Mediterranean Hegemony Road

As soon as the war ended, the Bulgarian government was busy again, and a celebration banquet was indispensable.

But this time is a bit special. Everyone knows that Ferdinand is in a bad mood recently because of the death of his mother, Princess Clementine, and no one dares to harass him!

Therefore, in this celebration, he was not seen from the beginning to the end, but this did not affect everyone's good mood.

Anyway, there are still so many rewards, and there will be no reduction in it!

Of course, the domestic newspapers still have to brag about it. How could a victory like this be enough for them to brag about it for more than half a year!

Anyway, from the king to the soldiers, workers, peasants, from the government to the army, from the collective to the individual, inside and outside, the media will blow it all over again! To satisfy the curiosity and vanity of the people!

Of course, Ferdinand is still the protagonist this time. As the greatest emperor in Bulgarian history, there is no one, he has enough capital for people to admire!

Coupled with the fueling of public opinion, in the eyes of the Bulgarian people, Ferdinand is already a great existence second only to God, and has been deified by man!

Oh, in fact, Ferdinand has recovered a long time ago. After all, Princess Clementine is in her 70s, and she is considered to have a long life in this era, and she walked very peacefully!

Life, old age, sickness and death are human nature. Ferdinand, who has lived in two lives, can understand this better. After saying goodbye to Princess Clementine, he recovered.

It was just because he was too lazy and didn't want to participate in so many social events, so he used this as an excuse to show that he was in a bad mood.

Anyway, his reputation has reached the peak now, it doesn't matter if he goes or not, and he doesn't need to rely on these small tricks to buy people's hearts!

The West is not the same as the East,

A queen mother like Princess Clementina has never participated in politics. Her death has little influence on the outside world, and it is even more impossible for the whole people to wear sacks and filial piety and affect private weddings and funerals!

If you insist on saying anything, it will be a major blow to the royalists of the Orleans family in France. With the loss of an important member of the royal family, the influence of the big 6 in Europe will decline again!

However, these were optional for Ferdinand, and he did not intend to support the restoration of the royal family of Orleans. After all, the French Republic has been established for so many years, and the Royalist Party has been divided into several factions. How could the restoration be successful?

Oh, the most important thing is that after the death of Princess Clementina, the right to the throne bid farewell to him, and Ferdinand will naturally not join in foolishly!

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In the Royal Palace of Sofia, Prime Minister Constantine held a thick stack of documents and was excitedly introducing to Ferdinand: Your Majesty, our cabinet plans to divide the Aegean Islands into four regions, namely:

1. Crete and its affiliated islands are divided into the Crete Region, supplemented by the port of Heraklion on Crete;

2. Islands such as Rhodes, Karpathos, Southern Sporades, Great Solavno, Kunupia, etc. are divided into the Kalpa Region, which is located in the port of Karavarza, Rhodes ;

3. Islands such as Evia Island, Kykzes Islands, and Northern Sporades Islands are divided into Sith Region, and the residence is on Skyros Island;

4. The islands of Lesvos, Chios, and Lemnos are divided into the Eastern Region, and the residence is in Mytilene, Lesvos.

The island of Cofu in the Mediterranean is directly divided into the Epirus region, and the Ionian Islands and the Peloponnesian Peninsula are divided into a separate region - the Ionian region, which is located in Sparta. !

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Ferdinand pretended to listen carefully. In fact, he didn't know the names of many islands, let alone know the specific conditions of the islands.

Now Bulgaria can also be said to be the country of a thousand islands. The Aegean Sea is also called the Multi-Island Sea. It is said that there are more than 6ooo islands. Of course, this number is not accurate, because many islands are short-lived, and they will be submerged by sea water today and tomorrow. !

But now in Bulgaria, there are more than 200 islands suitable for human habitation, and there are no less than 6,000 islands in size. The largest island of Crete has an area of ​​83oo square kilometers, and the smallest may not be as big as a bed!

With so many islands, just remembering the name is a problem. Even if it is an island suitable for human habitation, Ferdinand has no way to remember it.

The Bulgarian government has to govern these places, which is naturally a hassle.

The division of administrative regions was obviously set up by the government for the sake of ruling. Ferdinand, who was not clear about the specific situation, simply handed it over to the cabinet!

Well, let's divide it like this first! If you think it's inappropriate in the future, you can adjust it again! Ferdinand said lightly

Yes, Your Majesty! Constantine replied

However, what about the residents of the island? The Ottomans are okay to say that the Turkish Youth Party, which has just been in power, wants to do something and is already extraditing civilians!

The Greeks are in trouble. If we move them all away, the islands will be deserted. Now the people in the country are not interested in moving to the islands to live!

Even if we increase our publicity efforts and promise to provide housing and subsidies for immigrants, everyone is only interested in a few big islands, and most of the small islands have no sign up at all!

Ferdinand couldn't help but rejoice in his heart. The island that the rich and rich in the future are eager to buy has now become a hot potato!

Ferdinand thought for a while and said: Forget it, for the small islands without any special resources, let them be deserted first! Anyway, they won't run away, we just need to open some valuable islands!

As for the Greeks, let's find a way to let them leave. The large population of the Greek peninsula is not easy to act rashly for the time being, but there are thousands of people on these small islands, let's get them away first!

According to the original plan, send them to Syria and the Ottomans to be neighbors. After all, the colony over there is open, and now it still needs a lot of manpower!

Well, Ferdinand is cheating again, the First World War is about to come, and the Ottoman Empire will definitely attack Syria in a big way.

With Bulgaria's current strength, it is difficult to resist the Ottoman invasion in Syria. Therefore, Ferdinand will not invest much resources anywhere in the short term. Sending the Greeks over is considered a murder by a knife!

Theoretically, the Greeks could also jointly occupy Syria with the Ottoman Empire and seized the Bulgarian colonies.

However, this may only exist in theory. As long as you think about the experience of Armenians and the changes in the distribution of Greeks, you will realize how cruel the ethnic cleansing carried out by the Ottoman Empire in World War I was. !

Even Ferdinand's attitude towards the overseas colonies was that he could follow the rules and give up if he couldn't keep it. After the war was over, he would recover the lost ground.

Anyway, from the perspective of this era, the colonies in Bulgaria's hands are all rotten land, and there is not much economic value in existence, except that there is no shortage of deserts, that is: there is no boundary for what you want!

Constantine said hesitantly: Your Majesty, is it too wasteful to do this? Can we wait for our immigrants to arrive before sending the Greeks away, so as not to be abandoned for a long time...

Ferdinand interrupted Constantine's words and said in an unquestionable tone: No, we must pay attention to the image of the government, and some things should be done in advance!

The local residents will definitely not leave willingly. Now that we are still under military control of these islands, even if something happens, it is difficult for the outside world to know the specific information, and it will not work later!

Once the order is restored to normal, it will be difficult to keep it secret! You don't want the whole world to know that we are forcibly exiling the Greeks!

That's right, exile! Compared with the Aegean region, Syria in this era is a backcountry!

Okay, Your Majesty! We will finish it as soon as possible, and strive to send all the residents of the island away before 1911! Constantine said solemnly

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