Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 296

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Lundhart’s continuous news caught these newcomers to the country by surprise.

Whether it is agricultural cooperatives or tobacco growing technology, they are completely unfamiliar to them, and they have never come into contact with them.

Most of them were from poor peasant backgrounds, and they were short-sighted. With the words of Lenthardt, they could not make a clear judgment.

Everyone, look at me, and I look at you, all with a blank look on their faces.

Lenthardt also noticed his gaffe, and seemed to be in a hurry. Suddenly it was an agricultural cooperative, and it was tobacco farming that required certain expertise. People who had never been exposed to these things needed a certain amount of time to digest. information.

“You can go back and think about it carefully, agricultural cooperatives are very common in Greece, you just need to consult other people.”

Lenthardt hurried to an appointment, and after leaving the alley with his colleagues, hurried to a cafe on the street.

It is said that this big man has a wide range of friends and a deep background, and has a great position in the upper class of Athens.

Especially in the army, Lundhart had seen him chatting and laughing with senior officers of the army from a distance, so he was very impressed.

Unexpectedly, after I went to the remote town of Kavala, I was fortunate enough to get acquainted with him.

In front of the cafe, Lundhardt paused for a while, smoothed out the black woolen trench coat and the white cotton shirt inside, straightened the black felt hat on his head, cleared his throat, took a deep breath, and then entered the cafe.

The person who met him was none other than Constantine’s personal economic and financial advisor, Yakov, and the manager of the Purple Robe Foundation, a well-known among the upper classes in Greece.

It is amazing to change the fate of impermanence.

The Yakov family, who was hastily expelled from Poland a few years ago, had their family-run bank seized, which was tantamount to falling dust from heaven.

In just a few short years, relying on the relationship of Crown Prince Constantine, the family not only gained a firm foothold in Greece, but also improved its family status and became famous in the Greek upper class.

This time Yakov appeared in Kavala, and was also ordered by Constantine. The Purple Robe Foundation and the Royal Greek Education Foundation jointly invested in the newly planned industrial city in Greece, Thessaloniki Industrial Zone, to invest Six million drachmas for the construction of a cigarette factory.

Yakov used the success of the Royal Greek Petroleum Company to prove his business ability. At present, the Royal Greek Petroleum Company is the largest in Greece and the only oil company with oil fields. It has established a solid relationship with dozens of refined oil sales companies in Greece. The business relationship and operation have entered a stable stage.

According to accounting statistics, the turnover of Royal Petroleum Corporation this year will exceed 310 million drachma, and the net profit will reach more than 40 million marks. The state of losing money.

The annual oil output of Royal Greek Petroleum Company is more than 800,000 tons, which can already meet the domestic oil consumption demand of Greece.

Constantine attached great importance to the Royal Petroleum Company. After all, oil, as a booming emerging energy (in this era, oil is indeed an emerging energy, compared to the old energy coal), is directly related to the industrialization process in Greece.

The internal combustion engine and related industries related to the internal combustion engine, as an important part of the second industrial revolution, are related to the national destiny of Greece.

It is precisely because of the smooth progress of the Royal Petroleum Company that although the Greek auto industry cannot be compared with Western Europe and North America, it is also developing rapidly.

Yakov used the Royal Oil Company to prove his operating ability and his value. As a rare elite business talent, Constantine trusted him even more. In addition to the manager position of the Zipao Foundation, Yakov is currently The husband also holds the title of the royal family’s business and financial advisor, and advises the royal family’s business investment.

The Thessaloniki Cigarette Factory was another task given by Constantine to Yakov.

“Lieutenant Lundhardt, nice to meet you.” Noticing that his guest had arrived, Yakov stood up without pretension and invited Lundhardt to take a seat.

Yakov’s approachableness made Lundhardt even more respectful. He didn’t dare to be slighted. He took off his hat and walked quickly with a smile on his face: “I am honored to receive you, Mr. Yakov.”

After the two were seated, they stared at Yakov’s well-dressed waiter for a long time, served two cups of coffee with interest, and then was tipped by Yakov for ten drachmas, and walked away with a tray full of joy. .

“Mr. Lundhart, how is it, have you found an agricultural cooperative whose main crop is tobacco?” Yakov said calmly.

Not daring to be slighted, Lundhardt immediately put down the coffee in his hand and said, “Mr. Yakov, you also know that Kavala was a military base where tens of thousands of Bulgarian soldiers were stationed not long ago, and now the war has just ended, everything is It’s messed up and it will take a while for people to get back to their peaceful lives”

“Now the government is also promoting mature policies in the newly occupied areas. Agricultural cooperatives are one of them. It’s just that Kavala is a newly recovered territory after all. Why are you so eager?” Lundhardt asked inexplicably.

In fact, Yakov is also puzzled. Why is Crown Prince Constantine so anxious about the progress of the Thessaloniki cigarette factory?

When Constantine summoned Yakov, he demanded to build a modern cigarette factory within a year, and at the same time demanded that the imported part of tobacco raw materials should not exceed 40%.

In other words, the crown prince hopes that most of the tobacco needed by the cigarette factory can be supplied by Greece.

Compared with the complex technology, large scale and cumbersome company structure of oil companies, cigarette factories are much simpler.

All technologies are very mature.

It’s just that in a consumer industry like a cigarette factory, the difficulty in operating is not the production process, but the marketing.

The more production, the less sales, the more production, the more money you lose.

This is not the case with oil companies.

After all, the Royal Greek Petroleum Company is the only company in Greece that has the ability to extract oil. Customers have no other choice, and they can produce it without worrying about sales.

Cigarettes are different. In the Greek domestic market, there are various sources of cigarettes sold. The British cigarettes have the largest market share, followed by Germany, and the United States ranks third. The rest of the market share is occupied by other countries, which can be called IWC.

His Royal Highness did not ask the question of profitability at all, but eccentrically repeatedly emphasized ensuring the stability of the cigarette factory’s output and source of raw materials, and seemed to have no worries about sales at all.

According to Yakov’s guess, it is possible that the Crown Prince Constantine wanted to promote the cultivation of tobacco in Greece. After all, tobacco is also a cash crop with high economic benefits.

It can not only promote the domestic tobacco planting industry in Greece and increase the income of Greek farmers, but also can import substitution and change the embarrassing situation that the domestic cigarette market in Greece is completely occupied by foreign countries.

Thinking of this, Yakov felt that His Royal Highness was a little too hasty. After all, the situation of foreign cigarettes occupying the Greek cigarette market was not formed overnight, and it is difficult to change in a short period of time.

If tough measures, such as administrative measures, are used to forcibly ban the sales of foreign cigarettes, it may affect Greece’s diplomatic relations with other countries.

However, thinking that the cigarette factory has the army as a basic business, even if the cigarettes are really not sold at that time, and there is a large backlog of warehouses, they can also be sold to the Greek army.

Even if you can’t make money, you can still recover the cost.

The cigarette factory was jointly invested and established by the Zipao Foundation and the Royal Greek Education Group. The aristocratic shareholders of the Zipao Foundation are themselves real-power officers serving in the Greek army. With this relationship, the army, a major customer of cigarettes, Certainly no one can compete with him.

In fact, the reason why Constantine asked Yakov to quickly build a cigarette factory, in addition to Yakov’s idea of ​​developing the Greek tobacco planting industry and increasing the income of Greek farmers, was mainly because of the upcoming large-scale war in Europe, the price of cigarettes Soaring, after imported cigarettes are cut off, the Greek army will also run out of stock.

Not only can it be used for personal use, but it can also occupy the domestic cigarette market, and may also be able to make a lot of money.

The areas suitable for growing cigarettes in Greece are mainly concentrated in Macedonia on the Aegean coast, including the newly recovered areas from Bulgaria. Tobacco purchased from the local area will help restore the economy of the region and repair the local war wounds.

It’s not that Constantine made a fuss. For the army, cigarettes are indeed an important strategic material.

Fighting on the front line, you face the threat of death every day, and the pressure can be imagined.

Lighting a cigarette and relaxing the tense spirit is a common thing for soldiers.

Therefore, it is said that if there is wine today, the soldiers are in the middle of the war, and they will try their best to enjoy it if they have the conditions to not aggrieve themselves.

Cigarettes are said to have been invented on the battlefield.

In 1799, Napoleon led an army to storm the Turkish city of Acre, and the public hookahs used by the Turkish soldiers for smoking were blown up, and these Turks were addicted to smoking. Gunpowder paper came to roll tobacco leaves, and others followed suit, and cigarettes came into being.

When the Crimean War broke out in 1853, Britain, France and other countries sent troops to assist the Ottoman Empire against Russia. British soldiers learned the method of cutting paper and smoking cigarettes from the soldiers of the Ottoman Empire, and brought this method back to the United Kingdom. Widely spread in Europe, and gradually swept the world.

In less than two months of war with Bulgaria, more than 400,000 Greek troops have consumed an eye-popping 15 million cigarettes.

Due to the urgent time needed and the huge quantity, the logistics department of the Greek army at that time was forced to increase the price to purchase cigarettes in order to prepare enough cigarettes.

It was this incident that reminded the importance of Constantine cigarettes.

This is also the reason why Yakov came to Kavala in a hurry, looking for the snake in Lundhart, a small town in Kavala.

The Macedonia region on the coast of the Aegean Sea has a warm climate, abundant rainfall, and mostly sandy and light soil, which is suitable for tobacco cultivation.

At present, the Greek government is building railways and highways in Macedonia. Thessaloniki will become an important transportation hub in Greece, and the small town of Kavala is located along the planned railway line.

After the railway is completed, the journey between Thessaloniki and Kavala will only take a few hours, so the tobacco produced here can be easily transported to the industrial area of ​​Thessaloniki.

Yakov secretly said that if possible, I don’t want to be so anxious, but he said: “The machines and equipment purchased by the Sasseloniki Cigarette Factory from Germany are coming soon, and a stable supply of tobacco is urgently needed.”

At present, the agricultural cooperatives in Greece are essentially small and medium-sized companies. The products of the companies are the crops grown by the members.

Considering that cigarette factories need long-term and stable tobacco suppliers, Yakov intends to sign long-term tobacco supply agreements with several local agricultural cooperatives to ensure that cigarette factories have a stable source of raw materials.

Looking at the silent Lundhart, Yakov said solemnly: “If you can help me contact a few agricultural cooperatives in Kavala and convince them to grow tobacco on a large scale, I will personally remember your help. “

Hearing Yakov’s promise, Lundhart was secretly delighted. The situation had seized the opportunity. The cigarette factory obviously needed a lot of tobacco. If he was a matchmaker and dealt with various agricultural cooperatives, he would undoubtedly make himself more and more local. Establish long-term links with domestic agricultural cooperatives.

The suitable climate and environment here are indeed suitable for the development of the tobacco planting industry. If the local tobacco planting in Kavala can form a scale, the middleman of himself will naturally benefit a lot.

Then he said his own method: “Mr. Yakov, do you think this will work? Tobacco farming is a new thing locally. The local farmers have almost no experience in growing tobacco, and most people have never seen tobacco. plant”

“As an intermediary, I contacted several newly established agricultural cooperatives and recommended them the idea of ​​tobacco growing, it is best if you place an order with them directly here~www.mtlnovel.com~ Then these newly established agricultural cooperatives can follow the order, Apply for a loan from a large commercial bank in Greece”

“In this way, not only will you have your tobacco suppliers, but also these newly established agricultural cooperatives will get an additional start-up capital, and they can use this capital to buy some machinery and equipment, speed up the process of land reclamation, and get on the right track as soon as possible. Grow enough tobacco for cigarette factories”

“With the order from the cigarette factory, these agricultural cooperatives don’t have to worry about sales, and they can help their members learn tobacco planting with ease, and get twice the result with half the effort.”

“This is the best of both worlds, and they won’t refuse.” Lundhardt told Yakov the long-standing thoughts in his mind.

“If you agree, I can contact these agricultural cooperatives now”

Lundhardt carefully observed Yakov’s reaction. Doing so can indeed lead to rapid development of local tobacco cultivation, but for cigarette factories, once an order is signed, it is necessary to pay the order to the agricultural cooperative in advance, and the risk is completely Buried by the cigarette factory.

At that time, as long as the tobacco is planted, the cigarette factory will need to pay in full, even if the cigarette is pressed in the warehouse by then, it will not go out at all.

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