At a time when Britain and France demanded that Bulgaria comply with the Treaty of Nay, the new Bulgarian government promulgated its own bill to revitalize the economy, the Bulgarian Economic Revitalization Plan.

The new Prime Minister Kersteff was also resolute, enacting the bill in a week's time.

In this plan, Bulgaria needs to build its roads, water conservancy, medical facilities and other facilities. The most important of these is the upgrading of two railways, one from Sofia through Pleven to Bucharest, and the other from the southern city of Kerdjali to Veliky Tarnovo to Varna. In addition to this, there are several roads that connect other major cities.

In particular, the construction of water conservancy facilities is of the utmost importance to Bulgaria at present. Because Bulgaria is not strong in industry, most of its population is in rural areas, and water conservancy facilities are most urgently needed. Moreover, due to the impact of the economic crisis, Bulgaria's fiscal revenue has been greatly reduced. The government is powerless to allocate funds, and it can only be maintained by the farmers themselves.

However, the farmers' ability to bear it is already poor, and the lack of government funds makes it even more difficult to maintain water conservancy facilities. According to internal statistics of the Bulgarian government, during the years of the economic crisis, the number of water conservancy facilities in Bulgaria has decreased by 18%. Moreover, 31 per cent of irrigation canals and pumping stations were not repaired in the water facilities that were not damaged.

This has a fatal impact on agricultural production. As a result, only 557,000 hectares of wheat, rye, oats and other crops need to be irrigated in Bulgaria in recent years, compared to 69.1 hectares before the economic crisis, a decrease of 20%. On the contrary, drought-resistant crops such as potatoes and corn have increased slightly, which has led to lower incomes and reduced motivation for Bulgarian farmers. And in general, Bulgarian cultivated land is also shrinking.

Therefore, in general, Bulgaria's cultivated land is shrinking, and after becoming Prime Minister of Kerstev, the most important livelihood project is to allocate large funds for water conservancy facilities to protect the income of farmers in the country.

Of course, guaranteeing the income of the peasants does not make Bulgaria rich, and it must rely on industry to make Bulgaria rich. And Kerstev already has a plan, which is to further process the tobacco industry and rose oil according to the actual situation in Bulgaria.

Bulgarian tobacco and rose oil are also very famous all over the world. Bulgaria is well suited to both crops, thanks to its temperate continental climate and mountainous nature, so there's no reason why Kerstev shouldn't make it bigger and stronger.

It is not that no one has thought about deep processing of these two specialties before, but they are affected by insufficient funds. There was no way that Bulgaria had suffered several wars in succession before, and the poor treasury could starve to death of rats.

Bulgaria under Eder could rely on aid from Romania to complete the plan. So Kersteff did not have any psychological burden at all, and did not hesitate to start a large-scale construction.

Of course, Kerstev was well aware of the Kingdom of Romania's desire to tie Bulgaria to a line, and he himself was happy to see it.

So with the introduction of the Bulgarian Economic Revitalization Plan, there was also the signing of the free trade agreement between the two countries. In order to better link the economies of the two countries, the agreement has made clear provisions on personnel exchanges, economic trade, tourism and study abroad between the two countries.

The main reason for this is to reduce border checks between the two countries, and in the future, personnel exchanges between the two countries will no longer be subject to inspection. Moreover, there will be no restrictions on business, study, or work between the two countries, as long as they do not violate the law. In a word, it is to reduce mutual inspections and other work between the two countries, until the free movement of the border is abolished.

Moreover, in view of the differences between the two countries in various aspects such as legal culture, the two kingdoms, which are currently the same monarch, are also trying to achieve an outcome that is more satisfactory to both sides. In general, however, it was Bulgaria that moved closer to Romania, and Romania made compromises on some of the Bulgarian customs.

The main purpose was to avoid a situation like that of Austria-Hungary, in which two sets of governments were in charge of each other, and it was mainly promoted by Eder and the top brass of the two countries.

For the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was broken into fragments, many far-sighted politicians can see that in addition to the lack of cohesion caused by too many nationalities in World War I, there is also the inability of coordination between the two governments. On the issue of naval construction, for example, the attitudes of the two kingdoms were completely opposite. And the same in the attitude towards Serbia. The two governments have spent too much time and energy on arguing and have been too slow to react to things.

Naturally, Eder would not turn a blind eye to this, having been dealing with this issue since he became king of Bulgaria.

And there is another problem that also plagues the two governments: the naval base in Varna.

As Romania's main naval base and shipbuilding center, Varna's naval importance to Romania is obvious. However, with Eder giving the region to Bulgaria, the presence of the Navy here became unusually conspicuous.

In fact, in Eder's return of South Budoroga and other places to Bulgaria, the problem of the navy was also considered.

Of course, it is impossible to get the navy to move, and Bulgaria's current relations with Romania do not dare to make such demands. But hidden dangers are hidden dangers after all, and we must find a way to solve them.

One of the best ways to do this is to merge the two kingdoms so that they don't have to divide each other. However, this method is not yet available, not to mention the opinions between the people of the two countries, even other countries do not want to see the union of the two countries.

It is not 1938, when Germany and Austria merged and Europe was in crisis, and if Romania and Bulgaria were to merge now, Romania would inevitably be put on the cusp of the storm, which would be quite unfavorable to it. Therefore, this method cannot be used at this time.

Since this method is useless, there is no other way. There is also the formation of a joint fleet between the two countries, which will not only calm possible disputes, but also strengthen the feelings of the two countries.

Good no good?

It's good and it's good.

But it also doesn't work.

Why?

Because according to the terms of the Treaty of Nay, Bulgaria could not have a navy. If a combined fleet is formed, then the Treaty of Nay is de facto broken. Eder and the Bulgarian government had just agreed that Britain and France would abide by the treaty and could not slap themselves in the face. Although the treaty was torn up, there was no real benefit and only nominal benefits, and of course Eder would not do it.

So this method can't be used either.

Then there is only one last option left, and that is lend-lease. At the time when Romania financed Bulgaria, the Navy offered to give them the right to use the Varna naval base.

For the requirements of the Navy, the Romanian government, of course, could not ignore them. And the Bulgarian side will naturally not refuse the request from Romania. Regardless of the relationship between the two countries and being under the same monarch, it is also necessary to consider the strength of the two countries.

Moreover, the Romanian Navy and its attached factories account for an absolute share of the investment in Varna. If the Romanian Navy really wants to relocate, the Bulgarian government will not be able to pay for the relocation fee alone.

So in the end, the terms of lease of the naval port of Varna were signed between the two countries; The clause provided for a ten-year lease between the two countries on a naval port with an annual rent of five million lei, and that negotiations to renew the lease would continue after the lease expired.

However, both parties know that it is impossible to negotiate the renewal of the lease, for the simple reason that the merger of the two countries in the future is the general trend. It's become a country, and there's still a question of renewing the lease.