Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 309

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“Greece still needs time, so the current position of the Greek government is still neutral,” Constantine reiterated again.

“The development and construction of the Macedonian region needs to be consolidated, the production of our military materials, and the war weariness of the people. You know, our people participated in two consecutive wars in 1912 and 1913, and these will take time to ease.”

Having said this, Constantine thought of a more critical question and hurriedly asked: “Since you and the British ambassador have talked about Greece’s participation in the war, and even the British have proposed Thracian conditions, has the Prime Minister asked them? , the issue of ownership of the straits after the war”

Venizelos shook his head, showing a bit of loneliness on his face, obviously not too satisfied with the conditions of the British ambassador.

“Naturally, it was involved, but he changed the subject and did not go further on the issue of Greece’s participation in the war. Except for Thrace, in the words of the ambassador, I was not granted authority other than Thrace.”

“The international situation is still immature. Even if Greece wants to participate in the war, the Allied countries will have to come up with more bargaining chips. They obviously lack sincerity,” Constantine said meaningfully.

“I know that you have been very close to the British all the time, so you should also know that the British conditions are just to test the tone of our Greeks. As you said, the Allied Powers should have concluded an agreement to divide up the Ottoman Empire. , and we in Greece don’t even have the right to know”

Venizelos is the Prime Minister of Greece. Since he took office as Prime Minister, he has continued the tradition of Greek diplomacy and is close to the United Kingdom.

Even though Constantine thought of the frequent intervention of the British in Greece’s internal affairs in the original time and space, in order to promote Greece’s participation in the war, King Constantine and Venizelos, the prime minister, as well as the royalists and the Liberal Party surrounding them, were two factions. Water and fire were incompatible, tearing apart the entire Greek ruling class, and Constantine still did not interfere.

Venizelos has done an excellent job of foreign secretary and has many friends in London politics.

Presumably due to their shared origins and experiences, Venizelos developed a deep friendship with Lloyd George, the current Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Lloyd George is also a commoner, and his profession is also a lawyer. After entering politics, he has made great strides and is now the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the United Kingdom.

If Constantine remembers correctly, Lloyd George should be the next prime minister of the United Kingdom, in 1916.

Venizelos’ resume is very similar to George Lloyd’s. He was also a civilian from Crete. Later, he entered the University of Athens to study law and obtained a lawyer’s qualification. Later, he also became a lawyer. He led the revolution in Crete, and then into politics.

Of course, Venizelos is now Prime Minister of Greece. (Crete was still a part of the Ottoman Empire at the time)

According to Constantine’s understanding, the two men not only had similar experiences, but also had similar political views.

In order to save Britain’s precarious finances and cope with the Anglo-German naval shipbuilding competition, Lloyd George made a drastic attack on the wealthy British, proposing to increase property taxes, inheritance taxes, tobacco and alcohol taxes, and land taxes.

After Venizelos came to power, in order to ease the financial tension in Greece, similar tax policies were also adopted, including the previous Greek tax reform into progressive taxation, which essentially increased taxes on the rich.

Constantine speculated that it was precisely because of the similarity between the two that Lloyd George, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in the original historical time and space, tried his best to support Greece under the leadership of Venizelos to participate in the Greek-Turkish war.

Constantine valued the personal relationship between the two men very much.

Although it sounds a bit humiliating, the current UK is indeed a world hegemon. As a small and medium-sized country in the Balkans known as a powder keg, it is Greece that needs to curry favor with the UK.

Weak countries need to do a good job of diplomatic work even more.

Just like Japan in the Russo-Japanese War, a backward country in Asia, went to the British financial world to raise funds, and later to the United States.

(During the Russo-Japanese War, due to the huge cost of the war, Japan tried to make an international loan)

If it wasn’t for the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance Treaty, how could the London financial community have loaned money to Japan.

Japan was an ally of Britain, and that was Japan’s most visible identity at the time.

Therefore, Constantine valued Venizelos very much, in British politics, especially his personal relationship with Lloyd George.

“Compared to Greece, it is clear that Russia’s status is more important to the Entente”

Constantine reminded Venizelos.

As an important will in the Allied Powers, Russia in the Allied Powers system was responsible for containing the German army on the eastern front and dealing with the important task of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Although Constantine could not guess the specific content of the agreement between the three Entente countries to divide up the Ottoman Empire.

But the Russian demands must be related to the Black Sea Strait.

And Greece is close to the Dardanelles Strait. Once it enters the war, it will also make demands on the ownership of the Strait of the Ottoman Empire, which is inevitable.

There are a large number of Greeks living along the Dardanelles-Bosphorus Strait, and the Greeks have deep historical ties with the Strait. It is reasonable for Greece to make such a request.

“Our demands are in conflict with Russia. Considering Russia’s attitude, Britain and France will naturally not be so positive. For Greece, it is also a hidden concern.”

This is probably also an important reason in history why Greece made up its mind to be neutral.

On the one hand, Britain and France intended to allow Greece to join the Entente to participate in the war, but on the other hand, they did not have favorable conditions.

How could the Greeks be willing to join the war.

In order to let Bulgaria join the war, the Germans made a lot of promises. Macedonia, Thrace, the junction of Serbia and Bulgaria, and after Romania joined the war, Bulgaria also allowed Bulgaria to gain part of Romania’s territory.

Hearing Constantine talking about the same goals between Greece and Russia gave Venizelos a headache, which was also a major obstacle to Greece’s participation in the war.

After Greece entered the war, it was under great pressure and faced wars in several directions, but the Allied countries could not give Greece the conditions to be tempted.

“In short, you can continue to engage with the Entente, try to strive for favorable conditions for Greece, and you can also show the outside world that you are on the side of the Entente,” Justantine said to Venizelos.

Venizelos was a little surprised when he heard Constantine’s advice: “Then how about you, His Royal Highness?”

“I, and the Greek royal family I represent, in this war’s point of view, is to maintain Greece’s neutrality,” Constantine said, pointing to himself.

“As the war continued, the two camps competed more fiercely for the Balkan countries, and Greece was mixed in, and it was a dilemma.”

“This can ease the relationship with the two camps. In a short period of time, without offending either side, try to buy as much time for Greece as possible, so that the army will have more time for war preparations.”

Constantine’s method is nothing more than not offense on both sides, a typical grass on the wall, on both sides.

“In the future, when diplomats from the two camps are trying to win over Greece, they will always ask us about our attitude. Let’s deal with it like this.”

Historically, Greece has done the same.

The royal family advocated neutrality, and the prime minister asked to participate in the war on the Allied side.

Although people can’t help but sneer at the cowardice of the Greeks in history and feel too cowardly, but, judging from the final Greece’s pay and gains in World War I, Greece made a lot of money.

In the original historical time and space, Greece entered the war in 1917. After a few months of fighting, the First World War was over, and then the Greeks gained land near Thrace and Smyrna.

In contrast, Italy entered the war in 1915, and Romania entered the war in 1916. Compared with Greece, it joined the war earlier.

As a result, Romania was annihilated in four months. Although the Allied Powers were defeated and Romania was compensated by Transylvania of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the country experienced a catastrophe after all and was occupied by the Allied Powers for more than two years. , was raided and took away countless materials, and suffered heavy losses.

Italy, um, Italy’s victories in World War I are too small to remember.

In contrast, Greece, among the Balkan countries in history, should be the country with the least losses, but the results are considerable.

Although the Greek royal family insisted on maintaining neutrality during the war, they were called Jingde. The so-called Greek king Constantine, because he married a German princess, preferred Germany.

The persuasiveness of this reason is too far-fetched.

According to this theory, there would be no war at all: Wilhelm II and Nicholas II were still cousins, and they had a good relationship in private.

I have not seen the ending of Germany and Russia exempting from sword confrontation.

Queen Victoria is the grandmother of William II.

Historically, in the First World War, Greece had a small investment and a large profit. The neutrality advocated by the Greek royal family also had a credit.

Otherwise, according to Venizelos’ proposition, Greece would have entered the war in 1915.

Venizelos considered Constantine’s proposition with a solemn expression, and believed that it was indeed beneficial to Greece, so he nodded in agreement.

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Through the window sill, Constantine watched the car carrying Venizelos slowly drive out of the gate of the manor, and finally disappeared, with a serious expression on his face.

Princess Sophie, who entered the room, saw Constantine’s appearance and asked with concern, “What’s the matter with you?”

Constantine told her that he and Venizelos had different attitudes towards the Allies.

“Isn’t it good, although you have different political opinions, you are all loving Greece in your own way,” Sophie explained to Constantine.

Noticing that the dignified expression on Constantine’s face did not ease at all: “Do you have any other worries?”

“Since Venizelos took office, he has achieved fruitful results. He is very popular in the political arena. The Liberal Party he leads is becoming more and more powerful, and it is already the largest party in the Greek parliament. More and more officials in Greek politics come from The Liberal Party of Venizelos, many opportunistic politicians, for the sake of interests and future, continue to join the banner of Venizelos and join the Liberal Party” Constantine’s topic changed, and Sophie chatted with Sophie about the situation of the Greek Parliament.

“Other parties, in order to compete with the Liberal Party, that is, parliamentarians who disagree with Venizelos’ politics, have organized to fight together, and now they have also formed a powerful political party, which is the People’s Party,” Constantine continued dullly. .

Sophie just listened carefully, acting as a good confidant, letting Constantine speak.

“The Liberal Party and the People’s Party, now the two largest parties in the Greek parliament, are fighting fiercely”

Seeing the confusion on Sophie’s face, Constantine explained: “It is common for politicians to fight each other in the political arena.”

“But I am worried that the struggle between the two parties will resonate with the current situation in Greece, which will eventually lead to the intensification of party conflicts in Greece.”

Under the leadership of Venizelos, the Liberal Party has a clear political purpose, which is to advocate taxing the wealthy class more, provide more benefits for the workers and peasants, and establish an insurance system.

The Liberal Party’s proposition naturally aroused the opposition of the big landlords and the bourgeoisie. After all, the Liberal Party wanted to pay more from their pockets to subsidize other classes, so how could they willingly agree.

The People’s Party’s proposition is tit-for-tat with the Liberal Party, advocating that the government should not take the initiative to intervene in the economy, reduce taxes to reduce the burden on companies, and oppose welfare policies, believing that this will make the Greek people lazy.

The BJP naturally has the support of Greece’s wealthy classes.

For example, former Congolese governor Banning, after returning to Greece, joined the People’s Party and became a member of parliament.

There are also many nobles like Banning who also joined the People’s Party.

The current Greek aristocrats, not only have the fiefs granted by the royal family, but also have a lot of dividends from the Purple Robe Foundation. Obviously, they belong to the wealthy class of Greece.

The operation of the Zipao Foundation is very smooth. Now, the money used for dividends every year is basically more than 20 million drachmas. Since there are not many nobles in Greece, only a dozen people, so the number of money each person gets Very tempting.

Therefore, members of the parliament, also called the BJP as the Royalist Party.

Regarding Constantine’s neutral position, the industry was very influential in Greek society, and many people agreed.

For example, the big landowners and the bourgeoisie in Greece, and the People’s Party, which also represents the wealthy class in time, also advocates maintaining neutrality and not falling into a tragic war between the two camps.

Greece’s entry into the war was not intended to affect the property and business of these people.

Among the nobles, there are also those who support neutrality.

Their reasons were more complicated, and they were unwilling to fight against the Allied side, especially the German army.

The strength of the German army is on the one hand~www.mtlnovel.com~ There are also some officers in the Greek army who are pro-German.

Because the relationship between Greece and Germany has always been good, many officers in the Greek army have studied and served briefly in Germany.

This group also leans towards the neutrality of the BJP.

“Everyone saw the actions of these noble deputies and took it for granted that I was behind the support of the People’s Party and suppressed Prime Minister Venizelos and the Liberal Party under his leadership,” Constantine quietly complained to Sophie.

“And the People’s Party has tacitly agreed to this statement in order to strengthen its momentum.”

Constantine could not openly dissociate himself from supporting the People’s Party.

As the crown prince, Constantine is indeed a member of the rich and powerful that the People’s Party maintains, not to mention those aristocrats who join the People’s Party.

To contradict the interests of the class to which one belongs is undoubtedly a foolish thing.

However, Constantine also supported Venizelos’ policy. During the war, the government did not collect more taxes from the rich, so how could it cope with the huge consumption of the war.

Constantine was worried that the struggle between the two sides was too fierce and the contradiction was sharp. In the international context of the Allies and the Entente to win over Greece, the Greek ruling class was divided, leading to the tearing of the entire country from top to bottom.

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