"It's the Romanians, they're snapping up the factories and equipment we've chosen."

After a few days of understanding, Viktorf finally knew who was behind this. However, this result made Viktorf feel a little difficult to do. Because this is in the United States, those greedy capitalists only have money in their eyes, and whoever gives the highest money will naturally sell it to whomever they want.

Although the Soviet Union purchased more from the United States than from Romania, many of the purchases were from cheap factories, and only a few bankrupt factories with technical capabilities were inevitable. So after being cut off by Romania, Viktov found that in many industries such as aviation, steel, petrochemical, shipbuilding, and vehicle manufacturing, there were only two or three kittens left in such factories.

So that Viktov is a little blind, after all, such a cheap factory is bought and there is no more. And those factories that are not bankrupt, unless they pay a high price. And the price of purchasing new equipment is not cheap.

Historically, a large share of the Soviet Union's purchases in the United States were from bankrupt factories, which dismantled back to China, effectively guaranteeing the industrialization of the Soviet Union. But now, as Romania is also throwing money at the United States, snapping up the better factories in Romania, leaving the Soviet Union with only those equipment that even Romania does not look up to. Of course, in industries where there was no Romanian competition, Soviet purchases continued. However, at present, the demand for aviation, steel, petrochemical, shipbuilding, and vehicle manufacturing in the Soviet Union is also high, and this lack of procurement will inevitably affect the industrialization of the Soviet Union.

So Viktov didn't have a good way to do this, so he could only report the problem to the country. In fact, it was not only in the United States that this was manifested, but also in Britain and Germany, where Romanians were snatching equipment from the Soviet Union. It's just that it's much smaller than the scale of the United States, and who makes the United States the hardest hit area at the moment.

So soon the news that Romania was snapping up Soviet equipment reached Moscow.

"You mean Romania in the world, with us snapping up equipment?"

Hearing this, Stalin raised his eyebrows, brandished his corncob pipe. "Can I understand that Romania is unexpectedly stealing old factories and equipment from us without us knowing?"

Stalin's words made Kuibyshev feel his back wet. But he replied anyway. It can be understood in this way that the general (harmony) book (harmony) records comrades. In the case of Romania's scramble with us, the impact on the First Five-Year Plan, which is about to be completed, is smaller, but the Second Five-Year Plan, which will begin, has a greater impact. In the aviation, steel, petrochemical, shipbuilding, and vehicle manufacturing industries, we have enough influence on the goals we set. ”

After hearing Kuibyshev's words, Stalin asked quietly. "How big is the impact?"

"If we still need to meet the targets we set, we need to pay an additional $400 million to $500 million. And this will require our country to export more food and raw materials, but at the moment ......"

Kuibyshev's words were dumbfounded as Stalin waved his hand.

I saw the leader who controlled the Soviet Union said slowly. "An additional expenditure of 4-500 million dollars was nothing for the great USSR. The Communists (anti-harmonious) will not flinch in the face of difficulties. The Second Five-Year Plan must be completed in good quality and quantity, and this is the inevitable choice for building a great Soviet. We want to let the Romanians know that their petty actions were of no use to the USSR at all. ”

With Stalin's final word, the tasks of the local governments under pressure were greatly increased. Especially in Ukraine, which is rich in natural resources, it received the heaviest part of Stalin's gifts.

At a time when the Soviet public was complaining about more export tasks, in Romania, Eder was also looking at the results of the acquisition.

At present, Romania's procurement can be described as quite smooth, and the sudden attack took the Soviet Union by surprise. Many factory equipment was purchased back to Romania at half price.

Eder is in talks with Prime Minister Karaturi about the equipment purchased.

"Your government needs to pay more attention to the equipment that has been shipped back to China. This is a great boost to the development of Romania, and your government cannot afford to let up. ”

In the face of Eder's instructions, Prime Minister Karaturi naturally did not dare to slack off, only to see him reply. "Your Majesty, please rest assured. The Government has made comprehensive arrangements for these devices. Among them, the major state-owned enterprises will take what they need and use it to expand production. And we will dispose of the rest at a low price to the merchants in our country. ”

"But Your Majesty, after the expansion of domestic production capacity, there needs to be enough market. At this point, the market we currently have is close to saturation, and if we want to absorb its production capacity, we can only expand domestic demand and open up new markets. I don't know Your Majesty in this regard, what are your considerations? ”

As for the way out of Romanian goods, this is what Prime Minister Karaturi is most anxious about. At present, the only external markets in Romania are the Balkans and Poland, and as for Italy, Turkey and Western Europe, Romanian goods currently have a low share in their domestic markets. Because high tariffs have raised the price of Romanian goods, and Romanian goods have always been sold at low prices.

It's not that they don't want to sell at a high price, but that there is a gap in quality compared to British, French and German goods. Taking the industrial cutter heads currently sold in Romania as an example, the best quality German products can be used for one month under the same conditions, while Romania can only be used for half a month. This also leads to the current price of Romanian industrial cutter heads, which can only reach 40% of similar products in Germany. Because the price is high, others might as well buy German products.

As a result of selling at low prices, Romanian companies make far less profit than other countries. As a result, the wages of Romanian workers are inevitably much lower than those of countries such as Britain and France, although the wages of Romanian workers are already quite good in the Balkans.

This is where Karaturi's worries about continuing to expand production capacity come from, as Romania's traditional commodity sales countries are saturated, so what should I do if I can't sell them after the expansion of production capacity?

"Prime Minister, you don't have to worry."

The Prime Minister's worries Eder naturally knew it. But he wasn't too worried. Because it's time to reap the benefits.

That's right, if you want to deal with the effect of capacity expansion, Eder has already chosen a target. That friend in the Far East can help him. Cheap and good Romanian goods are better than those in Japan next door. And who wouldn't dump at a low price, this is the stunt of rabbits in later generations.