Vol 5 Chapter 130: , Preparing for the wedding

A genius remembers this site address in one second: (Vertex Chinese), the fastest update! No ads!? There were so many things in 1927. Ferdinand was a little overwhelmed. The biggest good news should be his two Both sons are engaged.
At his request, Boris quickly married the Danish royal family before Christmas, and was engaged to Princess Caroline Mathilde, the daughter of Prince Harald and Princess Helena. (Granddaughter of former Danish King Frederick VIII)
One-third of the biggest trouble was solved, Ferdinand was in a better mood. After Boris was engaged, even Queen Xenia's brows stretched out.
Next comes the question of the wedding. In order to hurry up, Ferdinand put the wedding of the eldest son and the second son in February, and the wedding preparation is very tight.
Originally, every move of the royal family will be paid attention to by the outside world. What's more, is this still the prince's wedding?
Little Ferdinand is the crown prince of Bulgaria. His wedding involves more eyes.
Originally, Ferdinand didn't want to do this, but the Grand Duchy of Finland can't wait? People's telegrams for three days and two days can't keep them waiting, right?
Whether the Finnish people really support Boris as the Grand Duke, Ferdinand still doesn't know, at least the Finnish government really needs this as the new Duke.
It is said that since the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Finland, they have not received enough salary, have no experience in governing, and do not know how to deal with financial problems, and they have suffered from banditry.
This kind of pressure is not something ordinary people can bear. The Grand Duchy of Finland has changed two temporary cabinets, but still hasn't shouted. The current prime minister doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, so he urges Boris to take office every day.
As for the ability of the new grand prince, he didn't care anymore, at least Boris could solve the threat of bandits and the salary issue.
Finland's financial crisis is not serious. It is nothing more than a salary of tens of thousands of pounds owed, plus more than a hundred thousand pounds of operating funds, and you can almost overcome the immediate difficulties.
This problem was directly ignored by Ferdinand. With such a small problem, Boris could solve it by selling wood.
The most urgent thing is to let Boris get married soon, otherwise, if they go to Finland, Ferdinand doubts their ability to undertake this marriage.
In order not to shame Boris, the wedding can only be advanced. Even the wedding with Little Ferdinand has been advanced. You can't let your brother get married first, right?
Holding a wedding in Bulgaria can also provide a large sum of money for Boris Province. The guard of honor and venue facilities are readily available, including a series of receptions, and the Bulgarian government will do it for them.
With the current financial resources of the Finnish government, it is estimated that their financial income for two to three years is not necessarily certain for this expenditure. Ferdinand has a deep understanding of this kind of day.
When he married a Russian princess, the cabinet gritted his teeth and used money to support the scene. In the end, he posted a sum of money in, otherwise it would not be so beautiful.
Without money, naturally you can only lower the grade. Most of the weddings of European aristocrats are not so luxurious, and Ferdinand is not a person who pursues luxury.
Mainly because of political needs, the size of the political marriage wedding also shows how much you attach importance to this marriage, and behind the two countries' diplomatic relations.
When the Bulgarian government had no money, it is different now. No matter how high the specifications are, the cost is nothing more than tens of millions of Levs, which is equivalent to only 1.8 million pounds.
Moreover, the wedding this time is reduced, and Europe also has a set of rules. Different identities are associated with different etiquette rules.
Queen Senja is the Russian imperial princess and the third-in-line successor to the Russian Empire. The Russian-Russian Alliance has just been established, and there are too many political factors involved.
Ferdinand played to the highest standards. If the Russian Empire is recognized as the heir to Eastern Rome, there would be no problem with the etiquette rules.
Now little Ferdinand’s expenses will be much less. Bulgaria doesn’t need to show off his military force at this time. He naturally doesn’t need to learn from Ferdinand’s trekking through the mountains and rivers with the army to meet his relatives. This leaves more than half of the expenses.
After calculating, Ferdinand was surprised to find that the total cost of the wedding of the two sons this time was less than half of what he had originally.
Now we can meet each other day and night, and the plane can go directly to the Netherlands and Denmark from Sofia, which saves the most expenses.
"Senia, how are you preparing, do you need help?" Ferdinand asked thoughtfully
"Are you sure you have time to help?" Xenia asked back
"Within two hours, I don't have any arrangements! It's my son's marriage, I always need to do something!" Ferdinand said calmly
Handing over all the affairs to Xenia, just as when he was married back then, everything was handled by his mother, and his irresponsible father died N years in advance.
Ferdinand was still a little embarrassed. Originally, he was going to leave all these things to his sons. Unfortunately, in this regard, women are always more talented than men.
In the end, Xenia took over the task, and the little Ferdinand brothers had already avoided far away.
"Well, then you are responsible for posting the invitation!" Queen Xenia thought for a while and said
"Don't worry about this, the palace minister will take care of all this, even if it is missed, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be responsible for making it up in time!" Ferdinand said indifferently.
"But, don't you feel more fulfilling to participate in your son's wedding?" Queen Xenia asked
"Well then, I am responsible for urging them to complete it!"
After thinking about it, Ferdinand found a job that suits him.
Do it yourself? Ferdinand never had any illusions about his hands-on ability.
With so many relatives and friends, if the time comes, wouldn’t it be embarrassing to make a mistake?
The number of duplicate names among European nobles is quite large. If you don't add the full name, it is not always clear who is who Ferdinand is.
Among other things, there are as many as twelve nobles above the ducal family named Ferdinand, eight are named George and nine are named William.
With so many messy names together, it would be good if you don't get dizzy. For non-professionals, who can tell?
"Ferdinand, this really suits your style. This is what you often say to solve the problem with your mouth. Try not to do it, right?" Queen Xenia thought for a while.
"You can understand this! But what about Little Ferdinand and others? Didn't I ask them to help you?" Ferdinand asked in confusion.
"I went to train the guard of honor!" Queen Xenia thought for a while and said
"My dear, how did you accomplish so much work?" Ferdinand asked suspiciously
"It's not a problem you said can be solved with your mouth, so try not to do it?
All have been handed over to the court etiquette team, I am responsible for proposing amendments and checking for errors! "Queen Xenia replied with a smile
"Very good!" Ferdinand commented
"Ferdinand, how's the preparations going on outside? I'm just in charge of the palace. How did you arrange the decoration outside the palace?" Queen Xenia asked concerned.
"That's the cabinet's job, they will handle all this, and it's still early, Sofia is probably still being renovated at this time!" Ferdinand thought for a while and said
The so-called refurbishment is not to demolish and rebuild, but to repair the damaged building once, and remove the irreparable ones directly, and repaint the old walls.
Most of these things were carried out spontaneously by the people, and there was no compulsion. What the king did was incompetent. Just look at the actions of the people outside.
The wedding of Little Ferdinand is relatively simple. The Bulgarian palace has been expanded once, enough to accommodate tens of thousands of guests, so there is no need to go to the church this time.
In this era, religion must give concessions to the secular kingship. For this marriage, Ferdinand invited the Pope to Rome to personally bless the two couples.
Britain and France still have a role in harming Italy. At least it will make the papal state of Rome succumb to the secular world, otherwise the Pope of Rome will not give such face.
Of course, if you don’t give in, it’s hard to say whether the Papal State of Rome still exists.
Who will let the British who control this area believe in Protestantism?
John Bull did nothing else, but guided the refugees to the Vatican. After tens of thousands of refugees entered the Papal State, the Holy See immediately became obedient.
No more bluffing, accusing the British of atrocities in Italy. The Pope who called on Christians all over the world to condemn the atrocities of the British has also returned to the Lord's embrace.
"Ok!"
"By the way, Ferdinand, how did you arrange the wedding reception?
I won't be like you again, take an army to meet you! "Queen Xenia asked with curious eyes.
"Of course not, but it's actually the same.
When I married you back then, I brought the army. This time, the two boys can bring the air force. This is much faster! "Ferdinand joked.
"Oh, this is also true. Airplanes are much faster than horseback riding. You had tossed with cavalry for several months, and it was not romantic at all!" Xenia thought for a while.
Ferdinand was silent for a while, and sure enough, men and women focused on different things.
"Oops!" Ferdinand exclaimed
"What's the matter?" Xenia asked with concern
"I forgot to coordinate with the Dutch royal family and the Danish royal family. I am afraid that they may not have such a large airport!" Ferdinand frowned and said
No way, there are no big airplanes in this era, and the passenger capacity of each airplane is very limited. At present, most of the civilian airliners in Bulgaria can only carry more than 20 people.
Even Ferdinand’s special plane can only carry more than forty passengers. In this era, everyone still pays attention to ostentation. No matter how simple it is, there are always thousands of people, right?
In addition to the air force formation, there are at least hundreds of planes. This landing site is not small, and it really needs to be coordinated in advance, otherwise it will be too late if the time comes?
"My dear, it doesn't matter, I think someone will consider this question for you!" Xenia said with a slight smile
"Your Majesty, Queen, a telegram from the Dutch royal family. They are asking about the number of people who will meet the family. They should make arrangements in advance!" The maid said before the two of them.
"Call back and tell them that there are not many people, there are only 2,186 people, let them prepare a docking site for 230 planes!" Ferdinand pretended to be forced.
The number of people is really not that large, even guards, entourage, and etiquette brigade, this is already the most basic configuration.
After all, face is still necessary. Bring a flying group to escort, isn't this too much?
Not sending an air division, this is already Ferdinand considering the actual situation, as the world's largest air force power, Bulgaria is the most lack of aircraft.
There are more than 3,200 aircraft of various types in active service in the Air Force. The most common organization: an Air Force combat division has three regiments, each regiment has four flying groups, and each flying group has 24 aircraft.
A flying regiment, but 96 fighter jets, this scale is really not that big.
It is important to know that the colony’s army and the colonial government are equipped with aircraft in Bulgaria. If all these aircraft are added up, it is estimated that the total number will exceed 20,000.
It's completely the rhythm of using airplanes as cars, but in the eyes of the Bulgarian government, they may have not paid attention to this problem.
Most of the airplanes equipped in the colonies were left over after the First World War. In terms of cost, the price of cars on the market was not much different.
The price of automobile fuel sold on the market is much higher than the aviation fuel purchased by the military. In terms of cost, flying a plane is not much higher than driving a car.
(Remarks: Refer to domestic aviation kerosene and gasoline prices. At present, the price of aviation kerosene is only five or six thousand per ton. Gasoline is already over 10,000 per ton. In the international market, gasoline is also slightly more expensive in terms of tonnage)
Anyway, gas stations now sell high-priced oil, which is known to and supported by all Bulgarians. Of course, the government has to use this high-priced oil as well.
Since the cost gap is small, in a sparsely populated colony, more advanced tools can naturally be used!
"Ferdinand, isn't this bad?" Queen Xenia said hesitantly
"What's the matter?" Ferdinand asked suspiciously
"Just such a small number of people, would Little Ferdinand have any objections? Know that compared with the scene when we were married, he is less than one-tenth? Does he think that we don't pay enough attention? "Queen Xenia said hesitantly
"Oh, Xenia, this is a different nature! The political issues you know are very complicated. You don't like contact for a while, and you don't know it clearly for a while.
You have to know that if we make the momentum too much~EbookFREE.me~ then the Dutch royal family must also be upgraded accordingly, which is also a good thing.
But the Dutch government is not financially very good now, can they allocate funds? If the government refuses to pay, then the royal family will have to pay for it, you know! "Ferdinand thought for a while and said
You have to think about the feelings of the other party if you want to go back to acting hard?
According to Ferdinand’s plan, after excluding labor costs, the budget should be controlled within two million levs, so that everyone can accept it, and no one will lose face.
After all, the current Kingdom of the Netherlands cannot be compared with the Russian empire in its heyday. If the scale becomes bigger, what do you let them use as a dowry?
Not everyone can be like the tsarist government, with the title of a grand duke, a gift of minerals, and a large sum of money every year.
Although the Russian Civil War broke out, Xenia gave up this income. The income of nearly one million levs every year, after so many decades, is not a small figure.
"Okay, then I can only wrong the little Ferdinand, I will say it, no matter what, I must also consider the other person's feelings!" Xenia thought for a while and said
"Ok!"
Ferdinand nodded. Compared with later generations, the European royal family of this era is still very happy. As long as the country is prosperous, basically weddings and funerals will be paid for by the government.
Naturally, it can be luxurious. In future generations, the government has limited funding, and even needs to pay for it. Many unnecessary etiquettes can be saved.
The original luxury weddings have gradually become ordinary, and there is not even the luxury of some of the rich.
This problem naturally does not exist in Bulgaria. The expenditure of several million levs does not need to enter the Congress. This problem has long been considered in the special funds reserved by the government.
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