On the second day of the meeting, Austria-Hungary did not want to continue to dwell on the Genoa question and chose to take a step back:

Genoa was independent as a neutral state, and the rest of the countries were not allowed to deploy troops and warships on it, and neither Franco-Austrian nor Franco-Austrian could attack the other side through Genoa.

This is one of the most pertinent solutions, and Genoa's tilt towards Austria-Hungary or France would pose a profound threat to the other side.

And now, unlike in the past, almost half of Italy belonged to the Austro-Hungarian sphere of influence, so they could not be careless.

The Duke of Gramont immediately agreed, and France had no idea of self-preservation at this time, otherwise it would not have refused to expand into Sardinia before.

He was satisfied with the guarantee of Genoa's neutrality.

The Franco-Austrian sides agreed, but Genoa's business was not over.

This agreement is only valid for France and Austria, and does not mean that Genoa has become a permanent neutral country like Switzerland, which needs to be discussed again, at least with Britain and Russia.

It was also necessary to consult the Genoese themselves.

But this is a formality, and it is unlikely that there will be opponents.

Seeing that the two sides had finished discussing, Alfonso was a little disappointed, and yesterday France and Austria did not give in to each other, and he was expecting Spain to pick up the leak.

After all, Spain and Genoa do not share a border, and there is no threat to both France and Austria.

While watching the horse races, he mentioned it to Emperor Franz on the side.

But neither country clearly wanted Spain to continue to expand, and quickly reached an agreement that did not give Alfonso a chance to intervene.

At this time, the Kingdom of Sardinia had only 27,000 square kilometers of land area and a population of about 4 million.

Judging from various data, the current Kingdom of Sardinia is about the same strength as Belgium, a little weaker, but not much weaker.

In fact, the Habsburgs were not very happy with such an outcome.

In the Habsburg scenario, Italy should be completely broken up, with as many states as possible and hostile to each other.

Such an Italy will no longer be able to unite and will no longer be a threat to them.

However, the severely weakened Kingdom of Sardinia still had overwhelming power in the face of the other small states of Italy.

It's unsettling.

But the Kingdom of Sardinia was now indismantled and could not be dismantled, and if a line was forcibly drawn on the map, it would be difficult to maintain such an artificially created division for a long time.

Austria-Hungary had no choice but to give up.

The last thing to be solved is the problem of Naples.

Naples in the broad sense of the word is already in a fight, and the royalists and republicans are fighting each other.

The royalist was naturally Alfonso's cousin, the former king of the Two Sicilies.

His cousin, Francesco II, was mainly supported by the former nobles of the Two Sicilies, as well as from the Bourbons.

Francesco raised nearly £700,000 just by raising donations, which is a rare sight of Bourbon unity.

Of course, 300,000 of them came from Alfonso's side, of course, he didn't donate it most, he only gave 30,000 yuan, and the main sponsor was Isabella.

No way, who let her eldest daughter marry into the royal family of the Two Sicilies.

When her daughter and son-in-law came to the door to "cry" and beg to save her father-in-law, Queen Isabella had to put on hold of her plans to build a holiday villa on the banks of the Henares River, and gave most of her cash to the other party.

Alfonso was not very supportive of her mother's behavior, but Isabella was a rich woman herself, and now she gradually took less money from the royal family, and Alfonso could not control her own money.

In short, the conservative forces in southern Italy are quite entrenched, not to mention that Francesco II is still compromising with various liberals to discuss the possibility of a constitutional monarchy in Naples.

From this point of view, he is the most likely to unify Naples.

On the other side of him, the republicans were spontaneously organized by the people, much weaker than Francesco in terms of funds and troops, but they were better than the hearts of the people, and the freedom fighters were more effective than the mercenaries.

It's hard to say what the final outcome will be.

In response to this chaos, Habsburg said that he would "wait for the situation to be clear before dealing with it", which was regarded as retaining his right to intervene in Naples.

But now most of Naples has only hungry people waiting to be fed, no industry, no money, no food.

If you want to take care of it, you must pay a lot first, and the Habsburgs are not here to help the poor.

So the only thing to be discussed at this meeting was the region of Abruzzo, which was once the northernmost part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

It is a territory between South Italy and China and Italy, located in a corner of the country, and has not been affected by too many wars.

Emperor Franz didn't care much about what to do with this small territory, Austria had already eaten the bulk of it, and it was just a matter of getting some soup for the rest of the people to drink.

The Emperor's attitude was well known, and as soon as Boist raised the subject, the small Austro-Hungarian states spoke of the desire to incorporate it into their own kingdom, or at least to benefit from it.

The most active of these is none other than the representative of the Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Croatia was part of the Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen, which means that, at least in the Austro-Hungarian system, it was under Hungarian administration.

It is easy to understand why the representative of Croatia is so active, because the two sides are indeed very close to each other, which can be regarded as facing each other across the Adriatic Sea.

Naturally, the Kingdom of Dalmatia is closer, but the kingdom lacks strength, so it is good to take care of itself, and there is a lack of interest in Abruzzo.

The expansion of components of the Austro-Hungarian Empire outside the framework of the empire had never happened before.

During the Austrian Empire, new territories became new administrative divisions.

If Croatia can do it, it will be the first time.

After the statement made by the representative of Croatia, there was a perception that Spain would come forward to express a different view.

But Alfonso had his own considerations and did not speak for a while, and not only that, he stopped Andrew, who wanted to speak.

"Why not? Abruzzo borders the Papal States on a large scale, and as long as we get here, we have access to the Adriatic Sea.

Genoa was not handed over to us, and Austria-Hungary should have compensated for this. ”

Andrew whispered to Alfonso.

For this reason, the Spanish delegates also prepared a whole set of plans and speeches, but Alfonso went to see the horse race and did not participate.

This was suddenly stopped, and it was inevitable that he would be puzzled.

"What do we want access to the Adriatic Sea for?" Alfonso was a little speechless and said:

"Commercial ones can be stopped anywhere, and we can't use military ones, are you going to have a naval battle with Austria-Hungary in the Adriatic?

If Austria-Hungary is to be blocked, why not do it outside the Strait of Otranto. ”

"What's more," Alfonso shook his head, "the Papal States are not our puppet states, although there are no tariffs between our two countries, but the decision of the Church is not something that Spain can interfere with at will, what good is it for us to help it expand its territory." ”

"It is better to use this to demand economic benefits from Hungary, whose tariffs are all autonomous, and the value of the trade of the whole of Transletania is not small."

Alfonso did not rush to say "we don't want it" after explaining, but asked for an adjournment to let Andrew communicate privately with the representatives of Croatia and Hungary.

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