Greece’s Roman Road

Seeing a group of senior Greek army officers in the conference room, holding the materials in their hands, discussing the war in North Africa with each other, Constantine, Venizelos, and Emma Inur came to the conference room. In a quiet room on the side.

The three sat around the table on the sofa, and Constantine said directly, "Prime Minister Venizelos, please tell us about your visit to Serbia and Bulgaria this time. What do the two countries think about the alliance?"

After the Russo-Turkish War in 1878, the five major powers in Europe, Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia signed the Berlin Treaty in 1881. Before the major powers agreed, no country could unilaterally change the territorial status of Europe.

Combined with the situation at the time, the Ottomans were newly defeated by Russia and its allies. This treaty is obviously to protect the Ottoman Empire and prevent the impoverished and weak Ottoman Empire from being swallowed up alive by the Russians with endless ambitions for territorial expansion.

This year (1911) after the war between Italy and the Ottoman Empire in North Africa, the Balkans were filled with restlessness and unease. Britain and France, which used to be the platform of the Ottoman Empire, actually allowed Italy to attack the territory of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa this time, which clearly conveyed that A signal: Britain and France are no longer willing to stand for the Ottoman Empire and maintain the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, this information makes the Balkan countries think about it - Italy can attack the territory of the Ottoman Empire, why can't the Balkan countries?

You must know that the European territories still retained by the Ottoman Empire, Macedonia and Thrace, have historically been inextricably linked with Greece, Bulgaria, and Serbia.

Therefore, after the Ottoman Empire mobilized its troops to support the Ottoman army in Libya, the political atmosphere in the Balkans was mysterious, and the Serbian and Bulgarian troops moved frequently and were mobilized many times.

Everyone, including Greece, had ideas about the territory of the Ottoman Empire, especially at this time when the Ottoman Empire was in a stalemate in the war with Italy in North Africa and could not take care of itself.

The three countries are all claiming to be the legitimate heirs of the territory of the Ottoman Empire. Therefore, the newly appointed Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece took a destroyer to the two countries to visit the high-level governments of Bulgaria and Serbia to test their tone and inquire about their relationship with the formation of the The Balkan Tri-Nation Alliance, to fight the Ottoman Empire together.

With a tired face, Venizelos had just returned from Varna, a port city on the Black Sea in Bulgaria this morning. After receiving an invitation from Constantine, he hurried to the Defense Building without taking a rest.

To Constantine's expectations, Venizelos shook his head.

"The high-level views of the governments of the two countries are surprisingly consistent, and both have indicated that they have no intention of forming an alliance with Greece at the moment," Venizelos said with a strange face.

"But I heard that Belgrade and Sofia have been in frequent exchanges recently. The ambassadors of the two countries have been summoned many times by their countries. It is impossible to form an unintentional alliance." Emma Yinur said puzzled.

The three countries knew each other's feelings towards the Ottoman European territories, and it would be a lie to say that they had no intentions.

Venizelos frowned and pondered for a moment, "Although there is no definite evidence, I can speculate that Bulgaria and Serbia have reached an agreement on certain points."

Constantine said in surprise: "Is it difficult for these two countries to exclude Greece? They have reached an agreement in private?"

Despite the independence of Bulgaria and Serbia, free from the rotten and rigid rule of the Ottoman Empire, the economy has grown rapidly in these years.

However, in the last ten years, the Ottoman Empire has also changed, especially as it has gotten closer and closer to the Germans. After the Turkish Shabaab revolution, they fought hotly with the Germans and bought a lot of German-made arms.

Especially after the defeat in Greece in 1897, the top officials of the Ottoman government had to deal with pain and painstakingly and devoted themselves to learning from the military advisers sent by Germany, which lasted for more than ten years and achieved fruitful results.

According to estimates by the Greek military, the entire Ottoman Empire can mobilize nearly 700,000 troops under extreme conditions. Its strength should not be underestimated. After all, it is an old-fashioned empire.

Faced with this number of troops, none of the three Balkan countries is an opponent.

Therefore, for the three Balkan countries, alliance is the best choice.

It just didn't occur to me that Bulgaria and Serbia were not enthusiastic about forming an alliance with Greece.

"I'm afraid that's the case," Venizelos said with a wry smile.

Emma Inur was still puzzled: "Why don't you want to form an alliance with Greece? As Greece with the strongest comprehensive strength among the three countries, the three countries form an alliance to fight against the Ottoman Empire, and the possibility of winning is very high."

Constantine stood up and paced back and forth, saying in his heart that he was a little irritable: "It is precisely because Greece is the strongest that it is unwilling to form an alliance with us."

In 1911, among the three Balkan countries, Greece was the strongest, followed by Bulgaria, and Serbia was the weakest.

After more than ten years of development, Greece is now a semi-industrialized country. Cotton textile products are the industrial products with the highest export value in Greece, as well as medicines and food.

Greece exports 500 million drachmas of industrial products every year.

Relying on the Congo colony, the Eastern Mediterranean region is also the sales ground for Greek cash crops, such as sucrose, coffee, cocoa, timber, rice, etc.

It is only limited by the lack of resources, as well as the small domestic market and sparse population, and the machinery required for industrial production needs to be imported from abroad.

At present, the population of Greece has reached 4.35 million, the highest among the three countries.

Compared with Greece, Bulgaria, which is slightly weaker, is still an agricultural country in general, although its economy has developed rapidly after reunification in 1885.

Moreover, Bulgaria's sea outlet is on the coast of the Black Sea~www.novelmt.com~, which has led to the trade exchange between Bulgaria and the world, which is restricted by the Dardanelles, and the value is greatly reduced.

As for population, Bulgaria currently has a total population of 3.8 million.

Serbia, the weakest of the three countries, is currently a purely agricultural country and a landlocked country.

The territory is also the smallest among the Three Kingdoms, only about 50,000 square kilometers and has a population of 2.8 million.

Serbia is bordered by Bulgaria to the east, Ottoman Macedonia to the south, and Austro-Hungarian Empire to the north. Serbia is surrounded by three countries. Since there is no sea outlet, there is basically no foreign trade. After independence, the economy developed slowly.

Originally, Constantine believed that the two countries would definitely hit it off after learning of the visit of the Greek Prime Minister, and formed an alliance with Greece.

As a result, the two countries did not bring Greece to play!

After thinking about it for a while, Constantine can roughly understand why the leaders of the two countries have such a reaction: it is precisely because Greece is the strongest among the three countries and the three countries form an alliance. There is no doubt that Greece will be the The backbone of the league, while Serbia and Bulgaria are at risk of being marginalized.

Once the Alliance does take a large swathe of territory from the Ottoman Empire, Greece will surely have the fattest piece.

Telling these analyses to the two, Emma Inur and Venizelos looked at each other.

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