Mediterranean Hegemony Road

Facts have proved that Ferdinand's choice is not wrong!

After determining Bulgaria's next strategy, the cabinet's potential was stimulated, and twelve points of combat effectiveness broke out into a new round of preparations!

Even so, the "Second Five-Year Plan", which was interrupted by the war, was carried out in an orderly manner.

Ferdinand, who was free, turned his attention to his old neighbor, the Ottoman Empire!

With the end of the Bulgarian-Serbian War, the call for Bulgaria to get rid of the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire is getting louder and louder, even though Bulgaria has long ceased to be the Sudanese government!

The nationalistic Bulgarians are increasingly dissatisfied with their nominal suzerainty. (Oh, never satisfied!)

To get rid of the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire and establish a completely independent Bulgarian kingdom is the voice of the majority of the Bulgarian people.

However, they were all suppressed by Ferdinand's strong prestige! Now is not the time to turn against the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria is not ready for war, but it does not prevent Ferdinand from making small moves!

1895 was a turbulent year, the just-concluded Bulgarian War, and the crisis in the Near East began to intensify.

That is, after the Sino-Japanese War began, the overwhelmed Armenians also rose up. This time, unlike history, Ferdinand also intervened, and the Greeks, Arabs, and Kurds were all involved!

Armenians lived in the mountainous and plateau areas of northeastern Asia Minor. In the 19th century, they were affected by Russia, Ottoman, and Persia. By 1894, there were more than one million Armenians living in the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

Armenians believe in Christianity and are incompatible with Turks. Most of them live in the "six provinces of Armenia", live together with the Kurds, and are mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. There are also some people living in cities, such as Constantinople has 150,000 Armenians.

In the late 19th century, because the Armenians were a minority and their religion was incompatible with the Turks, they were exploited and oppressed by the Turkish government.

After the intensification of ethnic conflicts, Armenians also launched activities against Sudan's rule, demanding national independence and autonomy. After the national independence of the Balkans, resistance activities became more frequent.

The Armenian resistance, which also angered the Ottoman rulers, was brutally suppressed.

After the outbreak of the economic crisis, the Ottoman Empire was also affected. In order to alleviate the crisis, attention was diverted. The Ottoman government has targeted the ethnic minorities in the country, trying to plunder the wealth of the ethnic minorities to survive the crisis!

So they provoked the contradiction between the Kurds and the Armenians, and took the opportunity to massacre the Armenians!

In August 1894, the Turkish army and Kurds massacred thousands of Armenians in Sassoon, followed by massacres in Yozgat, Urfa and other regions.

After the news spread, it attracted the attention of the international community. Due to the intervention of the foreign powers, it gave the Armenians an illusion that the international community supported their independence!

The rebel group thought the opportunity for independence was coming, and the uprising broke out! However, due to the different interests of the powers in the Ottoman Empire, it was difficult to reach an agreement with each other, and the crisis in the Near East broke out!

In line with the principle of blocking the enemy, Ferdinand also played a disgraceful role in this incident.

The ethnic conflicts in the Ottoman Empire have always been serious, and the core problem is religion!

The largest ethnic group, the Turks who believe in *** religion;

The second largest ethnic group, the Orthodox Greeks;

The third largest ethnic group, the Arabs who believe in Islam;

The fourth largest ethnic group, the Kurds who believe in Islam;

The fifth largest ethnic group, the Bulgarians who believe in the Orthodox Church;

...

On the surface, the Turks, Arabs, and Kurds all believe in Islam,

In fact, they are different, and there are a lot of factions that are not messy.

As we all know, heretics within are often more abhorrent than enemies outside. So this is the end, if you continue to write, you may be hit by a thunderbolt!

... (brain fill 100,000 words)

Anyway, these contradictions were targeted by Ferdinand, and the intelligence officers secretly launched an operation code-named "Hunting Horses" for this purpose!

Since 1895, the Ottoman Turkish Empire has been unstable, and religious conflicts have occurred frequently. Today, the Kurds and Armenians are fighting; tomorrow the Arabs are fighting with the Greeks; the day after tomorrow, the Turks and Bulgarians are fighting again. ;Suddenly turning around, Shiites and Sunnis clashed again, and Khawaliji and Murgui were in PK again...

The Ottoman government was exhausted. At first, it was just a conflict between the bottom-level believers, but the intelligence officers hyped it up through the street tabloids, and then detonated public opinion!

The Ottoman Empire can suppress the local newspapers, but it is powerless to the newspapers in the hands of the foreign powers, otherwise there will be no crisis in the Near East!

Public opinion has attracted the attention of the people, and everyone is waiting to see what the Ottoman Sultan government will do! Religious conflicts, mixed with ethnic conflicts, have never been right or wrong. No matter how you deal with them, some people will be dissatisfied.

Not to mention the decadent Sudanese government? The response was slow, and the handling was not timely. When the government intervened, there were several fights below, and the human brain was out of the dog's brain.

There is no doubt that the Sudanese government's disposal favored its own people, which angered the Greeks and Bulgarians in the country. With the encouragement of the Bulgarian and Greek governments, they began to support the Armenian revolution.

Ferdinand is not the only one who has ambitions for the Ottoman Empire, but the Greeks are the most eager! Seeing the expansion of Bulgaria, George I of Greece was envious and jealous, and there was no way to border Greece and the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, the Mediterranean also counts, but the Greeks still don't have the guts to compete with Britain and France for hegemony in the Mediterranean. Didn't they see that even Italy was a spectator?

As early as a few years ago, Bulgaria's military expansion began, and George I used this as an excuse to follow up. Unfortunately, he only guessed half of it right. He didn't expect that the enemy chosen by Bulgaria was not the Ottoman Empire, but the Serbs!

The idea that King George I planned to follow behind to pick up a bargain has failed! Now that the Ottoman Empire is surging, the Greeks can't stand it anymore and start to move!

The Foreign Minister hurriedly entered the Sofia Royal Palace and reported to Ferdinand: "His Excellency the Grand Duke, the special envoy of King George I of Greece, has arrived in Sofia in secret!"

Ferdinand nodded and said: "It seems that the Greeks can't stand it anymore, we still proceed as planned, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can contact them first, explore the bottom line of the Greeks, and then decide whether it is necessary to cooperate with them. !"

(Reviewing the previous article, the author is ashamed! I found a lot of problems, and the scumbags are really scumbags, and there are a lot of typos! Thank you for your support, tolerance, and pointers!!)