Chapter 176： Fiscal budget for 1914

A genius remembers this site address in one second: (Vertex Chinese), the fastest update! No ads! After reading Romanian economic and demographic statistics, Edel began to consider this year's budget. Romania is now taking aggressive finances. This is all because Romania now has a lot of foreign debts and needs to spend between 56 million lei to repay its debts every year. This money accounts for 10% of Romania’s fiscal revenue, which is not a small sum.

Sending along with the statistical data, of course, this year's fiscal budget. Now Edel is looking at the budget plan for 1914.

In this budget plan, the most is the budget of the army. The budget of the Romanian army in 1914 reached the level of 128.5 million lei, which is much higher than that in 2013. You must know that because of participating in the Second Balkan War, Let Romania’s military expenditure in 13 years reach a record 261.24 million lei. However, after deducting the expenditure of 151.42 million lei caused by the war, it is a lot more than in 13 years.

A large part of the extra funds from last year is part of the cost of forming two new divisions. After deducting this part, the army replenishes its ammunition reserves. It is a sum of money to add 6 105 howitzers per division, and then there are also the purchase of new equipment, army training expenses, etc., which can only be regarded as maintaining the 13-year level .

Of course, as a guarantee of Romania's military force, Edel still leaves room for the army. This year, the government's emergency fund reached the highest level in history, with a total emergency quota of 55 million. It is mainly the financial assistance that Prime Minister Bretianu may need to prevent the newly occupied territories, as well as the preparations for the prevention of various natural disasters.

After reading the details of the army's budget, which ranks first in expenditure, Edel continued to look at the education budget, which ranked second in the government budget. Romania’s education funding has always been ranked as the second most important expenditure. This year is no exception, with a budget of 115.4 million lei. Most of them are invested in the six-year compulsory education, but with the increase in funding, the funding for secondary schools and universities also increases. The Ministry of Education is now considering whether to add a university to increase the number of Romanian higher education students.

With the increase of Romania's economic strength, there are a large number of people who make money in all walks of life, and their expectations for the education level of their children are also increasing. In the survey conducted at the end of 2013, Romania has 8946 university students. Now the six universities in Romania are basically operating at full capacity. If more students are added, it will result in insufficient faculty and school buildings.

The university is not considered the level with the greatest change in Romania's education. Now the middle school is the level with the most change in Romania. Before 1905, of the 100 six-year compulsory education students on average, only 2.5 would enter middle school to continue their studies. Most of them go home to work or go out to work after six years of reading to help families reduce the burden. In the final analysis, the income level of Romanian residents is not enough.

After eight years of development, Romania is now able to achieve that 5.7 out of every 100 primary school graduates can enter middle school, which is a huge improvement. Now Germany, which attaches great importance to national education in Europe, can only achieve an enrollment rate of 10% for small promotion. But this is not the highest. Now the highest enrollment rate from elementary school to middle school in Europe is Bulgaria, which has just been defeated next door. You are right. Bulgaria, with a high school enrollment rate of 17.2%, ranks first in Europe, far ahead of other countries.

However, Bulgaria is not as dazzling as his middle school in terms of the number of university students, with only 2,455 university students in school. In Europe, countries with comparable populations can only be regarded as ordinary.

In addition to military and education expenditures, the third-ranked budget item in Romania is the construction of public facilities, reaching the level of 87.6 million lei. Among them, 217 kilometers of railways are expected to be constructed and 458 kilometers to be maintained and reconstructed. Among them, the newly-built railway is a railway project from Iasi to the capital Bucharest via Bacau, Foknesha, and Buzau.

This railway is extended along the line at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, which can better solve the problem of local people's travel. Of course, this is an external rhetoric. In fact, it can also facilitate Romania to quickly move the army to the front line of Austria-Hungary. Edel also made this idea. Now this railway has been built for almost a year. According to the plan of the transportation department, the railway will be fully connected in two and a half years. At that time, Edel said that he must not take this railway to inspect the local customs.

As for maintenance and renovation, this is also well understood. Many of the current Romanian railways were built in the 1970s and 1980s, and too many facilities are already out of service. Now that the government has ample funding, these aging and unusable facilities also need to be replaced. Therefore, 34.1 million of this year's public facilities budget was spent on railways.

In addition to railways, another major budget expenditure is the construction of roads. Now all counties in Romania have roads connecting their neighboring counties. Some counties with rich finances also subsidize the paving of asphalt pavement, and the poorer ones have to pave the pavement with gravel roads. Romania's existing 25 counties and cities also need a lot of funding, and the transportation department is also ambitiously planning to pave the roads connecting the counties with asphalt roads, so this also requires a lot of funding.

In this year's public facilities budget, a total of 31.45 million lei has also been prepared, so that officials from the transportation department are ready to do a lot of work. It is worth mentioning that Romania now has 11,500 kilometers of roads, of which dirt roads and gravel roads account for 63%, so the aspirations of the transportation department still have a long way to go.

In addition, the Romanian seaport and inland river wharf are also estimated to cost about 9 million lei, of which the main expenditure is on the inland river wharf of Giuliju County relying on Danube transportation. The transportation department intends to turn the river transportation terminal in the county next to the capital into a transportation hub on the Danube and expand the transportation volume of the Danube.

After reading the budget for the construction of public facilities, Edel went on to check the next major budget, which is health care In this regard, the government has prepared a budget of 51.1 million lei, which is mainly for counties Improve your medical level.

It also combines private and corporate funds to give Romania a great improvement in the level of medical care. Among them, Constanta's second National Hospital, the largest in the country, is a representative of this aspect. The Constanta government, together with Volkswagen and Romanian Steel, invested a total of 7.54 million lei to build the hospital, and 45% of the funds were provided by these companies.

According to the plan, the hospital will have 800 beds and more than 120 medical staff. It also hired more than a dozen senior doctors from Britain and Germany. According to the plan, it will reach the second level of Romania’s domestic technology ranking. Of course it is the royal hospital in the capital. In Ploiesti, Iasi and other places also opened a number of new hospitals based on their actual support enterprises and individuals, but they were not as eye-catching as Constanta.

Thanks to the improvement of medical conditions, the life expectancy of Romanian newborns and nationals has been greatly improved. Among them, the death rate of newborns before one year of age has dropped to the level of only 164 per 1,000, which is 89 fewer than eight years ago , Which brings Romania to the same level as Spain and Portugal, and less than Austria-Hungary.

Edel went on to review budget items such as agricultural water conservancy budget, science and technology research and development budget, and resource exploration. In the end, he signed his name on the budget, which represented that he accepted the quota allocated by the government. As for how many behind-the-scenes deals have gone through this budget, he doesn't care about it. The most important thing for Romania now is to practice hard work to lay the foundation for the first battle this year.

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