Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 249

Since the fiefs are inland, no matter what crops are grown on these lands, the inconvenience of transportation is meaningless.

Therefore, Emai Nur complained about the poor road conditions in Macedonia, and the enthusiasm of the people was slightly reduced. snatch

Constantine secretly thought that Emai Nur was cunning. On the surface, he agreed with him to encourage everyone to actively develop Macedonian fiefs, but in fact he was reminding everyone of the difficulties of the real conditions.

This is a reference to other people’s bargaining with Constantine.

“His Royal Highness, as the Chief of Staff said, the roads in Macedonia’s inland areas are bad. Even if we invest a lot of money to develop our territory, a lot of agricultural cooperatives’ agricultural products cannot be transported.” Manu Gianna Skye said.

“Almost all of us are military officers. Your Highness, Macedonia is now a disputed area between Bulgaria and Greece, and Serbia’s attitude is not clear. The troops of the two countries are frequently mobilized on the border. Now everyone is investing in Macedonia. It’s not too risky”

The threat of war mentioned by Manugianasky changed the expressions of the nobles present. Just as he said, the Macedonia region is a disputed area and the risk is very high.

Constantine took a cup of tea, moistened his throat, and said calmly: “Everyone, the risk of war, in fact, you don’t have to worry at all, worrying is useless. First of all, it is very clear that for those of us, If Greece really lost Macedonia in the war, the so-called investment in Macedonia would have nothing to do with us, and it would not be our turn to discuss it.”

The nobles present naturally understood what Constantine meant.

Once Greece is defeated in the next war with Bulgaria to compete for Macedonia and decide the hegemony of the Balkans, these military nobles in the Greek army, including the royal family, will probably become the target of the Greek people.

The nobles who rely on the military to obtain their privileges will naturally lose their greatest support once the war is defeated and will be completely liquidated.

Because the current nobles in Greece are the results obtained by the royal family in Greece with the help of the prestige gained after the victory of the two wars.

As for the Greek royal family itself, I am afraid that it will return to Denmark in despair.

Although in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, in the entire European continent, only a republic like France was an orphan, and all other European countries were monarchies.

However, the idea of ​​democracy has been widely spread. Once the country is in turmoil, it is easy for democrats to gain the trust of the people and take over the state power.

Constantine pointed this out in order to tell everyone that the interests of the nobility are the same.

“Of course, this is only the worst case. We senior Greek officers should always have full confidence in the strength of the Greek army, and don’t think that Greece will lose to Bulgaria, right?” Constantine said to everyone in a joking tone. .

“Of course, our operations in Macedonia are naturally carried out under the condition of ensuring safety.”

“As for the road problem, the Macedonian region will definitely need to build a railway, such as Thessaloniki to Skopje. As long as the railway is completed, the traffic problem in Macedonia will be greatly improved.”

In order to increase everyone’s enthusiasm, Constantine announced another news to everyone.

“There is one more news to tell you, because the industrial area of ​​Athens is too small to accommodate a large industrial area. Therefore, Prime Minister Venizelos and I have discussed it, and that is to encourage enterprises to invest and build factories in Thessaloniki.” Constantine said to the crowd.

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“It seems that the government also has plans to strengthen the development of Macedonia.”

The news of Constantine was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, causing everyone to talk about it.

The city of Athens has numerous surrounding hills, narrow terrain and limited plain area. Moreover, because Athens is located in the southernmost part of Greece, it is not suitable for being the capital in terms of transportation and cannot radiate well to the whole country due to its geographical location.

In addition to the advantage of the convenience of shipping, Athens has few other conveniences in the development of industry.

These characteristics all limit the development of industry in Athens, and are not suitable for large-scale establishment of industrial areas.

It is precisely because of these objective conditions that the development speed of the industrial area near the port of Piraeus has also been limited in recent years.

Compared with Athens, Thessaloniki is surrounded by plains and has convenient transportation. It is a transportation hub in the Balkans and an important port in the Aegean Sea.

Geographically, Thessaloniki is closer to the interior of the Balkans, approximately equal distances from Thrace, North Macedonia, and southern Greece.

Combining these characteristics, Thessaloniki is more suitable as a base for Greece’s industrial area.

In order to enhance his persuasion to the crowd, Constantine turned around and nodded to Scarloy behind him.

Skaloy, who was instructed, walked quickly to the crowd and said to the crowd, “The Greek Steel Plant will build a new steel plant in Thessaloniki.”

“The steel plant built in Thessaloniki, we will use the latest steelmaking technology, electric furnace steelmaking”

“The biggest advantage of using this technology to make steel is that electricity can be used as energy for making steel instead of coal.”

Hearing the news, Emai Nur asked with great concern, “Mr. Scalloy, I want to know, was this steel-making technology invented by your company?”

“It’s a technology invented by the Frenchman Hult in 1899,” Scalloy said.

Hearing this, Emmanuel frowned and said, “If this technology is really advanced, why don’t the French use it?”

There is no reason for Emmayinur to have no doubts. At present, the steelmaking technologies of various countries in the world are actually similar, mainly using the open hearth steelmaking method to produce steel. As for the electric furnace steelmaking that Scalloy said~ www.mtlnovel.com ~ No one has ever heard of it.

If there is a new production technology for a major industrial product like steel, it will be known by the media of various countries and will not be unknown.

Emmanuel, for good reason, cares about steel mill production.

The Greek steel mill is the largest arms producer in Greece. The rifles and artillery used by the Greek army are all produced from the steel of the steel mill.

“Your Excellency Chief of the General Staff, Hult’s invention of the electric furnace steelmaking method has not attracted the attention of the steel industry. There are many reasons, but there are two main reasons,” Scalloy said confidently.

“First of all, the raw material for EAF steelmaking is scrap steel, not iron ore. That is to say, EAF steelmaking is completely different from the open-hearth steelmaking method that is currently the mainstream in the steel industry.”

“If the major steel companies use new technologies, then the steel plants they have spent huge amounts of money on will not be able to use them at all.”

“Secondly, with this method, the source of raw materials is inconvenient, and scrap steel is different from iron ore.”

“There is also the issue of efficiency. At present, electric furnace steelmaking consumes more energy, which is not as economical as directly using coal for steelmaking. This technology still needs to be improved.”

“Almost all the major countries in the world have abundant coal resources, so there is no need to make any extra effort to convert coal into electricity, and then use it to make steel.”