Unlike the others, Desaith was put on a ship and returned to Spain to face trial by the Supreme Court.

The former Republican leaders, who had been reincarcerated, were tried in the courts of Havana.

Spain did not keep it a secret, but it also did not make a big deal of it, and the audience was small, and they condemned Oleer and others one-sidedly.

In the end, all 22 former high-ranking government officials were found guilty, and 14 of them were sentenced to death, the best of which was 40 years in prison.

Compared with the results of the original Catalan Mario riots, it can be said that it is very heavy, there is no way, the colony has no human rights.

After the court had dealt with Olaire's men, it was followed by the central officials who had just been captured from Camagüey.

Added up to these two batches, the death toll is nearly 100, and this is only the number of high-ranking officials.

Others, including ordinary soldiers accused of criminal acts during the war, were punished to varying degrees.

For a time, Cuban prisons were overcrowded.

However, when Adolf decided to deal with the entire group of republics, he expected this outcome.

He immediately loaded most of them onto ships and shipped them to China.

With this batch of 40,000 free laborers, Spain's infrastructure construction will be greatly accelerated.

After the affairs of the republic were done, it was the turn of the colonial government, which was the main purpose of Adolf's visit.

The first step was to arrest the Cuban leaders and bring them back to Spain for dereliction of duty.

Before that, the colonial government had done nothing good, and the people applauded it.

Under the oppression of the army, there was no opposition in the government.

As a result, power passed smoothly into the hands of the military group headed by Adolf.

Then Adolf announced that he would establish a parliament in Cuba, and since there were no nobles in Cuba, then there would be no distinction between the upper and lower houses, and the rights would be truly returned to the people.

The members of this parliament will come from all regions of Cuba, and each province will elect deputies according to their population.

Each province has two base slots, and for every 20,000 additional people, you can have an additional one.

According to the post-war situation in Cuba, the number of parliamentarians will be around 100.

Since Cuba has not yet recovered from the trauma of war, much of the preparatory work has not been done, rather than being prepared to allow the parliament to exercise its powers directly.

Even parliamentarians are not elected through provincial elections, but are appointed directly by senior provincial officials.

For the next year, Cuba will be ruled by a commissioner appointed by Spain, assisted by Parliament.

When the right time is found, the power will be handed over to the parliament and a majority government system will be introduced, and the Cuban cabinet will be directly accountable to the King of Spain.

Such a treatment would undoubtedly lead to a greater degree of independence for Cuba, and even to the point of taking the British way.

However, without autonomy, the high cost of rule would turn Cuba into a negative asset that would continue to lose money, and could be exploited by other powers.

The lesser of two evils, if Cuba really can't bring Spain a little benefit, Alfonso is willing to throw him away.

And as long as Spain itself is strong enough, Cuba cannot be independent.

But if the mainland is severely weakened, then Cuba will not be able to maintain its direct rule or autonomy, so there is no need to think too much.

When the news broke, Cuba was in celebration, but it did not expect that the Cuban war had suffered a complete defeat, but the expected cruel rule did not come, and the degree of autonomy increased.

Compared to the previous attitude towards Cuba in Spain, everyone knows who brought about this change.

For a time, the reputation of the Bourbon royal family in Cuba changed dramatically.

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On the European continent, the conflict between the Bavarians is still intensifying, and there are quite a few brawls in the streets.

They denounced each other as "traitors to God" and "traitors to Germany"

In this opposition, the Catholic conservatives scoffed at obedience to the North German barbarians, and in this opposition, they proposed an idea that was once considered a dream:

Now that Austria-Hungary had permanently lost its leadership of Germany, and the Protestants in the north could not be trusted, Bavaria could unite the southern German states, unite all High German-speaking people, form a South German state, and cooperate with France against all the powerful enemies around it.

The South German state would include Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden, Hesse-Darmsta and, if an opportunity is found in the Franco-Prussian War, perhaps Saxony.

Such a country would have a population of more than 10 million people, making it an emerging continental power with a status higher than that of the Netherlands.

Properly operated, the Bavarian nationalists believed that Germany would unite like never before – in the form of a triumvirate.

But this fantasy had its own preconditions, that is, South Germany followed France to defeat Prussia once and for all, and obtained the consent of France, which was too powerful at that time.

Just thinking about it, you can feel the difficulty.

But Bavaria is undoubtedly a conservative and populist country, and such a compromise would best satisfy the aspirations of Catholic Germans.

Even a small number of those who supported joining the GDR were demagogic by this approach.

For a time, the idea of the third pole of Germany became more and more popular.

In Berlin, Bismarck watched cautiously what was happening in South Germany.

He was not interested in reunifying Germany, but if he did lose South Germany, the North German Confederation that he had so built with great difficulty would soon fall apart.

And he felt that he was about to lose his grip on the bourgeoisie and the unificationists.

He had hoped that Bavaria would solve the problem on its own, but it was clear that the situation was spiraling out of control.

Wilhelm I had already written to Ludwig II several times stating that he did not wish to spoil the friendship of the Hohenzollerns with the Wittelsbach dynasty.

It's a pity that the other party turned a deaf ear to this kindness.

Should it be forcibly intervened? As wise as Bismarck was also hesitant at this time.

It took only seven weeks for Prussia to defeat the alliance of South Germany + Saxony + Austria, and although it had the help of Italy, it would have taken more time for Prussia to do so alone.

Now defeating South Germany in chaos, Bismarck believes that he will not need more than two weeks.

But this was not a simple military issue, Prussia took the initiative to attack, the Franco-Prussian War would begin immediately, and the North German states would lose trust in Prussia.

And as Bismarck knew, Prussia's friends, England, had already shown interest in the South German program.

In the face of an unfavorable international environment, Bismarck would not rush into war.

On 11 August, Prussia convened a conference in Berlin and invited all the German states to discuss the future of the German nation.

Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, Spain, Russia, Italy and other countries have the right to observe the meeting.