Chapter 406: The End

"It is said that this trick was given by an operational staff officer of the Ottoman Army General Staff, or Hamid II, who was recommended by Qin Hanting." Yuan Shikai said with a smile.

"Oh, talents, I can't imagine that even their broken country can have such talents, what is their name, please come to us one day to communicate with the people of the General Staff." Yang Feng said in surprise.

"It seems to be called Kemal, Qin Hanting really wants to get him, this time the Ottomans counterattacked, the main battle plan was formulated by him, and he has a very set of military command." Yuan Shikai said.

Yang Feng pouted, Father of Turkey, of course there is a set, but does Xiao Kai want to die? Now Emperor Yang's first reaction when he sees foreign talents is to kill them, but forget it if you think about it, after all, if you really want to fight, you still need Hamid II to be his mainstay, and he has such a talent who can pick the beam, if he dies, will it be difficult to let a mouth cannon like Enver command the army?

As for the question of whether Xiao Kai will be as active as in the original history, there is no need to consider this at all, the current Hamid II is worshiped in the army, the image of the emperor is brilliant, a generation of heroes is rising, and the soil of the Ottoman Empire is extremely barren.

In the final analysis, the so-called ge life is nothing more than those who are poor and crazy, and want to use violence to redistribute social wealth, as for those ideological ideas, they are just used to fool others to do it together, of course, it is possible to even fool themselves together, in essence, to put it bluntly, it is still to rob money and women, but it is just a vest and pants with different patterns, who will play with that thing if there is food and drink?

The French life of freedom, equality, fraternity or death, no matter how magnificent it may be portrayed by later generations, is only half the price of bread. Louis XVI gave enough bread subsidies to every French household in Paris to ensure that both husband and wife would not be guillotined.

At this time, although the Ottoman Empire was still far away from eating and drinking, but with the support of oil revenues, Hamid II had completely gotten rid of the realm that he had no ability to make money and could only skin himself from the common people, and there was no need to use expropriation to maintain the operation of his military and political system and his own spending and drinking, and last year his dividends on imperial oil reached five million pounds, not counting the government taxes brought to him, and he could still make a fortune in this war. Not to mention the war reparations, the sacking of Bulgaria alone made him gain a lot, and it is not easy to buy the hearts of the people with money in hand.

Casually reduce taxes, open a few new factories, build a few railways, or learn from Yang Feng to directly issue banknotes and grain to the people, the people are very easy to fool. What they want is nothing more than food and clothing, and his country has less need for clothing, and as for food, it is not simple, and the domestic grain production is not enough to go out and buy it. In the United States, Brazil has a bumper grain harvest every year, and the price is so cheap that it makes people cry, so buy a boat to distribute it to the people for free. It can make the poor people of a city grateful to him, and the unrest will be eliminated in the bud, so that it can also strike at the great lords who own land. Strengthen the control of the state.

Yang Feng has been playing like this all these years, and whenever there is a shortage of food in a disaster, he will send a boat for free in the name of the emperor, earning the tears of the people, of course, his intentions are even deeper.

For him, this not only bought the hearts of the people, but also kept the domestic grain price at a rate that made growing grain unprofitable, and then forced the peasants to the cities, and forced the landlords' funds to industry, he hid behind and bought land on a large scale, engaged in royal agricultural demonstration fields, specially hired people to plant modern varieties for him, and studied new agricultural technologies, although there was still no profit, but he turned him into a super large landowner, according to the land area, the cultivated land area under the name of the royal family has exceeded one-fifth of the country's cultivated land area.

And another advantage of this is that it can make Americans like farming more, hit their industry, support their agriculture, and make the United States completely become an agricultural country, which is Yang Feng's national policy, as for the problem of China's gold flowing to the United States, this is too simple, look at the money they have earned, won't they find an excuse to invade it, and then go to grab it back?

This is Emperor Yang's version of sheep cutting.

The Roman negotiations followed and indeed proceeded according to the script that Kemal had written for Hamid II, and after the good example of Montenegro, the Greeks immediately went into action, and decided to withdraw from the Balkan League and sue for peace with the Ottoman Empire alone, on the pretext that the Serbian newspapers had hurt the feelings of the Greek people by their rude remarks to the Greek king and navy.

The betrayal of the Greeks almost drove the Serbians and Bulgarians crazy, you must know that they have now lost the ability to bargain with the Ottomans, and the only hope of lowering the number of reparations is the relatively complete army of Greece, but the Greeks do this, which is equivalent to completely selling them, if the betrayal of the Montenegrins hurt them only emotionally, but the betrayal of the Greeks, this is a stab in their hearts.

But their anger was to no avail, and even the envoys of the two countries to Greece ran to plead, but it did not save the Greeks in the slightest, and soon their separate peace talks with the Ottomans began amid the curses of a large number of Bulgarians and Serbs outside the hall, and the final result was that the Greeks paid the Ottoman Empire eight million pounds sterling war reparations, and then the two sides signed a peace treaty, and the Ottoman Empire and the Greek Kingdom ended the state of war.

Next up is Serbia.

After the signing of the peace treaty in Aussy, the Ottoman army remained part of the army to continue to garrison the border, and the remaining main force all went north, together with the withdrawal from Shkodra, a total of 250,000 people joined the military threat to Serbia, by this time the number of Ottoman troops gathered around Serbia had exceeded 700,000, which reached almost one-fifth of the total population of the country, and thousands of guns of various calibers were aimed at Serbian cities.

After receiving hints from the Ottoman negotiators, the Serbs had no choice, and then the Serbian government formally announced the dissolution of the alliance between the two sides in the bitter pleas of the Bulgarians, on the grounds that the alliance had ceased to exist after the withdrawal of Montenegro and Greece, and then started peace talks with the Ottoman Empire alone, and finally after some difficult negotiations, exchanged fifteen million pounds of war reparations for the peace treaty.

In this way, only Bulgaria is left without signing the peace treaty, and Hamid II does not give them any room for negotiation, twenty-five million pounds, when to take out this money, when to withdraw the Ottoman army from Bulgaria, not a single cent is missing, as for the other messy conditions, it is necessary to ask for money, twenty-five million pounds, to give or not to give, right?

Ferdinand I also accepted his fate at this time, anyway, a knife in his neck and a knife in his neck, isn't it 25 million pounds? Anyway, he doesn't need to pay for it himself, and in the end, more than four million people in the entire country will pay for it, as long as he can keep his throne, but the question now is, where can he get such a huge amount of money?

Forced to be anxious, this guy also played a rogue tactic, he directly found the Russians, and told them to either give him this loan, the specific conditions are arbitrary, except for the garrison in Bulgaria, anything else you want, or I will pay it back slowly, anyway, I can't pay this reparation, the Ottoman army has been stationed in Bulgaria, and when the time comes, see who is in a hurry.

He is now a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, and the result of Bulgaria is nothing more than the question of who will be accused in the end, the Russians accuse him of being a puppet, and the Ottomans accuse him of being a puppet, if Nikolai does not want Bulgaria to become a base for the Ottoman army in the future, then help to advance this money.

In addition to looking for the Russians, he also ran to threaten the Romanians, either to help with the reparations, or he invited the Ottomans to be stationed all the way to the Romanian border, you can all do it yourself!

In the end, the money was advanced to him by Russia and Romania in the form of loans, of which Russia borrowed 15 million pounds and Romania borrowed 10 million pounds.

Of course, their loans will definitely not be unconditional, in addition to customs tax guarantees and some other tax guarantees, there are also a large number of political conditions attached, especially the Russians are particularly harsh in these aspects, anyway, the result is that Bulgaria will basically be equal to the puppet of Russia in the future, but for this Ferdinand I no longer cares, in fact, this is the best result for him, at least with the shade of the big tree of Nikolai, even if the war is over, he does not have to worry about being removed from the throne, You must know that at this time the Bulgarians had already shouted the slogan of overthrowing him, after all, he had led his country into the abyss.

Although in a sense, he can be regarded as a traitor, but since he is the monarch and the country is his own, it doesn't matter whether he sells it or not.

The loan agreement and the peace treaty between Austria and Bulgaria were signed at the same time, and then the reparations advanced by the Russians and Romanians to Bulgaria were sent to Istanbul, and the Ottoman army, which had occupied Sofia, officially began to retreat, and the unprecedented war that swept the entire Balkan Peninsula and caused more than 1.2 million soldiers and civilian casualties on both sides of the war finally came to an end. (To be continued......)