At the end of March, the palace was also full of greenery, but now Eder is the only member of the royal family in the palace in Bucharest. The Carrolls took their wife, Sophie Marie, to the Peres Palace for a vacation, leaving Eder alone to attend to domestic affairs.

In the middle of the Southern Carpathians, about 130 kilometres north of Bucharest, there is a beautiful 300-year-old fairytale hill town of Sinaia, where the current Palace of Peresh sits on a sloping site.

In 1866, the then Council of State of the United Kingdom of Romania decided to ask Prince Carol of Germany to be King of Romania. In 1872, King Carol hired a German architect to design and build the Peres Palace, which has been a holiday retreat for the Hohenzollern family of their Romanian royal family, who come here every year for two or three months.

But now this year, because this is Romania's last time to prepare before World War I, Eder did not come with his parents and his wife, who was five months pregnant, and had a bulging belly, citing too many domestic affairs. Now Eder's entire energy is to prepare the Romanian economy for the war that will begin in the second half of the year.

"Your Highness, this is the latest information on imported raw materials."

A guard holds a list of the latest statistics on the import of raw materials from customs and places it on Eder's desk.

"Okay, I got it."

In the face of the guard's report, Edel continued to work on a report in his hand without raising his head.

Seeing that the crown prince had no other problems, the guard quietly left the crown prince's office, leaving Eder who was still buried in his work.

"Uh..."

Edel stretched out as he finished his business as he was dealing with documents about the Romanian government's intention to introduce a new decree to encourage farmland reclamation. In this decree, the government granted a five-year tax exemption for newly cultivated farmland, and a government subsidy for the purchase of farm machinery for each family as long as it was able to cultivate more than 2 hectares of new farmland.

After carefully reading the decree, Eder was still satisfied with the terms outlined by the government. This took into account the actual situation in Romania, and the allowance was also within the scope of the government's affordability, and finally Eder signed his name on the bill.

After processing the paper, Edel began to pick up the list of raw materials that the guards had placed on their desks, intending to look at it. Because Romania is not rich in industrial mineral resources, it also attaches great importance to the import of raw materials that can ensure the operation of domestic industry. Especially now that the First World War is approaching, Eder intends to stock up a little more while the price is not too high to keep Romania's industry running. He also broke his heart for the sake of Romania's economy.

"Click~Click~Click"

Just then, there was a knock at the door, and Edel put down the information he was about to check and shouted.

"Come in"

Just then the door opened, and one of the guards walked in.

"What's the matter?"

I heard the guard speak to Eder. "Your Highness sent a telegram from Slobolia that the Association for the Import and Export of Grain was formed, and our man became the president of this association, and this is the telegram."

When Edel heard the news, he stood up, took the telegram from the guard's hand, and began to check it. This association is very important to Eder, and Romania's three main exports are petrochemicals, food, and automobiles and their spare parts.

Among them, petrochemicals are very easy to manage because there is only one Romanian oil company in China, and automobiles are also because of the existence of Volkswagen, an automobile giant, which is as easy to manage as oil.

Only food, because of its decentralized nature, is only a few local associations such as the Iasi Grain Association, the Bakwu Grain Association, etc. Among them, the local grain associations are also fighting their own battles for various reasons, and some associations are still in internal disputes, so there has never been a national type of association.

These are all things that Eder cannot allow to use Romania's strong grain exports to the benefit of the country. Therefore, he asked the head of the palace, Viscount Adri, to find suitable candidates to various grain associations to integrate the food associations in the country through coercion and inducement.

After nearly a month of hard work, the results were now in front of him, but thinking of the royal family, those landed nobles did not have enough reason to oppose the Romanian royal family, which was now in full swing.

In the telegram he sent, he not only wrote the news of the establishment of the Association for Import and Export of Grain, but also wrote down several important rules in it. Among them, the unified price of grain and the unified export that Eder attaches the most importance to have been written. In this integrated association, it is inevitable that there will be some people who can't see the situation clearly, and I believe that many methods have been used, as long as the result is good, Eder will not care. He is not God, who can control all the sufferings of the world.

"Well done."

After seeing this telegram that satisfied him, Edel showed a happy expression. With the establishment of the Association for the Import and Export of Grain, most of Romania's grain exports are now in the hands of Eder, although it is inevitable that there are not afraid of death, but these are irrelevant to the overall situation, as long as Eder can decide who to export 3 million tons of grain to, then it can bring a fat return to Romania.

After calming down, Edel picked up the list of raw materials he had sent before and looked at it. The import of industrial raw materials in this list has also entered a new high, of which the largest import value is rubber. For this gum, which originated in the rainforests of Brazil and is now expanding to Southeast Asia and South America, he can only import a little more to ensure that it is used in Romania. Who made Romania located in the Black Sea, except in the Balkans, has no influence on the outside world, and can only purchase and hoard in advance and use it slowly.

Coal and iron ore are the second most imported raw materials after rubber, and the coal and iron ore, which is now the industrial base of Romania, are now completely dependent on imports. This made Eder drool over the map, the closest region to Romania, Austria-Hungary, Bohemia, and Russia's eastern Ukraine. It's a pity that I can't reach it, even if I take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the First World War, it is impossible to get it. Who made both regions in Romania too far away, the closest was 340 kilometers away, and Britain and France would not let their hands after the war, so Eder could only look elsewhere to start.

Just then, there was another knock on the door.

"Come in"

This time it was the chief of the guard, Calust, who walked up to Eder and spoke to the crown prince. "Your Highness, we have just received news that the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince intends to visit the Bosnia and Herzegovina region at the beginning of the summer."