Chapter 441: Future Layout (Part I)

Eastern Galicia became a hot spot for investment, and Eder had heard of it. But this time the royal family's funds have been emptied, and he can only watch dryly.

At present, the government is mainly responsible for investment in the eastern Galician region, and Eder is summoning an ambassador this time.

With the performance of the Romanian war and the rise of national power, there are currently more and more embassies in Romania. But most of them are small countries, and this time one country piqued his interest. Shao Mingren, the new Romanian ambassador of the Republic of China, is being summoned by Eder.

For the Romanian people, the current image of the Republic of China is that they occasionally see in the newspapers that the population is large and the territory is huge, but the war is endless, and the people are miserable. Because there are too few economic and trade exchanges between the two countries, many of the news are reprinted by Britain and France, and they are not familiar with this country.

In the past, the diplomatic affairs between the Republic of China and Romania were handled by the Austro-Hungarian Embassy, but Romania was neither in the place of study nor in economic ties, so there were not many diplomatic matters.

However, with the defeat of Germany and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Romania was suddenly revealed in the Balkans and Central Europe. To this end, the Beiyang government divided half of the staff of the embassy in Vienna and built the first embassy of the Republic of China in Romania, and Shao Mingren was the first Romanian ambassador.

Speaking of this Ambassador Shao Mingren, it is also a coincidence. He had previously been a First Secretary in Vienna, where he was in charge of Romania and the rest of the Balkans, and since Romania was only one of the smaller Balkan countries at the time, he was entrusted with Romania's diplomatic affairs. So all along, he has been dealing with Romanian government officials, and he is also familiar with the situation in Romania.

It was only after the Great War that Romania seized large swaths of new territory and became a more important country in Europe, that the Beiyang government found that it did not have a special embassy to deal with. Therefore, after looking for diplomatic talents who are familiar with Romania, Shao Mingren, the first secretary, came into the eyes of the Beiyang Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Later, Shao Mingren, who was still a little confused by the promotion of several levels, was arranged by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be an ambassador to Romania. Of course, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not ask him to make much contribution to the progress of Romanian-Chinese relations.

As for the opening of the embassy in Romania by the Republic of China, Eder also planned to meet people from his homeland in his previous life on a whim.

"Ambassador Shao, are you still used to living in Bucharest?"

Eder looked at Ambassador Shao, who was still a little unable to let go in front of him, and asked with concern.

Faced with the concern of the Romanian king, Shao Mingren bowed slightly in accordance with diplomatic etiquette and replied: "Thank you for your majesty's concern for me, and everything is fine with the contemptible people who came to Bucharest." Your Government has also been of great help to me, for which I am deeply grateful. ”

After Shao Mingren answered, he was a little happy in his heart. Because the Beiyang government only gave him the funds to open the Bucharest embassy of 10,000 oceans, and the money was finally obtained by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shao Renming had no way to do it. In view of the current fragmentation of the country, which embassy abroad does not have to find a way to generate revenue on its own. How could he, who has lived in Europe for many years, not understand.

However, at present, there are too few economic and trade ties between Romania and the country, which makes it impossible for Ambassador Shao's income-generating plan to be launched.

However, what made him even more uncomfortable was that the high cost of housing and living in Bucharest made it impossible to spend 10,000 yuan of funds, let alone buy a few good clothes and hold banquets to deepen the connection with other ambassadors. So Shao Mingren had a very tight life these days.

Fortunately, the Romanian government was able to maintain the embassy after learning about the predicament of their embassy and giving it some help.

After hearing Shao Mingren's words, Eder continued: "Ambassador Shao, Romania and China have always had good relations. We have imported a lot of products from China, such as pig bristles, tung oil, tungsten ore, raw silk, tea, etc. ”

Hearing Eder's speech, Shao Mingren also replied politely: "Thank you Romania for your love for our products. ”

"However, China imports too few products from our country. For example, Romanian chemical products, automobiles, and processed food products, these can all be cooperated. ”

Eder changed his tone and talked about the current economic and trade problems between the two countries.

Speaking of Romania's main exports, such as grain, petrochemicals and automobiles, China has always been unable to make a profit. This is one of the main factors from the competition in North America. American grain, Ford automobiles, and Mobil oil have made Romania completely unmarketable in this unfamiliar land by virtue of their many years of operation.

Last year, for example, Romania's annual trade with China was 34 million lei, of which Romania imported nearly 30 million lei and exported only 4 million lei. The main imports are pig bristles, tung oil, tungsten ore, raw silk, tea, etc.

Exports are dominated by weapons. The main reason is actually because of the German weapons used by Romania, and China's obsession with German weapons has caused some middlemen to import a lot of weapons and ammunition from Romania, which sounds very funny.

In fact, at present, Romania's exports are mainly aimed at neighboring countries, and there is no pressure on foreign trade with China. However, people without long-term concerns must have near-term worries, and Eder could not wait for the domestic economy to become unbearable before finding a market for it, let alone the famous economic crisis a decade later.

If you open the world map, you can see that Europe is still the engine of the world's economy. However, countries have their own trade barriers, and Romania is unlikely to have much of a share in them, except for a few neighboring countries. Trade with the USSR, which Eder did not intend to do until the first people ate crabs. Besides, they mainly buy all kinds of factory equipment, which Romania itself needs to import.

Africa is a colony of various countries and a dumping ground for the commodities of its suzerain, and even the United States is so strong that it cannot open this market, so it does not think otherwise. And the Americas, don't think about it, this is an economic colony of the United States, and Romania is not capable of challenging it. In Asia, with the exception of a limited number of independent sovereign states, most of them are colonies.

However, among these limited countries, China is definitely the top priority that Romania needs to tackle. Even if the war is even difficult for the people to survive, it has never fallen out of the scope of the world's major economies. Eder clearly wants a piece of the pie.