Alfonso wanted to volunteer, but in the end, he couldn't get past the four, and had to symbolically accept 10% of the casino's shares.

After negotiating the opening of a casino, the next step is to choose a location for the casino.

Madrid is certainly not going to work, not to mention being deep inland, and the status of the capital alone is not suitable for this.

Excluding Madrid, the first thing that comes to Alfonso's mind is Barcelona, which is also his habit, research institutes, power plants, shipping companies...... Throw it all in.

But on second thought, Barcelona is a bit too strong.

As the second largest city in Spain, it is only inferior to Madrid in terms of population and agriculture, and has a per capita income.

After a little thought, Alfonso decided to open the casino in Valencia.

Valencia is the very center of Spain's east coast, and there may be a little less guests from southern France, but it will be better able to radiate the newly harvested Italy.

He shared his thoughts with Adolf and Nathana, and they both agreed.

The three of them are all nobles, and they have more or less heard in private.

As far as Alfonso knows, there are no full-fledged super casinos in Europe, and it is generally good to be able to influence a city.

The most popular one is the Casino de Monte Carlo, built by the Principality of Monaco a few years ago.

It is true that it is the first in the world, but it has obviously not developed to the extent of the four major gambling cities in later generations, and generally only the southern French and Italians will go there.

Adolf, for example, didn't know about it at all, and Nasi had only heard of it.

Now is the right time to develop the casino, it will take more than a year for the light bulb and power plant to be launched, and if you work hard, you may be able to develop Valencia into the first city that never sleeps.

Since it is to build a casino, it naturally cannot be as casual as the construction of the Madrid Workers' House.

On the second day, Nasi found a well-known architect in Spain through Alfonso and sent someone to negotiate with the city government to acquire the land.

After getting busy, Na4's attention finally turned away from Paris.

At present, the situation in France is quite stable, although the news of the crown prince's escape has been spread by well-intentioned people, resulting in more frequent rebellions, but it is not so easy to deal with the hundreds of thousands of troops in the hands of the three hands.

During this time, Na San stabilized the situation in the city on the one hand, and negotiated with Gan Bida on the other hand, hoping to achieve reconciliation by transferring the power of the imperial family.

Alfonso knew this very well, as he acted as a contact on more than one occasion.

To be sure, Nasan was generous on the terms of a constitutional monarchy similar to that of the United Kingdom, returning most of the power to the Cabinet and Parliament.

Even further, he was willing to surrender the right to declare war and negotiate peace, and to relinquish command of the army in order to prevent something like that from happening again.

I really agreed to change people, but who is Gan Bida? A man who would have written at the age of 10 "Down with Bonaparte".

That is, for the sake of Spain's face, he gave a clear refusal, otherwise he would not have bothered to see it.

Of course, Gan Bida's resolute attitude also aroused the dissatisfaction of the Bonapartist faction within the republican government, and there were still many people who wanted the emperor.

It's just that these voices have been suppressed by other royalists and republicans.

On the whole, the forces that wanted Bonaparte to fall to gain the upper hand, and in order to achieve this, they were willing to tolerate the republican position of Gambita, and became his temporary supporters.

Anyway, after the war is over, Gan Bida's unelected and temporarily appointed status will not be counted.

I gave up everything that should have been given and what shouldn't have been allowed, but I was still rejected many times in a row, and I almost didn't want to reconcile with three.

In this way, things are at an impasse.

Unlike in history, Paris is no longer under siege, and with plenty of food and army suppression, it is unrealistic to expect to bring down Nasan with the power of a single city.

The main thing is to see the duel between the Prussian and southern French republican governments.

But it will be difficult for the two to distinguish the winner for a while.

Millions of troops on both sides combined are enough to sustain a trench war – and that's exactly what they do.

And there is not a very good way to break the trenches, which leads to the reluctance of both sides to act as attackers.

The southern French counteroffensive rushed several times in the early days, but they were never able to take Orleans, and now they are not rushing.

If Bismarck had foreseen that this war would turn into a war of mutual bloodletting, he would have thought more about it when it began.

At present, the only one who is likely to break the deadlock in a short time is Austria-Hungary.

In fact, Austria-Hungary had already made a preliminary use of Italy's political system and was ready to devote itself to another war.

However, the presence of Russia limits their play.

After Alexander's retreat, relations between Britain and Russia improved considerably.

Russia, freed up, with the help of the alliance between Russia and Serbia, threatened not only the Ottomans, but also Austria-Hungary.

Once Austria-Hungary starts a war against Prussia, Russia will not sit idly by.

It was precisely because of this that Emperor Franz was never able to make up his mind.

At this stage, they can only increase the garrison of troops in Galicia and the Balkans in the name of defense against Russia.

This reason is still very strong, and with so much territorial expansion, the number of seats in the standing army of Austria-Hungary has increased from more than 300,000 to 600,000.

It seems to be a little more, but whether the financial expenditure is the largest part of Austria or to guard against the Russians, Hungary has not objected for the first time.

A series of military changes gave the emperor the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

In the Austro-Hungarian military system, it is mainly divided into three parts: the Imperial Wehrmacht (field troops), the Royal and Royal Local Defense Forces, and the Royal Hungarian Local Defense Forces.

The latter two have certain deployment limitations, while the former does not.

What Franz had to do now was to increase the number of Reichwehrs in his garrison to ensure that once the war began, the army could quickly cross the entire country and plunge into the Prussian battlefield.

Most obviously, more than 80 per cent of the more than 200,000 new standing troops were in the Imperial Wehrmacht.

This anomaly did not attract much attention, and even Hungary was quite satisfied, since they had to pay only 30 per cent of the military expenses of the Wehrmacht, and the Hungarian Local Defence Forces had to pay the entire amount.

Franz was secretly glad that it was best not to object, and it saved him the trouble of making excuses.

The idea of a Pugong war has so far remained in the minds of a few high-level officials, including him and the prime minister, and Hungary knows nothing.

If Hungary had been told, it would have been opposed.

They didn't count on the Hungarian power anymore, just let them keep an eye on the Russians.

In full swing of preparations, the time quietly came to mid-February.

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