Bulgarian Empire

The Bulgarian government, which has always been efficient, immediately organized an expert group to conduct on-the-spot surveys after the railway project was approved. In addition to terrain and landforms, humanities, economy, and future development directions must also be considered.

You can't put the train station hundreds of miles away from the city, can you? If that's the case, the railway will also drive the regional economy of the fart, and the light transfer of materials will make people collapse!

Of course, Bulgaria does not have much historical burden in this regard. Except for the other regions of the Balkan Peninsula, cities are to be rebuilt. In terms of site selection, you can also take care of each other. If you don’t need railways, you must give in to the cities. Artificially increase railway construction cost!

In the beginning of the 20th century, the biggest problems in building railways were financial resources, material resources, and manpower. Now the Ministry of Communications' problem is naturally not a matter of money, nor is it a problem of material resources. Domestic steel companies are expanding production capacity, and meeting demand is not a problem.

Manpower is troublesome. Two months ago, the Bulgarian government was still troubled by the refugee problem. Now the refugee camps have been evacuated, and major companies have joined the war of robbing people. The direct result is that the average wage in Bulgaria has risen. twenty percent.

Among them, agricultural companies and railway companies are the most vicious. Agricultural companies want to open up wasteland. Even if they adopt mechanized farming technology, they suddenly increase tens of millions of hectares of land, and labor is still indispensable!

Not to mention the railway companies, they have a lot of work, and the new round of large railway projects has not yet started, but they can build roads?

Who says you can't make money building roads? As long as a few toll stations are built, the future levs will come rolling in. They still have this investment vision!

Naturally, this high road cannot be the high road in the later period. It is mainly made of cement road, and cars can run a hundred and eighty yards on it. It is already a proper high road in this era.

Now the railway company is lobbying the government to open the toll station, and the Ministry of Communications naturally supports it, but the cabinet has not yet made up its mind, mainly because of traditional issues.

Since ancient times, building bridges and paving roads has been for public welfare. Now that the fees are suddenly changed, everyone is afraid of causing adverse social impacts, so they are temporarily stuck.

However, with the increase of private cars in Bulgaria, future charges are inevitable. The question is how to charge?

Now someone in the government has put forward another proposal, which is to let capitalists pay for road repairs, and then authorize them to build gas stations on both sides of the road.

In this way, the government does not need to invest heavily, and tolls can also be cancelled, but the fuel fee will also rise!

Well, in this era, there are only a few hundred thousand private cars in Bulgaria, and the drivers are all local tyrants. It doesn't matter if the price is high or low. They can afford a car anyway, and they don't care about the small cost.

On this issue, Ferdinand was also a little vacillating. The government funded the construction of high roads, so tolls are inevitable, otherwise the post-maintenance alone will make people collapse.

Moreover, toll stations are also a headache, how should they be regulated? In this day and age, there are no computers, no monitoring, and everything has to be done manually. If you want to do something small, how do you check it?

Whether a thousand cars pass through or only a hundred cars pass through every day, this question can only be counted by manpower. Whether you can make money in the end depends on the moral integrity of these front-line personnel!

It is easy to ask the capitalists to pay for it, but it is estimated that everyone rushes to build it in a prosperous area, and no one cares about the poor and remote areas.

Unless it is taken away in a package, a section of road in remote mountainous areas must be added to build a section of main road between cities.

It's just that in this way, it is estimated that Ferdinand can only take over the offer by himself, and there is not enough temptation to benefit!

In 1918, you told the capitalists that in the future Bulgaria would be able to use cars in every household, and they would definitely tell you: that is the future.

Investing in road construction throughout Bulgaria is a pure loss for at least the first two decades. It is estimated that no capitalist in Bulgaria has been able to withstand losses for such a long time!

certainly,

If it is limited to the Balkan Peninsula, then it will be no problem. If you invest billions of levs, when the auto industry explodes, capitalists can make money back through other channels.

It seems that the auto industry has already begun to exert its strength. The number of cars owned by Bulgarian citizens is growing rapidly. There is no problem at all if it exceeds one million vehicles within five years and five million vehicles within ten years.

It's a pity that 90% of these cars are concentrated in the Balkan Peninsula. Is it too early for the Asia Minor Peninsula to develop?

Then this issue was temporarily put on hold until the cabinet organizes professionals to conduct a comprehensive assessment and come up with the results.

The railway company is still continuing to repair their roads, even if it authorizes the gas station franchise in the future, it will not have any impact. They can also choose to sell or build a gas station. Although it is not as fast as a toll station, it is still a very profitable investment.

The prerequisite is that the roads they are building now are all in the Balkan Peninsula, and the main roads are still main roads. Many roads have had their subgrade done years ago and are now just adding concrete to the surface.

At the moment of the dispute over high road tolls, Ferdinand has quietly bought out the domestic oil exploration rights. Oil and gas exploration rights.

Oil in this era is worthless. In order to deceive people, Ferdinand threw a few smoke bombs before and after the end of the world war.

For example: From September to December 1917, the South American Petroleum Company, a subsidiary of the British Consolidated Mining Company, in a short period of three months, respectively, in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela around Lake Maracaibo and in Guarico and Anso There are large oil fields in the three states of Atji and Monagas.

Before Christmas in 1918, the South American Petroleum Company also discovered a large oil field in the Ecuadorian Amazon plain. Immediately after the French Vedel Petroleum Company, another oil field was discovered in Tunisia.

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In just half a year, the number of oil fields discovered in the world has exceeded 20, and the oil resources that were originally in short supply have suddenly become worthless.

Of course, the oil has not yet been produced, so the international crude oil price has dropped by less than 20%, and there is no avalanche.

But capital is no longer so optimistic about oil. No matter how important it is, as long as the quantity is large, the price will definitely not go up.

And South America has become the focus, the world's largest oil producing areas are now gathered in South America, and the conflict of interests between Britain and the United States in South America has become increasingly fierce.

Taking this opportunity, Ferdinand also listed the South American Petroleum Company in London, carrying the banner of the world's largest oil company, and quickly gained popularity.

The capitalists in London are still celebrating. They have mastered the most oil resources in the world, which means that they have already occupied a dominant position in the new round of energy revolution.

After diverting the attention of international capital, the auction of Bulgaria's oil exploration rights became indifferent, and the exploration costs of tens of millions of levs were undoubtedly an astronomical figure for Bulgaria's local capitalists. Ferdinand's waistcoat melee.

After doing all this, Ferdinand began to sit back and watch the struggle between the American Petroleum Group and the British Petroleum Group.

Of course, the strength of the oil group in this era is not that great, and the struggle between them is not enough to lead to a war.

But with the passage of time, the struggle between the two sides is also gradually escalating. The consortiums that manipulate the oil group behind the scenes have gradually moved to the foreground. The conflict between Britain and the United States escalated at the end of 1918.

Under the influence of capital, the London government has officially listed the Americans as the number one enemy; and the number one enemy of the Washington government has always been the British!

Although the final outcome of the Anglo-American oil dispute has not yet come out, Ferdinand also knew that the British would win this time, which was determined by the comprehensive strength of both sides.

In this era, John Bull is still number one in the world. With their means of attracting allies, the Americans have no way to resist, unless they also learn from the Germans and challenge the whole world.

In order to resolve the unfavorable diplomatic situation, the Americans are plotting to split up the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and at the same time trying to win over France and France in an attempt to disintegrate the Triple Entente between Britain, France and France.

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Transport Minister Tom Ivanov said cautiously: "Your Excellency, this is the preliminary railway plan of our Ministry of Transport. If the cabinet approves, we can start construction next month!"

Constantine took the document, scanned it quickly, and asked with a frown, "How do you solve the labor problem? There is a labor gap of up to 500,000. Do you want to compete with other domestic industries?"

"Stealing people" is something that the Bulgarian government is very taboo about. It cannot disrupt the order of other industries for the sake of the development of one industry and affect the overall development.

The Minister of Transport immediately explained: "Of course not. How could our Ministry of Transport be so blind to the overall situation? We have actually solved the problem of labor force!

As soon as our big railway plan was made public, some capitalists wanted to contract our railway project. Of course their request was rejected by us, but later someone proposed to provide us with labor services.

Our Ministry of Communications and the railway company have studied that as long as we strengthen the supervision of quality, even if they are asked to provide labor services, it will not affect the quality of the railway.

We have already inquired about the source of their labor, and most of them are from overseas. As for the specific situation, as long as it does not violate our laws, I don't think it will be a problem! "

Although he didn't say it clearly, Constantine also knew that the origin of these laborers was not so normal, but what did it matter to him?

The international capitalists in this era have a fart morality, cheating and abducting to the extreme, even if the government wants to supervise, it can't control it!

And this kind of labor subcontracting is not the first time it has appeared, but in order to prevent foreign workers from impacting the domestic human resource market, it was severely cracked down by the government and did not form a scale.

But now that Bulgaria's labor force is seriously lacking, it is inevitable to open a hole, and the Ministry of Communications has just stepped forward.

Constantine hesitated for a moment and said: "Well! But you still need to strengthen supervision. I don't care how these people are fooled by the capitalists, but when they arrive in Bulgaria, they must abide by our laws and must not let them do whatever they want. Presumptuous!

You should know how much trouble this kind of thing will cause us if it spreads! "

That's right, it can't spread! In other words, domestic capitalists should not be allowed to follow suit. If they all recruit a group of outsourced workers and squeeze them out unscrupulously, what will happen to the employment of Bulgarians?

With cheaper labor, the capitalists are not stupid, so they naturally know how to choose, and what follows is to lower the domestic labor wages, which will inevitably lead to the escalation of the contradiction between the domestic working class and the bourgeoisie, and intensify social contradiction.

The Minister of Transportation's face changed drastically. Thinking about the terrible consequences, his scalp became numb. If they are not good, they will become sinners in Bulgaria.

As for the worst case, it will definitely not happen. The Bulgarian government will inevitably intervene forcefully, but this intervention is not without cost. It will be difficult to eliminate the intensified class conflicts.

"Your Majesty, rest assured that none of these foreign workers will appear in the Balkan Peninsula. Our Ministry of Communications will send them to more remote areas to eliminate the possibility of hidden dangers!" Transport Secretary Tom assured

This is the easiest and most effective way! The transportation and communication in this era are not so convenient, and there is no Internet transmission, and the events that happened in Asia Minor Peninsula will spread to the Balkans.

As for the influence, as long as it doesn't happen by your side, everyone will just think it's hearsay and be skeptical.

Coupled with the government's crackdown, capitalists are not outlaws, so how could they all take risks?

As long as you restrain yourself from the beginning, things will be easy later on. The National People's Congress is blindly obedient. As long as everyone abides by the rules, the latecomers will naturally follow suit!

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