Bulgarian Empire

The current division of labor is that Ferdinand is responsible for digging scientists, and various government departments are responsible for digging engineers. After all, it is much more effective for ordinary engineers to talk about treatment with them than to talk about their ideals!

Now the Bulgarian government basically follows the principle of buying equipment in big countries and digging talents in small countries!

There are many small countries in the continent of Europe, and many small countries have been awesome in modern times, and they still have a lot of heritage. Historically, the United States developed by absorbing talents from these small countries in the early 20th century!

Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal and other countries are not short of senior engineers, warship designers, etc. Although they may not be very capable, they are enough for Bulgaria to lay the foundation.

In Ferdinand's view, industrial equipment for bargain hunting in the economic crisis is second, and the key is to attract talents. For this reason, Ferdinand also specially approved a "Bulgarian Talent Introduction Law".

As long as they are qualified talents, the treatment is completely favorable, and all the restrictions on naturalization are zero. Once they come, they can join unconditionally, and there is also a settling allowance that the government has not released!

It can be said that Ferdinand also took great pains in order to introduce talents!

Efforts and returns are directly proportional. By the end of 1903, the Bulgarian government had spent as much as 8 million pounds on the introduction of talents, and introduced more than 2,000 talents of various types.

Of course, most of them are ordinary engineers, and there are still very few senior talents with real weight, and there are only twenty or thirty people who can catch Ferdinand's eyes!

However, the price Ferdinand paid was worth it. By the end of 1904, the industrial equipment purchased from various countries were operating normally. The total industrial volume of the Kingdom of Bulgaria directly surpassed that of Belgium, equal to that of the Kingdom of Spain!

Of course, this number is not correct. The Kingdom of Spain is not in the right condition at all. It was first repaired by the Americans and lost a large area of ​​colonies. It has not yet recovered, and then caught up with the economic crisis, and its vitality was seriously injured!

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These are things for the future, and now Ferdinand is busy with domestic problems.

At the end of 19o1, at the annual Bulgarian immigration work conference.

Prime Minister Constantine reported to Ferdinand: "Your Majesty, the exchange of population with the Ottoman Empire has now been completed.

As of August this year, we have repatriated all the Bulgarians living in the Ottoman Empire, a total of more than 4.38 million people; and repatriated more than 2.74 million Turks to the Ottoman Empire.

These returnees have been scattered and resettled across the country by us, and their employment problems have basically been resolved so far.

From 1897 to now, we have spent a total of 860 million levs for this great immigration.

This also includes 120 million levs for the repatriation of the Turks. Due to the inaction of the Ottoman Empire, this part of the expenditure is also paid by us in advance!

Among the remaining expenses, immigration costs are about 260 million levs, employment placement and housing issues for immigrants, and living subsidies issued by the government total 480 million levs! "

This population figure was much different from previous estimates, but Ferdinand didn't think there was a problem. It was estimated using the population statistics of the Ottoman Empire before, and there was only an error of hundreds of thousands. This shows that the Ottoman officials in charge of this work are already very conscientious!

Ferdinand asked with concern: "How is the life of immigrants now?"

"Immigrants before 1901, their lives have entered a normalized state. Although the living standards of some of them are still lower than the national average, they have lived in the Ottoman Empire. Now there is no problem with eating enough. !” Constantine replied

That's right, the resettlement standard formulated by Ferdinand is based on having enough food as the baseline. As for the issue of making the family rich, it is not something he is considering now!

"Has the population count been completed?" Ferdinand asked again

Constantine thought for a while and said, "It's basically done,

But the exact figures are still being sorted out.

According to our preliminary judgment, as of the end of 19o1, the total population of Bulgaria was around 13.4 million.

It mainly includes: the original 4.3 million in Bulgaria; after the Balkan War, more than 7 million in the new territory, and 4 million immigrants from the Ottoman Empire, as well as the natural increase of the population. Of course, we also migrated 300 How many people.

After the Balkan War, the total population of our country was 11.43 million. After the war, we sent 360,000 people to the Kingdom of Montenegro, and repatriated more than 2.74 million people to the Ottoman Empire.

So subtract the 3.1 million population, but we also received 4.38 million immigrants from the Ottoman Empire.

In addition to the natural increase of the population, in the four years from 1897 to the present, our new population is about 700,000.

According to preliminary calculations, our current total population is about 13.39 million. Of course, the actual situation may vary, but the total error will not exceed 50,000! "

Ferdinand nodded in satisfaction. This population figure has reached his preliminary expectation. As long as this part of the population is digested, Bulgaria's strength will definitely undergo earth-shaking changes!

Of course, it will take time to really digest all this. On the surface, the immigrants from the Ottoman Empire are all the main ethnic group - Bulgarians, which is easy to digest!

In fact, how many other ethnic groups have been mixed in, no one can tell!

In addition, in the last census, there were 1.8 million Bulgarians in the Balkans. Ferdinand could roughly estimate how much water there was in it, and a 40% discount would be about the same.

Well, on the surface, it looks like Bulgaria has a population of more than 13 million, with more than 10 million Bulgarians alone. The main ethnic group accounts for the vast majority, and the population ratio is very healthy.

Ferdinand is sure that this number is the result of water injection after water injection. If there are seven or eight layers of original goods, thank God!

But if you know it, you know, Ferdinand absolutely didn't mean to expose it, anyway, if you tell too many lies, it will become the truth. After ten or twenty years, a new generation grows up, and they are the real Bulgarians!

Ferdinand nodded and said: "Well! The next step is to issue new ID cards to the whole country. In principle, we follow the principle of voluntary registration of ethnic groups!

Governments at all levels must be prepared for this work. They must go deep into every village and count the ethnic composition of our country as accurately as possible. This is related to the long-term stability of Bulgaria in the future! "

Well, Ferdinand is going to be Bulgarized again. According to the current classification standard in the "History of Bulgarian National Origins", there are really very few people in Bulgaria who do not belong to the Great Bulgarian family!

Sending government officials deep into the countryside is of course doing brainwashing work. First instill in the people the concept that everyone is Bulgarian. The reason why there are multiple ethnic groups is that the Ottoman Empire created it for the convenience of rule!

Anyway, ordinary people in this era are so foolish, they treat novels as history, and they can't figure out whether it's true or not. Not to mention them, even some historians have been tricked into it!

"Yes!" Constantine replied affirmatively

Everyone now supports Ferdinand's plan to establish a large Bulgarian family. The endless national uprisings in the Ottoman Empire are a perfect negative example!

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