In order to show his innocence, at least on the surface, Zhou Chenggong could not announce his acceptance of the Bulgarian throne in a hurry.

And Greece was not ready, he had already begun to recruit new troops, nominally fearing a rebellion in the country, and the new recruits would still need to be trained, and they would not be ready to attack the Ottoman Empire in a short time.

Therefore, Zhou Chenggong told the British that he had no intention of accepting the Bulgarian throne for the time being, but he did not publicly announce that he would forever renounce his claim to Bulgaria as required by the British.

There was no rush to attack the Ottomans, but recruitment had already begun. At the same time, they continued to secretly support the Bulgarian uprising, and a large number of Bulgarian soldiers and officers were secretly sent back to Bulgaria, informed that once captured by the Ottomans, Greece would not recognize their identity until they entered the war. Along with these professional soldiers and officers, large quantities of weapons and ammunition were smuggled into Bulgaria, rifled rifles of British and French production, and even old smoothbore rifles obsolete by the Greek army. Anyway, the local troops of the Ottoman Empire are also equipped with old rifles.

With the help of Greece, although the Bulgarian national groups were self-raised armies, they could not have been regularized and trained without the help of professional Greek officers.

Within a few days, several thousand soldiers were active in the Bulgarian countryside, and they began to raid the official Ottoman forces everywhere, raiding their post stations and post offices, and raiding the carriages carrying official goods. At the same time, he walked through the countryside and constantly recruited new soldiers.

A large reason why Bulgaria and other Caucasian peoples under the rule of the Ottoman Empire were alienated from the Ottoman Empire was the policy of religious oppression, and the tax rates of Muslim groups were different from those of Orthodox Christianity and Catholicism. That's why historically, a large number of white Europeans have converted to Islam, largely to avoid taxes. And the proportion of this conversion is very large, Albania is forty percent of the population, Bosnia is forty percent of the population, and Bulgaria is even close to half of the population.

Later, after independence, Bulgaria and Greece both exchanged populations with Kemal's Turkey after World War I, which led to a significant decline in the Muslim population of the two countries and made Turkey a Muslim country.

As a result of the high taxes borne by Christians and the fueling of nationalism, the uprising soon spread, which in turn fueled national sentiment, and the peasants, who had previously lacked a sense of identity, were now indoctrinated with the concept of nation in religious thinking, and felt even more oppressed.

After the outbreak of the uprising, the Ottoman Empire quickly suppressed it, mainly because they were worried that the uprising would spread to other territories in Dao, and now that the main force of the country was surrounded by the Russian army, the country was empty, and if the uprising spread, the consequences would be unimaginable. In Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire quickly mobilized the Muslim community and established a reserve army to suppress the uprising.

These hastily established armies, qualitatively rabble, but religious fanatics, inspired by jihad and guided by the spirit of exterminating the infidels, resulted in wanton slaughter wherever they passed. It is not surprising that the Muslim community, which is called an ethnic group with Christianity, has been in religious conflict for a long time, and now one side has armed itself into the territory of the other side to suppress the revolution, and there has been a mass massacre of civilians.

Historically, when Greek independence was suppressed in 1827, the regular Ottoman army resorted to massacres; Fifty years later, the suppression of the Bosnian uprising of 1877-1878 was accompanied by massacres, which were condemned by all of Europe; It is difficult to say whether this tradition comes from the nomadic Turkic peoples of Central Asia or the political strategy of the Ottoman government, hoping to deter rebellion through brutal killings. Or maybe it's a brutal genocide motivated by religious reasons. Anyway, in the Balkans, there were ethnic vendettas until after World War II, and Yugoslavia was accused of genocide that the United States set off the Kosovo War.

Historically, the massacre of Greek independence in 1827 has caused condemnation from European countries, and the massacre in Bosnia in 1877 has also caused condemnation from European countries, and this massacre of Bulgaria has also caused condemnation from European countries.

Zhou Chenggong quickly took advantage of this opportunity to create public opinion, loudly condemned, strongly protested, and actively appealed, and he even succeeded in moving the Pope to issue a public condemnation statement. France and Russia condemned it, Belgium, the Netherlands, and a group of small countries in Northern Europe expressed their humanitarian protests, and Prussia and Austria also issued official statements condemning the Ottoman Empire's massacre of God's believers under the pressure of public opinion.

Even if Britain supported the Ottoman Empire diplomatically at this time, it was difficult for the world to openly support the Ottoman Empire, and even the British royal family was forced to condemn it due to the situation.

Zhou Chenggong saw the attitude of European countries and stepped up efforts to create hatred at home, and various newspapers in Greece consciously or unconsciously published nationalist remarks to denounce the barbarism of the Ottoman Empire.

When the time came, Zhou Chenggong finally came to the fore from behind the scenes, lashing out at the Ottoman Empire's barbaric treatment of the Orthodox people, but he stopped at religious issues, but made a big fuss about ethnic issues, because there were still hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Greece, and there was no need to worry about making national articles, and he linked the Holocaust with the Ottoman massacre in Greece in those years, describing it as the Ottoman Empire's consistent policy towards the Greek-speaking peoples. A call to all Greek-speaking nations to unite against tyranny. He also expressed that Greece, as the only independent Greek-speaking nation-state, should shoulder the responsibility of protecting the Greek-speaking nation.

Zhou Chenggong's remarks were mainly aimed at China, and he also took his wife Connie to act together, and the two are now remarried.

The national mood of the modern Greek nation, which had developed after independence, was ignited, and the streets were filled with protesting crowds of young people, chanting war slogans. There were long queues at the recruiting office, and the Greeks, inspired by the national mood, enthusiastically joined the army.

Zhou Chenggong quickly passed a resolution declaring war on the Ottoman Empire in the Greek parliament, which was unanimously passed, and at this time, any member of parliament who dared to vote against it would be scolded as a traitor and dragged to the street and beaten to death.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs quickly issued a declaration of war to the Ottoman Empire, and after the consul handed over the declaration of war to the Ottoman Grand Vic, he closed the consulate and immediately fled the Ottoman Empire.

The Kingdom of Greece finally entered the war, three months after the Ottoman army was besieged around Odessa.