Greece’s Roman Road

Hans saw Kemal staring intently at the tractor working outside the car window, and it was obvious that Kemal was very interested in the tractor: "According to the planning process, after I reported to the University of Athens and completed the handover, the next day I will visit the tractor factory on the spot, if you are interested, you can come and visit together.”

First, they were both foreigners and met in a foreign country; second, they were both young people, in their twenties, Hans had a good impression of Kemal.

Moreover, both in Germany and in the Ottomans, for the sake of interests of both sides, diplomatic relations have continued to enter in recent years, and domestic public opinion is also enthusiastic.

"Tractor factory? Greece can already produce its own tractors?" Kemal lost his voice.

"Yes, I heard that it is near the largest industrial area in Greece, near the port of Piraeus, not far from here," Hans explained.

The carriage is getting closer to the city center, and there are more and more pedestrians and vehicles on the streets.

As Greece's finances improve, Athens must have a new look as the current capital of Greece.

Under the active supervision of Prime Minister Alexandros, Athens began to renovate and expand the old city with great fanfare.

The new urban construction plan, in the preparation process, fully absorbed the advanced experience and lessons in the development process of large cities in Western Europe, and conducted a full demonstration. The designers specially went to Paris, Hamburg, London and other large and medium-sized European cities. Conduct field trips.

After several years of hard work, Athens, as the largest city in Greece, is not a dilapidated small city. With the construction of infrastructure in recent years, spacious and flat asphalt roads and perfect underground pipelines have been built in Athens. Facilities, water supply systems, etc., and a large number of public lighting systems on both sides of the road.

As for the public lighting system, what kind of situation should be adopted has caused a lot of controversy.

Conservatives believe that they should learn from London and adopt the very mature gas lighting street lamps. After all, a big city like London has done preliminary exploration. As long as you follow the rules, there will be no outrageous mistakes in large-scale lighting applications. .

There are also outstanding people who are keenly aware that electric lighting is the best choice in the future, and Athens also has considerable advantages in adopting electric lighting systems, that is, Greece, as a trend-setter in the wave of alternating current, the development of electric power systems has always been in an advanced state. Level.

Moreover, doing so can also promote the application of alternating current, and further promote it in Greece.

Up to now, the main electricity users in Greece are still factories. In terms of personal electricity consumption, it still takes time to popularize it on a large scale. After all, the inertia of society is also very large. As a trendy application, bulb lighting suddenly The public still cannot accept it.

Of course, this may also be caused by the lack of other energy sources in Greece except for electricity.

After learning about the public lighting plan being prepared by the municipal government, I was keenly aware that this was an opportunity to further promote electricity into thousands of households in Greece. The street lamps standing on the streets of Athens are just advertisements, showing the world electric lighting. of infinite light.

Previously, in order to persuade and win over the domestic capital, the Crown Prince Constantine built a small amount of street lights, which caused the citizens of Athens, and even the people near Athens, to come to Athens to watch the sensational effect of the street lights at night, which inspired the lighting manager of the power plant Karl Carl .

Carl went out in person and lobbied the city hall and the prime minister's residence in person, and finally got a promise that, for insurance reasons, developed factories could be allowed to build the first phase of lighting projects and apply them on a small scale.

If the feasibility of bulb lighting for public lighting is verified, Tesla Power will get more contracts.

At the same time, a number of parks have been built in the city. Around these parks, many hospitals, markets, and supporting schools have sprung up.

The large number of these public facilities has given the whole of Greece a new look.

So, in the dim night, the public carriage carrying Kemal and Hans entered the center of Athens, just in time for the lights to come on, which greatly impressed the two who came to Athens for the first time.

Hans looked at the scene in front of him and said with admiration, "It's completely different from the backward Greece I imagined, and it's not inferior to the cities in Western Europe!"

Athens gave Hans a good first impression. It was not as desolate and dilapidated in Central and Eastern Europe as the people in Western Europe believed. His future work place still looked very good.

And the vibrant city of Athens gave Kemal a much more complicated impression.

Think of a city as prestigious as Constantinople. When you walk on the streets, you can see the smelly sewage everywhere. The Ottoman Empire's finances are sluggish, and it is impossible to spend too much money on the sewage system that does not matter.

For a long time in history, Constantinople was the most magnificent city in Europe. In the Middle Ages, those Western European business travelers who passed through Constantinople, when they passed through this city, hardly felt ashamed. .

When there were only tens of thousands of people in London and Paris, Constantinople was a city with a population of over one million.

Just from the nickname of Constantinople "Istanbul", which means "going into the city", you can understand the surging joy in the hearts of those who are about to enter this great city.

I don't know when, the light of Constantinople was surpassed by Paris, London, and even Berlin, these latecomers.

Although Constantinople has many historic architectural monuments, UU reading www. uukanshu.com However, the impression it brings to tourists gradually tends to be negative: the sewage on the streets is rampant, so that everywhere is smelly, the roads that have not been expanded for many years and appear to be narrow and cramped, and the dilapidated and mottled houses.

It is difficult to connect the Constantinople in the history books with the now dreary city.

Since it was late, the two got off the carriage and went to the hotel together.

Just in time for the busy period of the night, in the small hotel's small lobby, dozens of guests were bustlingly seated.

Seeing two well-dressed guests, Hans and Kemal walked in. The boss who was standing behind the counter lit up, knowing that it was a distinguished guest, so he hurriedly stepped forward, took the boxes from the two of them, and said eagerly. : "Welcome to two guests, but there is only one room in our shop"

Looking at the embarrassment of the two, he continued: "The recent period of time is the peak period for guests, and other hotels are also crowded. The two of you will stay in this hotel for one night. If you are not satisfied, tomorrow you will be You can find a nice hotel again”

Hans was not proficient in Greek and could not talk casually, so Kemal was in charge of all negotiations with the boss.

After all, Kemal is from Thessaloniki, a city known as "a city where even shoe shine boys can speak six languages".

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