Chapter 1133 Final Preparations
Serbia has little chance of winning against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This is not only the idea of Archduke Ferdinand (Maximiliano I), but also the view of most countries in Europe.
But Ernst retorted: "Father-in-law, what you said is indeed correct. If it were Serbia alone, the Austro-Hungarian Empire could indeed gain an advantage by relying on its national strength, but isn't this the same as before the first Balkan War? , do most countries have the same view of the Ottomans?"
Archduke Ferdinand said: "How can the Ottomans be compared with the Austro-Hungarian Empire!"
Ernst was not in a hurry. Explained: "Although the Ottoman Empire is not as good as the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a whole, it is also a behemoth to the Balkan Alliance, but the Balkan Alliance achieved the final victory."
"One of the key reasons is that the support of other European countries behind the Balkan Alliance enables the Balkan Alliance to arm its own army, otherwise they would not even have start-up funds."
"Same. Reason, the relationship between Serbia and Russia is quite good now. If there is a war between Serbia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is it possible for Russia to stand by and watch?”
Of course it is impossible. As early as when the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Bosnia, Russia was against it? The Austro-Hungarian Empire was very dissatisfied. After all, Russia did not get anything at the time, which made Russia depressed for a long time.
The importance of the Balkan Peninsula to Russia is no less important than the importance of the Balkan Peninsula to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
There are a large number of Yugoslavs living in several countries on the Balkan Peninsula, especially Serbia, which completely considers itself a Slavic nation. If it can take advantage of this, Russia can establish a large Slavic country covering the Balkan Peninsula and break through Blockade between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
Moreover, the location of the Balkans originally belonged to the original Eastern Roman Empire, and Russia originally regarded itself as the successor of the Eastern Roman Empire. If it can acquire the Balkan Peninsula, Russia's self-proclaimed "Third Rome" will basically be realized.
From this point of view, Russia is quite worthy of the envy of East Africa. After all, Russia can continue to pursue further claims, but East Africa has already reached its peak.
East Africa now officially claims to the outside world as the "Rhine Empire", and this Rhine Empire is already the most powerful country in the history of the African continent.
Before East Africa, except for ancient Egypt, there was almost no civilization worth talking about on the entire African continent. As for Egypt now, it has long become a secondary civilization of the Arab civilization.
Furthermore, even ancient Egypt was only in a corner of North Africa and cannot represent the whole of Africa at all. East Africa is different. It occupies the best land on the African continent and its area is close to half of the entire continent. Level data has brought Africa to a level where it should not exist.
Coming back to the relationship between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, Ernst’s inference really made his father-in-law’s heart sink.
"Russia is indeed a big trouble. I just hope that Russia will not fall out over Serbia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the future."
It is almost impossible not to fall out. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has already Powerful enough, if the Austro-Hungarian Empire conquered Serbia again, Russia would be completely at a disadvantage in this competition in the Balkans.
This is Russia’s idea. Ernst definitely doesn’t think so. As long as the Austro-Hungarian Empire cannot solve the national issue, even if it takes Serbia, it will carry a huge burden. If you think about it, well Stern himself certainly doesn't want to carry this kind of baggage.
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After chatting with his family, Ernst was not idle. At present, the possibility of war in Europe was extremely high, and East Africa naturally had to make final preparations for the possible outbreak of all-out war in Europe.
Once the war breaks out, a large amount of materials accumulated in East Africa will be continuously transported to Europe, such as arms, medicine, food, cotton, rubber and other strategic materials. "Since three years ago, we have stockpiled a large amount of war reserve materials in various ports. As long as a large-scale war breaks out in Europe, we can guarantee delivery to Europe in the shortest time." Sweet introduced to Ernst.
Under the guidance of Ernst, the East African government had long concluded that war would inevitably break out in Europe. Therefore, starting from the Third Five-Year Plan period, the government took the lead, and East African state-owned enterprises and other units joined forces. Intensified production and stockpiled a large amount of military and civilian supplies.
The hoarding of materials will inevitably lead to the scarcity of products in the East African market. This is also one of the important reasons for the liberalization of the market in East Africa. This method can be used to offset the commodity gap in the domestic market of East Africa and at the same time serve as a basis for the First World War. After the outbreak, East Africa was an important complement to the production of supplies for European exports.
"Currently, in the pharmaceutical field alone, we have stockpiled a large number of sanitary napkins, hemostatic cloths, anti-inflammatory drugs, vaccines and other products for battlefield environments, and have produced a batch of gas masks for possible chemical warfare."
Gas masks were a product that quickly became popular during World War I. The Allies and the Entente used various chemical agents to make poison gas, which had an important impact on the war. Therefore, under the guidance of Ernst, East Africa Many pig head gas masks were produced.
Although the industrial base of European countries is good, it is difficult to produce a large number of gas masks in a short period of time to deal with the sudden emergence of chemical weapons. In this way, East Africa can make a lot of money, in addition to having already manufactured In addition to the finished products, East Africa now has the largest gas mask production line in the world. As long as the two camps are willing to pay, these production lines can be continuously produced and transported to Europe.
In fact, in terms of medicines, there is still a lot that Sweet has not covered, such as controlled drugs, which are also huge in reserves in East Africa.
The so-called controlled drugs are some illegal drugs circulating in the European market today. Of course, these pharmaceuticals are legal in Europe and the United States, but they are controlled products in East Africa.
In previous lives, the so-called German supermen, Slavic supermen, and Anglo-Saxon soldiers were all addicted to drugs, which stimulated the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. The number of participants in the two camps was as high as tens of millions. How could such a huge market be possible in East Africa? give up.
The current production of these controlled drugs in East Africa can be said to be debt-financed production. After all, due to legal reasons, East Africa has a narrow market for such drugs, so if you want to expand the production line, you must endure an early unprofitable situation.
In this case, the East African government can only advance funds to entrust companies to expand production lines and large-scale production. Therefore, a large number of pharmaceutical companies in East Africa now use debt for production. Naturally, if they want to eliminate this debt, European and American soldiers need to bleed.
This is also an important reason why East Africa is eager for the outbreak of war. Many companies in East Africa are carrying out production activities under debt pressure. Currently, the foreign debt owed by East Africa has reached a huge amount of Rhine 15 billion, which is almost Over half a billion pounds.
East Africa has become the second largest debtor country in the world after the United States. The difference between East Africa and the United States is that these debts have been accumulated rapidly in just a few years.
In addition to private debt, the East African government used its own railways, roads, factories and other state-owned assets as collateral to borrow heavily from European countries. If these debts are not repaid, the people of East Africa will lose all their accumulated savings over the past few years.
This is also the main reason why Ernst was so excited after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. After all, although Ernst was not familiar with Archduke Ferdinand (Austro-Hungarian Empire), he was still a relative.
The assassination of Ferdinand means that the Austro-Hungarian Empire must respond, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire declares war on Serbia. Russia will definitely not be indifferent. If a war breaks out between Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it will inevitably trigger a chain of events throughout Europe. In response, Germany and France are bound to make the next move.
After all, the military competition in Europe has been going on for so long. It was originally prepared for a war. If a war was not launched, it would be very uncomfortable.
For example, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was the first to provoke war in its previous life. If it did not launch a war, the Habsburg royal family would also have to bear the pressure of its own economic crisis. At least the economic crisis in the United States has been transmitted to Europe. This was also the case in the Balkans before. One of the causes of the war was the bankruptcy of a large number of companies in the Near East, forcing the Balkan regime to launch a war to shift the conflict. Just as the pig industry, one of Serbia's pillar industries, went bankrupt due to this economic crisis.
(End of this chapter)