Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 299

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“The farmers here are very unfamiliar with the crop of tobacco and have no experience in planting, and the tobacco needs to be cured after being planted before it can be delivered to the cigarette factory, and we also do not understand the curing technology of tobacco, and the price of flue-cured tobacco is mainly The price of flue-cured tobacco varies greatly depending on the quality after curing. Mr. Yakov, if your cigarette factory is in urgent need of tobacco, it is best for you to hire some experienced technicians in tobacco planting and curing. Help us,” Kalia said to Yakov after several representatives of the agricultural cooperatives whispered.

Yakov’s brows twitched, and the businessman’s intuition made him hate anything that would increase costs. Hiring technicians in tobacco growing and roasting, staying in the small town of Kavala for many years, was unintentionally another expense that should not be underestimated. .

Noting Yakov’s facial expression, Kalia explained: “Your company needs a large amount of tobacco, and we are farmers with no experience in tobacco planting. Once there are mistakes and mistakes in the planting and curing process, It will have a significant impact on the cooperation between your company and the cooperative, after all, your company is in urgent need of a large amount of tobacco raw materials”

After hearing the news from Lundhardt, Kalia and other Bulgarian refugees specifically asked for information about the tobacco growing industry, and they were very moved to learn that tobacco is indeed a lucrative crop.

“This will also allow the cooperative to grow tobacco more expressly on the right track, and ease the plight of the cigarette factory’s lack of raw materials as soon as possible.”

“Tobacco planting is all about the seasons and seasons. Once there is a mistake in each link, planting can only be started again in the next season.”

“We cannot guarantee when we will be able to deliver flue-cured tobacco to factories if we just rely on our inexperienced farmers to figure it out on our own.”

Representatives of several other agricultural cooperatives also expressed their views.

The helpless Yakov can only agree. After returning to Thessaloniki, the cigarette factory will hire several senior agricultural technicians to come to Kavala to provide technical guidance to the tobacco-growing cooperative.

“Are there any other questions?” Yakov continued to ask patiently, looking at several representatives.

“Actually, there is one more important question, Mr. Yakov, Mr. Lundhardt,” Kuduro responded to the two.

“Although your words are eloquent, saying that it is a cigarette factory in Thessaloniki, but, gentlemen, you know that there was no large-scale cigarette factory in Greece before, but now one suddenly appears and proposes to cooperate with cooperatives to grow tobacco. requirements”

Having said that, seeing the unhappy look on Lundhart’s face, he quickly explained: “After all, this is related to everyone’s livelihood, we must be more cautious.”

“What are you trying to say?” Yakov asked suspiciously.

“I mean, sir, you don’t know much about Thessaloniki. We need to visit your factory to reassure us. I don’t mean to disrespect.”

Yakov heard the words suddenly, these people are located in remote Kavala, do not know themselves, do not know the identity of their royal advisors.

And here is not Athens or Thessaloniki, and his prestige in Greek high society has little effect here.

Yakov has become accustomed to his own identity. In business meetings in the past, as long as others have introduced him, Yakov is the object of business people vying to chat. He has single-handedly developed the Royal Greek Petroleum Company and is the manager of the Purple Pao Foundation. , investment adviser to the royal family, etc. titles are of no use here.

These people do not know themselves, nor do they understand the Salonoka Cigarette Factory, a newly established cigarette factory, and suddenly asked for cooperation, so it is understandable to have doubts.

“This is Mr. Yakov, you,” Lundhardt explained quickly, worried that these guys’ doubts would anger Yakov.

Yakov raised his hand to stop Lundhardt and said, “Then how can you trust the Thessaloniki cigarette factory?”

Several people looked at each other, and then Kalia said: “We must go to Thessaloniki to inspect your factory on the spot, sir, we also need to ensure the strength of our partners”

“It’s better to hurry up. Our land reclamation work is about to start. It’s better to confirm the cooperation soon. Everyone can’t wait to own their own land.”

Yakov nodded, agreeing, it was a legitimate request after all.

Don’t waste time. That afternoon, Lundhart helped several people buy tickets. Kavala in the north of the Aegean Sea is not far from Thessaloniki, only more than 100 kilometers away. Incorporated into rule, the railway to Thessaloniki is still under construction.

Therefore, the most convenient way to get from Kavala to Thessaloniki now is to take a boat, bypassing the Chalkidiki Peninsula and crossing the Thermaic Gulf.

On August 14, 1913, at the height of summer, the ship that had been drifting at sea for two days finally entered the port of Thessaloniki.

The wharf was crowded with people, and the whistles of ships kept humming, pulling away or docking at the wharf under the tow of barges.

A neat row of hoists in the cargo area of ​​the dock lifts cargo onto and off the ship.

After the ship docked, what appeared in front of everyone was such a busy and orderly scene.

After two days of drifting at sea, and it was noon, Kalia and the others were placed by Yakov in the pier hotel for a temporary rest.

The waiter served each person a few cups of drinks made from coffee beans.

The decoration in the hotel lobby is very simple: the walls are painted with lime water, the furniture is made of ordinary birch, the simple chairs are made of logs, and there are only two candles on the candlestick, but fortunately the room is kept clean.

It was noon, and under the greeting of Yakov, the waiter quickly brought them a simple and hearty lunch.

Kalia glanced casually, and saw that the staple food for lunch was mashed potatoes, and several **** were placed in a porcelain dinner plate.

The side dishes are plentiful: pan-fried cod, honeyed pork jerky, fried eggs, pan-fried sausages, vegetable salad with a rich olive oil flavor, shellfish soup, and creamy mushroom bisque.

Several representatives came from Kavala in the backcountry, and Kalia is a refugee from Bulgaria. It is really rare to see such a sumptuous dinner, and such dishes are really rare.

“Several people came to the cigarette factory for inspection, so the cost of food and accommodation for this inspection is all the responsibility of the cigarette factory.” Yakov, as the host, warmly entertained everyone.

Kalia pondered to herself while eating, seeing the ease with which the waiters were taking these dishes, they should be able to enjoy these meals often.

In other words, even lowly servants can often enjoy such rich food. The people of Thessaloniki are really rich.

After eating and taking a rest, Kalia and Yakov boarded three T-car taxis, left the hotel in the dock area, and drove towards the Thessaloniki Industrial Zone.

These taxis are the imitation T-type cars purchased by the city of Thessaloniki from Andros Machinery Company. Now the taxis are already in operation.

Although Thessaloniki has been controlled by the Kingdom of Greece for only about a year, it has developed rapidly. The government has introduced a series of measures to turn Thessaloniki into a new industrial area in Greece.

After the government’s plan to build a railway with Thessaloniki as a sea and land transportation hub was announced to the public, a large number of enterprises moved their factories to Thessaloniki, which has a better geographical location.

Compared with Athens, Thessaloniki is not only an excellent deep-water port, but also can radiate the entire Macedonia region. The nearby rivers are densely covered with many plains, which are suitable for agricultural planting and industrial production.

These conditions are undoubtedly extremely advantageous compared to Athens, the southernmost point of the Balkans.

After the war, the industrial area of ​​Thessaloniki ushered in a climax of development. A large number of large-scale heavy industrial enterprises such as steel plants and power groups also began to settle in the industrial area.

For example, Andros Machinery Group, after raising funds from the listing, spent a huge sum of 12 million drachmas to build a brand-new automobile assembly plant in the Thessaloniki Industrial Zone, fully producing cars and trucks.

And the T-car taxi that several people took was produced by Andros Industrial Group in the industrial area of ​​Thessaloniki.

The car drove smoothly along the way, and it could be seen that the road was wide and flat, which surprised Kalia and others.

The streets are wide enough to run four of these taxis in parallel with redundancy.

The bustling crowd on the side of the road was crowded on the gravel road with white lines on both sides of the street.

Several people were surprised by the crowd on the street, Yakov explained thoughtfully: “It’s noon now, the factory has a lunch break, and the workers have to come out to eat.”

“These are off-duty factory workers who come to the commercial area to buy some daily consumer goods such as tobacco and alcohol, cane sugar, coffee, fruit.”

This made Kalia very surprised that these ordinary workers could afford these luxuries.

“Do they have a high income? Can they afford these goods?” Kalia asked subconsciously.

Yakov’s explanation was very shocking to several people, especially to Kalia from Eastern Rumelia.

“The wages of workers in the industrial zone of Thessaloniki are about five or six hundred drachmas per month. For them, buying some consumer goods is not a problem at all.”

Faced with Kalia’s questions, Yakov, who was accompanying her, patiently explained to her that those who often visit the business district are generally skilled workers in the factory, teachers, military sergeants, government workers, businessmen, and wealthy people nearby. Peasants, whose annual income is generally more than 5,000 drachmas, belong to the middle class in Greek society.

Kalia was silent, the sight before her had a big impact on her.

Compared with Thessaloniki in Greece, whether it is the Ottoman Empire or the common people of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, there is a huge gap in spending power.

Because Eastern Rumelia was successively ruled by the Ottoman and Bulgarian kingdoms, Kalia, who was born in Eastern Rumelia, can deeply feel the gap between the people of the two countries and Greece.

Whether a Turk or a Bulgarian, without a position in the government or the army, and without land and factories at home, it is unimaginable to imagine the life of a worker in Thessaloniki.

Kalia herself knew how big the gap between the rich and the poor was under the Ottoman Empire, and how poor the life of ordinary peasants was.

Under the rule of Bulgaria or the Ottoman Empire, farmers only depended on the output of the land to make a living. They belonged to a typical small-scale peasant economy and could only be self-sufficient. There was no concept of consumption at all, because there was no money at all.

In fact, Thessaloniki is currently the place with the richest income for workers in Greece besides Athens. After all, the enterprises gathered in Thessaloniki industrial area are the backbone of Greek industry. The workers who work in these factories earn High is normal.

Other cities are far less prosperous than Thessaloniki, a commercial port and industrial city.

Even so, for several people, workers in Thessaloniki are well paid.

Kalia is a little puzzled, because now she doesn’t understand at all, how huge the gap is in the efficiency of creating material wealth between industrial countries and agricultural countries.

Even the current kingdom of Greece is still only a semi-industrialized country, and has not completely completed the industrialization process.

But her efficiency in creating material wealth is far from what the Ottoman Empire and traditional agricultural countries like Bulgaria can match.

Greece is now a fairly mature business society, where people divide labor and cooperate to carry out social production efficiently.

Now, with the advent of the second industrial revolution, the electric power and internal combustion engine industries in Greece have also begun to flourish under the breeze of the times, driving the Greek society to catch up with the trend of the times, and the productivity has increased explosively.

Industrial countries and agricultural countries are completely different in terms of wealth production efficiency and social organization system~www.mtlnovel.com~ Crossing this street about 150 meters long, taxis passed a gate and entered the industrial core area of ​​the district.

As the industrial area of ​​Thessaloniki City, it can be said to be the core area of ​​Thessaloniki Port.

Along both sides of the road, there are cotton mills, arsenals, steel mills, power plants and other factory areas, towering chimneys, billowing black smoke rising up, against the blue sky, it is so eye-catching.

Looking at the magnificent scene in front of her that she had never seen before, the shock to Kalia’s heart was huge.

In the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Bulgaria, there are also many workshops that use coal as fuel, but they have never seen such towering chimneys.

According to Kalia’s simple understanding, the taller the chimney, the larger the scale of the factory, the more workers it employs, and the greater the output.

If you are a person in the 21st century, when you see the scene of black smoke billowing and chimneys standing in front of you, you will not only disagree, but also think of industrial pollution and environmental protection issues.

However, in the era of the early 20th century, chimneys with billowing black smoke signified the smell of wealth, strong industrial strength, and rising national power, the more the better.

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