Mediterranean Hegemony Road

Bulgaria's ultimatum completely dispels Serbia's illusions, war is coming!

Alexander I panicked, the war came too suddenly! Since September, the intensification of the conflict between Paul and Serbia has only been a short month. Now Serbia has no time to prepare!

Prime Minister, how is our war preparations going? Alexander I asked anxiously

I saw Prime Minister Radoman Bovic said with a wry smile: Your Majesty, the time is too short, and we have no time to prepare!

So far, the nationwide mobilization has barely been completed, with a total of more than 500,000 young and strong mobilized, and they are still distributed throughout the country! It is too late to organize training, and the selection of qualified soldiers has just begun, and it will take at least half a month to complete!

The material reserve is even worse. Due to the lack of funds, our procurement work is not going well, and the gap is huge!

The Minister of War added: Because of our lack of weapons and equipment, most of the existing weapons are collected from the private sector, and many people bring their own weapons to serve!

Weapons and equipment are a mess, and until now, our guns and ammunition statistics have not been completed!

The types of firearms are even more varied. Basically, there are all kinds of firearms in the world. We have them now. The number of all kinds of firearms is unknown!

This all takes time, at least for the next half month, the mobilized army will not have any combat effectiveness! It takes at least two to three months of short-term training to initially form combat effectiveness!

Fortunately, everyone's military level is amateur, otherwise you will find that the actual situation is much worse than said! The variety of weapons and equipment also means that the calibers are different, which is very difficult for supplies! Maybe a lot of people go to the battlefield with guns, but they can't find bullets that can be fired!

After listening to the Prime Minister's words, Alexander I angrily asked: What happened to the Minister of Finance?? Why is the money not in place yet? Do we still want to fight? Don't forget that now is the moment of life and death for Serbia, and you still have to fight with each other. ?

The Minister of Finance has a conspicuous look on his face, and he has a conscience of heaven and earth. This time, he tried his best to raise funds, but he still couldn't fill the gold-swallowing cave of the army! Now facing the question of Alexander I, he went back without any guilt:

Your Majesty, please respect yourself! Our Ministry of Finance has done everything we can, don't forget that the military just fought a counter-insurgency war. Tens of thousands of casualties, and the pension alone is an astronomical sum!

And now there is a national mobilization again, domestic taxation is now almost negligible; international loans, bonds, the bankers are not optimistic that we can win this war, so the gains are limited!

Now the funds we use are already using the gold reserves of the issued currency, and we must not consume too much, otherwise our currency may collapse at any time now!

As soon as the Minister of Finance finished speaking, everyone's expressions changed greatly. In the gold standard era, the currency reserves were used, and if the operation is not good, it will explode!

Now, Alexander I, disregarding the opposition of the Minister of Finance, said with a sigh: I don't care so much! Take it out first, let's pass this level and talk about it! It's easy to say what you win, and all the losses can be in Bulgaria. Make up for it; if you lose, you don’t have to worry about the currency crashing!”

The Minister of Finance thought about it, and the same is true. If you win, everything is easy to say. If you lose, someone will take the blame, and the cabinet will not be able to escape. The mess should be left to the next one!

Helplessly said: Okay! But we don't have much gold reserves, so you should save a little bit! If the war is not over, it will be spent, and our Ministry of Finance will not have a single dinar!

The Minister of War said bitterly: Don't worry, if you get to that point, even if you have dinars, I won't want it, it's not much different from blank paper!

Alexander I glared at the Minister of War and asked again: Prime Minister,

What is the attitude of the Austro-Hungarian Empire now? Will you be on our side? ? It's really not good, buy us some time!

Prime Minister Radoman Bovic said in embarrassment: Austro-Hungary has made it clear that they will be on our side. But they are worried that if they intervene directly, and the Russian Empire also intervenes, the situation will be more troublesome!

So they have reached an agreement with the Russian Empire, and now they will not directly interfere in this war! In this war, we can only rely on ourselves!

Knowing the attitude of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Alexander I instantly felt betrayed! Both sides or allies? Nine years ago, he helped out, but now he's just sitting on the sidelines!

Angrily said: Forget it, let it go, just pretend that we don't have that ally! Now it's up to us, Minister of War, you must fight for Serbia this time, otherwise~~~

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Niš is the largest city in southern Serbia, situated on the banks of the Nishava, a tributary of the South Morava River. Now this hustle and bustle city in the past is now a depression!

The aborigines of Djokovic Nish, now in their sixties, were already living a long life in the 19th century.

It may be unbelievable to say, he is no ordinary man, and he participated in the war against the Ottomans when he was young. Later, he founded a textile factory in Nis, and he also has more than 100 workers. He is a proper capitalist, but now his life is not easy!

After the economic crisis broke out, it was dumped by international capitalists. Djokovic's textile factory never made a profit and was forced to close its doors!

After selling the factory, I left a sum of money to retire. But the Bulgarian war was about to break out, and the dinar began to depreciate wildly!

The government used the gold reserves, which could not be concealed from the shrewd capitalists, and decisively chose to sell the dinar, and then the dinar began to depreciate wildly.

The elderly Djokovic reacted a step slower. When he reacted, the dinar had changed from the original: 1 dinar = 0.29 grams of gold to the current 1 dinar = 0.01 grams of gold.

In an instant, assets shrunk dozens of times, and years of savings were destroyed!

Pantridge, the price of flour has gone up again? Well, you can't make up your mind. This must have been ordered by that old Kraxic. Get me a ton of flour and load it up to my house! Djokovic Vicky said with a headache

Mr. Djokovic, so much? asked the salesman Pantridge in surprise

The war is about to start, how can you do it without hoarding some food? Djokovic said calmly

Mr. Djokovic, the government has announced to calm down prices, and the market will soon return to normal. It's not worth buying so much now! Pantridge

Silly boy, Nisch will be the front line at the beginning of the war, who cares about this! Djokovic glared at him and left without looking back.

Nish is too close to the front line, and he fought over the last time in the last war to defend the Serbia, and it is estimated that it will not be much better now!

Back home, Djokovic did not hesitate. After purchasing the necessities of life, he began to move. He planned to go to his hometown in the mountains to avoid disaster!

Djokovic is not an isolated case. The rich people on the Serbian border have begun to move to avoid disasters. Obviously, they are not optimistic about this war!

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