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Chapter 535
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Hearing Mainz’s words, Mussolini was sweating profusely, his buttocks were shaking.
He wanted to get angry, but he didn’t dare.
This was not Italy, not his own territory. There were German troops almost everywhere around him, and there were hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers waiting for inspection outside the city! If he got angry here, it would be unknown whether he could leave alive!
So, seeing Mussolini was wronged and angry, wanting to get angry but not daring to, and forcing his face to turn into the color of eggplant, Mainz felt a little funny in his heart.
“Mr.
Mainz, can we change to another place? Venis is really not acceptable!
This place is the hub of our business and trade.
If we give it to you, then we will not be able to trade goods in the Adriatic region!
” Mussolini said aggrievedly.
As soon as he opened his mouth, Mainz knew that he had accepted his blackmail and agreed to divide some land to Hans, but he did not dare to hand over Venis to Hans, because once Venis was handed over, Mussolini would be eaten alive by his own people when he returned to the country!
The status of the Venis region in Italy has always been very important. In the Middle Ages when Italy was not yet unified, Venis had already broken away from the rule of the Eastern Roman Empire and began to establish its own independent republic.
In the era of the Eastern Roman Empire, Venis was once a vassal state of Byzantium, but after the weakening of Byzantium, they began to break away from Byzantium and become independent, and even introduced the Crusades into Byzantium during the Fourth Crusade. The capital Constantinople was looted, which led to the complete weakening of the Eastern Roman Empire and was eventually destroyed by the Ottoman Empire.
Compared with the Republic of Genoa in the same era, the Venetians obviously did all the bad things. At the last moment of Byzantium, the Genoese at least sent some troops to help them resist the invaders and fought for the Byzantine Empire until their death.
But Venetians did nothing and watched the demise of Byzantium!
Therefore, in the hearts of the Romans, there is a saying that they are ecstatic on the 1st, 3rd and 5th, cry on the 2nd, 4th and 6th, and hang the governor of Venetians on Sunday…
Although from a traditional and geographical point of view, Venetians should belong to Italy, and there should be no problem with this in the eyes of later generations. After all, everyone I have long accepted the fact that Venice belongs to Italy.
However, decades ago, before the outbreak of the Austro-Prussian War, Venice had actually always been under the control of Odili.
As early as one hundred and thirty years ago, after Napoleon invaded Italy and defeated Italy, Venice was assigned to Odili. Odili ruled here for nearly seventy years until it was finally defeated by Prussia, which damaged its national strength and forced it to give up.
Italy took advantage of the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War to not only drive away the Odili, but also the Gallic garrisons. Only then did it luckily unify the country and take back Venice.
In total, the Italians ruled Venice for only sixty years at this time, which was shorter than the time Odili ruled at the beginning!
So , Mainz asked for Venis as the orthodox ruler of Audili, which was not a big ask. After all, he could really produce evidence from ancient times!
This was also the reason why things became tricky. Venice was obtained by Italy after fighting three wars of independence. If it were to be handed over to someone else now, the Italian people would definitely not agree. If Mussolini dared to throw it away, he would definitely be criticized by tens of millions of Italians!
However, if Venis was not handed over to Hans, Hans would obviously not be satisfied. If Hans was not satisfied, then the war would come!
The most important thing was that they could not beat Hans!
This made Mussolini almost worried to death. He could not think of a way to break the deadlock. It seemed that all the methods could not solve the current dilemma!
“So, you mean to say that you are going to reject my reasonable request?”
Mainz doesn’t care what difficulties the Italians have. He just wants an outlet to the sea. If the Italians don’t give it to him, then it’s simple, just beat them up! Anyway, with Italy’s combat effectiveness, they simply can’t stop the German attack.
After killing Italy, Hans can naturally take over the Italian factories, integrate their industrial production, and then use Italy’s existing shipyards to quickly build a powerful navy to defeat the British Mediterranean Fleet from within and seize control of the Mediterranean as soon as possible!
As long as they can seize control of the sea here, the supplies that the British have sucked from their colonies in South Asia will not be able to go through the Mediterranean route.
They can only detour through the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa, and take a detour of tens of thousands of kilometers!
In that way, the British Empire will be able to take over the Mediterranean Fleet from the South Asian colonies.
The cost of bloodsucking from the colonies is bound to rise sharply, and the benefits of bloodsucking will also drop sharply, which will have a great effect on weakening the combat effectiveness of the British Empire!
Therefore, Mainz’s words are actually creating an excuse for war. If Mussolini doesn’t know what’s good for him, why not beat him up?
Mussolini was even more frightened. The threat of war in Mainz’s words has become more and more obvious, but they still fall for this threat. The strength of the German army is far beyond their ability to resist, so their ending will definitely not be good if the war starts.
Rather than not giving Venise to them and causing their country to be destroyed, it is better to cede Venise! However, when Mussolini thought that ceding Venise to Hans would lead to his political suicide, completely losing the support of the people, and then he might be dismissed by the king, he began to feel uneasy.
“Führer, we can exchange the seaport near the Bay of Trieste and the Kvarner Bay of the Adriatic Sea for Venis!”
Seeing his own Führer sweating profusely, the young man next to him couldn’t stand it anymore and came over to whisper in Mussolini’s ear.
“Yes, yes, we can exchange a larger area and a better port with you. As long as you don’t want Venis, everything else is easy to talk about!”
The Mussolini faction grabbed a life-saving straw, and didn’t care whether the rope was strong or not, and just grabbed it in their hands!
“Oh? That’s what you said. These two places, except for some areas of the Trieste Bay, are under your control, but other places are not in your sphere of influence at present. Why do you give them to us?”
The two places Mussolini mentioned are all the territories of Yugoslavia. Hans doesn’t care about giving the territory of Yugoslavia to Hans, as long as he is given an outlet to the Mediterranean Sea. Moreover, among these two places, the Kvarner Bay is obviously a very good seaport and can be used as a naval base.
If the Italians really have a way to give this place to Hans, Mainz will naturally be happy to accept it.
However, Yugoslavia will definitely not agree to such a deal, so Mainz is very curious about how the Italians will fulfill their promise!
“Fight, only war can force the other side to cede these lands to us!”
Mussolini gritted his teeth and shouted a type!
Whether he was out of ambition or to meet Hans’s requirements, this war was inevitable!
“I would like to ask, could you please send some instructors to our army to help us train the army and improve our combat effectiveness?”
After Mussolini decided to go to war, he began to try to get support from Hans. If Hans did not help them train the army, they might not be able to defeat Yugoslavia!