His father, Prince Albert, hurried back and forth from London to Cambridge because of his affair, and died of typhoid fever two weeks later.

Affected by the death of his father, his mother, Queen Victoria, has been keeping him from political or royal affairs. It wasn't until he was nearly 50 that he started getting involved. One can imagine how angry Queen Victoria was with her son.

But even so, the Edward VII monarch, in addition to being romantic, still has a lot of achievements in politics. For example, during his reign, he vigorously restored the British monarchy, which was bleak due to the queen's long-term widowhood. In addition, his visit to Paris in 1903 laid the foundation for the signing of the "Anglo-French Treaty" between the two countries.

In any case, as the world's number one power, the death of the monarch of the British Empire and the enthronement of the new monarch must be extremely grand.

The funeral of Edward VII was also a gathering of monarchs from all over the world. Nine monarchs, five crown princes, seven queens, and more than 40 members of the royal family attended his funeral, especially the famous photo of the nine monarchs gathered together. It was taken just before the funeral.

For this century-old luxurious funeral attended by dignitaries from various countries, Italy also sent a delegation headed by Foreign Minister Bacona to participate, and did not send members of the royal family or monarchs. The reason is very simple, because the Savoy family is not married to the British royal family, and the relationship between the two countries is now a little delicate, so there is no need to send such a high-level delegation.

In addition to the succession of the Emperor, a bourgeois revolution broke out in Portugal.

The revolution started with naval ships. Under the instigation of the Republican Party, a man named Santos led two cruisers in an open rebellion and shelled the palace. The army also refused to carry out King Manuel's order to suppress it, and instead formed a joint trend with the navy.

Manuel was playing bridge leisurely with the visiting Brazilian president at this time. After learning the news of the outbreak of the revolution, he knew that the situation was over and he could not stay for long. So he didn't care that the game was not over, and hurried from the harbor to the UK by boat.

Not to be outdone, the republican-minded soldiers in the city of Lisbon took the opportunity to arrest their sleeping officers, quickly took control of the army that might interfere with the revolution, and distributed weapons to the city's population hungry for change.

It was all too easy, the Republicans found out, that they took over a country so quickly. The streets were quickly patrolled, protecting the private property of the people and suppressing all signs of anarchist tendencies.

Then Teofilo Braga was elected president, and the new government quickly carried out reforms in political, economic, and foreign policy.

The Brazilian president who came to visit dramatically witnessed the hurried curtain call of the Portuguese monarchy. Yesterday, he played bridge with the monarch. The next day changed, and the sun of the republic shone on the land of Portugal.

The Portuguese revolution was like a child's play. It's so pedantic compared to another revolution, the Mexican Revolution.

This year, Mexico held another presidential election. President Dias has always been the object of "love" of the people. He has ruled the country for more than 30 years. Under his rule, Mexico has suffered serious economic chaos and the people are miserable. In addition, the elections in Mexico are also quite democratic, because Dias always announces himself for re-election without an election. He has been re-elected for six terms as president.

The key is that Mr. Dias not only wants to generate electricity for Mexico himself, but also wants his family to generate electricity for Mexico all the time. This devotion to Messina made the people dissatisfied.

Among them, the liberal Madero put forward a program of opposing dictatorship, protecting national industries and establishing a constitutional state, which was well supported by the people.

Dias then locked Madero in a dark room and held a fake election in July, declaring himself the winner. As for Madero, who was locked in a dark room, he was released after the election.

Being treated like this by His Excellency, the old man was also angry, and published the "San Luis Pitosi Plan" in San Antonio, Texas on October 3. Ask Dias to resign, allocate land and reform the electoral system, and call for an armed uprising of the people.

So in its drive, the revolution swept across the country of Mexico. In the north, Orozco and Villa led peasant armies to attack government forces, and in the south, Sabata led peasants in armed struggle.

Now Mexico is playing very lively, and at this time its enthusiastic neighbor, the United States, will naturally not be safe. For Mexico, the United States has always been very vigilant, because the United States needs to control it.

During the rule of the Dias government, the United States exported a large amount of capital and technology to Mexico. Although Mexico's economy developed rapidly and its industry developed to a certain extent during Dias's reign, the economic development during Dias's rule was based on the unilateral export of the economy by the United States, rather than on the basis of independence. So economically, Mexico has been gradually controlled by the United States.

As for the revolution that is breaking out now, the United States is naturally paying close attention to it. As long as there is any behavior that damages the interests of the United States, Uncle Sam will let the Mexican straw hat know the many benefits of his neighbors.

Although two countries are making revolutions, their status in the world is not high, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the world is at peace.

In this disaster-free and harmless situation, the Italian economy has developed rapidly.

At present, the Italian economy is mainly driven by shipbuilding, automobile manufacturing, power industry, and military industry.

Taking the automobile manufacturing industry as an example, Italy alone has 197,000 people in the vehicle manufacturing industry, and the number of related industries has exceeded one million. This year, the total scale of the Italian automobile manufacturing industry exceeded the 2 billion lire mark, reaching a scale of 2.11 billion liras. Among them, the export of automobiles and parts accounted for 15.1% of the total export value.

Although each country currently has its own car manufacturing plants, the advantages of first mover and large-scale production allow Italian cars to occupy more than half of the market share in each country. Especially in the truck industry, which is the most economical, Italian trucks account for 80% of the sales in Europe.

Truck sales are so high, more because Italian auto companies are the first to enter the industry. Take Fiat as an example, which spends tens of millions of lire in the research and development of truck technology every year.

No other automaker can come up with that, so it makes sense for Fiat to be the largest truck maker.

Italy's pillar industry, in addition to car manufacturing, shipbuilding is also booming.

Low labor costs and continuous research and development of new technologies have made Italian shipbuilding occupy a larger and larger share of the world's shipbuilding industry. The displacement of orders currently owned by the Italian shipbuilding industry accounts for 18.9% of the total displacement of orders in the global shipbuilding industry, which is not a small number.

In addition to the large number of shipbuilding orders, Italy is also innovating in related technologies. At present, the most powerful technology in Italy is the container and its supporting facilities and equipment. This is a technology developed in Italy under the guidance of an expert.

That's right, it's the shipping container, the benefits of the container need not be mentioned, first of all, it can be used repeatedly for a long time. In addition, there is no need to move or load and unload in the middle, effectively avoiding the loss of goods. It can also be loaded and unloaded quickly, and it is easy to fill and unload the cargo. Secondly, there are many choices of specifications and standards, which can be stacked in ports and on ships, saving a lot of space.

More importantly, the efficiency of containers is unmatched by other loading methods, whether it is in terms of reloading efficiency or economic efficiency.

Therefore, once the technology was launched, it immediately attracted the imitation of various countries, and everyone upgraded the tools such as terminals, stations, and ships, trying to fit the use of containers.

Among them, as a promoter of the use of containers, the container technology promoted by Italy in various countries has also made a lot of money. After all, the use of containers requires various facilities and equipment, and the facilities and equipment that are best to use containers at present are basically produced in Italy.

In fact, the container is very simple, mainly a problem of thinking. After all, this is just a big tin box, more from a management perspective.

In addition to these two pillar industries, the Italian power industry has also not fallen behind. At present, among the manufacturers of electric transportation and production equipment, Westinghouse Electric Company occupies a large proportion. In addition to these, Westinghouse has also developed a lot of electrical appliances for production and life, and it is currently being promoted in various countries.

Of course, there is not only Westinghouse Electric in Italy. Electric companies such as Erica, DeLonghi, and Theis are well-known in the world. Of course, the biggest and most important thing in Italy is Westinghouse Electric.

Needless to say about the military industry. At present, countries are constantly expanding their arms and preparing for war. Of course, Italy has not fallen behind. Turin Arsenal, Beretta Arms Company, Venice Naval Shipyard, etc. provided sufficient support for Italy's military expansion.

After all, the guns, ammunition, artillery, and battleships needed to expand the army can be built from the above-mentioned companies.

Of course, in addition to producing various weapons for the Italian military, the above-mentioned companies also accept orders from abroad. The performance of the Italian army over the years has made the lack of self-producing countries and even all forces in the eyes. In order to allow companies to develop better, the Italian government is also actively promoting its weapons to countries. For example, the Qing Dynasty in the Far East did not purchase much, and Italy had a large share of guns, ammunition, artillery, warships, etc.

In addition, weapons produced in Italy in the Balkans, South America, the Middle East, and Africa can be seen everywhere.

In addition to the above-mentioned industries, Italy is also not to be underestimated in the petrochemical industry. Italy is currently the largest oil exporter in Europe, and oil from Libya is continuously supplied to European countries for use. And by virtue of its own oil advantages, Italy has its own place in the petrochemical industry. All kinds of crude oil, refined oil and their chemical products have become the leading products exported by Italy, bringing huge profits to Italy every year.

In addition to these pillar industries, various industries such as iron and steel, textiles, and mining have also performed well under the drive of pillar industries.

At present, there are more than 8 million workers in various industries in Italy, accounting for 18.7% of the total population.

That's right, the total population of Italy has reached 43 million. Benefiting from the great development of industry in recent years, coupled with the influence of Italian culture, the people who are willing to have children are not low, and this has also led to the growth of Italy's population in recent years. Not low.

At present, the annual natural population growth rate in Italy has been hovering around 2%. The increase in population has put the Italian government under considerable pressure.

Of course, this also proves that the growth of the Italian economy has driven the people to become richer, or else they will not have enough to eat and who will have children.

Regarding the natural growth of the population, the development of education, medical care and food-related industries in Italy has not been slow in recent years.

In addition to their own development, these industries also receive support from the government.

In recent years, the development of the Italian economy has brought the government's fiscal revenue to a new high. According to the estimates of the Ministry of Finance, Italy's fiscal revenue has reached a new high of 31.2 liras this year. The gross national product has reached a scale of 30.4 billion liras. Already very close to the level of France and Russia, much higher than AustriHungary. The title of the poor powers, no one can wear Italy's head.

And as Italy's economic situation is good, its status in the Triple Alliance is also rising, and Germany needs to ask Italians for opinions in many aspects.

This is also an advantage brought by the rise of national strength. Of course, in addition to the advantages, there are also disadvantages. For example, the three countries of Britain, France and Russia have strong unease about the growth of Italy's national strength. France, in particular, has built a lot of fortifications on the border between the two countries~www.mtlnovel.com~ At present, Paris has passed a financial expenditure plan to increase its fortification construction on the border of the Alps.

Likewise, the British Navy has strengthened its Mediterranean Fleet, assigning two of its four new Mammoth-class battleships to the Mediterranean Fleet.

At present, the British Mediterranean Fleet has 6 dreadnoughts, which ranks second in strength among the fleets, second only to the domestic fleet against Germany.

As for Russia, because of its long distance relationship, it does not have many means against Italy, but in the west of its border with Germany and Austria, its huge army advantage is enough for the two countries to dare not ignore its existence.

As for the tension between Britain and France, Italy sent diplomats to release goodwill to the two countries, while speeding up the construction of warships. At present, the fourth ship of the Cavour class has started construction. In addition, the second ship of the Milan class has also started construction this year.

Italy's approach has also made the situation in the Mediterranean tense.

At this time, the blending of a non-neighboring country made the Mediterranean more dangerous, and also made European countries face a formidable enemy.

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