Vol 5 Chapter 9: , Disputes of interests-labor subcontracting

The Bulgarian government, which has always been highly efficient, immediately organized an expert team to conduct on-site exploration after the railway project was approved. In addition to topography and geomorphology, the humane economy and future development direction must also be considered.
Can't you put the railway station hundreds of miles away from the city? If that is the case, the railway will also drive the terrible regional economy, and the transfer of materials will cause collapse!
Of course, Bulgaria does not have much historical burden in this regard. In other regions except the Balkans, the cities are to be rebuilt. You can also take care of each other in the site selection. There is no need for railways to make concessions to the cities and artificially increase railway construction. cost!
At the beginning of the 20th century, the biggest problems in building railways were financial resources, material resources, and manpower. Now the Ministry of Communications is naturally not a matter of money, and material resources are not a problem. Domestic steel companies are expanding production capacity and meeting demand is not a problem.
Manpower is in trouble. Two months ago, the Bulgarian government was still suffering from the refugee problem. Now the refugee camps have been evacuated, and major companies have joined the robbing war. The direct consequence is that the average wage in Bulgaria has risen. Twenty percent.
Among them, agricultural companies and railway companies are the most aggressive. Agricultural companies want to open up wasteland. Even if they use mechanized farming technology, they suddenly add tens of millions of hectares of land, and labor is still indispensable!
Not to mention the railway companies. They have a lot of work. The new round of the big railway plan has not yet started, but they can build roads?
Who said that you can't make money by building roads? As long as a few toll booths are built, the future Lev will not come in steadily. They still have the investment vision for this!
Naturally, this high road cannot be the later high road. It is mainly based on cement roads. Cars can run one hundred or eighty yards on it. It is already a proper high road in this era.
The railway company is now lobbying the government to open the toll gates. The Ministry of Transport naturally supports it, but the cabinet has not made up its mind for a while, mainly because of traditional issues.
Since ancient times, building bridges and paving roads has been for the benefit of public welfare. Now that the fees are suddenly changed, everyone is afraid of causing bad social effects, so they are temporarily stuck.
However, with the increase of private cars in Bulgaria, future charges are inevitable. The question is how to charge?
Now some people in the government have put forward another proposal, which is to allow capitalists to pay for road construction and then authorize them to build gas stations on both sides of the road.
In this way, the government does not need to invest heavily, and tolls can also be cancelled, but the gas bill will also increase!
Well, in this era, there are only a hundred thousand private cars in Bulgaria, and the drivers are all local tyrants. The price does not matter. They can afford the car anyway, and they don't care about the cost.
On this issue, Ferdinand is also a little vacillating. If the government finances the construction of high roads, then the toll is inevitable, otherwise the later maintenance will cause collapse.
Moreover, toll stations are also a headache, how should they be monitored? In this era, there is no computer, no monitoring, and all rely on manual operation. If you want to do a little action, how do you check?
A thousand cars passed every day, or only a hundred cars passed. This problem can only be counted by manpower. Whether you can make money in the end depends on the moral integrity of these front-line personnel!
It is simple to let the capitalists pay for it, but in the prosperous area, it is estimated that everyone is rushing to build it, and there will be no one in the poor areas.
Unless it is taken away in a package, to build a section of the main road between cities, it is necessary to add a section of remote mountain roads.
Only in this way, it is estimated that Ferdinand can only pick up the market by himself, and there is not enough profit temptation!
In 1918, you told the capitalists that in the future, every family in Bulgaria could use cars, and they would definitely tell you: That is the future.
Investing in road construction across Bulgaria has been purely at a loss for at least the first two decades. It is estimated that no capitalist in Bulgaria has suffered such a long loss!
Of course, if it is limited to the Balkan Peninsula, that would be fine. Investing a few billion levs, and when the auto industry explodes, capitalists can also make money back through other channels.
It seems that the auto industry is already beginning to gain momentum. The car ownership of Bulgarian citizens is growing rapidly. It will exceed one million in five years, and it will not be a problem to exceed five million in ten years.
Unfortunately, 90% of these cars are concentrated in the Balkan Peninsula. Is it early for Asia Minor to be exhibited?
Then this issue was put on hold for the time being, and the cabinet will organize professionals to conduct a comprehensive assessment and come up with the results.
The railway companies still continue to repair their roads, even if they are authorized to operate gas stations in the future, there will be no impact. They can also choose to sell or set up gas stations. Although they are not as fast as toll stations, this is still a very
rich
investment.
The prerequisite is that the roads they are currently building are all in the Balkans, and the main roads are still the main ones. Many roads have completed subgrades a few years ago, and now they are only exposed with concrete.
At the moment of the high highway toll dispute, Ferdinand has quietly bought out the domestic oil exploitation rights. Of course, this was carried out in secret. On the surface, there are still more than a dozen oil companies in Bulgaria, who have joined forces to divide the country. Oil and natural gas exploitation rights.
Oil in this era is worthless. In order to conceal people's eyes, Ferdinand threw a few smoke bombs around the end of the world war.
For example, from September to December 1917, the South American Petroleum Company, a subsidiary of the United Mining Corporation of the United Kingdom, in a short period of three months, respectively, in the vicinity of Lake Maracaibo, Guarico and Anso, in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Large oil fields have emerged in the three states of Ategui and Monagas.
Before Christmas in 1918, the South American Petroleum Company also had large oil fields in the Amazon plain of Ecuador. Immediately after the French Wadeer Petroleum Company, there was an oil field in Tunisia.
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In just six months, the number of existing oil fields in the world has exceeded 20, and the oil resources that were in short supply have suddenly become worthless.
Of course, these oils have not yet been released, so the international crude oil prices have fallen by less than 20%, and there is no avalanche.
But capital is no longer so optimistic about oil, no matter how important it is, as long as the quantity is large, the price will definitely not rise.
And South America has become the focus. The world's largest oil producing areas are now concentrated in South America, and the conflict of interests between Britain and the United States in South America has become increasingly fierce.
Taking this opportunity, Ferdinand also listed the South American Petroleum Company in London, under the banner of the world's largest oil company, and quickly gained popularity.
The capitalists in London are still celebrating, they have mastered the world's most oil resources, which means that they have occupied a dominant position in the new round of energy revolution.
After diverting the attention of international capital, Bulgaria’s oil extraction rights auction became indifferent, and the exploration costs of tens of millions of levs were undoubtedly an astronomical figure for Bulgaria’s local capitalists. Ferdinand’s vest was a melee.
After doing all this, Ferdinand began to watch the struggle between American Petroleum Group and British Petroleum Group.
Of course, the strength of the oil group in this era is not that huge, and the struggle between them is not enough to cause a war.
However, as time went on, the fighting between the two sides was gradually escalating. The consortium that manipulated the oil conglomerate behind the scenes gradually moved to the forefront. The conflict between Britain and the United States escalated at the end of 1918.
Under the influence of capital, the London government has officially listed the Americans as the number one enemy; and the number one enemy of the Washington government has always been the British!
Although the Anglo-American oil dispute has not yet come out, Ferdinand also knows that the British will win this time. This is determined by the overall strength of both sides.
The John Bull of this era is still the number one in the world. With their means of pulling allies, the Americans have no way to resist, unless they have to learn from the Germans and challenge the world.
In order to resolve the unfavorable situation in diplomacy, the Americans are plotting to split the Anglo-Japanese alliance. At the same time, they are also trying to win over France and France in an attempt to disintegrate the Three Kingdoms Agreement.
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Transport Minister Tom Ivanov said cautiously: "Your Excellency, this is the preliminary railway plan of our Ministry of Transport. If the cabinet approves, we can start construction next month!"
Constantine took the document and quickly browsed it. Zou frowned and asked: "How do you solve the labor problem? The labor gap is as high as 500,000. Are you going to compete with other industries in China?"
"Grabbing people" is a very taboo thing for the Bulgarian government. It cannot disrupt the order of other industries for the sake of the exhibition of one industry and affect the overall exhibition.
The Minister of Communications immediately explained: "Of course not. How can the Ministry of Communications not have such a big picture? The labor problem has actually been solved!
As soon as our big railway plan was made public, some capitalists wanted to contract our railway project. Of course, their request was rejected by us, but then someone proposed to provide us with labor services.
Our Ministry of Transport and the railway company have studied that as long as we strengthen the quality supervision, even if they provide labor services, it will not affect the quality of the railway.
We have already found out the sources of their labor. Most of them are from overseas. As for the specific situation, as long as it does not violate our laws, I think it is not a problem! "
Although it was not stated clearly, Constantine also knew that the origin of these laborers was not so normal, but what does it care about him?
The international capitalists of this era have a fart of ethics, cheating, kidnapping and deceiving are ubiquitous, and the government can't control it even if it wants to monitor it!
And this kind of labor subcontracting is not the first to appear, but in order to prevent foreign labor from impacting the domestic human resources market, it has been severely attacked by the government and has not formed a scale.
But now Bulgaria has a severe shortage of labor, and it is inevitable to open an opening. The Ministry of Transport has just stepped forward.
Constantine hesitated and said, "Well! But you still have to strengthen supervision. I don't care how these people are fooled by the capitalists, but when you arrive in Bulgaria, you must abide by our laws and you must not let them wantonly. Recklessly!
You should know ~EbookFREE.me~ once this kind of thing spreads out, how much trouble it will cause us! "
Yes, it can't spread! In other words, domestic capitalists cannot be allowed to follow the example. If they all hire a group of outsourced workers and unscrupulously squeeze them, what about the employment of Bulgarians?
With cheaper labor, capitalists are not stupid. They naturally know how to choose. What follows is to lower domestic labor wages. This will inevitably lead to an escalation of the contradiction between the domestic working class and the bourgeoisie and intensify society. contradiction.
The Minister of Communications changed his face drastically. Thinking about the horrible consequences, his scalp was numb, and if they were not good, they would become sinners in Bulgaria.
As for the worst case, it will definitely not happen. The Bulgarian government will inevitably intervene strongly, but this intervention is not without cost. It is difficult to eliminate class contradictions that have intensified.
"Your Excellency, rest assured, these foreign workers will not appear in the Balkans. Our Ministry of Transportation will send them to more remote areas to eliminate the possibility of hidden dangers!" The Minister of Transportation Tom promised.
This is the easiest and most effective method! In this era, transportation and communication are not so convenient. There is no network transmission. Things born in Asia Minor will spread to the Balkans without knowing when.
As for the impact, as long as you don't live by your side, everyone will just think it's hearsay and will doubt it.
Coupled with the government's crackdown, capitalists are not desperadoes. How can they all take risks?
As long as you stop it at the beginning, it will be easier to handle it later. The National People's Congress follows blindly. As long as everyone abides by the rules, the latecomers will naturally follow suit!
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