My Italian Chapter 661

When Italy and Austria were offering a lot of benefits to win over Bulgaria, Britain and France were doing the same thing, but their chosen target was not Bulgaria.

In the prime minister's office in Athens, the capital of Greece, the two ambassadors of Britain and France are talking with Prime Minister Venizelos.

Speaking of which, Prime Minister Venizelos is a man of the hour, born in Crete. His father was a revolutionary in Crete who was exiled to the island of Silo by the Turks.

Venizelos has lived there with his family since he was two years old, and later went to university in Athens, where he was a student leader. After obtaining a law degree, he returned to Crete and worked as a lawyer and journalist.

When Italy supported the Republic of Crete after the First Balkan War, this man readily joined as a member of Parliament. However, Venizelos soon discovered that the Italians had too much influence in Crete, affecting the situation of the Republic at all times.

This made Venizelos aggrieved, and then he organized a rebel army to try to overthrow this puppet-like republican government, but failed, and was captured by the Cretan police with weapons.

However, in view of the high prestige of Venizelos in Crete (after all, the son of the revolutionary leader Qian), the Crete government exiled him and could not return to the Republic of Crete without an amnesty.

Venizelos then went to Greece, where he had close contacts with the Military Association formed by young military officers. Later the Soldiers Association launched a revolution in Greece and invited Venizelos to lead it. At Venizelos' urging, the Military Association and King George amended the constitution. In the general election held in August 1908, Venizelos was elected as a member of Parliament and became Prime Minister of Greece in October.

After becoming prime minister, Venizelos continued to consolidate the secret alliance with Serbia, and later brought Romania in before the war broke out. Ever since, under the wonderful diplomacy of the prime minister, the fate of Bulgaria was decided by the three countries.

Everyone will know what happened next. Under the leadership of the prime minister, Greece acquired South Macedonia and many islands on the east side of the Aegean Sea, bringing Greece's strength one step closer.

In addition, Prime Minister Venizelos is a pro-British and French faction. After the war broke out, he called on Greece to join the Allied Powers. However, because the new king of Greece, Constantine I, had a relationship with the German royal family and sympathized with the allied countries, he rejected his proposal.

Now, the king of Greece is pro-German, and the prime minister is pro-British, which makes the diplomacy of the Greeks unpredictable.

However, there is a question mark about this question, because its pro-British tradition has not been lost, so London believes that Greece has a strong pro-British tradition. Although its king is pro-German, the prime minister who holds most of the power is pro-British, so Greece is It belongs to a country that is very easy to be drawn to the Allied Powers.

"Prime Minister Venizelos, as long as your country joins our alliance, then after defeating the allies, the southern Albania region, Cyprus Island, and the Italian Group of Twelve can all be owned by your country. In addition, your country can also annex the Republic of Crete , I believe that the Greeks on Crete are eagerly looking forward to the merger with Greece."

The British ambassador, Mr. Vilgas, is working hard to tell Prime Minister Venizelos the conditions offered by the Allied Powers.

To be fair, the conditions mentioned by the British ambassador are simply too good for Greece.

Although Prime Minister Venizelos was very moved by the conditions of the British ambassador, as an excellent prime minister, he certainly knew the importance of this choice. Not to mention that the current performance of the Allied Powers camp in this war is not very good.

"Thank you for your country's fancy to our country. Although our country is willing to join the alliance camp that punished and provoked this war, our country is not ready at present. I am sorry that this has disappointed your country."

Although Prime Minister Venizelos declined, since they came with a purpose, how could the two ambassadors give up.

I saw the French ambassador Durden speak. "Your Excellency Prime Minister, it doesn't matter if your country is not ready. If your country lacks weapons and funds, we can provide them for your country. In addition, it seems that the current alliance camp seems to have the upper hand on all fronts, but your country also needs to see , our great advantage in the camp of the Allied Powers. Although our country has lost a lot of territory, even Paris has been occupied by the Germans. But we are working hard to recapture Paris. The soldiers of our two countries are working hard for this. A small setback, but it doesn't affect the fact that we must take Paris.

In addition, regardless of the population, territory, and finances of the countries, our Allied camp is far more powerful than the Allied camp. To be fair, as long as our Allied camp does not fall in the first wave of attack, then the Allied camp has no chance at all. Because we can mobilize manpower from various colonies, even if these colonial armies fight less than one-third of Germany and Italy, but how many of them are we have more. Not to mention that we can still purchase materials from all over the world, but what about Deo?

They can only obtain it from their own country, at most from neighboring neutral countries, but we must know that many strategic materials in Europe are not available at all, and must be purchased from all over the world. For example, rubber, saltpeter ore and other important materials related to the outcome of the war, as well as weapons and ammunition. in addition…"

In the account of the French ambassador, the difficulties encountered by the Allied Powers are only temporary. With their huge population and supplies, they can pile up the alliance camp to death, but the time is slower.

After the French ambassador finished speaking, the British ambassador Vilgas continued. "If your country joins, then our country will immediately prepare 20 million pounds of funds for your country, and at the same time, we are willing to provide 15 million pounds of military supplies."

The British and French ambassadors' analysis and words of assistance made Prime Minister Venizelos already tempted. Just like what the French ambassador said, Britain, France and Russia are much stronger than Germany, Italy and Austria in every respect. Although Ottoman and Japan have also joined the two camps at present, it can also be seen from these two new countries that Japan is far stronger than Ottoman, and the military strength of the two parties is not comparable at all.

To join the Allied Powers, according to the conditions disclosed by the British and French ambassadors, Greece will increase its territory by one-third and its population by one-quarter. Opportunities like this don't come along all the time.

Prime Minister Venizelos, who had figured it out at this moment, immediately spoke. "I personally agree with the words of the two ambassadors, but joining your side requires the consent of His Majesty the King, and we have great difficulties in this regard."

At this time, Prime Minister Venizelos has expressed his agreement, and now the king is a little sad.

After hearing Prime Minister Venizelos' expression of willingness to join the Allied Powers, the two ambassadors also suppressed their inner excitement.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured that our two countries are willing to fully support you. I believe that a good king will not ignore the wishes of the people. If he must do this, the anger of the people will be enough to burn through the king's throne. Perhaps a A new king who can listen to the voice of the people is more worthy of the people's expectations."

Well, what he said about changing the king is so fresh and refined, it's no loss that he is proficient in business.

"Thank you for your support, I think His Majesty Ang will definitely consider it seriously."

Although these two can say whatever they want, Venizelos, who is the prime minister, cannot say that, but the meaning in his words has already shown that he agrees with the words of the two ambassadors.

Then if the pro-German King Constantine is obsessed with obsession, abdication and exile is the best ending for him.

As for why Britain and France did not hesitate to pay a large price to win over Greece, it was mainly because of the situation in the Mediterranean. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

The current situation in the Mediterranean has begun to deteriorate with the successive service of the Roman class. Although the Mediterranean United Fleet of the Allied Powers has various battleships from Britain, France and Japan, none of them is equipped with a 380mm caliber warship.

As for why the 380mm main gun is so important, because starting from the design of the battleship equipped with the 380mm main gun, the designers of the battleship no longer pursue the battleship to defend against the attack of its own artillery. This means that starting from the 380mm caliber, the firepower of the battleship is greater than the defense. This also caused that starting from the 380mm battleship, other battleships with a caliber weaker than it were not its opponents.

The imbalance of naval power has also worsened the situation in the Mediterranean. Before the British Queen Elizabeth class enters service, if you want to delay the enemy's seizure of the Suez Canal, you must expand your front. The addition of Greece will allow the Allies to distribute some of their power in the Mediterranean to Greece.

This is also destined to be the fate of Greece as cannon fodder, but after the victory of the war, Britain and France are also very willing to fulfill their promises. After all, Greece has played a sufficient role.

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