Chapter 235: The Temptation of Romania (Part I)

Prime Minister Brettianu is now completely unaware of Karaturi's moves. Even if he knew, he wouldn't have had any worries about Karaturi's actions. Because the rapid development of Romania was done in his hands, and he was destined to be recorded in Romanian history. Later records of this period have no possibility of bypassing him at all.

So now Prime Minister Brettianu's vision has been set on the situation in Europe, and he is completely disdainful of the sneaky conspiracies at home. Prime Minister Bretianu now has a sense of self-confidence in me.

It was the ambassadors of Britain, France, and Russia who gave him this confidence, and now Germany was fighting to the death with France at Verdun, with both sides exerting all their might. In order to alleviate the passive situation of France at Verdun, Britain also intended to counterattack and involve the German army. Even Russia, which was badly injured last year, was forcibly dragged into the war by Britain and France.

In the spring of this year, up to 2 million Russian troops launched a counteroffensive against Germany and Austria, and now the German and Austrian armies and the Russian army are fighting fiercely on the Polish plain. The latest information received by Prime Minister Bretianu is that the Russian army in Lutsk has defeated the Austro-Hungarian Fourth Army. Now the breakthrough of the Russian army to Austria-Hungary is at hand. Under the command of the new commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Brushilov, the Russian army has formed a multi-point breakthrough in the Austro-Hungarian defense line. It seems that in this war, the Austro-Hungarian army can only regain a little self-confidence on the Italian side.

Now that every force of Germany and Austria is being used to the limit of the various battlefields, if Romania now joins the war, then no one will be able to defend against them. Prime Minister Bretianu was a little impressed, and he saw this as the best chance for Romania to enter the war.

At the Prime Minister's residence, Brevtianu was conferred with his cousin, Wentil Brettianu.

"What are the conditions they are giving now?"

In response to his cousin's inquiry, Wentiler, who has been in charge of secretly contacting the ambassadors of Britain, France, and Russia, replied. "The terms given by the ambassadors of the three countries have been loosened, they have begun to agree to some of our other territorial claims instead of only giving compensation to the Transeniva region."

"They agreed to which areas were assigned to us after the war?"

"The area of Barnett and the east of Salesid in Krissana to the east of Sebish are all to us."

Prime Minister Bretianu immediately found the above location on the map behind him, and this time the concessions of the three countries were relatively large. This is a territory of 20,000 square kilometers, and there are nearly a million Romanian, Hungarian, German, Serbian and other nationalities living here, but there is still a big gap from his demand. In this lifetime, Prime Minister Brevianu relied on Romania's 400,000 elite troops and 400,000 reinforced reserves, so he made the conditions that all east of the Tisza River should be returned to Romania.

The three Entente ambassadors were stunned by the prime minister's good appetite. This is to push its borders into the Hungarian plain, but also to seize much of its plains. The main thing is that if the Romanian prime minister's conditions are agreed, his population will immediately double, and his territory will expand by 1.2 times.

Despite Prime Minister Bretianu's unpleasant conditions, the ambassadors of the three countries did not close the door to negotiations, but tested Romania's bottom line little by little. However, Prime Minister Brettianu remained unmoved and insisted on his own terms. Because he saw clearly the reality of the Three Kingdoms, and now the Three Kingdoms needed Romania's entry, and it was also his trust in the Romanian army.

This is not Romania, which has not been preparing for war in its previous life, and can only start the war in a hurry. After ten years of rearmament, the current Romanian army can be said to have reached the same level as the great powers, and in some respects even surpassed the armies of other countries that had been in the war for two years. In terms of weaponry and training, the Romanian army is stronger than Russia and Austria-Hungary, not to mention other small countries. So Prime Minister Brettianu can come up with conditions that satisfy him.

Cousin Wendil looked at Prime Minister Bretianu who had been staring at the map, and after a struggle within, he spoke. "Cousin, is it really okay for us to negotiate the conditions in private like this?"

Looking at his cousin's worried face, Prime Minister Brettianu said with a smile. "Why are you worried about me?"

"Yes."

Wendile has also been in the government for a long time, and he is very clear about who can make the decision in Romania now. Therefore, after his cousin found him, he was already very worried about negotiating with the Entente, for fear of angering Eder, who was actually in charge of Romania.

Now he finally couldn't help but ask his cousin about the doubts in his heart.

Hearing his cousin's concerns, Prime Minister Brettianu decided to explain it to his cousin.

"Now joining the Entente is an opportunity for Romania, and we are in a pretty good position right now. The main thing is that now Germany and Austria and our neighbor Bulgaria do not have the energy to take care of us. As soon as we cross the Transylvani Mountains, we can go straight to the Hungarian plain. By that time, Austria-Hungary had no strength to stop us from moving forward. ”

Prime Minister Bretianu said that he fully understood the future war situation, but in fact, this was not something he came up with, this was the chief of the General Staff Prishan explaining to Eder the plan for the war against Austria-Hungary. In addition to Austria-Hungary, in fact, Prieshan also explained the country's plan against Russia and Bulgaria. Their General Staff has already made a lot of operational plans for neighboring countries, but these plans have been left to the operational staff office.

And Bretianu was very profound about the Austro-Hungarian battle plan, so in front of his cousin, he did not forget to imagine his dream of being a commander.

"Cousin, you know, I'm worried about what we're doing now."

Wendyler didn't care about his cousin, he explained it directly. "It would be a disaster if the king found out that we were privately contacting the Entente to enter the war. It will be a disaster for both our families and our political parties. ”

Seeing that his cousin had made his words clear, Brettianu didn't interfere with him anymore. He looked at his cousin and said with a serious face. "You think the king would not know about our actions. You must know that the head of the royal guard, Calust, is his eyes and ears, and this chief of guard receives a lot of government funds every year. ”

"What do you mean......"

The cousin said that there was a possibility here, and immediately looked at his cousin with wide eyes.

Prime Minister Brettianu understood what his cousin was trying to ask, but he did not give an answer. There are things that can be done but not said, and this is the state of Prime Minister Bretianu now.