When Beiyang wanted to find an Italian naval officer to teach and hand it to Carlo's desk, Carlo himself did not expect that Li Zhongtang would actually ask Italy to teach.

I don’t know if it helped too much and made Li Zhongtang have a good impression of Italy, or the ability of the Italian Navy conquered this Li Zhongtang and actually asked for Italian teaching. But Carlo himself guessed that they might have them all.

Faced with Li Zhongtang's request, Carlo still needs to ask the Navy before giving a reply, after all, the Navy still needs to provide personnel.

"Your Majesty, of course you have to agree to such a good opportunity."

He found General Golek, but unexpectedly, as soon as Carlo said it, the Navy Minister couldn't wait to agree. This made Carlo very embarrassed, and the general was not reserved at all.

This cannot be blamed for being unrestrained. Every naval power is very happy to be an advisor to other countries' naval forces. In other words, the Italian navy is not strong enough, so he got the opportunity to become an advisor for the first time. If he doesn't agree quickly, he is still waiting for something.

I didn't see that the British Navy had naval advisers in many countries, so I was simply a pity for others. And I had no concern about teaching my apprentices to starve the master to death, because the British Empire's navy was the best in the world. This is also recognized by the world. Even the German High Seas Fleet, which was in the future, had never thought of overturning Britain's status, but just to protect itself.

So for the Italian Navy, it was simply unsuccessful to participate in the construction of the Qing navy. The benefits were very considerable. Not to mention anything else, just say that warships need bases, such as repairing docks, mooring docks, cranes for lifting heavy objects, rail cars, etc., all of which need to be included.

Many of these things cannot be bought in the Qing Dynasty. So do you need to consider purchasing abroad? At this time, the consultant said that someone is better, so isn’t it just that there is a business?

Of course, this is just a small profit among them, and there are more other aspects.

But for Carlo, it would be fine if the navy had the idea. But he still wanted to ask if the Navy Secretary was suitable for him.

"Your Navy needs to consider the candidates sent to the Qing Dynasty."

"Okay, Your Majesty, after the Admiralty Department has studied the candidates, I will definitely give you a look."

It was obvious that Admiral Golek understood Carlo's words.

After sending the Navy Minister away, Carlo picked up another telegram. The telegram was sent from Berlin. The Berlin Conference is currently being held. A total of 15 countries participated. The meeting was nominally to solve the issue of belonging to the Congo River Basin, but in fact, more African divisions were discussed.

Italy also sent a delegation headed by Foreign Minister Bacona to attend, and the telegram was sent back to the country by the Foreign Minister.

In fact, this time, the Italian government is very interested in the division of Africa, but Carlo, as the king, is not very interested.

This is not because Carlo does not know the importance of Africa, but because the places with oil and water have basically been divided up by various countries. Although there are huge opportunities in the Congo River Basin, there is no chance for Italy.

Although the Belgians took a big advantage, Carlo didn't want to do it at all. Because for Italy at present, the market is the key, and developing the domestic economy is much more important than seizing the colony.

In addition, Germany, France, Britain and other countries can accept the weak Belgium, but they will never accept Italy's attack in the Congo River Basin. Although Italy is the weakest, it is also a great power.

Otherwise, why would Britain, France and Germany withdraw from part of their territory and give it to Belgium, and Belgian King Leopold also took advantage of this and proposed that companies from all countries can be developed in the Congo River Basin and are temporarily under Belgium. It is precisely because of this that Belgians get a very large piece of cake from it.

In addition, developing a colony requires huge costs and has to endure years of losses, which is something that Italy's current finance does not have.

In this era, Africa can only serve as a raw material base, and its market is extremely small. How many industrial products can you expect Uncle Black to buy? It will take until the end of the 20th century that the African market was gradually developed, and its scale is still not comparable to that of Asia, America, Europe and Europe.

Not to mention anything else, the harsh climate and various diseases in Africa have caused the colonized countries to suffer a lot of losses.

For Italy, North Africa is the focus of its attention, because it is close to the country, which is very conducive to colonization and alleviates the pressure on the domestic population. However, North Africa has been snatched away by Britain and France.

Only the Ottoman Empire had a Libyan territory, but it was basically deserted here, and only some Arab herders grazed here. Given that it was too barren and that there was the Ottoman Empire behind it, Italy did not attack it.

As for other places, Carlo believes that Italy has no energy to take into account at present, and giving priority to the development of industry is the hard truth. If you don’t have a hard fist, you dare not speak loudly. How can you seize the interests?

However, unexpectedly, His Excellency Bacona had a good talk at the Berlin Conference, and Italy also took Somalia in East Africa. I don’t know if it was affected by the butterfly effect, but Britain did not insist on its colonial stronghold in Berbera, Somalia, but used the stronghold to reach an agreement with Italy. Italy gave up its colonial stronghold in Hodeida, Yemen in exchange for the British Berbera base in Somalia.

Of course, in addition to this, Italy and the United Kingdom have signed their own spheres of influence in the Red Sea. It can be said that Italy currently has one achievement in Africa, Somalia.

When Carlo saw the telegram sent back like a treasure from the Foreign Minister, he felt a toothache. Italy really went to pick up some remote areas. If Sudan was an Italian colony, how great it would be, he would no longer have to worry about the small land and the large number of people in Italy.

However, this can only be Carlo's wish. The British will exchange Sudan for Italy when they are crazy. No amount of money is possible. This is related to its core interests in Africa.

The Berlin Conference, which divided Africa, continued, but according to the news analysis, it was similar to the results in previous lives. It would be great if a conference could be held to divide Asia. Compared with Africa, Asia has everything, and the market is also good.
Chapter completed!