Time flies, and it's time for the year-end inventory.

In 1925, arguably a watershed moment, the opening of the Baghdad Railway marked the consolidation of Bulgarian rule in the Persian Gulf region.

The impact in the history of the world was also far-reaching, and it laid the foundation for the rise of Bulgaria.

Economically, Bulgaria's gross national income reached 94.6 billion leva in 1925, and with the rapid growth of the economy, the government's fiscal revenue also soared, exceeding 14.2 billion leva.

Of course, this is the lev after inflation, and if you convert it to the purchasing power before the world war, then it will be more than 74 billion leva, just more than Germany at its peak. (1914)

It is not only Bulgaria that has developed at a faster rate, but also all countries in the world, especially the victims of the world war on the European continent, and the economic recovery growth rate is even faster.

Affected by the deindustrialization of Britain and France, a large amount of cash flow in the hands of the consortium has flowed into the market, and the global economy is very good.

What is the growth rate of the world economy, Ferdinand has no economy to count, and it is difficult to count, and the data currently counted by the Bulgarian Statistical Office is only a limited number of countries.

First of all, the British, whose economy grew at a rate of 6.5 per cent in 1925, the highest in 50 years.

The second is the French, whose economic growth rate in 1925 was 7.1%, and the economic recovery rate is impressive.

By the end of 1925, the economic aggregate of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had recovered to the level of 1914, maintaining high economic growth for five consecutive years.

Germany and Italy were affected by the world war, and the domestic economy has not yet returned to the normal trajectory, and it is only because of the transfer of industry from Britain and France that the economy has recorded a perverted growth rate.

In essence, the speed of their economic growth has little to do with the people of the two countries, anyway, the British and French capitalists will not pay a penny of taxes, and the profits they earn have nothing to do with them.

Japan in the Far East has also experienced rapid economic growth, reaching a record 8 percent, but this is on the premise of a rapid depreciation of the yen.

In general, in 1925, with the exception of a few countries that were in civil war, the rest of the countries were growing rapidly, and the world economy was entering an era of false prosperity.

"False prosperity era", this is the definition given by Ferdinand. The main reason is that the current rapid growth of the world economy is based on inflation.

In the short term, the economies of all countries in the world are growing, people's incomes are also increasing, and everyone's pockets seem to be bulging, and there is more money to spend.

But as time goes on, more and more problems come to light.

When Britain and France complete deindustrialization, the funds of the consortium will return to their own pockets and continue to speculate in the financial stock market, and the currency circulating in the market will become tight again.

What should I do in this case? Or, don't care about inflation, keep printing money, put it into the market to keep it prosperous, and postpone the crisis.

Or, crack down on the virtual economy industry, so that the consortium has to transfer funds from the financial market, invest in the real economy, and then increase the vitality of money circulation in the market.

There is no doubt that in the capitalist world, the government has very little choice, and as long as politicians are not stupid, they will choose the first option.

Those who chose the second option all went to God. Anyway, their term of office is only a few years, as long as they survive, there is no need to fight for the next government.

Even the next government that takes over the plate has no choice, if you are lucky enough to continue to dump the blame for the next term, if you are unlucky, then you can only let the economic crisis break out.

The capitalists will not treat their own people badly, and after stepping down, they can become advisers to enterprises, or they can write books and speeches, even if what they write is rubbish, they will become bestsellers.

In short, in this era, politicians who cooperate with the capitalists will have a bright future of money, and they will still obtain it through legal channels.

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Agriculturally, Bulgaria's total grain production in 1925 was 42.84 million tons, an increase of five percentage points over the previous year's output.

In the 10-year plan, the plan to increase grain production by 10 million tons can already be declared invalid, and doubling this figure is not a problem.

Ferdinand still underestimated the enthusiasm of the people in this era to grow grain, although the profit of grain cultivation is no longer comparable to that of industry, but it is still profitable, and if the amount of land is enough, this profit is still very considerable.

From a purely investigative point of view, the average rate of profit on grain cultivation in Bulgaria is now less than 8 percent, which is not at all comparable with the 23 percent rate of profit on industry.

But in the eyes of many, farming is still very promising, for example, an average worker in Bulgaria now earns about 1,500 leva a year, and growing food is equivalent to the profit of two hectares of land.

Although on the surface they seem to have equal incomes, in fact the lives of the workers are definitely more miserable, and the food, clothing, shelter and transportation consume most of their income.

The peasants, on the other hand, do not have so much to spend, and the grain, vegetables, and meat can all be produced by themselves, and the houses are also built by themselves, so they save a lot of money by selling them separately.

Anyway, in Bulgaria, a country with private ownership of land, if you want to build a house, you can report it to the local government, and even if you use a million acres of homestead on your own land, the government will not interfere.

To have land is to be capricious, and now many wealthy nobles in Bulgaria are building castles, and their fiefs are large enough to be tossed around.

Ferdinand originally intended to intervene, but later gave up, according to the Bulgarian constitution, private property is sacrosanct, and people have their own land, and they have the right to decide what they do on it.

As long as it does not affect the interests of others and endanger the public safety of the society, the government has no right to intervene, and he is still the largest landowner in Bulgaria, and the royal family may still own the most land in the world, although most of it is desert.

In education, there has not been much change, it is a long-term investment, nothing more than an increase in the number of new students enrolled in the compulsory stage, in the field of higher education in 1923, two universities have already been added, and the expansion will continue only after 1927.

Between quality and quantity, Ferdinand still chose quality, after all, higher education resources are limited, and he can only choose to cultivate geniuses.

It is worth mentioning that there were no so-called aristocratic schools in Bulgaria, and Ferdinand did not think of creating unnecessary social contradictions by dividing classes in education.

Bulgarian education is very tight in terms of time, mainly more than one month of military training every year, and two hours of physical education every day, which takes up a lot of time, but this is the traditional culture of the Balkans.

Aside from other factors, at least in terms of personal physical fitness, Bulgarians in this era far surpassed other nationalities. That alone makes it worth keeping these workouts alive.

In terms of medical care, this is the one that Ferdinand is most dissatisfied with, and due to the limited times, the speed of improvement in Bulgaria's medical standards is still advancing at a rapid pace.

Immediately, that is impossible, it has reached a bottleneck, and if medical technology is not able to make breakthroughs, it will be difficult for the Bulgarian medical system to make great progress.

In terms of population, by the end of 1925, Bulgaria had a total population of 56,148,600, ranking third on the European continent after Russia and Germany.

Ferdinand had to admire the French in this regard, after the signing of the Treaty of Verdun, the total population of France directly soared to more than 50 million, and over the years, they not only did not grow, but fell by more than 3 million.

A large part of this was due to the political chaos in France, the lack of timely measures after the Great Depression, the huge increase in unemployment, and the repatriation of many people from new territories.

In Ferdinand's view, the main reason for the decline in the French population growth rate was the invention of the condom, which has taken a sharp turn since the birth of this contraceptive artifact.

Before the widespread use of condoms, the birth rate in European countries was usually above 5 percent, and now it is less than half of its peak.

To this end, Ferdinand also did a special survey, he was surprised to find that more than 95% of the adult people in Britain and France have used condoms, and 50~60% of the population have been using condoms for a long time.

In this case, can the birth rate be high? On the contrary, the countries of Eastern Europe are not so developed, everyone is relatively poor, and there is no money to buy this artifact, and the birth rate of the population is preserved.

When he saw this set of data, Ferdinand secretly rejoiced, fortunately this thing was banned, otherwise the birth rate of Bulgaria would not have been so high.

All other things being equal, a high birth rate will naturally lead to a high population growth rate, which is directly proportional to the two.

Of course, it is not unrelated to the government's financial subsidies, otherwise if people really don't want children, they will not have other ways to contraception.

Compared with France, the population growth rate of Austria-Hungary in recent years is still very good, they have climbed out of the pit of world wars, and the total population has now exceeded 54 million.

However, there are more people, and there are more social contradictions, and national contradictions are still the greatest enemy of Austria-Hungary.

In order to deal with these problems, even the theory of the origin of the nation compiled by Bulgaria was used as a textbook for compulsory education, but the time was still short, and the effect was not very obvious.

Industrially, Bulgaria's steel production has exceeded more than 16 million tons, the era of high-speed surge has passed, and the growth rate of steel production in the future depends on Bulgaria's economic development.

The current steel production can already support domestic consumption, and the rest depends on the changes in social demand.

The production capacity has increased to a certain extent, and Ferdinand has no intention of continuing to violate, just enough is enough, blindly increasing production capacity, and in the end he can only pit himself.

If you only count the mainland, Bulgaria's steel production is already the first in the world, and if you add the colonies, the current world number one is still the British, but the gap is very small.

If nothing else, it will be overtaken by Bulgaria within two years, and the problem is mainly due to the industrial adjustment of the British themselves, just like the steel production of France after World War I, which surpassed the British in steel production after World War I.

Automobiles, now Bulgaria is the world's largest car producer and largest user of cars.

Bulgaria already has an advantage in this area, and it won't be long before the pomp and circumstance of cars everywhere will appear in Bulgaria.

Agricultural vehicles and large trucks have been fully used, and the original means of transportation, horse-drawn carts and ox carts have been eliminated.

With the advancement of industrial technology, prices in Bulgaria as a whole are now rising, and cars are one of the exceptions, and the price of cars remains there.

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Transport, whether by rail or road, Bulgaria has made further progress. By the end of 1925, most of the work on the railway project in the ten-year plan had been completed, and it was almost inevitable that it would be completed ahead of schedule.

The progress of highway construction will be smoother, after all, the technical content required for highway construction is still lower, and in the case of sufficient labor, this progress will naturally be faster.

By the end of 1925, the road network in the ten-year plan had almost all the foundation work completed, and most of the sections were waiting to be concreted.

The concrete pouring speed of this era is a bit pitfall, basically on-site mixing construction, lack of corresponding machinery and equipment, and can only be carried out slowly by hand.

In the field of culture, in 1925 Bulgaria exported 36 films, 15 films, a number of stage plays, radio programs, etc.

The results are remarkable, but unfortunately they can't be seen on the books, and the total loss is as high as 10 million leva. There is no doubt that although these cultural products have been exported, the circulation of pirated copies is much higher than that of genuine copies.

Originally, in order to expand his influence, Ferdinand naturally could not fight piracy. Anyway, there is no plan to make money on this, as long as the influence is spread, his goal will be achieved. As for whether it is pirated or genuine, it does not matter.

In the future, the world's largest film and television base has appeared, in the Rose Industrial Park in Bulgaria, where Bulgarian directors like to shoot now.

There is also the mysterious Ankara, which has now become a ghost town, and the Ottomans who were cowering in Ankara have slowly left.

Then with a wave of Ferdinand's hand, Ankara became the horror capital of the whole world and became the first place to shoot horror films.

Broken walls, broken walls, wild grass, no need to decorate, is a natural horror place, has become a favorite of horror film directors.

It can be said that the Bulgarian people were happy in this era, and open-air movies could be watched for one night for only one shilling, and during the day, of course, they could only go to the cinema, otherwise the tapes could not be projected.

In addition to this, there are free radio programs.

That's right, many radio programs in this era are charged, and due to the problem of dissemination, the audience is usually very limited and can only be supported by fees.

This has changed since Ferdinand established a national radio station, and the cost of advertising has naturally increased when you listen to a lot.

Or it was hyped up by him, and when the radio station was first established, there was not much advertising money. After all, in Bulgarian advertising, exaggeration is prohibited, and you must pay full responsibility for the content of the advertisement.

Therefore, many manufacturers do not attach great importance to advertising, especially before seeing the effect of broadcasting.

It wasn't until Ferdinand raised the advertising fee that it caused a sensation, and the initial advertising space was monopolized by himself.

The current bidding for advertising space is still calculated on an annual basis, and the advertising fee for primetime was directly coaxed to 15 million leva per second by Ferdinand himself, and then the Bulgarian automobile group became the bid king.

Since then, everyone has begun to pay attention to radio advertising, after all, people are blindly followed, and the fact that so many large companies are participating in bid-rigging is enough to prove the value of advertising.

Radio stations have money, so they naturally have to elaborate programs, although there are no competitors yet, but the higher the ratings, the better the effect of advertising, and the higher the advertising cost.

Ferdinand was still very clear about such a simple truth, and even in order to cultivate everyone's sense of competition, Ferdinand created seven radio channels at once.

Conduct internal evaluation, and the salary and treatment with high program ratings will naturally be high; The ratings of the program have always been at the bottom, and it is necessary to consider whether you will lose your job.

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