After Andekos heard the words of the staff member named Miller, his steps became hurried, but he did not forget to ask. "Do you know what Mayor Chakos wants from me?"
"I don't know, but it looks like it's an emergency."
After hearing Miller's nonsense, Andekos quickly walked to the mayor's office on the right side of the third floor.
"Ta~ta~ta."
"Come in."
Following Andekos's knock on the door, a familiar voice made him push the door open and enter.
After Andkos entered the door, he saw Mayor Chakos sitting behind his desk, signing his name on a document.
Chaks is of medium build, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a Chinese-character face. Just looking at him gives off an aura of self-importance.
"Mayor, are you looking for me?"
As soon as Andkos entered the door, he quietly asked Mayor Chakos for instructions.
"Yes."
Mayor Chaks put down the pen in his hand, stood up and stretched his sore neck, and said to Andkos, "You know Ponokov?"
Of course Andkos knew about Ponokov, he knew it the day he arrived in the port city of Varna. Ponokov's full name is Nitzek Serva Ponokov. He was born in Varna, an ordinary man.
My father maintained his family's livelihood by running his own small grocery store. His father had a very modern consciousness and knew that no matter how hard it was, he could not torture his children, so he sent him to study early. Ponokov also lived up to his father's expectations.
I hope to get good grades in school and accumulate business experience by helping out at the family grocery store after school.
Of course, the biggest help to him was that he married the daughter of a big local businessman when he was 21 years old. This marriage allowed him to get 50,000 BGN in development funds from his father-in-law, and then he relied on Varna, the largest financial institution in Bulgaria.
Relying on the port, he worked as a trading merchant and sold various Bulgarian commodities to merchants from other countries. With his good reputation and credibility, he became the largest export trader in Varna. Later, he invested heavily in factories to produce various commodities needed by Bulgaria.
He also made a lot of money. There are nearly a thousand people working in his factory all year round, and they are all very famous people in Bulgaria.
"Who in Varna doesn't know him? There are people from the Bulgarian government in his home at any time, lobbying him to move to Salonika, and I heard that he has agreed."
Facing the famous Ponokov, Of course Andkos knew about it, and he also told what he knew.
Mayor Chaks was very satisfied with the secretary's performance. He took out a cigar, lit it and took a puff and said, "Now there is something new."
"what's the situation?"
"Now he is reluctant to move away, saying he doesn't want to leave the place where he was born."
As the secretary of Mayor Chakos, Andkos has the advantage of being close to the water, first come first served, and he still knows some things. You must know that this Ponokov is not so clean. Every businessman who does big business in this era is not kind.
He knew that there were three or four murders involving this Ponokov. He didn't believe the excuse of not wanting to move away from his birthplace. He probably didn't want to give up his property in Varna.
"So do we need to do anything?"
As the mayor's secretary for many years, Andekos is still aware of his habits. He probably needs to do something through him to let this big businessman know that Romania doesn't need him now.
Now the Romanian government plans to expel Bulgaria's influence in this new territory to facilitate its digestion, and Ponokov, the largest industrialist in Varna, is on their expulsion list. However, in order to reduce the dissatisfaction from local civilians, in this area
It is difficult for Romania to do something extreme in the new territory and trigger ethnic antagonism in the new territory. Therefore, Romania has always been cooperating with the Bulgarian government to try to get the people who stayed there to move away.
Facing his secretary, Mayor Chaks did not play charades. "Yes, I plan to ask you to give Mr. Ponokov a hint. We don't want him to stay in Varna."
"give it to me."
Andekos knew what he should do. He had learned a lot during the few years he had followed Mayor Chakos, and he still knew how to give hints.
There is a manor covering an area of 5,000 square meters on Bix Street in Varna. This is the home of Ponokov that Mayor Chakos and Secretary Andkos talked about before. In this very large building
In the Baroque-style building, Ponokov had just seen off representatives of the Bulgarian government.
He sat on the sofa exhausted, thinking about his family's future choices. After he revealed his intention to stay, the Bulgarian government kept sending people over to discuss with him. The general idea was that he hoped he could sell
The industry in Varna will be moved to the newly occupied Macedonia region of Bulgaria for development, and it will also provide him with good policy conveniences.
However, he is still a little unwilling. The main problem is that his property in Varna cannot be sold at a good price. It can even be said that it is sold at a low price. Take his most profitable textile factory as an example, he spent a lot of money on it.
He bought a factory worth 1.16 million leva, but the Romanians were only willing to offer 700,000 leva, saying that the machine was not good and that the equipment was outdated. You must know that this is a new factory that he built less than two years ago, and it has to be divided into six parts.
He could only get the money three times a month, which was where he felt most helpless. Now, not only in Varna, but also in the newly occupied territory of Romania, the price was the same, and the prices for the purchases that came to negotiate were all surprisingly consistent, which made him
I have a headache.
"Father, otherwise we won't sell it and run it ourselves."
His 21-year-old son Saldov walked into the office and saw Ponokov looking defeated, and said angrily.
Seeing his son's attitude, Ponokov was secretly sad. He was still too young and lacked social experience. As a veteran, Ponokov knew through the quotations from those Romanians that they valued his property in Varna.
It is inevitable to win, otherwise they would not have been so insistent on this price issue. They must be confident, and the attitude of the Varna government will be their support.
"We're taking a look."
Facing his son, Ponokov still said with a tired look.
Seeing that his father still planned to wait, Saldorff showed the impatience that a young man should have.
"Father, this is not the way to go. The new Romanian government now clearly wants to drive us away, otherwise we will mobilize workers to march on the streets and make this matter bigger. If they don't make it easy for us, then they won't let us live.
Already."
Seeing his son's bad idea, Ponokov didn't know what to say. He probably wouldn't get a penny at some point. Now he can get back more than half of his property.
Ponokov was about to scold his son, when the butler's voice sounded at the door. "There is a government official named Andekos asking to see him."
Ponokov swallowed what he was about to say. He still knew about this secretary of Mayor Chakos. He said to the housekeeper through the door, "Let him wait a moment, I will come out right away."
After he finished speaking to the butler, he straightened up his appearance and said to his son, "Okay Saldov, put down this stupid idea of yours. I'm going to see what the Romanians have to say to me."
After saying that, he walked out of the office. Looking at his father who was dismissive of his idea, Saldorff didn't know what he said wrong.
"Hello Mr. Andekos, I wonder if you need anything from me when you come here this time?"
Ponokov walked to the living room and asked with a smile as soon as he saw Andkos.
Facing Ponokov's overture, Andekos knew that it was not for him, but for Mayor Chaks behind him, but it did not affect his mood. He said with a smile on his face.
"There is something that requires Mr. Ponokov's support."
It was just a polite word at first, but when he heard that the mayor's secretary in front of him really needed him for something, Ponokov was really a little puzzled. You must know that in the face of Bulgaria's various wooing, Romania has always been dissatisfied with Bulgarians like them.
Regardless of whether he ignored it or not, he roughly knew the whole story.
Faced with this sudden news, Ponokov asked with a smile on his face. "I don't know what I can do that would require Mr. Andekos to go there in person."
Faced with Ponokov's inquiry, Andekos said with all his heart. "Now the number of workers is increasing in various places, and various union disputes occur from time to time. Among them, the United States has implemented an eight-hour work system. In Europe, we in Romania
The government plans to take the lead in implementing this measure to reduce the occurrence of disputes. This time it plans to try it in Varna and Ruse first to see how it works, so I hope Mr. Ponokov will support our work."
After hearing what Andkos said clearly, Ponokov's smile gradually disappeared. If the person in front of him hadn't represented the Romanian government, if anyone else dared to say this in front of him, he would have been thrown into the sea to feed the fish.
I know that 10-hour working hours are now common in Europe, and ten hours in the Balkans is considered a conscientious entrepreneur. But in the Balkans, 11-12 hours of work are common everywhere, and even 14 hours.
Ponokov also followed the trend and implemented 12 hours in the factory.
Ponokov looked at Andekos in front of him and asked with a serious face. "Mr. Andekos, are you sure you are not joking."
"Absolutely not. Our government is already discussing plans."
Andekos continued to run the train. Anyway, he was not afraid of going to the government for confirmation. If it really didn't work anymore, Mayor Chakos could transfer him back to the country.
Ponokov said with a serious face and a cold tone. "Okay, I understand."
After saying that, he turned around and left without any concern for his feelings. Andkos was not angry about this and left Ponokov's house on his own.
Then Ponokov, the largest industrialist in Varna, announced that he would move his family to Salonika and sell all his properties in Varna. Under his leadership, other local Bulgarian businessmen who were still hesitant began to sell.
Their own properties were relocated to Bulgaria. Romania also received the properties left by these people at a low price.
According to subsequent statistics, during this March period, Bulgarian businessmen sold a total of assets worth 74.2 million lei in the territory ceded to Romania. Most of them were real estate such as factories, equipment, and houses that could not be taken away.
Romania only spent half of the funds to purchase these assets. Although it is impossible to compare with other Balkan countries, it is also an aspect of Romania's planned clearing of local Bulgarian businessmen in the new territories to provide Romanian domestic capital.
PS Mantou hasn’t written for a few days, which made everyone worried. I should have written it yesterday, but because I haven’t written for a few days, I got stuck. Then Mantou read other novels to find inspiration, and the result was so good that I couldn’t stop the car and it’s been delayed until today.
