While Sodavar and Hestina were having a good time, the Ploiesti Mechanical Works was also commissioned. As has always been the case, Prince Eder will definitely attend the Ploiesti Machinery Factory, which has invested up to £620,000. In fact, the crown prince did come to inspect it, not because of its size, but because of its products. A week after the machine shop was put into operation, Eder came with his guards to inspect it. He was greeted by the director of the plant, Podosriku, with a group of current machine plant executives, and Sovalier, as the head of the assembly plant, also had a seat at the tail of the greeting procession.

Director Podosriku has been a little depressed lately, and his baby daughters, Hestina and Sovalier, have been playing hard lately, which has made him feel a little uncomfortable. It felt like his treasure, which he had treasured for many years, had been stolen by a thief, which made him a little angry every time he saw Sovalil. Of course, Sovalier knew that Hestina's father was unkind to him, but he couldn't help it, who made him like Hestina. Now, regardless of the relationship between the two future sons-in-law, Eder arrived at the door of the machine factory in the car.

A large group of high-ranking officials of the machinery factory immediately came to greet the crown prince, led by the returning director of the factory Podosriku. In fact, Eder has been a little depressed lately, and since the two maids knew that he might marry the Austro-Hungarian princess, they began to ask for it frantically at night. The tigers couldn't stop the wolves, and Eder was soon defeated by the two maids. If it weren't for his young body and strong resilience, he would probably walk sour now, wouldn't he have escaped this inspection?

"I've seen Your Highness." A group of machine factory executives greeted the crown prince when they saw Eder stepping out of the car, led by Podosriku.

"Okay, you're welcome."

When a group of people heard the crown prince's greeting, they straightened up and stood aside. Led by the director of the Bodoscu factory, Eder walked into the factory.

Podosriku knew what the crown prince wanted to see, and took him directly to the few tractors that had just been built in the factory. "Your Highness, please see, this is a Volcker brand tractor that our factory has just made. It is designed with large and small wheels, with two front wheels with a diameter of 60 cm and a width of 10 cm, and a rear wheel with a diameter of 120 cm and a width of 25 cm under the driver's seat. This effectively ensures that it can be driven on fields and dirt roads. He uses a 28-horsepower twin-cylinder in-line diesel engine developed by the power laboratory, which can ensure the efficiency of this tractor. Your Highness, please see, and we have also equipped it with a large number of agricultural tools that will allow it to be a generalist in the countryside. ”

Edel looked down and saw several tractors neatly placed together. One of them also has a plow, a harrow, a small flour grinder, and a trailer for transporting goods, etc., which fully demonstrates the versatility of the tractor. These are all things that Eder told Podosriku about the tractor and its main role in later generations, and now he has placed it here, which is not a reflection of his own ideas.

"Director of Podosriku, you've done a good job." Edel spoke to him as he looked at the tractor in front of him.

"Half of this tractor is the work of His Highness, I just made it." After receiving praise from the crown prince, Podosriku patted the crown prince's ass a little.

After hearing the words of the director of the Portosriku plant, Eder did not intend to dwell too much on this and continued to ask. "What is the current production of this tractor, how much do you plan to sell it, and what is the sales situation? How many people are interested. ”

After hearing Eder's question, the director of the Podosriku plant first spoke about the production situation. "Your Highness, we have only started production now, and the personnel are not yet proficient in these equipment, and now we can only produce 20 tractors a day. I promise that in half a year we will increase the production to 45 tractors. ”

After talking about the production volume, the director of the Podosriku plant talked about the price. "Since our tractors are generally used in rural areas. Taking into account the difficult terrain in the countryside and the high requirements for durability, we intend to sell it for around 4500 lei. ”

Eder asked him a little puzzled when he heard that it was going to sell for £180, which wasn't more expensive than the Model T. "Isn't that a little too expensive?"

After hearing the words of the crown prince, the director of the Podosriku plant added. "The main reason is that the production cost of diesel engines is a bit high, and the amount of rubber used is relatively high (please refer to the current tractor tires), we must sell at such a price to be profitable."

Eder continued. "Have you considered whether the market can accept it?"

Director Podosriku replied. "We have surveyed that this tractor is quite suitable for people who have large fields, and we have a market of almost 3,000 units in our country. Now our tractor is more advanced and fuel-efficient than the tractor company of the British Holt, I believe that there is a demand for almost 50,000 units in Europe, and even more sales in the United States. ”

Eder didn't comment on his domestic estimates either, because he knew that the director of the Podoscu factory had underestimated. There are now 6.13 million hectares of arable land for the main crops in Romania, which are now largely cultivated with storage capacity. Romania now has a land area of 160,000 square kilometers, and 80% of the country's land area is plains. After deducting rivers, cities, roads, swamps, etc., the amount of land that can be developed into arable land is about 4.5 million hectares.

The reason that restricts Romania from continuing to develop is that there is not enough manpower to develop it. The total population of Romania is now 7.64 million, with 5.18 million people living in rural areas. The per capita cultivated area of 1.18 hectares is considered the limit of accumulating farming.

Considering that the tractor is more than four times more charged, it is not as squeamish as the livestock. The launch of this tractor on the market will allow Romania to reclaim more land to grow food. It will also allow more people to enter the city and expand Romania's industry. Eder knew that food would be the key to making money in World War I. Others can be endured, and there are alternatives that can be exchanged, but food is not good, this is a necessity. In the future, Romania will be able to make enough profits from both camps with the help of grain, which is why he must strengthen his army first.

Eder spoke after listening to the answer from Director Bodosriku. "For domestic sales, you can initiate tractor loan business with ICBC."

The director of the Podosriku factory couldn't keep up with the crown prince's advanced thinking, so he had to ask. "Your Highness, what is a tractor loan?"

Seeing this, Edel had no choice but to tell him carefully about the pattern of the rotten streets in his previous life. "This kind of loan business is to buy a tractor and only pay a certain percentage of the money, and the bank will lend him the rest of the money with the buyer's mortgage to make up for the lack of money."

Director Podosriku still didn't understand a little and asked carefully. "Your Highness means that I sell a tractor for five thousand lei, and the buyer will only pay two thousand five hundred lei, and the bank will give me the rest for him, right?"

The crown prince understood this pattern as soon as he saw the director of the Podosriku factory, and replied with satisfaction. "That's right, that's what you said. The other part is counted as the purchaser's borrowing from the bank. ”

After learning about the state of the machine shop from the director of the Podoscu factory, Eder took a look around the factory again. On the whole, he was still satisfied with the inspection, and now Eder is worried that the tractor production will not be able to keep up by then. After the inspection was completed, he said to the director of the Podosriku factory before getting into the car. "Now I'm quite optimistic about the production of this tractor, but your production is very problematic."

Podosriku spoke after hearing the crown prince's concerns. "Your Highness, I have already planned for this, and this is based on the method of Volkswagen. As soon as there are signs of popularity, we will continue to recruit people and switch the current workers to three shifts. Gradually take the new person to do things. In my estimation, it only takes one week of buffering skills to increase the daily production to more than 25 vehicles. ”

After hearing Podosriku's confident words, Eder spoke. "I'm sure you can do it." I got in the car and went back.

A month later, the Volker tractor produced by the Ploiesti Maschinenbau was launched. The first batch of more than 600 tractors was put on the market. With excellent quality, low cost of use (at that time, the price of diesel was less than one-third of that of gasoline), and all-rounder, the market response was quite good, and 300 units in the European market were sold out in only 7 days. Of the 300 cars that were put on the domestic market, due to the idea of the crown prince, the Romanians were sold out in only three days where they were the opponents of later generations of marketing methods.

Only then did Podosriku realize that his previous plan was a joke. I had to do it according to the plan first, and asked the crown prince to add an additional 200,000 pounds, and then find a bank loan of 400,000 pounds, and urgently purchase equipment from Germany to expand the factory.

While the tractor was being treated like a Volkswagen before, Eder was sitting in his office listening to the chief of guard report on the changes in Romania over the past five years.