As soon as Bulgaria announced the expansion of its army, the conscription offices were crowded with people, and even the streets were lined up in neat queues to sign up, and people enthusiastically joined the army.

Well, all of the above is official Bulgarian propaganda. The recruiting offices were indeed packed, and the queues did take to the streets. As for whether the people are enthusiastic about joining the army, it is difficult to say. Because Bulgaria has a compulsory military service system, every conscription has to come like this.

Bulgaria's finances were not so wealthy, although it had grown a lot compared to before, and in 1891 the fiscal revenue was as high as 130 million leva, but there was still no money left to save with the "Second Five-Year Plan".

So although 60,000 troops were conscripted this time, the budget for weapons and equipment was not much. Ferdinand planned to wait for the military reform to be carried out on a large scale, and the obsolete weapons were just right for the new soldiers.

Since the fall of the Stamm cabinet, Ferdinand has not made a major move against the army in order to maintain stability.

It is only to use the Guards to cultivate cronies, silently reserve talents, and at most use the exchanges between soldiers to subtly influence the army.

Since the Army was almost doubled in size at one time, large-scale personnel transfers certainly made sense.

Then many people in the Bulgarian Army were promoted, and the original small groups were dismantled all at once.

Even if someone wants to oppose it, they can't stop their subordinates from being promoted! It turned out that there were so many positions in the troops, so the promotion could only be dropped, and Ferdinand's cronies who had been cultivated for a long time also took the opportunity to insert them.

This is just the beginning, Ferdinand, who is well aware of the importance of the "barrel of the gun", after completing the adjustment of middle and lower-level officers, came to the bottom of the kettle again, formed the Bulgarian Military Council to be responsible for army building, foreign wars, and promoted high-level officers to a collective rank.

As soon as Ferdinand combined his fists, the high-ranking officials of the original army were suddenly separated from the front line, and nominally improved everyone's status, only to be responsible to the king, and became a parallel body to the cabinet.

Sava Mutkurov has been in a bad mood lately, hesitating in the face of Ferdinand's wooing and not taking the lead in the first place. Although he chose to support Ferdinand in the end, who knew that the Stam government would finish so quickly, and he did not play much of a role.

After the formation of the new government, in order to stabilize Sava Mutkurov, he was still reused, and finally promoted to Minister of War, which can be described as a spring breeze.

However, Sava Mutkurov's political thinking is not so sharp, and not long ago he did a stupid thing, "opposing military reform"!

And then there was no then, and there was a lot of overlap between the military council formed by Ferdinand and the powers of the Minister of War. More critically, Sava Mutkurov is now only an ordinary member of the military council and does not hold the chairmanship.

In hindsight, Sava Mutkurov also knew that he had been hollowed out, the members of the military council were all bigwigs of the Bulgarian military, and now everyone has the same authority, who will listen to him?

There are many frustrated people like Sava Mutkurov in this reform, but they can't do anything but vent themselves!

As for the coup, their influence in the military has been weakened to the lowest point. In this personnel transfer, almost all the officers at and above the company level were transferred. Besides, Ferdinand didn't kill them all, didn't everyone "get promoted"?

Someone is frustrated, someone is proud, and Stefan Toshev is proud right now. Due to the butterfly effect of Ferdinand's expansion of the Guards, and then joined it, with his extraordinary ability, he was promoted to regimental commander a year ago, and now in good time, he has ascended to the sky to become the commander of the 8th Division of the newly formed Bulgarian Army.

There are many such examples, and after the reform of the Ferdinand military system, in addition to the main post, there were also two deputy posts as reserve officers. It has caught up with the large-scale expansion of the army, and the demand for officers is several times that of the original, and if you can't be promoted in this context, then there will really be a problem.

Of course, Ferdinand didn't have the energy to pay attention to these little things now, and an important historical event broke out - the assassination of Crown Prince Nicholas in Japan!

Originally, it was thought that Nikolai had been delayed in Bulgaria for a short time, and his visit to Japan had been postponed, so the assassination would not have happened, and Ferdinand did not pay attention.

Unexpectedly, Nicholas II went to Japan more than a month later than in history, but this unlucky child still did not escape this knife.

It can only be said that little Japan's ability to do death is really leveraged, assassinating the Russian crown prince, fortunately it was not successful, otherwise it would have started a war with Russia immediately!

The First Sino-Japanese War has not yet broken out, and it has not yet received reparations from the Big Apple to develop greatly, and Japan, which is still poor in this era, faces the woolly bear in its heyday, and you will know the ending if you think about it.

No matter what Ferdinand does, the news all over the world is frying anyway. Political assassination has always been a taboo, and if the Japanese dare to assassinate the Russian crown prince, whether it has nothing to do with the government, then they can't get rid of it.

Isn't Bulgaria an ally with Russia, and Ferdinand, who was not interested in little Japan in his previous life, is of course going to fall into the ground.

He resolutely signaled the domestic media to wave their flags and shout, and not only that, but also instructed Fuhu to guide public opinion in Russia, and also came up with a set of theories that if Japan is not beaten, it is a traitor.

Anyway, I won't be eye-catching at this time, it is politically correct to avenge Crown Prince Nicholas, everyone is scolding the Japanese, and it is not a matter if I scold hard!

This is not the end, Ferdinand also sent a telegram to express his concern, and asked by the way: When are you going to beat the Japanese, do you need help?

It is clear that Ferdinand is looking for excitement, is Russia now likely to go to war against Japan? If it weren't Alexander III who reigned, I really couldn't say! Now it is clear that Alexander III had no intention of going to war, otherwise Russia would have prepared.

Crown Prince Nikolai, who is far away in Japan, is really angry now, he just came out to travel around, and in which country is not a good hospitality, but when he arrives in Japan, assassins appear!

Now send a few officials over to apologize, and that's it? It's too good to think about it, anyway, the assassins in the crowd are because you didn't do a good job of security, and you must be responsible, even if you apologize, the emperor will come over in person!

After examining his injuries from the hospital, Nikolai didn't care about any diplomatic etiquette, and went home directly, ignoring the current feelings of the Japanese.

Crown Prince Nicholas, who had just left Japan, received a telegram from Ferdinand, and the suppressed anger came back up. tore up the telegram and scolded secretly: You think I don't want to go to war, Lao Tzu wants to beat him now, but Lao Tzu said it doesn't count!

After some time, the British began to mediate, and Ferdinand felt that it seemed too cheap to let Japan through the customs in this way. After thinking about it again, he immediately sent another telegram to Crown Prince Nicholas.

Nikolai was in a much better mood this time, and Ferdinand's idea was much more reliable this time. That's right, it's to find the Japanese government to lose money!

It's not too much to ask for compensation for being injured, I am also the crown prince of the Russian Empire, and I must have a compensation worthy of my identity!

This makes sense everywhere, and even if the Japanese government, with the mediation of the British, has reached an agreement with Russia, it cannot deny Nikolai's right to compensation.

This time, the Japanese were very happy to arrive, and openly expressed their willingness to compensate in the newspapers.

Ferdinand said "hehe" on the side, what is compensation worthy of status?

Ferdinand's suggestion was 100 million pounds, and no matter how much the Japanese could give, at least this figure made Nikolai happy!

Ferdinand's sycophancy is good, and it also means that the Japanese government is in trouble, because no matter how much they give later, Nikolai will not be satisfied, and 100 million pounds is absolutely impossible!