Chapter 74 is another transaction

Looking at the current world war, Ferdinand could no longer find a familiar feeling. History has been changed beyond recognition by his butterfly effect, and the future direction has become more and more blurred.

If nothing else, the Battle of Verdun will be started in advance, and the time of the world war has obviously been postponed!

While Ferdinand was meditating, the active Kingdom of Montenegro jumped out to do something again.

It may be that seeing that Romania is about to end, Nicholas I also knows the truth of the cold lips and teeth, and is worried that after Romania is finished, it will be their turn next, and he took the initiative to attack and contain the Bulgarian forces.

"Your Majesty, the Kingdom of Montenegro launched a sneak attack on the Kosovo region last night, which was blocked by the defenders, and this morning they launched another attack in the Albanian region." The Chief of the General Staff reported back to Ferdinand

Ferdinand nodded, it is normal for the Kingdom of Montenegro to make some moves, as far as their little arms and legs are concerned, they dare to jump out now, once Bulgaria takes it seriously, it is estimated that Nicholas I will immediately retract.

Anyway, with the small strength of the Montenegrin Kingdom, it is unlikely that it will pose much of a threat to Bulgaria, and Ferdinand will not bother to pay attention.

"How's the war going in Romania?" Ferdinand asked with concern

The Chief of the General Staff replied: "It is not going very well, the Romanians are resisting more fiercely than we thought, inflicting great casualties on our troops.

The Romanian aristocracy and capitalists feared that we would confiscate their property, so they spontaneously organized the population to regularly attack our transport lines.

However, all their resistance is in vain, and if nothing else, the Wallachian plain will be captured by us in half a month at most.

Now that we have completed the siege of Bucharest, the Romanian government has moved its capital to St. Georgi.

Moreover, the Russians also conquered Bakwu, and the Kingdom of Romania had actually lost half of its territory, and without the intervention of external forces, the Romanian government would be in exile for two months at most. ”

Ferdinand nodded with satisfaction, as long as the strategic goal can be completed, some casualties are no longer in his heart, anyway, most of the casualties are cannon fodder, and it is a big deal to pay a pension!

However, the stubborn resistance of the Romanians worried him. This means that after this war, there will be a blood feud between the two peoples, and trying to assimilate the Romanians in this context is tantamount to a fool's dream!

You don't have to think that Ferdinand also knew that Bulgaria must have been hacked too badly by the Romanian nobles, otherwise ordinary people would not have jumped out and fought with the Bulgarian army!

The rule of the Romanian government is not so harmonious, and how can it be possible to unite with the government when peasant uprisings break out every now and then?

It's a pity that everyone's language and culture are different, otherwise it would be a pot pulp to welcome the king!

"Support the Belt and Road Party, let them deal with their own people. And exile the entire family of everyone who participated in the resistance to the Syrian region! Ferdinand thought for a moment and said

War Minister Popov objected: "Your Majesty, now the Ottoman Empire is attacking the Syrian region, and our troops on the ground are limited, and the army of the Greeks, organized on the spot, has a limited combat effectiveness.

Get the Romanians over at this time, they will certainly not be so peaceful, and it will make it more difficult for us to rule! ”

Ferdinand smiled slightly, most of the current army bigwigs are not very politically minded, and many times they will ask ridiculous questions, which is also something that cannot be helped.

For example, Popov, who climbed from an ordinary soldier to the high position of Minister of War, can also be said to have opened his life all the way.

In fact, his military life was not smooth until he was thirty years old, and even in the First Bulgarian War, when he commanded the army to defeat the Serbs, he still had the rank of captain.

You can see how his political acumen is, if it weren't for the time when Ferdinand cultivated his cronies after succeeding to the throne, he caught up with the good times and stood out with his outstanding military command ability, and now he would have retired in obscurity, as in history.

Although his position has risen to the top, this political acumen has not made much progress, but Ferdinand has never cared about this.

In his view, loyalty comes first, followed by ability. And loyal and capable subordinates, this is not easy to find, and some shortcomings can only be tolerated.

Ferdinand said calmly: "Haven't we already decided to give up Syria? As soon as the last migrants from the Greek peninsula arrive, we will temporarily abandon Syria, do you need to worry about the restlessness of the Romanians? ”

After saying that, Ferdinand thought again of the Black Sea straits, which had been blocked since the outbreak of the world war, the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus.

The Ottomans, who shouted earth-shattering slogans, did not foolishly storm Constantinople, in addition to blocking the strait with shore artillery, they also dropped mines into the strait from time to time.

This is completely different from Ferdinand's image of Turkey. It was also because of this that Bulgaria's landing operation on the peninsula of Asia Minor was delayed.

However, this time will not be delayed for long, the Russians in the Caucasus have already fought the Ottomans in two rounds, and the government of St. Petersburg has repeatedly urged Bulgaria to send troops to the Asia Minor peninsula.

Popov thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, in that case, why don't we get more Romanians over?"

The Entente countries have a large number of ships passing through the Suez Canal every day, and most of their return trips are empty anyway, so it's not a problem for us to coordinate and let them take a little detour and help us piggyback on some people. ”

A word to wake up the dreamer! The reason why Bulgaria did not move fast enough when sending out the Greeks was due to a lack of capacity.

Bulgaria's ship capacity is limited, but the Entente's ship capacity is large enough! Anyway, they are all empty boats, let them run a few hundred miles more and earn an extra freight, presumably these capitalists will not refuse!

It doesn't need much, as long as one-fifth of the ships are willing to help carry people, on average, tens of thousands of people can be packed and taken away every day. As for whether the conditions will be too bad for pulling people on cargo ships, these are not in Ferdinand's consideration.

As long as these ships pulled people away from Bulgarian ports, he would pay, and Ferdinand would not have asked whether they had reached their destination or not.

If these capitalists were ruthless enough to pull them out and sell them as slaves, or even wipe them off directly, Ferdinand would pretend not to see them.

Anyway, it was the time of the world war, and it was completely understandable that Bulgaria did not regulate foreign ships in place.

Ferdinand thought for a moment and said, "Well, you're right! This is also a way, so that the battle with the Romanians does not have to end in such a hurry.

Conduct military control over all the occupied areas, then clean up the area by area, and pack up all the hostile elements for me and send them away!

In addition, the war against the Kingdom of Montenegro can also start in advance, and the local people can also follow this method! ”

Of course, this approach only works in the sparsely populated Balkans. The mobilization of all countries was a national army, and almost every household participated in the resistance, and Ferdinand could use this as an excuse to exile them.

If you run into a country with a large population, you will be blind. Not only are there no places to be settled, but many people are not directly involved in this war at all, so you can't exile them for no reason, right?

Even if you don't care about international public opinion in this era, the basic rules of the European region must always be followed, right?

The reason why the Russians have been ostracized by European countries is that they have always been regarded by European countries as a spokesman for rule-breakers, and Ferdinand did not want Bulgaria to follow in their footsteps.

Fortunately, it was the time of the world war, and the eyes of the whole world were focused on the battlefield, and no one noticed the small movements of Bulgaria, and Ferdinand could still trade interests with the Entente.

Didn't the French need Bulgaria to launch an attack in southern Italy to contain their forces, no problem! Taranto's army should not be in a hurry to withdraw first, and stay to attract the Italians!

Didn't the British need Bulgaria to send troops to defend the Suez Canal, and that's no problem! Ferdinand said that Bulgaria would immediately send five divisions to deal with the Ottoman minor problems!

It's almost the same to get Britain and France, and the right to speak in the world in this era is in their hands, like Japan and the United States, they have no right to speak.

Besides, compared to the black history, these two are a hundred times more than what Bulgaria is doing now, so what qualifications do they have to blame?

Well, Ferdinand or the idea of later generations is too heavy, the Ottomans are engaged in genocide, and I don't see what the countries say, let alone Bulgaria to exile some "war criminals"?

For Britain and France, it is now the first thing to take out the Germans. It has been more than three months since the outbreak of the war, and so far the two sides are still evenly divided.

The Entente had burned the war to Italy and Austria-Hungary proper, and the Germans had also advanced the front to Verdun, with no prospect of victory in the short term.

In order to help the French hold the line, the few land forces of the British also sent 200,000 troops to quickly reinforce the Verdun battlefield.

At the same time, Britain and France were forming a large number of colonial troops, ready to be pulled to the front to be cannon fodder. In this context, they are all too busy to take care of themselves, who cares about the life and death of Romanians?

Didn't you see, the Romanian government didn't ask for help from the international community? But now that everyone is a belligerent, it seems that even if you ask for help, it's useless!