Mediterranean Hegemony Road

The Bulgarian Foreign Minister argued that: The armistice agreement has not been signed, the two countries are still at war, and our cessation of the offensive has already shown Bulgaria's peace-loving attitude!

But giving the enemy a chance to recover his strength is absolutely impossible! The blockade cannot end unless the war is over!

Alexander I, far Belgrade, is now on the verge of collapse! From the start of the negotiations to now, in just over a week, he has suppressed five rebellions!

No, probably not a rebellion either! In the case of extreme shortage of materials, the people caused riots in order to compete for living materials!

Since the Bulgarian army besieged the city, the price of goods in the city began to soar sharply, and now it is dozens of times higher than before the war!

The capitalists have no idea of ​​sharing weal and woe with the government, and they have refused to accept dinars! The rich are okay, they were prepared before, there is always some foreign exchange or gold and silver, and now they can barely make ends meet!

This is very hard for the working class. Unlike ordinary citizens, they still have some food reserves in the city!

I work in a factory alone, with food and lodging in the factory, and not everyone has the property to cook, so what reserves are there!

As soon as Belgrade was besieged, the factories were shut down, the capitalists themselves suffered losses, and naturally they were no longer in charge!

The few dinars in my hand are now similar to straw paper, and I can't spend it! Under the threat of starvation, robbery and theft are omnipresent, and the crime rate in Belgrade has increased greatly!

Of course, these are all small problems. Serbia is not an industrial country. Most of the few workers in Belgrade have been mobilized into the army!

There are not many left, and they are still the real old, weak and sick, and they can't make much waves!

The key is that in order to defend the city, Belgrade City carried out a comprehensive mobilization, no young men, even young women were organized, and two female soldiers were established, ready to fight the Bulgarians to the end!

In theory, Belgrade now has hundreds of thousands of troops in the city, six or seven times the number of enemies outside the city! If it were the Middle Ages, Alexander I could launch a counterattack now!

It's not necessarily a good thing to have a large number of people. Military pay may not be distributed, but military rations must not be gone! The Serbian government, now has to worry about these people eating!

It is impossible to transport food from outside the city. No matter how much food is passed through the Bulgarian army, it will not be enough to eat in the city!

Young Alexander I, although limited in ability, is not really stupid! He knew that once the food ran out, a mutiny would happen immediately! For the sake of safety, we had to urge the Serbian delegation to speed up the negotiation progress!

Regarding the opinion of the Serbian delegation, the Austrian foreign minister was dumbfounded. Is he still fighting for Serbia's interests? Are you going to give in?

Well, if that's the case, then it's easy to do! In order to make a full set of the show, according to the original plan, this difficult negotiation had to be delayed until 1895. Now it has only been a week since the end, and the Serbs gave in on their own!

Since he is doing research, how could Ferdinand have missed the foreign minister of Austria-Hungary?

The Serbs probably never dreamed that they were sold as soon as they showed the intention to make concessions!

For this news, Bulgaria paid another 50,000 pounds! When the war was over, the senior leaders of the Bulgarian government suddenly realized that fighting was not the most expensive, but public relations!

But this news is really worth the price! Although a secret agreement has been reached with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, if Serbia is willing to pay a higher price, it can still be operated without harming the interests of the Austro-Hungarian Empire!

Knowing that the Serbian government could no longer hold on, Ferdinand decided to add another fire!

Belgrade is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers in northern Serbia.

It is the capital of the Republic of Serbia and the national political, economic and cultural center. It is an important contact point between Europe and the Near East, has a very important strategic significance, and is known as the key to the Balkans.

For defending the city, food and water are two essential elements! After cutting off the supply of grain and coal, Ferdinand set his sights on water!

After receiving the order, Popov who was besieging the city immediately understood! Belgrade is located at the confluence of rivers, it is unrealistic to want to poison! Ferdinand didn't let them do this either, the impact is too bad!

Ferdinand's order was to use a very primitive, very traditional, but very effective method - cut off the river upstream!

Of course, it is not to cut off the Sava and the Danube, otherwise, the diverted river will have nowhere to clean up!

If the negotiation hasn't started, it's fine. Now that it has started, it would be a bit too much to artificially create floods and submerge the farmland and villages downstream!

What Popov has to do now is to force the prisoners to dump soil and garbage into the river, as if to cut off the river, and put pressure on the Serbian government!

The turbid river water is not suitable for drinking directly in the city! As for the consequences, this has nothing to do with Ferdinand, anyway, it is the Serbian government that should be the headache!

As soon as Popov moved outside the city, Belgrade was in chaos! If the water source is polluted, then dig a well and hold it back. Anyway, it is located at the confluence of rivers, and digging down can always dig out water!

Of course, when there are few people, this is no problem! The problem is that in Belgrade, in addition to the aborigines, more than 100,000 troops have been added. How can the water for so many people be handled by a few wells!

The government had to dispatch the army to maintain order in the city after rushing for food in the front, and now rushing for water!

In just ten days, the army has shot thousands of people, which stabilized the situation. The senior government of Serbia knows that Belgrade is on the verge of collapse!

Alexander I now holds high-level meetings every day, thinking about strategy! There is also a very important reason, that is, not to give subordinates a chance to connect to prevent a coup! Who called Serbia a tradition of coups?

At the dull meeting, the Minister of Industry bit his head and said: The situation in Belgrade is getting worse and worse, and the industry and commerce in the city have all stopped!

The capitalists are going crazy, blocking my door every day, and now I have a home and can't go back!

In the long run, I am afraid the situation will get further out of control!

The Bulgarians are trying to force us to compromise and accept their terms in their entirety!

Now they may cut off the river at any time. If it does happen, the farmland and towns in our downstream areas will be devastated, and the consequences will be very serious!

If the negotiation fails, I am afraid that there will be no pure land in Serbia!