On the Eastern Front, a fierce quarrel was taking place at the headquarters of the German-Austrian forces, and Hindenburg and Ludendorff, who had emerged in this major battle, had a fierce clash of ideas with the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Falkingham.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff advocated an immediate concentration of forces, slaughtering from the Lithuanian region to the Yellow Dragon, and conquering St. Petersburg before the onset of Russian winter; Falkingham, on the other hand, advocated the use of the living force to kill and injure the Russians to force the Russians to withdraw from the war.

Hindenburg said angrily: "Your Excellency, Commander, it is still too late to take St. Petersburg directly, don't have any illusions about the Russians withdrawing from the war, our best choice is to fight them so that they don't dare to fight again!" ”

Falkingham also roared-for-tat: "No, the Russians' winter is coming soon, and if I choose to attack St. Petersburg, I must do it in this short month!"

It is impossible to do, do not forget that we are still more than three hundred kilometers from St. Petersburg, and the Russians still have at least half a million troops in St. Petersburg.

Once they have discovered our purpose, within a week they will be able to concentrate a million troops in St. Petersburg, and within half a month this number will expand to one and a half million!

Will you be able to get to St. Petersburg in a week? Even if the Russians let you go directly, we won't be able to do it!

According to your plan, by the time we break through the Russian blockade and arrive in St. Petersburg, winter will already fall, and if we are unlucky, we will be halfway through the winter!

Fighting polar bears in temperatures of minus twenty or thirty degrees, you are such a madman! ”

Ludendorff took his words: "No, Your Excellency Commander! If we had given up a lot of supplies and had forced a surprise attack, we would have been able to reach St. Petersburg within a week!

Let the Navy send our supplies to Tallinn, where can we get supplies, and then immediately attack, now the main forces of the Russian army are almost consumed, and it is simply impossible to hold St. Petersburg with a rabble of Russians! ”

Fa Jinhan shook his head angrily, and two words came out of his mouth: "Crazy! ”

I have to say that the idea of the golden pair of Hindenburg and Ludendorff is crazy, this is completely risky, and the benefits of success are great, but once they fail, the Allies will be about the same.

After a moment of silence, Falkingham spoke again: "I don't care what you think, stop me now, I can't gamble with the national fortunes of the German Empire for you!"

Remember, both of you, it's your duty to obey orders as a soldier! Now I order you to take the troops to grab food and supplies for me, and the people in the country still need us to find food for them to spend the winter, understand! ”

"Yes!" The two said in unison.

Unable to convince the Commander-in-Chief Falkingham, Hindenburg and Ludendorff did not think that they would be able to convince the German High Command that they could only use it to do a job with little technical content - robbery!

Yes, this battle has been fought so far, the Germans have no intention of continuing the offensive, the battle line is getting longer and longer, and it is becoming more and more difficult to replenish, rather than risk continuing to fight, it is better to take it now.

Due to the blockade of the British, the Germans now only have two food import channels, Denmark and the Netherlands, and the grain production of others like Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland is not high, and there is not much to sell.

Not only did the Germans have a hard time, but so did Austria-Hungary, one of the most important food producers in Europe, unable to guarantee self-sufficiency due to the war.

Therefore, it is the consensus of the two countries to go to Russia to grab grain now, and if they are not able to get enough food, it will be difficult for Germany and Austria to survive 1917.

In order to keep the people at home from starving, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Fakingham, couldn't care so much, and directly issued the task of requisitioning food to the troops, and no matter what they did, he only needed food.

In order to raise food quickly, everyone's means are naturally not so civilized. For example, the granaries of the capitalists were directly confiscated, and the granaries of the nobles were naturally confiscated.

It has to be said that the Germans were still very smart, and they only set their sights on the Russian capitalists and aristocrats who had a lot of grain, while the common people were not in the scope of the looting, and of course, the main thing was that they could not be looted.

There is no large-scale looting of ordinary people, but can their lives really be unaffected? The answer is no, the Germans also wanted to force the local population to cooperate with them through food.

The first people who couldn't stand it were the citizens in the city, the grain of the capitalists was confiscated, and the grain stores were naturally closed, so where did they buy food?

Naturally, it was a grain store opened by the German-Austrian occupation army! Is it really that simple? Apparently not, the Germans do not take rubles!

Metrah was an ordinary citizen of Lviv and a victim of the arrival of German-Austrian troops, whose life could not be lived.

"Honey, what are we going to do? Now the ruble is about the same as waste paper, nothing can be bought, and there is not much food left in our house! His wife, Ekris, asked

Metrah smiled wryly and said, "I don't want to go to the factories occupied by the Germans, they are now recruiting people to resume production." ”

Akris shook her head and said, "What if you work for the enemy and the government comes back in the future?" They're going to send you to jail! ”

Metrah nodded, and added, "But now we are running out of food, and if we don't work for the enemy, we will starve to death!"

Shall we also flee the famine? No way!

Now that there is chaos everywhere and we have to take the children with us, where can we go? ”

Akris had tears in her eyes, and she cried and said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have stopped you before!" This would not have happened if we had left Lviv before the enemy came! ”

"Nope! It's none of your business, it's all that useless waste that has been defeated too quickly, we just received the news that the enemy has occupied Lviv in less than three days, where can we run in such a short time? Metrach reassured

"It's a pity that we don't have the money," said Aicrice, "otherwise we would have left Europe with our children and gone to a place where there was no war." ”

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The biggest impact of this world war was that a large number of Europeans left the continent to settle in the Americas to escape the war. It can be said that it was this great migration that laid the foundation for the rise of the United States in the future!

After all, there are only a few people who can leave, and most of them are like Metrah who want to leave but can't leave.

With the rapid advance of the German-Austrian forces, the number of refugees received by Bulgaria began to grow exponentially.

The first to come were the wealthy, who were just a transit in Bulgaria in order to escape the war in Europe.

Unfortunately, they were targeted by the unscrupulous Ferdinand, and it was not so easy to leave.

When they arrived in Bulgaria, they were dumbfounded, the ruble was about to turn into waste paper, the pre-war exchange rate was now invalid, before the war 1 leva = 0.375 rubles, now 1 leva = 150 rubles, and this figure continues to depreciate.

Although inflation has also occurred in Russia, it is not so bad? It's a pity that this is Bulgaria, and there are only three major banks that can do foreign exchange business, which is obviously taking advantage of the fire to rob, even more ruthless than robbery!

In an instant, the crazy depreciation is more than 400 times, and no one can stand it!

Fortunately, the gold was brought with them, there was no possibility of depreciation, and the prices in Bulgaria were about the same as before the war, and they could exchange levas to live a very prosperous life.

The one with the ruble is miserable, and he can't spend it at all, and he thought that tens of thousands of rubles were still a huge amount of money, but he didn't expect that he couldn't even buy a ticket to the Americas.

There is no way, everyone knows what the current economic situation of Russia is, the depreciation of the ruble is inevitable, and the most important thing is that the ruble cannot be spent at all, and the capitalists naturally refuse to accept it.

Of course, it can't be spent, it's just for ordinary people, at least Ferdinand can take the ruble to the territory of Russia to buy and buy, although the price of goods in Russia has skyrocketed several times, but it does not affect him to earn the difference.

If you don't have money, you can't leave, you either stay in Bulgaria and find a job to earn money, or go home. This multiple-choice question is very simple, as long as you are not stupid, you know that the current Russian war is in chaos, and it is not suitable for life at all.

Although many people are worried that it will not be long before the German-Austrian forces will attack Bulgaria, and the peaceful days will not last long, but it is still safe now, isn't it? When you have raised enough money for the journey, it's better to leave!

Due to the sudden increase in population, the shortage of labor caused by the war has now been filled by refugees, and there is a thriving scene.

Of course, the arrival of a large number of refugees has also brought hidden dangers to Bulgaria's social security. However, it is a time of war, and it cannot be said that it is "three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry", but the militia on the streets is still indispensable.

Those who dared to endanger social order were suppressed by the local militia as soon as they appeared, and then they were directly sent to the mines.

At this time, Prime Minister Konstantin was reporting the results to Ferdinand: "Your Majesty, the number of refugees coming from Russia has begun to skyrocket in recent months, and in August alone, we received 460,000 Russian refugees, and this number is expected to continue to grow in September."

The total number of refugees in the country has now reached more than 4 million, of which a quarter are Russian refugees, and the rest are Romanian refugees.

The Romanian refugees had been almost resettled, most of them had joined the army and were now serving in Asia Minor, and the rest were largely resettled, except for a few old and infirm who were still in the camps.

About a quarter of the more than a million Russian refugees came to seek refuge with relatives and friends.

The other three-quarters are what the government needs to resettle, but it's not a big problem, and it's expected that most of them will find jobs this month.

With the arrival of the refugee influx, the lack of manpower that we are worried about is no longer a problem. But as a price, we will be distributing more than 1,000 tons of relief food every day from now on, and this number will continue to increase, perhaps doubling in two or three months!

The Cabinet has decided to resettle the subsequent refugees in Asia Minor in order to restore agricultural production there as soon as possible and lay the foundation for the future! ”

Ferdinand nodded with satisfaction, first send a group of refugees over, wait until after the war, and then divide a group of military nobles to pass, and also immigrate a part of the population from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Bulgaria's foundation in the Asia Minor Peninsula will be stable.

The only problem is the large number of Romanians in the country, although the population of Romania has been reduced by more than a million in the previous war, and the Ottomans have been killed by immigration, but due to the entry of Transnesia, the population of Romania has skyrocketed again.

Although no census has been conducted, it is tentatively estimated that the number of Romanians in the area under Bulgaria's de facto control now exceeds 7 million, making it the second largest ethnic group after the Slavs.

Ferdinand opened his mouth and asked, "Prime Minister, Romanians in the country, what does the government plan to do?" If it is not handled well, it will leave a very big hidden danger in the future! ”

Konstantin thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, Romania in the Transnesia region was originally part of the Kingdom of Hungary, and when the war is over, we can send them back to our country!"

As a result, the number of Romanians in our country has been halved and dispersed, making it much less threatening.

At the same time, we can continue to immigrate to the colonies, constantly diluting their proportion of the population in a region, and slowly assimilating them. ”

It is clear that Constantine was preparing for the troubles to move eastward, and that the Romanians in Transylenia were indeed part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the war, but now they are clearly not.

They did not identify with the Kingdom of Hungary either, but neither did the Romanians with Bulgaria.

There were more than 7 million Romanians, and Ferdinand was not sure that he would be able to assimilate them, although they were also deeply influenced by Slavic culture, but they were indeed two peoples. It is not easy for different nationalities to assimilate!

But if that number is halved to just over three million people, the difficulty is greatly reduced!

It is a big deal to throw 1.8 million people into the overseas colonies, as long as the Romanians in any region do not exceed 20 percent of the total population, they will not be able to make a big wave.

As for what will happen to the Kingdom of Hungary, Ferdinand does not care about this question, anyway, the defeated countries have no human rights, and it is not their turn to make decisions.

Suddenly, Ferdinand thought of another question, so he asked: "What if the Russians annexed Hungary?" They are not short of population, and they are certainly not interested in receiving this part of the Romanians, so what should we do then? ”

After thinking about it, Konstantin said fiercely: "Then let the Romanians establish an independent state, but we have to change their territory, Jordan is a good territory, and Libya can also be considered!" ”

Ferdinand was stunned for a moment, this attention is still really dark, originally Jordan was prepared for the Greeks, and their domestic population is only more than one million, so naturally there is no problem.

But now that there are more than 7 million Romanians, I am afraid that the problem of survival alone is a big problem that will plague Romanians in the future! Not to mention Libya, the Romanians must not be allowed to eat sand!

It's a pity that Ferdinand can't think of any good way, from the perspective of strategic security, the Balkan Peninsula will definitely not be able to divide a piece of land and let them establish a state!

As for letting Romania act as a buffer between Russia, Ferdinand didn't even think about it, unless they were allowed to establish a state in Moldova, it would be impossible for Bulgaria to hand over its own gateway to its enemies to guard!

After a moment, Konstantin lowered his voice and said, "Your Majesty, or we will let the army ......"