"Your Majesty, our army is ready to land on the Asia Minor Peninsula at any time!" War Minister Popov said solemnly

"Your Majesty, our navy is also ready to cover the landing of the army at any time!" Admiral Minister Petrov added

Ferdinand knew that the military had long been impatient, and if it hadn't been for their own forced suppression, they would have done it a long time ago.

The contradictions between Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire have long been unable to ease, and it is undoubtedly the best choice to settle grievances in a world war. Now let the Ottomans make one last contribution, Ferdinand thought secretly.

"Well, Syria can be lost!" Ferdinand said lightly

He knew that the order could cost millions of lives, but politics was so cruel.

Now the Syrian region is different from the desolation of the Ottoman Empire, the first to arrive Greeks, later Romanians, Montenegrins, the total population has reached 3.18 million.

Among them, 1.78 million immigrants from Greece, 430,000 immigrants from the Kingdom of Montenegro, and the remaining 970,000 were Romanians.

If Bulgaria wants to defend, it can do it by arming them. Apparently Ferdinand would not have done this, and it was not in Bulgaria's interests.

Of course, it is impossible for Bulgaria to suddenly abandon Syria, which can easily be seen as flawed and cause unnecessary trouble.

Many of the immigrants who migrated from Montenegro were once supporters of the Ottoman Empire, and if they were given an opportunity to become the Belt, the defeat of the defenders would be logical!

In this regard, the intelligence department is more proficient, so the new commander of the Syrian garrison is Major General Vicky Clinton, who was born in the intelligence department, and his mission this time is to lose Syria within two months!

Well, losing a battle is unacceptable to any general, but for an agent in the intelligence services, it's nothing.

They have all encountered more bizarre tasks, but there is no way who let them meet Ferdinand, the boss? In later generations, he was baptized by the Internet, and naturally borrowed a lot of classic routines.

After the loss of Syria, the landing operation was launched, which Ferdinand decided after careful consideration. If you want to borrow a knife to kill someone, you have to give the enemy a chance to use the knife, right?

After the Ottomans took action, Bulgaria appeared as a savior, if not to resolve the contradictions with these immigrants, at least it could smoothly transfer some of the hatred.

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At the same time as letting Syria fall, the Bulgarian army also launched an attack on the Italian colony of Illitrea.

Oh, and after the outbreak of the world war, the Italian colonial government in Illitrea strangely declared neutrality.

Seeing that they were safe enough, and they were not a strategic location, the Entente did not seek their bad luck for a while, and now their good days are over.

Apparently they are all smart people, otherwise they would not have thought of such a strange means as declaring neutrality!

However, smart people also have the characteristic of being afraid of death, and as soon as the Bulgarian marines landed, they announced their surrender.

Of course, one cannot expect the thousands of Italian soldiers who are isolated abroad to be very effective.

In fact, it was not Ferdinand's intention to rob Illitrea, it was George I who took the initiative to ask for it. Jordan is really not a good place, there is nothing to do.

To be king in such a place is not for George I, who has unpaid ambitions. Even though he wasn't young anymore, he still wanted to fight.

Illitrea is different, not far from the Suez Canal, with easy maritime trade and on the African continent, far from the core of the European powers.

Next to Ethiopia, which was treated as fat by George I, effectively imitated Ferdinand's posture of overturning the Ottoman Empire, preparing to annex Ethiopia and establish a new empire.

In Ferdinand's view, this is another person who has been fooled by the "rise of a great power". In fact, Ferdinand's theory of the "rise of great powers" is still very popular all over the world, and there are really many people who believe in his theory.

George I, who can be said to have witnessed the rise of Bulgaria, was even more deeply moved, and naturally accepted this theory in the face of illness and rushed to the hospital.

By the way, he also used this theory to convince many elites among the Greeks, and the reality is in front of them, even if the Greek Peninsula is restored, it is destined to be a small thing, and there is no chance of becoming a strong country.

But the African continent is different, and once Greece annexes Ethiopia, the foundation of the great power is there, and the opportunity to revive Greece is at hand.

Of course, this is also the strange theory that in Europe, where people are more open-minded, people can leave their homeland and accept the strange theory that people can build where the country is.

Then the Greek government signed a territorial deal agreement with Bulgaria, that is, the Greek peninsula was exchanged for Illitrea, and considering the different levels of development on both sides, Bulgaria was responsible for helping Greece "relocate" as compensation.

The whole world was stunned, but given the European tradition, there were not a few cases of trading territories. It's just that in the past 100 years, this kind of nationwide migration has rarely happened.

Shock is shock, but now that the world war is raging, everyone has no time to pay attention to this little thing.

Anyway, everyone has long been mentally prepared for the annexation of the Greek Peninsula by Bulgaria, and now there are few Greeks left on the Greek Peninsula, and it is not surprising that the Greek government has made such a decision, and if it does not run, it will be completely annexed.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this is Bulgaria tossing around, and it has nothing to do with them anyway.

But in the eyes of politicians, the treaty provided a de jure basis for Bulgaria's annexation of the Greek peninsula. This has given many countries interested in expanding their territory on the European continent to see new opportunities.

Among them, the Germans and the French are the most interested, and their ambitions are the greatest.

The Spaniards seemed to be ready to make another such territorial deal with Portugal, but unfortunately the Portuguese decisively refused. Now Portugal had joined the Entente, which made the Spaniards afraid to act rashly.

No matter what the outside world thinks, George I has already taken the loan from Ferdinand and traveled to Illitrea to make a high-profile announcement of the re-establishment of the Greek kingdom.

With the withdrawal of the Greek government and the complete control of the Greek peninsula by Bulgaria, the first thing Ferdinand did was to find experts and scholars to change the name of the Greek peninsula.

This is not a small project, so many places in the future Ottoman Empire need to be renamed, which requires a lot of information to be checked and the theoretical basis for the name change to be written.

In any case, according to Ferdinand's request, it is necessary to find allusions if there are historical allusions, and make up allusions if there are no historical allusions, in short, to determine the legal inheritance rights of Bulgaria to these territories.

Prior to this, experts had already verified the legitimacy of Bulgaria in Asia Minor, which dates back to the 2nd century AD, although it has been a little longer, but it is enough to have it.

The main reason is that modern history is not easy to compile and easy to goof, but ancient history is difficult to verify. According to the logic of these verbal experts, it is possible that Bulgaria has de jure inheritance rights to most of Asia.

Anyway, they have more ancestors, and as a mixed-race race, they can inherit a lot of inheritance.

Of course, these theoretical bases are still being improved. According to Ferdinand's estimates, such true and false information should be able to drive later historians crazy!

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The re-establishment of the Greek kingdom still attracted a lot of talent, and the Greeks scattered around the world every day tried to find a way to return to the "new Greek kingdom".

Influenced by the theory of "the rise of great powers", this time everyone did not blame George I for cowardice, but thought that he had the courage to bring new hope to Greece.

George I was also black enough to throw out the pot of Greece's defeat in two wars and directly whitewash himself.

Even the blame for the Greco-Turkish war was pushed to the cabinet, accusing them of corruption, and withholding military salaries caused the Greek army to lose its combat effectiveness, so that Bulgaria could rise in one day.

The gambling agreement he signed with Ferdinand was completely fair, but unfortunately it failed because the government was too corrupt and the army's combat effectiveness was too poor.

If the Greek army also had the combat strength of the Bulgarian army, then now at least half of the Balkans would be Greek territory.

It is justified to say that, in fact, it is ready to emulate the Bulgarian system. "A king-centered constitutional monarchy", this is what the outside world says about Bulgaria!

This is the most confusing place for the outside world, and it is clear that Bulgaria also has a parliament, which is also democratically elected. But these parliamentarians have no intention of pointing fingers at the government, and they usually do what they should do.

It can only be said that these MPs do not care enough about politics, but with their laissez-faire, Bulgaria is still developing very well, even more stable than any other country.

This made many politicians envious, and for their own interests, they naturally hoped that the parliament would follow Bulgaria's example, and they usually preached the superiority of the Bulgarian system.

The current Greek government is all close to George I, and as for the original batch of moths, he naturally wiped them all, and the stolen money seized was used by him as funds for the reconstruction of the Greek kingdom.

Coupled with the enthusiastic young people who came from all over the world, the new Greek kingdom had a scene of prosperity and prosperity, and Ferdinand was dumbfounded.

Is the theory of the rise of a great power really feasible? Of course, this will take time to prove, but George I is a good start to this theory.

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After breaking free from Bulgarian control and coming to Illitrea, George I had a feeling that the sky was high and the birds were flying, and the whole person felt like he was ten years younger.

"Prime Minister, how is the immigration going?" George I asked with concern

The Prime Minister said energetically: "Your Majesty, everything is going well, since the re-establishment of the Greek kingdom, in just over a month, we have received more than 10,000 immigrants.

And judging from the information from all over the world, Greeks all over the world are willing to support us in rebuilding the Greek kingdom, and many people are unable to come through due to the world war.

If nothing else, the number of immigrants will increase significantly after the end of the world war.

At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reached an agreement with Bulgaria to repatriate all Greeks from the Syrian region. It won't be long before we can rebuild our army and conquer Ethiopia and establish the Great Greek Kingdom! ”

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