"Prime Minister, thank you for your hard work. We were able to achieve such fruitful results this time, and you play an irreplaceable role."
In the palace, Edel said to the Prime Minister while flipping through the Treaty of Trianon, which was still written in French, Hungarian, and Romanian languages with the scent of ink.
"The results of the negotiations all depend on the military's performance on the battlefield and the public's support for the war. And I just brought back the results that should belong to Romania."
The Prime Minister remains as humble as ever.
Although the Prime Minister is very humble, Edel will not forget his credit. In addition to the results of the negotiations, the Prime Minister stabilized the situation at home and provided sufficient material support for the army, which is also a huge credit. After all, two thousand years ago, Liu Bang said that Xiao He was
Credit comes first.
For Romania, the Treaty of Trianon is far more important than the Treaty of Versailles and other treaties, and it can be regarded as its biggest achievement in this war. Therefore, for Prime Minister Bretianu who has been negotiating in France,
It's appropriate to say thank you for your hard work.
Prime Minister Bretianu, who has lost more than ten pounds after staying in France for more than half a year, can't bear it.
Therefore, when the Prime Minister and his entourage returned to the country, Eder held a welcome banquet specifically for them. He also highly praised the negotiating delegation in public for its role in Romania's achievement of this fruitful outcome.
Moreover, at this banquet, Edel also revealed that for those who have made contributions to Romania's acquisition of new territories, the royal family will distribute noble seats to outstanding contributors. Edel's words aroused the hearts of everyone present at the time.
As we all know, after the establishment of the Kingdom of Romania, the Hohenzollern family has been very stingy in distributing noble titles. During the period of Edel's father, Carol I, Romania only enfeoffed less than twenty nobles. This included making Romania completely independent.
The Tenth Turkish-Russian War. (In this war, Romania enfeoffed eleven nobles)
After Edel came to power, Romania has never enfeoffed the nobility. The Second Balkan War and Edel's ascension to the throne are two events that are considered to be likely to enfeoff the nobility. So many people think that Edel's attitude towards the enfeoffed nobility is very likely.
He is very stingy and does not know what conditions are needed to take away the title of nobility from his hands.
In fact, these people's speculations are somewhat unfair to Edel. The real reason why he is so stingy is that the influence of his later memories does not favor the noble class. In his heart, he believes that most nobles are dependent on society to absorb nutrition. And because of his
He was the heir to the kingdom at birth, so he underestimated the desire of the ordinary class for nobility and titles during this period.
Fortunately, now, with the victory of this war, Edel decided to open the title of nobility. However, although the title of nobility was opened, the distribution was extremely harsh. Edel's purpose was to make it complementary with honor, so as to stimulate the Romanian people's appreciation for
His greatest desire is to reward some people who have made great contributions and cannot be promoted, such as Admiral Pulje and Prime Minister Bretianu.
Edel put down the Treaty of Trianon after reading it and continued to the Prime Minister: "The territory has been secured, and then it needs to be digested into a solid foundation for the kingdom. At this point, the government needs to be adequately prepared for this.
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"Your Majesty, please rest assured that the government made plans for the new territory last year and will not let the territory that the army has worked hard to conquer become a factor of instability."
Prime Minister Bretianu has enough confidence in this. Because since last year, the government has begun to train officials who understand Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Russian. The government has gathered these officials for training, mainly
Train them to handle ethnic issues, respond to religious disputes, and more importantly, monitor local dissatisfaction. These government officials have enough power to deal with suspicious elements who wantonly spread dissatisfaction with the government and stir up ethnic opposition, even if it triggers
Local ethnic conflicts have also occurred.
After all, this was the beginning of the 20th century, a period when nationalism was prevalent, not an era when Maristism was rampant in the 21st century.
These officials are carefully selected by the government. Each official is an all-rounder with outstanding local government capabilities, high political consciousness, and the ability to mediate social emotions. They do not have any political stains, and they also have their own opinions on government work in multi-ethnic areas.
insights. Moreover, regarding the multi-ethnic issues in the new territories, the government also specially explained to them how to deal with these issues.
Among them, for the Hungarian people, the main purpose is to squeeze their living space and force them to leave the local area. This is also related to the relatively tense relationship between the Hungarians and other local ethnic groups. The main reason is also that the Hungarians themselves are responsible for setting a target and letting them leave the local area.
It is also conducive to Romania's rule for other ethnic groups to vent their inner emotions.
For the Poles in Galicia, Romania has another solution. It mainly opens immigration channels with Poland, and even acquiesces to the Polish government to send people to mobilize these people to immigrate to Poland. As for the new Poland,
When Romania is stronger than itself, it is a good choice to introduce its own people from Galicia to enrich the Lower Silesia and West Prussia regions.
As for other ethnic groups such as Ukrainians and Czechs, as long as they do not cause trouble, the Romanian government currently does not have many policies to deal with them. In a word, if you are a good citizen, you will be treated as a citizen.
After the training is completed, these officials will be sent to different areas in batches based on their performance and abilities. The main basis is that for areas that need to be cleaned, officials with outstanding abilities and tough styles will be sent to areas that need to be assimilated, while officials with soft methods will be sent to areas that need to be assimilated.
region. They become the backbone of the government's ruling power in the new territory and make the greatest contribution to the new territory.
"I believe in the government's ability. In addition to ethnic issues in the new territories, geological exploration work cannot be relaxed."
Edel's mind was moving quickly. One moment he was discussing ethnic issues, and the next moment he was talking about geological exploration. Because he had some impression before that Transylvania and Transcarpathia had more mineral resources.
For the current Romania, mineral resources are a booster of the Romanian economy. In addition to food, Romania could only get oil before. (Potassium salt was acquired after Transylvania, and the region
Mineral resources are not rich, as long as they are stone and gold mines, they are pretty good)
Edel responded quickly, and Prime Minister Bretianu also answered quickly.
"Our government is prepared in this regard. In addition to the four geological exploration teams we have prepared ourselves, we have also joined forces with the University of Bucharest, the University of Iaşi and other schools to form two more teams. Enteromorpha Exploration is currently
New territory.”
"not enough."
After hearing what the Prime Minister said, Edel knew that he had only focused on Transylvania, the east of the Tisza River, and the eastern section of the Transcarpathian Mountains that he had currently obtained. This was not enough.
In later generations, Ukraine not only had superior agricultural conditions, but was also a resource-rich country. Otherwise, how could it be qualified to serve as the heavy industry base of the Soviet Union. In later generations, Western Ukraine was not famous for its resources, and that was also based on the excessive abundance of Eastern Ukraine.
"Currently, we have secretly sent people to conduct exploration on Ukrainian soil where we have troops stationed."
It was obvious that Edel had his mind set on this.
"This is Ukrainian territory. It's not easy for us to explore it."
Edel's words shocked Bretianu. If secretly exploring resources in neighboring countries were exposed, it would be very serious.
"Don't be afraid. We have a garrison there. Just let them send troops to protect the exploration team in the name of training."
It is obvious that Edel is a bastard who is determined to explore the resources of neighboring countries.
I saw that my king wanted to explore neighboring countries regardless of his diplomatic reputation.
"Your Majesty, please consider this matter carefully."
The Prime Minister was a little unhappy, after all, this would bring disgrace to the kingdom.
"I've thought about it. Just do as I said."
Faced with the king's insistence and even tough attitude, Brutianu felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
"His Majesty……"
"Go and do it."
After Edel finished speaking, he waved his hand and asked the Prime Minister to swallow his words.
Looking at the back of the Prime Minister leaving, Edel didn't know what he was thinking. (To be continued)
