"Nicholas II wants a loan?" Ferdinand asked in surprise

Queen Xenia replied affirmatively, "Yes! ”

Ferdinand asked with some confusion: "Why don't you go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or go directly to the bank?" ”

Xenia looked at him with very aggrieved eyes, and only after a half-ring did he say, "If it is useful to find them?" Will my haughty brother look for you? ”

Ferdinand smiled awkwardly, he remembered that the decision not to give loans to the Russians had been reported to him by the cabinet, and he did not say anything at the time, and it was passed by default.

"So what is he going to use as collateral? Not to mention mineral resources, these things can't convince the cabinet, 10 billion leva funds is not a small amount, the risk of this business is too great! Ferdinand said with a shrug

Queen Xenia nodded and said, "I don't know, it's best for you to talk to him about this issue in person, it's inconvenient for me to be caught in the middle!" ”

Ferdinand nodded, it is true that on this issue, the identity of Queen Xenia is inconvenient to meddle.

"Well, let Nikolai himself send a representative to talk, such a large loan, the government will not have a good time!"

Queen Xenia nodded, everyone knows this question, international loans in this era are always linked to politics, and large loans are almost impossible to pass without the endorsement of the government.

Unless the royal family is willing to lend their own money to Nicholas II, then no one can control it, and through bank loans, this involves the safety of depositors' funds, and the government must supervise it.

It is impossible to ask the royal family to lend money directly to Nicholas II, if this is repaid, who will reason with it?

Ferdinand is not stupid, the relationship between the two parties is not suitable for the interview conditions at all, or the Bulgarian government or its bank comes forward, the official negotiation conditions are more suitable, as long as there is enough collateral, it doesn't matter if Nicholas II can afford the loan!

Queen Xenia also knew that as long as Ferdinand did not object in Bulgaria, then the loan was very likely to be approved, and the people-to-people relations between Bulgaria and Russia had always been very good, and there were many pro-Russian factions in the government. As long as the interests are guaranteed, everyone will not object to this loan!

Since the domestic stock market has not developed, ordinary Bulgarians have no other investment channels except to deposit their money in the bank, so the deposits of the three major Bulgarian banks exceed that of any bank in the world!

This is also the most important source of funding for Bulgaria's 10-year plan, and many government-invested projects are sold to banks by the cabinet.

For example, the cabinet of the Cabinet does not mind packaging the enterprises in power plants and steel plants in the name of government investment and allowing private capital to enter the industries.

Ferdinand did not mind approving this loan, and there was another important reason, Nicholas II borrowed the lev, and when they got the loan, they also had to import goods to Bulgaria.

A large number of commodity exports are conducive to the development of domestic industry and commerce, and through the export of its enterprises, in essence, this loan has been repatriated again, and the loan of 10 billion leva is actually only half of it, or less!

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The next day, Ferdinand went to the parliament as usual to watch, and the host Rolex Totel was still there dancing his eyebrows, after all, there were not many such opportunities, only a few days in a year, and at other times, he was idle!

"It's a nice day, so let's start the meeting! Today's topic is medical care, which may be familiar to everyone, and the 'American flu' that has just passed is enough to show the importance of medical and health care!

The Ministry of Health and Health submitted 26 plans this time, involving a total investment of 1350 million leva (about 54 million pounds).

Article 1 Establish epidemic prevention stations nationwide, and the work of epidemic prevention stations includes epidemic prevention of sudden diseases, prevention of infectious diseases, and prevention and control of pests and diseases, with an estimated total investment of 130 million leva;

Article 2, the Food Safety Supervision Bureau to upgrade the equipment, increase the crackdown on substandard food, is expected to invest 85 million leva;

Article 3, the establishment of the drug supervision bureau, the market circulation of drugs to supervise, vigorously crack down on counterfeit drugs, substandard drugs into the market, endangering the safety of the people, is expected to invest 70 million leva;

Fourth, the equipment upgrade of public hospitals, it is estimated that 100 million leva will be invested;

Article 5: The Ministry of Health has decided to provide lifelong free medical care to all retired officers and soldiers, which is an expansion of the free medical treatment for disabled officers and soldiers on the battlefield that we have implemented before, and it is estimated that 380 million leva will be invested;

Sixth, for the whole country to lay out township hospitals, within ten years we will have a hospital in every small town, and it is estimated that the investment will be 1800 million pounds;

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It's time to ask questions, so raise your hand if you have any questions!

Okay, second gentleman in the third row, please ask! ”

The man said with some apprehension: "Dear Mr. Karl, has the Ministry of Health considered free medical care for all, you must know that the people of the whole country are facing the problem of difficult and expensive medical treatment, and ordinary people simply cannot afford to bear the huge medical expenses!" ”

Karl Landsteiner nodded and said: "The Ministry of Health has already considered the question raised by this gentleman, but unfortunately Bulgaria does not have the conditions for free medical care for all, and our finances cannot afford this expense."

According to the statistics of our Ministry of Health, in the first half of 1921, the people of the whole country spent 2.63 billion leva on medical care, and this figure also includes many people who gave up treatment.

This number can already make our government declare bankruptcy, so it is not possible to promote it in the short term! ”

The man said unwillingly, "Is there no way?" For example, if we raise taxes, our government can solve the funding gap by raising taxes! ”

Carl Landsteiner smiled bitterly and said: "Sir, your economics is probably failing, if this tax is evenly distributed to each people, it is 125 leva per person, on the surface it seems that this figure is not large, but in fact most of the people cannot afford it!"

If it is added to the head of the enterprise, after the cost rises sharply, the enterprise will lose its competitiveness in the world, and we will face the most serious wave of bankruptcy, then the social crisis will be even more serious! ”

The man fell into silence, and the venue also fell into silence, not because the government did not want to solve it, but there was no way to solve it, and the face cost of medical care is a long-term problem, which requires a lot of investment every year, and this problem is still unsolvable at the beginning of the twentieth century!

Host Rolex Totel broke the silence and said: "We can't solve the problem of free medical care for all now, but it doesn't mean that there will be no way to solve it in the future, this social problem has been plaguing the world for many years!"

However, with the progress of science and technology, our pharmaceutical costs are also falling significantly, and one day in the future, our country will always be able to solve it, so let's continue our meeting now!

Raise your hand if you have any questions!

Mr. from the penultimate row, please ask questions! ”

The man asked, "Dear Mr. Karl, has the government considered the establishment of pharmaceutical companies by the state to promote them to the market at a low price, so as to reduce the price of medicines and make treatment available to more people?" ”

Carl Landsteiner thought for a moment and said: "Your proposal does not meet the conditions for implementation, and there are two issues that we cannot avoid: the first problem - patents; The second problem is technological progress!

Once the government enters the pharmaceutical market, we also have to pay royalties, and at the same time, because of the reduction of pharmaceutical profits, many companies will lose the enthusiasm to continue to invest, and if they want to promote technological progress, they can only invest in full by the government, and these costs will be apportioned to the price of drugs!

In the end, we will find that the government has invested a lot of money, and as a result, the price of drugs in the market still cannot be reduced, and the gains outweigh the losses!

And the function of the government is not charity, we can't invest too much money in one field!

This world is still a world of the jungle and survival of the fittest, don't look at the international peace now, I can just let Nanshan go, in fact, the international contradictions are still severe, but they have been suppressed temporarily!

Prepare for danger in times of peace, is what we should do, remember that our ancestors once said: if war comes tomorrow, don't be surprised, don't panic, this is the Balkans! ”

Everyone's faces sank, the Balkans have always been a powder keg in Europe, the most war-prone region in the world, there has been no war in the past thousand years, and on average it is a region that claims to have wars every week!

It also brought some people's fantasies back to reality, the current Bulgaria is still not strong enough, and although the enemy has been beaten down, it does not mean that it does not exist!

If the old doesn't go, the new doesn't come, and who can say what will happen in the future? Ferdinand also fell into deep thought, perhaps he was still too optimistic, who could be sure that the current international order would not be broken?

At least the colony is a hidden danger, of course, without the intervention of the United States and the Soviet Union, the colonial independence movement has not yet begun, and if it does not break out in thirty or fifty years, it does not mean that it will never break out, and it seems that it is time to start taking precautions?

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