Mediterranean Hegemony Road

Radoman knew that it was all over! The Serbian government is over! My political life is over!

The Austro-Hungarian Empire's patience with Serbia has been exhausted, and its support is no longer limitless!

But the Serbian government doesn't know it yet, and now it is because of the slow response of the Serbian government itself, and the bitter fruit can only be swallowed by itself!

So Radoman, a political veteran, after sending a telegram to the country explaining the specific situation, he fell ill decisively and was admitted to the Vienna Hospital!

The Serbian negotiating delegation can only be replaced by the deputy foreign minister and continue to participate in the negotiations!

Time passed in a hurry, another week passed in a flash, and into November, there was still no progress in the negotiations!

Now there are only two choices before the Serbian government:

Either agree to the conditions of the Bulgarians, sign an armistice and end the war!

Either hold on and surrender to the Bulgarians when Belgrade collapses!

After knowing the purpose of the Bulgarians, the senior officials of the Serbian government knew that this time the trouble was big! The prime minister in Vienna gave them a good start, so they all fell ill!

After the war was defeated, their political life was over! Now that I'm sick, I don't need to bear the name of a traitor!

Others can hide, but Alexander I can't hide! Who called him king?

In the Serbian Royal Palace, Alexander I thought angrily that he wanted to come together with everyone, but now he wanted to hide, there were no doors or windows! !

He said coldly: Come on, go and invite all the ministers over to discuss matters! If you are sick, bring them here! Anyway, you need to see people in life, and you need to see corpses in death. At this afternoon's meeting, all senior government officials must Attend!

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The war has reached this stage, and there will be no more suspense! When will it end, it is only a matter of time, Bulgaria has already ended the wartime economic system!

In the Royal Palace of Sofia, Ferdinand is busy taking stock of expenses with the top government officials!

Good guy, it really is a cannon shot, and the gold is ten thousand taels!

From the declaration of war to the present, large and small expenditures have reached more than 72.4 million leva (about 28 million pounds, 2.1 tons of gold), and this is just the beginning!

In the later stage, there are also a series of things such as compensation for casualties, awards for meritorious personnel, and new land management, which are not a small expense!

But now Ferdinand is not worried about this huge expenditure at all!

The Bulgarian army directly occupied two-thirds of Serbia, although it was mostly mountainous and not very rich! Even so, the harvest is still good!

Direct robbery, the method is really too low-level, and it is easy to corrupt military discipline and bear infamy!

It is much simpler to set up a card directly to collect taxes and drive up prices! Anyway, during the war years, prices did not go up! The black pot is also fought by the capitalists!

As for the life of the Serbs, it was not Ferdinand's turn to worry about it! Anyway, the Bulgarian army now distributes relief food to civilians, even if it is only a small piece of brown bread!

The next problem is that the Serbian government should have a headache!

Has the casualties been counted? Ferdinand asked with concern, this was the question he was most worried about!

Prime Minister Konstantin immediately replied: The preliminary statistics have been made. From the declaration of war to the present, in the past month, the Bulgarian army has launched hundreds of large and small battles!

As of yesterday, more than 40,000 casualties were reported by various units!

Among them, 12,574 people have died; there are more than 8,000 seriously injured people who are still under treatment, many of whom have been amputated and have no chance of returning to normal; the rest are The lightly wounded have begun to recover one after another.

Back to the troops!

After listening to the Prime Minister's words, Ferdinand's hanging heart finally fell! Fortunately, the lightly wounded can recover, otherwise the loss of more than 40,000 soldiers would be enough to hurt Bulgaria's vitality!

Even so, Ferdinand sighed! Fighting a Serbia and pushing it all the way, the two sides have paid the price of more than 20,000 people within less than a month of fighting!

Then slowly said: Do a good job in the pension work! We can't let the hero bleed and cry!

Seeing that Ferdinand was not in high spirits, everyone wisely put away their smiling faces, as if they had changed, they all turned into a sympathetic expression!

Of course it doesn't matter if it's true or not, but the show still has to be done! Otherwise, if the top doesn't pay attention, and the bottom is okay, can the pension be paid in full?

Ferdinand is not the Virgin, nor can you ask others to be the Virgin! If someone at the top of the government is really a Virgin, he will definitely let him get out of the way!

After a pause, Constantine said in a sincere tone: Please rest assured, Grand Duke! Our government will definitely do a good job in the aftermath, and there will never be a situation where heroes shed blood and tears!

Ferdinand nodded. He knew that the Bulgarian government was still very clean. In addition, the outbreak of nationalism had just defeated Serbia. Everyone's patriotic enthusiasm was at a high level. !

Continue to ask: How about the loss of the Serbs?

Hearing Ferdinand asking about Serbia's situation, Konstantin said with high eyebrows: Grand Duke, the Serbs are finished this time, and it will be difficult for them to recover for 20 years!

From the data collected from various places, the number of deaths that the Serbian army has determined has exceeded 200,000, and the actual number will only be more!

Because the Serbs used military force, basically all the young and young laborers in the country were sent into the army. In addition to the more than 200,000 who have died in battle, we still have 120,000 prisoners in our hands!

Now Serbia's young population has been reduced by at least half!

Besides, I helped relocate nearly 300,000 people from the south bank. Now we have distributed relief food and military control of the area, so it is not a big problem!

Once the war is over, these 300,000 people will become time bombs! If the Serbian government cannot make proper arrangements, the civil war is likely to break out again under the intensification of contradictions!

Ferdinand smiled knowingly, it is not so simple to place 300,000 people, especially a group of old, weak, sick and disabled!

To let them continue to be farmers, you have to have land to grow them? Let them be workers, that's even more trouble! Do coolies, and lack of labor; technical work, they can't; and the Serbian government simply can't provide so many jobs!