Romanian Eagle

"Your Majesty, this is our No. 3 production workshop. The workshop is 350 meters long, 105 meters wide, and has 1,200 production workers. It can produce 850 50-horsepower parallel bar tractors per month, which is just one of our main production tractors. workshop."

Under the introduction of the factory manager Sodaval, Eder watched the extremely busy workers in the workshop working on the assembly line. Pieces of parts were gradually integrated together, and slowly it became a tractor off the assembly line.

And Edel can also see that this workshop has only been cleaned once before, otherwise why the corners and ceilings are so clean. After coming out to inspect a lot, Edel has the experience to identify those that were specially prepared. But fortunately, the Second Machinery Factory was only cleaning, and did not make any other actions, which were still within the scope of Edel.

Edel was very interested in working on the assembly line on the tractor, and he couldn't help but grabbed a worker and asked.

"How many years have you been here?"

Seeing King Eder standing in front of him, the worker stammered and answered with a flushed face. "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, I...I've been...here...for four years."

Seeing this unspeakable worker, Edel patted his shoulder lovingly. "Don't be nervous, just treat me as an employee in the factory."

Eder said, how could the employee think that way. However, Edel's words made him recover a lot, at least the words can be said neatly.

"What's your name?"

"Your Majesty, my name is Ramf, and I come from Cluj."

"How many people are there in the family?"

"There are my wife and I, three children and my parents at home, a total of seven people."

"So is the income more than enough to live at home?"

"In addition to my wife's income, it is more than enough to support the family and the children to go to school."

Edel's conversation with this Ramf gave him a preliminary understanding of the life of ordinary people in the current wartime situation. Of course, it was impossible for Edel to make this decision by asking only one person. He asked several people in a row, and it was all like this.

Moreover, in Eder's inquiry, these people generally received a monthly income of 260-380 lei in the factory, which was only considered an upper-middle level among their relatives and friends. This gave Eder a general understanding of the current income level of the Romanian people.

In general, the income level of Romanian people is considered to be at the middle level in Europe.

But in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, that's fine.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with Romania's industrialization for many years. Through various tricks and robberies over the years, Romania still has to give back to the public to some extent.

Of course, it was also affected by the gold standard, and the currency lei did not depreciate much.

At the end of Edel's visit to production workshop No. 3, after spending more than half an hour visiting, the director of Sodaval asked. "Your Majesty, do you need to see the tank production workshop?"

Since Sodaval, the director of the factory, asked this question, how could Edel not visit? Besides, tank production is very important for the army to form an armored force, and Edel naturally needs to go and see it in person.

"Lead the way ahead."

Following Edel's words, the group came to the No. 3 production workshop and walked to the No. 1 workshop for the production of tanks. On the way, the director of Sodaval was constantly introducing the specific situation.

"At present, the No. 1 workshop has our strongest skilled workers, whose average working age is more than 5 years. Among them, there are 2 senior engineers, 11 intermediate engineers, and 76 junior engineers. At present, the first production workshop occupies the tank production in the factory. Half of the number, mainly producing the R20 tanks that are urgently needed by the current troops."

In the introduction of Sodaval, they came to the No. 1 production workshop. The workshop is separated from other workshops, and there are soldiers guarding it, and there are soldiers who are holding the wolf dog to patrol back and forth. It can be seen that the defense is still very tight.

For their group, the soldiers naturally wouldn't check, and Edel's face alone was the best pass.

"Report to Your Majesty, Lviv Guard Division 2nd Regiment 1st Battalion 2nd Company, ordered to protect the factory."

When Edel arrived at the gate of workshop No. 1, a company commander with the rank of captain saluted and reported to him loudly.

"Hi Captain, hello, thank you for your dedication to the kingdom. The people will not forget your credit."

Edel is very experienced in how to deal with soldiers, and one sentence made the blood boiled by the captain and officer.

Then Edel entered the workshop under the leadership of Sodaval.

As soon as he entered the workshop, Edel felt the difference. In the entire workshop, the sound of welding and cutting has never been interrupted, and the harsh noise has never subsided for a moment.

After Edel took the earmuffs handed by Sodaval and put them on, he listened to the loud introduction of the factory manager.

"Your Majesty, due to the special nature of the work, workshop No. 1 can only do two shifts, each shift of 9 hours. However, although the time is not long, the quality of the tanks it produces has always been well received by the military. Currently The workshop has an assembly line with more than 900 workers capable of producing two armored companies of R20 tanks per day."

Sodaval's words made Edel very satisfied. He looked at the half-finished metal monster in front of him and asked Sodaval. "Are there any difficulties in the factory at present?"

As soon as Sodaval spoke, Edel regretted asking this sentence.

"Yes, Your Majesty. At present, the number of armored steel plates in the factory is insufficient. We contacted the rolling mill, and they said that there is not enough special armored steel, there is only so much."

Well, this pot needs Edel to carry. Eder in exchange for these Jews to supplement the domestic labor gap. The exchange with Italy is not bad, they mainly exchange some military supplies, and there is not much demand for others. (It can also be said that there are not many Jews in Italy, and they do not have many people to change)

However, when it came to Germany, its eyes were tricky. In addition to replenishing her armored strength, she has exchanged nearly 300 tanks from Romania. Marrying her is basically used to exchange for basic processing materials. Except for rubber oil, armored steel is the most exchanged.

While Romania only produced 240,000 tons of armored steel a year (the advantage of early mobilization), more than 70,000 tons were replaced by Germany. Of course, these steels are not a loss for Romania. At present, the replenishment of the large number of Jewish labor in the country is very important for Romania to maintain its industrial scale, so no one can say that the trade-off is a disadvantage.

And Romania has also received news that the German Navy's shipbuilding has not stopped, but is accelerating. The help of steel from Romania is also crucial.

Therefore, Edel did not answer Sodaval's words, but looked at the tank under production with relish, which made the eyes of the factory director of Sodaval become resentful.

Edel stayed in the tank production workshop for less time than before. On the one hand, the noise was indeed too loud, and on the other hand, he felt a little guilty for the director of Sodaval. After about half an hour, Edel walked out of the workshop.

Of course, it was impossible for Edel to check these two workshops. He then continued to visit the staff dormitory, office building, living area, and also had a meal with the staff in the cafeteria, showing the image of a monarch who is close to the people. And after all these were gone, Edel left the Second Machinery Factory.

After leaving the Second Machinery Factory, Eder visited several nearby factories. For example, in the steel factory, he praised the hard-working spirit of the workers in the factory.

After a day's visit, Edel dragged his exhausted body back to his place of stay, not expecting good news waiting for him.

With the cooperation of the Romanian three armies, the island of Cyprus has been captured. The Romanian army wiped out the defenders on the island at the cost of more than 5,000 casualties (including nearly 3,000 paratroopers). And also successfully rescued more than 30 pilots who had been captured before.

This telegram immediately swept away Edel's tiredness. Now after the three armies rest for a while, the battle for the Middle East will start.