Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 307

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For Greece’s industrial strength, Constantine knew very well that compared with Britain, France, Germany and other countries, the gap is still very obvious.

After the war, these three old industrial powers with strong industrial production capacity all faced the problem of ammunition shortage. With Greece’s still weak industrial system, the contradiction between the production capacity of military materials and the amount of military consumption is naturally more serious.

The weak military production capacity in Greece is mainly caused by the lack of high-quality coal and iron ore in Greece. The low steel production capacity will naturally severely limit the production of military materials in Greece.

Artillery, guns, shells, bullets and other important military supplies, the main metal material consumed in the production process is steel. Greece’s annual steel production capacity of more than 800,000 tons is really not enough in a war of attrition. .

Although ordering the military factories to fully produce military materials now will crowd out civilian steel and exacerbate the steel shortage in Greece, there is no better way.

Therefore, Constantine agreed with Manu Giannaski’s proposal very much: “I think your proposal is feasible. Since the current shortage of military supplies is too large, your armament department immediately urges the military factories to fully produce military supplies.”

Since the root cause of the low production capacity of military supplies in Greece cannot be solved in a short period of time, we can only lengthen the production time of military supplies and make preparations early to ensure that the Greek army will have sufficient supplies in a short period of time when it joins the war. material supply.

Hearing that the crown prince agreed to his proposal, Manugianaski said happily: “Although this still cannot ensure that the army’s long-term material supply will not be in short supply, at least in the short term when the Greek army joins the war, our logistics materials are available. guaranteed”

After arriving in Thessaloniki, the three split up to handle various affairs of the Greek Army.

Manu Giannaski was in a hurry to implement the order of full production in the military factory, and hurried to negotiate with the steel factory in the industrial zone.

Chief of Staff Emanuel went to the army station to inspect the troops.

Prime Minister Venizelos made a request for a meeting after learning that Constantine was also in Thessaloniki.

“His Royal Highness, I heard rumors from the military that between the Entente and the Allies, you prefer the Allies, is that so?” Venizelos asked cautiously.

“His Royal Highness, which camp Greece chooses is related to the fate of the Kingdom of Greece. As the Prime Minister of Greece, I should have the right to know about the choices that have a stake in the Kingdom of Greece, right?”

Although Venizelos tried his best to organize his words more euphemistically, Constantine still heard a hint of reproach in Venizelos’ tone.

Venizelos’ sudden questioning made Constant stunned, and then he reacted. Venizelos should have learned that he was in the Ministry of Defense building a few days ago and discussed the European war situation. Words that were in Greece’s interests reached Venizelos.

People with high status should be cautious in their words and deeds in major affairs, because people with respected status will be paid attention to every move.

“Of course, you are the Prime Minister of Greece elected by the parliament, representing the will of the Greek people, of course you have this right,” Constantine explained.

“It’s just the Prime Minister, my deduction in the Ministry of Defense building is only a conclusion drawn from a purely military point of view. That does not mean that my point of view is to join the Allies.”

“My opinion is clear at all times, the best option for Greece is to remain neutral”

Hearing Constantine’s answer, Venizelos handed Constantine a copy of the Times of Athens after heaving a sigh of relief.

I saw the headline on the front page, and the bold **** headline clearly read: Crown Prince Constantine advocates joining the Allied camp.

Constantine has already reacted. It should be that some of the officers who participated in the meeting that day were dissatisfied with Constantine’s views, so they disclosed Constantine’s remarks.

Europe is now divided into two camps, the Allies and the Allies. After the war model has developed in the direction of a long-term war of attrition, both camps have begun to actively win over neutral countries in Europe.

Prime Minister Venizelos met with the ambassadors of various countries in Athens within a few days. These ambassadors were testing Greece’s attitude inside and out.

At present, among the three Balkan countries, Greece has the strongest economic and military strength. After years of development, Greece can already be regarded as a semi-industrialized country. Although the industrial system is not perfect, the main military equipment can be produced independently.

In contrast, Bulgaria and Serbia are completely agricultural countries with almost negligible industrial capacity. The rifles and artillery equipped by the army basically rely on procurement from foreign powers.

The Serbian army is equipped with a large number of Russian weapons, such as the Mosin Nagant rifle, and the cannon is also a gift from the Russian army.

Therefore, Greece’s choice will largely change the war situation in the Balkans.

“Then you should be careful. After the newspapers were published, ambassadors from various countries flocked to me. They asked me to verify whether the news in the newspapers was accurate, but I had no idea at all,” Venizelos complained helplessly.

There is no doubt that the Greek navy is inclined to the side of the Allied Powers. Whether it is Britain or France, the fleets stationed in the Mediterranean Sea are powerful, and it is not at all that the weak Greek navy can compete with.

After the war began, the navies of Britain and France coordinated, with the British navy in charge of the North Sea battlefield, and the French navy in charge of the Mediterranean.

Naturally, the Greek navy would not choose for itself an unwarranted adversary.

By the same token, there are many officers in the Army who do not agree to stand on the opposite side of the Allies.

Because joining the Allies means that the Greek army is likely to fight against the army of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

The strength of the German Army, from after the Battle of Tannenberg, megatrends Eastern Europe.

Although the Greek army officers have confidence in their own strength, after all, the Greek army has never been defeated in modern times.

However, the prestige of the German Army still made some officers feel intimidated and felt that the Greek Army was not an opponent of the German Army.

Therefore, they did not agree to join the Allied camp.

The navy supported joining the Allies, while some army officers opposed fighting the Allies.

“I met with the British ambassador yesterday. If Greece agrees to join the Allies, Greece can get the whole of Thrace after the war is won,” Venizelos said slowly.

“Since Your Highness the Crown Prince, you also tend to be on the side of the Allies, what is your opinion? Although the strength of the German army and navy is still not to be underestimated, in my opinion, the Germans have already lost the war.”

“Since the end of the Battle of the Marne, the Germans have no hope of victory. You should be very clear about this, Your Highness.”

Constantine understood what Venizelos meant.

At the Battle of the Marne, Germany’s idea of ​​a quick solution was shattered, and the war pattern became the most worrying war of attrition before the German military’s top leaders went to war.

Before the war, the military leaders of various countries predicted the direction of the war, which was a quick decision, and the winner was decided through several decisive battles between the main armies of both sides.

This will lead to the fact that after the war begins, countries have not transformed into a war system in terms of military production.

Now, both the Allies and the Allies have noticed this shift.

Since the war has been protracted, it is necessary to attack the production capacity of the enemy and weaken the war potential of the opponent until the opponent is exhausted.

At the beginning of the war, Germany could also obtain some scarce supplies, food supplies and overseas raw materials through neutral countries, such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and other neutral countries.

Shortly after the Battle of the Marne ended, the United Kingdom immediately declared the North Sea area a war zone. All merchant ships bound for Germany were subject to inspection, and goods on the embargoed list were confiscated.

When ships from neutral countries bring back raw materials from overseas. Must report to the British Navy or be punished with confiscated cargo.

All raw materials are indeed exclusively for the use of neutral countries themselves, and must not be imported into Germany in the slightest.

For Germany, all overseas sources have been cut off, and Germany is currently in a crisis of food shortages.

On the eve of the war, the system of food production, importation and rationing had left the German food supply in a precarious situation.

Changes in urbanization mean that imported food accounts for a quarter of the entire food on which Germans depend.

The advantage of this is that cheap imported food makes it affordable for urbanites at low wages.

German politicians intervened in 1911 by passing a tariff policy designed to protect the big landowners, an agreement that raised the price of bread but angered the low-wage workers in the cities.

In other words, imported food has long occupied a considerable share of the total food demand of Germans in Germany.

And now, Germany’s import channel has been cut off.

Predicting the victory of a battle is similar to gambling, because there are too many uncontrollable factors, and there are absolutely no rules to follow.

However, predicting the victory of a war is indeed traceable.

The larger the scale of the war, the stronger the overall strength, the higher the probability of winning.

Therefore, as long as the territorial area, population, grain output, and industrial production capacity of the two sides, such as coal, steel, scientific and technological level, etc., these data are listed for a simple comparison.

Obviously, in all of these figures, the Allies are more dominant than the Allies.

Venizelos can naturally draw the same conclusion.

Otherwise, how could the Italian government change its attention immediately after the Battle of the Marne?

People naturally saw that Germany was at a disadvantage after the Battle of the Marne.

Although the spirit of the Germans’ unremitting struggle made Constantine amazed.

After Germany was blocked, German scientists tried their best to remedy it by inventing and creating.

For example, the mineral saltpeter, which is very scarce in Germany, is an essential raw material for the production of chemical fertilizers and gunpowder.

The manufacture of explosives and fertilizers is inseparable from nitric acid, but its industrial production has long relied on saltpeter produced in Chile, so that the United Kingdom believes that as long as it has sea power, cutting off the supply of saltpeter during wartime can force Germany to withdraw from the war. Making a woolen thread and making black powder are inseparable from saltpeter).

In 1898, the first industrial nitrogen fixation reaction, the Frank-Carlow reaction, was invented, using calcium carbide and nitrogen to react at high temperature to form calcium cyanamide, but this method of nitrogen fixation consumes a lot of electricity and is not economical.

It is worth noting that the two chemists who invented this reaction, Adolf Frank and Nicodem Kahlo, were Jewish Germans.

In 1909, the Jewish-German chemist Fritz Haber discovered the key catalyst for the synthesis of ammonia by hydrogenation of nitrogen gas, which was first based on the precious metal osmium, and later improved to a multi-component Fe catalyst containing K-Al2O3 promoters. Finally, the nitrogen in the air is used as the raw material to continuously produce ammonia, and nitric acid can be obtained after oxidation. The cost is much lower than that of the Frank-Karl method. German fertilizers and explosives are no longer subject to overseas saltpeter mines.

The largest producer of saltpeter in the world is Chile, where the British control it, and Germany is in a shipbuilding competition with the United Kingdom, naturally doing everything possible to prevent the Germans from buying saltpeter.

Later, the Germans invented the technology of nitrogen fixation in the air, which solved this crisis.

Germany’s mass production of ammonia using the Haber process was achieved in 1913, just one year before the outbreak of the war.

Even if there is no Haber’s process, then Germany is fighting a world war, and it is necessary to use the Frank-Karl method invented by two Jewish chemists to fix nitrogen to produce nitric acid, otherwise you will see Germans all over the world scavenging urine on toilet walls Alkali to make nitrate.

After Germany’s overseas trade was blocked, there was a shortage of cotton and textiles. The Germans invented the technology of wood fiber silk making, so that the textile industry would not be paralyzed.

But this still cannot make up for the huge gap in comprehensive strength between the Allies and the Allies.

“Do you think the Allies will win the final victory? Greece should join the Allied camp?” Constantine asked Venizelos ~ www.mtlnovel.com~ Venizelos sat on the sofa in front of Constantine, Eagerly promoting his plan: “We agree, don’t we, Your Highness? We all think the Entente will win.”

“After this war, the political and military structure of Europe will inevitably undergo a reshuffle. If you miss such a once-in-a-century opportunity, you are committing a crime against the country and the nation, which is unforgivable.”

“Which country can seize such an opportunity, after the war, in the new European layout, it is possible to become a new great power in Europe”

Venizelos became more and more excited and spoke faster and faster: “Now such an opportunity is in front of Greece, we should seize it”

“We all know that the Germans cannot win. For the Germans, the best outcome is to strive for a relatively tolerant treatment after exhaustion.”

“We can all foresee such an outcome. If so, why should Greece not join?”

“Maybe we really have a chance to realize the great ideal that the Greeks dreamed of, to liberate the surviving Greek compatriots in the land of Asia Minor”

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