"Your Majesty, the British have extended an invitation to us, and they plan to hold a naval arms conference in London in May to limit the ongoing arms race throughout the world!" Foreign Minister Metev said

Ferdinand asked in wonder, "World Naval Arms Race?" When was this happening, how did I not know? Could it be that a new round of the arms race has begun again? ”

Metev thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, the Japanese government is doing something in the Far East, and the British should be going for them this time!" ”

Thinking of the Japanese, Ferdinand shook his head, how could he forget about them, with the poor economic situation in their country, it was not surprising to embark on this path.

But even if you want to dare something, you have to look at the limelight, right? The British just solved the colonial problem, and they just sent it to the door, do you really think that the world hegemon is a soft persimmon?

Well, now the Japanese government is also aggrieved, and they are indeed preparing to do something. But the problem is that before I could do anything, I was beaten by the British in the financial slap and was dizzy. Before I could react, this London meeting came again.

"Let's look at it at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this time we are going to make soy sauce, as for the issue of limiting the tonnage of the navy, this is easy to discuss, as long as it is in line with our international status!" Ferdinand said

Metyev immediately replied: "Yes! ”

In their hearts, they were thinking about what tricks the British would play this time, and now that the Royal Navy is dominant, it stands to reason that there is no need for them to convene this meeting, unless they are still planning otherwise.

Paris, the French government was also worried about the meeting of the British, and since the world was at peace, there was no more enemy against the British Empire.

The pressure on France is also great, and for no other reason, who told them to be close? The British home fleet went to that side, and the French felt the military pressure.

At present, the main naval force of the British is mainly divided into three waves, the Home Fleet, the Far East Fleet, and the Mediterranean Fleet, and the three fleets can just suppress the three countries of Sumito, France, and Japan at the same time.

Ferdinand did not feel the military pressure, the main thing was that Sofia was too far from the sea, and as a land power, the Royal Navy could not scare him at all.

Besides, the Mediterranean Sea is not big, if he really starts to do it, he is not afraid of the British, the navy can't win, can't the army and the air force win either?

Even if Britain wanted to blockade Bulgaria, it couldn't do it, so it was a big deal to use the air force to block the coastline, directly seize the Suez Canal, and kill the African continent.

The prerequisite is that Bulgaria's ten-year plan is completed, and that it will be able to be invincible by connecting Eurasia by rail and road!

Bulgaria is getting bigger, how could the British not know about it? It's just that they are not idle, as long as they digest the three North American countries, their world hegemon will be as stable as Mount Tai.

With the end of the United States, the proportion of industry in all countries in the world has also undergone earth-shaking changes. The British Empire once again took the top spot in the world, accounting for 34.8% of the world's total industrial output.

Bulgaria followed with 11.8 per cent, Germans with 9.1 per cent due to world wars, the French with 8.7 per cent, Austria-Hungary with 5.8 per cent, the Great Lakes Federation with 4.1 per cent, the South Pacific (mainly California) with 3.8 per cent, the German-Russian United Kingdom with 3.3 per cent, the South American kingdom with 3.0 per cent, Japan with 2.3 per cent and Italy with 1.4 per cent......

This data is not a sudden increase in everyone's industry, but the total amount of industry in the world has been weakened, and all parts of Europe and the Americas have been baptized by war at the same time, and now the total amount of industry in the world has regressed to the level of 1900.

If you break up the three North American countries, you will be surprised to find that even if the United States is divided, half of the world's top ten industrial powers are split from them, which is enough to see the thickness of their family background.

The world was drawn to the upcoming London conference, and Ferdinand was still busy farming.

He has just inspected the Rose Industrial Park, which is no longer the size it used to be, and there are already more than 300 people working on this industrial production line in Bulgaria, from production to processing to final sales.

The products have also expanded from the original rose essential oil, rose wine, rose drink, and rose perfume to hundreds of brands, including medicines, food, cosmetics, health products, drinking products, and skin care products......

Well, the most profitable of this is no longer rose essential oil, medicines and cosmetics are the most profitable, followed by drinking products.

To Ferdinand's surprise, the depression in the health care product market not only did Rose health care products not sell, but other health care products were also not easy to sell, and it seemed that everyone was not used to using these things in this era.

Of course, this is all a small problem, a small product, whether it sells well or not is not worthy of Ferdinand's concern, it is only after accidentally discovering a rose wine, he suddenly remembered that it seems that wine is also one of the important industries in the Balkans.

Later, the wine industry in the Balkans declined due to the war, with an annual output of 450 million liters, second only to France, and the development potential is huge.

In terms of natural conditions, from Herzegovina in Bosnia in the west to Macedonia in the east, the Balkans have hot, dry summers, abundant sunshine and rocky slopes, making them ideal places to grow grapes.

Anyway, these places are not suitable for growing food, and most of them are in a panic, and they are used to develop vineyards as waste.

Ferdinand does not need to produce as much as he did in later generations, as long as he can produce two or three hundred million liters a year to meet the needs of the domestic market.

The question of opening up the international market is to wait until the people of the world have become richer, and now they can sell a small amount in Europe at most, and they will still have to face competition from the French, and this market is still very small.

Compared to the so-called industrial plan, the cultivation of vineyards is really not worth mentioning. 21 In fact, at the beginning of the world's largest wine producing area, the total output value of wine in France is only more than 3 billion US dollars, if it is converted to this era, it will be 200 million or 300 million leva!

However, Ferdinand has always attached great importance to the development of agricultural products, which has helped to improve the living standards of the Bulgarian people.

Of course, this is a lie, and the real purpose is very simple, which is to increase the income of the peasant class and consolidate the loyalty of this class to the king!

Any industry, as long as a complete industrial chain is established, can bring a large number of jobs to the society. It's still too early to build a wine industrial park, at least to plant grapes first.

As for the production technology, don't worry at all, as a big aristocrat, how can you not have your own wine estate?

While still in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ferdinand marketed the excess production of his own wine estates. Now if you want to build a large-scale winery, there are no technical problems.

It's just that the production was high-end wine back then, and now the production is low-end wine, after all, the high-end wine market is very limited, and the European aristocracy of this era basically has its own winery and will not buy it from the outside world.

The big capitalists are also following suit, spending a little money to build a wine estate, it is not a difficult task, a estate with an annual output of several thousand liters of wine, a few tens of thousands of leva can be done.

If you want to do it, Ferdinand said directly: "Linka, go and call Karl over!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The maid Linka spoke

……

After about a cup of tea, Butler Karl ran in, and after saluting Ferdinand, he asked, "Your Majesty, what do you command?" ”

Ferdinand said directly: "Find someone to do a market research on wine, and at the same time count the production, origin and quality of Bulgarian wine!" ”

"Yes!"

Steward Karl replied, and then asked, "Your Majesty, are you ready to surrender the wine?" ”

Ferdinand nodded and said, "Yes, I have found that many places in the Balkans are suitable for growing grapes, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Greece, which are very suitable for the development of the wine industry.

Whether you want to do it or not, in the end, you have to wait for your investigation report to come out before deciding! ”

Ferdinand was not a second-year teenager, he did whatever he wanted, no matter how good the prospects of wine were, it was only a prospect, how big the current market is, and how big the domestic wine production is, these are all factors that must be considered.

Blindly investing, growing a bunch of grapes, and finally selling raisins is a tragedy, you must know that Portugal's profits are much higher than raisins.

Oh, of course, you can also sell fresh grapes, but this business is estimated to be able to lose people, hundreds of millions of catties of grape production, how much can be sold?

It seems that later generations also had grape drinks, but unfortunately Europeans didn't like it, and the French didn't make a name for themselves in later generations, and everyone's favorite drink was wine.

Before Ferdinand could come up with the result, Foreign Secretary Metev had already arrived.

"Your Majesty, something big has happened in Russia, under the suppression of the tsarist government, the Moscow government ran away directly, and now they have also given up the territory of the Moscow generation and went directly to Siberia!

And also occupied Nikolaevsk (Novosibirsk), now the main troops of Nicholas II have been transferred to the battlefield, it is not expected that they will run at all, now there are not many troops in Siberia at all, I am afraid that it will soon fall into the hands of the Moscow government! ”

Ferdinand was speechless, obviously having the advantage, and now the strategy is passive again, and the road to unification of the Russians is doomed to twists and turns.

It was wise for the Moscow government to jump out of the two tsarist governments, as long as they could occupy the vast Siberian region, it would be difficult for Nicholas II to destroy them.

Perhaps now Nicholas II is still celebrating the reconquest of Moscow, and there will be a time for him to cry in the future.

Before the Moscow government left, they were sandwiched between the two tsars, and they controlled only two or three hundred thousand kilometers of territory, with a population of only five or six million, and there was no room for development at all.

But now it's different, the Siberian region has a population of 20 or 30 million, and once it is integrated, it will be a qualitative change.

But now that the two tsarist governments have fought together, Nicholas II simply does not have enough troops to eliminate this threat!

Even if there is, it is estimated that he will not pay attention to it, otherwise the Moscow government with sandwich biscuits would have been finished long ago. You know, they didn't have a decent army at first, but after a few years of fighting, they built up a regular army.

After thinking about it, Ferdinand smiled again, if Nicholas II had unified the whole country so easily, then Bulgaria would not have much of a role.

Now it is just right, the strength in the hands of little Nicholas is not weak, and there is the support of the British behind the scenes, if Nicholas II wants to kill him, it is impossible to do it without two or three years.

For such a long time, the Moscow government has long been bigger, and after integrating Siberia, the two sides are estimated to be anxious about the exhausted Nicholas II.

As for the defeat of Nicholas II, it was impossible, Ferdinand would not tolerate the unification of Russia by the Moscow government, and the countries of all Europe would not allow such a thing to happen.

Even if Nicholas II can't hold on, Ferdinand will unite with Britain and France and support him under the banner of the League of Nations, such as letting them stop the war and directly divide the Russian Empire!

After the lessons of the Americans, no one dares to ignore the attitude of the League of Nations, for example, Japan, as soon as the decision of the League of Nations came out, they shouted so loudly, and in the end, didn't they honestly hand over Hawaii and the Philippine Islands?

The last strategy is for Bulgaria to personally go into battle to pull the shelf, Ferdinand does not expect the situation to deteriorate to that extent, and the tiger skin of the League of Nations is still intimidating many people.

Only the three leading countries of Britain, France and Bulgaria know that this alliance is essentially an empty shelf, and the contradictions between countries are not small, and it is simply difficult for everyone to unite again.

Unless there is another one who is angry and can make the European people want to kill them, and under the influence of public opinion, everyone can unite again.

Some people may have seen through this problem, but no one dares to gamble!

After all, on the bright side, Britain, France, and Bulgaria have always appeared as allies, and under the principle of the unanimity of the positions of the major powers, who can resist this pressure?

After pondering for a while, Ferdinand said slowly: "Pay close attention to the situation in Russia, and for the time being, we still don't want to get involved, unless Nicholas II really can't stand it and asks us for help!" ”

Metyev thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this won't happen!"

With the current situation in Russia, no matter how you think that in the end, Nicholas II will dominate the whole country, unless there are foreign forces that directly intervene in the Russian civil war! ”

Ferdinand thought for a moment and said, "Just intervene, I can't say for sure!" Who knows if the British will do it?

The most critical thing is the Moscow government, which ran to Siberia, and it is estimated that soon the rule of the tsars in the local area will be overthrown, and their organizational ability should not be underestimated! ”

Metev nodded, and he had to admit that it was very surprising that they could hold out for so long between the two tsarist governments.

Perhaps the only one who suffered was the people around Moscow, after a few years of war, there was only a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, from more than 6 million people at the peak to now, only more than 100 old and weak.

These have become a burden for Nicholas II, the little father of the Russian people, and he must continue whether he wants it or not, even if many of them have been brainwashed and hate him to the core.

Most people still "eat pot pulp to welcome the king". No, now there is only water left in the pot, just wait for the rice to go to the pot!

After a long period of war, the local economy has long collapsed, and grain production is also beyond its means.

For them, the arrival of Nicholas II's army is the arrival of a meal ticket, and everyone is not stupid!

As long as he shouts a few slogans and supports the great Majesty Nicholas II, even for the sake of face, for his own reputation, and in order to show the justice of his war, Nicholas II has to carry out disaster relief!