While Italy was spurring supplies from all over the world, Austria-Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina were in a state of restlessness.

Speaking of which, Bosnia and Herzegovina is actually not a good place. The territory of the region is more mountainous, with the exception of the northern part of the country, where the Sava River flows and some small plains.

However, due to its geographical location and the Austro-Hungarian ambition for southward expansion, this new territory, which was incorporated into the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was taken seriously.

Education, health care and other public facilities were built with the help of the Austro-Hungarian government. However, despite the Austro-Hungarian Empire's goodwill, the Serbs, who make up nearly half of the population in the region, did not appreciate it, and for them, it was better to merge with their own Serbian kingdom than to stay in Austria-Hungary and become second-class citizens.

Therefore, although it has been more than 20 years since the merger of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is still not so optimistic under the resistance of the Serbs, especially after the Kingdom of Serbia gained nearly half of Macedonia from the Balkan War, and its power increased, the Serbs became even more restless.

Of course, Vienna is also quite clear about why the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina are restless. In the past, because of the fear of Russia's attitude and its own needs, the Bosnian Serbs were mainly appeased.

However, when pacification is ineffective, and with the support of the Kingdom of Serbia, it becomes more and more violent, then some other means must be arranged.

That's right, Austria-Hungary has been silently preparing for the war in Serbia.

However, he was afraid of Russia behind the Serbs, so Austria-Hungary kept it back.

Perhaps with the support of the Russians behind her, Serbia became more and more restless. Anti-Austrian propaganda has emerged in Serbia, as well as patriotic groups that have been established on this basis. For example, the "Black Hand Society", which was founded in 1910. (I didn't pay attention and thought it was the underworld)

The founder of the organization is very famous, that is, the head of Serbian intelligence, Colonel Ragutin. Before the creation of the Black Hand Society, the colonel (who was still a captain at the time) led the generals, the king of his country, Alexander I and his wife, to be shot.

That's right, it was this colonel who led the shooting of the king at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Because the Serbian king was unpopular at that time, many people in the kingdom were very disappointed. However, many of the officers wanted to force the Serbian king Alexander I to abdicate, but Ragutin believed that if the king abdicated, it would likely lead to a civil war, so he killed him. It was not only the royal couple who died, the prime minister, the military minister, etc., were all killed in this coup.

After shooting the king, Ragutin was packaged by his henchmen as the savior of the Serbian kingdom. The coup d'état also made Ragutin believe that he could easily defeat his enemies through violence, assassination, and covert sabotage, which became his credo.

Having taken the post of head of the intelligence service, he began to study how to conduct the war against Austria-Hungary in such a way.

At this time, in the minds of the vast majority of Serbs, it became their ideal to unify the Serb settlements into the Kingdom of Serbia. That's right, this is the Greater Serbian Plan of Serbia. In the Balkans, in addition to Serbia, Romania has its own Great Romanian plan, the Bulgarians have their own Great Bulgarian plan, and Greece has it.

In any case, in the Balkan countries, there are all kinds of plans to bring the same people together, stirred up by nationalism.

However, many parts of the Balkans are mixed with ethnic groups, so the projects promoted by these nationalists have overlapped. This also led to the outbreak of wars in the Balkans before.

And for Serbia, for the Greater Serbia plan is definitely supported. It was precisely because of this plan that the Kingdom of Serbia seized almost half of Macedonia.

Of course, nationalism is also a double-edged sword, and after seizing a large number of Serb settlements in the south, they are facing the Austro-Hungarian region of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Although the Kingdom of Serbia was now fanatical, it did not think that it would be possible to seize Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Austrians by means of war.

In this case, some unconventional means are under consideration, and of course if the government does these things, it will leave a bad impression on the European countries, and it is much more convenient to promote the organization of individuals themselves.

It was also with the government's acquiescence that the Black Hand Society, established by Colonel Ragutin, grew from strength to strength, and in less than three years, the organization had 500 core members and thousands of peripheral members.

In addition, the Society was staffed by a large number of lower-ranking officers of the Serbian army, who had undergone rigorous military training to help train members who were skilled in guerrilla warfare and sabotage. Of course, because of these officers, the Black Hand will be able to easily obtain all kinds of weapons and ammunition.

These trained members were sent to Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Black Hand Society to carry out sabotage activities and disrupt the Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From this whole line, we can see that the Black Hand will be made up of a large number of fanatical nationalists, and with fanatical nationalist sentiments, it will lead to an irreparable situation in the region.

And due to the emergence of the radical mafia, it has also led to a large number of various assassinations and sabotage activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In the first half of this year alone, Austria-Hungary suffered more than a dozen assassinations and sabotage in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The most serious of these was the shooting of the mayor of Tuzla, Gustavo, by conspirators in front of the city hall. The dedicating mayor was hit by three bullets and died on the spot, while the murderer was captured by the guards at the scene.

According to the police later in the interrogation, the murderer was a militant from Serbia, and it was the Black Hand that sent him.

In response, Austria-Hungary issued a grave warning to Serbia to stop its reactionary rhetoric against Austria-Hungary, or else Austria-Hungary would inflict a heavy price on Serbia.

In response to Austria-Hungary's warning, Serbia naturally did not dare to take it seriously, and immediately warned the Black Hand to wait for others to temporarily stop sabotage operations against Bosnia and Herzegovina.

However, these fanatics will not take the government's warnings seriously and continue to sabotage the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina on their own.

Seeing that the warning did not work, Austria-Hungary decided to conduct a military exercise in Bosnia and Herzegovina, giving a warning.

And the location chosen by Austria-Hungary for the exercises was delicate, that is, close to the Serbian border. This time, Austria-Hungary will mobilize more than 40,000 troops for a large-scale exercise to let the Kingdom of Serbia know the consequences.

In order to show that he attaches importance to this exercise, Crown Prince Archduke Ferdinand will also come to watch the exercise in person.

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Chapter 2, steamed buns work so hard, where are the tickets?