Of course, Bulgaria's industry is still dominated by light industry, among which agro-processing enterprises are the most prominent.

There are 84 agricultural product processing enterprises in the country, accounting for 25% of the total number of enterprises, and 8 processing enterprises with assets of more than 5 million leva. Its total output value accounts for 35.4% of the total industrial output value, and the flour mill ranks first in the food industry.

However, the monopoly economy is still dominant, and Ferdinand's Shuanghui Food Group, a single enterprise occupies more than 70% of the output value, and almost monopolizes all exports!

In the field of machinery manufacturing, it is still the biggest shortcoming of Bulgaria! Except for the "Bulgarian Machinery Factory" created by Ferdinand, there is no one who can take it.

The few remaining machinery factories are also single products and lack market competitiveness, and even if the Bulgarian government has exempted them from taxes, they are still struggling to survive.

In contrast, Ferdinand's Bulgarian Machinery Factory is much more outstanding and is already a comprehensive machinery manufacturing group.

Basically, you can copy the world's major machinery, such as textile machines, silk cutting machines, most steam engines and other products, and the quality has been in line with international standards!

Even cars have been made, but they can't be put on the market yet, either the cost is too high, or the performance is too poor to be competitive in the market!

At the same time, Bulgarian Machinery Factory is also the largest spare parts manufacturer and supplier in Southeast Europe, with a market share of about 53.5%. Machinery factories can proudly declare that there are no parts in this world that they can't imitate!

By the end of 1895, Bulgaria had more than 9,800 kilometers of railways and 15,000 kilometers of roads, and basically all the main arterial lines had been connected. Although the level of transportation is not as good as that of Western Europe, it is unrivaled in Southeast Europe.

In the field of basic education, Ferdinand can proudly announce that Bulgaria is already the top in the world! Although there is no compulsory education, it is almost the same, and the primary school enrolment rate in Bulgaria is already as high as 96.6 per cent.

The secondary school enrolment rate has reached a staggering 20.4%, surpassing the other powers and ranking first in the world! (Historically, it is the first in the world)

Of course, at a higher level of education, Bulgaria is still far from the great powers. There is only one science university in the country, supplemented by more than a dozen vocational education colleges of various kinds, which is the whole of Bulgarian high education!

It's not that Ferdinand doesn't want to build a few more universities, it's really a university professor in these years, and it's not easy to get together the teachers of Bulgarian universities!

Between quality and quantity, Ferdinand did not hesitate to choose quality, and if the quantity is not enough, use a technical school to make up it!

In any case, the main purpose of Bulgarian universities is to train cutting-edge talents. With the population base of Bulgaria, the number of students enrolled in five or six hundred people per year has basically wiped out all the geniuses!

Compared with the measly 2,000 students in Bulgaria, the scale of vocational colleges is much larger, with more than 38,000 teachers and students.

Among them, the personnel entrusted by the factory for training occupy a considerable proportion! Since it is to train engineers, as for the requirements, of course, it is much lower!

Compared with education, Bulgaria is much lagging behind in the development of the medical field. At the end of the 19th century, there were not many advanced medical devices, and doctors could not rely on mechanical examinations to treat diseases, but could only rely on experience.

Therefore, the training cycle of doctors is much longer, and unlike doctors who are trained in the later four or five years, there is no ten or eight years of study in this era, so don't want to become a teacher!

Ferdinand was also powerless due to the lack of adequate doctors. In the short term, the measures taken are still the following: the organization of local doctors and short-term training. How much can be improved, how much is calculated.

As for the medical school, I'm sorry I haven't graduated yet. The first batch of students have only been studying for seven or eight years, and now they are still interns, accumulating experience!

Of course, the level of medical care has been greatly improved, and it is much easier to train nurses, and basically they can initially meet their needs.

In 1895, Bulgaria's imports and exports totaled 760 million leva, an increase of almost four times compared to 1887. Among them, the total import value was 365 million leva, the total export value was 395 million leva, and the trade surplus was 30 million leva.

Among them, trade with Russia, accounting for 71.5% of the total, is Bulgaria's largest trading partner, and has always been a trade surplus in this trade, of course, counting the introduction of immigration spending, basically a trade balance!

Revenues continued to grow rapidly, up 25% from 1894 to 218 million leva! Much higher than the 13% growth rate of Bulgaria's economy, this is mainly the dividend of the "First Five-Year Plan"!

In order to stimulate economic development and encourage private capital to invest in industry, the Bulgarian government has adopted administrative means to intervene in the market. Tax incentives have been provided for many industries for different years, and now the time has come for some enterprises to reduce taxes, and the government finance has begun to reap dividends!

After listening to the cabinet report, Ferdinand secretly sighed: It's not easy! After ten years of hard work, Bulgaria has finally developed by leaps and bounds, both in the field of industry and agriculture, and in the military field, it has achieved outstanding development!

I saw Ferdinand nod and said, "Not bad! After ten years of hard work, today Bulgaria can also be said to have entered the threshold of an industrial country!

However, now we still can't relax, new challenges are coming, and Jackie Chan is here!

The following year is the most crucial year since the founding of Bulgaria! What is the Cabinet's planning strategy? ”

Prime Minister Konstantin calmly said: "Grand Duke, in the next year, except for the implementation of the 'Second Five-Year Plan' that has been formulated, the government does not plan to carry out any more major construction!"

In order to ensure an advantage in the coming war, the Cabinet will devote the greatest energy to preparing for war and maximize our war potential as much as possible! ”

Ferdinand nodded and motioned to continue.

The current situation in Bulgaria is well known to everyone here, and industrial development has almost reached the limit of the country!

Raw materials and markets, these two dual factors, restrict the further development of Bulgaria!

This was also a previous miscalculation by Ferdinand. If it had not been for the Bulgarian war of 1894, which consumed part of the supplies, the rapid development of the Bulgarian economy would have stopped!

No way, who called Bulgaria itself a limited market? And international trade, for most small and medium-sized enterprises, is undoubtedly a fool's dream!

First of all, the quality of the product is not advantageous compared with developed countries.

Secondly, Bulgaria's products are exported by land: the cost is too high, and the farthest to Austria-Hungary is the limit;

Export by sea: In addition to the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Romania, exporting to other countries will first be tariffed by the Ottoman Empire, which raises the cost! After the addition of a tariff, it also tends to be inferior in price.

This is also one of the reasons why the trade between Bulgaria and Russia is booming, they are all forced out, blocked by local chickens, except for a very small number of special products, other commodities are difficult to compete in the world!

Of course, there are disadvantages and advantages, and the industrial and commercial products of the industrial and commercial powers of Western Europe must also go through double tariffs when they enter Russia. Not to mention the quality, in terms of price alone, adding freight and adding a tariff, the competitiveness is not as good as Bulgarian goods!

In the same way, the export of goods (mainly grain and industrial raw materials) of the Russians had to be skinned by the Ottomans, seriously blocking the way of the noble lords!