[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-rise-of-the-empire-spain":3,"chapter-rise-of-the-empire-spain-rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-399":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Rise of the Empire: Spain",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2365327,4632,"Chapter 399: New Century Development Plan","rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-399",399,"\u003Cp>When the future plans of the Royal Benz Automobile Company were released, they quickly attracted the attention of many newspapers and the public because they were very close to the beautiful visions of the 20th century that newspapers of various countries were scrambling to report on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing that the Royal Benz Automobile Company planned to reduce the cost of automobiles to below 1,500 pesetas within this year, keep the selling price within 2,000 pesetas, and further reduce the cost to below 1,200 pesetas and control the selling price between 1,500 and 1,800 pesetas in the 1900–1905 range, the public's beautiful imagination for the future of the 20th century reached its peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the goals set by the Royal Benz Automobile Company, as long as they could be successfully realized before 1905, people would be able to achieve the beautiful vision of every household owning an automobile in the 20th century.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for those impoverished populations with low incomes or those who had no need for automobiles, the majority of the remaining people could purchase an automobile through their own efforts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the dream of every household being able to own an automobile could be realized, would other dreams, such as traveling by airship or using wireless equipment for communication, also be realized?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While all of Europe was indulging in beautiful fantasies about the new century, the Spanish government also convened a meeting to discuss the development plan for the new century.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 19th century was a century of huge turning points for Spain. For the first seventy years of this century, Spain was in endless decline and decay, and at that time, many countries and media already believed that Spain was not what it used to be and was no longer one of the European powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the last thirty years of the 19th century, with the coronation of Carlos as the King of Spain, all of this had a huge turning point and change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, Spain is not only firmly among the top five powers in Europe, but also one of the top three colonial empires in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, saying it is in the top three is actually just for the sake of sounding good. Britain is the undisputed number one colonial empire in the world, and the wealth of colonies such as India, Canada, Australia, and South Africa makes the various European powers envious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond these colonies, Britain also occupies a large number of archipelagos and islands, controlling many key transportation routes, such as the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Malacca, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below Britain, the second-ranked colonial empire is France.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared with history, Spain's current colonies are not much different from France's.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, because France's domestic population and economy are more prosperous, it has disguisedly boosted the momentum of the French colonial empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spain is the undisputed third-largest colonial power in the world, and its achievements in colonization far exceed those of other European powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the powerful German Empire cannot be mentioned in the same breath as Spain in terms of colonization. Needless to say, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy have a total colonial scale that does not even add up to the Morocco colony that Spain has just occupied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the many European powers, Russia is an outlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other European powers are expanding colonies overseas, while Russia has been expanding eastward and southward, constantly increasing its own territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This has also led to Russia having almost no colonies, with a domestic territory larger than the total area of all of Europe; in other words, it has incorporated all its colonies into its own territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there is a reason why Russia can occupy such a large area of land. Don't look at the fact that the peak territory of the Russian Empire reached 22 million square kilometers, which is more than twice the entire area of Europe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality, there are only two parts that are truly the essence of the territory: the Eastern European part and the Far Eastern part of Russia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast Siberian Plain in the middle is a cold zone. Before the Trans-Siberian Railway was opened to traffic, this place was sparsely populated, and Russia's control over this region was not high, with the order being quite chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The degree of control over territory is highly linked to population. Don't look at the fact that Russia currently has the largest population of any European country, but it corresponds to a land area of up to 22 million square kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is no exaggeration to say that even if the current population were to double, Russia would still be unable to effectively control the existing land scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From this aspect, it can also be seen that Russia's appetite for land is really too big; the existing Russian land is more than the population can bear, and further expansion will only increase internal conflicts within Russia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problems faced by Russia are ones that European countries will never face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because most European countries will not build colonies into their homeland; after all, the distance between colonies and the homeland is often thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spain is currently the first country to propose building Morocco into its homeland, which is also due to the advantage that Morocco and the Spanish homeland face each other across the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It has been almost 4 years since Spain annexed Morocco. In the discussion of the new century development plan at the cabinet meeting, the issue of the progress of Morocco's localization was also discussed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding the localization of Moroccan land, the most urgent problem to solve is the local population.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Needless to say about the former South Morocco colony, under Spain's many years of management, the vast majority of Moroccans have been relocated, and the majority of the population is European, with Spaniards being the most numerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the remaining Moroccan land, the number of Moroccans is still as high as nearly 4 million. In the more than 4 years of population relocation work, a total of nearly 1.5 million Moroccans have been transferred out, with an average of nearly 400,000 Moroccans relocated each year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is because most of the first year of population relocation work was spent on preparation and investigation, which lowered the average annual number of relocated Moroccans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although nearly 1.5 million people have been transferred out of the entire Morocco region, the population of the Morocco region has not changed much, still remaining above the 5 million level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main reason for this is the Spanish government's efforts regarding immigration. In these 4 years, the immigration from the Spanish homeland to the Morocco region alone has reached nearly 1 million, with an average of more than 250,000 immigrants per year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is also the reason why Spain's population growth has slowed down in these 4 years; after all, it is impossible for the population growth rate of the Spanish homeland to maintain an annual growth of several hundred thousand while immigrating 250,000 people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition to immigrants from the Spanish homeland, Spain has also attracted a large number of immigrants from Europe and even South America.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of immigrants from the European region is also nearly 300,000, with the most coming from Russia and Italy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is no way around it; compared to other European powers, the farmers in Italy and Russia have the worst lives, so naturally, the number of immigrants is also the highest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it is not just these two countries that have a large loss of population; Britain is also constantly losing people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is just that the region where Britain is losing population is Ireland, mainly because the exploitative rule of the English over Ireland caused dissatisfaction among the Irish, leading to a large loss of Irish people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared with immigrants from the European region, immigrants from the South American region, after 4 years of piecing together, only attracted less than 200,000 immigrants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, this is because Spain's contact with South America only started in recent years, and on the other hand, some South Americans are still repelled by Spain, which led to the problem of a small number of immigrants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another aspect is that South America is too far from Morocco. Even if people from various South American countries want to immigrate, they think of immigrating to the Spanish homeland, not Morocco, which is separated from the homeland by the Strait of Gibraltar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Spain keeps saying that it wants to build Morocco into a new homeland, such homeland construction work will certainly not be completed within a few years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time Morocco becomes Spain's homeland and enjoys the treatment of the homeland, perhaps those immigrants who went to Morocco will already be old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared with immigrating to Morocco, directly immigrating to the Spanish homeland allows one to enjoy various treatments; isn't this more attractive than immigrating to Morocco?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to these 1.5 million immigrants, not only has the population of the Morocco region remained at the 5 million level, but it has also effectively reduced the proportion of local Moroccans in Morocco.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the current population statistics of the entire Morocco region by the Moroccan government, among the more than 5 million people, the proportion of Moroccans is already less than 50%, but they are still the largest ethnic group in the Morocco region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The proportion of Spaniards and people of Spanish descent is already close to 37%, and the entire Morocco region has about 1.85 million Spaniards and people of Spanish descent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spaniards are easy to understand, and people of Spanish descent generally refer to immigrants from Spain and South America and their descendants.\u003C\u002Fp>",1624,"2026-06-25T09:27:14.599Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","342a22c48968de9cea0340958f4d4339eba6ca539aee0313e3146f3da99e5a3f","rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-400","rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-398",493,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Frise-of-the-empire-spain-cover.jpg"]