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"But according to what I heard, 90% of the population in Albania are completely illiterate and can't even spell a word."

“And most of them are msl”

"Albania was recently conquered by Greece, um,"

Thinking that the word cession seemed inappropriate, Little Nobel changed his mind.

Having said this, Little Nobel looked doubtfully at Yakov, the current head of the Purple Robe Foundation, beside Constantine.

According to Constantine's cooperation method, the oil company formed by the cooperation, Hellenic Petroleum Company, will make large investments in the city of Ferri.

This includes extracting oil, purchasing equipment, and building a petroleum refinery. Due to cost considerations, it is best to set up a factory directly locally.

Although Constantine said that the Greek economy will be transformed and upgraded in the next period of time, oil demand will rise rapidly.

However, in a backward region like Albania, is it a bit too whimsical to currently carry out a large amount of investment and construction?

You know, Albania is still under martial law.

How to solve the basic infrastructure, such as electricity, transportation problems, and employee problems?

"Don't worry about any of this, Mr. Nobel," Yakov said confidently.

"Once the financial situation of the Greek government improves, according to the government's work plan, it will increase investment in Albania," Yakov revealed.

"For example, the railway, the government plans to build a main railway line from Albania to Athens, passing through the Epirus region."

"At that time, even if the railway does not pass through Ferry City, we can invest in the construction of a branch railway line to facilitate the transportation of petroleum products from Ferry City."

In fact, the city of Ferri is very close to the coast. The nearest Adriatic coast is only about 50 kilometers away in a straight line. Moreover, the city of Ferri is close to Vlore, an important port city in southwestern Albania.

"According to the government's plan, a railway will definitely be built between Vlora and Tirana," Yakov said, dipping his fingers in wine again and again, roughly drawing a map of Albania on the white tablecloth, and presenting it to Xiaono Bell explained.

In this era of railway construction, the construction of railways was generally accompanied by the laying of telegraphs. When the railways were completed, telegraphs were also connected.

"Don't worry about electricity"

"Recently, our Tesla Electric Company has made a decision to invest in a hydropower station in Albania," Karl, the manager of Tesla Electric Company, who was present here, told everyone.

"Hydroelectric power station in Albania, located downstream of the Vjosa River"

"After completion, power can be supplied to the port of Vlora and the city of Ferry with priority."

At present, Greece's power plants are basically thermal power plants, which generate electricity by burning lignite.

Infrastructure such as power stations have long recovery cycles and high investment costs. Tesla Power Company has only started to make profits in the past two years with the development of Greece's cotton textile industry and food processing industry.

Recently, the food processing industry in Greece has also become a large consumer of electricity, such as olive oil pressing plants, flour processing plants, etc., which have contributed a lot to the profits of power companies.

In order to speed up his control over Albania, after the government reform, Constantine specifically informed the manager of the power plant, Karl, to invest in a small hydropower station in Albania.

As the alternating current system has matured over the years, with the help of Tesla, Tesla Electric Company plans to make a breakthrough in the field of hydropower generation, and this small hydropower station itself is also experimental in nature.

If this experiment is successful and the feasibility of hydropower station technology is confirmed, Tesla Power Company will build a number of hydropower stations in Greece in the future.

"The workers don't have to worry," Constantine said.

“Greece has implemented compulsory education for many years, and there is no shortage of qualified workers.”

“Even engineers and students from the University of Athens are good choices.”

Little Nobel looked at his uncle. Nobel nodded slightly and said, "Recently, educational foundations have begun to enter Albania."

“Sponsor the development of Greek language education there”

“The more illiterates there are, the better for Greece.”

The Royal Education Foundation, which has sufficient financial resources, has long entered Albania under the command of President Crown Princess Sophie to sponsor school-age students to go to school.

There is no way, in terms of education, the Greek government has no hope at all.

The current Royal Educational Foundation is similar to the sovereign wealth fund of later generations, and its beneficiaries are almost all Greeks.

Moreover, in recent years, the foundation has benefited greatly from investing in industry and commerce in Greece. Its financial resources are no longer solely dependent on the Congolese colonial government as in the past, based on the allocation originally agreed with Constantine.

For example, in the oil company this time, in addition to the Purple Robe Foundation, the largest investor, is the Education Foundation. The Education Foundation will occupy 20% of the shares in the Greek Petroleum Company.

After considering these circumstances comprehensively and seeing that his uncle also agreed, little Nobel finally made up his mind.

Constantine was also very happy to see that the Nobel family was finally brought into the Greek Petroleum Company. This means that the Greek economy will have a new growth engine in the future - the oil industry.

"How about it, Costeburu, now you don't have to worry about the kerosene mixed-fired boiler," Constantine said to Costeburu Noyu.

With the gradual development and maturity of the Congolese colonies over the years, especially the completion of the Congolese railway system, combined with the reality of the criss-crossing Congolese waterways, and the joint operation of railways and shipping, the rich resources of the Congolese colonies have been fully revealed to the world.

The shipping company under the Greek Congo Corporation is responsible for freight and some passenger transportation from Congo to the Mediterranean. The freight business is getting busier and busier, and the thermal coal consumption is also increasing day by day.

Now, Congo’s raw materials such as sugar, rice, poppy (used by Philip Pharmaceuticals to refine morphine), wood, copper ore, rubber, ivory, etc. are shipped to Europe in increasing quantities.

All of Greece's thermal coal and some of its steel-making coal are imported from the UK. Currently, Greece has become one of the UK's important coal customers. This is a hidden concern for Greece's economic stability.

The important energy source is too single!

Once Britain is unable to provide sufficient coal to Greece, Greece has no other backup options.

Although Germany is also rich in coal, due to its geographical location, the cost of transporting German coal to Greece is higher than that of British coal.

Greece's industrial development relied heavily on foreign countries, especially Britain.

Therefore, after the oil fields in Albania came into view, Constantine suggested that Costeburu and the Athens Shipyard could try to change the purely coal-fired boilers in terms of power, use kerosene mixed-fired boilers as ship power, or even completely use Heavy oil is used as energy source for ships.

After all, although the crude oil in the oil fields has high sulfur content, Greece can produce it on its own.

Almost all thermal coal must be imported from the British.

When the relationship between the two countries is close, this is naturally no problem, but who can guarantee that the relationship between Britain and Greece will always be close without any setbacks?