Mediterranean Hegemony Road

A fierce quarrel is taking place at the German-Austrian coalition headquarters on the eastern front. Hindenburg and Ludendorff, who had emerged in this war, had a fierce collision of ideas with the commander-in-chief of the coalition, Fa Jinhan.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff advocated an immediate concentration of forces, slaughtered from Lithuania to Huanglong, and captured St. Petersburg before the arrival of the Russian winter; while Faginham advocated that the effective force of killing the Russians should be used to force the Russians to withdraw from the war.

Hindenburg said angrily: "The commander returns your Excellency, and it is too late to take St. Petersburg immediately. Don't have any illusions about the Russians' withdrawal from the war. Our best choice is to fight them until they dare not fight again!"

Faginhan also roared tit for tat: "No, the Russian winter is coming soon, if I choose to attack St. Petersburg, I must finish it within this short month!

This is impossible, don't forget that we are more than 300 kilometers away from St. Petersburg, and the Russians have at least half a million troops in St. Petersburg.

Once they discover our purpose, within a week they will be able to gather a million troops in St. Petersburg, and within half a month this number will expand to 1.5 million!

Can you get to St. Petersburg in a week? Even if the Russians let you go directly, we can't do it!

According to your plan, when we break through the Russian blockade and arrive in St. Petersburg, winter will already come. If we are unlucky, winter will come when we are still halfway there!

Fighting polar bears in minus 20 to 30 degrees, you're a lunatic! "

Ludendorff took his words: "No, Your Excellency Commander! If we give up a lot of supplies and go for a direct military raid, we can still reach St. Petersburg within a week!

Let the navy send our supplies to Tallinn, where can we get supplies, and then immediately launch an attack, now that the main force of the Russian army is almost consumed, it is impossible for a group of rabble Russians to hold St. Petersburg at all! "

Falkenham shook his head in anger, and said two words: "Crazy!"

I have to say that the idea of ​​the golden partner of Hindenburg and Ludendorff is crazy. This is completely taking a risk. Of course, the benefits are great if they succeed.

After a moment of silence, Falkenham said again: "I don't care what you think, stop now, I can't take the German Empire's national fortune to make a gamble for you!

Remember both of you,

It is a duty as a soldier to obey orders! Now I order you to take the troops to snatch food and supplies for me. The people in the country still need us to find food for them to spend the winter. Get it! "

"Yes!" The two said in unison.

Unable to convince the commander-in-chief, Farkingham, Hindenburg and Ludendorff did not think they would be able to convince the German High Command, and could only use it for less technical work - robbery!

Yes, at this point in this battle, the Germans have no intention of continuing to attack. The longer the front is, the more difficult it will be to supply supplies.

Now the domestic food supply in Germany is already very tight. Due to the blockade by the British, the only channels for the Germans to import food are Denmark and the Netherlands. Others such as Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland have low food production. , not much to sell.

Not only did the Germans have a hard time, but also the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As one of the most important food-changing countries in Europe, they could not guarantee self-sufficiency due to the war.

Therefore, it is the consensus of the top leaders of the two countries to go to Russia to grab food. If there is not enough food, it will be difficult for Germany and Austria to survive 1917.

In order to prevent the domestic people from starving, the commander-in-chief of the coalition, Falkinhan, could not take care of that much, and directly issued the task of collecting food to the various units. No matter what they did, he only wanted food.

In order to raise food quickly, everyone's methods are naturally not so civilized. For example, the granaries of the capitalists were directly confiscated, and the granaries of the nobles were naturally confiscated.

I have to say that the Germans are still very smart, but they only set their sights on the Russian capitalists and nobles who have a lot of food, while ordinary people are not within the scope of search, and of course, the more important thing is that they cannot be found.

There is no wanton looting of ordinary people, but can their lives really be unaffected? The answer is no, the Germans also hope to force the local people to cooperate with them through food.

The first people who can't stand it are the citizens of the city. The grain of the capitalists has been confiscated, and the grain store is naturally closed. So where do they go to buy grain?

Naturally, it was a grain store opened by the German and Austrian occupying forces! Is it really that simple? Obviously not, the Germans do not accept rubles!

Mettlach was an ordinary citizen of Lviv, and at the same time a victim. Due to the arrival of the German-Austrian coalition, his family's life could not be over.

"My dear, what should we do? Now the ruble is about the same as waste paper, we can't buy anything, and we're running out of food at home!" asked his wife, Ekris

Mettlach said with a wry smile: "Why don't I go to the factory occupied by the Germans. They are now recruiting people to resume production."

Ekris shook her head and said, "What if you work for the enemy and the government calls back in the future? They will send you to prison!"

Mettlach nodded and said, "But now we're running out of food, and if we don't work for the enemy, we'll starve to death!

Are we going to flee too? no!

Now there are soldiers everywhere, and we have to take our children, where can we go? "

Tears were already flowing out of Ikelis, crying and saying, "Sorry, I shouldn't have stopped you before! If we had left Lviv before the enemy came, this would not have happened!"

"No! This has nothing to do with you, it's all the useless waste that lost too fast. We just received the news that the enemy occupied Livov in less than three days, and we can run away in such a short time. Where?" Mettlach reassured

Ekris stopped crying and added, "It's a pity we don't have any money, or we'll leave Europe with our children and go to a place where there's no war."

...

The biggest impact of this world war is that a large number of Europeans left the European continent and settled in the Americas in order to escape the war. It can be said that it was this great immigration that laid the foundation for the rise of the United States in the future!

After all, there are only a few people who can leave. Most of them are like Mettlach who want to leave but can't.

With the rapid advance of the German-Austrian coalition, the number of refugees received by Bulgaria began to grow exponentially.

The rich people came first. Their purpose was to leave Europe to escape the war, and they just made a transit in Bulgaria.

Unfortunately, they were targeted by the unscrupulous Ferdinand, and it was not so easy to leave.

When they arrived in Bulgaria, they found that they were dumbfounded. The ruble was almost turned into waste paper. The exchange rate before the war had now been invalidated. Before the war, 1 lev = 0.375 ruble, now 1 lev = 150 ruble, and this continues to depreciate.

Although inflation has also occurred in Russia, but it is not so strong? It's a pity that this is Bulgaria, and there are only three major banks that can do foreign exchange business. This is obviously robbery, even more ruthless than robbery!

In an instant, the crazy depreciation of more than 400 times, no one can stand it!

It's okay to bring gold, there is no possibility of depreciation, and the prices in Bulgaria are similar to those before the war. They can exchange for Lev and live a good life.

Those who bring rubles are miserable, and they can't spend it at all. I thought tens of thousands of rubles were still a huge sum of money, but I didn't expect that I couldn't even buy a ticket to the Americas.

No way, everyone knows about the current economic situation in Russia. The devaluation of the ruble is inevitable. The most important thing is that the ruble cannot be spent at all, and the capitalists will naturally refuse to accept it.

Of course, I can't spend it. It's just for ordinary people. At least Ferdinand can buy rubles in Russia. Although the price of goods in Russia has skyrocketed several times, it does not affect him earning the difference in the least.

Without money, you can't go, either stay in Bulgaria to find a job to make money, or go home. This multiple-choice question is very simple. As long as you are not stupid, you will know that the Russian army is in chaos now, and it is not suitable for life at all.

Although many people are worried that the German-Austrian coalition will also attack Bulgaria soon, and the peaceful days are not long, but it is still safe now, isn't it? Wait until you have raised enough tolls, and then leave!

Due to the sudden increase in the population, the labor shortage caused by the war has now been filled by refugees. Instead, there is a thriving scene.

Of course, the arrival of a large number of refugees has also brought hidden dangers to the social security of Bulgaria. But now is the time of war. It cannot be said that it is "three steps and one post, five steps and one post", but the militiamen on the streets are still indispensable.

Those who dared to endanger public order would be suppressed by the local militia as soon as they emerged, and then sent directly to the mines.

At this time, Prime Minister Constantine was reporting the results to Ferdinand: "Your Majesty, the number of refugees from Russia has skyrocketed in recent months. In August alone, we received 460,000 Russian refugees. It is estimated that in September This number will continue to grow.

Now the total number of refugees in the country has exceeded 4 million, of which Russian refugees account for a quarter, and the rest are Romanian refugees.

The Romanian refugees have been resettled almost before. Most of them have joined the army and are now serving in the peninsula of Asia Minor. Except for some old and weak people who are still in refugee camps, the rest are basically resettled. .

About a quarter of the more than one million Russian refugees came to seek refuge with relatives and friends.

The other three-quarters are the ones that the government needs to come forward to resettle, but it is not a big problem. It is expected that most of them will be able to find jobs this month.

With the arrival of the refugee wave, the shortage of manpower we are worried about is no longer a problem. But as a price, we have to distribute more than 1,000 tons of relief food every day from now on, and this number is still increasing, maybe in two or three months, it will double!

The cabinet has decided to resettle the follow-up refugees in the Asia Minor peninsula in order to restore agricultural production there as soon as possible and lay the foundation for the future! "

Ferdinand nodded with satisfaction, and sent a group of refugees there first. After the war, a group of military aristocrats could be sent there, and a part of the population could be immigrated from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Bulgaria's foundation in the Asia Minor peninsula would be stabilized.

The only trouble is the large number of Romanians in the country. Although the previous war has reduced the Romanian population by more than one million, and immigration has caused the Ottomans to kill a million, but due to the entry of the Transinia region, the Romanian population number again. skyrocketed.

Although no census has been conducted, it is tentatively estimated that in the actual control area of ​​Bulgaria, the number of Romanians has exceeded 7 million, which is the second largest ethnic group after the Slavs.

Ferdinand asked: "Prime Minister, Romanian people in the country, what does the government plan to do? If one is not handled properly, it will leave a very big hidden danger in the future!"

Constantine thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, Romania in the Transnian region was originally a part of the Kingdom of Hungary. After the war is over, we can send them back to the country!

In this way, the number of Romanians in our country has been directly reduced by half, and they have also been dispersed to various places, greatly reducing the threat.

At the same time, we can continue to immigrate to the colonies, constantly diluting the proportion of their population in a region, and slowly assimilating them. "

Obviously, Constantine is preparing to move eastward. The Romanians in Transinia were indeed part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the war, but now they are obviously not.

They don't have any identification with the Kingdom of Hungary either, but the Romanians have no identification with Bulgaria either.

There are more than seven million Romanians, and Ferdinand has no confidence that he can assimilate them. Although they are deeply influenced by Slavic culture, they are indeed two ethnic groups. It is not easy for different ethnic groups to assimilate!

But if this number is reduced by half, and there are only more than three million people left, the difficulty is greatly reduced!

The big deal is throwing 1.8 million to overseas colonies. As long as the Romanians in any one region do not exceed 20% of the total population, they will not be able to make waves.

As for what will happen to the Kingdom of Hungary, Ferdinand doesn't care about this issue. Anyway, the defeated countries have no human rights, and it is not their turn to make decisions.

Suddenly, Ferdinand thought of another question, and he asked: "What if the Russians annexed Hungary? They have no shortage of population, and they must not be interested in receiving these Romanians. What should we do then?"

After thinking about it, Constantine said fiercely: "Then let the Romanians establish their own country, but they have to change their site. Jordan is a good site, and Libya can also be considered!"

Ferdinand was stunned for a moment. This attention is really black. Originally, Jordan was prepared for the Greeks. Their domestic population is only over one million, so naturally there is no problem.

But now there are more than 7 million Romanians, I am afraid that the problem of survival alone is a big problem that will plague the Romanians in the future! Not to mention Libya, you can't let Romanians eat sand!

It's a pity that Ferdinand couldn't think of a good way. From the perspective of strategic security, the Balkans must not be able to divide a piece of land and let them establish a country!

As for Romania as a buffer between Bulgaria and Russia, Ferdinand never thought about it. Unless they are allowed to establish a country in Moldova, there is no feasibility at all. Bulgaria cannot hand over its gateway to its enemies to guard!

After a while, Constantine lowered his voice and said, "Your Majesty, or we will let the army..."