Just as Ferdinand hesitated, his thoughts were interrupted by the sad news that on August 4, 1909, his mother, Princess Clementina, had died.

The news came suddenly, and they had lunch together at noon, but in the evening, a maid came running to tell him that Princess Clementina had died!

Ferdinand felt very abrupt, Princess Clementina's body has always been healthy, why did people suddenly say that it was gone?

Originally, he thought that he had escaped the death of 1907, and Princess Clementina should have lived for a long time, but he didn't expect that the world was impermanent, and after two years, she still died!

Ferdinand was in a very bad mood, although Princess Clementina was only the mother of the original owner, but after more than 20 years of getting along, the two sides also developed a deep relationship, and now it is said that it is gone!

Queen Xenia thoughtfully comforted: "All right, dear, cheer up! Mother is walking peacefully, and she is still watching us from heaven? ”

Ferdinand nodded reluctantly, he had seen a lot of winds and waves after the crossing, he would not be defeated by one thing so easily!

The death of Princess Clementina still had a great impact on Ferdinand, and he became conservative in his actions.

The Ottomans should be grateful to Princess Clementina for this, otherwise the Ottoman Empire may really be doomed this time!

In fact, Ferdinand began to implement a conservative strategy, which is exactly what Bulgaria needs now, and it is time to digest it when it is almost finished.

After more than 20 years of hard work, Bulgaria is no longer the poor and white country it used to be, and there is no need to continue to walk the tightrope!

When you start a business, you need to dare to fight, and when you keep your business, you need to be calm and steady, which is also applicable to a country!

While Ferdinand was busy with Princess Clairetina's funeral, the tide of battle on the front lines changed.

The first to be unlucky was the Kingdom of Montenegro, even if Nicholas I had great talents, but this kingdom that had just been established for more than ten years still had a lot of internal contradictions.

After the failure of his full support for the attack on the Albanian region, the internal contradictions that he had suppressed forcefully began to slowly intensify.

The Kingdom of Montenegro is not without a price for its economic dependence on Bulgaria, and in the past ten years, the Kingdom of Montenegro has also cultivated a group of pro-protectionists, who are all vested interests in trade between the two countries, and they are also people who do not want this war to break out!

If Nicholas I had been victorious at the front, then this contradiction could have been suppressed, but the futility of the front provoked discontent at home.

Now the domestic situation in the Kingdom of Montenegro is already a powder keg, as long as there is a little spark, it will explode, and this spark will come soon!

No way, who told Nicholas I that the place chosen for the attack this time was Albania?

As the base camp of the military nobles, everyone is martial here, and many people's life goals are to obtain military merits and become real nobles!

It is also a place known as the combat effectiveness of the militia, which is comparable to the regular army! Due to the large number of military nobles, the strong martial atmosphere, and the strong desire for war, there is no shortage of retired soldiers and retired officers, and it is one of the fastest places in Bulgaria to complete mobilization!

Now that Ferdinand had received the information, how could he not be prepared at all? At least the weapons and ammunition had been secretly transported to the front, so Nicholas I crashed headlong into a mobilized war machine!

In the first week of the war, the Bulgarian defenders could only defend, but in the second week, the two sides began to have a back and forth PK, and now the army of the Kingdom of Montenegro led by Nicholas I has fallen into disadvantage.

The Prime Minister again rushed to the front and persuaded Nicholas I: "Your Majesty, withdraw your troops!" While the Bulgarians are still fighting Romania and the Ottoman Empire, we will withdraw our troops now, and it will be too late to negotiate with the Bulgarians, otherwise we will ...... when anything happens to them."

Nicholas smiled bitterly and said, "Alas! I understand what you're saying, but don't you think it's too late now?

We betrayed Bulgaria this time, and we were also regarded as traitors by the Entente, and now we can only go all the way with the Allies!

If we betray the anti-Bulgarian alliance now, do you think the Allies will be able to tolerate us? If we can't tolerate it, will the Entente still accept us? ”

It's hard to ride a tiger!

Now the Kingdom of Montenegro has fallen into such an embarrassing situation, after all, this time it has offended Bulgaria miserably, even the Russian Empire, which has always supported the Kingdom of Montenegro, is now very dissatisfied with them!

Since the outbreak of the Second Balkan War, the government of St. Petersburg has expelled the minister of the Kingdom of Montenegro, severed diplomatic relations between the two sides, and told the Kingdom of Montenegro with practical actions that you have been abandoned!

This also woke up Nicholas I to the fact that the Russians could not unconditionally support the Kingdom of Montenegro all the time, at least for now they chose Bulgaria!

Without it, it is all determined by the interests of the country! The Kingdom of Montenegro could not bring benefits to the Russian Empire, and Bulgaria is now the most important ally of the Russians in the Balkans!

Whether economically, militarily, or even politically, both sides have great common interests!

The prime minister continued to persuade: "Your Majesty, but we have already paid a lot of casualties in this war, if it continues, after the main force is lost, I am afraid that we will also follow the backward path of Serbia!" ”

Hearing Serbia, Nicholas I's heart trembled, the Kingdom of Montenegro has become what it is now, and it has nothing to do with Serbia, if it weren't for supporting the Serbian Revolutionary Party, it wouldn't have been targeted by Austria-Hungary all these years!

Casually, he calmed down again, now the Germans will never let Austria-Hungary annex Montenegro, otherwise who would dare to be their little brother?

However, Bulgaria may not dare to do so, because of the interference with the Central Powers, the Kingdom of Montenegro has become a traitor to the Entente, and it is impossible for Britain, France and Russia to stand out as traitors!

Is it possible for the Allies to betray the Kingdom of Montenegro? Theoretically, there is, the reason is very simple, the Kingdom of Montenegro is not yet a member of the Central Powers, it has just defected, and neither Germany nor Austria-Hungary regards them as their own!

At this point, the Kingdom of Montenegro is similar to Greece, and neither is a descendant of the Central Powers!

If you look at the status of the Kingdom of Montenegro, the Kingdom of Greece, Romania, and the Ottoman Empire in the hearts of the Germans:

Romania is the earliest younger brother of the Germans, and is the closest relation;

The Ottoman Empire was the most powerful of the four kingdoms and had the most value to win over;

Greece is the weakest presence of the Four, but its strategic location in the Mediterranean is important;

And the Kingdom of Montenegro is the most embarrassing existence in the four countries!

Nicholas I also didn't have much time to dwell on, because the Bulgarian army had already begun to counterattack, and in the Albanian Military District there were now 110,000 troops, and the strength of the two sides had been reversed.

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On the other side, Carol I was not easy, and after the main Bulgarian army arrived on the battlefield, the Romanian army was defeated and retreated.

Since behind him is the capital of Romania - Bucharest, Carol I held high the banner of defending the country and promised a bunch of conditions to the soldiers.

But something happened again in his rear, and the peasant uprising in the Brasov region broke out again!

Ever since the reign of Carol I, peasant uprisings have been a problem for the Romanian government.

On the one hand, it comes from the fact that the Romanian government has seriously exploited the peasant class, and more importantly, it is necessary to attribute it to the greed of the domestic aristocracy and landlord class!

In parallel time and space, the peasant uprisings suppressed by Carol I in his life were no less than double digits, and two of them were influential, almost threatening his rule!

Not to mention this plane, Romania's agricultural exports were hit hard due to Ferdinand's butterfly effect.

The Romanian government, the aristocratic class, the landlord class, and the bourgeoisie are not having a good time, and the ruling class is not having a good time, and the life of the people at the bottom can be imagined!

In order to maintain their decent life, it is natural that they can only further intensify the exploitation of the peasant class!

It can be seen from the purchase price of wheat:

In 1896, the purchase price of wheat in Romania was 286 lei per ton (about £11.44);

By 1909, the purchase price of wheat in Romania was 216 lei per tonne (about 8.64 pounds).

More than ten years have passed, and domestic food prices in Romania have fallen by nearly a quarter, but international food prices have not fallen, but have risen slightly!

Although there are also factors that have contributed to the rise in the cost of Romanian grain exports due to the rise in tariffs, the most crucial factor is the exploitation of the peasant class by the bourgeoisie!

The problem is that the Romanian government did not take measures to reduce the burden on the peasant class, but continued to adopt the high taxes of the past, which further intensified the social contradictions!