Radoman knew that it was all over! The Serbian government is finished! His own political life is over!

Austria-Hungary's patience with Serbia has been exhausted, and its support is no longer unlimited!

But the Serbian government still doesn't know that it is now caused by the Serbian government's own slow response, and the bitter fruit can only be swallowed by itself!

So Ladoman, who was an old fritter in the political arena, after sending a telegram to China explaining the specific situation, decisively fell ill and was admitted to the Vienna hospital!

The Serbian negotiating delegation, which can only be replaced by his deputy, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, continues to participate in the negotiations!

Time flies by, another week has passed, and into November, there is still no progress in the negotiations!

Now the Serbian government has only two options:

Either agree to the terms of the Bulgarians, sign an armistice, end the war!

Or continue to hold out and wait for the collapse of Belgrade and surrender to the Bulgarians!

After knowing the purpose of the Bulgarians, the top echelons of the Serbian government knew that this time there was a big trouble! The Prime Minister, who was far away in Vienna, gave them a good start, so they fell ill one after another!

Anyway, after losing the war, their political life is over! Now that I'm sick, I just don't have to bear the infamy of a traitor!

Others can hide, but Alexander I can't! Who called him a king?

In the Serbian royal palace, Alexander I thought angrily that he wanted to come with his name, but now he wants to hide, there are no doors and no windows!!

He said coldly: "Someone, go and invite all the ministers over to discuss matters!" If you're sick, bring it over! Anyway, if you live to see people, you have to see corpses when you die, and all high-ranking government officials must attend this afternoon's meeting! ”

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The war has reached this point, and there will not be much suspense anymore! When it will end, it's a matter of time, Bulgaria has already put an end to the wartime economic system!

In the palace of Sofia, Ferdinand is busy taking stock of expenses with the top government officials!

Good guys, it's really a cannon shot, ten thousand taels of gold!

Since the declaration of war, the large and small expenses have reached more than 72.4 million leva (about 28 million pounds, 2.1 tons of gold), and this is just the beginning!

In the later stage, there will be casualty compensation, commendation of meritorious personnel, new land management and a series of things, all of which are not a small expense!

But now Ferdinand was not in the least worried about this huge expense!

The Bulgarian army directly occupied two-thirds of Serbia, although it was mostly mountainous and not very rich! Even so, the harvest is still quite good!

Directly start robbery, the means are too low-level, and it is easy to corrupt military discipline and bear infamy!

It is much easier to directly set up a card to collect taxes and raise prices! Anyway, during the war years, there was nothing that prices did not rise! The black cauldron is also resisted by the capitalists!

As for the life of the Serbs, it was not Ferdinand's turn to worry about! Anyway, now the Bulgarian army is still distributing relief food to the civilian population, albeit just a small piece of black bread!

The latter problem is that the Serbian government should have a headache!

"Have the casualties been counted?" Ferdinand asked with concern, this was what he was most worried about!

Prime Minister Konstantin immediately replied: "It has been preliminarily counted, from the declaration of war to the present, in the past month, the Bulgarian army has launched a total of large and small battles, more than hundreds!"

As of yesterday, the casualties reported by various units were as high as more than 40,000!

Of these, 12,574 have died; In addition, more than 8,000 seriously injured people are still being treated, many of whom have been amputated and have no chance of returning to normal; The rest are lightly wounded, who have begun to recover one after another and returned to the troops! ”

After listening to the Prime Minister's words, Ferdinand's hanging heart finally fell! Fortunately, the lightly wounded can recover, otherwise the loss of more than 40,000 soldiers is enough to make Bulgaria seriously injured!

Even so, Ferdinand sighed! Fight a Serbia, all the way through, the two sides fought for a month.?? , still paid the price of more than 20,000 people!

Then he said slowly: "Do a good job of the pension work in the future!" We can't let the heroes shed blood and tears! ”

Seeing that Ferdinand's interest was not high, everyone wisely put away their smiling faces, as if they had changed people, and they all turned into a compassionate expression!

Of course, it doesn't matter if it's true or not, but the show still has to be done! Otherwise, if the top doesn't pay attention to it, and the bottom gets it, can the pension be paid in full?

Ferdinand is not a Madonna, nor can he ask someone else to be a Madonna! If someone at the top of the government is really a virgin, he will definitely let him get out of the way as soon as possible!

After a pause, Konstantin said in a sincere tone: "Don't worry, Grand Duke! Our government will definitely do a good job in dealing with the aftermath, and there will definitely be no heroic shedding of blood and tears! ”

Ferdinand nodded, he knew that the Bulgarian government was still very clean now, coupled with the outbreak of nationalism now, Serbia had just been defeated, and everyone's patriotic enthusiasm was at the right time, and few people should dare to fight the idea of pensions!

The question continues: "What about the losses of the Serbs?" ”

Hearing Ferdinand ask about the situation in Serbia, Konstantin said with a fluttering eyebrow: "Grand Duke, the Serbs are finished this time, and it will be difficult to recover in twenty years!"

Judging from the data collected from various places, the confirmed death toll of the Serbian army has exceeded 200,000, and the actual number will only be more!

Due to the insistence of the Serbs, basically the young and strong labor force of the country was sent to the army. In addition to the more than 200,000 who have died in battle, we still have 120,000 prisoners in our hands!

Now Serbia's young population has been reduced by at least half!

Besides, I helped relocate nearly 300,000 people from the south bank, and now that we have distributed relief food and put the local government under military control, it is not a big problem!

Once the war is over, these 300,000 people will become a ticking time bomb! If the Serbian government fails to properly resettle, the civil war is likely to break out again under the intensification of contradictions! ”

Ferdinand smiled knowingly, it is not so simple to settle 300,000 people, especially a group of old, weak, sick and disabled!

Let them continue to be farmers, and you must also have land for them to plant? Let them be workers, and it will be even more troublesome! Do coolies, and lack labor; Technical work, they don't; And the Serbian government simply can't provide so many jobs!