In any case, the Ottoman government's procrastination and imbecility, like Ferdinand, did not ask for trouble!

Returning to China, the "Second Five-Year Plan" is still in full swing, and by 1895, many projects have achieved phased victories!

With the investment of the Bulgarian government, heavy industries such as steel mills and arsenals have achieved leapfrog development!

In 1895, Bulgaria produced 150,000 tons of steel per year, including 48,000 tons of steel and 102,000 tons of iron!

The arsenal can now do it: an average of 500 new rifles (water beads), 15 machine guns, 1.5 75mm rapid-fire field guns (Italian guns or Miss France), 500,000 bullets, and 2,000 shells!

The heavy 150mm howitzer has also been successfully copied, and the production capacity is still forgotten, this is not something that Bulgaria can afford to play now, just make a few out to fill the façade!

The steel plant has reached its limit for the time being, and if you want to continue to break through, you can only wait for Bulgaria to obtain sufficient mineral resources after the Balkan War!

The pace of expansion of the arsenal has not stopped for a moment. According to the requirements of the military, the production capacity of rifles and machine guns needs to be doubled, the artillery production capacity will be increased by one-third, and the ammunition production capacity will be expanded by five times!

According to the plan, by the end of 1896, Bulgaria should be able to arm 40 divisions, totaling more than 600,000 troops, and have strategic material reserves to meet the needs of continuous operations for half a year.

According to the calculations of the military, the reserve of ammunition must not be less than 1 billion rounds, and the reserve of artillery shells must not be less than 10 million. No way, who called Bulgaria equipped with all gold-swallowing beasts?

The Mark core heavy machine gun, known as the master who can shoot 600 rounds a minute, showed his power in the Baosai War.

After the tireless efforts of the Arsenal engineers (copycat imitation), the weight of the success was reduced by one-fifth, and the other performance was still not much improved.

It was still liked by the military, and in one breath, an order was placed for 10,000 units for the arsenal, each machine gun was equipped with 50,000 rounds of ammunition, which is 500 million, and the rest was rifles!

War is not far away, and Ferdinand does not expect a technological breakthrough now! If the quality is not good, the quantity will be made up, anyway, the opponent is the Ottoman Empire, and it is not an industrial power!

Not to mention the Bulgarian Type 75 rapid-fire gun (Miss France), how can a rapid-fire gun do it if the rate of fire is not fast? The corresponding rate of fire is fast, which naturally means that the shell consumption is fast, with a rate of 15 rounds per minute, the rate of fire far exceeds that of traditional artillery!

According to Ferdinand's plan, the main division of the first class was equipped with 32 guns, and the new division of the second class was equipped with 24 guns. In addition, five heavy artillery regiments were formed, each equipped with 72 artillery pieces of various calibers.

Regardless of the quality, in terms of firepower alone, at the division level it has caught up with two-thirds of the French Army in the First World War, and of course it is still far from it overall!

Well, who told Ferdinand to set strategic goals so high? Regardless of the military's request, whether it is a lion opening his mouth or not, he must be close to completing it with all his might!

In this regard, it has been unanimously agreed by the top level of the Bulgarian government. In any case, winning this war is the most important task for Bulgaria now!

Thousands of artillery pieces, tens of thousands of machine guns, much stronger than the war between the British and the Boers in South Africa! These are Ferdinand's biggest confidence in challenging the Ottoman Empire and swallowing the Balkans!

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At the annual stock-taking meeting, Ferdinand was in a good mood, and for Bulgaria, 1895 was another good year!

In terms of population, Bulgaria still maintains a high rate of growth, with a natural population growth rate of 2.73% excluding new immigrants, with an additional population of about 110,000.

In fact, 1895 was another year of great Bulgarian migration, and there was a shortage of labor for the development of new land. In order to develop the Niš region as soon as possible, the Bulgarian government brought in a total of 242,000 immigrants throughout the year.

By the end of 1895, the actual population of Bulgaria had exceeded 4.3 million, of which 3.948 million had Bulgarian nationality, and most of the rest were new immigrants, who did not meet the conditions for obtaining citizenship!

In agriculture, land annexation has been curbed. By the end of 1895, the country had a total cultivated land area of 41,300 square kilometers, and the per capita cultivated land area remained at a high level of 0.95 hectares!

65% of this is scattered among more than 2.3 million yeoman farmers; The Bulgarian government is the largest landowner, holding 29% of the country's arable land; The remaining 6 percent are owned by the landlords, and the new military class accounts for a considerable proportion of them!

Total agricultural production, an increase of 18 percent over 1894. The main reason is the increase in the area of cultivated land, the popularization of new technologies, the construction of water conservancy projects, and many other factors.

With the development of the new territories, Bulgarian agriculture will continue to grow at a high rate in the coming years!

At the same time, the core problem that restricts the development of Bulgaria's agriculture - the decentralized use of land - has not been solved!

The point is that Ferdinand has no intention of solving it now, mainly because the land annexation will cause the peasants to go bankrupt, easily cause social contradictions, and undermine the stability and unity of Bulgaria!

At the end of the 19th century, when the material base was not abundant, Ferdinand lowered the agricultural tax, and for quite some time, the difference between the income levels of the peasant class and the working class was not large!

In terms of living standards, many peasants with lower incomes have surpassed workers, and the difference between industry and agriculture is not so obvious in the short term.

As for the future, let's talk about it then! Anyway, maintaining social stability now will contribute to the rapid growth of the population, and it can also be prepared for war to the greatest extent!

"Military merit" is the most effective way for the Bulgarian people to go to the upper echelons of society and become the ruling class!

At the end of 1895, there were 318 large and small enterprises in Bulgaria, employing 897,600 workers and total assets of 1.75 billion leva!

Among them, there are 15 large enterprises with total assets of more than 30 million leva, with the Royal Bank topping the list with total assets of 350 million leva, followed by the Bulgarian State Railways with total assets of 280 million leva.

There are also Shuanghui Food Group, United Commercial Bank, Bulgarian National Bank, Bulgarian Iron and Steel Plant, Bulgarian Machinery Factory, Bulgarian Arsenal and other enterprises, all of which are on the list!

The 15 giants together employ a total of 685,000 people, including 342,000 workers at the Bulgarian National Railways! The total assets are as high as 1.58 billion leva, and the total assets of the remaining more than 300 enterprises add up to less than 200 million.

Monopoly capital already accounts for 90% of Bulgaria's total industry and commerce, and most of the other enterprises live around this group of giants!

Except for the three major banks, the others are all real industries. Among them, the three state-owned enterprises of the Bulgarian Railway Company, the steel plant, and the arsenal have been in a state of loss.

Well, in fact Ferdinand was ready to divest the road from the railway company, but after considering the actual situation, he gave up.

If the railway company is a bright future and a loss in the early stage; Then the road project alone, it is estimated that even if it waits until the next century, it will still be a loss, and it will be a huge loss!

Now the performance of the car is very tight, on average, it runs thirty or forty kilometers, and it has to be repaired once, and the performance is very unstable, not to mention any comfort!

Now on the road, it is still a horse-drawn carriage. As for collecting tolls, forget it! The cost of transportation is high, and if you scrape another layer, do you want to develop the economy?