As it turned out, Ferdinand's choice was not wrong!

After determining Bulgaria's next strategy, the potential of the cabinet was stimulated, and the combat effectiveness of the whole country broke out with twelve points, and it was thrown into a new round of preparations!

Even so, the "Second Five-Year Plan," which was interrupted by the war, was carried out in an orderly manner.

Ferdinand, who was idle, set his sights on his old neighbor the Ottoman Empire again!

After the end of the Bulgarian War, the call for Bulgaria to get rid of the Ottoman Empire as its suzerainty is getting louder and louder, although Bulgaria has long been out of the Sultan government!

The nationalist Bulgarians are increasingly dissatisfied with the nominal suzerainty. (Oh, never satisfied!) ）

It was the cry of the broad masses of the Bulgarian people to get rid of the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire and establish a completely independent Bulgarian kingdom.

However, they were all suppressed by Ferdinand with strong prestige! Now is not the time to turn the other cheek with the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria is not ready for war, but it does not prevent Ferdinand from making some small moves!

1895 was a turbulent year, with the just-concluded Bulgarian War and the Near East crisis beginning to intensify again.

That is, after the First Sino-Japanese War began, the overwhelmed Armenians also rose up. This time it was different from history, Ferdinand also intervened, and the Greeks, Arabs, and Kurds were all involved!

Armenians lived in the mountainous and highlands of northeastern Asia Minor, and in the 19th century they were under the influence of Russia, Ottomans, and Persia, respectively, and by 1894, there were about a million Armenians living in the territory of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

Armenians are Christians and alien to the Turks. Most of them live in the "six provinces of Armenia", where they live in mixed with the Kurds, and are mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. There are also people who live in cities, such as Constantinople, where there are 150,000 Armenians.

In the late 19th century, because Armenians were a minority and their religion was alien to that of Turks, they were exploited and oppressed by the Turkish government.

After the intensification of ethnic contradictions, the Armenians also launched activities against the rule of the Sultan, demanding national independence and autonomy. After the independence of the Balkans, revolts became more frequent.

The Armenian revolt also angered the Ottoman rulers and carried out brutal repression.

After the economic crisis erupted, the Ottoman Empire was also affected, and in order to alleviate the crisis, diverted attention. The Ottoman government has set its sights on the country's ethnic minorities in an attempt to plunder their wealth to survive the crisis!

So they provoked contradictions between the Kurds and the Armenians, taking the opportunity to massacre the Armenians!

In August 1894, Turkish troops and Kurds massacred thousands of Armenians in Sassoon, followed by massacres in Yozgat and Urfa.

After the news spread, it attracted the attention of the international community, which, due to the intervention of the great powers, gave the Armenians the illusion that the international community was supporting their independence!

The rebels saw an opportunity for independence, and the uprising broke out! But due to the different interests of the great powers in the Ottoman Empire, it was difficult to reach an agreement with each other, and the Near Eastern crisis broke out!

In line with the principle of blocking the enemy, Ferdinand also played a disgraceful role in this incident.

The national contradictions in the Ottoman Empire have always been very serious, and the core problem lies in religion!

The first largest ethnic group, the Turks who believe in the first religion;

the second largest people, the Orthodox Greeks;

the third largest ethnic group, the Arabs who believe in the religion;

the fourth largest ethnic group, the Kurds, who believe in the religion of ***;

Bulgarians, the fifth largest ethnic group, who believe in Orthodox Christianity;

……

On the surface, Turks, Arabs, and Kurds all believe in *** religion, but in fact they are different, and there are a lot of chaotic factions.

Everyone knows that heresies from within are often more odious than enemies from outside. So at this point, if you continue to write down, you may hit a thunderstorm!

…… (100,000 words in the brain)

Anyway, these contradictions were targeted by Ferdinand, and the intelligence officers secretly launched an operation codenamed "Hunting Horses" for this purpose!

Since 1895, the Ottoman Turkish Empire has been at odds, with frequent religious conflicts, and today the Kurds and Armenians are fighting it; Tomorrow the Arabs will fight the Greeks again; The day after tomorrow, the Turks clashed with the Bulgarians; Suddenly, the Shiites and Sunnis clashed again, and the Hawarijites and Murguié were PK again......

The Ottoman government began to run out of steam, and it was originally just a conflict between the low-level believers, but the intelligence officers hyped it up through the street tabloids, and then it detonated public opinion!

The Ottoman Empire could suppress the local newspapers, but it could not do anything about the newspapers in the hands of the great powers, otherwise there would be no Near Eastern crisis!

Public opinion attracts the attention of the people, and everyone is waiting to see what the Ottoman Sultan government will do! Religious contradictions, mixed with ethnic contradictions, are never right or wrong, and no matter how they are handled, some people will be dissatisfied.

What about the rotten Sudanese government? The response was slow, the handling was not timely, and when the government intervened, there were several fights below, and people's brains were all out of dog brains.

There is no doubt that the Sudanese government disposed of its own people, angered the Greeks and Bulgarians in the country, and began to support the Armenian revolution with the encouragement of the Bulgarian and Greek governments.

Ferdinand was not the only one who had ambitions for the Ottoman Empire, the Greeks were the most eager! Seeing the expansion of Bulgaria, George I of Greece was envious and jealous, and there was no way to border Greece with the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, the Mediterranean Sea is also counted, but the Greeks still don't have the courage to compete with Britain and France for domination of the Mediterranean, haven't they seen that even Italy is a spectator?

As early as a few years ago, the expansion of the Bulgarian army began, and George I followed up on this as an excuse, but unfortunately he only guessed half right, not expecting that the enemy chosen by Bulgaria was not the Ottoman Empire, but the Serbs!

George I's idea of following behind to pick up a bargain fell through! Now the undercurrent of the Ottoman Empire is surging, and the Greeks have lost it and are starting to move!

The Foreign Minister hurriedly entered the palace of Sofia and reported to Ferdinand: "Your Excellency, the envoy of King George I of Greece, has secretly arrived in Sofia!" ”

Ferdinand nodded and said, "It seems that the Greeks can't bear it anymore, we still do it according to the plan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can contact them first, probe the Greeks, and then decide whether we need to cooperate with them!" ”

(Reviewing the previous article, the author 😓 is ashamed!) found a lot of problems, the scum is really the scum, a lot of typos! Thank you all for your support, tolerance, and guidance!! ）