Bulgarian Empire

Chapter 81: Austro-Hungarian Bank

This sudden marriage was not expected but made sense.

In Europe, noble marriages are based on the proper family and place great value on lineage. In this way, the range of options is already very small. If political factors are taken into account, the choice will become even more limited.

History shows that Ferdinand's original owner would not have waited until 1893 to marry Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of Duke Roberto I of Parma and Princess Maria Pia of the Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Grand Duchess Xenia was married to her cousin, Grand Duke Alexander, in 1894, in order not to destroy the noble lineage. (There is also a not very reliable theory that Alexander III was already sick and dying at that time, so he married his daughter in a hurry!)

This world is no different and Ferdinand's lifetime event is still on hold. Even though Princess Clmentine also made a lot of efforts before, in the end, they all gave up. They cannot throw the honor of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Kohry family away.

Ferdinand's marriage is a personal matter and involves the family's honor. There is no proper candidate for it, and many of the great nobles of Europe have come to this.

It's not that they don't want to get married earlier. The problem is that the range of options is too small. It is where lineage is a bigger factor than politics.

They found a similar case with Grand Duchess Xenia. In history, due to the poor diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Russia at the time, the two were naturally not in the picture.

After Ferdinand traversed, the butterfly effect under the two countries improved relations with each other.

There were complex ties between European aristocrats. Almost all of the major nobles were united by marriage. For example, Ferdinand's cousin Edward VII's wife and Alexander III's wife, Empress Maria Feodorovna, were sisters by marriage.

And that's not all. Anyway, the marriages between European aristocrats were a mess. Ferdinand also knew his mother, Princess Clmentine, the French princess and Empress Maria Feodorovna were also cousins. They were on good terms with each other and then logically hooked up.

(I am sorry to say that the author does not know how to figure out how to calculate the three or four kinds of different answers that are less, more than push a few generations to get a dozen answers also.)

The two sides are well-matched, and they are now allies in politics. Under normal conditions, they are only waiting for Ferdinand's trip to St. Petersburg to be settled.

However, these are not yet urgent. Ferdinand will have to go now to solve the domestic problems. There is still a lot of trouble in Bulgaria. It sparked the economic crisis in advance, and the government is dealing with the measures in place to weaken the damage, but the aftermath is still not missing.

In contrast to the case of the Balkan countries, Ferdinand was still grateful.

Bulgaria was a Russian sphere of influence until 1886 when the Russian capital held a strong place. But then, during the period of Stambolov's government, when Russian-Bulgarian relations broke down and even broke off their diplomatic ties, they began to attract massive the British, Austro-Hungarian and German capital. They began to suppress Russian capital like crazy, and by the time of Ferdinand, it was no longer the same.

It is too much to apply this to Bulgaria. A small Bulgaria can not afford to attract the prying eyes of the big capitalists and a few bank offices plus a bunch of buyers.

Ferdinand has long taken out the buyer through the knife. Well, there's still the leaky ones who are busy getting over the case!

It is a pity that Bulgaria is now a legalized society. Unless one can prove that one was wrongly accused, there is no way to reverse the case.

Since the day Ferdinand has declared the dismissal, except for the dead, the truly vindicated the rest of the real ones is rare. As for the return of assets, could you show me the proof?

The accounts of the family that they took at the time were destroyed in an accident long ago. Except for a few estates sent back, the rest of the assets are going to the Stambolov government to prove it!

Do you want to make a comeback without money? Do you really think that the upstart capitalists who Ferdinand beat up are not capable of handling a few fish?

However, the banks are getting nasty. Previous governments have pledged a lot of sovereign loans one after another. Now that the economic crisis has broken out, the major banks are scaling back their funds to cope with the possible run outbreak in their home countries.

However, if Ferdinand did not take the chance to drop all the stones, it would be a waste of time to traverse. The great powers have always been the object of the work of the intelligence services of the many points. It is now a turn for Hoover to perform.

Ferdinand always believed in 'You have to taste the food one bite at a time! Due to geopolitics, the Bulgarian financial capital is currently led by Britain and Austria. Russia followed it (forgive them. With Russia's poor financial status, it would be nice to keep their influence. Their own family is still short of money?), Germany has just entered not long ago.

During Stambolov's government, Bulgaria's customs duties were mortgaged to the British, and mineral resources were mostly mortgaged to Austria-Hungary.

This multiple-choice problem is easy to do and persistent to find the weak ones to pinch. The British Empire's financial system is now not shaken by a small economic crisis. In contrast, the Austro-Hungarian financial system is much worse. There are not enough colonies to release the flood. The key is too closely linked to the German economy, which is more affected by the economic crisis.

This time, the target is much smaller, just a bank - the Austro-Hungarian Bank. It is clear from the name that this bank is not simple.

Austro-Hungarian Bank was the predecessor to the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, founded in 1816 and converted to Austro-Hungarian Bank in 1878. (Make no mistake, it is still a privately owned bank; it became an Austrian state-owned bank only after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary.)

In a secret room in Vienna, Hoover called a meeting of several heads of intelligence, which could also be described as a set of tasks.

"Your mission this time is simple: to spread the news that the Austro-Hungarian Bank is going bankrupt. Here is the information, there is truth and lies, just announce it as if it were true!" said Hoover.

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They soon published in a Viennese street newspaper that the Austro-Hungarian Bank had offered a loan of 50 million Kroner to the Serbian government three months earlier, and the news was true! However, followed by the editor's bold theory: Serbia is about to go bankrupt in the economic crisis, and they may not return this loan!

It caused uproar in Vienna at once. Fifty million Kroner was not a small sum. It was close to the annual customs revenue of Hungary.

People are talking about the Austro-Hungarian Bank is going to be in big trouble. Such a huge sum of money is enough to break its reputation.

However, this did not raise the concern of the top management of the Austro-Hungarian Bank at once. It is true that nominally they issued a loan of 50 million Kroner.

Such a good deal of money could not be eaten by the Austro-Hungarian Bank alone. In fact, they granted the loan together with forming a consortium of banks.

And the loan at that time was first deducted with interest and then paid out as a batch. Only half of it has been issued now. With a large portion of this money, which in turn was used by Serbia to purchase weapons and equipment in Austria-Hungary, the funds have been partially returned. There is not much cash that has been given out.