Chapter 138, the crisis is coming
The Home Secretary sighed and said, "They have no plans to fill the river now, otherwise there wouldn't be just a few captives making a show!"
In the short term, the Bulgarians should not resort to such an extreme approach!
If it was really artificially created a flood, Austria-Hungary would not be able to explain it in the first place, and it would not be so easy to pass the international public opinion! Unless it comes to the last moment, the Bulgarians will not do this!
But the small actions of the Bulgarians have hurt us, and now the water flowing through Belgrade has been polluted!
There is no drinking at all, and even if we have organized manpower to dig wells all over the city, it is still a drop in the bucket!
In order to conserve water, we have now banned a series of non-essential water such as bathing and laundry!
But it still can't solve the problem of water shortage, can the Ministry of Finance allocate funds first and buy water from the Bulgarians? First of all! ”
The Chancellor of the Exchequer smiled bitterly and said: "The Bulgarians have lost their money, we have already bought their sky-high prices of grain, sky-high prices of coal, and now we have to buy sky-high prices of water!"
Now the army outside the city also said that if we don't have cash, they can accept it in kind! Whether it's gold and silver jewelry, diamond ring necklaces, antique artifacts, or industrial equipment, as long as it's valuable, they accept it! ”
The Minister of War said angrily: "The Bulgarians do not want to use such means to bring us to our knees!" We Serbs are not soft persimmons, we can't let them take care of it! ”
However, the words of the Minister of War obviously have no weight! Since the defeat in the war, he has been excluded from the heart of decision-making!
Alexander I sneered and said, "So what? In this war, we Serbia is completely defeated! If our army had been a little more aggressive, even if it had only won a small victory, the situation would not have been so bad! ”
Alexander's dissatisfaction with the military has reached the extreme! The military has always been self-contained, and since he succeeded to the throne, he has not been taken into account!
Well, since the military doesn't give face, it's no wonder he's not welcome! Alexander I also reciprocated the favor and cooperated with the government to suppress the army!
Now the repeated defeats of the army have proved that it is correct to advocate military reform! But it was too late, and he also had to wipe his ass for the defeat of the military!
It's not good, but you have to bear the black pot for the defeat of this war, whether it is really a black cauldron, we don't care, anyway, Alexander I thinks so, it's strange that his attitude can be good!
The Chancellor of the Exchequer sighed and said, "It's too late to say anything, the key now is to find a way to end this war quickly!" There are more than 200,000 people in the city, pointing us to eat? We can't afford it! ”
The Home Secretary took the Chancellor's words and said with some tears and laughter: "That's right! Now the prison is overcrowded, and many people have been caught deliberately committing crimes in order to eat and eat; There are even people who take money to bribe the police and arrest them in!!
The food stocks of the inhabitants of the city are now almost consumed, and if we continue, we will have to distribute relief food!
And we only have so many reserves left, if it is exclusively for the army, we can still hold out for more than half a month, if we want to distribute relief food, one week is the limit!
As for the grain outside the city, it has already fallen into the hands of the Bulgarians, and even if it can be transported from other places, there is not much left in Belgrade! ”
Suddenly, the Chancellor's face changed, as if he had thought of something, and he said hesitantly: "You~ You say, are the Bulgarians ~ deliberately delaying the negotiation time in order to loot Serbia's wealth~! ”
Everyone's faces have changed greatly, there is really such a possibility!
Selling sky-high supplies directly to the Serbian government is much more efficient than robbing them yourself!
And there is no need to bear moral and international criticism, and the Serbian government has to cooperate, after all, more than 200,000 people in the city still have to live!
Now Serbia is already meat on bricks, and it can only be slaughtered by others! For every extra day of delay, Serbia will pay a terrible price!
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Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular!
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there is white, there is black! Nor can the Serbs be all altruistic patriots, at least not the capitalists!
Since the siege of Bulgaria, the prices in the city have begun to soar, and the capitalists do not care!
In order to get supplies, everyone is terrible to use their own means! Anyway, in Belgrade, where supplies are in short supply, the materials in the market have not been out of stock!
Kling-Vic's petty officer in charge of strategic supplies is usually a dispensable little transparency!
But when the Bulgarian came, he immediately became hot, and the person who didn't even look at him now gave him a smile!
There is no other reason, just because he can come up with the materials that are in short supply on the market now!
At this time in Belgrade, the order of the past has collapsed, and in the face of hunger, the ugly face of human nature is exposed!
Spend a loaf of bread, and you can take a beautiful girl with flowers and branches to go back for the night! Wrong! It should be said that it was a beautiful girl who used to show off her branches, and since there was a problem with the water source, everyone has become stinky!
But this has nothing to do with Klin-Vic, with the materials in his hands, he can still easily get enough water for his life and live a more luxurious life than usual!
Moths never exist on their own, and Kling-Vic is just one of the insignificant!
At first, Klin-Vich was still timid, and only secretly took some materials to improve the life of himself and his family, and gradually relatives and friends also asked for help, and they used to look down on others, and now they have to come to please him.
For example, his beautiful niece, just for some cheese and bread, obediently gave herself to him! Another example is ~~~~
Then Klin-Vic's perception changed, why didn't he take this opportunity to make a fortune, you must know that after this village, there will be no more this shop!
Then I hooked up with the capitalists, and I was out of control! The appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and it doesn't matter what the supplies are, let's sell them first!
Kling-Vic's pockets are also getting bulging, and soon disaster strikes! The strategic material reserve is still very valued by the top, and with the contacts made during this time, Klin-Vic got the news in advance!
Of course, he is far from the only one who is unlucky! The officials in charge of material management, no one is cleaner than anyone else!
Once the problem is found out, there is no doubt that it will definitely end up falling to the ground! So under the series up and down, an undercurrent is brewing in Belgrade!
On the eve of the inspection, there was a large-scale riot in the city of Belgrade, where mobs raided several warehouses and caused a massive fire, burning down several warehouses where grain were stacked!
Of course, this can only deceive the young Alexander I, everyone knows that at this time the grain depot is heavily armed, how can it be burned by a few mobs?
Since ancient times, there are two reasons why the grain depot has been burned, one is that the guards steal and bury the evidence of the crime; The other is that the enemy attacked and set fire to the granary!
Otherwise, there are not enough fire-starters around the heavily guarded granary, and the grain will not be burned out in a moment!
There is no doubt that this was not done by the Bulgarians! But what is going on, Serbian cabinet officials have pretended not to see it, and now at this time, it is not suitable to investigate internally!
As for the fact that there is no deeper reason, I don't know! Anyway, no one will be able to take care of it now!