Bulgarian Empire

Chapter 140: , The war is about to end

  Radoman knows, everything is over! The Serbian government is over! His political life is over!

   The patience of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Serbia is exhausted, and the degree of support is not limitless!

   The Serbian government doesn’t know yet. Now it’s caused by the Serbian government’s own slow response. The bitter fruit can only be swallowed by itself!

   So Radoman, a veteran of the political circle, sent a telegram to the country to explain the specific situation, he fell ill and was admitted to the Vienna hospital!

   The Serbian negotiating delegation can only be replaced by the deputy foreign minister and continue to participate in the negotiations!

   Time passed in a hurry, and another week passed in a flash. In November, there was still no progress in the negotiations!

   There are only two options before the Serbian government:

   Either agree to the terms of the Bulgarians, sign an armistice agreement, and end the war!

   Either continue to insist, and surrender to the Bulgarians after Belgrade collapses!

   After knowing the purpose of the Bulgarians, the high level of the Serbian government knew that this time the trouble was big! The prime minister as far away as Vienna gave them a good start, so they fell ill!

   After the war fails, their political life is over! Now that I am sick, I just don’t need to bear the name of traitor!

   Others can hide, but Alexander I cannot hide! Who calls him the king?

   In the Royal Palace of Serbia, Alexander I thought angrily that he wanted to swear everyone and come together. Now he wants to hide, there is no door or window! !

He said coldly: "Come here, go and invite all the ministers over to discuss matters! If you are sick, bring them over! Anyway, you have to see people when you die, and you have to see the corpse when you die. For this afternoon's meeting, all senior government officials must attend!"

  ……

   At this point in the war, there will be no more suspense! When it will end is a matter of time. Bulgaria has already ended its wartime economic system!

  Sofia Palace, Ferdinand is busy counting expenditures with the senior government!

   Good fellow, it's really a cannon fire, gold is amazing!

  Since the declaration of war, the expenditure of large and small has reached more than 70 million two million levies (about 2.8 million pounds, 2.1 tons of gold), this is just the beginning!

   In the later period, there will be compensation for casualties, rewards for meritorious personnel, new land management, and a series of things, which are not small expenses!

   But now Ferdinand is not at all worried about this huge expenditure!

   The Bulgarian army directly occupied two-thirds of Serbia, although most of them are mountainous, not so rich! Even so, the rewards are still substantial!

   Robbery directly, the method is too low-level, and it is easy to corrupt military discipline and bear infamy!

   Directly set up a card to collect taxes and drive up prices, it's much simpler! Anyway, in the war years, prices have not risen! The black pot is also up to the capitalists to come forward to resist!

   As for the life of the Serbs, it is not Ferdinand’s turn to worry about it! Anyway, the Bulgarian army still distributes relief food to civilians, although it is only a small piece of black bread!

  The next problem is that the Serbian government should have a headache!

   "Does the casualties come out?" Ferdinand asked with concern, this is what he worries most!

   Prime Minister Constantine immediately replied: "Preliminary statistics have been made. From the declaration of war to the present, the Bulgarian army has launched more than hundreds of large and small battles in the past month!

   As of yesterday, more than 40,000 casualties have been reported by various troops!

Among them, 12,574 have died; there are more than 8,000 seriously injured people who are still under treatment. Many of them have been amputated and there is no possibility of returning to normal; the rest are The lightly wounded have begun to recover one after another and returned to the army! "

   After listening to the Prime Minister's words, Ferdinand's hanging heart finally fell! Fortunately, the lightly wounded can recover, otherwise the loss of more than 40,000 soldiers would be enough to hurt Bulgaria's vitality!

   Even so, Ferdinand sighed! The fight against Serbia has been dragged down all the way, and the two sides have paid a price of more than 20,000 people in less than a month of fighting!

   then slowly said: "Do the rest of the care work! We can't let the hero shed blood and tears!"

   Seeing that Ferdinand was not in high spirits, everyone wisely put away their smiling faces, as if they had changed people, and they all turned into a sad expression!

  Of course it doesn’t matter whether it’s true or false, but the show must be done! Otherwise, if the above is not paid attention to, the bottom is still available, can the pension be paid in full?

   Ferdinand is not a Virgin, nor can anyone ask others to be a Virgin! If a high-level government, if someone is a Virgin, he will definitely let him go!

   After a pause, Konstantin said in a sincere tone: "Don't worry, Duke! Our government will definitely do a good job in the aftermath. There will be no heroes bleeding and tears!"

Ferdinand nodded. He knew that the Bulgarian government is still very clean, coupled with the current outbreak of nationalism, just defeated Serbia, everyone's patriotic enthusiasm is high at the time, there should be few people who dare to make pensions. !

   continued to ask: "How about the Serb's loss?"

   Hearing Ferdinand’s question about Serbia’s situation, Konstantin said happily: "Grand Duke, the Serbs are dead this time, and it will be difficult for them to recover in 20 years!

   According to the data collected from various places, the number of deaths confirmed by the Serbian army has exceeded 200,000, and the actual number will only be more!

  Because the Serbs are poor and armed, basically the young and strong domestic laborers are sent to the army. In addition to the more than 200,000 who have died in battle, we still have 120,000 prisoners in our hands!

  The young and strong population in Serbia has been reduced by at least half!

   Besides, I helped to relocate nearly 300,000 people from the South Bank. Now we have distributed relief food and conducted military control of the local area, so it is not a big problem!

   Once the war is over, these 300,000 people will become bombs from time to time! If the Serbian government cannot carry out proper resettlement and conflicts intensify, civil war is likely to break out again! "

   Ferdinand smiled knowingly, it is not that simple to relocate 300,000 people, especially a group of old, weak, sick and disabled!

   Let them continue to be farmers, you also have to have land to grow them? Let them be workers, it will be even more troublesome! Do hard work, and lack of labor; technical work, they can't; and the Serbian government simply can't provide so many jobs!

  

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