NOVEL WEB Chapter 89 - 5 years summary
“Your Highness. This is the report we spent three months sorting out.”
The head of the bodyguard stood in front of Edel and handed the Romanian economic census report, which was compiled by the survey, to the crown prince sitting behind his desk.
“Thank you, Carust.” Edel took the report and replied.
The head guard replied in a deep voice. “It’s not hard to do things for Your Highness.”
According to the demographic statistics written at the beginning of this report, at the end of 1910, the population of Romania was 7.78 million, which was 790,000 higher than in 1905. Among them, 110,000 are foreigners. Most of them come to Romania to work and do business. Of these 110,000 foreigners, 90,000 are Romanian. Among them, Transylvania accounted for 67%, Bessarabia accounted for 21%, and other regions accounted for 22%. From this we can see the degree of recognition of Romania in Transylvania.
Regarding Romania’s own population of 7.67 million, the male population accounts for 3.82 million and the female population is 3.85 million. At present, it seems that the genders are relatively balanced. In terms of population growth, the birth rate per 1,000 people in Romania is 42.3, the death rate is 24.4, and the annual population growth rate is 1.79%. This is a larger increase than the 1.51% data in 1905.
In terms of ethnicity, Romanians have an absolute advantage of 94%. Others such as Germans, Bulgarians, Ukrainians, and Jews only occupy 6%. Among them, Germans generally live in the middle and upper classes of society, which is the influence of the father Carol I. Bulgarians mainly live in areas close to Bulgaria in Constanta, and the number of Jews has declined more than in 1905. This is due to the anti-Semitism led by Edel in 1906, which caused more than 30,000 Jews to leave Romania. Ukrainians mainly live near the Bessarabia area.
In agriculture, the area of arable land is 6.13 million hectares. Among them, the sown area of wheat is 2.443 million hectares, the sown area of rye is 127,000 hectares, the sown area of barley is 650,000 hectares, the sown area of oats is 454,000 hectares, the sown area of corn is 2.37 million hectares, and the sown area of sugar beet is 14,000 hectares. It is 15,000 hectares. In particular, it should be pointed out that in the original history of the peasant uprising in 1907, Romania’s cultivated area was rapidly reduced by 21%, and it was not until three years later that the cultivated area of 1906 was restored. From this point, Edel accidentally helped Romania’s agriculture. Very busy.
In terms of output in 1910, Romania produced 3.206 million tons of wheat, 256,000 tons of rye, 601,000 tons of barley, 511,000 tons of oats, 3.214 million tons of corn, 184,000 tons of potatoes, and 292,000 tons of sugar beets. Generally speaking, the agricultural level in Romania is still poor. Taking wheat as an example, Romania has a yield of 1.31 tons per hectare, while in Germany it has a yield of 2.13 tons per hectare. The grain yield per hectare is 820 kg lower than that of Germany, and only 61.5% per hectare in Germany. Yield. Romania still has a long way to go in agriculture.
In agriculture, Romania still needs great development, but in industry, Romania can still achieve good results. There are now 1.38 million workers in Romania, including 760,000 in mining and manufacturing, 102,000 in commerce and finance, 158,000 in transportation and communication, 348,000 in service industry, and 12,000 in other industries.
This shows the current status of the mining and manufacturing industry in Romania. The mining industry is mainly oil and potash mining, and the manufacturing industry is also mainly metallurgy, internal combustion engine, and automobile manufacturing. Coupled with a steel plant with an annual output of 400,000 tons, and a chemical plant that mainly produces potash fertilizer, this is the main large-scale industrial plant in Romania. It can be seen here that the industrialization of Romania is mainly driven by the state and the royal family. The domestic bourgeoisie is relatively weak and can only support it first.
In terms of foreign exports, Romania’s agricultural products have begun to decrease (mainly now that domestic demand is strong). The value of agricultural products such as grain exports is 182 million lei, a decrease of 10 million lei from the previous year, but it is still the second largest food exporter in Europe. Vehicles and spare parts accounted for the largest number of exports in Romania, reaching 267 million lei. The second place is the export of refined oil. Thanks to the vigorous development of the automobile industry, the price of oil has risen a lot. In 1910, the export of refined oil and Pansheng products in Romania reached 213 million lei. In addition to other types of exports, Romania’s total exports in 1910 reached 956 million lei, an increase of 2.2 times over five years ago. This fully demonstrates the strong momentum of Romania’s exports.
The total export volume has a strong momentum, and the import volume is unambiguous. Edel sees that the import volume shows that Romania’s total imports in 1910 were 891 million lei, which was twice that of five years ago. Among them, machinery and equipment occupies most of them, and the rest are light industrial products, such as textiles, leather products and daily necessities.
The crown prince himself is the culprit of the slow development of Romania’s heavy industry and the slow development of light industry.
Because there are memories of past lives and experience in this life (the mainstream thought in the world before World War I was Darwinian theory, Mr. Yan Fu’s most famous sentence is to explain, this world is weak and strong, and the fittest survives. In fact, it is the same now, but strong. People must pay attention to face.), the development of heavy industry is the best way to enhance national strength, Edel pays special attention to this point when developing industry. Every time a large-scale factory is built, some parts of the business are purchased as far as possible. In this way, funds from the society can be absorbed, heavy industry can be developed, and funds and costs can be saved.
This runs counter to the mainstream view at the time. Take the Volkswagen plant and the Ford plant as examples, both of which are large plants with an annual output of 100,000 vehicles. There are more than 96,000 employees directly under Volkswagen and its supporting factories, while the Ford plant has 87,000. Last year, Volkswagen made a profit of 51 million lei ($9.95 million), while Ford’s profit last year was $12.1 million. It can be seen from this that in the case of high benefits, Ford’s approach can obtain more benefits.
After reading the import and export, Edel continued to turn back. The next page is about household savings. This is very simple because of the small amount. Romania’s national commercial deposit is 87.14 million lei. The crown prince was a little bit disbelieved to continue to check, the result was 52.46 million lei in 1905. Looking at the commercial savings of 11 lei per person, Edel thought to himself that it is no wonder that the Romanian bourgeoisie can’t develop, and how it can develop. It still needs the country and the royal family to do a good job in industrialization, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment.
The currency of banknotes in Romania is not too high, only 493 million lei. But more than five years ago. In 1905, the circulation of banknotes was only 192 million lei, which is one and a half times higher. We must know that this is the era of the gold standard, and every banknote needs gold to support it. This shows that Romania is gradually changing the face of poverty and backwardness.
Eder turned to the end. This is the current calculated gross domestic product (GDP) of Romania. Nowadays, the popular statistical methods in Europe are: gross national product (GDP), gross domestic product (GNP), net national product (N ·NP). In the end, Edel chose the gross domestic product (GDP) that I heard the most
5.13 billion lei (1 billion U.S. dollars) This figure is Romania’s gross domestic product, an increase of 8% over the previous year’s 4.75 billion lei and half of the 3.43 billion lei in 1905. Edel was also full of pride when he saw this number, and it was worth his hard work. Romania now ranks first in the Balkan economy. In terms of military affairs, Edel is not worried. With the strengthened version of the German division, apart from Austria-Hungary in the Balkans, no one is his opponent.
(Sorry for the difficulty of finding the information, the steamed buns are late. The most widely accepted information about currency exchange steamed buns. One pound = 4.88 US dollars = 20 German marks = 25 lei, francs, and lira. If you don’t understand, just compare them.)