Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 298

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But the Greek cigarette market has long been controlled by foreign businessmen, forming a foregone conclusion.

The city of Thessaloniki, for example, was flooded with foreign goods like cigarettes long before the Greeks recovered from the Ottoman Empire.

After the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the door of the commodity market opened, and it gradually became a dumping ground for several major powers, and the industrial products of the powers flooded the market of the Ottoman Empire.

As the political and commercial center of Macedonia, Thessaloniki is no exception.

After Greece took over Thessaloniki, in order not to arouse opposition from various countries, and considering that Thessaloniki’s recovery time is still short, the Greek government did not dare to cause too much trouble.

Secondly, before the Balkans, there was no area suitable for growing tobacco leaves in the Greek-controlled area. Macedonia, the main tobacco-producing area of ​​Greece in later generations, was also controlled by Greece in the last two years.

Compared with the mountainous and hilly terrain in southern Greece, Macedonia has many plains and many rivers, which is more suitable for the development of agriculture.

For Greece, if the land in Macedonia can be developed to maturity and rely solely on the land in Macedonia, according to Greece’s current population of about 10 million, the food output is sufficient to meet Greece’s own needs.

As for ways to increase crop yields by improving planting techniques, Constantine thought of synthetic ammonia technology.

One of the main components in the air is nitrogen, and this technology can fix the nitrogen in the air, but this technology has just been developed by the Germans and is an absolute secret.

This may be the most important technology for mankind in the twentieth century.

Before the invention of synthetic ammonia, hunger could be blamed on low food productivity, and the public was very familiar with it.

But after the emergence of synthetic ammonia technology, it is not a technical problem.

Synthetic ammonia can be used not only to produce fertilizers, but also to make explosives.

A vital technology like synthetic ammonia was naturally treasured by the Germans and almost impossible to transfer easily.

Now that Macedonia has become a territory of Greece and has mastered the production area suitable for growing tobacco, the status quo of Greece’s own tobacco industry being occupied by foreign companies will also begin to change.

“As far as I know, no one in Greece is interested in the tobacco business. As a daily consumer product, cigarettes are addictive, the customer base is stable, and the consumption certainty is very strong. These conditions can make any businessman be tempted.” Venizelos considered said afterwards.

“It’s just a commercial competition. It’s not easy for the government to end up directly, and it’s easy to cause diplomatic disputes. Even if the government is willing to support it, it needs the efforts of Greek tobacco companies.”

The news about the Zipao Foundation and the Royal Education Foundation’s joint investment in a cigarette factory was published in newspapers and spread throughout Athens within a day, and Venizelos naturally knew about it.

In fact, there are not many people in the Greek business community who are secretly watching the progress of this matter, waiting to see what sparks will be produced when the cigarette factory invested by the royal family and the foreign capital occupying the Greek domestic cigarette market collide.

In recent years, it is not that no one has tried to produce tobacco for sale in Greece, but they have been defeated in the face of foreign cigarettes, and they are not competitive at all.

If the royal family’s cigarette factory can really gain a firm foothold in the market, Greek businessmen will immediately rush in to take a piece of the pie and follow suit.

Venizelos mistakenly thought that Constantine was asking the government for support policies for his own business. After all, the royal family had just invested in the construction of a cigarette factory, and now Constantine began to propose to himself a policy of supporting tobacco planting.

For example, do something about customs issues and increase import duties on foreign cigarettes at Greek customs.

Of course, other countries will retaliate if such means are used, such as raising import duties on Greek wine and olive oil.

Greece may gain in the cigarette market, but it will pay the price elsewhere, with little gain overall.

Seeing Venizelos’ indifferent attitude, Constantine did not force it either. After all, Venizelos said it well, the revitalization of an industry could not simply rely on the power of the government.

Of course, the power of the government is absolutely indispensable.

The leading industries of any country, behind the superficially illustrious big companies, embody the will of the government and the country.

Constantine also just woke up in front of Venizelos.

After the meeting with the prime minister, Constantine sent back a telegram to Yakov in Kavala, telling him not to worry about sales. The main task at present is to increase the enthusiasm of the local people to grow tobacco and find ways to increase the scale of tobacco planting. , to solve the problem of raw material sources in cigarette factories.

It doesn’t matter if you can pay a deposit in advance if necessary, just make sure the farmers are willing to grow tobacco.

At Kavala’s telegraph office, Yakov looked at the content of the call back on the paper slip and sighed. Although he was still worried about the sales of the cigarette factory’s products, he could only forcibly suppress his doubts. At present, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince only asked for cigarettes. The factory will start production as soon as possible.

On August 29, Yakov and Lundhardt, the middleman, came to the courtyard of the agreed hotel.

The representatives of several newly established agricultural cooperatives who heard the news in the courtyard gathered around when they saw the two.

“I heard that if you are willing to grow tobacco leaves, you can pay a deposit in advance, is that true?”

“How much are you willing to pay as a deposit?”

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Lundhart noticed Yakov’s frown, and quickly stopped everyone: “Don’t worry, we can negotiate slowly.”

These people are almost all contacted by Lundhardt, so they are still very convinced of him.

“That’s right, my name is Yakov, and I’m currently the manager of the Thessaloniki Cigarette Factory. I’m inviting you this time to discuss the tobacco our cigarette factory needs,” Yakov explained.

“As long as you are willing to grow tobacco, our company can pay you 60% of the deposit now, and the remaining 40% depends on the quality of the flue-cured tobacco you deliver at the end of the year. If the quality is good, we can also increase the purchase price.”

After the tobacco leaves are harvested, they need to be cured before being delivered to the cigarette factory. The price of tobacco is determined according to the quality of the cured tobacco after curing.

For the same fresh tobacco leaves, the roasting process is different, and the price after roasting varies greatly.

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