Time passed quickly, and it was the end of 1911 in a blink of an eye.
After Edel completed his inspection of the army, he lived in harmony with his wife Sophie Marie.
In the meantime, he also traveled to Constanta to care for the two neglected former maids. This care almost made Edel unable to get out of bed. If it weren't for his good health, he would have been helped back.
Bucharest. It seems that the two maids have a lot of resentment towards him, which makes Edel's road to sleeping with him a bit bumpy.
Now at the end of the year, Edel is looking at the latest situation in the Italian-Turkish war. The situation in Libya is now putting Italy in a difficult position. The Ottoman Empire's army is not difficult to deal with, but the local people are resisting the Italian invasion in large numbers. And the Italian army has invaded North Africa.
Arousing opposition from Arab countries, guerrillas and volunteer forces from Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt and other Arab countries launched a heroic struggle against the invaders, which caused heavy losses to the Italian army.
Now, even with the increase in troops, Italy can barely defend the cities on the coastline, and there is no place for them in the vast inland areas.
This significantly increased Italy's war expenses from 300,000 Italian lire per month to 800,000 lire per month (both lira and lei were one to one).
Edel saw the latest Italian intelligence, which allowed him to see the dilemma of the Italian army in North Africa. It is estimated that Italy can only find breakthroughs elsewhere, and there is no good way in Libya. These local tribal armed forces are
The nomadic people had a large number of horses and camels, which made Italy's infantry-based army sigh.
Just as Edel was inspecting Italy's predicament, Captain Kallust knocked on the door and walked in with a document in his hand.
"Your Highness, this is Romania's economic report for this year."
"Thanks a lot."
Edel took the report, thanked his captain of the bodyguard, and began to read it.
In this Romanian economic data, this year's gross national product (GDP) reached 5.53 billion lei, an increase of 7.8% from last year's 5.13 billion lei, and a deceleration of 0.2%.
The main reason is that Volkswagen, the leader in the automobile manufacturing industry, has a lower car share than before. The European market share dropped from 80% to 76%. From this, we can see that other countries will not let Volkswagen conquer cities in Europe.
.A large amount of capital has been invested in the automobile manufacturing industry. Although Volkswagen has the magic model T, it is still gradually losing market share.
However, the reduction in share is not due to a reduction in Volkswagen's production volume. In fact, its car production reached a new high this year, reaching 120,000. It is just that cars have become more popular in the European market. That is because cars have begun to enter thousands of households. It is still doing
It’s less than one car for an average household, but one car for twenty households can still be expected.
However, in the deep processing of grain in Romania, the export volume is rising steadily, which is due to the large number of tractors used in agriculture. This data shows that the number of tractors in Romania has increased from zero to nearly 20,000 in one year.
The machinery factory in Ploiesti has undergone a year of expansion and is now a large factory with 20,000 employees. Now they can produce 120 tractors every day, and the supply is still in short supply. Both Europe and China need this kind of tractors.
Products that can liberate labor and improve agricultural production efficiency.
It’s not that other countries have never thought about imitating, but the time is too short and the technology content is much higher than that of cars. Tractors from other countries have not yet appeared, so they can only watch Romania eat alone. What I want to point out here is that the tractors sold to Europe
The price of tractors has also increased, from 180 pounds to 200 pounds per unit sold overseas. Tractors have now become another major export tool for Romania, making other countries the envy of them.
This year Romania's agricultural planting area has increased by 110,000 hectares compared with last year, reaching 6.24 million hectares. This is an achievement achieved by a decrease in the agricultural population of 50,000 people, which Edel is most happy about. This shows that Romanian agriculture is gradually transforming towards mechanization.
This shows that his idea is correct, and he believes that Romanian agricultural mechanization will accelerate after the outbreak of the first station.
However, with the use of various internal combustion engines in Romania, this year's oil exports have declined. In terms of refined oil and generic products, Romania's exports this year were only 201 million lei, which was 12 million lei less than the previous year.
Yi, this is all the result of domestic consumption. Mr. Smith, general manager of Romanian Petroleum Company, has applied to the crown prince to expand the scale of crude oil extraction and increase refining capacity. Edel has approved his plan to increase Romania’s annual oil production to 200
million tons, and the refining capacity has also been increased to 1.8 million tons.
In terms of imports, Romania's machine imports are still growing this year. Now many people in the country have seen the benefits of industrialization, and a large number of people are looking for funds to open related enterprises.
You open a grain processing plant in the grain growing area to produce canned flour, and I do supporting business in the potash mining area. The industrial atmosphere in Romania is very good now, and this is what Edel wants to see.
According to the latest data, there are more than 80,000 small and medium-sized enterprises in Romania, most of which involve relatives and friends. There are only more than 5,000 companies that employ more than 50 workers, and only more than 400 companies that employ more than 200 people.
, there are only 65 households with a population of 500, only 13 households with a population of more than 1,000, and none with a population of more than 3,000.
There are only seven state-owned or royal enterprises in Romania with tens of thousands of people, such as Constanta Steel Plant, Volkswagen, Ploiesti Equipment Factory, Romanian Petroleum Company, etc. Among them, royal enterprises occupy the majority share, which is also the reason why the government
One of the reasons for being suppressed by the royal family is that there are far more people eating from the royal bowl than from the government bowl, and they all know that they have to listen to the boss or they will have nothing to eat.
The Romanian Army has also completed its training this year, and it is considered the regional hegemon in the Balkans except for Austria-Hungary. The Navy has also added new warships. Although it is not as good as Greece, it has no problem at all in suppressing Bulgaria.
After reading the summary in his hand, Edel thought to himself, Romania's national strength can be said to be booming now, which is why he has the confidence to carve up the Ottoman European territories. Economic management does not border the Ottoman Empire, but who can ignore his opinions?
Now he is waiting for the Balkan countries to come to him when they are impatient. As for them turning a blind eye to Romania, they are all leaders of various countries, so they all have this common sense.
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