Chapter 506: Returning to China
The Port of Constanta has long been the largest port in Romania, with no counting of goods and passengers passing through it every day. Despite the fact that the port of Ossad had better natural conditions after the capture of Western Ukraine, it could not shake the status of the port of Constantine as the largest port in Romania.
Because Ozad is the first choice for shipping to the Ukrainian region, while Constanta is the first choice for shipping to the original territory of Romania. At the moment Romania has only Western Ukraine in its hands, the rest is in the hands of the USSR, and the USSR will definitely not put its own sea transport in Odessa. Now they are building the naval port of Sevastopol, which they intend to use as a commercial port. As for its Black Sea Fleet, it can only be crowded with merchant ships in this port, and I heard that the new military port is already being discussed by the Soviet Union.
Today, the port of Constanta is crowded with people, and many residents spontaneously flock to the port. Because King Eder, who has been absent from Romania for half a year, will arrive today.
As a loyal and patriotic subject, how can you miss the king's return to the country (watch the excitement).
As for the people who greeted Eder, it was headed by Prime Minister Karaturi. The taste of monopolizing power for half a year made Karaturi very addicted. But he was not deceived by power, and knew exactly who gave this situation. This is also the reason why he brought people to Constanta to greet him immediately after receiving the date of Eder's return.
Eder's cruise ship soon appeared in front of everyone, and some onlookers began to cheer spontaneously. And Eder, who was on the ship, couldn't help but feel at the crowd of people welcoming him in the port of Constanta. I haven't been home for half a year, and I'm finally home.
When Eder set foot on Romanian soil, the cheers on both sides were fully released.
Prime Minister Karaturi walked briskly up to him. "Welcome back to your majesty."
"Thank you to the Prime Minister for coming to the port to greet him personally."
"Nothing compares to the contribution that His Majesty has made to Romania on this visit."
After talking to the prime minister, Eder also greeted several other ministers who greeted him.
"Sir Edward, you're here too."
"Hello, Herke."
Of course, Eder did not forget to greet his subjects, after greeting them. Edel waved his arm at the crowd around him, as if as if as a signal, and the cheers of the audience reached their peak.
And Eder, after doing all this, left in a car with the Prime Minister and others. Today he does not plan to stop in Constanta and return to Bucharest directly by train.
"Your Majesty, we have already spoken to the Italian side about Mobil's stake in the Ilo Oil Company. The Italian side agreed, and the final result of the negotiations was that we and Italy each gave up 10% of the shares, and Mobil took a 20% stake in drilling, pipeline and other technologies. ”
On the train, Prime Minister Karaturi is reporting to Eder about Mobil's stake in Iro Oil.
And Eder listened to the Prime Minister's report and couldn't help but say. "That's what Mobil deserves. Their drilling skills are much better than ours, and I heard that they can pump oil from a depth of 1,500 meters. Moreover, its petroleum refining technology is also the best in the world at present, which is worth learning from our country. ”
There's a reason Eder says that. At present, the petroleum refining technology used by Mobil can achieve 1 ton of crude oil to 0.215 tons of gasoline and 0.394 tons of diesel, and the refined oil rate is 63.7%. At present, Romanian oil companies can only reach 0.170 tons per ton of crude oil to refine gasoline, 0.371 tons of diesel, and the refined oil rate is 54.1%. That's 9.6 percent less, close to 10 percent of refined oil, which is a huge waste.
Eder's words drew the approval of Prime Minister Karaturi. "Your Majesty, I will write to the oil company. Let them increase their investment in petroleum refining technology, and strive to narrow the gap between them and Mobil. ”
"That's the only way to go."
Edel knew that Karaturi could only console himself, because the improvement of petroleum refining technology required a lot of money. And given the current task of the oil companies, this is very unrealistic. Because at the moment the government needs the profits of Romanian oil companies to develop the economy, and will not leave them much money. In addition, the scale of Romanian oil companies is still too small compared to Mobil and Shell, and the capital is not abundant.
At the end of the day, the current oil fields owned by this company are too small, unlike the other ones, which are all large oil fields. And the location of the big oil fields that Eder knows is currently beyond the reach of Romania. In the future, the Middle East will be full of oil, which is currently the sphere of influence of Britain and France. And not the state of oil, but also in its colonies. It was only by taking advantage of Italy's connections that it was possible to extract oil in its colonies, but this was instead exploited by Mobil.
In the end, Romania is not strong enough, and the current strength is heavy industry. At present, Romania's heavy industry needs to be developed. However, heavy industry needs raw materials, which in turn involves minerals. It can be said that it is a matter of time to develop and expand Romania.
In addition to this, Eder is not very satisfied with the current Romanian agriculture. Although agriculture in Romania is not bad at the moment, too many people are involved in the land. This will affect the industrialization of Romania. And Edel has visited so many countries, and gradually has an idea in his mind. That is, mechanized farming should be expanded, and more peasants should be turned into workers in the cities. Anyway, they have enough education, and there is no problem at all in being an ordinary worker.
Eder, the big farm in the United States, couldn't learn, didn't have that much money, and Romania didn't have that much arable land. But the Soviet Union next door did a good job in this regard, but that kind of model could not be used directly, and there were too many links that needed to be improved, which needed to be explored slowly by him and his officials.
From here, we can see that it is not easy to govern the country, and the ancients did not deceive me. There are too many aspects to consider, and there are so many problems in Romania that need to be decided by himself, and Eder can only learn from the experience of later generations, and sometimes he is not clear and can only know by trying one by one.
On the train, Eder and the prime minister discussed issues such as oil and agriculture. In this respect, Karaturi is much worse than the former Prime Minister Brettianu, because he was previously the Minister of Industry, and he knows nothing about agriculture. As for oil, the mayor of Ploiesti still knows a little.
Eder could only smile helplessly. I know his shortcomings, but I still choose him, I should think of this result.
The conversation was not pleasant, but it was also not dull, and when the lights were on, Eder and his party finally arrived in the capital, Bucharest. I don't know if his son Victor has turned the palace upside down.
"Bear child, your happy hour is over."