Chapter 536: The Shadow of the Economic Crisis

Romania's New Deal began with the government's push to start construction.

In February 1930, the Bucharest-Odessa railway began.

In April, the Bucharest, Constanta, Varna ring railway started.

In June, the construction of the Constanta-Bekescho double-track railway began.

In July, the construction of the Bekeshcho-Lviv railway, which was the most difficult to construct, began.

In just half a year, Romania has entered a big construction site, with infrastructure being built everywhere. These infrastructures range from tunnels, bridges, power stations, railways, irrigation canals, and village dirt roads. At this moment, Romania is busy with these infrastructure constructions.

Since everyone is so busy, Karaturi, as the top official of the government, is no exception. Now that he opened his eyes, there was a lot of stuff waiting for him to deal with. In the Prime Minister's Office, the secretary is reporting to Karaturi on the matters that need to be dealt with at the moment.

"The Prime Minister, the Transanis province, has sent a report stating that their current stockpile of building materials is no longer sufficient to support the province's construction tasks. It is hoped that the government will be able to coordinate a sum of material supplies to the province. ”

Listening to the secretary's words, Karaturi felt a little strange, so he asked. "This is directly transferred to the construction department, why did you put it here for me?"

"Didn't Minister of Transport Li Dier go down to inspect it, and the few other people who could take care of this matter were not in Bucharest, so they were transferred to Your Excellency."

The secretary's explanation relieved Karaturi. Now the country's large-scale infrastructure construction is too busy for the Ministry of Transport, and it is purely normal for some things to be transferred for their own review.

So after listening to the secretary's explanation, Karaturi picked up the report and reviewed it. In fact, Transylvania didn't want much, only 30,000 tons of cement, 20,000 tons of steel, and some other materials.

It doesn't seem like much material in Karaturi, but it looks very good in Transnicika.

Although Transylvania has a very high strategic position in Romania, when it comes to economic development, it is a handful of snot and tears, which makes people sad. Since the liberation of the province, the province has received little financial support from the government, except for some aid at the beginning that was like pepper noodles. From the previous development of Western Galicia to the subsequent infrastructure development plan, Transiniva was the one with the smallest share. This has left two million people in the province disappointed.

However, this is not to blame for the government's lack of support for Transiniva, as you only need to look at the map to see why this is the case. Transiniva almost encompasses the Carpathian Mountains in the country, and its territory is either mountainous or hilly. Moreover, the hilly areas adapted to human life still account for only two-fifths of its territory, which makes it impossible for a government that is a major economic development to invest a lot of money here.

The importance of Transiniva is also not evident in the present time of peace, and only in times of turmoil in Europe will the importance of the region for Romania be revealed. Therefore, the province's economic growth has been ranked at the bottom in recent years, so that the originally wealthy areas are gradually showing a situation of inadequacy. Of course, the government is also well aware of this, so it took the opportunity to build and allocated a large amount of materials for the area. It is mainly used for the construction of water conservancy and the expansion of roads.

Having solved the problem of building materials in Transeniva, Karaturi continued to listen to the secretary's debriefing.

"Then there was an accident in the county of Bakou in the province of Moldavia. When the road was being built here, a landslide caused by artillery was opened, killing 19 workers. ”

Hearing that the accident had been triggered, Karaturi's expression became serious. "How's the aftermath going?"

Karaturi is not afraid of accidents, how can the construction project prevent accidents from happening. The most important thing is to reassure the families of the victims, so as not to cause delays in construction and dissatisfaction with other workers.

It was clear that the secretary also knew where Karaturi's focus was, so he also said it directly. "The local government has sent people to appease and give enough pensions. The family members did nothing but grief. ”

"Who built that section?"

It's no wonder that Karaturi asks. Because the current construction projects are too huge for the state-owned construction companies to afford all of them, they will inevitably give a lot of tenders to private companies, which have all kinds of big and small private construction companies, and the prime minister is afraid that these private companies are only concerned with making money and not caring enough about the workers.

The secretary pulled out the information and said. "It's a construction company called Hilco, which was founded by a local guy who has a Hilco, but three more shareholders six months ago."

As soon as Karaturi heard it, he knew that this was supposed to be a construction company composed of local officials and businessmen. It is estimated that a local businessman has given a company that can determine the shares of the tenderer, and Karaturi has seen a lot of this. So he said. "Knock this company on and get them to pay attention to the safe work of the workers. If something so serious happens again, they will be disqualified. ”

"Okay, I'll post an inquiry in a moment."

"Anything else?"

Karaturi asked about the secretary.

"And here's a report on the pullback in Polish exports."

The secretary said, handing the report to him. "This is what customs has just done."

Karaturi looked at the export report and couldn't help but say, "How can it have dropped so much." ”

It turned out that in this report, Romania's exports to Poland fell by as much as 24%.

The economic crisis has gradually affected Europe, and now all countries are suffering greatly in the face of this crisis. The massive unemployment of workers also affected Poland's most important grain export. And the sluggishness of Poland's exports naturally affects its spending power. In the middle of 1930, Poland's imports and exports were 18% less, with exports falling by 13.7% and imports by 28.4%.

As Romania's largest exporter, Poland's sharp decline in import and export trade has been most directly affected. A large number of orders from Poland have been cancelled, leaving these factories with under-operating rates. Fortunately, domestic consumption has not been reduced so far, and the operation of these factories can be guaranteed. If the domestic economy is also sluggish, it will be the most uncomfortable, and I believe that many factories will face the danger of closure at that time.

So this made Karaturi feel the importance of this matter at once, and after taking care of the other business at hand, he immediately rushed to the palace, where he planned to find a way for King Eder.