Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 204

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Tristan and Colonel Henry looked at each other, and naturally understood that Constantine was dissatisfied with Britain’s sale of the latest super-dreadnought warships to the Ottomans.

“His Majesty the King, His Royal Highness, the Ottoman government has conveyed an application to our country for the purchase of super-dreadnought ships. As far as I know, the House of Representatives has different opinions on this matter, and many members believe that powerful super-dreadnought warships will be sold to the Ottoman Empire. , it was too involved,” Tristan explained.

“Will the deputies have trouble with their own business?” Constantine said in Noyu’s tone.

King George looked puzzled, but Lord Tristan and Captain Henry understood.

Those big arms industries in Britain are the industries of those parliamentarians.

For example, the two major warship manufacturing giants in the United Kingdom, Vickers and Armstrong shipyards, in order to develop relations with the high-level government, obtain warship manufacturing orders from the Admiralty, many members of the parliament have become shareholders of these two shipyards.

There is a media sarcasm in the UK that Vickers Dockyard is the mother of the British Parliament.

This is what Constantine said, the councillor and his own business will not fail.

The price of Ottoman’s two super-dreadnought warships should be at least more than 5 million pounds. Such a huge order and its huge profits make it impossible for the bosses of these shipyards – MPs to refuse.

Lord Tristan sighed inwardly. His family knew his own affairs, and he naturally understood the enormous energy contained in the British military-industrial complex.

Inciting Italy to capture Libya, in addition to embarrassing the Germans, also means beating the Ottoman Empire.

After the outbreak of the Libyan war, the Ottoman Empire was also very good, and immediately went to the United Kingdom to place an order, hoping to use this huge warship order to regain the support of the British.

In the current Anglo-German naval competition in full swing, British MPs are clamoring: For every capital ship the Germans build, we will build two.

This move is not purely out of the national interest, but also the interests of the legislators. Without the naval competition, the legislature would not have allocated a huge amount of funds for shipbuilding, and there would be no way to put taxpayer money into its own pockets.

“Lord Tristan, once the super-dreadnought warship appears in the Dardanelles, it will seriously affect the naval balance in the surrounding area,” Constantine said sternly.

When Naval Commander Cantoriotis heard the news that the Ottoman government had released the purchase of British super dreadnought warships, he immediately came to the Prime Minister’s Office and asked Prime Minister Venizelos to immediately allocate funds to purchase new warships to deal with the threat of the Ottoman Navy.

The two had a heated argument in the office about increasing the navy’s military spending.

Afterwards, Venizelos also complained to Constantine. Greece’s finances have now reached its limit. The previous plan for the construction of the navy needs to allocate 250 million to 300 million funds. In addition to maintaining the normal expenditure of the government, in view of the current tension in the Balkans, the army The expansion of the company is also imminent. In order to cope with the imminent situation in Macedonia, the logistics department has begun to hoard materials, which must be another huge expenditure.

Constantine also understood that it was impossible for Greece to continue to increase its naval expenditure, so he also planned to organize the Ottomans to acquire these two super-dreadnought warships in the near future.

“His Royal Highness, although the Ottomans intend to buy new warships, you don’t have to worry so much. As far as I know, at least until the end of this war (the Italian-Austrian war), our government will not respond to the request of the Ottoman Empire” Lord Tristan said calmly.

“As soon as the news spread in London, Russian and Italian diplomats in London expressed opposition.”

It is normal for Italy to oppose. The two countries are currently at war. Italy took advantage of its own navy to take the lead. The navy and army cooperated and occupied almost all the coastal cities in northern Libya. .

Russia and the Ottoman Empire are neighbors themselves, bordering the Caucasus and facing each other across the Black Sea.

After the Russo-Japanese War, Russia’s navy, which originally ranked at the forefront of the world’s naval tonnage ranking, was hit hard by the Japanese. In recent years, it has been silently licking its wounds. The main energy of the entire country is mainly used for economic reform. And domestic politics, the strength of the Russian navy has not recovered.

If the two Ottoman super-dreadnought warships enter the strait, it is bound to increase the pressure on the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

“So, under the protests of the two countries, in order not to cause diplomatic disputes, even if our country finally decides to release the latest super-dreadnought battleship, it is estimated that it will be a year later,” Lord Tristan explained patiently to Constantine. .

As an ambassador of a country, it is the responsibility of the ambassador to maintain the good relationship between the host country and the home country.

“I will write a report to remind the country to pay attention to the naval balance in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions”

Hearing that Ottoman’s purchase of the ship could be delayed for a while, Constantine’s originally serious face softened a little, but he has been frequently entangled by Cantoriotis recently, begging Constantine to agree to increase the navy’s funds.

The construction of super-dreadnought warships can be as fast as one year or as slow as two years. It is now the end of 1911. As long as the purchase of the ships by the Ottoman Empire can be delayed for about a year, it has reached a very delicate time point.

The expectations of the Ottomans to acquire warships had many twists and turns.

It would be better for these two warships to still suffer from their historical doom.

Constantine nodded and then asked, “Lord Tristan, what do you think of the current situation in the Balkans? Since the war broke out between Italy and the Ottoman Empire, the situation in the Balkans has been turbulent.”

Serbia and Bulgaria are privately involved, and excluding Greece, it is natural to give them some eye drops: “As far as I know, the two countries seem to have reached an agreement on something at the moment”

“The two Slavic countries seem to have the support of the Russians”

Lord Tristan took a sip of tea and said, “Not only that! I heard that the Austrian army has been mobilized in the area on the border of Orsay, but Austria strongly opposes the expansion of Slavic forces in the Balkans.”

Bulgaria and Serbia are both Slavic, language alleys, and even religions, due to historical reasons, are the same Orthodox Church as Russia, which makes the cultures of the three countries have similarities. Taken together, these three countries have too much Many reasons come together.

It is no wonder that in order to make Serbia and Bulgaria independent from the rule of the Ottoman Empire, the Russians did not hesitate to go out in person and start a military confrontation with the Ottoman Empire.

“Where did you get this news?” King George asked in surprise~www.mtlnovel.com~The British ambassador to Sofia, in fact, since the war between the Ottoman Empire and Italy in North Africa, the British Foreign Office has been Very focused on the development of the situation in the Balkans, the Ambassador to Sofia visited the Bulgarian Prime Minister several times to explore Bulgaria’s diplomatic trends,” Lord Tristan said frankly.

“Serbia and Bulgaria are united, and their primary enemy is also the Ottoman Empire. Why is Austria’s reaction so fierce, and the army has been partially mobilized?” King George asked inexplicably.

Lord Tristan took a slow sip of tea and said slowly: “Because in the agreement reached between Bulgaria and Serbia, both parties support the obligation to liberate the Slavs inhabited areas in the Balkan Peninsula and oppose the third country’s encroachment on the Slavs’ territory.”

Constantine and King George looked at each other, and both knew in their hearts that this line was obviously aimed at Austria.

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