Section 627 Who is the biggest loser?
The current situation of the war has determined that since neither side wants to be wasted on needlessly, no matter how fierce the negotiations are and how the two sides argue on the basis of legal and historical reasoning, the final result will not be much worse, that is, a ceasefire with the area of actual control as the border.
Thus, the principality of Wallachia within the Balkan Empire received the principality of Moldova that they occupied, temporarily relinquishing some of the occupied mountainous lands on the edge of the Transylvanian plateau. Although, according to the Wallachians, they refused to give up an inch of the land where the Wallachians lived, but they could also accept the relinquishment of the mountainous lands that had no economic value, but only strategic value, when they had acquired the Principality of Moldova and were no longer able to continue to seize Transylvania. The Emperor also promised that if given the chance, the Empire would still regain lost territory for Wallachia.
In fact, this is another Balkan Emperor Zhou Chenggong to play a power trick, if the argument is argued, in fact, it is possible to hold all the land in hand, but he did not want to help the Wallachians fight a war that was too costly for a long time, if he guarded those mountain passes that allowed Wallachia to occupy an absolute strategic position, it was easy to arouse the ambitions of the Wallachians, and the war would be endless.
Using Transylvania to hook the Wallachians forced them to continue to insist on staying in the Empire, instead of recovering all the lost territories, and then turning their attention to the internal struggle within the Empire, fighting for power with Bulgaria and Greece, so that they have a piece of land that they have not recovered, but it is difficult to recover, that is, hanging on a bone that they can see but cannot bite.
The Emperor also received a small piece of land from the Wallachian government, with the river port of Galati along the Danube as the center, and the three counties around the confluence of the Prut, Siret and Danube rivers as the emperor's direct domain, nominally for economic development, modeled after the Athens district of Greece.
Through his supporters, the emperor told the Wallachian government that due to the occupation of the Black Sea coast by the Kingdom of Dobroga, the Principality of Wallachia had in fact become a country without access to the sea, which was very detrimental to the economic development, and that the three counties were included in the Emperor's domain, and the financial revenue generated by the collection of the three counties could offset the finances of Wallachia to the Empire, and the influence of the Emperor himself made it easier for Wallachia to enter and exit the Black Sea through here, after all, the king of the Kingdom of Dobroga was the emperor's nephew.
As for the emperor's ability to manage the region and develop the economy, no one doubts that the Athens district is an example, now the most developed industrial region in Greece, with a population of 3 million people, accounting for half of the whole of Greece, but generating more than eighty percent of the tax revenue of the whole of Greece, and every year the finances of the Athens district offset the imperial finances paid by Greece, and a large surplus is transferred to the government of the Kingdom of Greece.
By supporting Bulgaria's seizure of Western Wallachia, the Emperor also got Bulgaria to agree to include Burgas, the country's only outlet to the Black Sea, and the only one currently in its possession, into the Emperor's direct domain.
Zhou Chenggong is actually a chicken thief, the places he wants are the easiest areas to develop economically, not to mention the Athens district of Greece, but it is very difficult for Bulgaria and Wallachia to put the capital under the direct command of the emperor, but it is not so politically sensitive to their ports and areas that may become commodity distribution, and it is really easier to develop.
To put it bluntly, the three countries are his territories, and his purpose is only to strengthen the emperor's control over the local government through the development of the territories directly under him, so that the three kingdoms are more and more inseparable from the domination of the empire.
With the development of the Athens region over the years, the land for industrial development has been depleted, and the capital has begun to be exported abroad, which is currently mainly transferred to the Saseloniki region. The emperor has the ability to transfer a part of the Athenian capital to Burgas and Galati, so that the development of the emperor's direct territory will be faster, and the economic status of the emperor's direct territory in various countries will be greatly increased.
In fact, Wallachia doesn't have to worry about it, there is such a dog bone in Transylvania hanging from the Wallachians, but Bulgaria got their long-awaited check payment in this war, and the Danube plain of West Wallachia will give Bulgaria great satisfaction. They lost their ambition and dependence on the Empire, which made it relatively difficult to keep Bulgaria within the Balkan Empire. So the emperor began to focus on supporting the development of Burgas, which was the only part of the Balkan Empire located in the Black Sea, which was actually very promising.
The emperor decided to use the railway network of Greece, Wallachia and Bulgaria to pass through here, so that it could be used as the empire's outlet to the sea in the Black Sea, and obtain the material support of the entire empire to speed up its development.
The Balkan Emperor was confident and ambitious, and he felt that his empire was just getting started. As a result of this war, the territory of the Balkans was greatly increased, the territory was already twice the size of Italy, and the population increased by more than 5 million, making the Balkan Empire a large country with a population of 18 million.
It can be called the biggest winner of this war.
There are winners and losers,
Austria-Hungary lost badly, the Venetian region was lost to Italy, and West Wallachia was lost to Bulgaria.
Originally, the conditions for their entry into the war were that Konstantin transferred sovereignty over the principality of Moldova to Austria-Hungary, as a result of which most of Moldova was annexed to the principality of Wallachia, and the southern Black Sea coast was annexed to the Kingdom of Dobroga.
Some of the benefits that Austria-Hungary gained back in the negotiations were that they and the Balkan Empire succeeded in ceding the northern foothills of the Carpathian Mountains with the Carpathian Mountains as the boundary between the Balkan Empire, and the two sides were bounded by a watershed.
Is Austria-Hungary the biggest loser, in fact, it is not, the biggest loser is, of course, Russia.
After intense negotiations, both the Tsaress and Konstantin's representatives insisted that they were the legitimate Tsars of Russia. All claimed sovereignty over the entire Russian Empire.
Not only did this lead to a de facto division of Russia, but the Tsaress, in order to withdraw the Polish army from Russian territory, was forced to accept the cession of all of Lithuania and half of Latvia to Poland in exchange for Poland's withdrawal from occupied Latvia and Estonia and Russian territory, which was roughly relocated from the Neman River to the Daugava River, although Russia succeeded in retaining the upper Belarusian region.
The Tsar and Konstantin were at odds with each other for a title, and both sides had to accept a cease-fire agreement. The two sides have an indefinite ceasefire on the basis of the current occupied territories. But this is not a peace agreement, and war can break out at any time when both sides believe that the other is illegal, but neither side has yet found a way to break the stalemate.
Thus a divided situation was basically formed, in which Konstantin controlled Ukraine and the female tsar controlled the rest of Russia, a persistently divided and hostile Russia would be even worse than having either the female tsar and Konstantin rule the whole of Russia.
Russia will be caught in a protracted process of internal confrontation, similar to East and West Germany and North and South Korea, which will inevitably rely on each other for the support of major powers, and will never be at peace!
Such a Russia, as the biggest loser, has completely withdrawn from the arena of great power competition, and Russia, which is suffering from internal friction, will no longer have any conditions for external expansion, whether it is a threat to China or Germany.
China didn't care, but for Germany, they successfully defused the risk of a joint Franco-Russian attack, and further strengthened Poland's alliance with the Kingdom of Prussia, so that the Poles could see that there was meat to eat with Germany.
It's just that the seeds of the Anglo-German contradiction have even sprouted in this way.
Because at the conference, Britain opposed Poland's seizure of Russian territory, and Britain even suspected that Bismarck's diplomatic actions were aimed at expanding Germany's territory with the help of Poland, after all, Poland, which formed the United Kingdom with Prussia, was originally regarded as a member of the quasi-German Empire.
In fact, even if Poland did not occupy an inch of Russian land, after this war, Britain would still feel that Germany was wrong. Because after the division of Russia, Germany had no balance in Central Europe, one plus Poland, the total population was as high as 60 million, almost double that of France with a population of 36 million, and Austria-Hungary, a country that was weakening but still had a certain strength, and Germany had no power to compete with on the road to Europe.
In this case, whether Britain will continue to maintain the Anglo-German alliance against China and let Britain and China continue to have a little chance of victory in the world hegemony, or whether they will support France against Germany and let the crisis of European control under a powerful country not occur, even if the British do not make a choice, they will inevitably gradually distance themselves from Germany and gradually begin to guard against Germany, and the seeds of discord between the two countries will grow bigger and bigger.
It only takes a moment of intensification for the contradiction to turn into confrontation.
In the autumn of that year, a few months after the Berlin Conference, a revolution broke out in Spain against the long-unpopular Queen Isabella, who was expelled by the reformers and exiled to France.
After a few months of consolidation of forces within Spain, General Juan Prime, Francisco Serrano and Juan Bautista Topet took power and formed a three-member coalition government, which was followed by the convening of the Constituent Assembly. The Constituent Assembly retained the Spanish monarchy, and its first task was to select a king for Spain.
The Spanish triumvirate was really a master of stirring trouble, they valued Prince Leopold of the Hohenzollern family, and it was they who valued Leopold in history, and in the end Leopold was persuaded by the King of Prussia to give up his inheritance, but the Franco-Prussian War broke out. In the end, France was blown up, and Spain casually found an Italian prince to be king, and it was not affected at all.
In this history, they are also considering Prince Leopold, of course, they have more than one candidate, the reason for being optimistic about Leopold, that is, there are similarities with history, that is, they think that this person is talented, and there is an important factor, in this history, Prince Leopold is already the king of Mexico, if he becomes the king of Spain, it means that Mexico, which has begun to be valuable under the management of the Germans, can return to the arms of the Spanish Empire!
The Spaniards had not yet been confirmed, but they contacted Leopold privately, but the news spread and immediately caused an uproar in Europe.
Countries had to face the terrifying possibility that German power, already in Europe, could take over the vast colonial legacy of the Spanish Empire!