Chapter 768： In Lviv (below)

"Your Majesty, here is our No. 3 production workshop. The workshop is 350 meters long, 105 meters wide, and has 1,200 production workers. It can produce 850 50-horsepower parallel-bar tractors every month. This is just one of our main production tractors. Workshop."

Under the introduction of the factory director Sodaval, Edel watched the extremely busy workers in the workshop working on the assembly line. The pieces of parts were gradually integrated together, and slowly became a tractor off the assembly line.

And Edel can also see that this workshop has only been cleaned up once before, otherwise why the corners and ceilings are so clean. There have been more inspections, and Edel has experience to discern that those are deliberately prepared. Fortunately, the Second Machinery Manufacturing Plant only cleaned up, and did not make any other actions, all of which were still within the scope of Edel's endurance.

Edel was very interested in working on the assembly line on the tractor, and he couldn't help but grab a worker to ask.

"How many years have you been here?"

Seeing King Edel standing in front of him, the worker stammered in response with a flushed face of excitement. "Your... Your Majesty, I... I've been here... here... for four years."

Seeing the unspeakable worker, Edel patted his shoulder lovingly. "Don't be nervous, just treat me as an employee in the factory."

Edel said so, how could this employee think so. But Edel's words helped him recover a lot, at least he could speak neatly.

"What's your name?"

"Your Majesty, my name is Ramf and I am from Cluj."

"How many people are there in the family?"

"I have my wife, three children and parents in the family, a total of seven people."

"Then the income is more enough to live at home?"

"In addition to my wife's income, it is more enough to support the family and the children to go to school."

The conversation between Edel and this Ramf gave him a preliminary understanding of the life of ordinary people under the current wartime situation. Of course, it is impossible for Edel to just ask one person, so he made this decision. He asked several people in a row, all in this situation.

Moreover, in Edel’s questioning, these people generally earn 260-380 lei a month in the factory, and the salary is only a middle-higher level among their relatives and friends. This gave Edel a general understanding of the current income level of the Romanian people.

Generally speaking, the income level of the Romanian people is considered to be mid-level in the whole of Europe, but in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, it is very good.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the industrialization of Romania for many years. In recent years, through all kinds of tricks, Romania still has to give back to the people.

Of course, it is also affected by the gold standard, and the currency leu has not depreciated much.

At the end of Edel's visit to production workshop No. 3, after spending more than half an hour to visit, the director of Sodaval asked. "Your Majesty, do you need to see the tank production workshop?"

Since Sodaval, the factory director, asked so, how could Edel not visit. Besides, the production of tanks is crucial to the formation of armored troops, so Edel naturally needs to see it in person.

"Lead the way ahead."

Following Edel's words, a group of people opened the No. 3 production workshop and walked to the No. 1 workshop of the production tank. On the way, the director of Sodaval kept introducing the specific situation.

"At present, workshop No. 1 employs our strongest skilled workers with an average working experience of more than 5 years. Among them, there are 2 senior engineers, 11 intermediate engineers, and 76 junior engineers. At present, the first production workshop occupies the tank production in the factory. Half of the quantity, it mainly produces the R20 tanks urgently needed by the army."

In Sodaval's introduction, they came to the No. 1 production workshop. The workshop is separated from other workshops and is guarded by soldiers. There are also soldiers who confine the wolfhound to patrol. It can be seen that the defense is still very tight.

For their group, the soldiers would naturally not check, and Edel's face alone was the best pass.

"Report to your Majesty, the first battalion and the second company of the second regiment of the Lviv garrison division, and is ordered to protect the factory.

When Edel arrived at the gate of Workshop No. 1, a company commander with the rank of captain saluted and reported loudly to him.

"Your Excellency, hello, thank you for your contribution to the kingdom, and the people will never forget your contributions."

Edel was very experienced in how to deal with soldiers, and a word made the captain officer's blood boil with enthusiasm.

Then Edel entered the workshop under Sodaval's leadership.

As soon as he entered the workshop, Edel felt the difference. Throughout the workshop, the welding and cutting sound has never been cut off, and the harsh noise has never subsided at all.

And after Edel took the earmuffs handed by Sodaval and put it on, he listened to the factory director's loud introduction.

"Your Majesty, because of the special nature of the work, the No. 1 workshop can currently only achieve a two-shift system with 9 hours per shift. However, although the time is not long, the quality of the tanks it produces has always been praised by the military. At present. The workshop has an assembly line, more than 900 workers, and can produce two R20 tanks with armored companies every day."

Sodarval's words made Edel very satisfied. He looked at the semi-finished metal monster in front of him and asked Sodarval. "Are there any difficulties in the factory at the moment?"

As soon as Sodaval spoke, Edel regretted asking this sentence.

"Yes, Your Majesty. At present, the number of armored steel plates in the factory is insufficient. We contacted the rolling mill. They said that the number of special armored steels is insufficient, and there is only so much."

Well, this pot needs Edel to carry. Edel in exchange for these Jews to supplement the domestic labor gap. The exchange with Italy was good, they mainly exchanged some military supplies, and there was not much demand for others. (It can also be said that there are not many Jews in Italy, not many of them change)

But when it comes to Germany, his vision is tricky. In addition to replenishing its armor strength, it has exchanged nearly 300 tanks from Romania, and married her is basically used in exchange for basic processing materials, except for rubber oil, it is the armor steel that has been exchanged the most.

Romania only produced 240,000 tons of armored steel a year (the advantage of early mobilization), which was replaced by more than 70,000 tons by Germany. Of course, these steels are not a loss for Romania. At present, the supplement of the large number of Jewish labors in the country is vital to Romania's maintenance of industrial scale, so no one can say that there is a trade-off.

And Romania has also received news that the German navy's shipbuilding has not stopped, but is speeding up. Among them, the help of steel from Romania is also very important.

So Edel didn't answer Sodarval's words, but looked at the tanks being produced with relish, which made the eyes of Director Sodarval become resentful.

Edel has not stayed in the tank production workshop as long as before. On the one hand, the noise is really too loud, and on the other hand, he feels a little guilty for the director of Sodaval. After staying for almost half an hour, Edel walked out of the workshop.

Of course, Edel couldn't check these two workshops. He then continued to visit the staff dormitory, office building, living area, and also had a meal like the staff in the cafeteria, showing the image of a close-knit monarch to the fullest. After all these were gone, Edel left the Second Machinery Factory.

After leaving the second machinery factory, Edel visited several nearby factories by the way. For example, in a steel plant, he praised the hard work of the workers in the plant.

After a day's visit, Edel dragged his exhausted body and returned to where he was staying. He did not expect a good news to be waiting for him.

With the cooperation of the three Romanian armies, the island of Cyprus has been captured. The Romanian army wiped out the defenders on the island at the cost of more than 5,000 casualties (including nearly 3,000 paratroopers). And also successfully rescued more than 30 pilots who were captured before.

This telegram immediately wiped out Edel's fatigue. Now after the three armies take a break, the battle against the Middle East will begin.