Ti quickly arrived at.
Although there was still no news from Spain, Carlo was already making full preparations for the possibility of taking charge in Spain.
First was the public opinion power that Carlo had vigorously developed, which had already achieved certain results.
The largest newspaper office in Carlo’s hands, the Italy 24 Hours Sun Newspaper, had beco the largest newspaper in Northern Italy, with an average daily sales volu exceeding 24,000 copies for the whole year of
In addition to the Sun Newspaper, Loren, under Carlo’s instructions, had also established several newspaper offices in northern and southern Italy. The combined daily sales volu of these small and dium-scale newspaper offices also exceeded 10,000 copies.
Carlo could also be considered to have completed his initial deploynt of public opinion power. These various newspaper offices together had tens of thousands of loyal readers and could influence at least hundreds of thousands of people.
As long as Carlo wanted, he could make hundreds of thousands or even millions of Italians learn of a piece of news in a short ti.
In this era when transportation was extrely inconvenient and the public mostly relied on horses and ox carts for travel, this was extrely exaggerated.
These large and small newspaper offices had also brought Carlo nearly 250,000 lira in inco over the two and a half years.
It was also thanks to Garibaldi’s prestige that the Sun Newspaper was able to quickly penetrate the market; otherwise, more than 200,000 lira would not have been so easy to earn.
As ti entered February 1869, Spain’s parliantary election also formally arrived.
As in history, Primó, as the most powerful individual in the provisional governnt, coupled with his enormous prestige in the revolutionary army, smoothly controlled the majority of seats in parliant.
This news made Carlo breathe a sigh of relief, as it ant Spain would move toward constitutional monarchy rather than republic, and Carlo still had a great hope of becoming King of Spain.
The new Spanish Parliant, upon its establishnt, announced that it would not abolish monarchy, but would establish a national governnt under constitutional monarchy to manage Spain’s political affairs.
Because Spain’s throne was vacant, parliant appointed the provisional governnt’s Pri Minister Francisco Serrano Domínguez as Regent of the Kingdom of Spain, and Minister of War Primó as the new Pri Minister.
These two were not only the most prestigious individuals in the provisional governnt, but also the two generals who enjoyed the greatest support in the revolutionary army.
This was actually the real reason Spain continued to maintain monarchy, after all, the two people with decision-making power both supported monarchy.
Thanks to that report promoting the advanced nature of the monarchical system, the news of Spain continuing to maintain monarchy did not cause too much of a stir.
As long as it was no longer an incompetent ruler like Queen Isabella ruling Spain, the Spaniards’ opposing opinions would at least not be so intense.
Parliantary matters ca to a temporary close, and for Serrano, who was involved in politics, and Pri Minister Primó, the most headache-inducing issue had beco selecting a suitable king for Spain.
Although they could choose anyone from the European royal family, the chosen candidate also had to gain the public’s recognition.
Those with poor reputation could not be chosen; Spaniards would not believe that such a king could do better than Isabella. If it was just a new Queen Isabella to rule Spain, then what was the purpose of the Spaniards’ revolution?
Those with controversial backgrounds could not be chosen. For Spain, only a king of noble birth and supported by a great family could stabilize Spain’s order.
If the new king’s background was highly controversial, it would be a new blow to Spain’s hard-won constitutional monarchy.
Plus all sorts of other conditions, in the end, there were actually only a few European princes suitable to beco King of Spain.
After more than a month of screening, Serrano and Primó finally settled on a list of five candidates.
The first choice was Prince Leopoldo from the German royal family. Prince Leopoldo was born into the Hohenzollern family, backed by the Kingdom of Prussia, which had just won the Austro-Prussian War; both his background and reputation t Spain’s requirents.
The second choice was Fernando, who had served as Regent of Portugal. Fernando’s wife and son were both King of Portugal; his performance as husband） of the Portuguese Queen（ and during his regency was above the passing line, and his prestige was also quite good.
The third choice was Prince Amadeo from Italy’s House of Savoy. Post-unification Italy still carried weight along the diterranean coast, and the House of Savoy’s prestige among the European royal family had also seen a slight rise. For Spain, Amadeo might not be as reliable as the first two, but he was still a qualified candidate.
The fourth choice also ca from Italy’s House of Savoy, Amadeo’s own younger brother Carlo. Carlo’s shortcoming was that he was slightly young, still a few months shy of turning But Carlo’s reputation in Italy was no weaker than Amadeo’s, and the Sun Newspaper’s propaganda for Carlo had been quite effective.
Even many Italians greatly admired this youngest prince, because this little prince did not put on too much airs when traveling and would friendly greet the Italian public.
Under the influence of public opinion power, so Spaniards had also heard of Italy’s friendly prince. This was also the reason Carlo could enter the candidate list; after all, Primó and Serrano both believed that Spaniards would not reject a friendly king.
The final candidate was Queen Isabella’s brother-in-law, the Duke of Pontejos of Spain. However, considering the Spaniards’ disgust toward Queen Isabella and the possible hate-by-association ntality, Primó placed the Duke of Pontejos at the end of the candidate list and considered removing him from it.
After all, selecting the King of Spain was extrely strict; any flaw in a candidate would be magnified countless tis, and any possible influence was sothing Serrano and Primó had to consider.
What disappointed Primó was that after the Spanish governnt had just floated a bit of feeler to Fernando, Fernando directly rejected the Spanish throne.
This also theoretically cut off the possibility of Spain and Portugal uniting again, after all, Fernando’s son was the current King of Portugal.
If Fernando could obtain the Spanish throne, the future King of Portugal might inherit the Spanish throne, achieving the rger of the two Iberian countries.
Fernando’s voluntary withdrawal turned the five-person list into four. After lengthy discussions with Serrano, Primó finally decided to also remove the Duke of Pontejos from the list, leaving only three candidates.
Although Spain’s king selection work was done quite confidentially, there was no such thing as an impenetrable wall in the world.
At this ti, Primó and Serrano were still unaware of what major impact their king selection work would have on the European situation, even directly causing the European hegemon to be trampled underfoot by other countries.
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