Greece’s Roman Road

"According to our embassy in Germany, recently, China is advocating the Eastern Railway in Germany. Will it have anything to do with this?" Constantine guessed.

In Europe at the end of the 19th century, when people mentioned railways, one word would come to mind—war.

The emergence of revolutionary land transportation tools such as railways has greatly promoted the flow of materials and personnel on land. Officers in the armies of various countries have a headache, how to transport huge amounts of supplies to frontline barracks, or thousands of people. The question of how quickly the military can get where they are needed is the answer to the question of the railroad.

In the just-concluded Theo War, the Athens-Larissa railway played an important role.

In the course of the war, every day there will be an army train, carrying thousands of tons of materials, including guns and weapons, bullets and shells, supplementary soldiers, army rations, etc., to the city of Larissa.

It can be said that the Greek army was able to win the victory, thanks to the railway.

After the advent of railroads, the Ottoman Empire had always wanted to build a railroad system that would link the various parts of the empire and strengthen control over the territory - preventing such things as Greek independence from happening again.

Before that, almost all the railway projects in the Ottoman Empire were handed over to the Germans for construction.

Due to the exhaustion of financial resources, almost all the railways that the Ottomans have built so far are in Asia Minor.

Hearing Constantine's reminder, King George also understood why Germany supported Ottoman at the ongoing London conference.

"What about the attitude of the Russians?" King George was in awe of the mighty Russia.

Millions of grey animals, almost the whole of Europe looked sideways.

Because of the marriage (Queen Olga was from the Russian royal family), George I had hope for Russia.

"The Russians don't have a definite attitude," Augustatiano replied.

"The Russians are now going all out to expand eastward"

"In order to build the long Trans-Siberian Railway, it can be said that he has no time to worry about it. I heard that the cost of building the railway in Russia in recent years has even exceeded the annual military expenditure," Constantine added.

This railway is known as the backbone of Russia, and received special attention from the tsar. It is for this reason that Russia, which has always been ambitious, is the least willing to cause trouble at this stage.

Originally, the Greek government, including Constantine, had high hopes for this meeting with Ottoman, but the current direction of the meeting is indeed not optimistic.

A land like Greece that lacks resources and does not even have basic agricultural conditions is not suitable for industrialization.

Not to mention other things, in order to achieve the current industrial level, Greece spends quite a lot of money on transportation conditions, and Trikupis's major infrastructure plan is mainly invested in this aspect.

In other words, limited by resource endowments, the return on investment in Greece is too low.

If Greece can get the Aegean coast of Albania and Macedonia, let alone resources, at least Greece can get a part of the scarce arable land.

This will solve the current dilemma that Greece needs to import a considerable portion of its food every year.

The importance of food security to a country is self-evident.

But now the Germans have crossed their feet, which is beyond Constantine's expectations.

As for Italy's opposition, it seems that everyone is not too worried, so that King George asked about the attitude of the surrounding powers, but Italy was omitted.

At the current European Military Festival, there are two jokes circulating, one is Ottoman who was defeated by his own country of origin, and the other is Italy who was defeated by African chiefs.

Almost at the same time that they defeated the Ottoman army on the border with the Greek army, European countries received news that in the Battle of Aduga, the Italian army went deep alone and suffered a crushing defeat. 7,000 Italians were killed, 1,500 were injured, and 3,000 were captured.

Including 252 officers below the brigadier general, the Italian army commander Baratieri abandoned the army and fled at night.

After the defeat of this decisive battle, the Italian expedition officially came to an end, in the form of shame.

This is unprecedented in Europe: a European power lost to an African country.

At the end of the 19th century, the pride of Europeans reached its peak. Everyone's impression of African countries is that of a small number of European adventurers who used advanced European weapons to defeat a large number of African indigenous stories.

Unexpectedly, I heard that tens of thousands of European soldiers in full armor were defeated by European black uncles. This strong contrast showed a strong drama.

Bismarck commented: "Italians have a good appetite, but they have rotten teeth"

Originally at the London meeting, the Italian representative with a strong attitude died instantly.

Among the representatives of various countries participating in the meeting, almost no one paid attention to the Italian representative.

For the territorial talks between Greece and the Ottoman Empire, the conditions for the double issue were too large: the Ottomans insisted that only Epirus should be handed over to Greece, while the Greek conditions were Epirus, Albania, the Aegean coast of Macedonia and Kerry Island.

Ottoman was supported by Germany, while Greece was alone, and no representative of any country explicitly expressed support for Greece.

The meeting ended in a stalemate.

Rumors about the talks spread wildly among the people, causing a lot of speculation among the people.

On February 25, The Times of Athens reported that Greek Prime Minister Trikupis planned to return Macedonia and Albania occupied by Greece to Ottoman during the London talks.

This caused a huge uproar in Athens.

The Greeks who have gone through the war are now in a better mood, and they are thinking about how to restore the glory of the empire~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Suddenly I heard that the Prime Minister will pay a huge price for the Greeks to return the territory they just got to the Ottomans, which is simply unacceptable. This kind of thing.

Angry Athenians gathered in front of the Capitol and denounced Trikupis as a traitor and betrayal of national interests.

For a time, the Greek government was once again forced into a corner by the people.

On the 27th, the Greek ambassador to Germany, Krikis, received a domestic request and visited the German Chief of General Staff, Shi Lifen.

Krigis expressed that Greece is willing to pay for the technology of the 75mm rapid-fire gun, so that Germany will not support the Ottomans on the territorial issue.

Shi Lifen received news from German officers in the Ottoman army as early as when the two countries were fighting fiercely, saying that the Greek army was equipped with a field gun with a very high rate of fire.

In fact, the matter of the Greek rapid-fire guns is no longer a secret in the European military circle. After all, they have already been on the battlefield. The military attaches stationed in Greece and the Ottomans from various countries are more or less concerned about the Greek artillery. described in the report.

On February 29, the German military attache in Athens, Madsen, who was ordered by Berlin, came to the school field in the suburbs of Athens in person, and with the help of Greek artillery, he personally operated the artillery.

The 75mm gun can reach a limit rate of fire of more than ten rounds per minute, which shocked Colonel Dedson.

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