On December 25, 1870, it was probably the worst Christmas ever for the French.

The Prussian army entered the city on Christmas Day, and immediately after entering the city, they took over the defense of Paris, and collected all the artillery and ammunition they had, even if the French army wanted to get ammunition, they had to get the permission of the Prussians.

The second step is to expel those who refuse to cooperate.

At present, the total number of troops in Paris is 320,000, which is too much.

The rabble that has been temporarily assembled can only help defend the city or deal with the invaders, and they will only add to the chaos in the political struggle.

Under the negotiation of Nasan and Prussia, nearly half of the militia was disbanded in two days.

These militiamen were the ones who had behaved badly in the previous wave of protests, and after confiscating their weapons, they had increased their combat strength instead of decreasing.

Seeing that the situation was initially stable, King Wilhelm I, who was far away in Berlin, proposed to come to Paris to hold a military parade.

Historically, he came here for the coronation ceremony, but now that South Germany is still under military occupation, German reunification is naturally impossible.

In fact, Prussia had long wanted peace, but Ludwig II, who was in exile in Austria-Hungary, had no intention of making peace with Prussia at all, and always encouraged the Bavarian people to rise up and resist with his mouth cannon.

Nasan signed a peace agreement with Prussia, and Ludwig II increased his contacts with the republican government of southern France.

In short, as long as Prussia did not return Bavaria in its entirety to him, he remained the most staunch of the main fighters.

Bavaria still recognized him as a king, and the once powerful German Unionists and republicans gradually declined with the Prussian occupation of their homeland.

The republican government of Nuremberg under Prussian control was not recognized by the population at all.

William I had the idea of solving these problems by showing military might.

It is a pity that the idea is good, but it has been unanimously opposed by both sides of the law.

Needless to say, the French made this peace basically a white peace in their propaganda caliber, and the reason why the reparations of 400 million francs was made was to ransom the captured soldiers.

You Prussia paraded the soldiers on the Champs-Élysées, and what else did you do with the emperor of the three.

Prussia's opposition was more for security reasons, and once Wilhelm I came to Paris, there were definitely not a few French who wanted to die with him.

The death of the king is a small matter, and the two sides of the Prussian army will not die.

However, Wilhelm I's proposal was supported only by Bismarck.

No one can put a beak on the combination of the iron-blooded prime minister and the king, and it is impossible for Nasan to fall out with them because of this matter.

After all, he just walked around the street and didn't pass through the Arc de Triomphe, so he could only pinch his nose and admit it.

In this way, Prussia set a plan for a military parade on January 5.

At this time, the stalemate on the Italian-Austrian battlefield was gradually broken.

Austria-Hungary was far superior to Italy in every aspect, and although the buff of the home defense was strong, it could not reverse this decline.

The battle line between the two sides has long since extended from the border line of Venesia to the territory of Lombardy.

In three days at most, Milan, with its weak fortifications, would fall into the hands of Austria-Hungary.

The Italian-Austrian battlefield is not as much attention as the Franco-Prussian battlefield, but the brutality is even greater.

The French army fought in the early stage of the professional soldiers, and the militia used in the later were all siege warfare, and in general, the military literacy of the belligerent soldiers was quite high, and the battle was mainly based on artillery suppression and rifle shooting.

Italy, on the other hand, was fighting field battles with militia, and artillery support was scarce.

Their officers had repeatedly used the tactics of a pure infantry charge, which amounted to the Italians using their lives to compensate for their firepower inferiority.

From the declaration of war on Italy by Austria-Hungary on October 13 to the end of December, in just one and a half months, the Italian army lost more than 250,000 men.

If you don't count the people of the Metz fortress, this number of casualties is more than the number of Franco-Prussian sides combined.

Although Italy did not take the initiative to count the number of casualties, the soldiers were not blind and must have known that their comrades were constantly dying.

Italy is on the verge of collapse on all fronts.

In other words, Alfonso would have voted a long time ago, and this is a completely hopeless war.

Prussia was deeply involved in French affairs, and would rather than come to the aid of the parade, and could not count on it at all.

Looking at the overall situation, Italy's only chance to change its fate was to drag Prussia into the water by declaring war on France to make Prussia fulfill its obligations as a North-South alliance.

It's a pity that Italy was afraid of a war on three fronts, and at that time Franco-Prussian seemed to be almost able to fight, so it finally missed the opportunity.

The reason why King Vittorio did not surrender now was nothing more than a desire for revenge, and he only wanted to kill a few more Austrians before he was defeated.

Anyway, after the war, there is a high probability that he will be the king of Sardinia again, and these soldiers and supplies have nothing to do with him.

In southern Italy, the Italian government had abandoned its encirclement of the Naples rebels.

With no common enemy, the fragile alliance between the rebels collapsed in an instant, and infighting began.

The main belligerents were the Republic of Naples and the Kingdom of Naples, but apart from them there were many other factions.

For example, the Naples National Workers' State, the Naples Military Council...... There were even forces that wanted to annex to Spain.

It is not surprising that the land of southern Italy has been influenced by too many foreign currents of thought, and that it has changed hands many times in recent decades, making it difficult to coordinate the interests of all parties.

The Kingdom of Naples, which has the largest number of troops among these forces, is only more than 6,000 people, and it is completely unable to crush the strength.

The only two who could help them decide the winner were England and Spain.

It's a pity that Britain has no interests here and is not interested in it.

Spain, on the other hand, was warned by Britain not to continue to stretch out its hand, and could only wait and see what happened.

Without the interference of foreign forces, the chaos in Naples may have to continue for some time.

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While the foreign countries were fighting for life and death, even the wealthy French were not in the mood for the holidays, but the Spaniards began to prepare for the second New Year after the end of the civil war.

The first New Year was a difficult one, and the food had to be borrowed from France and bought from France.

Now, just one year later, Spain's food crisis has been greatly alleviated.

With a local food self-sufficiency rate of more than 85 percent, Spain will become a grain exporter after a period of development and the consolidation of farmland and pastures in Sicily and Sardinia.

The benefits of high grain production are obvious, but in the past, food prices in Europe would have skyrocketed as long as there was a big war with Spain, but now they are stable.

In bakeries or supermarkets in big cities such as Madrid and Barcelona, a peseta can buy a full 10 palm-sized servings of bread.

In Madrid, an ordinary worker doing heavy physical work earns almost 3~5 pesetas per day, and if you buy all the bread, it is enough for a family of three to eat for three or four days.

Even if you don't have work every day, life is much less stressful than in the past.

As long as a man is in good health and willing to work, there is no problem in supporting himself and his family.

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