Kazanlak Rose Valley is 30 kilometers northeast of the center, with an average altitude of 200~400 meters, which is the most suitable place for roses to grow in the world.

The best Damascus roses grow here, with warm, humid air from the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the east, and the Balkan Mountains to the west blocking the cold air from the north, resulting in a larger temperature difference between morning and evening than in the center of the Rose Valley.

However, the petals of Damascus roses contain almost no wax, so what protects the fragrance of roses?

In order to protect the fragrance molecules of roses from evaporating with moisture due to sunlight, the natural environment with a greater temperature difference between morning and evening creates more morning dew for roses than before.

The more morning dew, the more it protects the fragrance of roses, which is why the world's finest rose essential oil is always abundant.

The demand for labor in the processing of rose essential oil is very huge. In addition to the large number of workers required for processing, the demand for the number of flower farmers is really huge.

Roses are very delicate, and the best time to pick them is between 8 and 10 a.m. every morning, and only during this time can the best roses be collected.

After harvesting, the roses are sealed to prevent the aroma from evaporating, and then transported to the factory, where the essential oil is processed using a centuries-old distillation method.

Looking at the information that was organized, the more Ferrantz looked at it, the more headache he felt. Rose cultivation is truly intensive, requiring at least two to three experienced growers per acre of land to pick the roses.

The best quality rose essential oil requires more than ten tons of high-quality rose petals to extract one kilogram. Even with the new process, the yield of inferior essential oils is not much higher. (Now it takes three or five thousand catties to extract one catty)

After a preliminary calculation, the yield of roses per mu is only three or four hundred kilograms, so even if it is to extract one kilogram of ordinary rose essential oil, it will take at least fifteen acres of land to be planted.

If calculated according to the production capacity of 1,000 kilograms of essential oil per harvest, it is 15,000 acres. It doesn't seem like much, but if it's an ordinary crop, dozens of people can do it with mechanized operations.

However, if you want to grow roses, you need 30,000 or 40,000 flower farmers alone. Unlike later generations, there can be no problems in the harvest of roses in this era, otherwise the fragrance will be exuded, and no oil will be extracted.

What really bothers Ferrantz is that the flower growers only need so much labor when they pick it every year, and they don't usually need that much manpower.

Hiring so many workers for a long time means that manpower is wasted. If you are invited for a short time, where can you find so many experienced workers?

It is also known that rose essential oil is profitable, but Bulgaria still does not produce large-scale processing enterprises. This means that the Rose Industrial Park will not be established in the short term.

"Do you want to break up the processing plant? Build a small scattered factory? Thinking about it, Ferrantz shook his head again, if he did this, then the processing of rose essential oil would be a chicken rib.

There was no way, Ferrantz could only explain the situation to Ferdinand honestly.

Listening to Ferranz's reasoning, Ferdinand also felt that it was very difficult, the 19th century was different from later generations.

In later generations, it can be handed over to farmers to disperse planting, and then concentrate on processing, anyway, there is automobile transportation, hundreds of kilometers of road, and it does not take much effort. Moreover, it can be refined by chemical methods, and it is bearable to lose a little aroma.

As for the proposed Ferrantz to build a factory in a decentralized manner, Ferdinand didn't think about it at all, he spent so much effort, not just to make a few hard-earned money.

There is no way to solve the employment problem, as long as it is enough for flower farmers to find a stable job. Usually let them go to work as usual, only during the harvest season, they are sent to work part-time for a few days.

Ferdinand opened his mind and thought of a solution: should he learn from the future generations and engage in tourism? No way! What idiot would come to travel this year!

"Ferrantz, see if you can arrange the flower farmers into our other factories and go to work as usual, just come over to help during the rose harvest season!" Ferdinand thought for a moment and made a suggestion that was not very reliable

"Your Excellency, I have also considered this issue, but now that many of our factories are full, even if we want to resettle them now, it will be a drop in the bucket, and we can't afford to resettle them. We can't take the lead in violating labor laws and firing workers at will! Ferrantz said with a wry smile

"Then, just let the workers learn to pick roses~~ This is even more unreliable!" Before Ferdinand could finish speaking, he vetoed it himself.

Seeing that Ferdinand was also worried, Ferrantz proposed: "Your Excellency, why don't we reduce the scale first!" As long as it is not so big at one time, plus the essential oil processing plant and supporting facilities that are about to be launched, we can still reluctantly settle it within 10,000 people! ”

Ferdinand suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Match! ”

"That's right, industrial park, industrial zone!"

Easy, Ferdinand smiled and said, "I have a way!" ”

Ferrantz looked at Ferdinand with some doubts, and a bad premonition arose, His Excellency the Grand Duke wouldn't make any big moves again!

Looking at the confused Ferrantz, Ferdinand did not sell it, and said with a smile: "Ferrantz, I plan to build an industrial park." Set aside a directly subordinate development zone to encourage domestic scattered enterprises to concentrate together! ”

After hearing Ferdinand's words, Ferrantz's face became even more ugly, and sure enough, it was. I thought to myself: this time this co-authorship is to relocate the factory to the past.

Now there are large-scale factories in Bulgaria, which are basically Ferdinand's industry. Encourage? As long as you speak, can you not move?

Looking at Ferrantz, whose face had changed drastically, Ferdinand also knew that this proposal was a little too advanced. Even Ferrantz couldn't understand it, let alone anyone else.

Regardless of whether others understood it or not, Ferdinand intended to promote it in Bulgaria. Later generations have proved that industrial concentration is conducive to promoting industrial upgrading.

Moreover, the birth of each development zone will drive the development of the local economy and provide a large number of jobs.

Ferrantz asked suspiciously: "Your Excellency, now our factories are scattered all over the place, all in order to reduce costs and facilitate transportation, if they are concentrated together, the cost will definitely increase!" And will this really solve the problem we are facing? ”

Ferdinand said in a very affirmative tone: "Of course! Once the development zone is launched, it is equivalent to the creation of a new city, and the infrastructure alone can provide tens of thousands of jobs. You can now be free to recruit people, and then set up a construction company and you can place a large number of people! ”

Listening to Ferdinand's idea, Ferrantz was instantly dumbfounded, and this kind of operation! Ferrantz's three views have been subverted, and in order to do rose essential oil processing, a new city has been tossed, is this the highest level of using power for personal gain?

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When Ferrantz was about to leave, Ferdinand added: "By the way, when Ferrantz goes to the field, by the way, observe where is it suitable to establish a development zone?" ”