Greece’s Roman Road

Chapter 142: new foundation

Despite these conveniences, setting up the Nobel Prize in Greece also has something to worry about.

The first is the threat of war.

Due to historical reasons, the Balkan Peninsula, where Greece is located, has mixed ethnic groups, religious chaos, and many contradictions. In the foreseeable future, this status quo will not change.

This greatly increases the possibility of Greece falling into the threat of war.

The second is the security of funds.

A fortune of $9.2 million is an astronomical sum in this day and age.

Money moves people's hearts, let alone such a huge sum of money?

Greece's politics so far has never been a place of political clarity.

Nobel's time is short. In order to maintain the award after Nobel's death, the foundation must be entrusted to manage this property.

This requires the location of the award, preferably in a country where there is no competition and social stability.

And does Greece have such social conditions?

Taking into account these factors, Nobel did not immediately give a clear answer to Sophie's request to set the place of awarding the prize in Greece.

He still needs to think for a while.

"His Royal Highness, what you said, about hiring an experienced oil exploration team from Baku, I will greet the family." Nobel picked up the hat on the table and left the Tatoi Palace, ending today's meeting.

After saying goodbye to this important guest, Sophie looked at Constantine and said, "Constantine, why are you courting the Nobel Prize?"

Why win the Nobel Prize?

Think about those later generations who regard the Nobel Prize as the highest award in science. Whenever a country's scientific level is measured, the Nobel Prize must be mentioned.

There are many advantages to having such an award in Greece.

Therefore, Constantine solemnly said to Crown Princess Sophie: "It can be seen that Mr. Nobel respects you very much, Sophie, you have been visiting Nobel more recently, and you must ask Nobel to agree."

"If you can do it, to a certain extent, the goal of your foundation, the goal of restoring the centrality of Greek culture, will be achieved."

"The troubles his foundation encountered during the establishment of his foundation, you should serve more snacks and help. After all, Nobel has not been in Greece for a long time, and he is unfamiliar with his life."

To win over Nobel? He wants to win more than Nobel, even the Nobel family behind Nobel, he also has ideas.

The Nobel family has contributed a lot to Baku's ability to become a city of oil.

If it can win over the Nobel family, Greece will be able to occupy a place in the coming wave of the oil revolution.

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With the help of Nobel, the Greek royal family hired an oil drilling team, carrying oil extraction equipment, to the city of Ferry, 120 kilometers south of the important city of Tirana (now the capital of Albania), in Greece. With the help of the garrison, began to explore for oil in the local area.

Since there is no accurate geographical location (Constantine only remembers that the Italians discovered oil fields here, but where is the city of Ferry, Phuket Island), in Constantine's words, until the oil is found, the exploration team is responsible for Man, Castrios was speechless for a moment.

After arriving in Albania, they only stayed for a few weeks, and everyone complained. The poor Albania also opened their eyes.

I thought that in Europe, the Russians were already poor, but Albania is even poorer than Russia.

After nearly three months of hard work, even Castrios, the manager of the oil exploration team, was almost desperate, and finally drilled the first oil well.

When the viscous black oil gushed out of the ground, the exploration team, in the countryside outside Ferry, burst into tears of joy - finally getting out of this place where birds don't shit.

 

Yakov was nervously sorting out his clothes. Although he was wearing the best clothes in the family, all the finances were looted when the family fled Poland. An old suit, which has faded, is still too disrespectful to meet such a noble person as Crown Prince Constantine.

Instead, he thought that this visit to Crown Prince Constantine was a precious opportunity - to change the family's bad status quo.

When he learned from the newspapers that the royal family was looking for someone with rich financial experience, Yakov felt that his opportunity had come.

"dududu"

Constantine, who was reading military documents in his office, said without looking up, "Come in."

Butler Capet led a middle-aged man, Yakov, who was about 40 years old, and walked in: "His Royal Highness, a gentleman came to apply for a job today, saying that he saw an advertisement of the royal family in the newspaper."

Constantine rubbed his astringent eyes, stood up, and looked at the middle-aged man in front of him: brown hair, big nose, black eyes.

This seems to be a Jew?

After seeing Constantine getting up, Steward Capet stood aside.

"Can you tell me your origin?" Constantine said, looking at this special visitor.

After Constantine received the news of the discovery of oil, he immediately prepared to set up a special foundation in Athens, and sent out recruitment information in the newspaper.

"Your Highness, my name is Yakov, I came from Poland before." Yakov took a deep breath and tried his best to calm down.

"Mr. Yakov, the newly established foundation of the royal family needs competent people to manage it~www.novelmt.com~ First of all, you must have rich experience in finance, business management, etc., you?" Constantine asked. road.

"Sir, before coming to Athens from Poland, our family has been running a small bank in Warsaw, and has been in the banking industry for several generations, so you can trust my professional level," Yakov said nervously.

"Then why did you come back to Athens?" Constantine asked suspiciously, looking at Yakov's old suit.

No matter how small the bank it is, and the financial practitioners are all gold-collar workers, it is impossible for them to not even have a formal dress.

"This, this?" Yakov didn't say anything, with a look of embarrassment on his face.

"Is it because of your Jewish identity?" After all, you are recruiting fund managers, so naturally you need to know the bottom line.

"Yes, there was another anti-Semitic movement in Warsaw before. A small family-run bank was looted. Because it couldn't repay its depositors on time, the bank was forced to declare bankruptcy."

"All the family's property was confiscated by the authorities," Yakov said nervously.

At the end of the 19th century, a large number of Jews lived in Eastern Europe, and anti-Semitic movements continued to occur.

The reason why Yakov felt uneasy when he heard Constantine say Jewish words was because he was afraid of the crown prince in front of him, who also discriminated against Jews.

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