Soon after the new refugee management regulations were promulgated, time passed from 1914.
During this year, the two major European groups began to fight fiercely. After the Western Front passed through the Battle of the Marne, the German and British and French armies formed hundreds of kilometers of continuous defense lines in northern France. The Eastern Front also passed through Lodz.
After the battle, the German-Austrian army and the Russian army also fell into calm. As for Serbia, Austria-Hungary finally occupied Begelled and Valjevo after launching the third attack. However, the Serbs would not admit defeat, and a counterattack was still going on.
It is brewing, it depends on whether the Austro-Hungarian army can defend it.
In addition to the dynamics on both sides of the battlefield, the biggest news is that the German Chief of General Staff Moltke was dismissed from his post and replaced by General Falkenhayn. This was because General Moltke failed to defeat France on the crucial Western Front and was replaced by General Falkenhayn.
Wilhelm II felt that he had failed to live up to his expectations, so he was dismissed.
Romania has also become more prosperous because of this war. At the end of the year, Edel received a report from the Ministry of Finance that Romania's tax revenue will reach 973 million lei this year. The largest increase among them is export tariffs, which increased directly from 87.6 million lei last year to 2.18
billion lei.
Romania's abnormal growth in tariffs can only be explained by raising export tariffs. Yes, Romania used to set taxes very low (6%-10%) in food and oil exports to ensure competitiveness. Now because of the war
Due to its geographical location, Romania has become the only buyer for several countries, so the tariffs have to rise, usually to 25%. This alone has an immediate impact on Romania's fiscal revenue.
Of course, Romania's domestic tax revenue and other matters only developed vigorously in the second half of the year, so this year's tax revenue growth failed to show a rocket-like momentum. However, it has been reflected in the gross national product. In 1914, Romania's GDP reached 7.647 billion lei.
, an increase of 21.36% over last year. It was within the expectations of Prime Minister Bretianu, but unfortunately it did not reach the 25% increase. This is also closely related to the closure of the Black Sea Strait by the Ottomans. Because one of Romania's previous export targets was Western and Southern Europe.
Completely blocked, now various factories can only turn to the surrounding Germany, Austria, and Russia to provide the goods they need.
At present, Romania's private economy basically imports raw materials from various countries, processes them and sells them back to various countries for processing and export. For example, in the textile industry, most of the cotton, wool and other raw materials are imported from Ottoman, and a small part is imported from Russia.
After processing and production in Romania, a small amount was sold to them.
The situation in the steel industry, which is crucial to Romania, is most prominent. After the war broke out, steel plant purchasers in Russia were warned by Russian officials more than once. They were not allowed to export steel products to the Ottomans, especially military supplies. If they found out that they would
Stop exports to Romania. They also know that Germany and Austria do not need Romanian steel, and only the Ottoman Empire has this demand. For this reason, the Romanian government specially summoned the Russian ambassador and told him that Romanian steel was only enough for domestic needs.
Will not be exported to other countries.
There has also been great development this year in the agricultural machinery and equipment that Edel is most concerned about now. As a major manufacturer of agricultural machinery, the Ploiesti Machinery Factory, under the leadership of Director Podosliku, has transformed this main production of agricultural machinery into
The factory has expanded from an annual output of 10,000 tractors when it was founded to 45,000 tractors, and its workers have reached 23,000. After the outbreak of the war, the director of Bodosliku even used three shifts to make workers work overtime.
Additional production of tractors was added, and its orders were scheduled until the end of 1915, which was even more popular than Volkswagen. It was only because of its late start and the fact that these tractors were basically used in rural areas that the Ploiesti Machinery Factory was not so conspicuous.
However, half of the orders placed by the Ploiesti Machinery Factory are domestic. Now more and more large landowners in the country are feeling the convenience brought by mechanized farming. And when farmers quit renting
When the situation of going to cities to work becomes more and more prominent, using machinery to replace the lost farmers has become their last choice.
In order to allow these landowners to change their thinking faster, Edel even ordered the director of the Podosliku factory not to accept orders from abroad and to make every effort to ensure the demand for domestic tractors. Faced with the crown prince's request, Podosliku
The factory director didn't dare to refute, so he could only refuse orders from Germany and Austria. It also made the German and Austrian governments think that something was going to happen in Romania. For this reason, the Austrian-Hungarian ambassador went to Edel to ask the reason, but he was used by him.
In order to improve Romania's food supply, send it back.
At present, the number of tractors in Romania has reached 68,752, and other agricultural machinery is not worth mentioning when comparing the number of tractors. It needs to be pointed out here that Director Podoslicu has not always been obsessed with the current results. In addition to striving for
While looking for ways to expand tractor production, he also hopes to broaden the types of his products. In addition to cooperating with Dean Diesel of the Power Laboratory to strive for another large tractor, he also asked the factory's R&D department to prepare to expand the use of tractors.
scope.
At present, the use of tractors is mostly focused on transportation and plowing before sowing, which does not help with the subsequent harvest of grain. Director Podosliku considered that allowing machinery to participate in agricultural harvesting will improve its efficiency, so as to avoid the loss of grain during the harvest season.
Failure to harvest in time resulted in waste. In the end, they improved the traditional power-storage harvester and invented the hanging harvester.
The mounted harvester is hung behind the tractor, and the power output shaft drives the working parts to rotate. It is suitable for large-area cutting and brushing operations. It is mainly composed of a frame, a saw blade, a transmission device, a suspension device and a push plate. During brushing and cutting operations,
The tractor travels backwards, working at a speed of 5 kilometers per hour, and can harvest 2.4 hectares of wheat every day. This is the new agricultural tool they only developed this year to match the tractor.
Edel is still very satisfied with this year's economic situation, especially several leading Romanian companies. Only if these companies have good profits can they drive the healthy development of small supporting factories in the middle and lower reaches. Of course, the purpose of economic development is to allow Romania to have more capital investment.
To the army, or to develop new weapons and equipment, Romania has too many benefits to gain in this war. Without a strong army, there is no guarantee that Romania can defend its share.
In addition, when a red regime appears next to him, Edel will not be at ease. Not to mention that Edel will know a thing or two about what this red regime does in later generations, and the system of the Kingdom of Romania is inherently hostile to this regime.
