Bulgarian Empire

When Ferdinand abandoned the strategy of the straits and turned to the strategy of the peninsula, the subsequent negotiations would be much smoother.

For the Germans, it is completely acceptable if the Ottoman Empire can be saved by sacrificing Greece. Now the ruling party of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish Youth Party, their performance is still very satisfactory to the Germans!

Perhaps the German government is also preparing to continue the historical practice of helping the Ottoman Empire to complete internal reforms, train a real new army, and reduce the pressure on the Allies on the Eastern Front!

Not surprisingly, the Kingdom of Montenegro was the first to complete the negotiations. Since the differences between the two sides were not too great, Megev took over the Kingdom of Montenegro's request to pay war indemnity instead of ceding land. Of course, the number of indemnities was also slightly increased.

On September 15, 1909, Megev, on behalf of the Prime Ministers of Bulgaria and Montenegro, signed an armistice peace treaty under the witness of all countries - "Pro-Black Mountain Armistice Treaty", that is, the Montenegro Treaty of the "Constantinople Treaty"!

The treaty stipulated that since the signing of the treaty, the two countries officially ended the war; the Kingdom of Montenegro paid Bulgaria a one-time war indemnity of 4.8 million pounds, which could accept payment in kind, and the shortfall would be paid by loans from the allies.

At this point, the Kingdom of Montenegro officially withdrew from the Second Balkan War. After the news came out, Nicholas I, who was far away in Podgorica, breathed a sigh of relief.

Then began a hard life of debt repayment. Regardless of the fact that 4.8 million pounds is not a big figure, it is equivalent to 120 million levs, but for this small mountainous country with a population of only 1.2 million, it is equivalent to carrying 100 levs per capita. Fu's foreign debt, which is equivalent to their gross national product for three months!

But in comparison, the Kingdom of Montenegro is pretty good, while Romania is a little bit hard. The Bulgarian army has occupied a large area of ​​the city, and of course it is impossible to let it go easily.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Megev said calmly: "Okay, this is our final condition, Romania:

Either cede the Slobozia and Constanta areas (about 3,000 square kilometers), and pay 6 million pounds in war reparations;

Either cede the Craiova and Slatina areas (about 14,000 square kilometers), without paying war reparations!

Either pay 53 million pounds in war reparations in one lump sum without cede territory! "

At this time, Romanian Foreign Minister Barnosque could only look forward to German Foreign Minister Pilov, hoping that the Germans could stand up for them.

Pilov did not disappoint him, and directly acted as a peacemaker, saying: "Mr. Megev, your country's asking price is too high, and the Romanian army did not cause much damage to your country in this war.

Judging from the loss of your country, it will not exceed 3 million pounds, even with the compensation of 10 million pounds for war expenses, it is enough!

As a responsible big country, we hope that your country should show sincerity for peace and not let hatred continue! "

Megev said seriously: "No! Mr. Pilov can't calculate it like this. Due to the Romanian invasion, we have mobilized a total of 300,000 troops and 260,000 civilians, and consumed a lot of supplies!

This is the list we made, Mr. Pilov, please take a look, what's the problem? "

After speaking, Megev took out a thick stack of documents from the document bag, and there was a chapter on statistical tables on it.

as follows:

Calculated according to Bulgaria's national product value, 750 levs per person per month, 420 million levs of wealth are consumed every month.

In addition, during the war, we also have to pay military expenses. Based on the most basic calculation of 150 levs per person per month, the monthly salary of labor is 84 million levs.

There is also the cost of weapons and ammunition, we calculated an integer of 100 million levs.

From the outbreak of the war on July 8 to the present on September 16, it took a total of 7o days, and the total daily expenditure: 42ooo/3o+84oo/3o=1.68 million levs

7o days: 168o*7o=1.176 billion levs,

A total of 1.276 billion levs, equivalent to 5.104 million pounds!

After a while, Megev added another sentence: "By the way, the compensation for casualties has not been calculated, and the panic caused to the people due to the war has affected the normal economic operation of Bulgaria. We have not yet paid for this part of the loss." Count it out.

If you can wait for two or three months, I think this part of the loss has been calculated, and we will discuss compensation later, it should be more accurate! "

After hearing Megev's words, Romanian Foreign Minister Barnosque almost fainted from anger, wait two or three months? Based on the daily expenditure of 672,000 pounds (1.68 million levs), who the hell can afford to wait?

If you want to calculate war reparations in this way, you should have said it earlier! We definitely signed the peace treaty on the first day. No, it should be that if the front line fails, we will immediately admit defeat!

Then July is over, more than 10 million pounds is still within Romania's tolerance, and the current more than 50 million pounds is really unbearable!

Oh, he also knows that this is just an excuse deliberately made by Bulgaria, the compensation is fake, and the land cession is the real purpose!

After all, Barnosk has heard about Bulgaria's military merit award system for a long time. If there is not enough land, what should the officers and soldiers do with the enfeoffment?

Well, to Barnosk's surprise, German Foreign Minister Pilov remained silent. Obviously, the conditions proposed by the Bulgarians have reached his tolerance range, and I hope Romania can accept them!

After all, if the land is ceded, the first situation is only more than 3,000 square kilometers. This number is really not much, even if the compensation of 6 million pounds is added, it is not too much.

Moreover, there is no need to pay the compensation directly. As long as the Romanian government is responsible for relocating all the more than 200,000 people on this land, most of it can be offset. This condition is not too much!

Romanian Foreign Minister Barnosque said after thinking: "Please wait a moment, I will return this condition to the country and wait for the country to make a final decision!"

After finishing speaking, he breathed a sigh of relief. After all, he only paid more than 3,000 square kilometers of land to end this war, and he can also explain the past to the country!

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Seeing that Romania also easily passed the test, the representative of the Ottoman Empire, Smutafa Asim Bey, was also relieved. Now there is no representative of Greece in the venue. It is obvious that the Allies have given up on Greece this time, but this is not the same as He's okay.

Dead friends don't die poor!

Even if Bulgaria directly annexed Greece, he would not object! It is an honor for the Greeks to exchange Bulgaria's concessions to the Ottoman Empire with the interests of the Greeks, isn't it?

Now that the Turkish Al-Shabaab has just come into power, if it cannot sign a decent peace treaty, how can it explain to the people of the country?

It's a pity that the Ottoman Empire no longer has the strength to continue the war, otherwise the Turkish Youth Party who just came to power would not mind using this war to solve the hidden dangers in the country!

The Romanian representative needs to ask the country for instructions, and the negotiations will continue, and then it will be the turn of the Ottoman Empire.

Megev didn't go around and said directly: "If your country can provide enough compensation, we can withdraw our troops from the Asia Minor peninsula, but this compensation must be exchanged at equal value before we can accept it!"

Smutafa Asim Bey was surprised by the conditions proposed by Megev this time. This is playing football. What is the equivalent?

For the Ottoman Empire, the Asia Minor peninsula is the most important existence, and there is no equivalent at all!

indemnity? It's a pity that the Ottoman Empire is very poor now. Even if the Turkish Youth Party came to power and ransacked their homes, these funds are the fund for the future development of the Ottoman Empire, and it is impossible to use all of them to pay war reparations!

The most important thing is that in this war, the Ottoman Empire fell into a passive position in public opinion from the very beginning, and a few big figures were killed by a few idiots. Because of the feelings of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, even the Germans could not help them on this point. excuse!

There is no doubt that the land must be ceded! As for how much to cede and where to cede, Smutafa Asim Bey dared not decide alone.

"Mr. Megev, this war was started by the previous government, we regret it, and we are willing to take responsibility for it!

Everyone knows that the previous government was a decadent feudal dynasty, and the people in charge were a bunch of fools, and they all paid the price for it!

We can't blame ordinary Ottomans for what a few idiots did, it's immoral! "

Smutafa-Asim-Bey resolutely chose to throw the blame away. Anyway, it is not a problem at all to introduce the corrupt Sudanese government to take responsibility.

Rather than arguing with Megev about the responsibility for the war, it is better to be low-key and win the sympathy of all countries. After all, the image of the Turkish Al-Shabaab in the eyes of everyone is much better than that of the Sudanese government.

The most important thing is that the behind-the-scenes culprits that Bulgaria asked to be investigated before have all died in the coup d'état. Even if Smutafa Asim Bey confessed, it is impossible for Megev to demand the surrender of war criminals up!

Facts have proved that Smutafa Asim Bey's approach is very effective. At least everyone looks at him with a milder look, and he no longer has the murderous look at the beginning!

Megev said with a smile: "Mr. Smutafa-Asim-Bey is right. It is because of this that I can reach the negotiating table. Otherwise, even if we hit Ankara, we will not let the real culprit go. of!

But the war has already happened, and your government still has to take full responsibility for this war! As for the price to be paid, everyone is sensible, so there is no need to pretend!

Now we hand over the choice to you, isn't that our greatest sincerity?

If we want to give up the Asia Minor peninsula, then your country must cede another piece of equivalent land to us, or pay equivalent currency as war reparations!

We accept lev, pound sterling, franc, mark and other common currencies of various countries, of course lira is fine! "

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