Greece’s Roman Road

Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace

Standing in front of the door of His Majesty the Emperor's office, Field Marshal of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Conrad, was holding a stack of documents in his left hand and solemnly sorting out his uniform in his right hand.

He was a burly man, with gray hair trimmed into bushes, a bushy moustache, upturned at the corners of his mouth, and looked very dignified.

"dudu"

Conrad knocked on the door.

"Come in"

With permission, Conrad pushed open the door and walked into the spacious office.

Walking on the black and white tiles, there was a rattling sound.

Behind the desk was the old Austro-Hungarian Emperor Frantz, who was buried in documents, and standing beside him was Foreign Minister Lucas, who was reporting to His Majesty the situation of the London Conference held in London at this time.

Emperor Franz looked up and saw that it was his field marshal, Conrad, chief of the army general staff, and lowered his head again to deal with the documents: "What's the matter, Conrad?"

"Your Majesty, I regret that Serbia has achieved its own expansion goals in the Balkans, and I think Austria-Hungary must do something instead of idly watching the nails the Russians put in the underbelly of the Austro-Hungarian Empire getting stronger and stronger" Kang Ladd exclaimed.

In the previous Balkan war, the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not do nothing. After seeing the military operations of the Serbian army in the Kosovo region, there was almost no effective resistance from the Ottoman army. The ambassador of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Belgrade immediately proposed to the Serbian government. The warning, after being ignored, chose to mobilize the troops stationed on the north bank of the Danube to put pressure on Serbia.

It's just that Serbia has reached an alliance with Bulgaria after receiving the support of the Russian big brother. It is obviously not afraid of it.

As a nationalist, after serving as the chief of staff of the Ottoman Empire, Conrad was exposed to many secrets of the empire that were impossible for ordinary people to touch.

However, the more information he was exposed to, the more worried Conrad became. He had many thoughts, but was trapped in the flimsy sword in his hand.

"The threat of the Slavs has increased by another point," Conrad emphasized solemnly.

Emperor Francis and Foreign Minister Lucas looked at each other, then asked: "Serbia has the support of the Russians, Conrad, and once we do take action against Serbia, the Russians will not sit idly by, and now The Russian bear, who has recovered from the wounds of the Russo-Japanese War, can never be like last time"

The last time France was talking about was the Bosnia and Herzegovina crisis.

In 1908, the Austro-Hungarian Empire took advantage of the civil strife in the Ottoman Empire to take the opportunity to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was originally only under the trusteeship of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Since the main population of Bosnia and Herzegovina is Slavs, this has caused extreme dissatisfaction in Serbia.

Russia, which has always regarded itself as the protector of the Slavs, will naturally not sit idly by and stand firmly on the side of Serbia. The two sides were once on the verge of war.

It was only later that the Austria-Hungary Empire had Germany to help, and the losses suffered by Russia in the Russo-Japanese War had not recovered, so they had to accept this result in humiliation.

As one of the great powers, Austria-Hungary does not mean that it can act recklessly.

The Balkan War in 1912 was a war between three small Balkan countries against the Ottoman Empire. Once the Austro-Hungarian Empire ended in person, it would definitely cause a chain reaction of European powers, triggering a big melee that swept across Europe.

The reason why Serbia hated the Austro-Hungarian Empire was that the contradiction between the two sides was almost insoluble.

After Serbia became independent, nationalism was on the rise, both at the civil and government levels, and the Serbian people called on the government to recover lost territory and liberate Serbian compatriots.

In the eyes of the Serbs, not only Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was annexed in 1908, but also Croatia, Slovenia, and even the northern bank of the Danube River, where the main population of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is Slavs, and even Vojvodina, which is rich in rain and rich in grain. , should be part of Serbia.

Where there are Serbs, it should belong to Serbia. This sentence can be used to describe the nationalist sentiment of the people in Serbia.

Moreover, the Serbs put this perception into action, exploiting nationalist sentiments, and the Serbian-backed underground secret organization has carried out numerous incitement, assassination, subversion and sabotage operations in Austria-Hungary, just as they were at the same time at the time. The same goes for underground military operations in Macedonia, which belonged to the Ottoman Empire.

In the eyes of the Serbian people, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is no different from the Ottoman Empire.

Under this circumstance, the bad relations between Serbia and Austria-Hungary can be imagined.

"Your Majesty, the entire Balkan Peninsula is now almost all countries that are close to the Allied Powers, which is very detrimental to the security of the Austro-Hungarian Empire." Conrad walked to the Balkan map hanging on the wall and explained to the two.

"Greece in the Balkans has always been close to Britain, Serbia is close to Russia, and Bulgaria is generally close to Russia."

"Despite the incident of ignoring Russia's warnings and attacking Constantinople without authorization, the relationship between Fort and Russia has once again cracked." Conrad stretched out his hand and gestured halfway across the Balkans.

"Your Majesty, I think from the point of view of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, we should also take some measures to divide and win over the Balkan countries. We can't sit back and watch the Entente countries win over all the three countries. Minister Lucas also agreed.

"Now Bulgaria and Greece are fighting fiercely about the ownership of Thessaloniki. I think Bulgaria is a target that can be won," Conrad said.

"Bulgaria has almost territorial disputes with neighboring countries. Romania and Bulgaria have disputed territory in South Dobroga"

"There are more disputed territories between Bulgaria and the Ottomans. The Ottoman Empire strongly opposed the ceding of Adrianople and East Thrace to Bulgaria~www.wuxiax.com~ but now these places are under the control of the Bulgarians "

"Between Bulgaria and Greece, the two sides disagree on the issue of the ownership of Thessaloniki, and there is no dispute. Both sides value it very much," Conrad said, pointing to the location of Thessaloniki on the map.

"In addition, there is another advantage of attracting Bulgaria and alienating the relationship between Bulgaria and Russia, that is, it can also disrupt the forces between the Slavs in Eastern Europe, and can effectively alleviate the increasingly tight Slavic forces around the empire. The encirclement network" Lu Cass added.

After hearing this, Franzi's eyes lit up and his heart was obviously moved.

In recent years, the Russians have held high the banner of nationalism, used religion as a natural bond, and claimed to be the protectors of the Slavs, not to mention how embarrassing the Austro-Hungarian Empire was.

The Slavs under the influence of the Russians almost encircled the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire - Poland (at this time Poland was under Russian rule) bordered the Austro-Hungarian Empire, located in the northeast of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; northeast, the Austro-Hungarian Empire It also borders Ukraine under Russian rule; Serbia to the south and Bulgaria to the southeast.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was under attack and siege by the Slavic countries.

"Although Bulgaria is also a Slavic country, but with a long history, Bulgaria does not look down on Russia very much, and at the same time is not willing to be Russia's follower."

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