Mediterranean Hegemony Road

Combining the actual situation in Bulgaria, Ferdinand made some deletions after rational analysis, and successfully completed the slimming of the large-scale industrial plan that the Ministry of Industry fiddled with.

Originally needing 60 million pounds of procurement funds, it was successfully halved. Even so, the finances of the Bulgarian government are still unfinished now!

Industrial equipment is not only purchased, but it is also necessary to build factories and recruit manpower. These expenses are not a small amount!

According to Ferdinand's estimation, if it is an ordinary engineer, now it is a period of economic crisis, it is a lot of money.

But if it is a senior engineer, even in an economic crisis, people can get by. Britain and France have a solid foundation and are supported by colonies. There are not a few large companies with strong strength. These large companies do not mind accepting a few high-tech talents now!

If you want to poach people, you have to go to several small countries, such as Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries. Although the overall industry is not as good as that of the foreign powers, there are still some high-tech talents!

The number of domestic enterprises is much smaller, and the strength is not so strong. In the economic crisis, most of them are overwhelmed, and naturally they do not have the strength to spend a lot of money to retain talents!

In this way, language is another problem. Almost every engineer has to be equipped with translators. It is estimated that these translators must be hired externally. Bulgaria does not have so many foreign language talents. Thinking of Ferdinand is scary!

He also had to be fortunate that Russian could be used in Bulgarian, otherwise it would be impossible to get so many translations together!

If you want to overtake fast, there is always a price to pay!

As a last resort, the ordinary engineer Ferdinand can only give priority to digging the corners of the Russians, at least not to worry about the language problem!

As for senior engineers and designers, Ferdinand said that he is not picky, and any country is fine. Isn't it just a translation, it's a small problem, as long as you can dig it up, everything can be said!

This time, Ferdinand's audacity to dig people is much bigger. As long as it is a scientific researcher, whether it is physical chemical industry or biometallurgy, everyone will come!

Don't have a lab? It doesn't matter, what you need, we will arrange it for you right away! No funding? The Bulgarian government has allocated money to you! treatment? It is easy to discuss, luxury houses, beautiful women, famous cars, and banknotes are not a problem!

The premise is that your ability is strong enough!

It is clear that Ferdinand's purpose is to recruit poor scientists, or not yet famous,

Young researchers who are eager to stand out!

Like those who have already achieved success, everyone has all these things, and Bulgaria can't come up with a bargaining chip to make them tempted!

Just like Nikola Tesla, the most outstanding scientist at the beginning of the 20th century, he is awesome, but it is a pity that Ferdinand became famous as soon as he crossed the border. Ten years ago, he was a world-renowned scientist. Not to mention solicitation, even kidnapping is not enough?

Fortunately, although Nikola Tesla is awesome enough, Bulgaria can still use his scientific research results directly.

As for the train fee? The amount of multinational patent fees in this era depends on the user's mood. It's a big deal to file a lawsuit!

Ferdinand said that in Bulgaria, he is not afraid of anyone filing a lawsuit!

Don't blame him for being greedy. That's what this era is like. Almost all multinational patent fees don't get a few dollars.

Even the "Department Supermarket" that Ferdinand tossed up has registered a patent. It has been more than ten years, and the patent fee he received is less than 100,000 pounds. This is still based on the situation that others give face!

In Europe, everyone gave more or less a little bit of meaning. As for the American continent, Ferdinand said that he did not know what the patent fee looked like?

In addition to this big man, Ferdinand set his sights on another big man in the scientific world-Albert Einstein.

In August 1900, the 21-year-old Einstein graduated from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich; in December, he completed the paper "Inferences from Capillary Phenomenon", which was published in the Leipzig "Journal of Physics" the following year and incorporated into Switzerland.

As a young man, Ferdinand thinks it’s better to fool around. A fresh graduate from school is still very likely to be poached at a high price. If it doesn’t work, he will be kidnapped. Anyway, it won’t attract much attention!

The only trouble is that he seems to be part of an extreme anti-war group. Before the First World War, he was the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics in Berlin and a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and was elected a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

But he still joined the anti-war group, and he signed the famous anti-war manifesto - "A Letter to the Europeans", which was a hindrance to Germany in World War I!

However, in Ferdinand's view, these are small problems, as long as they are in Bulgaria, these things will not happen.

People are divided into groups by similar things. Even if there is a similar declaration in Bulgaria, it is impossible to publish it. The Information Administration is still very deterrent!

"Three years to start, the highest death penalty!" This is the Bulgarian press law, everyone should be responsible for their words and deeds!

Since the establishment of the Information Administration, the number of newspapers closed due to false advertisements has been in three figures, and the editors and capitalists who have been imprisoned have also been in four figures.

As for political news, not to mention, that stuff has to be more cautious. Those who dare to go against the government have long ceased to exist!

Of course, some news is also allowed, such as corruption and bribery of high-ranking officials, social celebrities with personal moral losses, can be exposed casually, this is also a Bulgarian tradition of fighting corruption.

Ferdinand firmly believes that if a slap doesn't make a sound, even if there is one or two jumping thoughts, under the background of the whole society, at most, they can complain a few words, and no big trouble can be caused.

In addition to this one, Ferdinand also set his sights on the Curie couple, who were famous in later generations, and they were in despair at the moment.

In order to study radium, they now have neither experimental equipment nor funds to purchase research materials, and they are worried!

And they were still doing hard work by living in a leaky shack in the physics and chemistry school that wasn't even suitable for corpses.

It is said that this shack is as hot as an oven in summer and freezing in winter, and the unventilated environment has forced them to carry out many refining operations in the open air in the courtyard.

In Ferdinand's view, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For two scientific research lunatics, for the sake of good experimental conditions, they just moved once, what is it?

As long as these three people join, Bulgaria will definitely be at the forefront of the world in the research of nuclear physics, which will be of great help to the future research on atomic bombs!

Therefore, the letters of appointment of Bulgarian universities were issued through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Of course, the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had to do ideological work. This was also the most conventional method for recruiting talents in the early 20th century.

Those who do scientific research are basically invited to teach in the name of the university. Otherwise, if they are invited in the name of the country, many aristocratic scientists may really be dismissive!

Of course, in addition to these big figures, there were also some well-known scientists at that time who also received invitations from Bulgarian universities.

In line with the principle of casting wide nets and fishing more, between 1900 and 1903, Bulgarian universities issued more than 1,000 invitations to teach!

So many scientists at that time would joke around and ask, did you receive an invitation from a Bulgarian university today?

It has also become a benchmark for them to be recognized by the world. Basically, those who have made achievements in a certain field have received invitations!

Even if he knew that many people could not come here, Ferdinand was still generous when he issued the letter of appointment. There is an invitation letter signed by the principal of the king himself, but it gives these people enough face.

In this regard, the invitees are very satisfied. Whether they came or not, everyone politely replied to the letter and kept Pingshu, which is also a supreme weapon used to pretend to be coercive!

Ferdinand's goal has been achieved, at least Bulgaria's attitude of attaching importance to scientific research has passed this incident and conveyed it.

Otherwise, why are all the scientists who received the appointment letter, such as writers and historians, who have not received it?

Facts have proved that it is beneficial for Ferdinand to cast a wide net, and many people have chosen to teach at Bulgarian universities one after another.

After all, there are unsatisfactory people everywhere, and the time of Ferdinand Pingshu is valid for life. If you don’t get along well, going to Bulgaria to try your luck is also a good choice for many people!

Especially after the outbreak of World War I and the fall of many small countries, many people chose to immigrate to Bulgaria, because they are close and their jobs are guaranteed! After all, with the king's personal commitment, it is impossible to easily go back on it!

Of course, these invitation letters were not filled out by Ferdinand himself, but were all written by the personnel department of the Bulgarian University. Otherwise, how could Ferdinand know so many people?

It was only sent in his name, and everyone defaulted to the invitation letter sent by him!

When Ferdinand was digging corners, the Bulgarian government was not idle. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Industry almost all came out to go to European countries to make big purchases.

From Western Europe to Eastern Europe, they are everywhere, whether it is the great powers such as Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Russia, or the small countries such as Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland, they are all within the scope of their activities!

This can be regarded as a beautiful sight in the economic crisis, and Bulgarian procurement personnel have suddenly become a favorite. Unlike previous purchases, this time it was the capitalists who begged them to buy. After all, during the economic crisis, everyone is short of cash!

Next, the procurement work went smoothly, and all the troublesome procedures, the capitalists said, could be done, as long as there was money to provide door-to-door service.

In order to sell these equipments smoothly, some capitalists also helped to dig their own corners, personally helped mobilize engineers to work in Bulgaria, and even lied to them that they were sent to Bulgaria to work!

In a word, if you go, you will have a job, and you can also get preferential treatment. If you don’t go, you will be unemployed! As long as you think you can find a new job now, you can absolutely refuse!

This trick is very effective against middle and low-level technicians, but for top technicians, they are treasures wherever they go, and unemployment does not exist!

These people need Bulgaria to dig their own. If there is not enough interest, they will not go with you!