At the end of March, the palace was also full of greenery, but now only Edel is a member of the royal family staying in the Bucharest palace. The Carrolls took their wife Sophie Marie to the Peres Palace for vacation, leaving only Edel to deal with it.
domestic affairs.
In the middle of the Southern Carpathians, about 130 kilometers north of Bucharest, there is a beautiful 300-year-old fairy tale-like mountain town of Sinaia, where the current Peres Palace is located on a slope.
In 1866, the State Council of the then United Kingdom of Romania made a decision to invite German Prince Carol to be the king of Romania. In 1872, King Carol invited German architects to design and build the Peres Palace. After it was completed, their achievements have always been theirs.
It is a holiday place for the Romanian royal family, the Hohenzollern family. They come here to rest for two or three months every year.
But now this year, because this was Romania’s last preparation time before World War I, Edel cited too many domestic affairs as an excuse to not come with his parents and his wife, who was five months pregnant and had a swollen belly. Now Edel’s
All energy is devoted to preparing the Romanian economy to adapt to the war that will begin in the second half of the year.
"Your Highness, this is the latest information on imported raw materials."
A guard took the customs' latest raw material import statistics list and placed it on Edel's desk.
"Okay, I know."
Facing the guard's report, Edel continued to process a report in his hand without raising his head.
Seeing that the Crown Prince had no other questions, the guard quietly left the Crown Prince's office, leaving Edel behind who was still working hard.
"Well…"
Edel stretched out after finishing the business at hand. The document he was dealing with was the Romanian government's latest decree to encourage farmland reclamation. In this decree, the government stipulated that only newly reclaimed farmland
You can get a five-year tax exemption, and as long as each family can cultivate more than 2 hectares of new farmland, they can get government subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery.
After carefully reading the decree, Edel was still very satisfied with the provisions listed by the government. This fully took into account the actual situation in Romania, and the subsidies provided were within the scope of the government. Finally, Edel signed the bill.
Put your name on it.
After finishing processing this document, Edel began to pick up the statistical list of raw materials that the guard had just put on his desk, and planned to look at it. Because Romania is not rich in industrial mineral resources, it is necessary to have raw materials that can ensure the operation of domestic industry.
Edel also attaches great importance to importing. Especially now that World War I is approaching, Edel plans to hoard more while the price is not too high to ensure the operation of Romania's industry. He is also worried about 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"
At this time the door opened and a guard walked in.
"What's up?"
Since I heard this guard say to Edel, "His Royal Highness sent a telegram from Slobria, the Grain Import and Export Association was established, and our man became the president of this association. This is the telegram."
After Edel heard the news, he stood up, took the telegram from the guard and started to read it. This association is very important to Edel. Now Romania's three main export goods are petrochemicals, grain, automobiles and
its spare parts.
Among them, petrochemicals are easy to manage because there is only one Romanian Petroleum Company in the country, and automobiles are also easy to manage because of the existence of the automobile giant Volkswagen.
Only for grain, due to its decentralized nature, there are only some local associations such as the Iasi Grain Association and the Bacau Grain Association. Among them, each local grain association also operates on its own due to various reasons, and some associations even
There were constant internal disputes, so there has never been a national association.
These are things that Edel cannot allow if he wants to use Romania's strong food exports to seek benefits for the country. So he asked the palace manager, Viscount Edri, to find suitable candidates for various food associations and use coercion and inducement to recruit them.
The food associations in the country, which are like a mess of scattered sand, have been integrated.
After nearly a month of hard work, the results were now in front of him. However, considering that the royal family would come forward, those landed nobles had no sufficient reason to oppose the Romanian royal family that was now in full swing.
The telegram sent not only contained the news of the establishment of the Grain Import and Export Association, but also wrote down several important rules. Among them, the unified price of grain and unified export, which Edel attached most importance to, were both written in. During the integration
In this association, it is inevitable that there will be some people who cannot see the situation clearly. I believe they have used many methods. As long as the results are good, Edel will not care about it. He is not a God and can control all the sufferings in the world.
"well done."
After seeing this satisfactory telegram, 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 Edel, although there are still some people who are not afraid of death.
Yes, but these are irrelevant to the overall situation. As long as Eder can decide to whom to export 3 million tons of grain, it will bring generous returns to Romania.
After calming down his mood, Edel picked up the statistical list of raw materials that he had sent before and looked at it. The imported industrial raw materials in this list have also reached a new high, among which the largest import value is rubber. For this kind of origin
From the Brazilian rainforest, and now expanding to Southeast Asia and South America, he can only import a little more to ensure Romania's domestic use. Because Romania is located in the Black Sea, except in the Balkans, it has no external influence and can only purchase in advance.
Stock up and use slowly.
The only imported raw materials after rubber are coal mines and iron ore. Coal and iron ore, which is now Romania's industrial base, are now completely dependent on imports. This makes Edel look at the Austro-Hungarian Bohemian region and the nearest to Romania on the map.
Russia's Eastern Ukraine region is secretly drooling. Unfortunately, it can't reach it. Even if it takes advantage of the favorable opportunity of the First World War, it is impossible to get it. Who said that these two regions in Romania are too far away, and the nearest one is 340 kilometers away.
, Britain and France would not let it go after the war, so Edel could only look at other places to start.
At this moment, there was another knock on the door.
"Come in"
The person who came in this time was the captain of the guard, Kallust. He walked up to Eder and said to the crown prince. "Your Highness, we have just received news that the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary plans to visit Bosnia and Herzegovina in early summer."
