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After some negotiations, the Larris Brothers and the Rodokanaski family from London finally agreed to invest 30% each, and the two companies together held 60% of the steel plant shares.

Through the import of a large amount of machinery and equipment from Britain, France and Germany, the industrial zone of Piraeus Port in Greece has begun to enter the construction stage. On the land in the designated industrial zone, there is a lively scene.

After discussions between Capet's steward and Kontoriotis, the royal family invested 1 million drachmas and obtained 20% of the shares of the cotton textile factory. The royal family cooperated with Greek businessmen living in Egypt headed by Kontoriotis. This company relies on Greece's desire to develop the textile industry.

This cotton textile factory is usually run by Kontoriotis. Under normal circumstances, the Greek royal family does not interfere.

Constantine took his attendant Schmidt to the industrial area of ​​​​Piraeus Port, because today is the day when the AC power station officially starts construction.

After getting out of the carriage, I saw a group of well-dressed men carrying civilized weapons standing far away from the construction site, pointing and pointing. When they saw Constantine's arrival, everyone greeted them with the words "Gao Barry and Steve". Led by the two men, they gathered towards Constantine's position.

"Your Highness, the construction of the power station has started." Gao Bairui stepped forward, pointed to a busy construction site in the distance, and reported to Constantine.

Following Gao Bairui's instructions, Constantine looked at the construction site from a distance, and saw all kinds of building materials on the yellow dirt floor, carts coming and going, tall hand trucks, and workers walking around, making various sounds. As they gathered together, the noise coming from the construction site could be heard from far away.

"This is the candidate for the power station manager that we found at the National Bank of Greece, Mr. Carl." Steve pointed to a man wearing transparent glasses next to him, who was about forty years old.

Hearing Steve introduce himself, Carl took off his bowler hat with his right hand and put it on his chest. He said respectfully: "It's an honor to meet you, Your Highness. I am Carl from Germany. I will be the manager of the power station in the future."

Constantine looked at the German manager and looked at Steve suspiciously.

"Your Highness, Mr. Karl has been working in a French power station near the Paris train station as the chief engineer. He has rich power station management experience and was specially poached from France," Steve explained.

"How could you have thought of coming to Greece to take charge of a new power station?" Constantine asked curiously.

After all, Paris, France, was one of the largest cities in the world at this time. As the capital of France, the political, economic and cultural center of France, and a first-class prosperous and prosperous place, it was much better than Athens.

"Your Highness, the Paris power station where I worked before was a DC power station. During the application process, the power transmission power was too low and encountered too many unresolved restrictions. After I heard that Greece was going to build an AC power station, I thought It is necessary to explore whether AC power stations are more suitable for promotion than DC power stations.”

"Also, as a German, I am not popular in France," Karl said with a wry smile.

After the Franco-Prussian War, the French did have an unforgettable hatred for Germany, and it was normal for them to make things difficult for him, a German.

"Mr. Karl, if you come to be the manager of this power station, what do you think you should do?" Constantine asked.

This power station can be said to be the foundation of Greece's current industrialization. As the first manager of this station, Constantine must be cautious.

"As far as I know, this power station is a steam turbine imported from the United Kingdom. Your Highness, if you are really interested in promoting electricity as an energy source in Greece, it is best to strengthen the research and development and production capabilities of the steam turbine and improve its heat conversion efficiency."

"Greece does not have high-quality coal. What is used to burn and generate electricity is lignite with low calorific value, and the conversion efficiency is even lower."

“This makes the need for improved steam turbine efficiency even more urgent.”

Karl's questions from Constantine across from him seemed calm and unhurried.

"In addition, we can also study the soot produced after burning for power generation and explore how to obtain sulfur and sulfuric acid from the soot. This can not only reduce pollution, but also increase profits."

Hearing Karl's answer, Constantine didn't find anything wrong, so he nodded to Steve to express his approval of the manager.

"Mr. Karl, I hope that under your management, this power station can become a model for the development of electricity in Greece."

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After inspecting the completion site, Constantine hurried back to Tatoy Palace.

In the conference room in the Tatoi Palace, Sophie, Ikios and Coredis were discussing the work of the Greek Education Foundation.

After seeing Constantine come in, a few people exchanged pleasantries and then got down to business.

"So far, the number of children enrolled in Greece has reached 70,000, and this year's compulsory education expenditure has reached 170,000 pounds," Koredis introduced to everyone.

"By the way, Mr. Delianis came to talk to me two days ago. He said that the Greek Education Foundation should not only provide education for Greeks in Greece, but also for Greeks living outside Greece. to this benefit,” Ichios said.

Standing and talking doesn't hurt his back. He thought the foundation's funds were blown away by the strong wind?

"Why is Delianis suddenly interested in education? Does he have any ideas?" Constantine asked curiously.

As a war fanatic in the Greek Parliament, Delianis was the prime minister for only a few days since the last time. Due to her strong advocacy of participating in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia, the British fleet blockaded Athens and was coaxed out of office, and disappeared. a period of time.

"That's right, according to Derianis, some intellectuals in Albania recently gathered to find an alphabet for Albanian and turn Albanian into a real language," Ikios said.

The current Albanian language is still in an embarrassing situation where there is only a language but no writing.

In the original time and space, Albania was not perfected until 1908, when the Latin alphabet was adopted.

Thinking of this, Constantine had already guessed what Delianis was thinking.

That is to penetrate education into the Albanian region, promote the Greek language, and expand invisibly.

In fact, the Orthodox Church, headed by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople during the rule of the Ottoman Turks, assisted the Ottoman Sultan in ruling the Christians in the territory, especially the Orthodox Christians in the Balkans, such as Serbia and Bulgaria. region and the Albanian region.

Affected by this, Greek has become a more respected language within the Orthodox Church. Coupled with historical factors, Greek has a high status among the middle- and upper-class elites in the Balkans. Many wealthy families are proud to learn Greek. .