Bulgarian Empire

Time passed by in a hurry, and it entered 1902 in such a calm manner. This year is very important for both Ferdinand and Bulgaria!

In March, Ferdinand's second son was born, and he took an Orthodox name-Boris, which is the name of the eldest son of the original owner in history, full name: Boris Clement Robert Mary A. Pius Stanislav Saxe-Coburg-Godasky.

The reason why he took this name was mainly because his eldest son Ferdinand chose Roman Catholicism in his religious beliefs. In order to appease people's hearts, Ferdinand gave this Orthodox name to his second son!

The choice is very child’s play. Under the witness of the major religious figures in Bulgaria, the major factions occupy one side, and the little guy climbed to the Roman Catholic side. It is naturally considered that this is God’s will, and the belief struggle is over. war.

I guess the little guy is still very depressed. If it wasn't for being taken away by Ferdinand with quick eyesight and quick hands, he probably wouldn't mind going around in circles and going to every religion to mix it up!

In fact, the religion in Bulgaria is already a contention among a hundred schools of thought. Although everyone believes in Christianity, the factions within Christianity are also a mess.

In addition to the three major factions of Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodox Church, there are also a bunch of small factions. Of course, Bulgaria is also dominated by the three major factions!

Now there are about 9.86 million Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria, accounting for about 73.6%, about 2.35 million Catholics, accounting for about 17.6%, about 1.1 million Protestants, accounting for about 8.2%, and the rest are others. small faction.

But the Orthodox Church is also divided into several waves, among which the Bulgarian Orthodox Church occupies 31.5%, the Greek Orthodox Church occupies 19.6%, the Serbian Orthodox Church occupies 2.5%, the Albanian Orthodox Church occupies 2.3%, and the Russian Orthodox Church occupies 22.7%. , the Orthodox Church of Constantinople accounted for 6.8%, the Orthodox Church of Romania accounted for 4.2%…

Anyway, there are a lot of factions in a mess, a situation of contention among a hundred schools of thought, and these situations are also inseparable from Ferdinand's indulgence!

Under the deliberate guidance of the government, many young people who have accepted new ideas believe in one faction today and another faction the next day. They can no longer find religious devotion in them. Religion has been lost in Bulgaria. Mandatory binding on people!

Therefore, the number of believers calculated by the major religious factions may be much higher than the actual number, which is quite a situation of returning from a hundred schools of thought.

According to Ferdinand's idea, it is best to learn Buddhism and Taoism, so that gods of different religions can live together under one roof.

Oh, no need to be so troublesome, everyone believes in God! It's just that the church can accept believers of different factions, worship together, and hold weddings together!

At present, this situation has already appeared in some churches, and it often drives the priests to death!

In addition to one more small thing, Bulgaria built its first visible warship, the Constantinople, which also successfully completed its trial voyage in May!

Ferdinand also personally participated in the launching ceremony. The Constantinople is a cruiser with a displacement of 945o tons, 1350 horsepower, 121. meters, 2o knots, 21 knots for short-term urgency, 1oooo nautical miles/1o knots , 234mm gun x2, 1ox152mm gun, 16x3 pound gun, 57o people.

This is an imitation of the British Blake class, and the designers have made some improvements. There is not much difference in performance, but the tonnage has increased a little bit compared to the British!

Oh, don't be surprised, even if the shipyard is acquired and designers are recruited, the gap in the shipbuilding industry cannot be made up immediately.

Even if this warship is not advanced, it was a product of the British Empire more than ten years ago. But for the Bulgarian naval industry,

This is also a cross-generational exhibition!

Since Bulgaria formulated its first naval exhibition plan in 1898, Ferdinand insisted on self-reliance and took the road of independent research and development of warships.

No way, Ferdinand was also frightened by the news on the Internet of later generations. It is said that the warships sold by the British are cut-down versions, and all performances must be greatly reduced!

By analogy, other great powers are not good products either! If you bought a fleet and suddenly found out that your ships were all parallel imports after the war broke out, that would be a disaster!

Instead of this, it is better to be self-reliant and take it slowly. If you can't, you can't, but you have a bottom line in your own goods, and you know how much you have, so you can formulate a suitable strategy according to your own strength!

So the only large shipyard in Bulgaria, Dixov Shipyard, took on this great mission!

Independent research is definitely Ferdinand putting money on his face. In fact, the mission of the shipyard is to imitate warships.

From the initial imitation of small surface warships such as torpedo boats, mine-laying boats, and minesweepers, to larger destroyers and cruisers, the intelligence department also produced a lot of drawings for this.

However, they are basically past futures! Advanced shipbuilding technology is kept secret, and the blueprints for warships are not just one or two, they are all in tons, so even if you want to steal them, you can't do it!

For the sake of the experiment, the Navy also reluctantly gave up a small number of training ships, and directly asked the engineers to dismantle them for research. It took five years to see the results.

Oh, these are all fooling people's nonsense. In fact, they bought technology from the British, and then the engineers dug from various countries succeeded in copying it after some hard work!

This series of battleships served in the Royal Navy as early as 1888, and now warships with the same performance, it is said that the British can now reduce the tonnage to less than 7500 tons.

However, although the tonnage is a bit larger, in this era, the performance has not lagged behind, and it can still meet the requirements of the Bulgarian Navy!

As for the cost, you can tell from the tonnage that it must be much higher than that of the British! How much the British spend, Ferdinand doesn't know, anyway, at least 250,000 pounds to start now!

And the cost of Dixov Shipyard is clear to him, a total of 5,868,400 levs. (Approximately £234,000) This is the pure cost of construction, without any profit. Ferdinand is still very concerned about his own industry.

Moreover, the shipyard's quotation to the navy is only 6 million levs, which is equivalent to voluntary help. Of course, the navy has to pay for the technology itself!

But for Ferdinand, all of this was worth it. He didn't expect to make money by selling warships. Otherwise, spending more than a year to build such a warship would be far less profitable than building a merchant ship!

Of course, the achievements of Dixoff Shipyard in the past few years are far more than that. More than ten warships have been built for the Bulgarian Navy, including two destroyers. Now the total tonnage of the Bulgarian navy has finally exceeded 30,000 tons!

As for combat effectiveness? Ferdinand personally thinks that he is probably stronger than the two big men of the Ottomans and the Manchus. As for other countries, it is better not to compare!

Bulgaria's naval combat experience has also fought against smuggling ships, that's all. The only advantage is probably that the morale of the officers and soldiers is high, and they dare to fight desperately!

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On this day, Ferdinand was playing with little Ferdinand. This was the last childhood of the little guy. From next year, he will start the hellish noble training. There is nothing Ferdinand can do about this!

At this time, Minister of the Navy Petrov submitted a report to him: Your Majesty, this is our navy's future shipbuilding plan, please have a look!

Ferdinand took the report and looked at it seriously. The more he looked at it, his brows became tighter. After reading it, he glared at Petrov, and said, Minister of the Navy, are you sure today is not April Fool's Day? Is it?

Petrov smiled awkwardly, and then replied: Your Majesty, that's right! This is the naval development plan of the Ministry of the Navy for the next five years. Didn't you say before that the Bulgarian navy will be expanded by 20 times within ten years? !

Now our navy has just passed 30,000 tons, and we will add another 90,000 tons in the next five years, just reaching the goal you set. We all make plans according to your requirements!

If you feel that this scale is too small, we can continue to expand and guarantee your satisfaction!

Ferdinand said with a sneer: Very good! As long as the Bulgarian shipyard can build battleships, I will approve it. I will personally go to the government to fight for the funds for you!

How about Bulgaria's shipbuilding industry, can Ferdinand still not know? You must know that there are only two in Bulgaria that are capable of building warships. In addition to his own Dixov shipyard, there is also a state-owned shipyard that the Bulgarian government has just established.

As for technical strength, it is obvious that Dixoff Shipyard has the upper hand. The newly established state-owned shipyard has just been established, and qualified workers have not yet been trained. It is difficult to achieve without two or three years of running-in!

After hearing Ferdinand's words, Petrov said excitedly, So, Your Majesty, do you agree?

Ferdinand smiled slightly and said, Don't forget the prerequisite, these battleships must be built in Bulgaria!

Ferdinand thought to himself, even if the Admiralty recruits a group of designers and engineers, it is impossible to be able to start building battleships right away! After all, many technologies involved in this are not available in Bulgaria!

Petrov smiled awkwardly and said, It's not impossible for us to build it ourselves, but there is still a small trouble that needs your approval, do you see?

Ferdinand sneered and said, Okay, tell me, as long as it's not too much, I agree!

Suddenly, Petrov took out another stack of documents and handed them to Ferdinand. Then he said: Your Majesty, we have contacted the Dutch Navy and they also hope to build a new generation of battleships, but the Kingdom of the Netherlands currently lacks sufficient funds for shipbuilding!

We made a tentative proposal that the two countries jointly build, we provide research funds, they provide technology, and the two sides cooperate together.

They still have colonies to protect, and their need for shipbuilding is greater than ours. If we can provide funds, I believe the Dutch government will not object!

Ferdinand was taken aback for a moment, but then he realized that it was true that Bulgaria has no technical strength, but it doesn't mean that other small countries don't either?

There is no conflict of interest between the two parties. You provide the technology and I pay the money. They can cooperate in research and share the results!

In this way, Bulgaria can also fully participate in the upcoming major changes.

Not only the navy, but also multilateral cooperation in other fields? Although Bulgaria is now surrounded by enemies in the Balkans, but in the European continent, there is really no unresolved knot with anyone!

Ferdinand said happily: Okay, your Admiralty has done a great job this time! However, this shipbuilding plan has been put on hold for the time being. Let's start again after the first new battleship comes out!

In this regard, I will ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to cooperate with you and strive to reach an agreement with the Dutch as soon as possible to build our own battleship!

Happy to be happy, Ferdinand still has not forgotten that the era of dreadnoughts is coming, and the current battleships will soon be eliminated.

In order to accumulate shipbuilding technology, it is acceptable to build one or two ships. If a bunch of them are built at one time, the dreadnought ship will be eliminated as soon as it is released, and it will be too late for him to cry!

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