Romanian Eagle

While Sodaval and Hestina were enjoying a wonderful time together, the Ploiesti Machine Works was also commissioned. According to the usual practice, the Ploiesti Machinery Plant with an investment of up to 620,000 pounds, Crown Prince Eder will definitely attend. In fact, the crown prince did come to inspect, not because of its size, but because of its products. A week after the machine factory was put into operation, Edel came to inspect with his guards. The factory manager, Podos Riku, greeted him with a group of current machinery factory executives. As the director of the assembly workshop, Sovalier also had a seat at the tail of the greeting team.

The factory manager of Puerto Sriku has been a little depressed recently, and his baby daughter Hestina and Sauvario have been having a hot fight recently, which made him feel a little uncomfortable. It felt like his treasure that he had treasured for many years had been stolen by a thief, which made him a little angry every time he saw Thorvalier. Of course Sovariel knew Hestina's father's unfriendly attitude towards him, but there was no way, who made him like Hestina. Regardless of the relationship between the two future sons-in-law, Edel's car came to the door of the machinery factory.

A large group of high-level machinery factory executives immediately came to welcome the crown prince under the leadership of the restored factory director of Podos Riku. In fact, Eder has been a little depressed recently. Since the two maids knew that he might marry the Austro-Hungarian princess, they began to ask frantically when they were resting at night. The tiger couldn't stand the wolves, and Edel was quickly defeated by the two maids. If it weren't for his youthful health and strong resilience, he now estimates that walking is sore. Wouldn't he have escaped the disaster this time?

"I have seen Your Highness." After seeing Edel who got out of the car, a group of senior officials of the machinery factory greeted the crown prince under the leadership of Puerto Riku.

"Okay, you're welcome."

After hearing the crown prince's greeting, a group of people straightened up and stood aside. Under the leadership of the factory director of Puerto Sriku, Eder walked into the factory area.

Podosliku knew what the crown prince wanted to see, and took him directly to the few tractors that had just been built in the factory to introduce them. "His Royal Highness, please take a look, this is a Walker brand tractor that our factory has just made. It is designed with large and small wheels. The diameter of the two front wheels is 60 cm and the width is 10 cm. The diameter of the rear wheel behind the driver's seat is 120 cm. cm, 25 cm wide. This can effectively ensure its driving on fields and dirt roads. He uses a 28-horsepower twin-cylinder in-line diesel engine developed by the power laboratory to ensure the efficiency of this tractor. Please see, Your Highness, and we It is also equipped with a large number of agricultural tools, which can make it an all-rounder in the countryside."

Edel followed where his fingers pointed and saw that several tractors were neatly placed together. One of them also has ploughs, harrows, small flour mills, and trailers for cargo transportation, which fully demonstrates the versatility of the tractor. These are Edel's description of the tractor and its main role in the later generations to Puerto Sriku, and now he is putting it here, it is not a reflection of his own ideas.

"You did a good job, Director of Puerto Sriku," Edel told him looking at the tractor in front of him.

"Half of this tractor is due to His Highness. I just made it." After receiving the crown prince's praise, Podosliku patted the crown prince's ass a little.

After hearing the words of the factory director of Podos Riku, Edel did not intend to struggle too much in this regard, and continued to ask. "What's your current production of this tractor? How much do you plan to sell it for? What is the sales situation? How many people are interested."

After hearing Edel's question, the factory manager of Puerto Sriku first spoke about the output. "His Royal Highness, we have only started production now, and the personnel are not yet proficient in these equipment. Now we can only produce 20 tractors a day. I promise that in half a year, we will increase the output to 45 tractors."

After talking about the output, the director of Puerto Sriku talked about the price. "Because our tractors are generally used in rural areas.

Considering the complex terrain in the countryside and the high requirements for durability, we plan to sell it for around 4500 lei. "

When Edel heard that it was going to sell for 180 pounds, which was not more expensive than a Model T, he asked him a little puzzled. "Is it a little too expensive?"

After hearing the words of the crown prince, the factory director of Puerto Sriku added. "The main reason is that the production cost of diesel engines is a bit high, and the amount of rubber used is relatively large (please refer to the current tractor tires), we must sell at such a price to be profitable."

Edel continued to ask. "Then have you considered whether the market can accept it?"

The factory manager of Puerto Sriku replied. "We have investigated, this tractor is quite suitable for people with large fields, and there are about 3,000 vehicles in our country. Now our tractor is more advanced and fuel-efficient than the British Holt's tractor company. , I believe there is a demand for almost 50,000 vehicles in Europe, and even more sales in the United States."

Eder heard that he also did not comment on the domestic estimates, because he knew that the factory director of Puerto Sriku had less estimates. At present, there are 6.13 million hectares of arable land for main crops in Romania, and these lands are basically cultivated with energy storage. Romania's current land area is 160,000 square kilometers, accounting for 80% of the country's land area is plain. After deducting rivers, cities, roads, swamps, etc., the land that can be developed into arable land is about 4.5 million hectares.

The reason that restricts Romania to continue to develop now is that there is not enough manpower to develop it. Now the total population of Romania is 7.64 million people, after deducting the urban population, there are 5.18 million people living in rural areas. The cultivated area of ​​1.18 hectares per capita is the limit of energy storage.

Considering that the tractor is more than four times the power, it is not as squeamish as the livestock. The launch of this tractor on the market will allow Romania to open up more land to grow food. It will also allow more people to enter the cities to strengthen Romania's industry. Edel knew that food would be the key to making money in World War I. Others can be tolerated for a while, and there are alternatives that can be replaced, but food is not enough, which is a must. In the future, Romania will be able to exchange enough profits from the two camps with food, which is why he must strengthen the army first.

Edel said after listening to the answer from the director of Puerto Riku. "For domestic sales, you can initiate tractor loan business with ICBC."

Faced with the Crown Prince's advanced thinking, the factory director of Podos Riku couldn't keep up, so he had to ask. "What is a tractor loan, Your Highness?"

Seeing this situation, Edel had no choice but to tell him the pattern of the rotten street in his previous life. "This kind of loan business is to buy a tractor and only pay a certain percentage of the money. The other money is lent to him by the bank with the purchaser's mortgage to make up for the lack of money."

The director of Potos Riku still didn't understand a little, so he asked carefully. "His Royal Highness means that I sell a tractor of 5,000 lei, and the buyer only spends 2,500 lei, and the bank will give it to me for him, right?"

The crown prince understood this pattern as soon as he saw the director of Podos Riku, and answered with satisfaction. "Yes, that's what you said. The rest counts as the buyer's bank loan."

After learning about the situation of the machinery factory from the mouth of the factory director of Puerto Sriku, Edel walked around the factory again. On the whole, he is still satisfied with the tour, but now Edel is worried that the tractor output will not keep up. After the tour, he spoke to the factory manager of Puerto Sriku before getting into the car. "Now I am quite optimistic about the output of this tractor, but your output is very problematic."

Pudos Riku said after hearing the Crown Prince's concerns. "His Royal Highness, I have already made a plan for this. This is the way to refer to the Volkswagen company. As long as there is a hot sign, we will continue to recruit people and convert the current workers into three shifts. Gradually bring new people to work. In my It is expected that the daily production will be increased to more than 25 vehicles with only one week of buffer technology."

Edel said something after hearing Puertos Riku's confident words. "I believe you can do it well." He got in the car and went back.

A month later, a Volker tractor from the Ploiesti Machine Works was launched. The first batch of more than 600 tractors was put into the market. With excellent quality, low cost of use (the price of diesel was less than one-third of gasoline at that time), and the performance of all-rounders, the response in the market was quite good. It only took 7 days to sell 300 vehicles in the European market. Done. The 300 vehicles launched in the country, due to the idea of ​​the crown prince, were sold out in just three days.

Only then did Pudoteriku realize that the plan he made before was a joke. We can only do it according to the plan first, let the crown prince add 200,000 pounds, and then find a bank loan of 400,000 pounds, and urgently purchase equipment from Germany to expand the factory.

When the tractor was treated like the previous Volkswagen, Eder was sitting in his office listening to the chief guard report on the changes in Romania in the past five years.