Bulgarian Empire

Ferdinand's trip to Portugal ended in a hurry, and it took less than a week before it ended in a hurry.

Coupled with the half a month in London and the time on the road, more than a month has passed since this visit. It was the beginning of May when we left Sofia, and now it is mid-June, at this time Ferdinand's heart has already flown back.

Well, in layman's terms, his wife gave birth! And this time Ferdinand also won the big prize, two came at once!

After receiving this good news, Ferdinand's heart could no longer calm down. Everyone knows that the chance of twins is very low, under normal circumstances, it is about one percent. Ferdinand never thought that he could win this prize!

Of course, this winning refers to the present. If it was in Ferdinand's previous life, his expression now would be completely different, because two boys came at once!

But now this is not a problem, the more the better! Even if it was quintuplets or sextuplets, Ferdinand would never refuse anyone!

Anyway, the king's son doesn't have to worry about anything, no one will ask him for a car, a house, or money! If there is a rich list now, the wealth of the Bulgarian royal family is now at the forefront!

At most, it will be a little more difficult to find a daughter-in-law of the right family when you get married in the future, but this doesn't matter to Ferdinand.

Anyway, if there are many sons, marriage is definitely an advantage, and the prince will at least make a fortune in dowry if he marry a relative, Ferdinand has personally experienced this!

It would be miserable if they were all princesses, and if the family was not rich enough, the marriage would be troublesome, and it was necessary to slap a swollen face to pretend to be fat!

For details, you can refer to the Montenegrin king Nicholas I next door. It is not easy to be a European father-in-law. In order to marry his daughter off, he changed from a rich man to a negative man!

For this reason, Ferdinand watched the joke for a long time, why does your married daughter have to slap her face swollen to pretend to be fat? Isn't this asking for trouble?

Originally, the Montenegro Kingdom was poor, and no matter how much it was searched, it would not bring much benefit. What is the purpose of being poor?

But then Ferdinand didn't see it that way. After the Second Balkan War, during the Constantinople Peace Conference, a lot of people came to intercede with him, which made Ferdinand embarrassed, as if Become a big villain and do something heinous!

In fact, Nicholas I still suffered a big loss! In Ferdinand's view, if the money is invested in the industry of the Kingdom of Montenegro, not to mention other things, at least it can be self-sufficient in weapons!

Then in the first Balkan War, the Kingdom of Montenegro could at least annex more than half of Albania, and there was no need to take risks, which made it so embarrassing now!

Oh, now Ferdinand still hopes to have another daughter, these are six sons, if there is another one, it will make up the Vajra gourd baby combination!

Just thinking about that scene makes Ferdinand shudder! The main reason is that the memories left by the previous life are too deep, and I always feel that some of them cannot be accepted!

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Time flies, Ferdinand returned to Sofia, the time has come to July 191o.

He went to visit the two little ones at the first time. Since they had been born for more than a month, the two little ones are now pink porcelain dolls, with baby fat faces that make people want to pinch them .

After hesitating again and again, Ferdinand stretched out his claws and pinched the faces of the two little guys, and then there was a burst of crying.

Obviously, these two little guys didn't give him the father's face at all, they exploded immediately, and then ushered in a burst of complaints from Xenia, and then Ferdinand was kicked out of the baby room!

If you don't leave, you can't do it! After leaving for more than two months, the moment Ferdinand returned home, the cabinet came to him. There are still a lot of things that need to be decided by him personally?

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Naval Minister Petrov handed over a stack of documents to Ferdinand, and introduced them confidently: "Your Majesty,

This is the new shipbuilding plan of the Ministry of the Navy. The Ottoman Empire has reached an agreement with the Germans to purchase two dreadnoughts just designed by the Germans-the Kaiser-class battleship.

In order to meet the challenge of the Ottoman Empire, we must take action. According to your request, for every battleship the Ottomans build, we will build two. Therefore, the Admiralty plans to build four dreadnoughts to meet the challenges of the Ottomans. The total budget is 170 million levs (about 6.8 million pounds). "

This is no surprise. Historically, the Ottoman Empire had to struggle with whether to buy from the Germans or the British. Now there is no need to struggle anymore. Of course, to join the Allies, you must buy German products!

Otherwise, the British dare to sell you a ship, but do you dare to use it?

Ferdinand didn't just glance around, then smiled and said, "Very well, let's just announce it to the public, adding fuel to this arms race!"

Petrov was taken aback for a moment, then reacted, and asked suspiciously: "Your Majesty, we haven't finalized the design plan yet? Is this how we started?"

Ferdinand smiled slightly, and said lightly: "When did I say that we would start construction now? I just asked you to announce the shipbuilding plan now!

Don't worry about the design plan, you can take your time! We are not in a hurry, and if we are later, the technology will be more mature! "

Hearing Ferdinand's words, Petrov's face suddenly collapsed. He thought that the navy would be rebuilt, but he didn't expect it to be a dream!

Without giving up, he continued: "Your Majesty, this is not good, it will damage your reputation! You just announced the news in London, and this is just the beginning. Isn't it too embarrassing for us to retreat now!

And the naval plan of the Ottoman Empire is obviously aimed at us. If their two dreadnoughts are put into service, our navy will be under great pressure! "

Ferdinand still did not change his smile, and said lightly: "How could I break my promise? For every warship the Ottomans built, we will build two for sure!

But when to build it is our own business! Do you think that the Bulgarian Navy will not be able to build four dreadnoughts in the future?

Moreover, the dreadnoughts of the Ottoman Navy are unlikely to enter service immediately. The Germans are now engaged in an arms race with the British. Shipbuilding must give priority to satisfying the German Navy. They are busy expanding production capacity. If these two dreadnoughts want to be built, at least It is also a problem in two or three years!

Besides, how can just two dreadnoughts support a country's navy? Supporting warships, personnel training, and a messy mess, how to form combat effectiveness is also a matter after 1914!

During this period, we only need to build two more dreadnoughts. How come three vs. two is our advantage? "

Of course, it is impossible for the navy to only have dreadnoughts, and the supporting fleet is indispensable. Otherwise, there are only two dreadnoughts, how can they exert their greatest power?

At this point, Ferdinand also helped the Ottomans, sending their old fleet directly into the sea to feed the fish, allowing them to get rid of the burden of history and go into battle lightly!

This also allowed the Ottomans to save a lot of maintenance funds, which can be invested in the shipbuilding plan.

But Ferdinand was not worried. Who told the Ottoman Empire to be poor?

It would cost four million pounds to build two dreadnoughts! If we have ships, we must also have officers and soldiers, right? The supporting fleet should also be built, right? It is impossible to save daily training and maintenance, right?

Calculated in this way, to complete all these things, the Ottoman Empire would have to spend at least another two to three million pounds. How could the annual maintenance cost be less than two to three million pounds, right?

But what is the current fiscal revenue of the Ottoman Empire? Due to Ferdinand's butterfly effect, the current Al-Shabab government in Turkey has a much harder life than the same period in history.

Since the main battlefield of the war was on the peninsula of Asia Minor, the two sides together had more than one million troops fighting together. How could the losses be small?

At this time, the financial revenue of the Ottoman Empire was only less than 20 million pounds. With this little money, how could it support the navy, a gold-swallowing beast?

If you don't have enough strength, you will invest blindly, and in the end it will be a fleet of poor people!

Oh, it is estimated that the Ottoman government will react soon, and the naval arms race will naturally stop by then!

In Ferdinand's view, the current ruling Turkish Youth Party has not yet broken away from the category of sophomores. Under the influence of the outside world, they have joined the naval arms race in a daze. When they mature, they will understand that the navy is not what they can do. Affordable!

However, Ferdinand also had to react to the actions of the Ottomans. The outside world can't let the outside world think that Bulgaria is afraid, right?

Arms races are often forced! If you don't follow up on the enemy's military expansion and preparations, what if a fight breaks out?

This is also the reason why the British wanted to smash the Germans, not because they really had a life-and-death conflict, but mainly because the German military expansion made them feel threatened!

Well, Germany built a dreadnought, and the British built two domineering ships, which in turn stimulated the Germans, and then caused the current situation, and both sides started to make dumplings!

In addition to the battleships, the two sides are still attacking the battlecruisers. Of course, this Ferdinand did not follow up.

It is more appropriate to hand over the glorious task of the naval decisive battle to the British. If not, let the French be the substitute!

If Britain and France can't even handle the navy, it can only be said that the Germans are too aggressive, and there is no need to fight a world war, and the Allied Powers just admit their cowardice!

Petrov wanted to know that the navy's plan to expand its army would not be enough, but he still did not give up and said, "Your Majesty, the British are planning to build a super dreadnought, and our designer has also proposed a similar idea, do you see?"

Obviously he knew that Ferdinand was not active in building a large navy, but he spared no effort in promoting the development of naval shipbuilding technology!

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