Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 247

Seeing the old and new nobles from Greece gathered in the same room, Constantine first said to everyone: “First of all, I know that everyone is very concerned about the income of the Purple Robe Foundation.”

Hearing Constantine mentioning the Purple Robe Foundation, everyone who was relaxed and casual subconsciously focused on the Crown Prince’s words.

For the investment of the Zipao Foundation, according to the announcement of the royal family, every nobleman has a certain percentage of the investment dividend income.

In addition to fiefdoms, this was another way for the royal family to increase wealth for these Greek nobles.

Of course, after everyone first saw the stipulation that the dividend ratio of each nobleman would not exceed 1%, they were somewhat disapproving of this purple robe foundation.

According to this dividend ratio, even if the Zipao Foundation earns more, how much can the 1% share be?

Unexpectedly, the Zipao Foundation, which invests in the oil business, is the major shareholder of the Greek Petroleum Company. With the rapid increase in the demand for Greek oil, the aristocrats read the Greek oil company’s sales of hundreds of millions from newspapers. Well, I can’t help but calculate the income they can share according to the operating rules of the Zipao Foundation.

No way, don’t think that they are all nobles, limited by income, after becoming nobles, the economic pressure is even greater.

After all, they are now designated as nobles, and they must pay attention to the face of nobles, and pay attention to all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation.

For example, the means of travel, they were only civilians before, and it didn’t matter whether they had a carriage or not.

It’s different now. As an aristocrat, when you attend a social event, you can’t rent a carriage to deal with it. If someone exposes it, it will be a big shame.

This is just one aspect. In fact, after being ennobled as nobles, their daily expenses have risen rapidly, and they are now complaining about their rich remuneration for senior officers.

Not long ago, the Athens Daily used the title of the front page of the aristocracy, ridiculing the so-called aristocracy in Greece.

The photo in the newspaper is of Giannis, who has just been made a noble, and his family is riding a public carriage when they travel.

Giannis is the Minister of Armament of the Greek Army, and is naturally included in the canonization.

The democratic newspapers in the society also sneered in unison, directly naming some of the so-called nobles in Greece, whose income could not cope with the life of the nobles.

It made the whole Greek aristocracy feel ashamed.

As for the fiefs granted by the royal family, these lands are indeed vast, basically hundreds of hectares, but they cannot quench their thirst from far away.

First, the development of these lands takes time after all.

Under the behest of Constantine, the fiefs of these nobles were deliberately placed in the Macedonian region.

The Macedonian region has been ravaged by war for a long time, the population has been lost, the wasteland and undeveloped land area is large, and there is enough land to reward the nobles.

The arrival of these nobles can also enhance Greece’s ability to control this region.

Hundreds of hectares of land are indeed a wealth of wealth, but a large part of these lands are wasteland and need to be reclaimed by the nobles themselves.

In a short period of time, not to mention providing income for the nobles, on the contrary, everyone will spend a lot of money for development.

Therefore, one of the purposes of this gathering was actually that after hearing too many complaints from nobles recently, Constantine planned to let the Purple Robe Foundation distribute dividends urgently to relieve the shriveled pockets of nobles.

“Jacob, come and tell everyone about the Purple Robe Foundation,” Constantine said to Jacob, the manager of the Purple Robe Foundation.

Jacob, who was standing behind Constantine, took out a form from his pocket and reported to the crowd: “As the construction of the Greek oil company’s factories has slowed down this year, the oil company’s account has a sum of 42 million de Lachma’s Profits”

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Hearing this number, the nobles present could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. It seems that the oil business invested by the Zipao Foundation is indeed profitable.

“According to the 60% stake held by the Zipao Foundation, you can get 25.2 million dividends”

As soon as Jacob’s voice fell, everyone couldn’t help but be surprised. According to the ratio of 1%, each person could also receive a dividend of about 250,000 drachmas.

250,000 drachmas, even for them, is not a small sum of money.

The average salary of senior military officers in Greece is about 6,000 to 8,000 drachma per month, which is several times that of ordinary workers.

The Purple Robe Foundation mainly invests in oil, and Constantine naturally understood the lucrative growth of the oil business.

The reason why the Purple Robe Foundation was set up at the beginning was to use this foundation to unite the nobles of Greece and gather them around the royal family.

If the Zipao Foundation did not have a high income, it would not be able to achieve this goal.

“Then you will receive a check from the Royal Bank of Greece, and then we will talk about something else,” Constantine said.

“Everyone knows that although your fiefdom is huge, it can provide you with a lot of income every year after successful development, but what I want to remind you is that it is too whimsical to get rich by farming. ”

The grain market situation in Greece is somewhat special.

As a result, Greece imports a large amount of rice and other grains from Congo every year.

Since Greece has no grain import tariffs, a large amount of Russian wheat has also poured into the Greek market.

Second, the movement of agricultural cooperatives in Greece is going on. After several years of development, the cooperative model of agricultural cooperatives, which relies on farmers’ partnership, is being recognized by more and more Greek farmers.

These agricultural cooperatives use the way of operating companies to carry out agricultural production, and purchase a large number of tools for agricultural production, including tractors, which are extremely efficient.

Even if the nobles have large fiefs, UU reading www.uukanshu. It may not be easy for com to rashly compete with these cooperatives that have developed for many years.

Under the fierce competition between foreign food imports and domestic agricultural cooperatives, the prices of agricultural and animal husbandry products in Greece are low, which means that even if the nobles develop the land in their hands, the income is very limited.

“Yes, domestic food prices are too low, even if our fiefs are developed, it will not be profitable.”

“Although the dividends of the Zipao Foundation can ease everyone’s tense economic situation, compared to the huge daily expenses now, it is still a little bit beyond our means.”

Manu Giannasky understood that Constantine had raised the issue of land at this gathering, so he naturally had a plan, and took the initiative to ask, “Do you have any suggestions, Your Highness?”

Seeing everyone’s searching eyes, Constantine did not hide: “I hope you, the new nobles of Greece, can take the initiative to join the agricultural cooperative movement, and take advantage of the gap between the return of Macedonia, you nobles with a large land area. , take the initiative to lead the development of agricultural cooperatives in Macedonia”

“Not only that, you must also play an active role in the development of agricultural cooperatives”