Chapter 1: A New Era - Development

The end of the Paris Peace Conference does not mean that the world is really peaceful, for example, Japan refused to sign the peace conference, because the Paris Peace Conference, which was dominated by the Big Three, greatly limited their development space.

Not only will they lose most of the German Pacific Islands that they have already owned, but they will also be forced to give up the German sphere of influence in the Far East, which is unacceptable to the Japanese government!

Of course, if you don't sign, you won't sign, Britain and France are much stronger in this era, but Japan is much weaker than after World War I in history, and Britain and France will naturally not give in when they are strong and weak!

I don't know how long the Japanese will be able to hold out, anyway, they have no allies in this regard, and even the Americans, who were also suppressed at the peace conference, are on the opposite side of them!

Britain and France used reality to tell the world, it's better not to provoke them, the 21 articles that the Japanese made up, they didn't have the energy to intervene during the war, and now they will beat the Japanese back to the prototype again!

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This was just the beginning, and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles placed a heavy economic burden on the Germans and laid the foundation for the revival of the German economy.

However, the Germans also kept more territory than at the same time in history, for example, under the strong opposition of Russia and Austria, the British did not want to weaken the Germans too much, and German Poland was not independent.

At the same time, the French gained greater rights and interests in the east, directly advancing the border line to the Rhine, and the Treaty of Versailles allowed the French to directly increase their population by more than 10 million and increase their territory by 6 percent.

If we add in the gains made by the French in Italy, after the end of the World War, the area of the French homeland increased by 13.5 percent, the population increased by 37 percent, and the total population once exceeded 54 million.

Fortunately, most of these increased populations were not interested in the French Republic, and they still considered themselves Germans or Italians, otherwise the British would not have been able to sleep.

Now John Bull also found himself at a loss, after the end of the world war, the mainland area of France and Bulgaria was expanded, but their home area was limited by the British Isles could not expand to the European continent, looking around at the sea, there was no direction of development.

The benefits of the Mediterranean are quite rich, but the gains in the colonies are negligible, and the Allied countries are still too thin.

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What is even more unacceptable is the Americans, who, despite their huge economic benefits, have not been recognized in the international arena, not only can they not be compared with the British, but they are even inferior to France and Bulgaria, which is unacceptable to them!

These series of factors have also become the main contradiction in the future world! The inability to achieve an international status commensurate with their own strength prompted the Americans to give blood transfusions to the Germans after the war......

Chekov, the cabinet minister on duty, reported to Ferdinand in a serious manner: "Your Majesty, news has just come that revolution has broken out again in Moscow, and the Bolshevik Party has come to power and established the Soviet Republic!" ”

Well, in fact, this is not big news, the Russian Empire is divided into threes, and one of the regimes has changed, and it does not affect the world situation.

What is unusual is that the establishment of a proletarian regime by the Russians attracted everyone's attention, but that was all.

The "October Revolution" that broke out in the Russians was only Ferdinand's attention, and everyone's eyes were focused on the Paris Peace Conference.

The Soviet power in Russia was inseparable from the recklessness of the capitalists, a regime composed entirely of capitalists, without any constraints, and a little thought about it to know what would happen.

Ferdinand knew that the "October Revolution of the Russians" was the beginning of a new era, but he did not know that in this time and space, the nascent Soviet government in Moscow was still living a precarious life.

Sandwiched between the two tsarist regimes, once the battle is almost doomed, the difference in strength between the two sides can be described as a world apart, anyway, Ferdinand doesn't think they can fight one against two!

(Forget about the infested Harmony Divine Beast, let's pass it off!) )

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The world war was over, and the Treaty of Versailles was transmitted back to Bulgaria, which immediately caused a sensation, and Bulgaria received reparations and colonies in the world war, all of which were ignored by people, and they were more concerned about the establishment of the status of the "Big Three"!

For ordinary people, the position that Bulgaria has achieved in the international arena this time is the most worthy of showing off, and from now on Bulgaria will appear on the international stage, and it will no longer appear as the little brother of the Russian Empire.

Even if it's an extreme pro-Russian faction, no one wants to continue to be a junior brother now, it's better to be the boss yourself, this feeling is really cool!

The problem of the pro-Russian faction of the Bulgarian government, which had been plaguing it for a long time, was completely resolved, and from now on the Bulgarian government was completely freed from the influence of the Russians.

The psychological factor of people is so subtle, once it broke out, the pro-Russian faction that originally admired the Russian system has now turned into an anti-Russian vanguard, they believe that the Russian system has completely fallen behind the times and is destined to be eliminated by the times, and the Bulgarian system is the choice of the times!

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There were also dramatic changes in Russia, and there was a wave of learning from the Bulgarian system within the tsarist government, which was promoted by Nicholas II.

He also has no choice, the current Russian Empire is terminally ill, their own system is definitely out of date, and the rest can only learn abroad!

The republican system of the Americans and the French, Nicholas II would certainly not have learned, and whoever dared to learn it was his enemy.

Learn about the British constitutional monarchy, but he is too timid and afraid of going to the guillotine, after all, he is quite similar to the guillotine king of England in some ways.

Learn from the Japanese, the Russian Empire said they could not afford to lose that person yet. After looking around, they suddenly found that there was a former younger brother to learn, and that the original constitutional system of Bulgaria was formulated by the Russian Westerners, and Ferdinand had only modified it!

This is wonderful for the Westerners in Russia, and the facts have proved the correctness of their theory, a small country with a population of only three or four million and a territory of less than 100,000 square kilometers, under the ideal political system they have formulated, has become a world-class power in a short period of thirty or forty years.

As for Ferdinand's hanging on Bulgaria, it was automatically ignored by them, this is all caused by the superiority of their political system, Ferdinand is at most a great king, and the development and growth of Bulgaria is still caused by the superiority of their system!

Otherwise, if they had had a republic, wouldn't there be nothing left? If there is no king in Bulgaria, there will be no Ferdinand!

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As soon as the Paris Peace Conference ended, the Constantine delegation embarked on its way home, and the issue of the sale of debts was still a matter of arguing with the consortium by officials from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and this could not be concluded in a short period of time.

As one of the "Big Three", Konstantin's trip to Paris was still very beautiful, and it can be said that he returned with a full load, but the biggest winner was Ferdinand, who was waving money and buying in Germany!

For example, the steel plant worth hundreds of millions of marks by the Germans can be pulled away by Ferdinand now if he gives 1.8 million, especially in the South Germany region, in the military area of Bulgaria, in addition to the cost of demolition, there is no need to give a big son, and one by one the German factories are directly gone.

That's right, the directness is gone, and it is naturally a powerful person like Ferdinand who can do such a big thing, anyway, the unlucky ones are the Germans, who cares so much!

If you have an opinion, you can protest to the garrison, and they will be responsible for explaining all the causes and consequences!

And it's not just factories that are relocated, many times even the engineers are packed, anyway, Bulgaria is about to develop the Asia Minor peninsula, and it is not afraid that it will not be able to digest these production capacities.

For the purpose of limiting the war potential of the Germans, the British and French were also dismantling the heavy industry of the Germans, especially the French, who were eager to be able to tear down every screw of the Germans.

As in history, many factories were demolished by them, only to suddenly find that they did not need them at all, and there were no capitalists in the country willing to take over, and they could not find buyers if they wanted to sell, and finally returned them to the Germans in a comic way.

However, this time it was different, with Ferdinand, a wealthy buyer, sweeping the market at a price not more than a discount from the market price, the Germans suffered a fatal blow to the heavy industrial system in the Ruhr area.

As for whether the Germans can recover in the future, Ferdinand doesn't care, anyway, it is more important to be strong Bulgaria, or to make money in his own pocket.

Anyway, in history, the German heavy industry was also dismantled by the Entente, but no one was willing to take over in the later period, and after being idle for a period of time by a group of fools, it was returned to the Germans.

According to incomplete statistics, from the end of 1917 to the beginning of 1919, in just over a year, Bulgaria demolished more than 580 large and medium-sized factories from Germany.

These included a third of the Germans' steel mills, a quarter of the shipyards, nearly half of the chemical and pharmaceutical plants, and a large number of high-tech industries of the time.

And within five years after the end of the World War, more than 500,000 immigrants from Germany came to Bulgaria, and no one knows how many of them were voluntary.

In any case, the Bulgarian army has sent troops to escort these elite talents on several occasions to ensure that they and their families arrive safely in Bulgaria.

It was the selfless dedication of the Germans that enabled Bulgaria to achieve rapid economic development after the war and quickly become the largest industrial power in Europe!

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At the successful conclusion of the Paris Peace Conference, Ferdinand held a banquet for the Constantine delegation to commend them.

For example: Ferdinand divided the five dukes and seven marquis in one go, including the four major generals of the military were crowned dukes, and the cabinet members became marquises except for the prime minister and dukes, and the three people from the military formed the seven marquises!

Of course, these people are all fictitious titles, and the actual title of Ferdinand is not so arrogant, and Bulgaria also has a strict system of title promotion, and the possibility of being crowned a duke in theory is almost zero!

After all, it was a fiefdom of up to a million hectares, how could Ferdinand be easily obtainable? Theoretically, as long as someone can dominate the Eurasian continent, this credit is almost the same, in fact, Ferdinand only drew a big pie, maybe through the efforts of dozens of generations, it is possible to give birth to a real duke!

After all, among all the nobles in Bulgaria now, there is not a single count in the highest real title, and the difference between dukes is too far.

It is also because of this that the status of the fiefdom nobility is much higher than that of the fictitious nobility, after all, it can be hereditary!

It is also official that Ferdinand has set strict aristocratic standards, and now the Bulgarian aristocracy has been recognized by the mainstream European society, otherwise a group of explosive households will start on an equal footing with these old nobles, and others will not approve of it!

In addition to announcing these high titles at the banquet, Ferdinand also threw out more than forty counts, more than three hundred and eighty viscounts, more than two thousand five hundred barons, more than eight thousand knights, and more than twenty thousand lords at one time.

The Bulgarian aristocratic system was established, and most of the knights in it were sealed, and after fighting a world war, there were still many people who made great contributions, and there were still many people who made up enough for one hundred and fifty hectares of military merit fields!

This also meant that Ferdinand was no longer rootless, and that an aristocratic class loyal to the king had been established, and with the end of the feudals, they would penetrate into various parts of Bulgaria to consolidate the foundations of Ferdinand's rule.

There was no way, Ferdinand rummaged through the history books of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, and finally found that the most scientific way to digest the new territory was to be knighted, as long as a bunch of nobles took root in the local area, the possibility of independence was very small.

On the contrary, the use of civilian rule is prone to repetition, and if one is not careful, rebellion and independence will occur, which is not the case in ancient and modern China and abroad!

In the same way, in order to limit the nobility from becoming bigger, Ferdinand also made strict restrictions, that is, the nobility did not have the right to establish cities, and all cities in Bulgaria must be controlled by the government!

In addition, the term of office of the nobles in the local area has also been strictly limited, and basically they must be sent abroad after two terms to prevent the expansion of local factions.

Of course, these questions are still early! Now these nobles are going to the local areas as builders, and many places have become deserted due to the factors of war, and their main task in the past was to take root in the local area and develop the local economy.

Compared with the real nobles, most of the people who received the feudal land were ordinary soldiers who had made great achievements. There are a large number of them, and although each person does not get a lot of land, as long as they are willing to choose to go to more remote areas, they can fund the purchase of no more than ten times the land area of the military meritorious field!

The standards are also different in various places, for example, in the Balkans, that is, the actual fief is as much as it is, and there is no preferential treatment in the slightest; Those who go to Asia Minor can buy between fifty and two times as much land.

Of course, the place where you can buy ten times the area of the fief is naturally Africa, in order to develop remote areas, basically the more remote the place, the lower the price of land, the land on the African continent is basically given away for nothing, Ferdinand is dumping at the ultra-low price of one hundred leva a hectare!

It's just that in order to ensure the interests of the Bulgarian military aristocracy, it is not sold to the fullest, and in fact, there are not many people in the people who can move anymore, after all, the Balkan Peninsula is now the core of Bulgaria!

As soon as these millions of soldiers are released, the Asia Minor Peninsula, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, the Persian Gulf and other regions will become the focus of Bulgaria's development in the next ten years, with the Asia Minor Peninsula as the core, which can almost be said to receive the same level of attention as the Balkan Peninsula!

The Arabian Peninsula is further aback, Ferdinand estimates that it will be able to develop there in the next ten years, as for the African region, it is better to let it go first, and it is impossible for Bulgaria to invest tens of billions of leva in the development of African colonies.

The initial goal was to send a group of refugees over, establish several cities in the coastal areas, divide some nobles into the past, and develop the local products appropriately, so as to make initial profits.

As for the most pitiful interior of Africa, Ferdinand felt that it was more appropriate to exile prisoners, and it was a good choice to send the diehards who were now in Bulgarian territory who were unwilling to carry out ethnic integration!

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