Barcelona has a typical Mediterranean climate with mild and pleasant climate, beautiful scenery and monuments, and is known as the "Pearl of the Iberian Peninsula". It is sunny and flowers bloom, not as distinct as Madrid. For ten centuries, Barcelona has not only been one of the main port cities in the Catalonia region, but also a world-renowned Mediterranean scenery tourist destination and a world-famous historical and cultural city. It is also the most important trade, industrial and financial base in the Kingdom of Spain, and its industrial output value accounts for one fifth of the entire Spain.

For most of Spain's history, Barcelona was a more important city than Madrid. First, it was the capital of the Visigoths, and later the territory of Barcelona's powerful Counts. In 1137, it became the capital of the United Kingdom of Catalonia and Aragon, and then it became an extremely wealthy and prominent city. In the early 15th century, Barcelona and its jurisdiction were incorporated into the Spanish state. Since then, there has been fierce competition between Madrid and Barcelona. As the country's top harbour, commercial center and industrial city, Barcelona is becoming increasingly prosperous.

Barcelona is the birthplace of Catalan culture and has a deep connection with the cultural and linguistic development of France in the north. In 1808, after France invaded Spain, under the instigation of many French merchants and the Archbishop of Barcelona with French descent, the defenders of the city chose not to surrender, and Barcelona fell into the hands of the French army intact.

In the early morning of November 26, 1809, a luxurious four-wheeled carriage from the city of Hruna, escorted by a large number of armed guards, headed south along the west coast of the Mediterranean. When he arrived at the suburbs of Barcelona, ​​it was already 3:00 pm, an hour later than expected. It was a few consecutive rains in recent days, and the road was muddy and slippery. The carriage was stuck in a puddle several times on the way, which made the coachman and soldiers go through a lot of trouble, and then they barely guaranteed that the carriage would continue to move towards their destination.

Entering the flat avenue near Barcelona, ​​the road surface became extremely smooth. The owner of the carriage let out a long sigh and thanked God in his heart. After a long period of trouble, he finally returned to the civilized world. The time traveler opened the car window casually, and the breeze with a smell of fishy sea came to his face, making people feel happy and cheerful.

Looking out through the car window, tall and straight palm trees were planted on both sides of the road. The green broad leaves swayed with the sea breeze, as if sending all kinds of mysterious messages to the owner of the carriage. In the distance, there are golden beaches under the sun, blue oceans with white waves hitting the shore, dense ships at the harbor, and a large area of ​​ancient Gothic District buildings made of gray stones. The entire landscape painting of the harbor city is beautiful and blended, beautiful and elegant.

"What a pity, the sunshine and the beach, but there is no beach girl in a bikini!" The traveler licked his lips and gave up the search of his vision, because apart from a few dish-picked teenagers who picked up shells, there was no Spanish girl with a sexy figure, healthy skin, long shawl hair, beautiful face, and full of vitality and joyful beauty on the golden beach.

He finally made him believe that he was still in the European continent in the early 19th century, and his current name was Andrew Desai, a French general, and a Grand Duke Hruna who had been canonized by Emperor Napoleon.

Relying on the carriage, Desai's mind once again staged various scenes he had experienced since his time traveling. Starting from the bloody battle of Zaragoza, he cruelly encircled and annihilated the guerrillas in the suburbs of Madrid, built a safe village with bloody means, and then lured Khruna, Desai felt that his hands were covered with the blood of innocent people. Heroes, or devils? This is the two completely different views of the major newspapers in Barcelona regarding the emerging Khruna.

Desai believes that he is neither a hero with outstanding military achievements nor a devil with a cruel personality and a preference for killing, but just an ordinary person. He has a bright side in his heart, such as caring for his subordinates, treating citizens and prisoners of war who do not resist; he is also inevitably the other side of darkness, and in order to consolidate his power and vested interests, he makes some utilitarian actions.

The calm thoughts were quickly interrupted, and a young officer rode his horse and whispered a few times outside the car window, and then the voice of a full-time intelligence officer, a Polish lieutenant (has been promoted to the first level), and Adam Koror.

"Dude, the Interior Official and his group were waiting outside the city gate."

"Stop the car, ask the internal magistrate to come up, and the others will follow the convoy into the city." Desay instructed. Since Captain Charles was on vacation due to illness a few weeks ago, Lieutenant Adam Koror was handed over to Lieutenant Adam Koror.

After the gloomy inner court officer boarded the Duke of Drula's special carriage, the convoy continued to drive forward. Because it was at least 30 minutes away from the suburbs of Barcelona, ​​Say opened his briefcase, took out his internal affairs report, and seized the time to start reporting to Desay for a month.

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After the two security assessments of the military police and the Intelligence Agency, 30 security villages have begun to gradually relax restrictions, including allowing free trade of food, organizing farm construction, and allowing free migration. In addition to preparing to accompany the leader of the Ghruna Resistance Army, Alvarez de Castro will move 20,000 civilians on Palmal Island, another 160,000 voluntarily stay in the security village or return to their original towns (including tens of thousands of Catalans who have taken refuge from other places for several months). Accompanied by priests, they swore to become law-abiding residents of the Ghruna Dominion.

In the early stage of the Irish immigration, 6,000 people were in place, most of which were young and middle-aged, including reserve soldiers. Before the New Year, more than 10,000 people would migrate to Ireland City, and more than half were elderly, weak, women and children. In addition, due to the implementation of a series of preferential immigration policies such as commercial tax exemption and agricultural subsidies, more than 3,000 bankrupt French civilians from the northern foothills of the Pyrenees to settle in Hruna, and the number of such people continues to increase.

Therefore, by the end of 1809, the number of civilians in Khruna will be 186,000. It is estimated that by the end of 1810, the number of residents of the Dominion will increase to about 300,000, and restore to the population level before the beginning of the Peninsula War in July 1808. This does not include the 11,000 officers and soldiers of the Desai Division and some of the families of the officers.

….As of November 25, the "Investment and Management Committee" has received 30 million riyals injected funds. Before the end of the year, this number will exceed 40 million riyals, equivalent to 8 million francs. The board of directors has taken the lead in approving the canning factory expansion plan, including the expansion of 5 new factories, recruiting 3,000 workers one after another, and adopting new measures such as hydraulic reforms to continue to increase production capacity while reducing unit costs and maintaining a price advantage over future competitors.

...The Spam lunch meat you named has been developed. Its main ingredients are ham, pork, sugar, salt, water and potato starch, and a small amount of additives are added. According to the technician in charge of the project, the Spam lunch meat costs only one-third of the traditional canned meat. It can still maintain a beautiful pink color on the outside and has a longer shelf life. However, Dr. Kava issued a warning: The food additive called sodium nitrite is toxic and cannot be eaten for a long time. Of course, your extremely efficient military intelligence agent has already taken a step forward and destroyed Dr. Kava's medical reports and is strictly prohibited from spreading it out.

…. Friends who have been invited to Hruna, please make sure to convey your sincere gratitude to the Lord Duke, and everyone is very satisfied with the living and working conditions in the territory. In addition, the purification of the mortal-bean crystal of Sethural is in progress, and it is expected that the anesthesia and analgesic effect of the new mortal-bean will be 10 to 20 times higher than that of the mortal-bean. Dr. Kava is also very interested and actively participates in cooperation. Under your suggestion, the research field of Rittel and Zomeilin has been transferred to the battery telegraph, and they respect your pioneering discoveries in the principle of electromagnetic induction. The two claimed that the name of Andrew Desay will be written in the certificate of future invention patents; the same is your claim, the ordnance engineer Bao Li tried to use a copper bottom to improve the rifle firing device; the multi-tube pistol invented by American technician Collier is under test.

… There are 6 scientific and technological research and development centers, 2 professional technical schools, 1 food seasoning factory, 3 machinery manufacturing plants, 4 metal smelting plants, 12 mining quarry and logging processing plants, 1 ordnance factory, 1 pharmaceutical factory, 1 ship repair plant, and a medium-sized joint ocean caravan, as well as... In addition, more than 30 construction teams are carrying out 3 small and medium-sized seaports, 5 inland river ports, 9 inland transportation main roads, and new and expansion projects in many towns according to the original plan... In terms of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery, 5 large-scale farms are being opened to carry out land rotation and fertility transformation... It is estimated that by 1810, various industrial (commercial) fields will attract 120,000 jobs, and 80,000 people are engaged in traditional agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery.

…In terms of grain reserves, thanks to the bumper harvest of summer grain in Sardinia across the country this year and sufficient shipping support, the Dominion of Hruna does not need to worry about military and civilian rations for at least half a year. Although your territory is working hard to increase the planting area of ​​wheat and beans and vigorously advocate efficient agriculture, with the increasing surge in the population of the territory in the future, the situation of relying on imported food will continue until the beginning of 1812... Of course, the supply of meat and wine is quite good, mainly due to the large number of residents on the French border. At the same time, in terms of cotton yarn and cotton cloth, since cotton fields are not planted in the Kruna area, they are currently imported from the UK or the Italian Peninsula, and are mainly used for the production of military uniforms and medical auxiliary products of the Desay Division and the Kruna Garage Brigade.
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