It didn't last long, and Nicholas II decided to compromise, leaving the Crimean Peninsula with little real value, except for saving some face.

There was no longer any possibility of developing into the Mediterranean, and leaving the Crimean Peninsula behind would only make Bulgaria more jealous of the Russian Empire, and even prevent the unification of the Russian Empire for fear of conflict with them if Russia became stronger.

Although this possibility will be very small, he still does not intend to take risks, the priority is to unify the Russian Empire, for which no matter how big the benefits are, Nicholas II will not hesitate!

Having received a telegram from St. Petersburg, Sasonov breathed a sigh of relief and at the same time sighed, which meant that the Russian Empire had begun to decline.

As a diplomat, he knows better than anyone that "a weak country has no diplomacy", and now the Russian Empire has declined, even if the whole country is unified, because of the factor of war, it is not so simple for them to catch up with the world's advanced level again!

If it weren't for the good diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Russia, perhaps now Chekov would not have personally talked to him, but sent a deputy to negotiate with him.

This is also a common norm in the field of diplomacy, the principle of reciprocity between countries, negotiations between countries of the same grade, and the level of the two sides is as consistent as possible.

When negotiating with a weaker country, the powerful country will send diplomats of a lower rank, but in the position of negotiators, the strong country still occupies an absolute advantage.

Negotiations began again, and now the controversy is the price, and Sasonov said: "Mr. Metyev, the Strait of 44,000 square kilometers and the Crimean Peninsula are 25,000 square kilometers, and considering the special geographical location of the two places, our offer of 5 billion leva is not high!" ”

Metyev retorted: "Mr. Sasonov, the added value you have calculated is too high, the economic value of Sarabia and the Crimean Peninsula is less than a billion leva, and the annual revenue of your country in these two places is less than fifteen million leva.

Of course, I didn't calculate the customs duties, the Crimean Peninsula is one of the main import and export ports of your country, and it is impossible for us to collect customs duties from your country.

The main source of income in both regions is agriculture, but the fertile land is owned and the value of the land can be doubled if you can turn it into terra nullius! ”

Sasonov shook his head and said: "Mr. Metyev, this is impossible, the ownership of the land is not something we can change, and if your country buys it back, can you directly confiscate the land and mines of the original owner, and the economic value will not come out?"

In addition to economic value, we also need to consider strategic value, right? Isn't Bessarabia worth three billion levits if it makes your country's defense line on land impregnable, and the Crimean Peninsula allows your country to directly turn the Black Sea into an inland sea? ”

Metyev smiled bitterly and said: "Mr. Sasonov, what a joke, how can we confiscate other people's private property for no reason?" So these economic values you are talking about do not exist!

I have already said the strategic value, and we can rest assured in the hands of your country! Instead of spending a lot of money to buy them back, it is better to stay in your hands, we can't afford to buy this strategic value of three billion leva, which is equivalent to 878.4 tons of gold! ”

Sasonov sighed, the current situation is that Bulgaria is dragging it up, but the Russian Empire can't afford it.

For Bulgaria, there is no essential difference between the two places to start a day earlier and a day later.

But for Nicholas II, the sooner you get the money, the sooner you can complete the unification of the country, it's not a concept!

"Well, Mr. Metyev, let's make concessions, how about four billion leva, this price is not high!" Sasonov said embarrassedly

Metyev smiled and said: "The economic value we value at one billion leva, which is already a lot overestimated, if you want to make a detailed assessment, maybe it is not enough!"

The strategic value has not yet been reflected, and I have no way to convince the congressional elders with this reason.

You may not know that when our Congress was discussing financial policy, the government proposed to open up the stock market, but not only did it not succeed, but Congress instead introduced a more stringent financial policy, and Congress decided to ban the stock market forever, and even enacted a law!

Therefore, we will pay a maximum of 500 million leva for this strategic value, otherwise we will not be able to pass the congressional hurdle! ”

Metjev did not hesitate to introduce the Reichstag as a shield, and confused the concept, giving Sasonnov a false perception that Reichstag = stubbornly old-fashioned.

If you take a closer look at the policy recently adopted by Bulgaria, he will find that this is pure nonsense, for the sake of a Persian Gulf, Bulgaria has invested nearly 20 billion leva before and after, and the Congress has not paid enough attention to strategy?

It's a pity that Sasonov didn't have time to study it, these policies had just been introduced, and they hadn't had time to be announced, maybe they had already appeared on the Russians' materials, but he hadn't had time to see them.

Sasonov thought for a while and said: "Impossible, this price is too low, the minimum is three billion leva, if it is lower than this, it is impossible for the Russian Empire to accept it!" ”

Metyev thought for a while and said: "Then it's a pity, the Bulgarian government can't offer such a sky-high price, and I don't think anyone in the world will pay such a sky-high price to buy it!"

The last offer, we can only pay a maximum of 1.8 billion leva, beyond this price there is no negotiation! ”

Obviously, Metev has nothing to fear, the geographical location is decided, the whole world is only one buyer in Bulgaria, if Bulgaria does not pay this price, naturally no one can bid again!

The conditions are far from the same, and the first round of negotiations ended unhappily, and we can only wait for the second round to begin.

On the other hand, the results of Bulgaria's 10-year plan have also been announced, which has relieved the world's political leaders that there is no plan to expand the army, and at most the number of air force academies, naval academies, and army academies will be increased.

However, these are minor problems, and as long as they are not directly expanding armaments and warfare, adding some military schools is not worth mentioning at all.

In contrast, Bulgaria's financial policy has been directly criticized as "the stronghold of conservatives around the world".

There are a lot of restrictions on opening banks, the stock market is directly banned by congressional legislation, and countless international capitalists are angry.

Is there a problem with this operation, and there is a problem with the director's script? Isn't it good to talk about open finance? Is this also called openness? What exactly is open, how did I not find out?

No matter what they think, how they criticize it, this is approved by the Bulgarian Congress, and it has already been signed by Ferdinand, and the new financial law has entered into force.

On the other hand, Bulgaria is calm, the people are applauding, and the stricter the bank management, the more secure their money is.

Stock market? In the impression of most of them, it is a "stock market crash"!

Since the closure of the stock market, Bulgaria's economy has been developing very well for more than 20 years, and no economic crisis has broken out in Bulgaria, no matter how the international economy changes.

In that case, why do you need the stock market? Make money by buying stocks, but unfortunately the Bulgarian people say that if they can make money, who would be so stupid to sell their shares?

And the biggest supporter of the ban on the stock market was actually the Bulgarian bourgeoisie, on the one hand, the relationship between family businesses, and on the other hand, the two major ideas in society at that time!

Real economy vs virtual economy, this problem has continued until Li Mu crossed, but in the later generations, the real economy has been suppressed and dying, and the mainstream has long become a virtual economy with higher profits.

But now Bulgaria is different, it is still the real economy that dominates, and the experts, scholars and capitalists who support this school of ideas have the most important voice in society.

Their growth has nothing to do with Ferdinand's covert support, including his vest industry, which is a die-hard supporter of this theory.

Ferdinand did this for no other reason, it was entirely due to the development needs of Bulgaria, and the money in society was limited.

In a society dominated by the real economy, most of this money goes to industry; On the contrary, in a society dominated by the virtual economy, the money enters the virtual economy.

Why did the French turn into a usury empire? Do you really think that if you are a French capitalist, you are born to engage in finance?

It is not yet under the trend of interests, gradually evolved, no matter what, the rate of return on investment in industry is unlikely to rise several times or dozens of times within a year, but finance can!

The high rate of return attracted a large inflow of capital, and eventually the French economy was hijacked by finance, and in the mid-to-late 19th century, it began to decline.

From the perspective of a bystander, Ferdinand believed that if the French economy had not been transformed in the 19th century, and that real industry had been developed, there would have been nothing to do with the Germans!

A large number of industries can raise a large number of jobs, so that the French mainland can accommodate more people, without this deviation, France's total economic output may not be much higher than now, but the industrial strength is at least three or five times that of now, and the total population may be twice as much as it is now, or even more!

In the face of such a France, Germany did not even have a chance to rise, and Prussia could not challenge their hegemony on the European continent.

Now Bulgaria is also in the same period of the last century, the French are in the same period, there is no foreign enemy in the short term, and a clear direction of socio-economic development is needed.

There is no doubt that Ferdinand chose industry, and the Bulgarian people also chose industry, so it is necessary to suppress other virtual economies.

Ferdinand didn't want to try things to test the discipline of capitalists, in fact, he didn't think that capitalists would have discipline, it was best not to give them the opportunity to become bad!

Now Bulgaria's industrial strength has surpassed the French by a quarter, but in terms of economic aggregate, the French have surpassed Bulgaria by a quarter, so you know how big the moisture of this virtual economy is!

A company worth 1 million leva can become a business worth 10 million leva in the stock market, or it can become a business worth 100 million leva.

The valuation has become higher, the money in the society has also increased, in fact, the value of the enterprise itself has not changed, and it is still only worth a million leva.

If the capitalists are disciplined, they will take the financing and bring in one or two million funds to continue to expand the enterprise, but this possibility is almost zero.

Because, seeing that there is nothing to do as a middleman, and the company worth one million is speculated to 100 million, they only get millions of funds, while the financial speculators have obtained tens of millions of profits, can they still do business with peace of mind?

When hot money flows into finance, it will push up the stock market again, and finally the economic crisis will collapse and repeat.

This is the theory provided to Ferdinand by economists who support the real economy, so believe it!

Ferdinand may not know anything else, but he knows one thing very well: a million leva is a number in finance, but investing in industry can add hundreds of jobs.

If the number of jobs in society increases, then the country will be stable, everyone will have a job and an income, everyone's life will be better, and no one will come to make him the king's rebellion!

This is a very realistic question!

Therefore, conservatives are conservatives, anyway, this is the most practical national policy for Bulgaria, and as soon as the ten-year plan is completed, Bulgaria is likely to become the world's first industrial power.

Although it is not the first economic power, it doesn't matter, when the industry develops to a certain extent, a new round of industrial revolution will break out.

At present, the new industrial revolution is most likely to break out in Bulgaria, the oil age is coming, Bulgaria has already taken the lead, why rush out to compete with the British?

Just use the hat of the world's first economic power to paralyze the attention of the British, especially after they increased the three kingdoms of North America, the total economic volume of the British Commonwealth on the surface far exceeds the sum of the two countries, so let them continue to be proud!

Farming, farming, farming, for the next twenty years, there was only one core mission for Bulgaria – farming.

Ferdinand did not intend to do anything to destroy the current world order, and the Germans were already helping to destroy the industry of the British Empire.

Every year, free industrial goods worth up to two or three billion pounds pour into the British Empire, and the British people and capitalists will have a good time in the next decade.

Similarly, the British Empire would have physical factories worth hundreds of millions of pounds and would be forced to close their doors, and no matter how hard they tried, it would be impossible to reduce the cost of production to the price of German products.

The industrial products for which the Germans now paid war reparations were grossly undervalued, and most of them were valued at less than half of their counterparts on the market.

The soaring prices in Britain and France due to the war had finally been quelled, and once these cheap goods were gone, Ferdinand doubted that they would be able to survive.

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