Edel asked Causta. "Is the message confirmed?"

The head of the guard, Calust, spoke with some uncertainty. "The news was reported by Zagreb's daily newspaper Srpobulan, which revealed that the Grand Duke would travel to Bosmia at the beginning of the summer to observe military exercises, followed by a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina."

Because he was afraid that his arrival would affect the trajectory of history, he asked the chief of the guard to pay more attention to the news on the Austro-Hungarian side, especially the whereabouts of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Ferdinand. Calucte did not know the Crown Prince's intentions, but he still carried out Eder's orders diligently. Now there is no confirmed news in a newspaper, and he also reported it to the crown prince in advance.

Hearing Calust's uncertain tone reveal the source of his information, Eder was convinced that it was true. In his previous life, he wondered how Archduke Ferdinand had met so many assassins in Sarajevo, but now it seems that the news was leaked three months in advance, so it makes sense to encounter an organized assassination. It was seen that the management of intelligence on the part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was also very negligent.

Seeing the pensive Crown Prince Eder, Caluster asked. "Your Highness, do we continue to pay attention to the dynamics of Austria-Hungary?"

Edel came back to his senses and spoke to the chief guard beside him. "Continue to inquire about Austria-Hungary, but be careful not to expose yourself."

After receiving an answer from the crown prince, Calust left the office. Now he has a lot of things to do, not only to pay attention to the intelligence of Austria-Hungary, but also to cooperate with Milok in preparing Russian affairs, and also to pay attention to domestic dynamics, and now he is so busy that he rarely returns home.

At present, the two major intelligence agencies in Romania are the royal intelligence service controlled by Calust and the government intelligence service controlled by Miroke. Last year, Eder personally divided the scope of their respective jurisdictions for the two of them, one inside and one outside, so as not to cause friction between the two because of their spheres of influence. It's just that this year's Austro-Hungarian dynamics are very important to the crown prince, so Calust asked him to keep an eye on the whereabouts of Archduke Ferdinand.

In this regard, Miloc also cooperated with Calust at the same time, not only handed over several important chess pieces lurking in Austria-Hungary to him to use, but also prepared an intelligence line for him alone. Therefore, this year, the relationship between the two major intelligence agencies has gradually eased, and the atmosphere is not as tense as before.

After it was established that Archduke Ferdinand would still visit Sarajevo for his death, it is likely that the historical line will still follow the established track. Now Eder's focus now is to get Romania stockpiled enough material as soon as possible.

He knew that the Ottoman Empire had turned to Germany because of the Dreadnoughts, and in order not to bring assistance to Russia, it would be a great possibility that the Black Sea straits located in Ottoman territory would be closed to Romania. If Romania had the size of Germany, then the Ottomans would not have dared to make such a choice, and as for the fact that even the military expenditure is now one-tenth of that of Japan, the poorest power, where would they have the confidence to dare to negotiate with the Allies.

Then when the road to Romania's sea exit is completely blocked, its land transportation will be used as the main means of transportation, just open the map of Romania to see that there are not many neighboring countries around Russia, Austria-Hungary, Seville, Bulgaria, just two allies and two Entente countries, but economically, the direction of Romania's export is Central Europe and Western Europe plus a southern Europe.

It is completely a dream to get the two countries to agree that Romania will export goods to Italy, Britain and France through the territory of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, so it is impossible. As for Russia and Serbia, they were not traditional markets for Romanian exports, and Russia's grain exports were still competing with Romania in Europe, and Russia's poor finances could not buy any goods, so Romania could only export to the Central Powers at that time.

Fortunately, the Allies were cut off from maritime trade at the outbreak of World War I, and the surrounding countries were enemies except for the three Nordic countries. Moreover, Romania exported grain, oil, automobiles, and other necessities of life and materials that could be used in the war, so it could only export to the Allies in the early stage to obtain benefits. However, since the surrounding countries are at war, it is believed that Romania, which can export large quantities, can also make good profits.

It's just that Eder still has a worry, that is, if Romania gets enough profits in the early stage, will it become a thorn in the side of Britain and France, the defenders of the European order after the war. So whether Romania, which has received a lot of economic benefits, can escape the blackmail of the two countries will be a big question.

Moreover, Romania needs Britain and France to guarantee itself the Austro-Hungarian Transylvania, which will be the key to its rise. Since the current line of demarcation with Austria-Hungary is along the southern line of the Carpathian Mountains, it can be seen from the map that Romania's territory was a large recess in the face of Austria-Hungary. Militarily speaking, Austria-Hungary's 100,000 troops can see Romania's 200,000 troops, of course, this is without considering the difference in equipment morale and so on.

It can be said that if it had not maintained good relations with Austria-Hungary all the time, Romania would have been treated to death by national defense pressure, just as the Soviet Union, which had Mongolia in its previous life, had faced its own motherland. Therefore, Eder has always wanted to eliminate this disadvantage, and as for the region of Bessarabia that Russia currently occupies, it is believed that the local people will be willing to throw themselves into the arms of Romania under the threat of Red Russia.

However, this requires a high level of diplomacy, and only the current prime minister, Brevtianu, has this skill. Coupled with the fact that Britain and France now consider him to be the leader of the Anglo-French faction in Romania, Eder was able to tolerate the constant petty actions of the prime minister. So don't look at Prime Minister Bretianu as docile as a cat here in Eder, in fact, as long as he leaves the palace, he is the rightful Prime Minister of Romania, and he is a strong Prime Minister.

However, he is also very clever and will only argue with Eder on small matters, and the crown prince has considered the prestige of the prime minister, so most of them approve of his proposals. This makes him a counterweight to Crown Prince Eder in the eyes of Britain and France, where Eder is an outright German. This made Eder, who was bent on making Romania strong, cry and laugh, but in fact, he should be regarded as the leader of the Pits.

After receiving the news that Archduke Ferdinand was going to Sarajevo to inspect as scheduled, Eder could only step up his efforts to urge the domestic industry to make preparations, whether these people understood it or not. Now he can only hope that everything will develop according to the course of history.