Bulgaria's ultimatum, completely dispelling Serbia's illusions, war is coming!

Alexander I panicked, the war came too suddenly! Since September, the conflict between Bulgaria and Serbia has intensified, and it has only been a short month now, and now Serbia has no time to prepare!

"Prime Minister, how are our war readiness?" Alexander I asked anxiously

I saw Prime Minister Radoman Bovich say with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, the time is too short, we have no time to prepare!"

Up to now, the national mobilization has barely been completed, and a total of more than 500,000 young and strong people have been mobilized, and they are still distributed all over the country! It is too late to organize training, and the selection of qualified soldiers from them has just begun, and it will take at least half a month to complete!

The material reserves are even worse, due to the lack of funds, our procurement work is not going well, the gap is very large! ”

The Minister of War added: "Due to our lack of weapons and equipment, most of the existing weapons are collected from the people, and many people bring their own weapons to serve!"

Armament is a mess, and until now, our gun and ammunition statistics have not been completed!

There are many types of firearms, basically all kinds of guns that exist in the world, we have them now, and the number of various types of guns is unknown!

It will take time, at least for the next half a month, the mobilized army will not have any combat effectiveness! It will take at least two to three months of short-term training before the initial formation of combat effectiveness! ”

Fortunately, everyone's military level is amateurish, otherwise you will find that the actual situation is much worse than you say! The wide variety of weapons and equipment also means that the caliber is different, which is very difficult for supply! It's hard to know that many people go to the battlefield with guns and can't find bullets that can be fired!

Listening to the words of the Prime Minister, Alexander I angrily asked: "What is the matter with the Chancellor of the Exchequer?? Why is it that by now, the funds have not been available? Do we still want to fight? Don't forget that it is now a time for Serbia to live and die, and you still have to intrigue? ”

The Chancellor of the Exchequer looked like a fool, with a conscience of heaven and earth, this time he was terribly trying his best to raise funds, but he still couldn't fill the gold-swallowing hole of the army! Now in the face of Alexander I's questioning, he replied without any heart:

"Your Majesty, please respect yourself! Our Ministry of Finance has done its best, don't forget that just now the military also fought a counterinsurgency war, tens of thousands of casualties, and the pension alone is an astronomical amount!

And now that the national mobilization has begun again, domestic tax revenues are now almost negligible; International loans, bonds, bankers are not optimistic that we can win this war, so the gains are limited!

Now the funds we use are already using the gold reserves of the issued currency, and we must not use too much, otherwise our currency may collapse at any time! ”

As soon as the Chancellor of the Exchequer finished speaking, everyone's faces changed greatly, in the era of the gold standard, the monetary reserves were used, and if the operation was not good, it would explode!

Now Alexander I, too, could not care about the chancellor of the exchequer, and sighed and said: "I can't care so much!" Take it out first and get through this level! It is easy to say anything if the war is won, and all the losses can be compensated for by Bulgaria; If you lose, you don't have to worry about the currency crash! ”

The Chancellor of the Exchequer thought about it, and it was the same reason. It's easy to say that if you win, if you lose, someone has to carry the black cauldron, and the cabinet can't run away, and the mess is still left to the next term!

Helplessly, he said, "Okay! However, we don't have a lot of gold reserves, so you might as well save some of them! If the war is not over, it will be spent, and our treasury will not have a single dinar! ”

The Minister of War said bitterly: "Don't worry, if it gets to that point, I won't ask for it even if you have a dinar, it's not much different from a blank piece of paper!" ”

Alexander I glared at the Minister of War and asked: "Prime Minister, what is the attitude of Austria-Hungary now?" Will it be on our side?? It's really not good, it's good to buy us some time! ”

Prime Minister Radoman Bović was embarrassed and said: "Austria-Hungary has made it clear that they will be on our side. But they feared that if they intervened directly, and the Russian Empire also intervened, then the situation would be even more troublesome!

So they made an agreement with the Russian Empire and now neither will directly intervene in this war! In this war, we can only rely on ourselves! ”

Knowing the attitude of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Alexander I instantly had a feeling of being betrayed! Are they still allies? I helped nine years ago, and now I'm actually watching from the wall!

Angrily said, "Well, let it go, just if we don't have that ally!" Now it's up to us, Minister of War, you must fight for Serbia this time, otherwise ~~~"

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Niš is the largest city in southern Serbia and is located on the banks of the Niłava River, a tributary of the South Morava River. Now this once noisy city is now depressed!

The natives of the city of Djokovaniš are now in their sixties, which can be considered a high life expectancy in the 19th century.

It may be hard to believe that he was not an ordinary man, and that he had fought in the war against the Ottomans as a young man. Later, he also founded a textile factory in Niš, and had more than 100 workers, a proper capitalist, but now his life is not easy!

There was no way that after the outbreak of the economic crisis, it was dumped by the international capitalists, and Djokovic's textile factory never won a profit again and was forced to close its doors!

sold the factory, and finally left a sum of money to support the elderly. But the Paussian war was on the verge of breaking out, and the dinar began to depreciate like crazy!

The government used the gold reserves, and the shrewd capitalists could not hide it at all, so they decisively chose to sell the dinar, and then the dinar began to depreciate wildly.

The aged Djokovic was a step slower to react, and by the time he did, the dinar had gone from 1 dinar = 0.29 grams of gold to 1 dinar = 0.01 grams of gold.

In an instant, assets shrank dozens of times, and years of savings were ruined!

"Pantridge, the price of flour has gone up again? That's it, you can't be the master, this must be ordered by the old fucker of Kraxiqi, bring me a ton of flour, load it and send it to my house! Djokovic said with a headache

"Mr. Djokovic, so much?" The salesman asked in surprise

"The war is about to start, how can you not stock up on food?" Djokovic said calmly

"Mr. Djokovic, the government has announced that prices will be calmed, the market will soon return to normal, and it is not cost-effective to buy so much now!" Pantridge

"Silly boy, Nish will be the front line at the beginning of the war, who can take care of this!" Djokovic glared at him and left without looking back.

Niš is too close to the front line, the last time the Baosai War was fought, and now it is estimated that it is not much better!

Back at home, Djokovic did not hesitate, and after purchasing daily necessities, he began to move, and he planned to go to his hometown in the mountains to avoid trouble!

Djokovic is not alone, the rich people on the Serbian border have started to move to avoid trouble, and it is clear that they are not optimistic about this war!

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