With Ferdinand's order, the Bulgarian government's statistics book added more than two million people.

By the end of 1906, the population of Bulgaria had reached 17,688,600, which was not far from Ferdinand's target of 20 million by 1914!

Everyone is willing this time, and after getting Bulgarian citizenship, there are real benefits! Even if you can see and touch, the capitalists can no longer exploit them recklessly!

The first is that within the scope of the labor law, they enjoy more comprehensive protection. For example, in terms of salary, they can also enjoy the minimum wage standard in Bulgaria, and they don't have to worry about being fired by the company casually.

There are also capitalists, you can no longer ask them to work overtime without compensation, otherwise you can report it, once it is verified, it will be ten times the standard payment, and the capitalists will face prison!

Of course, this is also the fact that the Bulgarian economy is developing at a high speed, and even if this part of the expenditure is increased, the business can afford it!

This is the core reason why Ferdinand chose to solve the problem of immigrant nationality now!

Otherwise, after the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the gradual return of the economy to normal, it will be difficult to solve this problem!

After all, this is to increase the cost of enterprises, when the economic situation is good, the increase will increase, everyone can bear it, and wait until the back of the enterprise, the market are self-adjusting!

After all, the increase in the income of this part of the population also means that their purchasing power will rise, which will help increase domestic demand, and the Bulgarian domestic market will also expand, and then make up for the enterprises, which is also a virtuous economic circle!

If the economic situation is bad, it is not easy for enterprises to survive, and to increase their expenses is not to force people to go bankrupt?

Oh, and this only works in a country like Bulgaria, where the capitalists have no right to speak, and if it were in other European countries at that time, the capitalists would probably choose to ignore such a decree directly!

If it is left in the republic, it will be a big deal to impeach the government, and they have not done anything about the cabinet downfall! Now that there is no threat from the Soviet Union, why raise your own costs?

This is also the reason why Ferdinand is bent on nationalism, the government can control the country to the greatest extent, and at the same time, it can also deal with the class contradictions in the country to the greatest extent!

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In fact, Ferdinand's target of 20 million people also put a lot of pressure on the Bulgarian government.

It is necessary not only to complete the task, but also to ensure the purity of the population, at least in terms of language and culture, and not to deviate from religious and folk customs!

The only way left is to immigrate, other than to encourage childbearing. It's a pity that there were restrictions on immigration before, basically because there was a shortage of people in the market, and the government brought in a group of laborers.

In this way, social stability is well ensured, after all, the immigrants from Russia are working people through and through, as long as they have work and food, they are all great good citizens!

In the same way, the road to quickly increase the population by immigration, has been blocked!

After the Balkan War, due to the increase in the country's population, Ferdinand changed the immigration law in order to ensure the employment of the people in the country.

The new law stipulates that the introduction of immigrants must ensure employment and be similar in language, culture and customs.

And you must have no criminal record in Bulgaria, no bad thoughts, and a stable job for more than ten years to be able to obtain citizenship!

Oh, except for scarce talents, like senior engineers, scientists, doctors, etc., there are no restrictions!

With so many restrictions, it is undoubtedly unrealistic to want to grow the population rapidly!

This time Ferdinand opened his mouth, undoubtedly to give the officials of the Population and Immigration Agency a chance!

Aren't these immigrants going back to their hometowns to "visit relatives"? It can also be said to be "marrying", after all, so many bachelors always have to solve personal problems!

Then their other half, of course, can't be restricted from joining Bulgaria, this is what people just need!

Similarly, if their immediate family members want to immigrate to Bulgaria, the government will also have to open a door, otherwise it will not make sense!

Based on the calculation of more than 2 million Russian immigrants now, if you count their other half, as well as their immediate family members, this number is huge enough, right?

It only takes one-fifth, or even one-tenth, of them to come over and it will be enough to complete Ferdinand's task! This is much more effective than slowly encouraging fertility!

According to the current standards for the promotion of cadres by the Bulgarian government, such a major task will be completed several years ahead of schedule, and everyone is ready to be promoted collectively!

For the sake of political achievements, the bureaucracy's enthusiasm for work has suddenly increased a lot. They took the initiative to do ideological work for these "Bulgarian people" who returned to their hometowns to visit their relatives, and promised that they would be responsible for helping their relatives and friends solve the employment problem!

And this time the requirements are not high, as long as there is no criminal record, language and culture are common, and there is no problem in thinking, the government is giving the green light!

This is also a common problem of bureaucrats all over the world, and in the face of political achievements, their potential can always be stimulated.

Not only have they thought of ways to pull people in, but even job placement, a problem that is a headache for the entire capitalist world, they can think of a way, and they can see that the potential of the bureaucrats is unlimited!

Oh, this is what everyone learned from Ferdinand, Bulgaria has already carried out two five-year plans, and it is probably not difficult to develop another "three-five plan", right?

Everyone is a prepared person, Ferdinand's mind has been understood by the people below to a certain extent, as long as it is a policy that benefits the country and the people, it is a policy that the king likes! There's nothing wrong with that!

Ferdinand had long wanted to do the "Third Five-Year Plan", but unfortunately he never had the opportunity! First the Balkan War, then the Great Emigration, then the economic crisis, and then the "Russo-Japanese War", it can be said that the Bulgarian government has been very busy in recent years!

What's more critical is "poverty", the government has too many things to do, and the money is naturally not enough!

With the current economic size of Bulgaria, if it wants to carry out a nationwide "Third Five-Year Plan", it is really impossible to do anything without two or three billion leva of funds to lay the foundation!

If it's just a small fight, and now that the government has been doing it, there is no need for Ferdinand to add to it!

As we all know, the Bulgarian government has always been heavily indebted. The huge foreign debt weighs down the government, and it does not dare to make any big moves. But with the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, all that changed!

Since 1904, Bulgaria's trade with Russia has grown dramatically, and it has maintained a trade surplus!

In 1904, Bulgaria's trade surplus with Russia was as high as 120 million rubles (about 12,684,000 pounds, or 317 million levas);

By 1905, due to the impact of the general strike in Russia, the trade surplus with Russia directly increased to 370 million rubles (about 39.109 million pounds, or 978 million leva);

The final results of 1906 are not yet available, but as everyone knows, the number continues to grow!

In just over two years, the Bulgarian government's international foreign debt was directly reduced by half, and if the "Russo-Japanese War" continued, then in 1907, the Bulgarian government would be able to pay off all its debts!

Oh, this is not prepayment, the international loans in this era are all overlord loans, and interest is indispensable for early repayment!

This operation is just a transfer of creditor's rights, and the French want to control more of Maoxiong's creditor's rights in order to strengthen their financial control over Russia!

And Bulgaria wants to pay off its foreign debt as soon as possible, otherwise it has a large amount of rubles in its hands, and Ferdinand said that he will not be able to sleep!

Who knows if the woolly bear will come to a ruble devaluation, anyway, he can't believe in the festival of the tsarist government, if it happens, where will he cry then?

So the French took over Bulgaria to repay the loan with this batch of rubles, and then converted it into a Russian debt by buying the Russians' debts!

Of course, the Bulgarian government repaid a lot of loans this time, but this does not mean that the Bulgarian government really made that much money in this war.

This is impossible, the Russians are not Japanese, Bulgaria is not the British Empire, this kind of extortion, it is still impossible to do it!

In fact, it is nothing more than the government using the foreign exchange exchanged for exports to pay off the debt, while it is the lev who pays the domestic enterprises.

In short, the Bulgarian government's external debt began to plummet, and the debt crisis is now lifted!

Of course, insider trading is also indispensable in this, otherwise the usury empire would not be so easy to talk about!

To put it simply, the two countries have formed an alliance between Bulgaria and France, or Bulgaria has been added to the Franco-Russian Entente, and the Entente of the two countries has become a Triple Entente!

After all, now the Russians are not in the state again, and they are still fighting with the Japanese in the Far East, and they no longer have enough strength to suppress the Germans!

The balance of the European continent has been broken, the Entente is already at a disadvantage, and the strategic security of the French on the European continent is no longer guaranteed, which makes the French government very worried!

Although Bulgaria is a little weaker, it is second only to the six major powers in the European continent, and it is an existence that must be won over by the French, who are in dire need of allies!

Of course, the difficult task of dealing with the Germans should be done by the French themselves, or by the Russians, and Bulgaria is not yet within reach!

The treaty stipulates that once a major war breaks out on the European continent, the Bulgarian Stream must participate in the war, and join forces with the Russians to deal with Austria-Hungary, at least contain the Austro-Hungarian army of 1.5 million, in order to complete the task!

At this point, Ferdinand said that there is no problem, what the Serbs can do in history, there is no reason why Bulgaria cannot do it now!

Anyway, due to the existence of the Conservative Alliance, Bulgaria is unlikely to be left alone, and instead of being dragged down the water, it is better to use this as a transaction and exchange it for some benefits!

In return, prepayment of the loan is only part of the equation, and Bulgaria's interests abroad are also protected by the French government.

Despite the fact that now Bulgaria has almost no overseas interests, Ferdinand brought it up!

Not having it now does not mean that there will be no future, France is still the second naval power in the world these years, and the international deterrent is still leveraged, and the two sides can be regarded as taking what they need!