Mediterranean Hegemony Road

"Your Majesty, the railway around the Arabian Peninsula has been completed and opened to traffic. All the main lines of our large railway plan have been completed, and the remaining branch lines will be completed in the next two years!" said Minister of Transport Beshir-Ivanlov

"So fast?" Ferdinand asked in surprise.

"Your Majesty, this person has great strength, so his speed will naturally be fast!" Beshear explained

Ferdinand nodded, and he knew what was going on without him. It is estimated that there was a rebellion in the colony, and then a large number of laborers were added.

For its own benefit, the military is very active in arresting laborers.

The railway companies also need to pay for the labor they provide, but the wages are not paid to the laborers, but paid directly to the military to make up for the lack of military expenses.

Now the Bulgarian Railway Company is about to become the largest slave owner in the world, but it is only covered with a legal cloak. Without the selfless dedication of these workers, there would be no Bulgaria today.

Not only Bulgaria, but many countries have risen in this way, but they all put on a legal cloak.

Of course, Ferdinand had to pretend not to know about this kind of thing. The people under him were all good courtiers, and they would automatically take the blame. They would definitely not let him, the king, be stained.

The history books will only record their great achievements. At most, they will mention that the law enforcement at the grassroots level is too strong, and then it will disappear.

The primitive accumulation of capital is bloody, everyone is the same, no one is cleaner than the other.

"Well, your Ministry of Communications has done a good job this time. The focus of the next work is the Grand Canal in the Gulf of Aqaba. How is the progress there?" Ferdinand asked with concern

"Your Majesty, please rest assured! The work on the Gulf of Aqaba Canal is progressing very quickly. We have mobilized 2,000 excavators, 10,000 transport vehicles of various types, and 150,000 laborers to dig through the Grand Canal in the shortest possible time! "Behir replied confidently.

Ferdinand was not engaged in engineering, so I don’t know if such a distribution is reasonable. It’s not just a rough calculation, but calculated based on the 318-kilometer length of the Grand Canal:

On average, there are 6.2 excavators, 31.44 vehicles, and 471.7 people per kilometer. This density is already high enough.

On the planned route of the Grand Canal in the Gulf of Aqaba, the altitude is not very high. There are very few places with an altitude of more than 200 meters. Most of the areas are less than 30 meters above sea level, and many places are still below sea level.

It should not be a big problem to dig out a canal in two or three years.

In the face of such large-scale earthworks, the working efficiency of an excavator is a hundred times that of manual labor. Back then, the French could dig through the Suez Canal by hand, and the Americans could dig the Panama Canal by hand. It makes no sense that now that there are machines, it cannot make the efficiency higher.

"Is this already the fastest speed?" Ferdinand asked with concern

"No, theoretically we can go faster, but the cost will be greatly increased. Right now we are using the most reasonable combination.

At the same time, the construction period and cost are taken into account. If we spare no expense, we can even shorten the construction period by half! "Behir thought for a while and said

"Then let's do it according to the current plan. If the cost is too high, the price-performance ratio will not be worth it!" Ferdinand thought for a while and said

The purpose of excavating the Grand Canal in the Gulf of Aqaba is to get rid of the Suez Canal controlled by the British and take this lifeline into their own hands.

The most direct reason is that the tolls charged by the British are too high, which prompted the Bulgarian government to rush to launch the Grand Canal in the Gulf of Aqaba. If the cost is too high, the loss outweighs the gain.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Beshear replied

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"Your Majesty, due to the impact of the Southeast Asian War, the world's rubber production has been greatly reduced, and the price of rubber has tripled in 1927.

By the end of 1927, the price of rubber in the international market was already 3.6 times that of before the war.

Although the Indonesian rebellion ended, the price of rubber not only did not fall, but rose further,

Already seven times the price of rubber in 1924.

The high price of rubber has seriously affected our domestic industrial development, and the rubber plantations opened up in China will not see any harvest in a short period of time.

The quality of our artificial synthetic rubber is not good enough to be used on a large scale in industrial production. Now the price of domestic rubber products has risen sharply!

This is not the most serious thing. For a long time to come, many of our enterprises may be forced to stop production because they cannot buy qualified rubber! "The Minister of Industry, Lauren, said with a headache.

"What's going on? Is someone acting as a banker in the international market to speculate on rubber prices?" Ferdinand asked with concern

"Your Majesty, it's not that someone is hyping up the price of rubber, but that there is a shortage of goods in the market. Since the outbreak of the rebellion in Southeast Asia, the world's largest rubber producing area, the area controlled by the rebels has reduced the export of rubber.

After the Indonesian rebellion was suppressed, unwilling rebels destroyed rubber plantations, and now everyone fears that rebels elsewhere will follow suit.

Once the rubber plantations in Southeast Asia are gone, the global rubber crisis will erupt.

Now there is a lot of noise in the public opinion, and everyone is worried that they will not be able to buy rubber by then. Coupled with the consortium driving up the price of rubber in the international market, the current sky-high price of rubber appeared! ’ explains Industry Secretary Lauren

Ferdinand frowned. If the price of rubber continues to rise, then Bulgaria will have to replace it with inferior synthetic rubber. Otherwise, this sky-high price rubber company can't afford it!

Natural rubber has high elasticity at room temperature, slightly plastic, has very good mechanical strength, low hysteresis loss, and low heat generation during multiple deformations, so its flex resistance is also very good, and because it is non-polar Rubber, so the electrical insulation performance is good.

Synthetic rubber is no good. In addition to low cost, most of its properties are not as good as natural rubber.

Of course, synthetic rubber is not without good performance. Unfortunately, if the performance is improved, the cost will also increase. The cost performance is too low. It is not widely used in industry in this era.

Faced with this realistic problem, Ferdinand was helpless, either sacrificing quality or reducing production.

"When will the rubber plantations established in our country be fully put into production?" Ferdinand asked with concern

"Your Majesty, some of the rubber plantations that were opened earlier have been harvested one after another, and some of them will have to wait two years later!

It is precisely because of this batch of harvested rubber that we have persisted until now, otherwise the rubber crisis would have happened last year.

Originally, we thought that after the end of the Indonesian rebellion, rubber production in Southeast Asia would recover and rubber prices in the international market would normalize. The government had ignored this issue before.

The biggest problem now is that even if our domestic rubber plantations are fully put into production, they can only meet about 70% of our domestic industrial production demand, and the rest still needs to be imported! ’ replied Constantine

There is no solution to this problem at all. Rubber is different from other products, and it takes at least five or six years to grow. It is impossible to immediately increase rubber production in a short period of time.

"Then let's increase the production of synthetic rubber. We give priority to solving the supply of rubber in special industries. If we can replace it with synthetic rubber, we will replace it with synthetic rubber. Let's get through the current hurdle first!

At the same time, we need to open up some more rubber plantations, so as not to let the rubber get stuck in our necks! "Ferdinand thought for a while and said

Of course, Bulgaria is not the worst. At any rate, there are still some planted in the colonies, and the supply of important domestic industries can still be guaranteed. It is nothing more than sacrificing some less important enterprises.

It is always possible for these ordinary enterprises to use inferior synthetic rubber to ensure industrial production.

Of course, the worst is the industrial countries without rubber production, such as Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland, Sweden and other countries without colonies.

Without their own rubber industrial park, they have no choice but to grit their teeth and buy rubber now that the price of rubber in the international market has skyrocketed. Unfortunately, it is not a matter of money. The bigger problem is that even if they have money, they cannot buy goods!

The main suppliers in the rubber market in this era have always been Britain, France, and the Netherlands, followed by Thailand, and then there is no more.

The main producing areas are in Siam (Thailand), Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

All of them are concentrated in Southeast Asia, and this time the colonial rebellion is precisely in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia, and only one country, Thailand, can be exported normally.

This problem is very serious. The supply of rubber in the international market is already less than four floors of normal years, but the demand for rubber in countries around the world has not decreased, but has increased.

Since there are too many monks and too little porridge, then we can only be strong. At this time, the weak country will definitely not be able to grab the strong country.

Britain, France, and these countries will undoubtedly put political pressure on the Siamese government, relying on off-court advantages to grab the largest share, and the rest will be divided by others.

You don't need to think about it, but with such a small output, the three major countries are not enough to divide it?

Now despite the skyrocketing price of rubber in the international market, everyone can still snap up it. That is based on the premise that the governments of the three countries have not yet intervened. Once domestic capitalists cannot buy enough rubber, government intervention is an inevitable problem.

"Your Majesty, we can communicate with the Siamese government to give priority to ordering a batch of rubber. There is no need to go to the international market to grab goods!" Foreign Minister Megeve proposed

"Okay, I will leave this issue to your Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and all government departments will fully cooperate!" Ferdinand thought for a while and said

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid the military will need to cooperate this time. Our influence in Southeast Asia is too small, and the Thai government may not buy our account!" Megeve explained

"Well, no problem, I will order the military to cooperate with your actions, and you can use special measures when necessary!" Ferdinand said indifferently

Why are great powers called great powers?

If everything is done according to the rules, is it still called a great power?

Especially now that it is still the era of imperialism, as a qualified imperialist country, the gentleness of the Bulgarian government is only on the premise that there is no conflict of interest.

At this time, domestic enterprises are about to stop production due to raw material problems. If they continue to follow the rules, will they still be big powers?

However, Ferdinand's consistent style is to give courtesy first and then fight. As long as the two sides negotiate, then everything is easy to talk about, even if the price is higher, and now the Bulgarian government recognizes it.

If the Siamese government wants to take advantage of the fire and rob, then it has to make a good reason, and warships are the biggest reason in this era.

Not only Bulgaria, Britain and France must also take action.

If you want to take advantage of the fire, you must keep your eyes open. Not all targets can be blackmailed.

You know, after Bulgaria was established for so many years, Ferdinand never took the initiative to invade any country. It has to be said that this is also a miracle!

Of course, this is only on the surface. In fact, all countries that were targeted by Ferdinand ended up with bloody mold.

It was nothing more than that he was a little smarter and created a reasonable excuse. On the surface, Bulgaria was a passive counterattack party, but it was nothing more than a little too hard in the final counterattack.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" replied Megeve

A diplomat who doesn't want to make trouble is not a good diplomat!

In this era, the ability to evaluate a diplomat depends on how many things you have done and how many benefits you have brought to the country.

It's not the kind that ordinary people imagine. After coordinating the direct relations between countries, hello, me, hello, everyone, you are a qualified diplomat.

That kind of slick diplomat is only suitable for living in a small country. The foreign ministries of the major powers have no soft persimmons. When it comes to the ability to do things, everyone is not bad.

It’s just that the problem of means is worth noting. For example, the British Empire has done the most things, but they still control the situation, so their diplomatic ability is recognized as the number one in the world.

Another example: the negative example of Germany, they can also do things, but unfortunately their means are too bad, and they are involved in it themselves, and they are regarded by everyone as the worst diplomatic means among the great powers.

Now the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also not a fuel-efficient lamp, but there is too little room for them to play.

After the rise of Bulgaria, the world has been divided up, and there are very few independent countries left.

Either it was tough, or the interests were too small, or the international relations were too complicated. Ferdinand was not interested in them, and the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs would naturally not make trouble.

Everyone is just a normal business cooperation. On the surface, it seems that Bulgaria is full and has no desire to continue to expand!

Now the situation has changed again. Ferdinand is not interested in Siam, but Bulgaria's industry needs rubber from Thailand. Naturally, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has to take action.

In line with the principle that peace is the most important thing, if you can talk, you can talk. If you can't talk, you don't know what will happen in the end. Anyway, don't expect any international axioms in this era, he is only within the range of the cannon.

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