Mediterranean Hegemony Road

As soon as Bulgaria announced the expansion of the army, the recruitment office was full of people, and even the streets were lined up with neat registration teams, and the people enthusiastically joined the army.

Well, the above is the content of official Bulgarian propaganda. The recruiting office was indeed packed, and the line was indeed lined up on the street. As for whether the people actively joined the army, it is difficult to say. Because Bulgaria adopts a compulsory military service system, every conscription has to come like this.

Bulgaria's finances are not that rich either. Although it has increased a lot compared to before, the fiscal revenue in 1891 was as high as 130 million leva, but with the "Two Five-Year Plan" as a gold-sinking beast, there is still no surplus.

Therefore, although 60,000 troops were recruited this time, the budget for weapons and equipment was not much. Ferdinand planned to change his clothes on a large scale after the military reform, and the eliminated weapons were just for recruits.

Since the fall of Stam's cabinet, in order to maintain stability, Ferdinand has not made a big move against the army.

Just use the Guards to cultivate cronies, silently reserve talents, and at most use the communication between soldiers to subtly influence the army.

With the Army nearly doubling in size at one time, a massive personnel move is certainly justified.

Then many people in the Bulgarian Army were promoted, and the original small group was dismantled all at once.

Even if someone wants to object, it can't stop his subordinates from being promoted! It turned out that there were only so many positions in the army, so naturally the promotion had to go out, and Ferdinand's long-trained cronies also took the opportunity to put them in.

This is just the beginning. Ferdinand, who is familiar with the importance of "the barrel of a gun", after completing the adjustment of the middle and lower-level officers, came to the bottom of the salaries again, and established the Bulgarian Military Commission to be responsible for army construction and foreign wars. collective promotion.

Ferdinand put down a combination of punches, and the senior officials of the original army suddenly left the front line, nominally improving everyone's status, and only needed to be accountable to the king, and became a parallel organization with the cabinet.

Sava Mutkurov has been in a bad mood recently. He was hesitant when facing Ferdinand's win, and he didn't stand in line for the first time. Although he chose to support Ferdinand in the end, who knew that Stam's government was over so quickly, and his efforts did not play a big role.

After the establishment of the new government, in order to stabilize Sava-Mutkurov, it was still reused, and finally he was promoted to the Minister of War, which can be described as a spring breeze.

However, Sava-Mutkurov's political thinking is not so sensitive, and he did a stupid thing not long ago, "against military reform"!

Then there was no then, there was a lot of overlap in the powers of the Military Council formed by Ferdinand and the Minister of War. More importantly, Sava Mutkurov is now just an ordinary member of the Military Council, and has not served as the chairman.

In hindsight, Sava Mutkurov also knew that he had been put on the air. The members of the military committee are all bigwigs of the Bulgarian military. Now everyone has the same powers, who will listen to him?

In this reform, there are many frustrated people like Sava Mutkurov, but they can't do anything but vent on their own!

As for the coup, their influence in the military has been weakened to the lowest point. In this personnel transfer, almost all officers at the company level and above were reversed. Besides, Ferdinand didn't kill all of them again. Isn't everyone "promoted"?

If someone is down, someone is proud, and Stefan Toshev is very proud now. Due to the butterfly effect of Ferdinand's expansion of the Guards, he joined it. With his extraordinary ability, he was promoted to the head of the regiment a year ago. Commander of the Eighth Army Division.

There are many such cases. After the reform of the military system, Ferdinand was equipped with two deputy officers as reserve officers in addition to the main post. With the big military expansion, the demand for officers is several times the original. If you can't be promoted under this background, then there will be problems.

Of course Ferdinand doesn't have the energy to pay attention to these little things right now,

An important historical event broke out - the assassination of Crown Prince Nicholas in Japan!

Originally thought that Nicholas was delayed in Bulgaria for a short time, and his visit to Japan was postponed, so that the assassination would not happen, and Ferdinand did not pay attention.

Unexpectedly, Nicholas II went to Japan more than a month later than in history, but this unfortunate child still did not escape the knife.

It can only be said that Japan's ability to do death is really great. To assassinate the Russian crown prince, it is fortunate that it did not succeed, or else it will go to war with Russia immediately!

The Sino-Japanese War has not yet erupted, and the Big Apple has not yet received indemnities for great development. In this era, Japan, which is still poor, is facing the Maoxiong in its heyday. Think about it and you will know the ending.

No matter how yy Ferdinand is, the news all over the world is frying. Political assassination has always been a taboo. If the Japanese dare to assassinate the Russian crown prince, no matter whether it has anything to do with the government, don't even think about it.

Isn't Bulgaria an ally with Russia? Ferdinand, who didn't care about little Japan in his previous life, would of course be in trouble.

Decisively signaled the domestic media to wave the flag and shout, not only that, but also instructed Fuhu to guide the domestic public opinion in Russia, and also came up with a theory that if you don't beat Japan, you are a traitor.

Anyway, don't hit me at this moment. It is politically correct to avenge Crown Prince Nicholas. Everyone is scolding the Japanese.

This is not the end, Ferdinand also pretended to send a telegram to express his concern, and by the way, he also asked: When are you going to beat up the Japanese, do you need help?

Obviously, Ferdinand is looking for excitement. Could Russia go to war with Japan now? If it is not Alexander III who is in power, that is really uncertain! It is now clear that Alexander III had no intention of going to war, otherwise Russia would have to prepare.

As far away as Japan, Crown Prince Nicholas is really angry now. He just came out and traveled around. In which country he was not well entertained, but when he came to Japan, assassins appeared!

Now send a few officials here to apologize, and this is the end? It's a good idea. Anyway, if the assassins got into the crowd, it means that you have not done a good job in security work. You must be responsible. Even if you apologize, the emperor will come over in person!

After checking the injury from the hospital, Nikolai ignored any diplomatic etiquette and went home directly, ignoring the current feelings of the Japanese.

Crown Prince Nicholas, who had just left Japan, received a telegram from Ferdinand, and the suppressed anger came up again. He tore up the telegram and cursed: You think I don't want to start a war, I want to beat him now, but I don't think so!

After some time, the British began to mediate, and Ferdinand felt that it seemed too cheap to let Japan pass the border. As soon as I had an idea, I thought about it again, and immediately sent another telegram to Crown Prince Nicholas.

This time Nicholas was in a much better mood, and Ferdinand's idea this time was much more reliable. That's right, it is to ask the Japanese government to lose money!

It's not too much to ask for compensation for being injured. After all, he is also the crown prince of the Russian Empire, and he must have a compensation worthy of his identity!

This is justified everywhere. Even if the Japanese government has reached an agreement with Russia under the mediation of the British, it cannot deny Nikolai's right to claim.

This time, the Japanese were very happy, and publicly expressed their willingness to compensate in the newspaper.

Ferdinand said "hehe" on the side, what is the compensation worthy of identity?

Ferdinand's suggestion was 100 million pounds, no matter how much the Japanese could give, at least this figure made Nikolai happy!

Ferdinand's flattery was good, and it also meant that the Japanese government was in trouble, because no matter how much they gave later, Nicholas would not be satisfied, and 100 million pounds was absolutely impossible!