To solve the currency problem, it is not possible to solve it in a day or two, and Bulgaria's top priority is to conquer Constantinople as soon as possible and completely eliminate the thoughts of the Sultan government!

Ferdinand is raising this issue now, mainly to let the government prepare in advance, but also to put pressure on the bureaucrats to come up with a solution as soon as possible!

If there is no better way, then giving the Royal Bank and Union Bank the right to issue notes is their only option!

At this moment, the Battle of Constantinople has entered a critical moment, and after half a month of strong attack, the First Army has occupied half of Constantinople.

The command of the First Army, which had already advanced several times, looked at the map with a joyful smile, and it was clear that he was satisfied with the speed of the advance of the troops in recent days!

Judging by the pace of the advance of the troops in these days, he came to a conclusion: "The Ottoman Empire is almost unable to hold on!" ”

Popov smiled and said: "It's time for the chief of staff to send a report to the country, and now it's time for the Navy to play!" ”

Petrov nodded and said: "Not bad, judging by the number of artillery fire of the Ottoman army, their ammunition reserves have been almost depleted, and now the time has come for the Navy to pass through the Bosphorus!" ”

Under the gloomy sky, the Ottoman fortress was bombarded with lightning and thunder, and there were few sparks of counterattack.

The continuous war of attrition, the Ottoman Empire can no longer support it, especially the weapons and equipment made by all countries, and the messy ammunition caliber, which seriously dragged down the Ottoman army's fragile logistics supply system!

In the half-month siege battle, the First Army consumed more than 3 million rounds of various artillery shells and hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition. But the price was worth it, and the results were just as brilliant!

Captured half of Constantinople, annihilated more than 30,000 Ottoman troops, and captured more than 50,000 enemy troops, and if you add the casualties from the previous battles for positions, this number can be doubled!

Of course, the First Army paid a price that was not small. Counting the casualties of the newly formed cannon fodder, more than 30,000 casualties have already been paid in the siege battle!

If you add the previous part, in the entire Battle of Constantinople, the First Army has already paid nearly 50,000 casualties!

Of course, there are not so many who died directly, otherwise now Popov would have cried and fainted in the toilet!

Thanks to the establishment of a complete battlefield emergency medical team in Bulgaria, most of the casualties were saved and the death toll was successfully controlled to within five figures!

At this point in the battle, the defenders of Constantinople of the Ottoman Empire, the veterans have lost almost everything, and most of the recruits are now replenished!

After all, their Asian region is not peaceful, and the local army cannot be mobilized casually! Now the rebel armies in the Ottoman Empire that can be called have exceeded double digits, and there are even more unknown bandits and bandits, of course, distributed over their millions of square kilometers of land, and they are not eye-catching!

And their ammunition reserves in Europe have long been depleted! Now don't talk about weapons and ammunition, even food and firewood must be mobilized from the Asian region!

The material consumption of more than 100,000 people is definitely a staggering number, and it is undoubtedly a huge challenge to the poor logistics system of the Ottoman Empire.

At the moment, Eder Pasha is in a furious command position.

"Bastard! The group of miscellaneous people in the country, have you forgotten what time it is?

Lao Tzu is fortunate to be working the front line, and you just have to deduct military salaries, and now you even have to play with weapons and ammunition?

Do you think that Constantinople is really iron-clad, and the Bulgarians really can't break it? ”

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After venting for a while, Eder Pasha shouted loudly: "Adjutant, send a report to Lao Tzu to the country, tell them that the weapons and ammunition on the front line are insufficient now, and let them replenish it immediately, otherwise collect Lao Tzu's body!" ”

Eder Pasha, who was angry and about to go crazy, no longer cared about his aristocratic demeanor, and as the Bulgarian army gradually advanced, his pressure increased!

The supplies that had just arrived from China were half less, and no matter how good the cultivation was, he couldn't stand it!

Of course, he wronged the person in charge of the logistics department this time, corruption is rampant in the Ottoman Empire, when have the official warehouses in various places been full, if it is really full one day, it must have been diverted for personal use!

Weapons and ammunition are no exception, and eating kickbacks is not a patent of my Qing Dynasty, and the number of layers of deductions is naturally insufficient!

The reserve of materials is even worse, each person is responsible for dividing a little, and the longer the time, the less materials will naturally be!

The fact that the first few batches of materials can be scraped together is enough to show that the bureaucrats of the logistics department have performed very well!

At this time, there was also no calm in the palace of Ankara, so much time has passed, and the successive defeats of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans have spread throughout the country!

The Turkish Al-Shabaab, which had just been suppressed by the Sultan, became active again, agitating patriotic students everywhere to march and call on the people to participate in the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal movement!

A series of blows, it is no wonder that the Sudanese government can be better!

The Sultan said with a gloomy face, "Let's talk about it, what should we do now?" Eder Pasha's rice bucket is asking for help again, and it seems that Constantine's battle situation is tight again! ”

The Minister of War buried his head deep at this time, as if he hoped that everyone could forget about him, and there was no way who called the Ottoman Empire all the way defeated?

No, at least Greece won on the battlefield!

Unfortunately, Edkh Pasha was not only a veteran in the army, but also very politically astute, and the Sultan's government several times requisitioned their orders to reinforce Constantinople, but he refused on the grounds that the war in Greece was tight!

Not only Edher-Pasha, but no one in the Ottoman Empire who was a general in his right mind was willing to lead troops to fill the bottomless pit of Constantinople!

This is the core reason why most of the reinforcements received by Constantinople are recruits, after all, it is the last years of the dynasty, and the generals are no longer obedient!

Normal orders can still be completed smoothly, even if you send them to death, people will mutini if you are in a hurry!

The Foreign Minister said with a wry smile: "The front line has become like this, now even if you ask the powers to mediate, it is useless, the Russians will not give up the Bosphorus this time!" ”

The Chancellor of the Exchequer added: "Now that the government's finances are already tight, our newly issued bonds are cold in the international market!"

The major European conglomerates are not optimistic about us now, and if the war continues, we will not even have the money to pay pensions later! ”

After hesitating for a moment, the prime minister said: "I am afraid that the situation is much worse than we expected, and now it will be difficult for us to end the war with dignity!"

We have already made contact with Bulgaria through the Germans, and now as long as the Russians do not let go, they will not give up Constantinople! ”

The Sultan said angrily: "Damn the Russians, they will always be so greedy!" Minister of War, tell me how you are going to fight the war that will follow? ”

The Minister of War, who was named, said in a trembling voice: "This~a~, judging from the current situation, the Russians have already come down personally, they disguised their soldiers as civilians, and then emigrated to Bulgaria, and now they are the main force attacking Constantinople!"

So, we actually didn't lose to the Balkan League, it was the Russians who really defeated us! ”

At the critical moment, the Minister of War had an idea and thought of throwing the blame to the Russians, anyway, it is impossible for the Sultan to verify with the Russians now!

Defeat to the Balkan League is unacceptable, but defeat to the Russians is normal!

Anyway, the Russian-Turkish war has been fought so many times, especially the last few heads-ups, and the Ottoman Empire basically lost!

After listening to the words of the Minister of War, the cunning Prime Minister immediately discovered the problem, but he did not debunk it, and now that the Balkan War had obviously been lost, he needed an acceptable reason.

It's just right to let the Russians carry the black pot, anyway, Russian-Turkish relations are not good, and I don't care about this more!

Besides, it's not that they were wronged, the Bulgarians' huge artillery was provided by them, not to mention the naval fleet, who doesn't know that it's the Black Sea Fleet of the Russians!

So he asked cooperatively: "How many troops do the Russians have in the Balkans, is it possible to continue to increase the number of troops, or is there any sign of an offensive in other areas?" ”

The Minister of War was dumbfounded, Khan! I'm just talking, just an excuse. What else can I say at this time, of course, I will continue to make it up!

"We don't know the exact number, but from 1891 to the present, in the past six or seven years, the Russians have successively emigrated to Bulgaria six or seven hundred thousand, and most of them are young and strong, and it is estimated that it will not be less than 450,000 Russian troops!

Judging by the current situation, they have the upper hand on the battlefield and will not increase their troops in the short term, and there is no sign of a direct war against us!

However, they have amassed a large number of troops on the border with us, which has restrained a large part of our forces, making it impossible to concentrate our strength, which is also one of the reasons for our defeat in the Balkan war! ”

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With the cooperation of the ministers of the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan was so fooled that he really thought that he had lost the Balkan War to the Russians, and he had no energy to settle accounts with them at the moment!

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However, Ferdinand, who was in the palace of Sofia, was not in a good mood right now, and the "Bulgarian Navy" refused his order!

Well, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet still gave him face, did not directly refuse, but offered to send a telegram to St. Petersburg and ask the Tsar to decide!

Ferdinand, who felt that his dignity had been insulted, had already blacklisted this navy in his heart.

If it weren't for the fact that the Battle of Constantinople was too important, he would have been ready to let the troops on the front line them and release water while suppressing the Ottoman shore artillery!

Enerdinand, stimulated, has decided to create a completely autonomous navy! Of course, now he is busy protesting to Nicholas II, who, according to the original agreement, also has command over this fleet!