Chapter 38, Unsolicited Deal - Don't Do It

Once the war had broken out, it wasn't something that could just be stopped at will. Especially for the precarious Cuba Island, if reinforcement troops weren't dispatched promptly, it might well change hands.

The Spanish Government's resources had already been nearly depleted in previous wars. The funds raised domestically were extremely limited and could not sustain them for long.

There wasn't time to wait for the results of the investigation, Ruenior approached the Vienna Government first. Clearly, Ruenior was very wary of the bankers who operated on the fringe.

There was no other reason than the lesson learned from experience. Signing a loan agreement didn't necessarily mean that the loan would be obtained.

Seventy million Divine Shields was not a small number; there were only three, perhaps four, countries in the whole world whose annual fiscal revenue exceeded seventy million Divine Shields.