Chapter 506： Return home

The port of Constanta has always been the largest port in Romania, and the cargo and passengers passing through here every day are not counted. Although the Osad Port has better natural conditions after the capture of Western Ukraine, it still cannot shake the Port of Constantine's status as the largest port in Romania.

Because Osad is the first choice for shipping in Ukraine, while Constanta is the first choice for shipping in the original Romanian territory. At present, only Western Ukraine is in Romania's hands, and the rest of the region is in the hands of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union will never put its own shipping in Odessa. Now they are building the naval port of Sevastopol and intend to use it as a commercial port. As for its Black Sea Fleet, it can only squeeze in this port with merchant ships. I heard that the new military port is already under discussion in the Soviet Union.

The port of Constanta today is crowded with people, and many residents flock to the port spontaneously. Because today, King Edel, who has been away from Romania for half a year, will arrive today.

As a loyal and patriotic subject, how can you miss the king's return to the country (see the excitement).

As for the people who greeted Edel, Prime Minister Karatuuri was headed. The taste of monopolizing power for half a year made Karaturi very addicted. But he was not fooled by power, and he knew clearly who gave this situation. This was also when he got the date of Edel's return home, and immediately brought people to Constanta to greet him.

The cruise ship that Edel was on quickly appeared in front of everyone, and some onlookers began to cheer spontaneously. And Edel, who was on the boat, couldn't bear to see the crowd greeted him in the port of Constanta. I haven't been home for half a year, and finally got home.

When Edel set foot on Romanian soil, the cheers on both sides were fully released.

Prime Minister Karatuli walked quickly to him. "Welcome your Majesty to return home."

"Thank the Prime Minister for coming to the port to meet him personally during his busy schedule."

"Where, everything is inferior to your Majesty's contribution to Romania during this visit."

After talking with the Prime Minister, Edel also greeted several other ministers one by one.

"Sir Edward, you are here too."

"Helke, hello."

Of course, Edel did not forget to greet his subjects, after greeting the ministers. Edel waved his arms at the crowd around him, which seemed to be a signal, and the cheers present reached its peak.

And after Edel finished all this, he and the prime minister drove away. Today he does not intend to stop in Constanta, and will return directly to Bucharest by train.

"Your Majesty, we have already discussed with the Italian side about Mobil’s shareholding in Illu , Pipelines and other technologies, and get 20% of the shares."

On the train, Prime Minister Karatuuri was reporting to Edel about Mobil's acquisition of Italian oil company.

And Edel could not help but listen to the report of the Prime Minister. "This is what Mobil deserves. Their drilling technology is much better than ours. I heard that they can pump oil from a depth of 1,500 meters. And their oil refining technology is currently the best in the world, which is worth learning from our country."

Edel said this for a reason. At present, the petroleum refining technology used by Mobil can refine 0.215 tons of gasoline from 1 ton of crude oil and 0.394 tons of diesel. The refined oil rate is 63.7%. At present, the Romanian Petroleum Company can only achieve 0.170 tons of refined gasoline and 0.371 tons of diesel per ton of crude oil. The refined oil rate is 54.1%. It is 9.6% less, close to 10% of the refined oil, which is a huge waste.

Eder's words attracted the approval of Prime Minister Karatuuri. "Your Majesty, I will write to the oil companies. Let them increase their investment in oil refining technology, and strive to let them narrow the gap with Mobil."

"It can only be this way."

Edel knew that Karaturi's work could only be regarded as comforting himself, because the improvement of oil refining technology requires a lot of money. In terms of the current tasks of oil companies, this is very unrealistic. Because the current government needs the profits of Romanian oil companies to develop the economy, it will not leave them too much funds. In addition, the scale of Romanian oil companies is still too small compared to Mobil and Shell, and the capital is not strong.

After all, the oil fields currently owned by this company are still too small, unlike the other large oil fields. And Edel knows the location of the big oil fields, but Romania is currently out of reach. In the future, there will be oil everywhere in the Middle East, which is currently the sphere of influence of Britain and France. And non-state oil is also in its colonies. Only by using Italy’s ties can oil be exploited in its colonies, but this has been exploited by Mobil instead.

After all, Romania is not strong enough, and the current strength is heavy industry. At present, Romania's heavy industry still needs to develop. However, heavy industry requires raw materials, which in turn involves minerals. It can be said that the whole body is affected, and there is still a long way to go to develop Romania.

In addition to Edel is also not satisfied with the current Romanian agriculture. Although Romania’s agriculture is fairly good at present, there are too many people involved in the land. This will affect the industrialization of Romania. When Edel visited so many countries, he gradually had an idea in his mind. That is, mechanized farming needs to be expanded, and more farmers must go to cities to become workers. Anyway, they have enough academic qualifications, and there is no problem at all as ordinary workers.

Edel, a large farm in the United States, can’t learn it, he doesn’t have so much funding and Romania doesn’t have so much arable land. But the Soviet Union next door did a good job in this respect, but that model would not work directly. There are too many links that need to be improved, and these require him and his officials to slowly explore.

From this we can see that governing the country is not easy, and the ancients sincerely did not deceive me. There are too many things to consider, and there are too many problems in Romania that you need to make your own decisions. Edel can only learn from the experience of later generations. Sometimes he is not clear and can only find out after trying them one by one.

On the train, Edel discussed with the Prime Minister on issues such as oil and agriculture. In this regard, Karatuuri is much worse than the former Prime Minister Bretianu, because he was the Minister of Industry before, and he knew nothing about agricultural issues. As for oil, the mayor of Ploiesti still has some understanding.

Edel could only smile helplessly at this. Knowing his shortcomings, but still chose him, he should think of this result.

The conversation was not pleasant, but it was not dull. When the lanterns first came on, Edel and his party finally arrived in the capital, Bucharest. I don't know if my son Victor has turned the palace upside down.

"Bear boy, your happy time is over."

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