The long-awaited mediation of King Carlo came to an end quickly, and after ten days of stay, the Italian delegation left, citing the failure of mediation.

After the departure of the Italian delegation, Germany's attitude was also further hardened. The military mobilization order issued by the German War Ministry began to call up reserve forces.

In the face of Germany's hard-line attitude, Britain and France were not afraid. France also expanded the scope of mobilization from partial to comprehensive, and a large number of young French laborers were called up by the army under the general mobilization order.

As for the British, the battle plan has already been sent to the fleet, and the British Army has begun to mobilize.

Seeing that the situation is becoming more and more dangerous, the neutral countries are even more vocal about peace, and many people are running for it.

However, the attitudes and statements of these people do not affect the current situation, especially Carlo, who has returned to Rome after his visit.

In his office, after signing his name on a mobilization decree, Carlo spoke to Admiral Simeone in front of him. "I have already seen the army's mobilization plan, and I can start implementing it."

Seeing the decree signed by the king, Simeone spoke. "Your Majesty, the army is ready for mobilization and will start mobilizing immediately."

The mobilization in Simone's mouth is a secret mobilization, in which some reserve officers and retired officers and soldiers are conscripted into the barracks for various reasons, and these secretly mobilized reserve officers and soldiers are a relatively outstanding group in the mobilization system, and most of them will form new units together with the elite forces drawn from various ministries.

As for the replenishment of troops, it can be carried out after the official mobilization order is issued. At that time, Italy could complete mobilization in the shortest possible time, or in the same amount of time, complete mobilization beyond the enemy's estimated military size.

If secret mobilization is so useful, why are not many countries using it. Because secrecy work is not easy to do, the number of people secretly mobilized cannot play a role in mobilization, and if the number of people is large, it is very easy to leak it.

The army has finally come up with a very feasible plan under Simeone's countless simulations and practices, and the army has actually operated it before, but the results have not been discovered. Now, this secret mobilization can be put to use.

As the ground forces carry out secret mobilization, the navy, which is an important combat force, will of course not lag behind, and at present all fleets of the navy have received orders to stop taking vacations, recall personnel on leave, put all personnel on duty, and inspect and repair warships and ammunition.

In addition, major shipyards have also received orders that for large and small warships under construction, all shipyards need to increase the speed and work overtime to build.

Of course, these orders are carried out secretly, but although they are carried out secretly, there will always be clues, but the military also knows that this kind of secret mobilization does not mean that it should be kept secret until the end of the day, as long as the time for the other party to know is delayed, it is best to delay it until the time it is expected.

In addition to this, Italy has a number of moves.

In the Governor's Palace in East Africa, Cabrera had just put a telegram he had read into a brazier, and he waited until it burned to ashes before opening the office door and speaking to his secretary. "Immediately bring Lieutenant General Timothy and say I have something to look for him."

The next day, the colonial government of East Africa sent a telegram to the Kingdom of Abyssinia, asking them to recruit another 30,000 men to work for the colonial government.

In response to the orders of the colonial government in East Africa, the Kingdom of Abyssinia immediately issued an order for the feudal lords to send personnel to deal with this year's conscription mission.

Speaking of which, the Kingdom of Abyssinia has been very happy with conscription all these years. The reason is very simple, because the colonial government really wants to pay for it, and give some materials or funds every year according to the number of people who are drafted.

This money is actually not much, basically calculated at 600 lira for each person recruited (two years of work for the colonial government), and most of this remuneration is divided between the king and feudal lords of the Kingdom of Abyssinia, and the rest of the soup and water will be left for the family of the draftee.

That said, there is also a way out for these draftees, and some people do well in two years and take their families over. Of course, most of them did it in two years and then went back, and some people lost their lives in the meantime.

And this kind of conscription is mainly to sell coolies, which are some heavy jobs such as road building, mountain opening, excavation, etc., which belong to the kind of hard and tiring.

The colony of Borneo has always been the most economically valuable colony in Italy, paying more than 100 million lira in taxes to Rome every year (according to the latest statistics, Borneo paid 212 million lira last year).

At present, Borneo's cash crop cultivation industry is needless to say, accounting for more than half of the world's rubber production. Pepper and sago also occupy the first place in the world, and the production of rice and coconut is not low. Overall, 80 percent of Borneo's economy is driven by cash crops, while the other 20 percent is driven by Balikpapan oil, ship maintenance and docking services.

Therefore, the colonial governor of Borneo has always been a high-ranking and powerful role, not to mention that he has also been in charge of diplomatic work in the Far East before.

If you look at the previous governor-general candidates, the first governor-general, Kairoli, was previously prime minister. The second governor Antonio also became the prime minister of Italy, and the next four governors, although less violent, were no less violent, but they were no less low, and they returned to the roles of either ministers or presidents of parliament, which shows the status of the colony of Borneo in the Italian government.

But now, Governor Baron lit the lighter with a snap, and carefully placed the telegram that he had translated in front of him under the flames. Baron watched the message ignite until it burned out in the brazier, and then he consulted with the local military commander, Major General Solis, for a day.

The next day, the Pontianak Governor's Office issued an order announcing that 20,000 people would be conscripted into the army within a month. The order was accompanied by a request to government officials to count all kinds of Borneo goods, both public and private.

This is obviously an order to mobilize and count supplies, and some people immediately feel that something is wrong. But no one can disobey the order, so they can only obediently carry it out.

It didn't take long for the quota of 20,000 people to be recruited, most of whom were local Chinese and native, and less than 1,000 were white.

And these mobilized people will next spend more than half a year in the barracks. Of course, with the abundant financial resources of the colonial government of Borneo, these people would be trained to be qualified soldiers.

In addition to these superficial things, His Excellency the Governor also issued a secret order. Only a few people know that the Borneo government will go all out to procure all the supplies, leaving a small number for East Africa and the mainland.

That's right, what the colonial government of Borneo is doing now is to prepare for the retreat, preparing to move the colony funds and supplies first.

Although the colony of Borneo is very rich, it is too far away from the mainland, and the surrounding British and French forces have an absolute advantage, and Italy and Germany together only increase the difficulty of the other party's seizure, so the Roman side has long been ready to give up Borneo.

And the telegram received by the governor of Baron was the beginning of Italy's preparations.

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