Vol 4 Chapter 32: Killing with a knife
As soon as the war ended, the Bulgarian government became busy again, and a celebration party was indispensable.
But this time is a little special. Everyone knows that Ferdinand was not feeling very well recently because of the death of his mother, Princess Clementina, and no one dared to harass him!
Therefore, at this celebration, you can't see him as a king from beginning to end, but this does not affect everyone's good mood.
Anyway, there are still so many rewards, and there will be no reduction in this!
Domestic newspapers, of course, still have to blow up, how can there be enough victory for them to win for half a year!
Anyway, from the king to soldiers, workers, peasants, from the government to the army, from collectives to individuals, inside and outside, the media must blow it all! To satisfy the curiosity and vanity of the people!
Ferdinand is certainly the protagonist of this time. As one of the greatest emperors in Bulgaria, none of them has enough capital to admire!
Coupled with public opinion, Ferdinand is already second to God in the eyes of the Bulgarian people and has been artificially deified!
Oh, in fact Ferdinand has recovered a long time ago. After all, Princess Clementina is over seventy years old. In this era, it is considered a long life and she walks very peacefully!
It is natural to be old, sick and dead. Ferdinand, who is a man of two generations, is more able to appreciate this. After leaving Farewell Princess Clementina, he recovered.
It was just because he was too lazy to want to participate in so many entertainments, using this as an excuse to show that he was in a bad mood.
Anyway, now his reputation has reached its peak. It doesn't matter if he goes or does not need to rely on these small means to buy people's hearts!
The West is not the same as the East. A queen queen like Princess Clementina has never been involved in politics. Her death has little influence on the outside world, and it is even more impossible for the whole people to be numb and filial piety.
If there is anything to be said, it is a major blow to the royalist party in Orleans, France. One important member of the royal family is missing, and the influence of the Big 6 in Europe has declined again!
However, these are optional for Ferdinand, and he did not intend to support the restoration of the Orleans royal family. After all, the French Republic has been established for so many years, and the Royal Party has been divided into several factions. How can it be restored successfully?
Oh, and the most important thing is that after the death of Princess Clementina, the inheritance of the throne was farewell to him, and Ferdinand naturally would not go in silly to join in!
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In the Royal Palace of Sofia, Prime Minister Constantine, holding a stack of thick materials, was introducing Ferdinand with a beaming expression: "His Majesty, our cabinet plans to divide the Aegean Islands into four regions, namely:
1. Crete and its affiliated islands are divided into Crete regions, supplemented by the port of Heraklion in Crete;
2. The islands of Rhodes, Karpathos, Yugoslavia, Grand Solavno, Kunupia, and other islands are divided into the Karpa region, and are located in the port of Calavarza on Rhodes ;
3. The islands of Evia, Kikeses, Northern Sporades, and other islands are divided into the Sith Region, and the island is on Skyros;
4. Lesvos, Chios, Lemnos and other islands are divided into the East region and the government is in Mytilene, Lesvos.
The Mediterranean island of Kofu is directly divided into the Ipirus region, and the Ionian Islands and the Peloponnesian peninsula are divided into a separate region-the Ionian region, with the government in Sparta. !!
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Ferdinand pretended to listen carefully. In fact, he didn't know the names of many of the islands, let alone know the specific situation on the island.
Now Bulgaria can also be said to be the country of thousands of islands. The Aegean Sea is also known as the multi-island sea. It is said that there are more than 6ooo islands. Of course, this number is not accurate because many islands are fleeting. !!
But now in Bulgaria, there are more than 200 islands suitable for human habitation alone. There are no less than 6,000 islands. The largest Crete has an area of 83oo square kilometers, and the smallest may not be as large as a bed!
With so many islands, remembering names is a difficult problem. Even for islands suitable for human habitation, Ferdinand cannot remember.
It is naturally a troublesome thing for the Bulgarian government to govern these places.
The division of administrative areas was obviously established by the government for the sake of rule. Ferdinand, who had no idea of the specific situation, simply handed it over to the cabinet!
"Well, just divide it like this! If it feels inappropriate in the future, then readjust it!" Ferdinand said lightly
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Constantine replied
"However, what about the residents of the island? The Ottomans are okay to say that the Turkish Al-Shabaab, which has just been in power, wants to do something and is already extraditing civilians!
The Greeks are in trouble. If we remove them all, the islands will be deserted. Now the people in the country are not interested in living on the islands!
Even if we stepped up publicity and promised to provide housing and subsidies to immigrants, everyone was just a little interested in a few big islands, and most of the small islands were not registered at all! "
Ferdinand couldn't help but have fun in his heart. In the future, the islands that the rich will rush to buy are now hot potato!
Ferdinand thought about it and said, "Forget it, let's leave the islands without any special resources! Anyway, we won't run longhorns anymore, we just need to drive some valuable islands!
As for the Greeks, they still have to find a way to let them leave. The Greek peninsula with a large population is not good for the time being, but the thousand and eight hundred people on these small islands, let's get rid of them first!
According to the original plan, send them to Syria and the Ottomans as neighbors. After all, the colony over there needs a lot of manpower! "
Well, Ferdinand is in the pit again. World War I is about to come. At that time, the Ottoman pit will definitely attack Syria.
With the current strength of Bulgaria, it is difficult to resist the Ottoman invasion in Syria. Therefore, Ferdinand will not invest much resources in the short term. Sending the Greeks over is also a killing by a knife!
In theory, the Greeks could also join Syria with the Ottoman Empire and seize Bulgarian colonies.
However, this may only exist in theory. As long as you think about the encounters of Armenians and the changes in the distribution of Greeks, you will see how cruel the ethnic cleansing carried out by the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. !!
Even Ferdinand's attitude towards overseas colonies was able to abide by the rules. If he could not keep it, he gave up. After the war ended, he would go back to recover the lost land.
Anyway, from the perspective of this era, the colonies in the hands of Bulgaria are all rotten land, and there is not much economic value, except that there is no shortage of deserts, that is, there is no boundary when you want it!
Constantine said hesitantly, "Your Majesty, is this too wasteful? Can we wait for our immigrants to be in place before sending the Greeks away so that no one will be abandoned for a long time ..."
Ferdinand interrupted Constantine's words in an unquestionable tone: "No, we must pay attention to the image of the government, some things have to be done well in advance!
The local residents will certainly not leave willingly. Now that we are still under military control of these islands, even if there is anything born, it is difficult for the outside world to know the specific information.
Once the order is normalized, it will be difficult to keep it secret! You don't want the whole world to know that we are forcibly exiling Greeks! "
That's right, it's exile! Compared with the Aegean region, Syria in this era is a backcountry!
"Okay, Your Majesty! We will complete it as soon as possible, and strive to send all the residents of the island away by 1911!"