As the victorious power, Romania also sent a team led by Foreign Minister Barnosque to the London negotiations, but just as a show. At the time of negotiations with Bulgaria, Romania's deserved spoils of war had already been negotiated. Sending people there now is only an indication that Romania is also a Balkan Confederation.

Faced with the present favorable situation, the countries of the Balkan League demanded that the Ottoman Empire cede all European territories west of the line from Midia to Enez, and all the islands in the Aegean Sea.

Faced with this situation, the Ottoman government did not dare to agree easily. Because if it were to be divided in this way, the Ottoman Empire would lose all its territory in Europe, except for a small part of Istanbul. There are 6.5 million people of all nationalities living in the lost European territories, including 1.5 million Ottomans themselves, and this is the reason why they have been slow to make up their minds.

In Romania, Eder didn't care whether the Ottomans could make up their minds or not, and it had little to do with Romania.

Now he was concerned about how Romania's economy would not be affected by the war, and after the armistice came into effect, Eder summoned Prime Minister Brettianu to understand the situation.

"Your Highness, this is the recent situation of import and export trade."

Prime Minister Brettianu was in the crown prince's office and handed him a report on the investigation.

Edel took the report and looked. In this report, from October 21, the date of the declaration of war, to November 21, the date of the armistice, the total value of Romanian imports and exports was 43.1 million lei. Among them, the import value is 20.67 million lei, which is not much of an impact compared to 21.19 million lei in September, which was not affected. This is because Germany, Romania's main importer of machinery, was previously transported by rail, and only a few parts that could not be transported by rail were shipped by sea. Russia, the importer of resources, is on the Black Sea, and Romania, despite the declaration of war, did not send troops, and the Ottomans did not want to provoke Romania, so the transportation in the Black Sea was not affected, so the decrease in imports was not obvious.

The export value was 23.43 million lei, compared with 29.71 million lei in September, a decrease of 6.28 million lei, which is still not a small impact. The main factor is that Romanian exports are facing wealthy regions such as Western and Southern Europe, and the cost of rail transportation is 5-7 times that of sea freight. This has led to an increase in the price of automobiles, petrochemicals and grain exported by Romania.

In the UK, Romanian Model Ts have generally risen in price by around £10 in Europe. And Romania's grain rose from £8 6 shillings per meal to £9 1 shilling. As a result, Romania's exports have become much less competitive across Europe. At present, the market share of European automakers has increased by 2 percentage points to 31% in the price of Model T cars during this period. Romania's traditional grain exports have also been squeezed by Russia. The same is true for petrochemicals, which have been seized by oil companies such as Shell and Standard to occupy a lot of Romania's traditional Italian market, which also makes Smith of Romanian Oil Company a little nerve-wracking.

After reading the documents of the investigation, Eder expressed his opinion to Prime Minister Brettianu. "It seems that the impact on the economy is still not small."

Prime Minister Bretianu agreed. "Yes, Your Highness, we should be glad that this war has been fought for a short time, otherwise the economic impact is really not small."

Prime Minister Bretianu went on to address other issues. "And we were too optimistic about the idea of rail transport."

Eder heard that there was a problem with the rail transport, and he couldn't sit still. This is related to Romania's exports in World War I, and if there is really any problem, the impact will be too great. He hurriedly asked. "Is there anything wrong with rail transport?"

Seeing the crown prince's somewhat anxious expression, Prime Minister Bretianu said truthfully even though he didn't know the reason. "In the past, we did not take the personnel factor into account, and in the actual railway transportation, due to the lack of professional loading and unloading tools, a large number of goods were piled up in the freight yard of the railway station. Later, we increased the level of loading and unloading by adding more stevedores, and although the efficiency increased in a short period of time, the cost increased a lot. And in the following time, the level of loading and unloading is still slowly decreasing. ”

After hearing the Prime Minister's words, Eder knew that he was missing one link. It seems that he will solve the problem of loading and unloading in the large-scale railway transportation link as soon as possible.

In reality, the problem of loading and unloading was much more serious than Eder thought, with Constanta, the largest port in Romania. With a large number of gantry cranes, cranes, conveyor belts, trucks and other specialized loading and unloading tools, the problem of manual loading and unloading has been completely abandoned. It can handle 1,500 tons of cargo and 800 tons of oil per hour.

However, there are only a small number of specialized loading and unloading tools for railway transportation, which can achieve 500 tons of cargo loading and unloading per hour and 300 tons of oil transportation under normal conditions. Romania had previously recruited an additional 4,000 stevedores to ensure the transportation of goods by rail. This makes the already costly rail transport even more difficult, and adds to their cost problems.

After thinking for a moment, Eder asked Prime Minister Brettianu. "Has the transportation department considered increasing the loading and unloading of railways?"

Bretianu did not understand why the crown prince was so concerned about the issue of mass transportation by rail. But he still answered truthfully. "The transportation department hadn't thought about it before, but I'll ask them to come up with a plan like that when I get back. I wonder how far His Highness is going to raise rail transport? ”

After some calculations in his mind, Eder spoke to Prime Minister Brettianu. "I want to be able to make the railway fully meet Romania's exports."

The Prime Minister was stunned to hear the Crown Prince's request, which was to completely rebuild a port of Constanta, and to take a completely land-based port. Prime Minister Brettianu didn't think much about it, and immediately retorted. "Your Highness, now the Romanian railway cannot meet the requirements you said, our previous situation can only be done in a short time, and the loss of the railway in the long term is too great."

Hearing Prime Minister Brettianu's words, Eder asked subconsciously. "How about we upgrade the railroad?"

Prime Minister Bretianu spread his hands and said. "Your Highness, the financial situation does not allow it. We can only increase the loading and unloading speed on the existing rail transportation, and now it seems that 1,200 tons of shipments per hour is the biggest limit. ”

Hearing the Prime Minister's words, Eder himself knew that he had said a fool's errand, that Romania's finances had just improved, and that it would only be possible to expand the railways after World War I.

After Edel relieved his embarrassment and continued to chat with the prime minister, the prime minister also left with a smile.

A few days later, the prime minister came to Eder with a plan for the expansion of the railway made by the transport department. Eder couldn't help frowning when he saw that the total equipment such as gantry cranes, cranes, and transmission pipelines listed in this plan would cost a total of 14 million lei.

When Prime Minister Bretianu saw it, he explained to the crown prince. "These are calculated expenses, and everything is reasonable."

Edel took a look at it, picked up the pen, and signed the word "agree" on it.

Romania's rail freight expansion plan officially began after the signing of Eder, according to the plan, the railway department will carry out freight expansion of railway stations in several important cities such as Bucharest, Constanta, Ploiesti, Iasi, etc. The construction period will be nine months, and when completed, it will meet 75% of Romania's export volume and can be transported by rail.