Bulgarian Empire

The genius remembers the address of this site in a second: (Apex Chinese), the fastest update! No advertisements!? The international situation is turbulent, but Bulgaria remains steadfast, implementing the "Ten-Year Plan" step by step, and Ferdinand sits firmly on the Diaoyutai.

"Your Majesty, the Baghdad Railway has been completed!" Constantine said excitedly

"Good, good, good!" Ferdinand said three good words in succession.

The Baghdad Railway built in Bulgaria is different from the historical Baghdad Railway. The eastern line extends directly to the Kuwait Port in the Persian Gulf and connects with the Arabian Peninsula Ring Railway.

There are dozens of branch lines along the way, and the more famous ones are the Anda Railway (Baghdad connects Amman) and the Asian-American Railway (Ankara to Yerevan).

The total design mileage is as high as 12,000 kilometers, but part of this railway has been built by the Germans before, and part of it has also been built by the Ottoman Empire.

On this basis, Bulgaria demolished the original railway and rebuilt it.

There is no way to do this. Everyone's railway standards are different, and perfect docking cannot be achieved.

The earliest railway in Bulgaria was influenced by the Russians, and the standard adopted was 1524mm. After Ferdinand succeeded to the throne, because of the financial relationship, he did not change it, and then 1524mm became the unified standard of the Bulgarian railway.

The railways of the Ottoman Empire at that time were very chaotic, and there were various standard railways, such as: 1000mm, 1050mm, 1067mm, 1435mm...

The messy track must be unified, otherwise it will bring great changes to the transportation. In the end, Ferdinand resolutely decided to demolish and rebuild.

Fortunately, there were not many railways in the Ottoman Empire, otherwise Ferdinand might not have been able to make up his mind. After all, it was all money!

The opening of the Baghdad railway meant that Bulgaria's rule in the Persian Gulf region had been consolidated, and the shackles of its continued expansion to Asia had also been opened.

With this railway, Bulgaria has also extended its tentacles to the Persian region (Iran), and a new round of expansion can start again.

Of course, it was impossible for Ferdinand to provoke a war at this time. The Qajar dynasty was indeed weak and had been reduced to a semi-colonial, but the forces of various countries within him were intricate.

In 1907, Britain and Russia divided the spheres of influence in Iraq: the north belonged to Russia, the south belonged to Britain, and the central part was the buffer zone. Afterwards, France, Austria, Germany, and the United States successively forced Iran to sign unequal treaties.

Although the Qajar dynasty was an "independent" country in name, it was already in a semi-feudal and semi-colonial status.

With the outbreak of the Russian Civil War, Bulgaria inherited the sphere of influence of the Russians. This is because Nicholas II sold the results of Russia's operations in Persia to Bulgaria in order to raise funds for the war.

Of course, even if the Russians don't sell the ending, it's the same. Since the outbreak of the civil war, the Russian Empire has been shrinking its sphere of influence, and they have no ability to continue to expand.

Either it was swallowed by Bulgaria, or it was swallowed by Bulgaria. Based on the principle of harming each other and taking the lesser, Nicholas II decisively sold Persia's sphere of influence to Ferdinand.

"Your Majesty, according to the current progress, our railway plan is expected to be fully completed in 1930, so should our national policy be adjusted?" Constantine asked tentatively.

Since the end of the World War, Bulgaria's national policy has changed from the previous radical and gradually tended to be conservative.

Ferdinand and the cabinet joined forces to strongly suppress the radicalism in the country, and planted the fields peacefully, which surprised the outside world.

Many people are wondering whether Ferdinand has changed from the master of expansion to the master of persistence because of his old age.

The conflict between Russia and Russia that many people guessed in advance did not even see a shadow. Bulgaria, which was supposed to make things worse for the Russian Empire, did nothing this time!

According to the initial speculation of the outside world, Bulgaria should take advantage of the Russian Civil War to

After seizing Ukraine and the Caucasus, Bulgaria has only acquired the Crimean Peninsula and the Principality of Molewa so far, and all of them were bought with money!

Surprised the onlookers, many people analyzed that Bulgaria should not intend to continue to expand, otherwise they would not give up the Ukrainian region, which is close at hand, and turn to develop the worthless Arabian Peninsula.

It also made many people breathe a sigh of relief, such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They were worried that after Bulgaria annexed Ukraine, its strength would undergo another qualitative change.

As for the Middle East and the Arab region, in everyone's impression they are poor and remote areas, except for a few oases, which are all sand. If there is a population, there is no population, and if there is industry, there is no industry. Even industrial raw materials are very scarce.

In the eyes of the outside world, after the end of the World War, Bulgaria made frequent tricks, such as: supporting the British to launch the American Raiders, which brought the strength of the British Empire to a higher level.

After all, Bulgaria's geographical location determines that they are too far away from the Americas, whether it is taking the Indian Ocean into the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean is too far away.

Even if the countries unite to carve up the United States, Bulgaria is naturally at a disadvantage. Compared with Britain and France, it is destined to be a disadvantaged party.

At present, this is indeed the case. The British annexed the Three Kingdoms of North America and became the biggest winner.

France's influence in American countries has greatly increased. In addition to France's acquisition of Cuba, the speed of French capital expansion in North America is also very alarming.

If it weren't for the constraints of the French system, the French would have annexed one or two kingdoms this time. At least in the South American kingdoms, the pro-French faction has already taken power.

And Bulgaria's gains are undoubtedly minimal, except for ? Except for a few African colonies that were compensated by the British, it can be said that they got almost nothing.

Another example: Bulgaria handed over the dominance of the European continent. It had the opportunity to compete for the position of European hegemony, but because of the voluntary withdrawal of the Bulgarian government, the French became the new European hegemony.

There is also the development and growth of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the end of the World War, Bulgaria had the opportunity to dismember the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but due to its conservative foreign policy.

The Bulgarian government gave up supporting the national independence movement within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the eyes of many people, this is undoubtedly breeding tigers.

"No need for now. In the short term, our national policy is still conservative diplomacy and peaceful rise! At least until the ten-year plan is completed, this national policy should not change!" Ferdinand thought for a while and said

It wasn't that Ferdinand didn't want to change the national policy, but that the British Empire in this world was a bit too strong. I thought they would fight endlessly because of the addition of the Three North American Kingdoms.

Unexpectedly, the British used diplomatic means to make the three kingdoms of North America submit to the London government, which made Ferdinand dare not act rashly.

He would rather keep digging holes and slowly lead the British astray than directly challenge the world hegemony, even though he knows that the British Empire is strong from the outside but strong from the inside.

But broken ships also have three-point nails. With the background of the British, no matter how Ferdinand calculates, it is impossible to knock them down at once.

The current structure of the three major powers in Europe is actually dominated by the British family. Although the strength of Baofa and France is not as good as that of the British, they both have the power to make the British afraid.

If you work hard, both France and Bulgaria have the strength to severely damage the British Empire. Because of mutual fear, everyone can live in peace.

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