Mediterranean Hegemony Road

Ferdinand's trip to Portugal ended in a hurry, and it took less than a week before and after, and it ended in a hurry.

Coupled with the more than half a month in London and the time on the road, more than a month has passed since this visit. When I left Sofia, it was still the beginning of May, and now it has entered the middle of June. At this time, Ferdinand's heart has already flown back.

Well, in layman's terms, his wife gave birth! And this time Ferdinand also won the grand prize, two at a time!

After receiving this good news, Ferdinand's heart could no longer be calm. Everyone knows that the chance of having twins is very low. Under normal circumstances, it is about 1%. Ferdinand did not expect that he would also be able to win this prize!

Of course, this win refers to now, if it was in Ferdinand's previous life, his expression is definitely completely different now, because two boys have come at once!

But now this is not a problem, the more the better! Even if it is quintuplets and sextuplets, Ferdinand is always willing to come!

Anyway, the king's son has nothing to worry about, no one will ask him for a car, a house, or a ticket! If there is a rich list now, the wealth of the Bulgarian royal family is now at the forefront!

At most, it will be a little more difficult to find a daughter-in-law of the right family when you marry in the future, but in Ferdinand's view, it doesn't matter.

Anyway, since there are many sons, marriage is definitely an advantage. A prince will at least make a lot of money in the dowry when he gets a relative. Ferdinand has experienced this personally!

If it is all princesses, it will be miserable. If the family background is not enough, the marriage will be troublesome. It is necessary to be swollen and fat!

For details, please refer to Nicholas I, the king of Montenegro next door. European father-in-law is not so easy to be.

For this reason, Ferdinand also watched the joke for a long time,

Why does your married daughter want to be swollen and fat? Isn't this asking for trouble?

Originally, the Kingdom of Montenegro was poor. No matter how much you searched, you would not get much benefit. What was the purpose of being poor?

But then Ferdinand didn't see it that way. After the Second Balkan War, during the Constantinople Peace Conference, a large number of people came to intercede with him, making Ferdinand embarrassed, as if Became a big villain and did something heinous!

In fact, Nicholas I still lost a lot! In Ferdinand's opinion, if the money is invested in the industry of the Kingdom of Montenegro, not to mention other things, it can at least be self-sufficient in weapons!

Then in the first Balkan War, at least the Kingdom of Montenegro could annex more than half of Albania, and there is no need to take risks, and it is so embarrassing now!

Oh, now Ferdinand still hopes to have another daughter, these are all six sons, and if there is another one, they will make up the Vajra gourd doll combination!

Thinking of that scene makes Ferdinand shudder! The main reason is that the memories from the previous life are too deep, and I always feel that some of them are unacceptable!

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Time flies, Ferdinand returns to Sofia, the time has come to July 191o.

He went to see the two little guys right away. Since they had been born for more than a month, the two little ones are now pink porcelain dolls with baby fat faces, which makes people want to pinch them. .

After hesitating again and again, Ferdinand stretched out his claws, pinched the faces of the two little guys, and then a burst of crying sounded.

Obviously, these two little guys didn't give him the face of this old man at all, and they exploded directly, and then ushered in a burst of complaints from Xenia, and then Ferdinand was kicked out of the nursery!

You can't go if you don't go! After leaving for more than two months, as soon as Ferdinand came home, the cabinet came up to him. There are still a lot of things that he needs to make decisions personally?

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Admiral Petrov handed a stack of documents to Ferdinand, and introduced confidently: Your Majesty, this is a new shipbuilding plan of the Admiralty. The Ottoman Empire has reached an agreement with the Germans to purchase two A dreadnought just designed by the Germans - the Kaiser-class battleship.

In order to meet the challenge of the Ottoman Empire, we must take action. According to your request, the Ottomans will build two battleships for every battleship, so the Admiralty plans to build four new dreadnoughts to meet the challenge of the Ottomans. The total budget is 170 million leva (about 6.8 million pounds).

This is no surprise. Historically, the Ottoman Empire had to struggle whether to buy from the Germans or the British. Now there is no need to worry about it any more. Of course, when joining the Allies, it is necessary to buy German goods!

Otherwise, the British would dare to sell you a boat, but would you dare to use it?

Ferdinand didn't just glance at it, then smiled and said: Very good, let's announce it to the public, and add another fire to this arms race!

Petrov was stunned for a moment, then reacted quickly, and asked suspiciously, Your Majesty, we haven't decided on the final design plan yet? Just started construction?

Ferdinand smiled slightly and said lightly: When did I say that the construction will start now? I just ask you to announce the shipbuilding plan now!

Don't worry about the design plan, you can take it slowly! We are not in a hurry. If we are late, the technology will be more mature!

Hearing Ferdinand's words, Petrov's face suddenly collapsed. He thought that a major naval construction was going to happen, but he didn't expect it to be a dream!

He continued unwillingly: Your Majesty, this is not good, it will damage your reputation! You just announced the news in London, and this has just begun, isn't it too shameful for us to back down now!

And the naval plan of the Ottoman Empire is obviously aimed at us. If their two dreadnoughts are put into service, the pressure on our navy will be great!

Ferdinand still did not change his smile, and said lightly: How could I break my promise? Every time the Ottomans build a warship, we will build two for sure!

But when to build it is up to us! Do you think that the Bulgarian Navy will not be able to build four dreadnoughts in the future?

Moreover, the dreadnoughts of the Ottoman navy cannot be put into service immediately. The Germans are now in an arms race with the British, and shipbuilding must give priority to the German navy. They are busy expanding their production capacity. These two dreadnoughts want to be built, at least It's a question of two or three years later!

Besides, how can two dreadnoughts alone support a country's navy? Supporting warships and personnel training, the mess came down, and the formation of combat effectiveness was something after 1914!

During this period, we only need to build two more dreadnoughts. How can we have the advantage of three to two?

Of course, the navy cannot only have dreadnoughts, and the supporting fleet is indispensable. Otherwise, there are only two dreadnoughts, how can it be possible to exert the greatest power?

At this point, Ferdinand also helped the Ottomans, sending their old fleet directly into the sea to feed the fish, so that they could get rid of the historical burden and go into battle lightly!

This also allows the Ottomans to save a lot of maintenance costs, which can be invested in the shipbuilding program.

But Ferdinand was not worried, who made the Ottoman Empire poor?

How can it cost four million pounds to build two dreadnoughts! If there is a ship, then the officers and soldiers must also have it, right? Should the supporting fleet be built too? It is impossible to save daily training and maintenance, right?

After all, the Ottoman Empire will have to spend at least two or three million pounds to complete all these things. How can the annual maintenance cost be less than two or three million pounds?

But what is the current revenue of the Ottoman Empire? Due to Ferdinand's butterfly effect, the current al-Shabaab government in Turkey has had a much tougher life than the same period in history.

Since the main battlefield of the war was on the Asia Minor peninsula, the two sides together had over a million troops fighting together, how could the losses be small?

The financial revenue of the Ottoman Empire at this time was only less than 20 million pounds. How could it be possible to support the gold swallowing beast of the navy with this little money?

If you are not strong enough, you will invest blindly, and in the end it will be a poor fleet!

Oh, it is estimated that the Ottoman government will react soon, and the naval arms race will naturally stop!

In Ferdinand's view, the current ruling Turkish Youth Party has not yet broken away from the category of second-year juniors. Under the influence of the outside world, it has joined the naval arms race in a daze. When they mature, they will understand that the navy is not something they can do. Affordable!

However, Ferdinand had to react to the actions of the Ottomans, so the outside world couldn’t think Bulgaria was afraid, right?

Arms races are often forced! The enemy expands his armies and prepares for war, but you don't follow up. What if there is a fight?

This is also the reason why the British want to die against the Germans, not because they really have a life-and-death conflict, but mainly because the expansion of the Germans makes them feel threatened!

Well, the Germans built one dreadnought, and the British built two domineeringly, which in turn stimulated the Germans, and then caused the current situation, and both sides began to make dumplings!

In addition to the battleships, the two sides are still starting to attack the battlecruisers, of course, this Ferdinand did not follow up.

The glorious task of the naval decisive battle is still more suitable for the British. If not, let the French be the substitute!

If Britain and France can't even hold the navy, then it can only be said that the Germans are too powerful, and there is no need to fight a world war.

Petrov wanted to know that it was impossible for the Navy to expand its army, but he still said unwillingly: Your Majesty, the British are planning to build a class of dreadnoughts, and our designers have also put forward similar ideas, do you see?

Obviously he knew that Ferdinand was not active in building a large navy, but he spared no effort in promoting the development of naval shipbuilding technology!

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