After a month of registration, the conclusion is that there are at least 11,000 people in the slums, and this is not counting the fact that some people are suspicious and afraid that the free housing is a trap decision given by the government.

Of these people, only about 2,000 are married, after all, there is no large-scale promotion of agricultural tools in Madrid, and there are fewer unemployed farmers.

Most of the people who come to work in the city are people who actively seek change, and naturally young and strong young men are the majority.

Unfortunately, life has dealt them a heavy blow, maybe it is better to work in the fields, and factory life is as hard as the life of a peasant, but there is an additional risk of untimely death.

Based on this demographic structure, if you reserve some empty rooms, you will have to build about 4,000 dormitories.

It seems like a lot, but in fact, it is not much different from the number of dormitories in a university, but due to the limitation of construction technology and cost, the dormitory building is relatively short, only two floors.

The poor must have built their houses as close to their work area as possible, and it was not possible to force them to change, so Alfonso built six dormitories in all directions around Madrid, following the original distribution of the slums.

The massive construction has caused the people of the city to complain that it is a waste of money to build free houses for hillbillies, beggars and thieves.

It's a pity that this money is privately funded by the king, and it has nothing to do with them, no matter how dissatisfied they are, they can only hold back.

Since the dormitory only has the right to live and no ownership, few people disguise themselves as poor people to divide the house, which avoids more trouble.

Several construction sites were started at the same time, and many people from the slums were hired on the construction sites to build their own houses, and they were very active.

At the current pace, the first phase of construction could be completed in four months.

On one side, the slum rehabilitation is underway, and on the other side, the first counterinsurgency troops have arrived in Cuba, numbering 17,000 troops, with more to come.

In fact, it cannot be said that it is the first batch, before which the liberal government sent troops to Cuba one after another, but it was trapped by the poor economy and the chaotic politics at home, and the intensity was not large.

There are more than 4,000 people in total, even if you count the original colonial army, you can only support yourself in the face of the rebels, if it were not for the rebels' hasty creation and serious internal division, the Republic of Cuba would have been the capital of Havana Province long ago.

The dispatch of troops to quell the rebellion was undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the Cuban colonial government, and the Cuban governor, Hernánd de Soto, sent his deputy Miguel to wait at the port early on.

The first officer to land on Cuban soil was Asania, the commander of the 2nd Division, who had won the Battle of Lleida, but he was now leading not the crippled 2nd Division, but the reconstituted 2nd Army.

After the pacification of Spain, in order to facilitate management, the government abolished the establishment of divisions, and below the army was the brigade.

The Second Division was almost doubled in size, from a division to an army.

The officers who were loyal to the free government were withdrawn or surrendered, and there was an urgent shortage of personnel, and Asania had the merit of it, so he smoothly jumped from division commander to army commander, which was regarded as three consecutive jumps according to the Spanish military system.

The Second Army had 30,000 men at full strength, but Spain is now implementing the Prussian soldier system throughout the country, and the theoretical 30,000 men are only 17,000 in practice, which is not much different from when he led a division.

But it was enough for him to be proud.

In particular, he succeeded in getting the Second Army to join the counterinsurgency sequence in Cuba this time, and fight against the nascent Republic of Cuba together with the Fifth Army Corps in full formation.

It can also be regarded as the special care of Garcia and Campos, and they naturally prefer the elderly of Catalonia when there are good things.

Even if it is a rare good thing in the army to go to Cuba to quell the rebellion, the Spanish army will add up to nearly 70,000 people and 70,000 regular troops in a frontal battle, and there is no possibility of losing at all.

Who doesn't love a war that is bound to win and full of meaning.

So Asania smiled at Miguel who came up, and he still needs the support of these people to make war achievements in the future.

Under the warm guidance of Miguel, Asania and the soldiers of the Second Army enjoyed a good reception from the Cuban government.

They are not in a hurry, and they are not in a hurry, and this time the commander-in-chief is the commander of the Fifth Army, Rajoy, and he cannot fight without his orders.

And the army, which has been adrift at sea for more than a month, really needs to adapt to the new environment.

So they rested like this until a week later, until the Fifth Legion arrived.

After Rajoy came to Cuba, he ordered the army to repair for another week, and he and Asania knew it by heart, anyway, it would have no effect on them if the time dragged on, and it would be good to repair and repair more, and it would be good to die one less soldier.

Had it not been for the daily visits of the Cuban governor, urging them to hurry up, and suggesting that the colonial government could no longer afford to feed so many of them, they would have been able to wait another week.

In the war room, Rajoy unfolded a narrow map of Cuba and pointed out the red-painted portions to Asania.

"Guantanamo, Santiago, Holguín, Las Tunas, and most of Camagüey have all fallen, and now the two sides are facing each other in Camagüey province, and the rebels have no tendency to move westward for the time being."

It can be seen that the eastern part of Cuba is red, accounting for about 1/3 of the entire area of Cuba, which looks shocking.

Asania nodded, he already knew about these things.

Rajoy continued: "The total strength of the rebels is more than 40,000 men, but the occupied territories are very supportive of them, they can bring in a lot of troops if necessary, and the domestic demand for us is not to stir up undue ethnic hatred. ”

The slogans of the Republic of Cuba, which are freedom, equality and independence, have won the hearts and minds of many people.

Historically, there were 1.5 million people in Cuba, but from 1868 to 1878, 200,000 civilians died in the War of Independence.

Although the rebels were eventually crushed by Spain, the brutal repression also set the stage for a second, larger rebellion and gave the Americans the opportunity to intervene.

Asania understood what Rajoy meant: "So you want to divide a group, let them have civil strife first, and don't turn into a national war." ”

They are familiar with this matter, Catalonia fights the free government, if it weren't for the division of a group, it would not be so easy to fight.

And, like the Liberal Government, Cuba has never lacked supporters of the Spanish king as a centuries-old Spanish colony, even as far away as Madrid.

"Nope." Rajoy shook his head:

"After all, strictly speaking, they are two peoples, and it is somewhat unrealistic to expect them to have a civil war in such a situation.

Given that they don't have a navy, my idea is to make a frontal feint, a landing operation, and not give them the opportunity to fight guerrillas and pull the people to their deaths.

During the war, we can reach out to the royalists, whose desire is to increase the degree of Cuban autonomy and to benefit from us.

The rebellion was nothing more than a bargaining weight for them, which was why they stopped their westward advance.

Quickly crushing the rebels' armies and making the royalists realize that their "weight" would be devalued if they continued to fight, and they could be forced to return to the negotiating table and turn the national war into a war of interests. ”