Mediterranean Hegemony Road

It didn't take long before Nicholas II decided to compromise, leaving the Crimea Peninsula to save some face, but the actual value was not much.

It is no longer possible to expand to the Mediterranean Sea. Leaving the Crimean Peninsula will only make Bulgaria more afraid of the Russian Empire, and even prevent the unification of the Russian Empire because it is worried that Russia will conflict with them when it becomes stronger.

Although this possibility will be very small, he still does not intend to take risks. The most urgent task is to unify the Russian Empire. For this, no matter how much he pays, Nicholas II will not hesitate!

After receiving the telegram from St. Petersburg, Sassunov breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time sighed again, which meant that the Russian Empire had begun to decline.

As a diplomat, he knows better than anyone that weak countries have no diplomacy. Now that the Russian Empire has fallen, even if the country is unified, because of the war, they want to catch up with the world's advanced level again. So easy!

If it weren't for the good diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Russia, perhaps now Chekov would not have talked with him in person, but sent a deputy to negotiate with him.

This is also a common norm in the diplomatic field, the principle of reciprocity between countries, negotiation with countries of the same level, and the level of the two sides should be as consistent as possible.

When negotiating with a country with a weaker level, a powerful country will send diplomats with a lower level, but in terms of the status of negotiators, a strong country still occupies an absolute advantage.

Negotiations started again, and now the dispute is the price issue, Sassonov said: Mr. Metev, Bessarabia Province is 44,000 square kilometers, and the Crimean Peninsula is 25,000 square kilometers. Due to the special geographical location, our quotation of 5 billion levs is not high!

Metev retorted: Mr. Sassunov, your calculation of the added value is too high. The economic value of Bessarabia and the Crimean Peninsula is less than one billion leva. The income is less than 15 million levs.

Of course, I didn't calculate the tariffs, the Crimean Peninsula is one of the main import and export ports of your country,

It is also impossible for us to collect your country's customs duties.

The economic income of the two places is mainly agriculture, but the fertile land is owned by the owner. If your country can turn these lands into unowned land, the economic value can be doubled!

Satsunov shook his head and said, Mr. Metev, this is impossible. The ownership of land is not something we can change. If your country buys it back, you can directly confiscate the original owner's land and mines. The economic value will not matter. are you out?

In addition to economic value, we also need to consider strategic value, right? Bessarabia can make your country's defense line on the 6th ground unbreakable, and the Crimean Peninsula allows your country to directly turn the Black Sea into an inland sea. Isn't this strategic value worth 3 billion levs?

Metev smiled wryly and said, Mr. Sassnov, what a joke, how could we confiscate other people's private property for no reason? So these economic values ​​you mentioned do not exist!

I have already said about the strategic value, we can rest assured that it is in your country's hands! Instead of buying them back at a huge price, it is better to leave them in your hands. Three billion levs for this strategic value, we can't afford it, which is equivalent to 878.4 tons of gold!

Sassonov sighed, the current situation is that Bulgaria can drag on, but the Russian Empire can't.

For Bulgaria, there is no essential difference between the two places starting one day earlier and starting one day later.

But for Nicholas II, it is not a concept that if you get the money one day earlier, you can complete the reunification of the country one day earlier!

Okay, Mr. Metev, let's make a concession. How about four billion levs? This price is not high! Sassonov said embarrassedly.

Metev smiled slightly and said, We have estimated the economic value of one billion leva, which is already a lot overestimated. If we want to make a detailed evaluation, it may not be enough!

The strategic value has not yet been reflected, and I can't use this reason to convince those congressional gentlemen.

You may not know that when our Congress was just discussing financial policy, the government proposed to open up the stock market, but not only did it fail, but Congress instead introduced a more stringent financial policy. Congress decided to ban the stock market forever and enacted a law!

Therefore, for this strategic value, we can give up to 500 million leva, otherwise, we will not be able to pass the level of Congress!

Metev did not hesitate to launch the Congress as a shield, and confused the concept, giving Satsunov a wrong perception, Congress = stubborn old school.

If he carefully studies the policies recently adopted by Bulgaria, he will find that this is pure nonsense. For the sake of a Persian Gulf, Bulgaria has invested nearly 20 billion levs in the past. Has the Congress not paid enough attention to strategy?

It's a pity that Satsunov didn't have time to study these policies. These policies have just been introduced and have not had time to announce them. Perhaps they have already appeared in Russian materials, but he has not had time to look at them.

Satsunov thought for a while and said, Impossible, this price is too low, the minimum is 3 billion levs, if it is lower than this price, it is impossible for the Russian Empire to accept it!

Metev thought for a while and said, It's a pity that the Bulgarian government can't offer such a sky-high price, and I don't think anyone in the world would pay such a sky-high price to buy it!

In the last quotation, we can only make a maximum of 1.8 billion leva, after which there is no need to negotiate!

Obviously, Metev has no fear. The geographical location is determined. There is only one buyer in Bulgaria in the world. If Bulgaria does not offer this price, it is naturally impossible for anyone to bid again!

The conditions were far apart, the first round of negotiations broke up unhappily, and we could only wait for the start of the second round of negotiations.

On the other hand, Bulgaria's ten-year plan also announced the results, which relieved politicians all over the world. There is no military expansion plan, and the number of the Air Force Academy, Naval Academy, and 6th Military Academy will be increased at most.

However, these are small problems. As long as the military is not directly expanded and prepared for war, the addition of some military academies is not worth mentioning at all.

In contrast, Bulgaria's financial policy has been directly criticized by the outside world as the stronghold of conservatives all over the world.

There are a lot of restrictions on opening a bank, the stock market is directly banned by Congress, and countless international capitalists are furious.

There is a problem with this operation, and there is a problem with the director's script? Isn't it a good open finance? Is this also called open? What the hell is open, why haven't I found it?

No matter what they think or how they criticize, this is approved by the Bulgarian Congress and has been signed by Ferdinand, and the new financial law has come into effect.

On the contrary, it is calm in Bulgaria, and the people are applauding. The stricter the bank management, the more secure their money.

stock market? In the impression of most of them, it is a stock crash!

Since the closure of the stock market, Bulgaria's economy has been developing very well for more than 20 years. No matter how the international economy changes, Bulgaria has never experienced an economic crisis.

If that's the case, why the stock market? To make money by buying stocks, it is a pity that the Bulgarian people said that if they can make money, who would be so stupid to sell their shares?

The biggest supporter of the ban on the stock market is the Bulgarian bourgeoisie.

Real economy vs virtual economy, this problem continued until Li Mu crossed over, but in later generations the real economy has been suppressed, and the mainstream has long become a more profitable virtual economy.

But Bulgaria is different now. The real economy still dominates. Experts, scholars and capitalists who support this idea have the most important voice in society.

Their expansion has nothing to do with Ferdinand's secret support, including his vest industry, who are die-hard supporters of this theory.

There is no other reason for Ferdinand to do this, it is purely for the needs of Bulgaria's exhibition, and the money in society is limited.

In a society dominated by the real economy, most of this money flows into the industry; on the contrary, in a society dominated by the virtual economy, this money goes into the virtual economy.

Why did the French become a usury empire? Do you really think that you are a French capitalist and are born to be engaged in finance?

It has not evolved gradually under the trend of interests. In any case, the rate of return of investment in industry cannot skyrocket several times or dozens of times within a year, but finance can!

The high rate of return attracted a lot of capital inflows, and eventually the French economy was kidnapped by finance. In the middle and late 19th century, it began to decline.

From the perspective of a bystander, Ferdinand believes that if the French economy had not undergone a transformation in the 19th century, but had been developing real industries, there would have been no Germans at all!

A large number of industries can increase a large number of jobs, so that France can accommodate more people. Without this deviation, the total economic volume of France may not be much higher than it is now, but its industrial strength is at least three to five times now. The population may be double what it is now, or even more!

In the face of such a France, Germany has no chance to even rise, and Prussia cannot challenge their hegemony in the European Big 6.

Now Bulgaria is also in the last century, and the French are in the same period. There is no foreign enemy in the short term, and the social economy needs a clear development direction.

There is no doubt that Ferdinand chose industry, and the Bulgarian people also chose industry, so it is essential to suppress other virtual economies.

Ferdinand doesn't want to try to test the integrity of capitalists. In fact, he doesn't think capitalists have integrity. It's better not to give them a chance to become bad!

Now Bulgaria's industrial strength has surpassed a quarter of the French, but in terms of the total economic volume, the French have surpassed Bulgaria by a quarter, and you know how much water this virtual economy has!

A company worth 1 million levs can become a company worth 10 million levs or a company worth 100 million levs in the stock market.

The valuation has become higher, and the money in the society has also increased. In fact, the value of the company itself has not changed. It is still only worth one million levs.

If the capitalists are prudent, they will use the financing to bring in one or two million funds and continue to expand the business, but this possibility is almost zero.

Because, after seeing that they didn't work as middlemen, they fired a million-dollar company to 100 million, and they only got a few million in funds, while the financial speculators got tens of millions of profits, and they can still feel at ease. Do you do business?

When hot money flows into finance, it will push up the stock market again, and finally the economic crisis collapses, and the cycle begins again and again.

This is the theory provided to Ferdinand by economists who support the real economy, let's just believe it!

Others may not be clear to Ferdinand, but one thing he understands very well is that one million levas is a number in finance, but investing in industry can add hundreds of jobs.

The number of jobs in society will increase, then the country will be stable, everyone will have jobs and income, and everyone's life will be better, and no one will come to rebel against him, the king!

This question is very real!

So conservatives are conservatives. Anyway, this is the national policy that is most in line with the actual situation of Bulgaria. When the ten-year plan is completed, Bulgaria is likely to be the world's largest industrial power.

Although it is not the first economic power, it does not matter. When the industrial development reaches a certain level, a new round of industrial revolution will explode.

At present, the new industrial revolution is most likely to explode in Bulgaria. The oil age is about to come, and Bulgaria has already taken the lead. Why rush out and compete with the British?

Just using the hat of the world's No. 1 economic power to paralyze the attention of the British, especially after they increased the three kingdoms of North America, the economic aggregate of the British Commonwealth on the bright side, far to protect the sum of the two countries, makes them always proud Go down!

Farming, farming, or farming, in the next two decades, there will be only one core task in Bulgaria - farming.

To destroy the current world order, Ferdinand did not intend to do it, and to destroy the industry of the British Empire, the Germans were already helping to do it.

Every year, free industrial products worth 200 to 300 million pounds pour into the British Empire, and the life of the British people and capitalists will definitely be very good in the next ten years.

Likewise, the British Empire will have hundreds of millions of pounds worth of brick-and-mortar factories that will be forced to close their doors, and no matter how hard they try, it will be impossible to reduce the cost of production to the price of a German product.

Now the industrial products for which the Germans pay war reparations are seriously undervalued, and the valuation of most products is less than half of similar products on the market.

The soaring prices of Britain and France due to the war finally calmed down. Once these cheap goods were gone, Ferdinand wondered if they could survive?

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