Mediterranean Hegemony Road

Just as Ferdinand was hesitating, he was interrupted by bad news. On August 4, 1909, his mother, Princess Clementine, died.

The news came very suddenly. They had lunch together at noon, but in the evening, a maid came to tell him that Princess Clementine had passed away!

Ferdinand felt very abrupt. Princess Clementine's body has always been healthy. Why do people suddenly say that it's gone?

Originally, he thought that Princess Clementina should have lived a long time to escape the death catastrophe in 1907, but he did not expect that the world is impermanent, and after two years, she still died!

Ferdinand was in a very bad mood. Although Princess Clementine was only the mother of the original owner, after more than 20 years of getting along, the two sides also developed a deep relationship, and now it's gone!

Queen Xenia thoughtfully comforted: Okay, my dear, cheer up! Mother passed away peacefully. Is she still watching us in heaven?

Ferdinand nodded reluctantly. After crossing the road, he has seen a lot of wind and waves. He will not be knocked down by one thing so easily!

The death of Princess Clementina still had a great impact on Ferdinand, and he became conservative in his actions.

For this, the Ottomans should thank Princess Clementina, otherwise the Ottoman Empire may really be over!

In fact, Ferdinand began to implement a conservative strategy, which is exactly what Bulgaria needs now. After eating almost, it should be digested well.

After more than 20 years of hard work, Bulgaria is no longer the impoverished small country it used to be, and there is no need to continue walking a tightrope!

When starting a business, you need to be brave and work hard, and when you are in business, you need to be calm and steady. This is also true for a country!

While Ferdinand was busy with the funeral of Princess Clementine,

The battle on the front has also changed.

The first unlucky kingdom was the Kingdom of Montenegro. Even though Nicholas I had great talent and talent, this kingdom, which had just been established for more than ten years, still had a lot of internal contradictions.

After he failed to fully support the attack on the Albania region, the internal contradictions suppressed by his strong force began to intensify slowly.

The economic dependence of the Kingdom of Montenegro on Bulgaria is not without cost. In the past ten years, the Kingdom of Montenegro has also cultivated a group of pro-guarantor factions. They are all vested interests in the trade between the two countries and those who do not want this war to break out. !

If Nicholas I could win on the front, then this contradiction could continue to be suppressed, but the futility of the front aroused domestic dissatisfaction.

Now the domestic situation in the Kingdom of Montenegro is already a powder keg, as long as there is a little spark, it will explode, and this spark will come soon!

No way, who told Nicholas I to choose to attack Albania this time?

As the base camp of military aristocrats, everyone here is martial arts, and the goal of many people's life is to gain military exploits and become a real aristocrat!

It is also a place known as the militia's combat effectiveness, comparable to the regular army! Due to the large number of military aristocrats, the strong ethos of martial arts, and the strong desire to fight, there is no shortage of retired soldiers and retired officers here. It is one of the fastest mobilization places in Bulgaria!

Since Ferdinand has received the information, how could he not be prepared at all? At least weapons and ammunition have been secretly transported to the front line, so Nicholas I rushed in and faced a war machine that had been mobilized!

In the first week of the war, the Bulgarian defenders could only defend, but in the second week, the two sides began to have PK, and now the army of Montenegro, led by Nicholas I, has fallen into a disadvantage.

The Prime Minister rushed to the front again and persuaded Nicholas I: Your Majesty, withdraw your troops! While the Bulgarians are still continuing with Romania and the Ottoman Empire, we should withdraw now and negotiate with Bulgaria, otherwise we will wait until something happens to them anywhere. ,We will then……

Nicholas said with a wry smile: Oh! I understand what you said, but don't you think it's too late now?

We betrayed Bulgaria this time, and we were also regarded as traitors by the Allies. Now we can only go to the dark side with the Allies!

If we betray the anti-guarantee alliance now, do you think the allies can tolerate us? If not, will the Allies accept us?

It's hard to ride a tiger!

Now the Kingdom of Montenegro is in such an embarrassing situation. After all, this time, Bulgaria has been offended badly. Even the Russian Empire, which has always supported the Kingdom of Montenegro, is very dissatisfied with them now!

Since the outbreak of the Second Balkan War, the St. Petersburg government has expelled the Minister of Montenegro, the two sides cut off diplomatic relations, and told the Kingdom of Montenegro with practical actions that you have been abandoned!

This also awakened the dream of Nicholas I. It is impossible for the Russians to support the Kingdom of Montenegro unconditionally, at least now they have chosen Bulgaria!

Without it, it is determined by the national interest! The Kingdom of Montenegro cannot bring benefits to the Russian Empire, and Bulgaria is now the most important ally of the Russians in the Balkans!

Whether economically, militarily, or even politically, both sides have great common interests!

The Prime Minister continued to persuade: Your Majesty, but we have already paid a lot of casualties in this war. If it continues, after the main force is completely lost, I am afraid that we will also follow Serbia!

Hearing Serbia, Nicholas I trembled in his heart. The kingdom of Montenegro has become what it is now, and it has nothing to do with Serbia. If it wasn't for the support of the Serbian Revolutionary Party, it would not have been so targeted by the Austro-Hungarian Empire all these years!

Followed, he calmed down again, now the Germans will never let the Austro-Hungarian Empire annex Montenegro, otherwise who would dare to be their little brother?

However, Bulgaria may not dare. Because of its confusion with the Allies, the Kingdom of Montenegro has become a traitor to the Entente. As a traitor, Britain, France and Russia are impossible to give them a head!

Is it possible for the Allies to betray the Kingdom of Montenegro? Theoretically yes, the reason is very simple, the Kingdom of Montenegro is not yet a member of the Allied Powers, but has just defected. Neither Germany nor the Austro-Hungarian Empire regards them as their own!

At this point, the Kingdom of Montenegro is similar to Greece, and neither is the direct line of the Allies!

If you look at the status of the four countries of Montenegro, Greece, Romania, and the Ottoman Empire in the hearts of Germans:

Romania is the earliest younger brother of the Germans and the closest relationship;

The Ottoman Empire is the most powerful and most valuable of the four countries;

Greece is the weakest of the four, but its strategic location in the Mediterranean is important;

The Kingdom of Montenegro is the most embarrassing existence among the four kingdoms!

Nicholas I didn't have much time to tangle, because the Bulgarian army had already started a counter-offensive, and now there are 110,000 troops in the Albanian military region, and the strength of the two sides has been reversed.

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Carol I on the other side was not easy. After the main force of Bulgaria arrived on the battlefield, the Romanian army was beaten and retreated.

Because behind him is the capital of Romania - Bucharest, Carol I held high the banner of defending the country and promised a lot of conditions to the soldiers.

But something happened to his rear again, the peasant uprising in the Brasov region broke out again!

Since Carol I came to power, the endless peasant uprisings have always been a problem that has plagued the Romanian government.

On the one hand, it comes from the serious exploitation of the peasant class by the Romanian government, and more importantly, it is due to the greed of the domestic aristocrats and landlord classes!

In parallel time and space, the peasant uprisings that Carol I suppressed in his life were no less than double digits, and two of them were influential, almost threatening his rule!

Not to mention this plane, because of Ferdinand's butterfly effect, Romania's agricultural exports have been hit hard.

The life of the Romanian government, the aristocracy, the landlord class, and the bourgeoisie is not easy, the life of the ruling class is not easy, and the life of the people at the bottom can be imagined!

In order to maintain their decent life, naturally they can only further increase the exploitation of the peasant class!

From the purchase price of wheat, it can be seen that:

In 1896, the purchase price of wheat in Romania was 286 lei per ton (about 11.44 pounds);

By 1909, the price of wheat in Romania was 216 lei (£8.64) per ton.

Over the past ten years, the domestic food price in Romania has dropped by nearly a quarter, but the international food price has not declined, but has risen slightly!

Although there are also factors that have contributed to the increase in the cost of Romania's grain exports due to the increase in tariffs, the most critical factor is the exploitation of the peasant class by the bourgeoisie!

The problem is that the Romanian government has not taken measures to ease the burden of the peasant class, but instead continued to adopt the high taxes in the past, which further intensified social contradictions!

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