Chapter 32, Murder by Knife
As soon as the war ended, the Bulgarian government was busy again, and celebration banquets were indispensable.
But this time is a bit special, everyone knows that Ferdinand has not been in a good mood recently because of the death of his mother, Princess Clemantina, and no one dares to harass him!
Therefore, in this celebration, he was not seen as a king from beginning to end, but this did not affect everyone's good mood.
Anyway, there are still so many rewards, and there will be no reduction in the slightest!
Of course, the domestic newspapers still have to blow it up, how can they blow enough for more than half a year to blow such a victory!
Anyway, from the king to the soldiers, the workers, the peasants, from the government to the army, from the collective to the individual, inside and out, the media will blow it all over again! To satisfy the curiosity and vanity of the people!
Ferdinand, of course, is still the protagonist this time, as the greatest emperor of Bulgaria in history, there is no one, he has enough capital to be admired!
Coupled with the impetus of public opinion, in the minds of the Bulgarian people, Ferdinand is already a great being second only to God, and has been artificially deified!
Oh, in fact, Ferdinand has long recovered, after all, Princess Clementina is in her seventies, which is considered a long life in this era, and she has walked peacefully!
Birth, old age, sickness and death, human nature, this is more understandable to Ferdinand, who is a man of two lives, and after bidding farewell to Princess Clementina, he recovered.
It's just that he was too lazy and didn't want to participate in so many socials, so he used this as an excuse to show that he was in a bad mood.
Anyway, now that his prestige has reached its peak, it doesn't matter if he goes or not, and he doesn't need to rely on these small means to buy people's hearts!
The West is different from the East, the Queen Mother like Princess Clementina has never participated in politics, and her death has little influence on the outside world, and it is even more impossible for the whole people to wear linen and filial piety, affecting civil weddings and funerals!
If anything, it is a major blow to the royalists of the Orleans line in France, missing an important member of the royal family, and its influence on the European continent has declined again!
However, these were dispensable for Ferdinand, and he had no intention of supporting the restoration of the royal family of Orleans. After all, it has been so many years since the founding of the French Republic, and the royalists have been divided into several factions, how can the restoration be successful?
Oh, the most important thing is that after Princess Clementina died, the succession to the throne said goodbye to him, and Ferdinand naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to get involved!
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In the palace of Sofia, Prime Minister Konstantin was holding a thick stack of materials and introducing to Ferdinand: "Your Majesty, our cabinet plans to divide the Aegean islands into four regions, namely:
1. Crete and its affiliated islands are divided into Crete regions, with the first auxiliary in the port of Heraklion in Crete;
2. The islands of Rhodes, Karpathos, South Sporades, Greater Solavno and Kunupia are divided into the Carpa, with the capital in the port of Carawarza on Rhodes;
3. The islands of Evia, Cyczes, and Northern Sporades are divided into the Sith region, with their capital on the island of Skyros;
4. The islands of Lesvos, Chios, and Lemnos are divided into the Eastern Region, with the capital at Mytilene on the island of Lesvos.
The Mediterranean island of Cofu is directly divided into the Epirus region, and the Ionian Islands and the Peloponnese Peninsula are divided into a separate region - the Ionian region, with the capital in Sparta!
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Ferdinand pretended to listen carefully, in fact, he didn't know the names of many of the islands, let alone know the specific situation on the islands.
Now Bulgaria can also be said to be the country of a thousand islands, the Aegean Sea is also known as the multi-island sea, it is said that there are more than 6,000 islands, of course, this number is not accurate, because many islands are short-lived, today and tomorrow will be flooded by the sea!
But now in Bulgaria, there are more than 200 islands suitable for human habitation, no less than 6,000 large and small islands, the largest Crete has an area of 8,300 square kilometers, and the smallest may not be as big as a bed!
With so many islands, it was a challenge to remember the names, and even the islands that were suitable for human habitation could not be remembered.
Naturally, it is also a troublesome matter for the Bulgarian government to govern these places.
The division of administrative districts was obviously set up by the government for the needs of rule, and Ferdinand, who did not know the specific situation, simply handed it over to the cabinet to deal with!
"Well, let's divide it like this! In the future, if you don't think it's suitable, just readjust! Ferdinand said lightly
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Konstantin replied
"But what about the island's residents? The Ottomans are good to say that the newly ruling Al-Shabaab in Turkey, if it wants to make a difference, has already begun to extradite civilians!
The Greeks are in trouble, if we move them all away, the islands will be deserted, and now the people of the country are not interested in moving to live on the islands!
Even though we have ramped up our publicity and promised to provide housing and subsidies to immigrants, there is only a little interest in a few large islands, and most of the smaller islands have not signed up at all! ”
Ferdinand couldn't help but feel happy that the island that the rich would be the first to buy in the future has now become a hot potato!
Ferdinand thought for a while and said, "Forget it, for small islands that don't have any special resources, let's let them be deserted first!" Anyway, we won't run with horns, we just need to develop some valuable islands!
As for the Greeks, let's find a way to let them leave, the populous Greek peninsula is not easy to move for the time being, but there are thousands of people on these small islands, let's get them away first!
According to the original plan, it would be better to send them to Syria and the Ottomans as neighbors, after all, the development of the colony there now needs a large number of people! ”
Well, Ferdinand is cheating again, the First World War is coming, and the Ottoman Empire will definitely attack Syria in a big way.
With Bulgaria's current strength, it is very difficult to resist the Ottoman invasion in Syria, so in the short term, Ferdinand will not invest much resources anywhere, and sending the Greeks over can be regarded as killing people with a knife!
Theoretically, the Greeks could also join forces with the Ottoman Empire to occupy Syria and seize the Bulgarian colony.
However, this may only exist in theory, and if you consider what happened to the Armenians and the changes in the distribution of the Greeks, you can see how brutal the ethnic cleansing carried out by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War!
Even Ferdinand's attitude towards the overseas colonies was to be able to keep the rules, give up if he couldn't hold on, and wait until the war was over to regain the lost territory.
Anyway, from the perspective of this era, the colonies in the hands of Bulgaria are all rotten land, with little economic value, except for the lack of deserts, that is: there are no boundaries for what you want!
Konstantin hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, in this way, is it too wasteful, can you wait for our immigrants to arrive first, and then send the Greeks away, so as not to be abandoned because no one has been abandoned for a long time......
Ferdinand interrupted Constantin's words and said in an unquestionable tone: "No, we have to pay attention to the image of the government, and some things still have to be done in advance!"
The local residents will definitely not leave willingly, and now that we are still under military control over these islands, even if something happens, it is difficult for the outside world to know the specific information, and it will not work later!
Once order is restored to normalcy, it will be difficult to keep it secret! You don't want the whole world to know that we are forcibly exiling the Greeks! ”
That's right, exile! Compared to the Aegean region, Syria in this era is a poor and remote country!
"Yes, Your Majesty! We will do it as soon as possible, and try to get all the inhabitants of the island away by 1911! Konstantin said solemnly