The Bulgarian Foreign Minister, arguingly: "The armistice has not yet been signed, the two countries are still at war, and our cessation of the offensive has shown that Bulgaria is peace-loving!"

But giving the enemy a chance to regain his strength is absolutely impossible! The blockade cannot end unless the war ends! ”

Alexander I of Far Belgrade, now on the verge of collapse! From the beginning of the negotiations to the present, in just over a week, he has suppressed a full five rebellions!

No, it may not be considered a rebellion! In the case of an extreme shortage of supplies, the people scrambled for daily necessities, which led to riots!

Since the siege of the city by the Bulgarian army, the prices in the city have begun to soar sharply, and now they are dozens of times higher than before the war!

The capitalists did not have the idea of sharing the suffering with the government, and refused to accept the dinars! Rich people are okay, they have been prepared before, there is always some foreign exchange or gold and silver, and now they can barely get by!

This is hard for the working class, unlike ordinary citizens, who still have some food reserves in the city!

Working alone in a factory, eating and living in the factory, not everyone has the belongings to cook, so what is the reserve of food!

As soon as Belgrade was besieged, the factories were shut down, and the capitalists themselves suffered losses, so naturally they didn't care!

The few dinars in my hand are now about the same as straw paper, and I can't spend them! Under the threat of starvation, robbery, theft are everywhere, and the crime rate in Belgrade has increased dramatically!

Of course, this is all a small problem, Serbia is not an industrial country in the first place, and the few workers in Belgrade are mostly mobilized into the army!

There is not much left, and they are still really old, weak, sick and disabled, and they can't make much waves!

The key is that in order to defend the city, Belgrade City has carried out a full mobilization, not young men, even young and strong women have been organized, and two female divisions have been established, ready to fight with the Bulgarians to the end!

Theoretically, Belgrade now has more than 100,000 troops in the city, which is six or seven times more than the enemy outside the city! If it was the Middle Ages, Alexander I would have been able to launch a counteroffensive now!

If there are more people, it is not necessarily a good thing, military salaries can not be paid, and military rations must not be dispensed with! The Serbian government now has to worry about eating these people!

It is impossible to transport grain from outside the city, and no amount of grain, once passed by the Bulgarian army, will not be enough to eat inside the city!

Young Alexander I, albeit with limited abilities, was not really stupid either! He knew that as soon as he ran out of food, a mutiny would happen immediately! For the sake of safety, the Serbian delegation had to be urged to speed up the negotiations!

The opinion of the Serbian delegation, the Austrian foreign minister was dumbfounded, and he was still fighting for the interests of Serbia? You're going to give in?

Well, that's the case! In order to make a full set of plays, according to the original plan, this "difficult" negotiation was to drag on until 1895, and now it has only been a week since the Serbs gave in themselves!

Since he was tackling a key problem, how could Ferdinand miss the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Secretary?

The Serbs probably never dreamed that they would be sold as soon as they showed the intention of making concessions!

For this news, Bulgaria paid a sky-high price of 50,000 pounds! When the war is over, the top level of the Bulgarian government will suddenly find out that it is not the most expensive to fight a war, but to do public relations!

But this news is indeed worth the price! Although a secret agreement has been reached with Austria-Hungary, if Serbia is willing to pay a greater price, it can still be operated without harming the interests of Austria-Hungary!

Knowing that the Serbian government could no longer hold on, Ferdinand decided to add another fire!

Located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers in northern Serbia, Belgrade is the capital of the Republic of Serbia and the political, economic and cultural center of the country. It is an important point of contact between Europe and the Near East, has great strategic importance, and is known as the key to the Balkans.

For the defense of the city, food and water are the two essential elements! After cutting off the supply of food and coal, Ferdinand set his sights on water!

After receiving the order, Popov, who was besieging the city, immediately understood! Belgrade is located at the confluence of rivers, and it is unrealistic to want to poison it! Ferdinand didn't let them do that, the impact was too bad!

Ferdinand's order was to adopt a very primitive, traditional, but effective method - to cut off the river upstream!

Of course, it is not necessary to really cut off the Sava and Danube, otherwise there will be no place to clean up the diversion of the river!

If the negotiations have not yet begun, it will be too much, and it will be too much to artificially create floods and inundate farmland and villages downstream!

What Popov has to do now is to force the captives to dump mud and garbage into the river, and make a gesture that he wants to cut off the river and put pressure on the Serbian government!

The muddy river water is not suitable for drinking directly in the city! As for the consequences, it's none of Ferdinand's business, it's the Serbian government that should have a headache anyway!

As soon as Popov acted outside the city, Belgrade was in chaos! If the water source is polluted, then dig a well and hold it back, anyway, it is located at the confluence of rivers, and digging down can always dig out water!

Of course, when there are few people, this is no problem! The problem is that in addition to the aborigines, there are now more than 100,000 troops in Belgrade, and how can water for so many people be done with a few wells!

Grab food in front, now grab water, the government has to send troops to maintain order in the city!

In just ten days, the army has shot thousands of people, which stabilized the situation, and the top of the Serbian government knows that Belgrade is on the verge of collapse!

Alexander I now holds high-level meetings every day to think about strategy! There is also a very important reason, that is, not to give his subordinates a chance to connect with each other to prevent a coup d'état! Who called Serbia a tradition of coups?

At the dreary meeting, the Minister of Industry took the plunge and said: "The situation in Belgrade is getting worse and worse, and all industry and commerce in the city have stopped!"

The capitalists are going crazy, blocking my door every day, and now I have a home and can't go back!

In the long run, I'm afraid the situation will get out of control even more!

The Bulgarians are trying to force us to compromise and accept their terms in their entirety!

Now they may cut off the river at any time, and if it really happens, the farmland and towns in our downstream areas will be devastated, and the consequences will be very serious!

If the negotiations fail, I am afraid that there will be no pure land in the whole of Serbia! ”