Mediterranean Hegemony Road

The Ottoman Empire is already the biggest enemy of the bourgeoisie in both Russia and Russia! This is the point that Ferdinand felt the most. Who called him the biggest capitalist in Bulgaria?

Bulgarian industrial products, fortunately, the big deal is sold to the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire also blocked the entry of Western European industrial products, which is a two-way offset!

But what about agricultural exports? The Russians don't need to import grain, they can't finish their own grain, so why export it?

After being scratched by the Ottomans, the Bulgarian government had to exempt companies from taxation in order to guarantee their competitiveness. Even so, export profits are extremely limited!

Ferdinand's Shuanghui Food Group alone pays more than 30 million leva of import and export tariffs to the Ottoman Empire every year. This is a real pain!

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing one's parents!

Sitting on the Black Sea Strait, this golden waterway, the Ottoman Empire can be said to have brought the hatred between Bulgaria and Russia to its full value! Of course, Romania's feelings are probably similar, and the export of agricultural products will still be severely scraped!

It would be fine if the Ottoman Empire was strong, and everyone had to endure it no matter how dissatisfied it was. It's a pity that he is in decline now, and this is drawing hatred!

Even if the Russian government can bear it for the sake of the overall situation, the domestic aristocrats cannot bear it for the sake of profit!

Otherwise, the Russian government would not have immediately packaged a fleet to come over as soon as it saw an opportunity; Ferdinand would not have been in a hurry to overthrow the Ottoman Empire, because interests were forced out!

This point, the Bulgarian government is also very clear. Knowing that cooperating with the Russians is scheming with tigers, but there is no choice, the Ottoman Empire must be eliminated!

Otherwise, don't think about it better in Bulgaria. The Ottoman Empire is always sucking blood through tariffs, and the benefits of industrialization have been taken away by the Turks!

Of course, the Sudanese government is expected to express injustice. The tariffs they receive in the Black Sea Strait are already very low, lower than the tariffs of most countries! For this guy Mao Xiong, he can't hide, who dares to make trouble?

Every man is innocent, but he is guilty!

The Black Sea Strait is the throat of West Asia, North Africa and southern Europe leading to the Black Sea. It is the only passage for the Russian Empire, Bulgaria and Romania to enter the Mediterranean Sea. It has always been a battleground for military strategists.

What's more, it is a golden waterway with tens of thousands of ships passing through every year, with a total tonnage of tens of millions of tons and tariff revenue of tens of millions of pounds!

So many factors add up, the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, Romania, and Bulgaria can be imagined.

If strategic issues can still be compromised, then there will be no need to discuss economic disputes at all! No way, who said that these countries are not rich?

It is obviously impossible for the Ottoman Empire to give up collecting tariffs, it would cost him his life!

In addition to the state's financial revenue, Turkey's aristocratic men can also benefit from it. If their financial path is cut off, the sultan's position will be unstable!

Not to mention Bulgaria, how to obtain further development without annexing the territory of the European part of the Ottoman Empire? Where can I find raw materials and markets?

In this regard, Romania's attitude can be ignored. It does not border the Ottomans on land, and the fleet at sea that is comparable to the Bulgarian Coast Guard has no ability to find the Turks' bad luck!

Hairy bears, there is no doubt that their appetite is the greatest, but they have the strength to back them up! If it is not for the mutual restraint of the powers, it is estimated that the target is not just a Constantinople.

The Asia Minor Peninsula and Georgia are all good choices, which are in line with their operation of turning the Black Sea into an inland sea!

And they can't get enough to feed at all, even if the sultan wants to compromise with them, it can't be done! That is to say, the strategic focus of the Russian Empire is now in the Far East. Otherwise, if Ferdinand has the courage, he would not dare to seek skin with a tiger?

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Wei Zheng-Ivanlov, Minister of Industry, Commerce and Trade, continued: Grand Duke,

Judging from the situation in 1895, the growth point of our import and export trade in the next year will still be the Russian Empire.

In the global market, except for a few specialty products, other industrial and commercial products are still difficult to achieve breakthroughs!

Considering that war may break out in the next two years, we have decided to temporarily restrict the export of many agricultural products, and instead, the government will purchase them uniformly as a strategic material reserve!

The economic growth rate in the coming year may drop sharply, and some industries may even experience negative growth!

At the same time, the government is coordinating major domestic companies, and can execute the war economy at any time if necessary. Due to the previous Baosi war, there has been one experience, and the problem should not be big!

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After thinking about it, Ferdinand asked again, How much has our loan been in place?

Your Excellency the Grand Duke, our loans with the major European consortia have basically been in place, and the first batch of loans promised by the French has also been issued!

Having said this, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kennedy paused and said with some embarrassment: But about the 300 million leva of the Navy loan, the French have not allocated all of them to us.

Except for the 20 million lev for the construction of the naval port and the 30 million lev for the construction of the dock, the other funds are directly allocated to the naval fleet!

Our Ministry of Finance negotiated with them several times, but to no avail. The reason they gave was: In order to ensure that the Navy's military expenditure can be used exclusively, the intermediate links were reduced and allocated directly to the Navy!

Ferdinand's face changed, and he recovered quickly, knowing that it was France and Russia who joined forces to deceive Bulgaria, but people are under the roof and have to bow their heads!

He said coldly: Forget it, this money is not so easy to take! It's already in someone else's pocket, and if you want to take it out again, it's not that easy!

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs protested to the French and Russians. Even if we suffer a loss, we must take it out of the blue.

Prime Minister Constantine said worriedly: Grand Duke, now the military expenditure is directly allocated to the navy, which is not good for us!

Originally, I had no binding force on this Russian fleet, and now my influence is even smaller. After the outbreak of war in the future, I am afraid that it will not be able to be adjusted!

Ferdinand sighed and said, There is no need to worry in this regard, the importance of the Black Sea Strait to the Russians is much greater than ours, so don't be afraid that they will not cooperate!

After the war, after we gained access to the Mediterranean Sea: the economic value of the Black Sea Strait has been reduced to a minimum; as for the military value, we will consider it when our own navy grows up!

It's too early to say this now. Without the Russians, even if we sent the Black Sea Strait over, we would not dare to take over it!

At this moment, Ferdinand had to be envious of those seniors who passed through. Others have easily come up with a large navy, overtaking Britain and the United States in three years, and beating the world in five years.

When he came to him, he had tossed for seven or eight years. So far, he has overturned a Serbia. Don't talk about going all over the world to make things happen, even one Balkan has not been settled, it's just a loss of face for the transmigrators!