Romanian Eagle

Chapter 179 News from Austria-Hungary

Genius to remember the address of this site in one second: (apex Chinese), the fastest update! No ads! The palace at the end of March was also full of greenery, but now there is only one member of the royal family in the Bucharest palace. The Carrolls took their wife, Sophie Marie, to the Peresh Palace for a holiday, leaving Edel to handle domestic affairs.

In the middle of the Southern Carpathian Mountains, about 130 kilometers north of Bucharest, there is a 300-year-old fairytale-like and beautiful mountain town Sinaia, where the current Peresh Palace is located on a slope.

In 1866, the Council of State of the then Romanian United Kingdom made a decision to invite German Prince Carol to be the king of Romania. In 1872, King Carroll invited a German architect to design and build the Peresh Palace. After its completion, it has always been a vacation and rest place for their Romanian royal family, the Hohenzollern family. They come here to rest for two or three months every year.

But now this year, because this is Romania's final preparation time before World War I, Eder, citing too many domestic affairs, did not come with his parents and his wife, who was five months pregnant with a bulging belly. All Eder's focus now is on adapting the Romanian economy to the war that begins in the second half of the year.

"His Royal Highness, this is the latest imported raw material information."

A guard took the latest list of raw material import statistics from customs and put it on Edel's desk.

"Okay, I know."

Facing the report of the guard, Edel continued to deal with a report in his hand without raising his head.

Seeing that the crown prince had no other problems, the guard quietly left the crown prince's office, leaving behind Edel who was still working hard.

"Uh…"

Eder stretched his back after finishing the business at hand. The document he was dealing with was the latest decree that the Romanian government intends to introduce to encourage farmland reclamation. In this decree, the government made a tax exemption for five years as long as it is newly reclaimed farmland, and as long as each family can reclaim more than 2 hectares of new farmland, they can get the government's approval for the purchase of agricultural machinery. allowance.

After reading the decree carefully, Edel was still satisfied with the terms listed by the government. This fully took into account the actual situation in Romania, and the allowances given were also within the range of the government. Finally, Eder signed his name on the bill.

After processing this document, Edel began to pick up the raw material statistics list that the guards had put on the desk, and planned to look at it. Because the industrial mineral resources that Romania can provide is not rich, Eder also attaches great importance to the import of raw materials that can ensure domestic industrial operations. Especially now that the First World War is approaching, Eder intends to stock up a little while the price is not too high now to ensure the operation of Romania's industry. He is also heartbroken for Romania's economy.

"ta~ta~ta"

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and Edel put down the information he was about to check and shouted.

"Come in"

Just then the door opened and a guard walked in.

"What's up?"

I heard this guard speak to Edel. "His Royal Highness sent a telegram from Sloboria, the Grain Import and Export Association was established, and our people became the president of this association. This is the telegram."

After hearing the news, Edel stood up and took the telegram from the guard and started to check it. This association is very important for Eder. Now Romania's three main export goods are petrochemicals, grains, and automobiles and their spare parts.

Among them, petrochemicals are easy to manage because they only have one company in the country, and the automobile is also easy to manage because of the existence of Volkswagen, a car giant.

There is only grain because of its decentralized nature, and there are only some local associations such as the Yaxi Grain Association and the Bacau Grain Association. Among them, various local food associations also for various reasons,

They are all fighting on their own, and some associations have internal disputes, so there has never been a national type of association.

These are all things that Eder wants to take advantage of Romania's strong export of grain for the benefit of the country that cannot be allowed. So he asked Viscount Adri, the head of the court, to find a suitable candidate for the various grain associations to integrate the grain associations in the country through coercion and inducement.

After nearly a month of hard work, the results are now in front of him, but thinking of the royal family to come forward, those land nobles have no sufficient reason to oppose the Romanian royal family who is now in full swing.

In the telegram sent, not only the news of the establishment of the Grain Import and Export Association, but also several important rules were written. Among them, the unified grain price and unified export that Eder attaches to the most are all written in it. In this integrated association, it is inevitable that there will be some people who can't see the situation clearly. I believe that they have used a lot of methods. As long as the results are good, Edel will not care about it. He is not God who can take care of all the sufferings of the world.

"well done."

After seeing this telegram that satisfied him, Edel showed a happy expression. With the establishment of the Grain Import and Export Association, most of Romania's grain exports are now in the hands of Eder. Although it is inevitable that there is no fear of death, these are irrelevant to the overall situation. As long as Eder can decide to export 3 million tons Whoever exports the food to, will bring rich returns to Romania.

After calming down his mood, Edel picked up the statistics list of raw materials sent before to check it out. Imports of industrial raw materials in this list also reached new highs, with the largest import value being rubber. For this gum, which originated in the Brazilian rainforest and is now expanding to Southeast Asia and South America, he can only import a little more to ensure domestic use in Romania. Whoever put Romania in the Black Sea has no external influence except in the Balkans. It can only be purchased in advance and hoarded for slow use.

The only imported raw materials after rubber are coal and iron ore. As the industrial base of Romania, coal and iron ore are now completely dependent on imports. This made Eder drool on the map, the Austro-Hungarian Bohemia region closest to Romania and the Russian Eastern Ukraine region. It's a pity that I can't get enough of it, even taking advantage of the favorable opportunity of World War I, it is impossible to get it. Whoever let these two regions in Romania are too far away, the nearest ones are 340 kilometers away, and Britain and France will not let their own hands after the war, so Eder can only look at other places to start.

Just then, there was another knock on the door.

"Come in"

This time, it was the captain of the guard, Carust, who came in front of Edel and told the crown prince. "His Royal Highness, we have just received news that the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary intends to visit the region of Bosnia and Herzegovina in early summer."

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