After Ferdinand set the tone, on November 23, 1916, the United Yugoslav National Congress was held at the Bulgarian Parliament House in Sofia.

As the leader of the Yugoslav nation, Ferdinand appeared at the meeting hall and was greeted not with applause, but with a curtsy of hundreds of people, which made him very satisfied.

"Welcome to Sofia, everyone is the elite of the Yugoslav nation, to fight for this great nation, our time is precious, we can't waste any more, so I won't talk nonsense!

I know that everyone is here for the future of the Yugoslav nation, and that the world war has now progressed, and it is only a matter of time before the Allies are defeated.

The moment is coming to determine the future destiny of the Yugoslav nation, and what I want to see is a spirited and united Yugoslav nation.

Of course, this is not to say that Bulgaria is going to establish a kingdom of Yugoslavia, as rumored to be, and I can tell you here that this does not exist!

Bulgaria just wants to unify the Balkan Peninsula, for the region outside the Balkan Peninsula, we respect your own choice, you can choose to stay in Austria-Hungary, you can also establish an independent state, of course, you can also join Bulgaria, I support all this!

"On the Origin of the Balkan Nations" must have been read by most of you, with the changes of the times, in fact, all nations have long been inseparable from you and me, and I and you.

Therefore, I hope that everyone will not hold extreme national hearts, but learn to tolerate each other, so that everyone's contradictions can be reduced a lot!

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After blowing the, he poured a bowl of chicken soup for the soul into everyone, and Ferdinand left with everyone's farewell.

As for the rest of the matter, Ferdinand doesn't care, as long as he thinks about so many power groups, they all have their own interests, how can it be possible to be harmonious?

Besides, these forces are only made up for political needs, do you really think they are so strong?

Austria-Hungary is not a fool, how could it have allowed a large non-governmental armed force group to appear under its rule?

The ones that really have some strength are just a few of the revolutionary parties and a few nobles, and their strength is still very limited.

The rest may not even be counted as forces, and some are interest groups composed of several capitalists; Some are made up of groups of students; And socialist groups!

Don't be surprised, the European ideas of this era are so chaotic, messy and mixed together, naturally there are some freaks, in the eyes of later generations, many incompatible ideas, this era can still be shared!

What communist royalists, communist constitutional monarchists, etc., some messy grocery groups are everywhere.

Of course, history has proven that it is impossible for groups with confused ideas to succeed, and there is no doubt that these groups have disappeared into the long river of history!

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Time flew by, seven days passed, and the First United Yugoslav Congress of Nations closed amid a quarrel.

Under the operation of Prime Minister Konstantin, Ferdinand became the king of the Yugoslav Federation in a daze, the problem is that this federation currently has only one member of the Kingdom of Bulgaria!

What's even more strange is that this federal kingdom does not have any compulsory binding force on its members in peacetime, as long as it is a country or region established by the Yugoslav nation, it can join, and there is no need to assume responsibility for each other and fulfill obligations!

Only when the member states are facing foreign invasion can Ferdinand, the king, have the right to rally everyone to join the resistance, and his role is usually to mediate the conflicts between the members!

Well, everyone has their own needs, Ferdinand wants them to act to cause chaos in Austria-Hungary, and they want Bulgaria's support to establish an independent state, and provide them with security protection.

After all, small European countries in this era are still very dangerous, and if a bad one is invaded by foreign enemies, it is still necessary to find a boss!

It would not be surprising if there were more than one country with a population of tens or hundreds of thousands in the future, and this is what Bulgaria needs.

Since it is not possible to really complete the unification, then the more dispersed the better, and if they are really unified, it will be a real trouble.

Of course, there is also a reason that the more independent countries there are, the more supporters Bulgaria will have in the future after the establishment of the United Nations.

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Ferdinand's fanfare in convening the Yugoslav National Congress was naturally impossible to conceal from Austria-Hungary, and perhaps one of the delegates attending the meeting was one of their people.

However, Ferdinand didn't care at all, he used a trick, as long as careerists wanted to establish an independent state, they could only take land from Austria-Hungary by themselves, and if they were preempted by competitors, it would be someone else's territory.

The Confederation Kingdom forbade members to attack each other, unless there was a sufficient reason to do so, and only after the approval of the king could they use force.

The Vienna government was very angry at Ferdinand's digging of the wall, and Franz-Joseph I even said angrily: "Order the defenders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and other regions to tighten their guard, and suppress any changes immediately!" ”

To be able to establish the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Joseph I's ability is unquestionable, but his talent is crooked, his diplomatic ability is the best in Europe, but his domestic ability is very mediocre, not to mention military ability.

He can't help but be angry, this world war has shaken the foundation of Austro-Hungarian rule, Ferdinand is undoubtedly falling to the bottom now, but now the two sides are enemies, and there is nothing wrong with doing so!

As soon as the words fell, the old emperor Joseph I suddenly fainted, and only woke up after a period of rescue.

Of course, the 86-year-old emperor can't stand the toss. Due to Ferdinand's butterfly effect, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, escaped in this time and space, and finally let the old emperor experience the pain of a white-haired person sending a black-haired person, and he lived a few more days.

(Note: Franz = Franz, this is the different results translated by linguists according to the needs of different names!) ）

But people are old, their bodies have run out of oil, and they can't be stimulated, but unfortunately it's a world war, and it's either good news or bad news, how can they not be stimulated?

Joseph I did not survive 1916 and died at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna at the end of December, leaving Archduke Franz Ferdinand to succeed the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

With the death of the old emperor, it can be said that the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Dinghai Divine Needle has collapsed, and although the new successor Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Ferdinand II) is much stronger than Archduke Karl, he still lacks enough prestige to control this aging empire!

Although he also went to cross a layer of gold in the world war, he still could not compare with the old emperor, and the most obvious sign is that the reverence of many ethnic minority rulers for the Austro-Crarian Empire has disappeared.

Due to the factors of the world war, although Joseph I's funeral was already grand, the level of the participants was much lowered, and it was obviously not worthy of his status.

As a belligerent, important members of the Allied royal family were naturally absent en masse, and even Ferdinand only sent a representative to participate. There is no way to do this, everyone has to pay attention to the impact!

The death of the old emperor, Ferdinand's mood was still very sad, this uncle still cared for him very much, but it was only because of the interests of the country that he was forced to go to the opposite.

Of course, sad is sad, Ferdinand was still merciless when it was time to be ruthless, and the battle on the southern front that had been grinding for a long time still began.

On the Romanian front, in the face of the main forces of the German-Austrian forces, the Bulgarian army adopted a strategy of focusing on defense, and instead launched an offensive in the Bosnian region and the Belgrade line.

No, when the old emperor was still alive, the war started on the front line, and the continuous bad news was the main factor in the death of the old emperor.

For example, in the attack on Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the superiority of the navy, the Bulgarian army landed in Dalmatia and burned the war to the Croatian region.

Of course, this was only a feint, with the aim of pinning down the forces of Austria-Hungary and weakening the basis of Austro-Hungarian rule in the region.

Now Ferdinand II, who had just succeeded to the throne, was forced to suddenly add hundreds of kilometers of coastline to defend, which again put a heavy burden on Austria-Hungary.

It was impossible to give up, and once Bulgaria had won victory in Croatia, a Croatian kingdom would be born, and Austria-Hungary would be ready to fall apart.

For this, the Austro-Hungarian navy was sent out to fight the Bulgarian navy, and then they never came out again.

What Ferdinand II couldn't stand the most was that there were still people who dared to eat inside and outside in this context, when the old emperor was alive, these people were all sneaky smugglers, and now they have begun to expand the scale.

Don't look at the fierce fighting on the front, but the Hungarian capitalists still smuggle with Bulgaria, and the people in the country are hungry and dare to sell grain.

Just because the Austro-Hungarian government offered a low price for the purchase of grain, these capitalists preferred to rot the grain in warehouses rather than sell it to the government, at most only on the black market.

Then there was a very comic scene, the Kingdom of Hungary, a large grain producer, was the first to have a food crisis, and millions of Hungarians lacked enough food.

Then, these capitalists unscrupulously shifted the blame to the government, accusing the Austro-Hungarian government of taking a large amount of grain in the Kingdom of Hungary to cause the food crisis!

Completely ignoring the fact that their granaries are still full of grain, and as long as they take it out, they can get the kingdom through this crisis.

However, this is impossible, unless the Austro-Hungarian government buys it from them at a high price, private property is sacrosanct and can never be sold cheaply!

The Hungarian Prime Minister, Count Tiza, had come forward many times to coordinate the issue, and the old nobles had some face and some food to deal with it, but the new bourgeoisie had no idea what the festival was, and they didn't even bother to mean it.

The most bizarre thing is that after the government agreed to the price of their grain, they collected paper money and demanded that the government pay in gold!

Naturally, the government of the Kingdom of Hungary did not have so much gold, and then kicked the ball to the Austro-Hungarian government, and they did not want to think about the appropriateness of letting the Austrian government take money to buy grain for the Hungarians.

However, spoiled children, naturally, will not think so much, they will only see their own interests!

Naturally, the result was nothing, and Ferdinand II was preparing to take tough measures against these capitalists, when the government of the Kingdom of Hungary jumped out to oppose it, and Prime Minister Tiza refused to allow Austrian troops to enter on the grounds of the sanctity of private property.

In short, with the death of the old emperor, the situation in Austria-Hungary began to be chaotic!