v2 Chapter 8： Undercurrent

Facts have proved that Ferdinand’s choice was not wrong!

After confirming Bulgaria’s next strategy, the potential of the cabinet was stimulated, and the fighting power broke out with twelve points, and it was thrown into a new round of preparations!

Even so, the "Second Five-Year Plan", which was interrupted by the war, was launched in an orderly manner.

Ferdinand, who was free, turned his attention to the old neighbor Ottoman Empire again!

After the end of the Bulgarian-Serbian War, the calls for getting rid of the Ottoman empire, the suzerain country, are growing in Bulgaria, even though Bulgaria has long since quit the Sudanese government!

The Bulgarians, who are full of nationalism, are increasingly dissatisfied with this nominal sovereign state. (Oh, never satisfied!)

To get rid of the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire and establish a completely independent Kingdom of Bulgaria is the voice of the majority of the Bulgarian people.

But Ferdinand used his strong prestige to suppress it! Now is not the time to turn face with the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria is not ready for war, but it does not prevent Ferdinand from making some small moves!

1895 was a turbulent year, and the crisis in the Near East began to intensify in the just-concluded Serbian War.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 began, the overwhelmed Armenians also rose up. This time, unlike in history, Ferdinand also intervened, and the Greeks, Arabs, and Kurds were all involved!

Armenians live in the mountainous and plateau areas of northeastern Asia Minor. They were influenced by Russia, Ottoman, and Persia respectively in the 19th century. By 1894, there were about one million Armenians living in the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

The Armenians believe in Christianity and are incompatible with the Turks. Most of them live in the "six provinces of Armenia", live mixed with Kurds, and are mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. Some people live in cities. For example, Constantinople has 150,000 Armenians.

In the late 19th century, because the Armenians were a minority and their religion was incompatible with the Turkish personality, they were exploited and oppressed by the Turkish government.

After the intensification of ethnic conflicts, the Armenians also launched activities against Sudanese rule and demanded national independence and autonomy. After ethnic independence in the Balkans, resistance activities became more frequent.

The resistance of the Armenians also angered the Ottoman rulers and carried out brutal suppression.

After the economic crisis broke out, the Ottoman Empire was also affected. In order to alleviate the crisis, it diverted attention. The Ottoman government has targeted the ethnic minorities in the country, trying to plunder the wealth of the ethnic minorities to survive the crisis!

thus provoked the conflict between the Kurds and the Armenians, and took the opportunity to massacre the Armenians!

In August 1894, the Turkish army and Kurds massacred thousands of Armenians in Sasson, and then massacres occurred in Yozgat, Urfa and other regions.

After the news spread, it attracted the attention of the international community. Due to the intervention of the great powers, the Armenians gave the Armenian the illusion that the international community supports their independence!

The resistance organization believes that the opportunity for independence has come and the uprising has broken out! However, due to the different interests of the great powers in the Ottoman Empire, it was difficult to reach an agreement directly with each other, and the Near East crisis broke out!

In line with the principle of blocking the enemy, Ferdinand also played a disgraceful role in this incident.

The ethnic conflicts in the Ottoman Empire have always been very serious, and the core issue is religion!

The first largest ethnic group, a Turk who believes in *teaching;

The second largest ethnic group, the Greeks who believe in the Orthodox Church;

The third largest ethnic group, the Arabs who believe in *teaching;

The fourth largest ethnic group, the Kurds who believe in * religion;

The fifth largest ethnic group, Bulgarians who believe in the Orthodox Church;

……

On the surface, Turks, Arabs, and Kurds all believe in * religion, but in fact they are all different, and there are a lot of cluttered factions.

Everyone knows that internal heretics are often more hateful than external enemies. So that's it, if you write it down, you might get a thunder!

…… (Brain fills one hundred thousand words)

Anyway, these contradictions were spotted by Ferdinand, and the intelligence personnel secretly launched an operation codenamed "Horse Hunting" for this!

Beginning in 1895, the Ottoman Turk Empire began to be insecure, and religious conflicts were frequent. Today Kurds and Armenians started to fight; Arabs started to fight again with Greeks; the day after tomorrow, Turks started to fight with Bulgarians. ; Suddenly turning around, Shiites and Sunnis clashed again, and Havaligis and Murgis were PK...

The Ottoman government is beginning to be exhausted. At first, it was only a conflict between the low-level believers, but the intelligence personnel used the street newspapers to hype, and then it detonated public opinion!

The Ottoman Empire can suppress the local newspapers, but it cannot do anything about the newspapers in the hands of the great powers, otherwise there would be no Near East crisis!

Public opinion attracts the attention of the people, everyone is waiting to see what the Ottoman Sultanate government will do! Religious contradictions, mixed with ethnic contradictions, have never been right or wrong, no matter how you deal with it, some people will be dissatisfied.

What about the corrupt Sudanese government? The response was slow and the processing was not timely. When the government intervened, there were a lot of fights underneath, and people's brains were out of their minds.

There is no doubt that the Sudanese government’s disposal favored its own people and angered the Greeks and Bulgarians in the country. With the encouragement of the Bulgarian and Greek governments, they began to support the Armenian revolution.

Ferdinand is not the only one who has ambitions for the Ottoman Empire. The Greek talent is the most urgent! Seeing the expansion of Bulgaria, George I of Greece was jealous and hated. There is no way to border Greece to be the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, the Mediterranean is also considered, but the Greeks still don't have the guts to compete with Britain and France for the hegemony of the Mediterranean. Haven't even Italy been a spectator?

As early as a few years ago, the expansion of the Bulgarian army began. King George I used this as an excuse to follow up. Unfortunately, he only guessed half of it correctly. Unexpectedly, the enemy chosen by Bulgaria was not the Ottoman Empire, and the Serbs!

The idea of ​​George I intending to follow suit to pick up the bargain price fell through! Now that the undercurrents of the Ottoman Empire are surging, the Greeks can't bear it anymore and are starting to move around!

The Minister of Foreign Affairs hurriedly entered the Palace of Sofia and reported to Ferdinand: "Your Excellency, the special envoy of King George I of Greece, has secretly arrived in Sofia!"

Ferdinand nodded and said: "It seems that the Greeks can't bear it anymore. We still act according to the plan. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs can contact them first, explore the Greeks, and then decide whether we need to cooperate with them. !"

(Reviewing the previous article, the author has no place to be complacent! I found a lot of problems, the scumbag is really a scumbag, and there are a lot of typos! Thank you for your support, tolerance, and guidance!!)