Mediterranean Hegemony Road

What should come is still coming. Although he has been prepared for a long time, Ferdinand is not in a relaxed mood now! This financial crisis has come at a bad time, and now Bulgaria is busy with big immigration?

Now they have to deal with the economic crisis again. For the government, their work pressure is too great!

You must know that in order to ensure the smooth progress of the immigration work, Ferdinand did not even come up with the Three Five-Year Plan that he had already prepared, just so that the government could concentrate on the immigration work!

You must know that after the Balkan War, the population of Bulgaria has theoretically exceeded 10 million, reaching 11.43 million!

In fact, in addition to the original more than 4.3 million people, there are also more than 1.8 million Bulgarians distributed in the Balkans, which can be regarded as their own!

Bulgaria has always been regarded as their only motherland, with the highest loyalty, and other minorities still need time to digest!

Among the remaining more than five million people, more than 1.4 million people are deeply influenced by Bulgarian culture and are easy to assimilate. They are mainly distributed in Macedonia and East Thrace. The former is the hard work of successive Bulgarian governments. Harvest, the latter is the fruit of Ferdinand's efforts after he succeeded to the throne!

These more than 1.2 million people have been substantially Bulgarian, so it is not difficult to assimilate. They also identify with Bulgaria very much. All of them have changed to Bulgarian identity cards, which is basically digested!

In addition to these people, there are also some people who joined Bulgaria in the Balkan War because of their hatred of the Ottoman Empire. They are a combination of interests and joined the big family of Bulgaria.

These people are distributed in a wide area, basically everywhere, including Albanians, Armenians, Macedonians, Blacks, Serbs and other ethnic minorities, a total of more than 1.2 million people.

Of course, the Negroes and Serbs have been given to Nicholas I by Ferdinand, and he newly established the Kingdom of Montenegro, which is composed of these two nations.

Among these people, many people shared some interests after the war. The representatives were volunteers in the Constantinople War, and they were bought by Ferdinand.

As long as Bulgaria remains strong, they won't be in trouble. Especially those who participated in the Battle of Constantinople, were basically intimidated by the Bulgarian soldiers, and they spontaneously cooperated with the government's work, they were not troublesome!

There are more than three million people left, and nearly two million are diehards. Simply put, they have different religious beliefs and refuse to convert. They are all targets of repatriation to the Ottoman Empire!

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On the premise that Ferdinand had already expelled 1.8 million diehards in the Balkan War, otherwise this number would have been even greater!

Since their leadership was swept away in the Balkan wars, they are now scattered all over the place, without a leader, and there is no big mess.

The real trouble is the millions of other people who, on the one hand, are close to Bulgaria in their beliefs, while at the same time sticking to their own cultural traditions.

The expulsion of Ferdinand was reluctant to stay, and now the government has no time to spend with them, and slowly assimilate them. More importantly, they have all ethnic groups. Many of them have relatives and friends who have given up their persistence and joined Bulgaria. The government also has to consider the feelings of these people!

Originally, according to Ferdinand's established plan, the immigrants were dispersed among them, using time to influence them, and assimilate them subtly. This time would take at least several years or even decades!

Now Bulgaria really doesn't have enough time to do all this. When the economic crisis comes, and they have to emigrate again, who can take care of them? This is forcing Ferdinand to be ruthless!

Of course, the Bulgarian government did not clearly understand this problem, mainly because according to the standards at the time, these people were considered great people!

People honestly go to work, pay taxes, and go to church to worship without breaking the law and discipline.

But Ferdinand knew that nationalism had not erupted yet. After the First World War, nationalism exploded, and it would become a big problem, turning into a liberal fighter in minutes.

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Ferdinand thought for a while and said: The decline of processing and manufacturing exports to Russia has become a foregone conclusion, but this problem is not difficult to solve!

The government now informs domestic enterprises to prepare for transformation, cut some production capacity in the short term, and start to switch from foreign trade to domestic sales!

As long as the dozen or so big domestic companies hold up, Bulgarian industry and commerce will also be stable!

The most troublesome is the issue of ethnic resettlement. In view of the current severe situation, there is a loophole in the ethnic integration plan we formulated before!

Once the economic crisis breaks out in an all-round way, the government will definitely have a big move, and resettlement will be carried out. Now we have to find a way to remove the unstable factors in advance!

Everyone was stunned, obviously not keeping up with Ferdinand's leaping thinking!

Prime Minister Constantine was the first to react and asked in surprise, Your Majesty, are you going to start Plan B?

In order to solve the ethnic problem, Bulgaria has formulated three sets of plans, code-named plans A, B, and C.

Plan A: A gentle national integration plan, after expelling the stubborn elements, through the natural exchange of economy and culture, the national integration will be realized subtly;

Plan B: Forcefully unify the language, writing, customs, and religious beliefs of the whole country through laws, expel all dissidents, and use force to eliminate dissidents when necessary;

Plan C is based on the fact that the previous two plans have failed, and the direct use of force is to forcefully promote national integration. Since it cannot be assimilated culturally, it can be eliminated physically!

Plan C is basically only useful in the era of nationalism. Now the upper-level people of all ethnic groups in the Balkans have been killed almost, and the fish that slip through the net will not dare to emerge. There is no leader, and those who dare to rebel There are really not many people!

These three methods, in the Balkans, have great feasibility!

The most crucial reason is that among the 11.4 million people in Bulgaria, the Bulgarians are the majority of the remaining people, minus the 2 million people who were expelled.

In other parts, there are many ethnic groups. There are more than a dozen ethnic groups, large and small. The number is only tens of thousands, and the number is only 700,000 or 800,000. Except for the Bulgarians, there is no ethnic group with a population of more than one million. !

Not to be expelled!

More importantly, quite a few of these peasants have no national consciousness, and no one can determine which nationality they are, so they have been Bulgarianized!

That's right, just use legal means. We don't have to spend so much energy, and we can take out the hidden dangers in the shortest time! Ferdinand said after thinking about it.

After thinking about it, Prime Minister Constantine said fiercely: Indeed, the workload of the government is already huge. If the economic crisis breaks out, we will not have the energy to deal with these problems. Might cause us a lot of trouble!

That being the case, then our cabinet will immediately formulate a detailed law and submit it to Congress for approval!

Ferdinand nodded with satisfaction, and Constantine's act of jumping out of the black pot was very much in line with his wishes.

As the greatest monarch in Bulgarian history, how can he do such a tainted thing?

As soon as this law was promulgated, Bulgaria did not say that blood flowed into rivers, and it was just a small problem to cut off 800 heads!

There will also be tens of thousands of people who will leave their homes and embark on the road of no return to the Ottoman Empire for inheritance!

Then, the Bulgarian Congress once again used their high efficiency to let the world appreciate what is called super speed!

Immediately after the cabinet meeting, the next day, an extraordinary session of the Bulgarian parliament was held to consider the issue of plan b.

There is no doubt that those who can become members of Congress are all Great Bulgarians. The formulation of fully Bulgarian laws is in line with everyone's views. Naturally, they agree with them. As for other ethnic groups, of course they are represented!

After the provisional Congress approves Plan B, the specific details will be left to the Cabinet for tossing, and they can be tried and revised as they go, and then reported to Congress for review.

It is also euphemistically called to adapt to local conditions and facilitate timely processing. In fact, members of Congress have jobs, are very busy, and are not professionals. It is too embarrassing for them to study the legal provisions!

Time flies, and another three days have passed, and a Bulgarian Language and Religion Law has been released!

The contents include: 1. All Bulgarian citizens must use the Bulgarian language in public places, such as schools, governments, hospitals, and stations;

Any public official in the Bulgarian parliament, government, army must be proficient in the Bulgarian language and script.

2. All Bulgarian citizens must believe in God, which one can choose at will, and religious persecution is prohibited. (Even if it is a single turn of each branch within a day, it is legal)

The content is not much, but the scope involved is very broad.

The standardized use of the first language is enough to make it difficult for other languages ​​to survive in Bulgaria, and it is simply impossible to not speak Bulgarian!

The second religion is even more powerful, and directly makes the ** no place to live. If you convert to God, is ** or **?

Then these two decrees were immediately implemented in Bulgaria. Ferdinand thought that the nationwide turmoil had not come, and most of the people had an indifferent expression!

Except that some areas rebounded greatly, but they were already under military control, and they were supposed to leave. Ferdinand didn't care about their lives, and the changes were bloody suppressed immediately.

In other areas, most of them are talking about it, as if they are protesting with their mouths! No, it should be venting their dissatisfaction, but few are willing to sign up and leave!

Well, in fact, Ferdinand was wrong, otherwise he would not have made such a big circle to let the cabinet take the blame and Congress endorsed it!

Cultural traditions may be very important to scholars. For ordinary people, Bulgaria is a holy place, where they can eat enough!

Since they heard that the consequence of breaking the law is to be deported to the Ottoman Empire, everyone decided to keep silent. Whoever loves to go will go! They want bread anyway!

In contrast, religious belief is the key, but they originally believed in God. In their view, Bulgarian law is nothing more than emphasizing religious freedom!