With the small flames of the Balkans extinguished, Italy was finally able to begin to enjoy the fruits of the war in full force.

In Albania and Kosovo, tens of thousands of railway builders are stepping up construction of the Durrës-Pristina railway line. As the main transport route in Kosovo, it is also a mountain railway, which is also built using the latest technology, reinforced concrete irrigation technology.

Reinforced concrete piers and bridges have greater load-bearing capacity, higher strength, and sturdiness. It can carry heavier trains, so the emergence of this technology has made great progress in the engineering industry.

However, despite the advantages of reinforced concrete, it is not widely used in the world.

In fact, the technology of reinforced concrete has been around for more than 20 years. In 1868, a French gardener watered the first practical object, a reinforced concrete planter.

That's right, it's a flower pot.

It wasn't until 1872 that the first reinforced concrete buildings appeared in New York.

As for now, reinforced concrete is not used much, because the reason that restricts the development of reinforced concrete technology is still a cost problem. This technology requires a lot of steel and cement, which are not cheap at present, and will drive up the cost if they are adopted on a large scale.

This is the main reason why reinforced concrete was not used on a large scale before 1900.

As for why Italy is using this technology on this railway, it is ultimately for transportation. The benefits are more beneficial to the development of Italian industry than to push up costs. The government can still settle this account.

Moreover, the mineral development of Kosovo has made the construction of the railway even more urgent. There are currently three large coal mines under construction in Kosovo, as well as one neutral lead mine, two neutral zinc mines, one large chrome mine, and two silver mines. So much of the mine development is due to the hard work of a large number of geological exploration teams in Kosovo.

After the construction of these mines is completed, in addition to rough screening and processing in the local area, they need to be transported to the local area.

Without this railway, transportation would be a big problem.

Therefore, this railway connecting Durres and Pristina is currently the most important project of the Italian Ministry of Transport. For this reason, tens of thousands of road construction workers are busy here. Using all kinds of tools and machinery, they built bridges and roads in these waters, and finally at the end of 1892, it took a year and a half to build this artery, which was related to the development of Italian industry.

Of course, the Durrës-Pristina railway is not the only railway currently under construction in Italy, there are other railways under construction.

For example, the Sofia-Pristina railway, which has just been explored, is more often built by Bulgarians, and Italy only needs to build a small section in Kosovo.

Of course, there is another railway, which the Italian government has not forgotten either: the railway from Sabha to the Libyan port of Sirte. Although it does not have to cross valley rivers, it is more difficult to build than the Durrës-Pristina railway, which crosses the Sahara.

The line explorers are also a big headache for this railway, they need to avoid the desert terrain and try to choose the railway in the Gobi, otherwise after a sandstorm, the railway maintenance workers will cry.

In addition, the choice of site is also a problem. You must know that at present, the tractor locomotive is still driven by a steam engine, which will mean that the train needs to be fueled with coal and water, and what is the situation in the Sahara. Therefore, in order to reasonably arrange the site and maintain the work on weekdays, the line exploration is extremely difficult. But fortunately, the hard work of eating sand for more than a year was not in vain, and the line was finally explored.

In November 1892, the construction of the railway line, which was intended for the transport of iron ore, was finally opened from the port of Sirte.

Of course, the construction of this railway is not as interesting as that of the Balkan railway, and there is a lot more time to spare. The five-year construction period is more than enough for an 800-kilometer railway, even if the railway needs to be built on the desert Gobi.

In 1892, there was no railway construction in Italy, and the construction of the three steel mills planned by the government in the south began on the sites that had already been chosen, and thousands of people fought for these three steel works.

As an important pillar of the development of the South, the Italian government has also put a lot of effort into these three steel plants. Italy invested a lot of money and purchased technology from abroad to form the basis for the establishment of the three steel plants.

By 1895, Italy was expected to produce 1.2 million tons of pig iron and 450,000 tons of crude steel.

Don't look at this steel production, it is not even as good as a small steel mill at present, but you only need to compare it with neighboring countries to know that the current French pig iron production is 2 million tons and crude steel is 870,000 tons. Even Germany, which is currently the strongest producer in Europe, has only 4.35 million tons of pig iron and 2.65 million tons of crude steel per year, adding up to only 7 million tons of steel production.

Italy will not be able to reach Germany's current production for at least a decade. On the one hand, there are raw material reasons, and on the other hand, there are market problems, and it is necessary to use up so much steel to produce it. At present, Italy simply can't eat that much steel, even the shipbuilding industry that uses the most materials, can't share much.

Therefore, Italy's current layout in the steel industry is to let the steel industry drive out the steel of other countries as much as possible.

Of course, the light industry in Italy has not been forgotten at present, but compared with the heavy industry, which can reflect the national strength, the government does not spend much energy on the light industry. After all, the capital in hand is too small, and good steel needs to be used on the blade.

Of course, the large-scale construction has also brought another benefit to Italy, that is, the Italian immigration has fallen below the 100,000 mark, to an unprecedented 40,000. This is truly an unprecedented achievement.

You must know that in the past, Italy immigrated more than 100,000 or 200,000 people every year, and if it was a year of great disaster, then it would be no problem to hit 300,000 or 400,000 people.

The reason for such large-scale migration is that Italy cannot keep so many people, or rather, there is no land to feed so many people.

At present, Italy's native population is 31.78 million, and due to Italy's emphasis on family, the annual birth rate is as high as about 3.34%, and after deducting the mortality rate of about 2.2%, the natural growth rate is about 1.14%. This means that Italy has an additional population of more than 300,000 people every year. So without immigration, Italy's barren land (which is really bad compared to Germany and France) will not be able to support so many people.

The reason why the number of immigrants was reduced this time, in addition to the fact that industrial development could accommodate more people, was that Carlo's expulsion of the new territory gave people more places to go.

Drifting across the ocean to seek life, how can there be a cool one to settle down nearby. The waste of untended land in the new territory naturally attracted a large number of Italians to flock across the sea.

In just over a year, more than 500,000 Italians went to the new territory, and they immediately occupied the territory of the original Albanians.

As for why there are more than 100,000 Albanians, the production and construction of various minerals and the construction of road facilities also need manpower.

Of course, Italy's development in 1892 was much more than that.

And as the bell rang in 1893, a new situation emerged.