The idea is beautiful, the reality is cruel!

Now the top priority of the Bulgarian government is to calculate the war exploits as soon as possible, and then divide a group of military meritorious classes to go to the newly occupied areas and strengthen their control over the localities!

Originally, Ferdinand also planned to carry out an agrarian revolution, but after thinking about it, he found that it was not cost-effective, and finally gave up!

Half a step ahead is advanced, and one step ahead is a martyr!

Ferdinand would not have done anything to die! Besides, if all the land is divided, what will he use to buy the hearts of the army?

If all are treated the same, then it will certainly be unfair to those who support Bulgaria.

What do people think about people who put their heads on their belts and give you birth and death, but in the end they get the same treatment as those who have done nothing?

Don't mention any ideals, isms, it's all nonsense, Ferdinand knew very well why so many people were willing to support Bulgaria.

In addition to the hatred of the Ottoman Empire, the greater reason is for profit!

The Ottoman aristocracy controlled almost all the interests, and the people at the bottom were always in an oppressed position, and there was no way to rise at all.

And Bulgaria is an emerging country, and there are so many opportunities for everyone to choose from! And when the intelligence department pulls people, they all promise rich returns, otherwise there is no benefit, who would work so hard?

Ferdinand knew that the core of the driving force that underpins Bulgaria's sustainable development is fairness – fairness! Reciprocity of rights and obligations, leaving a channel for ordinary people to rise!

Therefore, Ferdinand did not hesitate to confiscate the land of the Ottoman nobles and landlords!

But the next land distribution, except for those who have previously supported Bulgaria, or provided help to the army or intelligence services, can get a share according to the size of their contribution!

The rest are the soldiers who have made great achievements in this war! Among them were Bulgarian-recruited local partisans, volunteers, and those ten temporary divisions that were eligible to share in the benefits!

Even so, there are not a few plots of land to be divided this time!

It's not that I don't know, but I'm shocked! According to the estimates of the Bulgarian Statistical Office, the land to be rewarded this time is as high as nearly one million hectares!

The thought of lowering the reward bar flashed through Ferdinand's mind. The credibility he has spent ten years building up must not be thrown away for some small profits!

Anyway, these lands were snatched from the enemy, and if they are divided, they will be divided, and he will not be in pain!

Moreover, the Ottoman Empire was an agricultural country under the feudal aristocracy, and the degree of land annexation was beyond Ferdinand's imagination. The aristocracy controlled more than eighty percent of the land in the Balkans, but now these are cheaper than Ferdinand!

In terms of value alone, this land is enough to cover the entire cost of this war, and it is estimated that it will not be less than eight million hectares!

Of course, this number also includes a large amount of mountainous land, and the land in the plain area may only occupy six or seven layers of the total land!

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After thinking about it, Ferdinand decided to determine the rewards of the front-line soldiers first, and announce them to appease the army, so that the officers could suppress them!

"Order all troops, in accordance with the provisions of the "Bulgarian Regulations on Awards for Military Merit" and in accordance with the standards we have set in advance, to verify the soldiers' combat exploits and awards, and then directly publicize them!"

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With Ferdinand's order, all the troops began to get busy, and it was very troublesome to verify the merits of the battle!

It is enough to enter the era of thermal weapons, and the simple use of first-level merit is outdated, bullets can kill the enemy hundreds of meters away, and artillery can destroy the enemy several miles away, which is difficult to count!

Therefore, collective military merit, according to the performance on the battlefield, and rational distribution, have become the mainstream of the modern army!

The command of the First Army, now the commander of the corps Popov and the chief of staff Petrov began to worry!

In order to attract people to join the army, they came up with the most primitive and easily accepted criterion for judging the number of enemies killed, and the effect was very significant, but the sequelae were also very serious!

Military exploits are difficult to count, there are too many controversial places, and in many cases it is impossible to determine who is the specific combat exploits.

So what to do? Of course, it is necessary to fight, and these can be converted into fertile black soil! The question is who to give it to now?

Don't say that the military judge who counts the merits of the war can't figure out the situation, it is estimated that even the parties are a mess in their minds now, but they just feel that it may be their own, so they will fight!

Anyway, the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable! The military judge who counts the merits of the war is not Sherlock Holmes, and he does not have such strong detective ability!

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"How's the battle merit statistics done?" Popov asked

Petrov sighed and said: "Except for the temporary division, all the other troops have already been counted!" ”

Popov asked suspiciously: "What moths have appeared in the temporary division again?" ”

Petrov looked at Popov resentfully, and said: "You are the military commander, you don't need to participate in these troubles, no one dares to bother you!" I'm miserable, I am harassed by them every day!

Up to now, less than half of the work of counting the military merits of the temporary division has been carried out, and now the people below are about to fight for their military merits!

The most important thing is that many times many bullets hit the enemy at the same time, and now we can't be sure who killed them, and now the soldiers don't give in to each other for the reward! ”

Popov thought for a moment and said: "It seems that this primitive method of counting combat exploits is now completely behind the times!"

Why don't you just count the battles that have been determined first, put aside all the disputed ones, and talk about it later! ”

Petrov nodded and said, "This can only be the case now, otherwise there will be no result in a few more months!" ”

Sure enough, as soon as the results came out, a few families were happy and a few were sad! Of course, there is no need to think about controversial military exploits, the army is a serious place, and it is absolutely not allowed to take the lead merits, I don't know, everyone doesn't want it!

These do not affect everyone's mood now, this kind of fair and open approach is more convincing to ordinary soldiers!

If you are lucky, you may get a dozen hectares of land, which is being celebrated at this time; Bad luck people, oh, they don't have to worry about it, they're already going to see God now!

Of course, these lands are all in name, and in order to obtain land, you must go back to the local area and find a government department to divide it on the ground, so that you can make a number!

It may be months away, but that doesn't stop them from getting excited!

Even if you get the least harvest, at least you have a consolation prize, basically collective credit, everyone is mixed, and you can get a bonus if you can't get the land!

Ferdinand's measures proved to be effective, and as soon as the military merit awards were announced, he gained another wave of fans, and all the rewards were issued in the name of the king!

Whoever gets the land becomes a die-hard supporter of Ferdinand at this moment!

Ferdinand had to rejoice, fortunately, most of the Balkans were backward agricultural economic systems, otherwise this military merit would have been wasted!

In order to be able to further control the new territories, especially the Albanian region with the least Bulgarian influence, Ferdinand decided to introduce the "Military Merit Gap Compensation Method"!

To put it simply, Bulgarian soldiers who have achieved military merit and are willing to go to the Albanian region to get land, then they can get an extra piece of land, and because of the lack of military merit, they are allowed to make up the difference at their own expense!

Of course, this price is much lower than the market price! And in principle, the increased territory shall not exceed one time of its own military meritorious land, otherwise the excess part will not enjoy the half-tax treatment of military meritorious land!

This can be regarded as a change of direction to encourage immigration! No way, who said that there are few people in Albania now? Most of the people have been deported, so we can't let the land be left unused at this time!

Now the land in Bulgaria is not cheap, because the government holds a large amount of land, and has not put it into the market circulation, coupled with the conservative customs of Bulgaria, many families regard land as the root of their life, and they will not choose to sell land until the critical moment!

As a result, there is a scarcity of land in Bulgaria for market circulation. In addition, in order to curb land annexation, the government has set a high land transaction tax, which has invisibly raised the price of land!

In fact, the Bulgarian government had already planned to sell land to alleviate the financial crisis, but it was blocked by Ferdinand!

He knew that once the government sold a large amount of land, it would inevitably cause a big change in the Bulgarian economic system!

Now the capitalists have no other way to invest, they have to reinvest their gains in industrial production!

If you tell them suddenly, you can invest in agriculture with stable returns. With the conservative atmosphere in Bulgaria, the capitalists are bound to withdraw a large amount of money to collect enough land, and the funds invested in industrial development will be greatly reduced, which is not in line with Ferdinand's vision!

Moreover, the capitalists have entered agricultural production, and in order to pursue profits, they will definitely promote mechanized farming in an all-round way and reduce the cost of production, so a large number of hired peasants in Bulgaria will now face unemployment!

In the case of a decrease in investment in industrialization and an increase in the number of unemployed peasants, it is bound to cause chaos in Bulgarian society, which Ferdinand did not allow!

Now the government holds a large amount of land, to a large extent, to stabilize and regulate the demand of the industrial and agricultural population, and to maintain the population growth rate!

History tells Ferdinand that the population of an agrarian economy grows much faster than that of an industrialized country, and that the more industrialized a country is, the slower the population will grow!

So while promoting the industrialization of Bulgaria, Ferdinand was trying to find a way to preserve the small-scale peasant economic model in Bulgaria!

In order to alleviate the contradiction between rural population growth and land, Ferdinand's military merit system is also a very important measure!

A large number of military meritorious classes have been moved out of their original hometowns, and the land will naturally be vacated, and more people can be resettled!

Therefore, after the promotion of new agricultural technologies, Ferdinand was overhauling water conservancy projects, but he did not fully promote mechanized agriculture!

Otherwise, when the time comes, millions of bankrupt peasants will come out at once, and it will be strange that Bulgaria will not explode!

This is also a successful example of Ferdinand learning from a certain country in later generations, and when industrialization develops, farmers can also be encouraged to work in the city to solve the problem of lack of labor!

When the economic crisis breaks out, they can go home to farm, alleviate the employment pressure of the society, and increase their ability to resist risks!