King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, who had been paying attention to the negotiation process, immediately summoned the Minister of War, Lieutenant General Savov, after receiving a detailed telegram from Prime Minister Gaishov.
He showed the telegram sent by Prime Minister Gaishov to Lieutenant General Savov for viewing. After reading the conditions proposed by various countries, the Minister of War knew full well the purpose of King Ferdinand I calling him here.
After seeing Lieutenant General Savov reading, Ferdinand I asked, "What do you think of the conditions faced by various countries?"
After thinking for a while, Lieutenant General Savov said word for word. "Your Majesty, I think there is room for negotiation on the conditions of each country. We can..."
After hearing Lieutenant General Savov's explanation, Ferdinand I waved his hand to stop the Minister of War from continuing.
"If we don't agree to Romania's conditions, this peace negotiation will not proceed. The main reason I'm looking for you this time is to ask what the military thinks about this."
After hearing King Ferdinand I's words, Lieutenant General Savov knew what he wanted to ask. However, the Bulgarian army really could not defeat Romania, and in the prime minister's telegram, Austria-Hungary and Germany also did not support Bulgaria on this issue. This
Lieutenant General Savov, who actually controls the Bulgarian army, has nothing to say.
Seeing the silent Lieutenant General Savov, Ferdinand I knew what the army was thinking. They wanted to pretend not to know, but Ferdinand I also wanted to pretend not to know, but he couldn't.
Looking at Lieutenant General Savov standing there awkwardly, Ferdinand I waved and said, "Then it's okay, let's get down."
After receiving the answer from Lieutenant General Savov on behalf of the Bulgarian military, Ferdinand I sent a telegram to Prime Minister Gaishov in the evening of the same day. The above sentence stated that Prime Minister Gaishov was solely responsible for this negotiation.
The prime minister who received the telegram knew that this was what Ferdinand I meant for him to agree, but he just put it in a euphemistic way for the sake of being nice.
Looking at the telegram sent from China in his hand, Prime Minister Gaishov told Foreign Minister Dirasnoch, "Let me negotiate this time alone!"
After hearing Prime Minister Gaishov's words, Foreign Minister Dirasnoch said with a wry smile, "Your Excellency, do you think I can still stay in the political arena after this negotiation?"
Prime Minister Gaishof thinks this is indeed the case. He deliberately selected some unpopular personnel for this delegation. He did not bring any of the new political stars he was optimistic about, just to not delay the future of others. This time their delegation
The purpose is very clear, which is to sign a humiliating peace treaty for Bulgaria. Prime Minister Gaishov just hopes to reduce some losses for Bulgaria. As for negotiating to get other countries to give in, he can't even think about it now.
After receiving the domestic telegram, Prime Minister Gaschov did not directly sign the Romanian conditions proposed by Prime Minister Bretianu. Instead, he repeatedly exchanged words with the Romanian Prime Minister in the hope of reducing Bulgaria's losses. But now he has
Prime Minister Bretianu, who had a huge advantage, remained motionless and insisted on Romania's conditions, leaving Prime Minister Gaschov unable to do anything. In the end, he finally agreed to Romania's conditions in full five days later, but he was not without gains.
In his perseverance in negotiations, he secured for Bulgaria ceded territories from Romania, and the local people could choose whether to go to Bulgaria or stay there. The Romanian government will pay 20 million leva in humanitarian funds for this purpose.
Bulgaria is for these people to migrate. However, Bulgaria will also open the Romanian people in the country to allow them to migrate to Romania. To this end, Romania will also provide 5 million leva in aid funds to facilitate Bulgaria.
The management was done in the name of aid funds. In fact, everyone knew that this was Romania's compensation to get Bulgaria to agree to this condition. It was just to have a good reputation and not to embarrass the Bulgarian government.
After negotiating Romania's conditions, it became much easier to negotiate with other countries, especially Montenegro. After some price increases, Prime Minister Gaishov asked the Montenegrin negotiators to agree to Bulgaria's compensation of 100 leva.
Then during the negotiations in Serbia, Prime Minister Gaiszov and his Foreign Minister Milanovic had a fierce confrontation over the widely different conditions between the two sides.
This also attracted the supporting powers behind them. In the end, the negotiation became a confrontation between Austria-Hungary Foreign Minister Ellenthal and Russian Foreign Minister Sasonov. Russia has a stronger national power than Austria-Hungary.
However, Austria-Hungary did not give in after receiving the support of Germany. In addition, the performance of the Serbian army this time was not as good as Bulgaria's, and finally each took a step back. Serbia will no longer pursue the retention of other Macedonian territories, and Bulgaria will no longer demand Bitola and
Sovereignty over the Ohrid region. This is a good result for Bulgaria now.
Later, in the negotiations with Greece, the UK was unwilling to go too far into the Balkans issue. In the words of British Prime Minister Asquith, "Instead of investing more energy in the Balkans, we might as well spend more time looking at
Look at Germany’s shipbuilding plan.”
Therefore, Greece failed to get much support in the Bucharest negotiations, and after Russia ensured the interests of Serbia, its biological son, it only gave verbal support to Greece, Britain's younger brother. Not to mention France, they were completely in the Balkans.
There was no interest. So Greece finally faced Bulgaria, which was supported by Austria-Hungary and Germany. It had no choice but to accept the conditions of Prime Minister Gaishov. It got the southern part of the Salonika region, and the city of Salonika was finally assigned to Bulgaria.
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Moreover, Bulgaria also received the islands of Thassos and Samo close to its new territory as compensation for its concession. For this reason, the Greek negotiator, Foreign Minister Constantine, could only forcefully accept this fact. Who made the Greek army perform so well before?
So bad.
During the final negotiations with the Ottoman Empire, Prime Minister Gaschov had a round of confrontation with his representative, Foreign Minister Yildire. However, with the help of Austria-Hungary and Germany, the two countries now use the actual occupied territory as the standard. This is actually
Neither Bulgaria nor the Ottomans were very satisfied. However, after seeing that Bulgaria and other countries had entered into peace negotiations, Ottoman Foreign Minister Yildire could only sign the treaty after asking for instructions from home.
In order to make the Ottoman Empire give up its unrealistic ideas, Germany promised to assist it with a batch of arms. After evaluating Bulgaria's performance in the two wars, the Ottoman military believed that it wanted to take Adri when facing the Bulgarian army alone.
Yarborg was a bit unrealistic, so in the end, with the help of Austria-Hungary and Germany, we agreed to this condition.
The last countries to participate in the Second Balkan War finally signed the Treaty of Bucharest on August 1.
Romania became the biggest winner in this treaty. Crown Prince Edel relied on his foresight and the strong combat effectiveness of the Romanian army to force Bulgaria to swallow the fact of losing 22,000 of its territory.
Due to Serbia's poor performance in this war, it still won the Bitola and Ohrid regions with the support of Russia. Greece was more tragic. Without strong support from major powers, coupled with the
Our own army was weak on the battlefield, and only captured half of the Salonika area, and lost the two islands of Thassos and Samo, which was a hidden loss.
In the end, the Ottomans took back the Tekidar region of Eastern Thrace, while Adrianople, which was crucial to it, remained in Bulgarian hands.
As for the defeated country Bulgaria, despite losing the above territory, it is still much better than the original time and space. It has at least retained most of the results of the First Balkan War, mainly Macedonia and most of Thrace. Its population has also expanded from the Balkans.
The 4.45 million before the war soared to 5.08 million, mainly due to the acquisition of a population of 126 in the new territory. However, there are 510,000 Bulgarians living in the territory ceded to Romania. I believe that with the propaganda of the Bulgarian government, it can attract about 200,000 Bulgarians.
People return. In the original history, Bulgaria only increased its population by 280,000 after the two Balkan Wars.
As for Serbia, its population has grown from just over 3 million before the two Balkan Wars to 4.2 million, a decrease of 300,000 from the original 4.5 million in history. This is mainly due to the fact that it did not obtain Strumica from Bulgaria, which belongs to Macedonia.
and the Karadarchi region. Greece also increased its population from 2.82 million to about 4 million, which is 500,000 less than the original historical population of 450. It mainly failed to acquire the entire Thessaloniki region and the Karadarchi region from Bulgaria.
In the western part of Thrace, I also lost two small islands, which was a waste of money.
The biggest loser in these two wars was the Ottoman Empire, which only had the area around Istanbul left in its European territory. It lost most of its European territory and reduced its population by about 4.6 million people.
PS Readers who want to see the territorial divisions of various countries can check the scum map produced by Steamed Buns in the QQ group.
