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Pasic and Gesuf met their eyes, and they both knew in their hearts that if it wasn't for the lack of strength between the two countries, they would not want Greece to join this alliance.

Pasic asked, "So, Prime Minister Venizelos, what are Greece's territorial claims?"

Since the two countries agreed to invite Greece to join the alliance, they were naturally psychologically prepared, and it was impossible for Greece to gain nothing in Macedonia.

Venizelos also understood in his heart that the three countries were able to sit together to discuss an alliance. To a large extent, the Ottoman Empire was caught in a war with Italy, which gave the three countries an opportunity. Everyone didn’t mind taking advantage of the Ottoman Empire’s unpreparedness. Osman recovered some interest.

The 1885 war between the two countries is probably still fresh in the memory of the people on both sides. It would be nonsense to say that the two countries have now given up their quarrels and reconciled.

The Macedonian region is in the crack between Paul, Serbia, and Greece. The moment when the three countries divide it up, I am afraid it will be the time of filth.

Therefore, the three kingdoms are all thinking the same at this time, and they all want to cut the fattest piece of cake from Macedonia.

Venizelos avoided the important and avoided the more controversial Macedonia area first: "The people living on the Aegean islands under the Ottoman Empire are almost all Greeks. Therefore, these islands in the Aegean Sea should belong to Greece."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the two of them and made up his mind. If the two of them disagreed on this point, then let this alliance go to hell.

The Aegean Sea covers an area of ​​214,000 square kilometers. It is the only sea area connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, and its strategic value is very high.

The Aegean Sea is dotted with about 2,500 islands.

When the two heard the territorial claim of Venizelos, the islands of the Ottoman Empire in the Aegean Sea, they had no idea what they thought, and they did not express their opposition on the surface.

As Venizelos said, there is a large Greek population living on those islands; secondly, the two countries do not have navies, and these islands would have to be occupied by the Greek navy themselves.

Seeing that the two did not comment, Venizelos continued: "The whole of Macedonia including Thessaloniki"

Seeing their faces changed, they continued: "Greek warriors have been fighting there for many years. It can be said that in most parts of Macedonia, the rural people there are interested in Greece."

"Greece has good reasons to claim territorial ownership there"

In recent years, with the weakening of the Ottoman Empire's control over Macedonia after 1897, especially after the uprising of the Turkish al-Shabaab, the vast countryside in Macedonia was almost out of the control of the Ottoman government, except for those big cities, and some The military stronghold where the army is stationed, the Ottoman government still has influence.

Secretly, the three countries have already launched their operations to compete for Macedonia.

Greece took advantage of its economic advantages, and the government, either overtly or covertly, used public opinion to mobilize personnel and funds to support underground guerrillas and compete in the Macedonian countryside.

In terms of competing for Macedonian territory, Greece still has a geographical advantage. After the last war, Greece obtained the entire Albania and part of Macedonian territory. Among them, the territory of Albania showed a north-south direction, allowing Greece's territory to gain a great deal from the Balkans. depth.

The entire Greek territory is semi-encircled by Macedonia. From Albania to the east, or from the northern part of Greece to the north, it is easy to penetrate into Macedonia.

The underground order in Macedonia, after more than ten years of open and secret infighting among the three kingdoms, is mostly under the control of Greece.

It is impossible for Greece to surrender Macedonia, which has cost so much to control.

Prime Minister Gesuf's face tightened, and Greece almost made demands on the whole of Macedonia.

This will not only make Bulgaria lose Thessaloniki, an important commercial port and transportation hub city throughout the Balkans, and lose shipping and trade convenience, it will also interrupt the Bulgarian dream of the Great Bulgaria Plan.

The Tenth Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) ended with the signing of the Treaty of San Stefano, which cost the Ottoman Empire large swathes of territory.

Pressed by the Russian army, the Sultan was forced to sign the Covenant Under the City, recognizing the existence of Greater Bulgaria.

One of the contents of the Treaty of San Stefano is the establishment of the Great Bulgarian Principality, whose territory extends from the Danube River in the north to the Aegean Sea in the south; from the Black Sea in the east to Lake Ohrid in the west, and includes almost all of Macedonia.

It was nominally affiliated to the Ottoman Sultan and was occupied by the Russian army for 2 years.

The establishment of this so-called Great Bulgarian Principality is actually a Russian pan-Slavic proposition, which clearly reveals the Russians' intention to control the Balkans through the puppet of Bulgaria.

In fact this so-called Greater Bulgaria, which only existed on paper, was never put into practice.

During the Berlin Conference in 1878, due to fears of Russian bears entering the Mediterranean Sea, the major powers directly put pressure on Russia, signed the Treaty of Berlin, and directly abolished the Great Bulgarian Plan.

Not only was Great Bulgaria not established, in order to dispel the ambitions of the Russians, the meeting also dismembered Bulgaria directly, and Eastern Rumelia, the province with the majority of Bulgarians, was still placed under the Ottomans.

(In 1885, Eastern Rumelia launched an uprising and again announced its merger with Bulgaria)

Although this Great Bulgarian Plan existed only on paper for a few months in the Treaty of San Stefano, it is clear that Bulgaria took it seriously.

If Bulgaria had never owned Macedonia, it would be fine; it did. Faced with the current situation where the Ottoman Empire was deeply involved in the North African war, Bulgaria naturally had the ambition to regain Macedonia and realize the dream of Greater Bulgaria.

The Bulgarian Prime Minister Gesuf and the Greek Prime Minister Venizelos were at odds with each other over the issue of Macedonia's ownership.

Serbian Prime Minister Pasic, who was watching from the sidelines, was naturally interested in competing for Macedonia, although among the three countries, Serbia was the weakest in terms of various indicators.

But in the hearts of Serbs, there is also a plan to build a Greater Serbia.

Included in this plan is the region of Skopje in Macedonia, historically the capital of the ancient Serbian kingdom.

Soon, Constantine, who was in Athens, got the news that the diplomatic team of Venizelos had negotiated with the two countries at Bodrigocha and the two countries were not going well. The three countries had serious problems with regard to the ownership of Macedonia. Disagreement ~www.wuxiahere.com~ has been slow to reach a consensus.

On May 19, 1912, Constantine, together with King George, summoned the Chief of Military Intelligence, Chavelas, in the Chamber.

"Mr. Chavelas, I called you this time to inform you that public opinion and propaganda about the war can already be started." Constantine did not hide his purpose.

"The Intelligence Service will notify those influential newspapers as soon as possible to start the warm-up of the war"

Chavelas said in surprise: "But the Prime Minister is still in diplomatic negotiations!"

Constantine responded in a cold tone: "No matter what the outcome of the negotiations between the Prime Minister and the two countries is, the war between Greece and the Ottoman Empire is imminent."

"In the worst case, Greece and the two countries have no agreement at all, but Greece and the two countries will act on their own."

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