Bulgarian Empire

The Hohenzollern family in Germany has been receiving good news recently. First, Bulgaria supported the former royal family of Romania as the king of East Prussia, and then the British supported William II as the king of the Kingdom of the Rhine.

Whether it is William II or the late King Carol I of Romania, both belong to the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family in Germany. He became extinct in 1869.

Due to the pandemic, the establishment of the Kingdom of the Rhine and East Prussia has been delayed, and of course the Hohenzollern family has been unsure of the candidate for the throne.

European kings in this era all want face. Their heads can be cut off and blood can be shed, but face cannot be lost!

This is the status quo of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family. As the loser William II and Ferdinand I of Romania, both declared that they refused to obtain the crown!

The same is true in history, Wilhelm II wanted to restore, but he was unwilling to give up his face. In the end, he missed the best time for restoration and let Hitler come to power.

William II is okay, he still has a son, the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand is in trouble, his son is not worried, the famous "Carol II" in history, now It is already notorious.

The name of "not loving the country but loving the beautiful woman", but after the romantic king Edward VIII, even before the demise of Romania, the crown prince was also busy talking about love.

Of course, it’s nothing more than talking about love, if it is consistent, maybe it can make a romantic story, which is not unacceptable given the openness of Europe at the time.

For example, learn from His Majesty Ferdinand of Habsburg in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He broke the secular restrictions and accepted all kinds of beauties.

It's a pity that Carol II, a playboy, can't do it. Because he loves too much, he likes the new and dislikes the old, so naturally he won't have any supporters!

It is estimated that the people of East Prussia will not like such a king, and the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family can no longer stand the toss. If there is another prodigal son, they have accumulated hundreds of years of virtue in Germany. It's about to be squandered.

Then everyone started to worry. Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen-Ferdinand didn't want the throne to fall into the hands of other branches, and his son was useless. Let him become the king of East Prussia, and he might be the king of East Prussia in a few years. expelled.

Bulgaria only promised to push them to the throne, but did not promise to help them keep the throne. Once they lose the throne again, their line will have no chance again.

Not only that, there are quite a few people in the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family who are eyeing the East Prussian throne, and this is the foundation of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family.

It has been operated for hundreds of years. As long as he succeeds to the throne, he can quickly control the power with the support of the royalist faction. The benefits in this are not small!

Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Family-Ferdinand asked in a dilemma: "Hohenzollern, what do you think I should do now?

Little Carol is young, and many people in the family have expressed interest in the throne of East Prussia. My nephews are about to step on my door recently! "

Butler Ersa frowned, should he consider this question? Originally, the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand had many cronies, but as Romania was incorporated into Bulgaria, these supporters saw no hope, and left him one by one.

Of course, this is also a good thing for him, otherwise it would be a burden for the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand who had already gone into exile to support such a person.

"Your Majesty, maybe it would be better for you to be the king of East Prussia yourself. Little Carol is useless, so you can still wait for your grandson?" Elsa suggested

Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Family-Ferdinand said with a wry smile: "Those illegitimate children? Do you think they will have hope? I'm not some kind of talented master, and I don't have the ability to help them up!"

finished speaking,

He cast his gaze in the direction of Romania, seemingly nostalgic for his old life. When he was the crown prince of Romania, he was so happy under his father's wings, but everything has changed since he took the throne!

The sudden death of his father forced him to be involved in the world war before he had time to sort out his country, and then he was defeated all the way and started his life in exile.

After hesitating for a while, the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family-Ferdinand changed his mind again. The foundation of the family cannot be lost. The Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family has been severely damaged due to the World War.

This kind of heavy damage is not only the loss of their crown, but also a large amount of wealth and connections, which were also destroyed in the flames of war. If they want to recover, it is impossible to do it without a hundred and eighty years of management.

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Ferdinand, who is far away in Sofia, doesn't care who will succeed the king of East Prussia. Anyway, as long as it belongs to the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family, even if it is a fool or an idiot, it is none of his business. !

Anyway, as long as he fulfilled the agreement and established prestige among the European royal families, it was impossible for Ferdinand to reproduce the power of Queen Victoria's European grandmother, and he had no daughter to marry!

However, it is still possible for Ferdinand to achieve the reputation of Edward VII's great uncle in Europe. In fact, his prestige in the royal family is not far from that of Edward VII.

To establish prestige in the European royal family, it is difficult to say, not difficult to say, simply put, as long as you are a defender of the royal power and have helped others to keep the throne, it is enough to win the favor of most people. Respect!

To put it bluntly, this is a combination of relatives and interests, but it is more complicated than ordinary relatives, but it is still an alliance of interests in essence, and blood is just a bond.

If Bulgaria is not to be ostracized by mainstream European society, they must have a good reputation, but the reputation is a false thing. To put it bluntly, it is blown out, and it is no different from the business of later generations.

If it weren't for Ferdinand's hard work, it is estimated that Bulgaria's reputation now would not be much better than Mao Xiong, and it might even be blacked out as the Ottoman Empire!

It's comfortable to do whatever you want, and you won't even lose a piece of meat, but don't mess around in diplomacy. For details, you can refer to Mao Xiong's rough road to European hegemony, and the Germans' single-handedly fighting the world!

The Palace Minister Karl took two invitations, went to Ferdinand and said: "Your Majesty, this is an invitation sent by the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family. There are two invitations from East Prussia and The coronation ceremonies of the King of the Rhine Kingdom are on June 28, 1920 and July 28, 1920 respectively!"

Ferdinand didn't even look at it, so he made a decision: "Let's inform little Ferdinand, let's lead the team to participate!"

European royal families are usually rare to see each other. Except for weddings and funerals, everyone has the opportunity to get together only at the enthronement ceremony. Naturally, Ferdinand asked little Ferdinand to go out and meet him. By the way, he can also make some friends .

On the battlefield, you fight to the death, but in private, everyone is still relatives and friends, and there are still a few who have truly formed a death feud!

The circle of the royal family is only so big. Looking at the history, basically all the major families have fought in battles. If there is a grudge, there is no need to carry out the royal marriage. All the mothers have been enemies before!

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Time flies, and in 1920 the three major kingdoms agreed by the Allied Powers were successively established, namely the Kingdom of East Prussia, the Kingdom of the Rhine, and the Kingdom of Poland.

If you add the already existing Kingdom of Bavaria, Kingdom of Saxony, Kingdom of Württemberg, and Kingdom of Prussia, there are seven kingdoms, six grand duchies, five duchies, seven principal kingdoms, and three Hanseatic free cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck), in which the Kingdom of Prussia has become a republic directly divided by the central government, and other regions are still a combination of kings, nobles, and parliaments.

The Weimar Republic was established under such extremely bad political conditions. It belongs to the territory that the central government can directly rule, accounting for less than 40% of the country's territory!

Due to Ferdinand's butterfly effect, the Allies gave up the liquidation of the nobles. In order to divide Germany, the French decisively took action to help these states stabilize the situation.

Then it created the current special situation of the coexistence of 28 states. If it is just the coexistence of multiple countries, there is no way to solve it. The problem is that the Germans now lack an emperor who can coordinate the overall situation?

President what the hell is that? Can it be greater than a king? The people of the major states don't feel much about the president of this empire, and they can't control them anyway!

What's even more tragic is that the rights of these kingdoms and duchies have increased greatly again. For example, they have the right to independently form an army, have the right to conclude treaties with foreign countries, and have independent financial accounting...

It can be said that the French did a good job this time. As long as the situation remains stable, Germany will become a mess again after decades!

Don't expect the British to help the Germans again, they just need Germany to check and balance the expansion of the French, not a strong Germany!

The fragmented Germany is still strong. At least they can contain the French. They usually make trouble on their own. Once an enemy invades, they will still be a whole. This is exactly what London and Sofia hope to see most.

History once again turned a new page, but the Weimar Republic came anyway, and after the end of the world war, German chancellor Max von Baden handed over power to SPD chairman Friedrich Ebert.

However, Baden's behavior did not meet the needs of interest groups. Thus, the next day a revolutionary government called the People's Council was established, consisting of three representatives each from the SPD and the USPD, led by Ebert and Hugo Haas respectively.

Although the new government was recognized by the Workers' and Soldiers' Council in Berlin, it was opposed by the Spartacist League led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.

In the National Assembly that Albert convened for parliament on December 16-18, his Social Democrats won a majority of seats. As a result, Albert was able to convene the National Assembly immediately, with a view to drafting a constitution and establishing a perfect parliamentary system, so the support for the establishment of a socialist republic weakened.

From November 1917 to March 1918, Germany was effectively dictatorially ruled by the People's Council of Representatives. During these six months, the new government was surprisingly active, issuing a large number of decrees.

Most of its activities are limited to a few areas, including the eight-hour working day, domestic labor reform, agricultural labor reform, civil servants' union rights, local social welfare (at the national and federal state levels), national health insurance, returning laid-off workers, Combat forced dismissals and join the appeal system, regulation of salary agreements, and universal suffrage of all classes over 20 at the local and national levels.

Well, these unrealistic decrees are just for viewing. In fact, Germany, whose economy is facing collapse after the war, does not have any possibility of implementing these conditions!

In order to allow his newly formed government to control the overall situation, Ebert made an agreement with the Supreme Army Command originally led by Erich Ludendorff and now led by William Greerner.

The Albert-Grener agreement stipulated that the government would not try to reform the military as long as the military promised to protect the government. On the one hand, the agreement symbolized the military's official recognition of the new government, reassuring the middle class; however, the leftist government was considered to have betrayed the rights of workers.

A very strange scene appeared. The German revolution actually allowed the army to regain power, and the parliament and political parties became the military's thugs.

Of course, the fly in the ointment is that the military's control over local states has declined. For example, the southern German region was initially controlled by the Bulgarian army. After the withdrawal, the defense was directly handed over to the major states in the south.

And according to the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, the German army was also cut apart. For example, the Kingdom of Bavaria has the right to form an army of 10,000, so people will naturally not let the German military intervene.

The current situation is that the major states control half of the country's army, while the central government controls the other half of the army. The balance of power between the two sides has been established under the manipulation of the Allied Powers.

A large number of war losses and indemnities destroyed the German economy, and the Social Democratic Party did not have any experience in governing, and often introduced policies that looked wonderful but were actually impossible to achieve.

Under the threat of extremists from the left and the right, the Republic was in danger from the very beginning: the left accused the Social Democratic Party of betraying the interests of workers by preventing the communist revolution; the right opposed the democratic system and insisted that Germany return to the former imperial system.

Moreover, in order to destroy the Republic, the right, especially the military forces, even claimed that it betrayed Germany and caused the country to lose in the First World War.

These are just the beginning. The social security in Germany is deteriorating rapidly. Whether it is the state or the central government, they are bothered by the deteriorating economy, but they are unable to solve it!

The Weimar Republic, which entered history, advocated the idea of ​​reunifying Germany, but was resisted by the major states. The New Economic Policy was also resisted by domestic interest groups. Their path of tragedy is unfolding.

But now the eyes of the whole world are focused on the Americans, Britain, France and the Bulgaria have no plans to participate in Germany's internal affairs, otherwise the situation in Germany will be even more chaotic now!

Looking at the collected German intelligence, Ferdinand's face was very ugly. The chaotic situation in Germany is indeed a good thing for Bulgaria, which facilitates the recruitment of talents.

At the same time, there is new life in the chaos, and the situation that there is no breaking and no building is applicable all over the world. Once the German people are tired of this kind of internal struggle, then reunification will become inevitable, and where will the world situation go? Dinan is also confused!

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