Romanian Eagle

Chapter 536: The Shadow of the Economic Crisis

Romania's New Deal started various constructions with the government's push.

In February 1930, construction of the Bucharest-Odessa railway started.

In April, construction of the Bucharest, Constanta and Varna circular railways started.

In June, the construction of the Constanta-Bekesjo-Bao complex railway started.

In July, the construction of the Bekesh Chobao-Lviv railway, which is the most difficult to construct, began.

In just half a year, Romania has entered a large construction site, and infrastructure is being built everywhere. These infrastructures range from tunnels and bridges, to power station railways, to irrigation ditches and rural dirt roads. At this moment, Romania is busy with the construction of these infrastructures.

Since everyone is so busy, Karatuli, the top head of the government, is no exception. Now when he opens his eyes, there are many things waiting for him to deal with. In the prime minister's office, the secretary is reporting to Karatuli on the things that need him to deal with at the moment.

"Prime Minister, the report sent by the Province of Transylvania claims that the construction materials they are currently storing are not enough to support various construction tasks in the province. I hope the government can coordinate a material supply to the province."

Hearing what the secretary said, Karatuli felt a little strange, so he asked. "This is directly transferred to the construction department, why did it come to me?"

"Isn't this the Minister of Transport Li Deer went to inspect, and the other people who can manage this matter are not in Bucharest, so they were transferred to your Excellency."

The secretary's explanation made Karatuli relieved. Now that the large-scale infrastructure construction across the country has overwhelmed the people in the Ministry of Communications, it is completely normal for some things to be referred to themselves for review.

So Caraturi picked up the report and reviewed it after listening to the secretary's explanation. In fact, Transylvania didn't want much, just 30,000 tons of cement, 20,000 tons of steel, and some other materials.

There are not many materials in Calaturi's eyes, but in Transinivaca's eyes, they are very good.

God is pitiful, although it is said that Transylvania has a very high strategic position in Romania, but when it comes to economic development, it is just snot and tears, which makes people sad. Since the province was liberated, the province has received little financial support from the government, aside from some aid at first like pepper noodles. From the previous development of Western Galicia to the later infrastructure construction plan, Transiniva province is the one with the least share. This has disappointed two million people in the province.

However, this cannot be blamed for the lack of government support for Transylvania.

Just look at the map to see why this is the case. Transylvania almost encloses the domestic Carpathian Mountains, and its territory is either mountainous or hilly. Moreover, the hilly areas suitable for human life only account for two-fifths of its territory, which makes it impossible for the government, which mainly develops the economy, to invest a lot of money here.

The importance of Transylvania is also not revealed in this time of peace, the importance of the region for Romania will only be revealed in times of turmoil in Europe. Therefore, the province's economic growth over the years has been ranked at the bottom of the list, making the already wealthy areas gradually exposed. Of course, the government is also very clear about this, so taking this opportunity of construction, it also allocated a lot of materials to the area. It is mainly used for water conservancy construction and road expansion.

After solving the construction material problem in Transylvania, Calaturi continued to listen to the secretary report on other tasks.

"Then there was an accident in Bacau county in Moldavia province. Nineteen workers were killed in a landslide caused by firing guns when the road was being built."

Hearing that the accident had occurred, Karaturi's expression became serious. "How's the aftermath work going?"

Karatuli is not afraid of accidents, how can construction projects now prevent accidents from happening. The most important thing is to appease the families of the victims without causing delays in construction and dissatisfaction with other workers.

It was obvious that the secretary also knew where Karaturi's focus was, so he said it directly. "The local government has sent people to appease them and paid enough pensions. The family members have done nothing but sadness."

"Which company did the construction work?"

No wonder Caraturi asked that. Because the current construction projects are too huge for the state-owned construction companies to undertake all of them, a lot of them will inevitably be released to private companies for tenders, and these private construction companies have various types of large and small. The Prime Minister is afraid that these private companies will only care about Making money, not caring enough about workers.

The secretary dug out the information and said. "It's a construction company called Shirko. The company was founded by a local Gasilko man, but there were three more shareholders six months ago."

Karatuli knew as soon as he heard it that this should be a construction company composed of local officials and businessmen. It is estimated that a local businessman gave a company that can determine the composition of the bidder's shares, and Caraturi has seen this a lot. So he said. "Knock on this company and make them pay attention to the safety of their workers. If something as serious as this happens again, they will be disqualified."

"Okay, I'll post a question in a while."

"Anymore?"

Karatuli asked the secretary.

"And there's a report here on the fall in Polish exports."

The secretary said to hand the report to him. "This is just done by customs."

Looking at the report of the export, Karatuli couldn't help but say, "How could it drop so much."

It turns out that in this report, Romania's exports to Poland fell by as much as 24%.

This economic crisis has gradually affected Europe, and now all countries have suffered heavy losses in the face of this crisis. The massive unemployment of workers also affects Poland's most important food export. The sluggish export of Poland naturally affects its consumption capacity. In 1930 Poland's imports and exports fell by 18%, of which exports fell by 13.7% and imports by 28.4%.

As Romania's largest exporter, Poland's sharp decline in import and export trade has been most directly affected. A large number of orders from Poland have been cancelled, leaving these factories underutilized. Fortunately, domestic consumption has not decreased yet, and the operation of these factories can still be guaranteed. If the domestic economy is also in a downturn, it will be the most uncomfortable. I believe that many factories will be in danger of closing down by then.

So this made Caraturi immediately feel the importance of this matter. After dealing with other matters at hand, he immediately rushed to the palace. He planned to find a way for King Edel.

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