Mediterranean Hegemony Road

The Hohenzollern family in Germany has received good news recently. First, Bulgaria supports the former Romanian royal family to succeed the king of East Prussia, and then the British support Wilhelm II to succeed the king of the Rhine Kingdom.

Whether it is William II or the late King Carol I of Romania, both belong to the German Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family, and another major direct branch of the Hohenzollern family, the Hechingen family, has been It died out in 1869.

Due to the pandemic, the establishment of the Rhine Kingdom and East Prussia has been delayed, and of course, the Hohenzollern family has been unsure about the candidate for the throne.

The European kings of this era all want face, their heads can be cut off and blood can be shed, but face cannot be lost!

This is the status quo of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family, as the loser William II and Ferdinand I of Romania, both declared their rejection of the crown!

This is also true in history. On the one hand, Wilhelm II wanted to restore, but on the other hand, he was unwilling to give up face. In the end, he missed the best time for restoration and let Hitler come to power.

William II is okay, he still has a son, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand is in trouble, his son is not worried, the famous "Carol II" in history, now Already infamous.

The name "I don't love the country and the beauty" surpassed the romantic King Edward VIII. Even before the demise of Romania, the crown prince was busy talking about love.

Of course, that's all it takes to talk about love. If it is from the beginning to the end, it may be a romantic story. It is not unacceptable for the openness of Europe at that time.

For example, learn from His Majesty Ferdinand of the Habsburgs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They did not break the secular restrictions, and they embraced the beauty of the country.

It's a pity that Carol II, the playboy, can't do it. Because he loves too much, he likes the new and hates the old, and naturally there will be no supporters!

such a king,

It is estimated that the people of East Prussia will not like it, and the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family will no longer be able to withstand the toss. If there is another prodigal, the surplus they have accumulated in Germany for hundreds of years will be squandered. Empty.

Then everyone began to worry, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen-Ferdinand didn't want the throne to fall into the hands of other branches, and the son was not good enough to make him the king of East Prussia, maybe in a few years. expelled.

Bulgaria only promised to put them on the throne, but did not promise to help them keep the throne. Once they lose the throne again, their line will have no chance again.

Not only that, there are still many people in the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family who are eyeing the East Prussian throne. This is the foundation of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family.

It has been in business for hundreds of years. As long as you succeed to the throne, you can quickly control the power with the support of the Baowang faction. The benefits here are not small!

Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen family - Ferdinand asked in embarrassment: "Steward Ersa, what do you think I should do now?

Little Carol is ignorant. Many people in the family have expressed interest in the throne of East Prussia. Those nephews of mine are going to step on my door recently! "

Butler Ersa frowned, should he consider this question? Originally, the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand had many cronies, but as Romania was incorporated into Bulgaria, these supporters lost hope and left him one by one.

Of course, this is also a good thing for him, otherwise it would be a burden for the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand who have been exiled to raise such a person.

"Your Majesty, perhaps it would be better for you to serve as the king of East Prussia in person. Little Carol is not a success, you can still wait for your grandson?" Elsa suggested.

Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand smiled bitterly and said, "Those bastards? Do you think they will have hope? I'm not a wise master, and I don't have the ability to lift them up!"

After finishing speaking, he turned his eyes to the direction of Romania, as if he was nostalgic for his old life. When I was the Crown Prince of Romania, I was so happy under my father's wings, but everything has changed since he took the throne!

After his father's sudden death, before he could sort out the country, he was forced to be involved in the world war, and then he was defeated all the way and began his exile career.

After hesitating for a while, the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand changed his mind again. The foundation of the family cannot be lost. Due to the relationship between the world war, the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family has been severely damaged.

This kind of heavy damage is not only because they lost their crown, but also a lot of wealth and contacts, which were also destroyed in the war. If they want to recover, it is impossible to do it without 180 years of operation.

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Who will succeed the king of East Prussia? Ferdinand, who is far away in Sofia, doesn't care. Anyway, as long as it belongs to the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family, even if it is an idiot or an idiot, it doesn't matter to him. !

Anyway, as long as he completes the agreement and establishes prestige in the European royal family, it is impossible for Ferdinand to reproduce the power of Queen Victoria's European grandmother, and he has no daughter to marry!

But it is still possible for Ferdinand to achieve the prestige of Edward VII's European uncle. In fact, his prestige in the royal family is not far from Edward VII.

To establish prestige in the European royal family, it is difficult or difficult to say that it is not difficult or difficult. In short, as long as you are the defender of the royal power, and you have also helped others to keep the throne, it is enough to gain the majority of people's Respect!

To put it bluntly, this is a combination of relatives and interests, but it is more complicated than ordinary relatives, but it is still an alliance of interests in essence, and blood is just a bond.

If Bulgaria is not to be rejected by the mainstream European society, they must have a good reputation, but the reputation is a false thing. It is just blowing it out directly, and it is no different from the business blowing of later generations.

If it weren't for Ferdinand's hard work, it is estimated that Bulgaria's current reputation would not be much better than that of Mao Bear, or it might even be hacked into the Ottoman Empire!

It's comfortable to do whatever you want, and you won't even lose a piece of meat, but don't mix it up in diplomacy. For details, you can refer to Mao Xiong's bumpy European hegemony road, and the Germans' heads-up all over the world!

The Minister of the Palace, Carl, went to Ferdinand with two invitations and said, "Your Majesty, this is an invitation sent by the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family. The coronation ceremonies of the kings of the Rhine Kingdom on June 28, 1920 and July 28, 1920!"

Ferdinand didn't even look at it, he made a decision: "Let's inform little Ferdinand, let's lead the team to participate!"

European royal families are usually rare. Except for weddings, funerals, and marriages, only the enthronement ceremony can get everyone together. Ferdinand naturally wants to let Ferdinand go out to see, and by the way, you can make some friends. .

On the battlefield, you fight to the death, but in private, everyone is still relatives and friends, and there are only a few who have truly formed a deadly feud!

The circle of the royal family is only so big. When looking at history, basically all the major families have fought. If you want to hold revenge, the royal marriage will not need to be carried out. All the gods have been enemies!

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Time flies, and in 1920 the three kingdoms agreed by the Allies were established successively, namely the Kingdom of East Prussia, the Kingdom of the Rhine, and the Kingdom of Poland.

If you add the existing kingdoms of Bavaria, Saxony, Württemberg, and Prussia, there are seven kingdoms, 6 grand duchies, 5 duchies, 7 princely kingdoms, and 3 free Hanseatic cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck), in which the Kingdom of Prussia has become a republic with a direct central cut, and other regions are still a combination of coexistence of kings, nobles, and parliaments.

The Weimar Republic was established under such extremely bad political conditions. It belongs to the territory that the central government can directly rule, and it only accounts for less than 40% of the country's territorial area!

Due to Ferdinand's butterfly effect, the Allies gave up the liquidation of the nobles. In order to divide Germany, the French decisively helped these states stabilize the situation.

Then it created the current special situation of coexistence of 28 states. If it is only a multi-state coexistence, it is not impossible to solve it. The problem is that the Germans now lack an emperor who can coordinate the overall situation?

President, what the hell is that? Can it be bigger than a king? The people of the major states have no feeling for the president of this empire, and they can't control them anyway!

What is even more tragic is that the rights of these kingdoms and principalities have increased greatly again. For example, they have the right to independently form an army, have the right to conclude treaties with foreign countries, and have independent financial accounting...

It can be said that the French have done a very good job this time. As long as the situation remains stable, after decades, Germany will once again become a mess!

Don't expect the British to help the Germans again, they just need Germany to counteract the expansion of the French, not a strong Germany!

Fragmented Germany, its national strength is still strong. At least they can contain the French. They usually make trouble for themselves. Once the enemy invades, they will still be a whole. This is exactly the scene that London and Sofia most hope to appear.

A new chapter in history was turned again, but the Weimar Republic came anyway, and after the end of the world war, German Chancellor Max von Baden handed over power to SPD chairman Friedrich Ebert.

However, Baden's behavior did not meet the needs of interest groups. Therefore, the next day, a revolutionary government called the Parliament of the People's Representatives was established, consisting of three representatives each from the Social Democratic Party and the Independent Social Democratic Party, led by Albert and Hugo Haas respectively.

Although the new government was recognized by the workers' and soldiers' parliament in Berlin, it was opposed by the Spartak League led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.

In Mr Abbott's National Assembly for Parliament from 16 to 18 December, his Social Democrats won the majority of seats. As a result, Albert was able to convene the National Assembly immediately, with a view to drafting a constitution and establishing a perfect parliamentary system, thus weakening the support for the establishment of a socialist republic.

From November 1917 to March 1918, Germany was virtually dictatorially ruled by the Parliament of the People's Representatives. During these six months, the new government has been surprisingly positive, issuing numerous decrees.

Most of its activities are limited to a few areas, including the eight-hour workday, home labor reform, agricultural labor reform, civil servants' union rights, local social benefits (at the national and federal state levels), national health insurance, reinstatement of laid-off workers, Fight forced dismissal and join the appeal system, regulation of salary agreements, and universal suffrage for people over 20 of all classes at the local and national level.

Well, these unrealistic decrees, just take a look at it, in fact, in Germany, which is facing economic collapse after the war, there is no possibility of implementing these conditions!

In order to give his nascent government control of the overall situation, Albert entered into an agreement with the Supreme Army Command, formerly headed by Erich Ludendorff, now headed by Wilhelm Grener.

The Albert-Glerner agreement stipulated that the government would not attempt to reform the military as long as the military committed to protecting the government. On the one hand, the agreement symbolized the military's formal recognition of the new government and reassured the middle class; however, the leftist government was seen as betraying workers' rights.

A very strange scene appeared. The German revolution actually allowed the army to regain power again, and the parliament and political parties became the thugs of the military.

Of course, the fly in the ointment is that the army's control over the local states has declined. For example, the southern German region was initially controlled by the Bulgarian army. After the withdrawal, the defense was directly handed over to the major southern states.

And according to the Treaty of Versailles, the German army has also been cut apart. For example, the Kingdom of Bavaria has the right to form an army of 10,000. Naturally, people will not let the German military intervene.

The current situation is that the major states control half of the country's army, while the central government controls the other half of the army, and the balance of power between the two sides has been established under the manipulation of the Entente.

A large number of war losses and reparations have destroyed the German economy, and the Social Democrats have no experience in governing, and often introduce policies that look wonderful but are actually impossible to achieve.

Threats from extremists on the left and on the right, the republic was in crisis from the very beginning: the left accused the SPD of betraying the interests of the workers by preventing the communist revolution; the right opposed democracy and insisted on returning Germany to its former monarchy.

Moreover, in order to destroy the republic, especially the right wing including the military force, even claimed that it betrayed Germany and made the country lose in the First World War.

These are just the beginning. Social security in Germany is rapidly deteriorating. Whether it is the state or the central government, they are troubled by the deteriorating economy, but they are unable to solve it!

The Weimar Republic, which went into history, advocated the idea of ​​reunifying Germany, which was resisted by major states, and the New Economic Policy implemented by it was resisted by domestic interest groups. Their tragic road is being staged.

However, the eyes of the whole world are now focused on the Americans. The three countries of Great Britain, France and Bulgaria have no plans to participate in Germany's internal affairs, otherwise the situation in Germany will be even more chaotic!

Looking at the collected German intelligence, Ferdinand's face was very ugly. The chaotic German situation is indeed a good thing for Bulgaria, which is convenient for recruiting talents.

At the same time, there is a new life in the chaos, and the situation that is not broken or established is applicable all over the world. Once the German people are tired of this kind of infighting, then reunification will become inevitable. Where will the world situation go? Dinan is also confused!

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