Greece’s Roman Road

In recent years, Puliakos has been very proud of spring. Since he is also a Greek and has business experience, he has caught up with Cantoriotis, a big man in the Greek textile industry, and has relied on shipping from Greece. The high-quality, low-cost cotton that came, Puliakos, a second-tier cotton dealer, became very popular.

After several years of hard work, due to the excellent sales performance, after consulting Cantoriotis, Priyakos officially obtained the status of the exclusive agent of Greek cotton in the Constantinople area, and the money scene is very good. .

Constantinople, as the largest city in the Ottomans, is also the capital of a country, where high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen gather, and the consumption level is much higher than other cities.

Among the Greek, Jewish, or Armenian tailors and cotton dealers in Constantinople, there were hardly any that Tapuliakos did not know.

It was learned by telegram that a shipment of cotton cloth would be sent from the Greek port of Piraeus to Constantinople today, and Puliakos hurried to the wharf so as not to delay the receipt of the goods.

Leading the five freight carriages, after receiving the goods from the cargo ship, Priyakos directed the coachman to the warehouse area of ​​the dock.

After the arrival of the cotton cloth, according to the usual practice, Puliacos will notify the large and small cotton cloth retailers and tailors in Constantine to come here to wholesale cotton cloth.

Priyakos had just sealed the goods in the warehouse when a team of police suddenly came and surrounded Priyakos in front of the iron gate of the warehouse.

Looking at the ill-intentioned and uniformed policemen around, Priyakos panicked and walked towards the leader, the head of the police station in Constantinople, Sericu, with a smile on his face: "Sir, it happened. What's the matter?"

"Mr. Priyakos?" Sericu, who had a grim face, looked at the businessman in front of him and said coldly.

"I am me"

Before Priyakos could finish speaking, Sericu waved his hand and said, "Mr. Priyakos, you are suspected of tax evasion, take it down."

The surrounding police swarmed up, ignoring Priyakos, who was constantly defending his words, his hands were cut behind him, and he was taken away under the **** of two policemen.

Looking at Priyakos, who didn't understand the struggle, Sericu secretly said: If you want to blame it, you are a Greek.

Yesterday, the British and French businessmen Jefferson and Derek jointly visited the mayor of Constantinople, and Sericu happened to be there.

As an Ottoman official who studied in the West, Sethku was deeply saddened by the backwardness of the Ottoman Empire after broadening his horizons in Western countries.

Although he despised the despicable acts of foreign businessmen bribing Ottoman officials and suppressing business opponents by trading power and money, the words of Frenchman Derek made Sethku agree: Greece exported textiles to the Ottomans and obtained a steady stream of income. Profits, Greece is getting richer and Ottomans are getting poorer, if things go on like this, millions of Greeks in your country will probably change their minds.

It was precisely driven by this sense of crisis that, despite his hatred of the mayor, as a high-ranking official of the Ottoman Empire, for his corrupt and greedy behavior, he still agreed to the suggestion of two foreign businessmen to suppress the Greek businessmen in the country. Commercial activities in the Ottoman Empire.

Among the foreign merchants in the Ottoman Empire, the merchants who really came from Greece had the most embarrassing status.

According to the treaty signed by the Ottoman Empire, foreign businessmen have the privilege of extraterritorial jurisdiction when doing business in the Ottoman Empire.

The laws and government agencies of the Ottoman Empire could not govern foreign merchants.

According to such rules, Greek merchants should also have such privileges.

However, since there were millions of Greeks who ruled in the Ottoman Empire, from a national point of view, such privileges could not be granted to the Greeks. Otherwise, the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire would not be turned upside down?

Due to historical reasons, the Ottomans despised Greece. When facing the Greeks, the Ottomans always had a sense of superiority.

In recent years, after obtaining the management rights of the Congo colony, the economic development of Greece has been smooth. In contrast, the Ottoman Empire is still in the dark and has not seen any improvement.

In this situation, people of insight in the Ottoman Empire saw it in their eyes, and they were anxious in their hearts. Of course, they must suppress and block a major industry such as the Greek textile industry that relies heavily on the Ottoman Empire market.

Thinking of this, Sethku instructed to the left and right: "Confiscate the cloth in the warehouse."

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Tatoi Palace, on the grass, Constantine is teasing his three-year-old son, George.

Crown Princess Sophie sat under the sunshade and looked at the father and son playing on the grass, she couldn't help but smile.

Suddenly, the housekeeper Capet hurried to inform: "His Royal Highness, Prime Minister Trikupis and Mr. Cantoriotis from the textile factory are visiting, and they are very anxious to see their appearance."

Constantine handed his son George to Sophie's arms, looking at Cantoriotis, who was sweating profusely, and Trikupis, who was also anxious~www.novelmt.com ~ asked: "What happened? Gentlemen"

"His Royal Highness, this year, in the Ottoman Empire, there have been many cases against Greek cotton cloth dealers. These merchants have not only confiscated their goods, but have also been imprisoned in the name of tax evasion and evasion." Cantoriotis said eagerly.

The Ottoman Empire is the largest market for Greek textiles. If the Ottomans make a slight move, the Greek textile industry immediately senses a crisis.

As for why Trikupis is so anxious, it is not difficult to understand that the textile industry occupies a pivotal position in the Greek economy, which is different from the financial revenue of Greece in the original time and space, which depends entirely on the export of raisins.

At present, among the main export commodities of Greece, the value of cotton cloth is the first, reaching 130 million drachmas.

As for the second, it relies on the export of medicines from Philip Pharmaceuticals. The market is mainly for Ottoman and Congo, such as artemisinin and morphine, reaching 50 million drachmas.

As for the export of raisins, after the crisis of the market price plunge, although it has recovered somewhat, the total export value is only 20 million drachma.

Relying on the strong rise of the textile and pharmaceutical industries, Greece's trade deficit in the past two years has been almost flat, offsetting the cost of a large amount of imported iron ore and coal.

Under such an economic situation, once Greece's textile industry exports are in trouble, Greece's economy will be significantly affected.

As the economic pillar of Greece, the textile industry is involved in a series of domestic industries in Greece, such as Nobel's chemical plant (dye), the income and work of tens of thousands of textile workers, printing and dyeing plants, and even power stations.

The textile industry is a major power consumer in Greece. Once the textile industry encounters a crisis, the operation of power stations will also be affected.

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