Mediterranean Hegemony Road

The Bulgarian government, which has always been highly efficient, immediately organized an expert group to conduct on-site exploration after the railway plan was established. In addition to topography and landforms, it also took into account the humanities, economy and future development direction.

Can't put the train station a hundred miles away from the city? If that's the case, the railway will also drive the regional economy of a fart, and just transporting materials will make people collapse!

Of course, Bulgaria does not have much historical burden in this regard. Except for the Balkans, cities are all to be rebuilt. We can also take into account each other in terms of site selection. There is no need for railways to make concessions to cities and artificially increase railway construction. cost!

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

Manpower is troublesome. Two months ago, the Bulgarian government was still struggling with the problem of refugees. Now the refugee camps have been evacuated, and major companies have joined the war for people. The direct consequence is that the average salary in Bulgaria has risen. Twenty percent.

Among them, agricultural companies and railway companies are the most aggressive. Agricultural companies have to open up wasteland. Even if they use 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 some work to do, and a new round of major railway plans has not yet started, but they can build roads?

Who says road building can't make money? As long as a few toll stations are built, the future Lev will not come rolling in, and they still have the investment vision!

Naturally, this high road cannot be a later high road. It is mainly composed of cement roads, and cars can run for 100 or 80 yards on it. In this era, it is already a proper high road.

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 made up its mind for a while, mainly because of traditional problems.

Since ancient times, building bridges and paving roads,

All of them are for the public good. Now that the fees are suddenly changed, everyone is afraid of causing adverse social impact, so they are temporarily stuck.

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

Now there are people in the government who have also put forward another proposal, which is to let the capitalists pay for the road, 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 fuel costs will also rise!

Well, in this era, there were only hundreds of thousands of private cars in Bulgaria, and the people who drove them were local tyrants.

On this issue, Ferdinand was also a little swayed. The government invested in the construction of highways, so the toll was inevitable, otherwise the maintenance in the later period would be devastating.

Moreover, the toll station is also a headache, how to supervise it? In this era, there are no computers and no monitoring, and everything is operated manually. If you want to do something small, how do you check it?

One thousand cars pass through every day, or only one hundred cars pass through. This problem can only be counted by manpower. Whether it can make money in the end depends on the moral integrity of these front-line personnel!

It is simple to ask the capitalists to pay, but in a prosperous area, it is estimated that everyone is rushing to build it, and no one cares about the backcountry.

Unless it is packaged and taken away, to build a main road between cities, it is necessary to add a road in a remote mountainous area.

Only in this way, it is estimated that it can only be Ferdinand himself to take over, there is not enough interest to tempt!

In 1918, you told the capitalists that in the future every household in Bulgaria would have a car, and they would surely tell you: that is the future.

Investing in the construction of roads in Bulgaria has been purely loss-making for at least the first 20 years. It is estimated that no capitalist in Bulgaria has suffered losses for such a long time!

Of course, if it’s limited to the Balkans, that’s fine. Investing billions of levs, and when the auto industry explodes, capitalists can also make money back through other channels.

It seems that the auto industry is already starting to gain momentum. The car ownership of Bulgarian nationals is growing rapidly. It will exceed one million vehicles in five years and five million in ten years. There is no problem at all.

It's a pity that 90% of these cars are concentrated in the Balkans. Is it still early for Asia Minor to show up?

Then this issue was temporarily put on hold until the cabinet organized professionals to conduct a comprehensive assessment and come up with the results. Let’s talk about it!

Railroad companies continue to build their roads for now, even if they license gas stations in the future, it won't make any difference. They can also choose to sell, or to build a gas station, although there is no toll station, this is still a very "money" investment.

The premise is that the roads they are building now are all in the Balkans, and they are still mainly main roads. Many roads had their subgrades completed years ago and are now just exposed with concrete added to them.

At the juncture of the dispute over the highway toll, Ferdinand has quietly bought out the domestic oil exploitation rights. Of course, this was done in secret. On the surface, there are still more than a dozen oil companies in Bulgaria, who have joined forces to divide up the country's oil exploration rights. Oil and natural gas exploration rights.

Oil was worthless in this era, and in order to hide from the public, Ferdinand threw a few smoke bombs around the end of the World War.

For example: From September to December 1917, the South American Oil Company, a subsidiary of the British United Mining Company, in a short period of three months, respectively, in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela around Lake Maracaibo and Guarico, Anso The three states of Ategui and Monagas have large oil fields.

Before Christmas in 1918, South American oil companies also found large oil fields in the Amazon plains of Ecuador. Immediately after the French Weider Oil Company, an oil field was discovered in Tunisia.

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

Of course, the oil has not yet been released, 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 suddenly become the focus. The world's largest oil producing areas are now gathered in South America, and the conflict of interest between the United Kingdom and the United States in South America has become increasingly fierce.

Taking this opportunity, Ferdinand also listed the South American Oil Company in London, which was quickly sought after under the banner of the world's largest oil company.

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

After diverting the attention of international capital, the auction of Bulgarian oil exploration rights has become indifferent, and the exploration cost of tens of millions of levs is undoubtedly an astronomical figure for the local capitalists in Bulgaria. Ferdinand's vest melee.

Having done all this, Ferdinand began to sit back and watch the fight between American Petroleum and BP.

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

However, as time went on, the battle between the two sides was gradually escalating. The consortium that manipulated the oil group behind the scenes 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.

The John Bulls of this era are still number one in the world. With their means of pulling allies, the Americans have no way to resist, unless they also want to learn from the Germans and challenge the world.

In order to resolve the unfavorable situation in diplomacy, the Americans are conspiring to break up the Anglo-Japanese alliance. At the same time, they are also trying to win over the two countries, in an attempt to dismantle the Anglo-French-Barrier Treaty.

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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 and browsed it quickly. Zou frowned and asked, "How do you solve the problem of labor? There is a labor gap of up to 500,000 people. Do you want to compete with other industries in China?"

"Snatching people" is a very taboo thing for the Bulgarian government. For the sake of the exhibition of one industry, it cannot disrupt the order of other industries and affect the overall exhibition.

The Minister of Transport immediately explained: "Of course not, how could our Ministry of Transport be so ignorant of the big picture? We have actually solved the problem of labor!

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

Our Ministry of Communications and railway companies have studied, as long as we strengthen the supervision of quality, even if we let them provide labor services, it will not affect the quality of railways.

We have already inquired about the source of their labor. Most of them are from overseas. As long as the specific situation 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 way these workers came was not so normal, but what did he care about?

The international capitalists of this era have a fart integrity, and they do everything they can to cheat and deceive. The government can't control it even if it wants to regulate!

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

But now Bulgaria has a serious shortage of labor, and it is inevitable to open an opening. The Ministry of Communications has just come to the front.

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 come to Bulgaria, they must abide by our laws, and they must not be allowed to arbitrarily. Presumptuous!

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

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

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

The Minister of Transport's face changed greatly. Thinking of the terrifying consequences, his scalp became numb. If they were not good, they would become Bulgarian sinners.

As for the worst case, it will definitely not happen. The Bulgarian government will inevitably intervene strongly, but this intervention is not without cost. The class contradictions that have been intensified will be difficult to eliminate.

"Rest assured, Your Excellency, none of these foreign workers will appear in the Balkans. Our Ministry of Transport will send them to more remote areas to prevent 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. There is no network communication. It is not known when things born in the Asia Minor Peninsula will spread to the Balkans.

As for the influence, as long as it is not born by one's side, everyone will only think it is hearsay and will doubt it.

Coupled with the government's attack, the capitalists are not desperados, how can they all take risks?

As long as it is contained in the beginning, it will be easy to deal with later. The National People's Congress is blindly obedient. As long as everyone follows the rules, the latecomers will naturally follow suit!

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