A great power is a great power, even if it is a parallel commodity among the great powers, the strength of Austria-Hungary is still not covered! The problem in the eyes of the Serbian government was easily solved by Austria-Hungary as soon as it came forward!

Is that really the case?

Anyway, after receiving the information, Ferdinand smiled, he knew how strong the Serbs were to die!

On the surface, the wind and waves are calm, but in fact, I don't know how many undercurrents are surging!! That is, now I have just been hit hard, and I am still licking my wounds, so I am a little more settled!

At the end of 1894, Serbia had a population of more than 2.3 million, but this time and space were much more miserable!!

First of all, the economic crisis was yin by Ferdinand, and he suffered heavy losses; And because of the arms race provoked by Ferdinand, the internal contradictions were intensified, and the rebellion, which should have been suppressed immediately, dragged on for two years under Ferdinand's intervention, and more than 100,000 Serbs died in the civil war;

Then the Baosai War broke out again, this time losing nearly one-third of the territory, and the direct loss of more than 300,000 people, and the economic losses were countless!!

Up to now, the total population of Serbia is less than 1.7 million, and there is a serious shortage of young and strong laborers.

On the surface, Austria-Hungary helped Serbia stabilize the situation, but in fact there are nearly 300,000 time bombs that have not been dismantled!!

Long-term raising?? Austria-Hungary is not a philanthropist again!!

Give them a way to make a living?? Most of the 300,000 people are old, weak, sick and disabled, what can they do??

It's not all like that, in fact, there are still resources to be used, after all, the people who go to the battlefield are all young and strong men, and they don't have much to do with women!

Even so, in the short term, these 300,000 people will still be a burden on Serbia, and the Serbian government is now bankrupt, and the Austro-Hungarian boss can only help for the time being!

No one can stand it for a long time, and then it will be the moment when the contradictions between the two sides intensify!

However, this has nothing to do with Ferdinand, after overthrowing Serbia, the border line has advanced more than 100 kilometers, and it is the owner of the Chulin region, and the strategic security of the capital Sofia has been guaranteed!

And within twenty years, Serbia will not have the ability to cause chaos for Bulgaria, and after twenty years, if Bulgaria still has to worry about Serbia, Ferdinand will not have to mix it up, and he will find a piece of tofu in advance and kill him!!

The shadow of the defeat in the Second Balkan War has also completely disappeared!! Without Serbia as the main force, several other small countries in the Balkans, even if they are added together, Bulgaria will be enough to deal with it!!

The Balkan countries at the end of the 19th century: Montenegro has few people and can be ignored directly; Greece's poor finances and a navy are raised, so it is natural that the combat effectiveness of the army will be wasted; The only one who can really pose a threat to Bulgaria is Romania!!

Carol I of Romania, who was born in the army, has always attached great importance to the development of armaments, but what about the combat effectiveness of the army? It can only be regarded as so-so, the soldiers in the plains can't do the soldiers in the mountains, there is nothing to be surprised about!!

Originally, with the natural conditions of Romania, there was still a chance to develop, but it's a pity who called Romania's position bad??

It is bordered by Austria-Hungary to the west, woolly bears to the north, and Bulgaria to the south, and the direction of expansion is blocked!!

On the surface, the only way to break through seems to be to annex Bulgaria to the south and then unify the Balkans!!

In fact, history has shown that this will not work at all, regardless of the attitudes of the two great powers around us; In terms of pure military strength, the Romanian army from the plains cannot defeat the Bulgarian army, which is fiercely civilized!!

And then there is no then, and the ambitious woolly bear as a neighbor, you must be cautious, there is no scum left that will be swallowed if it is not good!!

It can be said that as long as the Great Powers did not take full action, the Balkans would no longer be able to threaten the existence of Bulgaria!

Serbia's problems, which can now be thrown aside for the time being! The governance of new land is the big problem now!

Population is a hard wound, 18,000 square kilometers of land, the population living is less than 20,000! There is no 5% before, and there is really nothing that can be done to develop and utilize this land!

No way, who told Ferdinand to send everyone back to Serbia? There are few Bulgarians in the area, and some minorities who are easy to assimilate are still less than 20,000 people!

Immigration is a must, and the dilemma facing the Bulgarian government is how to resettle?

It was obvious that there was a need to develop industry, and later generations have proven that the most suitable area is Niš, but unfortunately now the Niš region is the new border of Pausa!

No matter how confident Ferdinand is, he will not be stupid enough to put industry on the border, in case the Serbs suddenly go crazy and come to wreak havoc, the loss will be great!

If you can't do industry, you just need to engage in agriculture!! Except for the areas along the river and some plains, most of the other areas are mountainous and hilly forests, which are difficult to develop!

However, Ferdinand was not worried about this problem, it was a big deal that there would be more rural poor people in the future, and the outbreak of this problem was at least a problem in the middle and late twentieth century!

At the end of the 19th century, everyone's living standards were not good, although the income of urban residents and remote mountainous areas was different, but the living standards were about the same, struggling with the poverty line and the life and death line!!

Ferdinand thought about it and decided to take out part of the land in the plains and reward it to the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions, so as to stimulate morale and cultivate a group of high-quality nobles with military merits!!

If we turn to the history books, we know that the overall military quality of officers from civilian backgrounds is not as good as that of nobles!!

Germany in World War I is the best example of this, even if the Junker aristocracy held the high positions in the army and hindered the fair promotion channels of civilian officers, their combat effectiveness still surpassed the world!!

Isn't Bulgaria known as the Prussia of the Balkans? Let's make them more worthy of their name now!!

As for the aftermath?? Ferdinand believes that the newly promoted military nobles can still be suppressed by themselves!!

As for the future?? After the two world wars, the birth of nuclear weapons, and the stabilization of the world situation, the influence of the military nobles in the era of peace is naturally much smaller, and there is no hidden danger!!

For the rest, farms were established in the plains; The cost of direct operation in mountainous areas is too high, so it is necessary to recruit bankrupt farmers to reclaim it, or adopt a redemption policy and sell it to farmers!

Now that the decision has been made, Ferdinand did not procrastinate, and directly threw the matter to the cabinet government.

After all, it is easy to make a plan, but it is very troublesome to complete it, Ferdinand does not have so much energy to ask, of course, the main thing is "lazy"!!