In Bucharest, the capital of Romania, King Carol II of Romania summoned the military minister Jan Antonescu and the general Pierre Dumitescu for an important discussion in secret in his palace.

The atmosphere was oppressive and heavy. In the silence, several high-level Romanian figures gathered here all turned their eyes to Prime Minister Antonescu with his hands in hand.

True, they looked at the minister Antonescu, not King Carol II.

The reason for this strange situation is not because Antonescu is arbitrary and unreasonable, and he is committed to emptying the king's power.

On the contrary, this kind of situation in which the prestige of the minister exceeds that of the king is a coincidence of your will.

Let's start with the Minister of Military Affairs Antonescu. In his early years, he studied military theory at a military school in France. and served in the Romanian army as a mid-ranking officer in World War I. After the end of World War I, he went with the army of the Kingdom of Romania to suppress the rival country Hungary.

In peacetime, Antonescu served as military attaché to the Romanian government in France and Britain. In 1934 he was exceptionally promoted to Chief of Staff of the Romanian Army, and in 1939, the previous year, he was further promoted to Minister of Military Affairs of Romania.

And such an excellent military general is actually highly valued by the Romanian royal family.

Why, then, did Antonescu, who was highly regarded, brazenly overshadow King Carol II of Romania?

This brings us to the strange Romanian king Carol II.

As a famous "love the country and love the beauty" in European history, he is even more infamous than Edward VIII of England. Carol II, this guy, put a good Romanian king inappropriately, and actually gave up the throne twice for love and ran away.

Carroll's first elopement was during World War I.

Prince Carol, who was still serving in the army at the time, fell in love with a commoner woman named Ziz Lambolina. Although he knew that according to the Romanian national constitution, princes and commoners would be deprived of the right to inherit the throne, but he did not hesitate in the slightest.

Eventually, he became a deserter and eloped with the woman named Zzz Lambolina, fled to Russia, and married secretly in the city of Odessa.

Giving up the throne for a lover, which country this kind of thing is placed in is also a event.

To add insult to injury, Carol was forcibly deported home, and then a Romanian court ruled that his marriage to Lampolina was null and void, and that their son Mercia was illegitimate and forcibly restored Carol's succession to the throne.

This is not the end, the Romanian royal family also thought of a "good way" to introduce the Greek princess Helen, who is in the right household, to marry Carol and help him forget his previous love.

But what the Romanian royal family didn't expect was that Carol did quickly forget about Lambolina, but it didn't take long for him to forget Helen, who had just given birth to a son, and at the same time fell in love with Elena, who was a Jewish servant.

At a time when anti-Semitism was common in Europe, Carol had to once again renounce the succession to the throne and elope with her lover Elena.

This time, he went to Paris.

After Carol eloped, the then King Ferdinand of Romania was speechless, so he had to appoint Carol and Helen's son Michael as the heir to the throne and legislate to abolish Carol's right to inherit the throne.

Then, after Ferdinand's death in 1927, Michael, who was only 6 years old, became king, and was regent by his uncle Nikolai, Romanian Orthodox Bishop Christie, and Romanian Supreme Court Justice Buzdugen.

Then, as the parties in the Romanian parliament became more and more intense, the regents had no influence to speak of, Romania became increasingly volatile and faced a serious economic crisis. It is against this backdrop that some politicians have taken a whim in their minds about Carroll, believing that his return may be able to quell the rivalry between various parties and political forces.

As a result, the Romanian parliament quickly rescinded the ban on Carol as the heir to the throne and brought Carol back from abroad.

Here's the real weirdness! Carol, who was taken back to China, officially inherited the throne from her son Michael and became Carol II.

It is not unremarkable for a father to inherit the throne from his son.

Therefore, how can Carol, a person who is not suitable for and unwilling to be a king at all, manage a good country. It was Minister Antonescu who really established his prestige.

At this moment, Antonescu was standing with his hands in his hands, and his face was unusually ugly next to King Carol II.

At this time, the unreliable king could not be counted on. The only one who can lead Romania out of the crisis is him, Antonescu!

As the true hope of all Romanians, he must find a way out for his homeland, a direction worth working on in the future!

"The note from the Soviets, we all know it." Antonescu raised his head, looked around, and said in his powerful voice: "They want not only to take our Bessarabia, but also to hand us over Northern Bukovina. In every respect, the Soviets behaved like robbery. ”

"They have already used this hand in Finland........ Antonescu's voice said deeply in everyone's heart: "Finland! A small Nordic country with a population of only three million can still fight back under the threat of the Soviets, defend its freedom with war, defend its independence with blood, and defend its glory with sacrifice......."

"And we in Romania, with more than five times the population of Finland, why can't we bravely rise up and resist?" Antonescu squinted his eyes slightly, reminding everyone present: "Moreover, Finland had a choice. But we ....... today No choice! ”

Before the Soviet-Finnish war last year, the Soviet Union made a request to Finland for territorial adjustment, that is, Finland was required to move the border between Egrea and Finland on the Karelian Isthmus 40 kilometers north, and cede to the Soviet Union several islands in the Gulf of Finland and Finnish territory on the Rebache Peninsula. The Hanko Peninsula was leased to the USSR for 30 years at a cost of 8 million Finnish marks per year.

In order to compensate Finland for the loss of territory, the Soviet Union was also willing to give Finland twice the amount of land northwest of Lake Onega that was ceded to Finland.

Although the territory compensated by the Soviet Union was barren, it was the best areas of Finland that were claimed. However, this is a deal after all, and it is superficially polite.

But when it was Romania's turn, it was a pure territorial occupation. There is no compensation for the land, let alone the rent of the lease price.......

How dare the Romanian rulers agree to such humiliating bandit demands?

They didn't have a choice, because they didn't give them an option at all!