Romanian Eagle

At a time when the European war situation has undergone great changes, Romania's domestic economy has continued to develop rapidly because of the European war.

In fact, the economic development of other European countries that are still not involved in the war is not bad, but Romania is too prominent. Under the general growth rate of 6% to 15% in other neutral countries in Europe, Romania's growth rate of over 20% is extremely eye-catching. However, the main reason is that Romania can provide enough necessities for the military and people's livelihood of surrounding countries. The food, oil, vehicles, etc. needed by Germany and Austria, and the daily necessities, vehicles, fuel, etc. needed by Russia.

Even after Russia captured Russian Poland this year, the Russian ambassador Feralowski took the British and French ambassadors to visit Prime Minister Bretianu. When talking with the prime minister, the Russian ambassador strongly hinted that he hoped Romania would sell a batch of Arms, and are willing to increase the current price by another 20%. However, Prime Minister Bretianu did not dare to make hasty decisions. He delayed the export of arms to Russia on the grounds that Romania's neutrality requires careful consideration. This matter will eventually need to be handled by Edel.

However, it can be seen from here that the Russians' military materials are almost bottoming out, and even Romania, which rarely exports arms from neutrality, has also paid attention. In fact, several consecutive defeats caused heavy losses to Russia, and a large number of soldiers were captured. A large amount of weapons and ammunition were also captured along with the soldiers, which made the Russian army, which was not ready by birth, even worse. Now the Russian government cannot even guarantee the supply of rifles for the soldiers. A large number of supplementary soldiers on the front line have no weapons yet, and they need to share the same weapon with their comrades.

And what is even more frightening is that the Russian government has shortened the training period for newly recruited soldiers from the already short six-week limit to four weeks. The recruits after the compressed training period cannot even complete the rifle shooting well, let alone simple tactical training. So the chances of these recruits surviving on the battlefield can be imagined.

But who made Russia lose too much on the battlefield, Russia has lost more than one million people in the war for a year. Now the Russian government can only supplement the losses encountered by the army by compressing the training period.

Now Eder has no plans to give up neutrality, even if he is ready to let Romania join the Allies. It will not affect the Allied countries' perception of Romania for this small profit. You must know that Romania is now surrounded by the Allied countries on three sides.

At the same time he is not interested in the Russian proposal now, and now there is one trouble in Romania that is really bothering him.

Romania has developed well in recent years. There is a voice in Romanian society. Now the Kingdom of Romania has become stronger, so the Kingdom needs to protect every Romanian from harm. Simply put, Romania is strong and nationalist sentiment has expanded. trend.

But the organization that made this sound was called the Patriotic Youth Association, which was originally founded by a few fanatical patriotic students on campus. However, with its radical slogans (Romania needs Transylvania in Austria-Hungary and Bessarabia in Russia), it also attracts a lot of radical nationalists to join, but in the mainstream of society, this kind of radical proposition is Very dissatisfied, and most people in Romania don't really agree with it. Because most people are very sensible about Austria-Hungary and Russia occupying the Romanian settlement, and also know that Romania's national strength cannot provoke any of them.

It’s just that Romania’s economic development is accelerating now, and the most important thing is that the neighboring Austria-Hungary and Russia are caught in a war, which makes the idea of ​​the YPA become attractive again, and more and more people are slowly accepting the views of this small organization. Gradually this small party became more and more prominent in Romania and finally caught Eder's attention.

Eder is wary of the radical party's slogans,

Because no one but him would know that Austria-Hungary would disintegrate, Russia would change its color, and that both European powers would fall in this war. The prevailing view now is that one side will be defeated and withdraw from the war, and one side will win. So in this case, Edel thinks the slogan of the YPA is suspicious and needs to send someone to investigate.

Soon the captain of the guard, Carust, put the information about the preliminary investigation of the YPA on Edel's desk. In this report, Carust introduced the situation of the Patriotic YMCA in detail, from the initial development in the middle, to the current big development.

The Patriotic YMCA was originally established at the University of Iasi. Although this university established in 1832 is not the most famous university in Romania, it has also produced many famous people. At present, several main backbones of the Patriotic Youth Association, the chairman of the Youth Association; Yang Uskov, the chairman of the board; Bostemi, etc., are all people who graduated from this school.

According to the survey data, since the establishment of Iasi University, the Patriotic YMCA has been focusing on local development, and only a small part of its energy is devoted to recruiting members in the school. It seems that the high-level thinking of the YMCA is very clear, knowing that students are easily hurting themselves with double-edged swords, and this situation continued until the outbreak of World War I.

Since the outbreak of the First World War, the development speed of the YMCA has risen to a higher level, rapidly increasing from more than 10,000 people before the war to 30,000 people, but at this time the development of the YMCA is still within the scope of Edel's approval. It's just that the development momentum of the YMCA in Romania at the beginning of this year has become very strange. They have published a lot of their opinions in the newspapers, and they have begun to hold rallies in various cities to promote their views, and the senior leaders of the YMCA are also frequently speaking in various cities. .

Edel could see at a glance that this was a master of propaganda promoting the youth association. Moreover, the activities of the Al-Shabaab have been frequent this year, and the cost is beyond the reach of Al-Shabaab, which only needs to collect membership fees. This is what Eder is most worried about. How scary a militant group that is funded by external forces is beyond what these people can imagine now.

Therefore, Edel asked Carrust to find out the financial master behind him. Whether he was a domestic person or a foreign institution, he could not let Edel relax his investigation.

After days of investigation, Edel was a little dumbfounded when Carust put the report on his desk. The YMCA is not being funded by a foreign power, but by people from both the Allied and Allied powers that are heavily funding its development. Edel thought about it carefully and knew why this organization was so popular with both parties.

The slogan of the YMCA is that the Kingdom of Romania needs to protect every Romanian from persecution. There are still a large number of Romanian people living in Transylvania in Austria-Hungary and Bessarabia in Russia, and the Romanian people belong to the majority in both regions. Then, after the al-Shabaab organization expands, it must meet the requirements of its members. At this time, Romania must choose between the two camps. This is the reason why both sides are funding a radical political party. They want to stir up the national sentiment in Romania. Let the Kingdom of Romania have to choose sides.