Vol 3 Chapter 17: , Education, industry, transportation

Near the end of the year, Ferdinand's work was suddenly busy, and just after dealing with ethnic issues, the annual planning and fiscal budget of 1902 was about to reach the final step.
In fact, these issues have been discussed many times, but many things are not determined by human subjective consciousness, but changed by changes in objective facts!
For example, now Minister of Education Chekov said frowningly, "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Education may not be able to complete the plan we made before!"
Ferdinand's face changed slightly. In recent years, Bulgaria's various departments have rarely completed their plans, especially their own plans!
"What's going on?" Ferdinand asked in confusion.
You should know that under the leadership of Chekov, all work has been done very well over the years, and Bulgaria's basic education has once become the world's first!
Now that the Ministry of Education's own previously formulated plan has not had time to implement it, it is announced that it cannot be completed, which is very abnormal!
Chekov said with a bitter smile, "Our previous estimates from the Ministry of Education were wrong. Based on the general census data, we found that the actual number of illiterates in Bulgaria is now much higher than previously estimated!
We have a population of more than 13 million, and the number of illiterates will not be less than 7 million. Even if we deduct more than 2 million elderly and children, there are still nearly 5 million people who need to receive literacy education. Almost a million more people than we previously estimated!
Not only that, even the plan to build two new comprehensive universities had to be suspended.
At present, the number of high school graduates nationwide is about 12,000, and 85 percent of them are concentrated in our original territory.
If we expand two universities now, after we expand our enrollment, the number of students admitted each year will exceed 5,000.
Then the quality of the students will inevitably drop significantly. Instead of blindly increasing the number and lowering the quality of teaching, it is better not to expand the enrollment! "
Ferdinand patted his forehead with some headaches. He thought that the population quality of the Balkans ruled by the Ottoman Empire was bad enough, with an illiteracy rate of 70 to 80%.
Unexpectedly, there is no worst, only worse! The rest of the Ottoman Empire is really bad. From the data, it is speculated that immigrants from the Ottoman Empire can basically be considered illiterate!
Of course, maybe people are not illiterate, they just do n’t know Bulgarian. Now they are being repatriated to the Ottoman Empire in order not to be exposed, so they can only pretend to be illiterate!
It is no wonder that in the later generations, except for a small part of the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire returned to Bulgaria, the others gradually disappeared into the long history. After all, to assimilate a group of illiterates, it really is not too simple!
The literacy rate is so low, so the number of people who can apply for college is naturally even smaller!
Obviously Ferdinand has ignored the basic education in Macedonia and Thrace, but it has little to do with the Ottomans. It is the result of the efforts of previous Bulgarian governments!
Twenty percent of the fiscal revenue is invested in religious and cultural output every year. For more than two decades, how can there be no results?
Ferdinand thought for a while and said, "This literacy education still needs to be carried out. Local governments must act to cooperate with the work of the Ministry of Education. The current plan is out of date.
Regarding the question of university expansion, let's build a science and engineering class first! We still need to continue to maintain the principle of lack of excesses, and to ensure the quality of students first, the number of students should not be too large! "
Bulgaria implements basic education for all, placing equal emphasis on elite education in universities. Ferdinand is naturally unable to expand enrollment. The higher education resources of this era are limited. Even if it is to fight against sea tactics, it is not suitable for Bulgaria!
If you blindly engage in a pile of only quantity and no quality university, what use is there other than wasting resources?
Is it really what future generations say: universities are not places to learn knowledge, but to teach students how to learn?
Instead of this, Ferdinand might as well create more technical schools, anyway, the engineers who have been trained can directly contribute to the construction of Bulgaria without worrying about employment issues!
It's better than cultivating a group of mouth guns. I haven't learned any professional knowledge, and have nothing after birth. Except for blind persecution, I just do nothing all day long, only to receive some messy thoughts, and then think of revenge on society!
Therefore, the liberal arts majors that the education community has been working hard for have entered the university, and Ferdinand was taken away again this time. Anyway, giving priority to training talents in science and technology is Ferdinand's established national policy, and it can never be shaken!
This is not entirely the case. Majors such as law and foreign languages, which have strong practicality, have long been included in the classification of Bulgarian universities. They are considered to be one of the few liberal arts that have survived!
Minister of Education Chekov answered with a bitter smile: "Yes, Your Majesty! Our Ministry of Education will come up with a more suitable plan as soon as possible!"
He knew that the troubles would lie ahead, and literacy education would be fine. Not many people cared; but the plan to build two universities was no secret at all in the education world, and many people were still waiting.
Especially the liberal arts enrollment that was about to be opened before, and now the door has been closed. This is unacceptable to many old masters!
Demonstrations, government protests? They ca n’t do it yet. The government has good reason to do so. In Ferdinand ’s words,
Everything is built with Bulgaria at the core!

This is recognized by all sectors of Bulgarian society!
Now Bulgaria has finally managed to climb to the edge of the second-tier powers. If you step in, you may not be able to become another European power after the six countries of Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Austria, and Italy!
Because of this, many social contradictions in Bulgaria are suppressed by this common goal, and everyone is willing to fight for this great goal!
However, the failure to trouble the government does not mean that you cannot find the trouble of the Ministry of Education. There is no other way for the old masters, but teaching Kung Fu is very powerful!
Chekov can already imagine his ears in the future, so don't want to be clean!
Of course, Ferdinand pretended not to know about these issues, and even these old seniors in the education industry, even he did not break it!
People really have high moral standards, love their academics, and love Bulgaria, and are willing to give everything for this country!
When the Bulgarian University was established before, Ferdinand cut off the majors of many people on the grounds of national development needs, and they did not fret. They accepted it!
Now that I have seen the country grow stronger, I can come out again to fight for the interests of the cause I love, which makes sense.
Of course, there is also the most important reason. These people are stubborn royalists, and they are the vanguard of all messy ideas. This is the main reason that Ferdinand has always offered them high!
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Ferdinand's mood is very depressed now. The illiteracy has basically been eliminated in Bulgaria before. Basic education is the first in the world. Even in the field of higher education, that is the top ten in the world!
But now, the world's last countdown is not too bad. Asia and Africa still have a lot of worse bottoms, but Europe's last countdown is about to arrive. Fortunately, there are Montenegro and Greece next door for them!
Of course, they have also been added to the population, and they have been pulled down!
After dealing with the troubles in education, Ferdinand thought that it was about to be done, but did not expect that more troubles would come again.
The Minister of Industry fired at the Ministry of Transport first: "Your Majesty, the current traffic conditions in our country are really bad. Even many important cities are not covered by the railway network!
In addition, the quality of our highway network is unqualified, and carriage traffic is very reluctant in many places.
We must know that the 20th century is a century of development and progress. Now that cars have appeared, it may not be long before the cars will replace the carriages and become the most important and most important means of transportation.
The roads in many of our regions are even difficult to run with horse-drawn carriages, let alone cars with more demanding road conditions?
Now the transportation in Bulgaria has restricted our economic development. The most important factor is that our Ministry of Transportation is too inactive! "
After hearing the soundness of the Minister of Industry, the Minister of Transport was immediately dissatisfied. The Bulgarian Ministry of Transport is definitely the busiest Ministry of Transport in the world. The number of His Majesty's road construction troops has exceeded three percent of the total Bulgarian population for more than ten years!
Is this still called inaction? Why is it called acting? For the Bulgarian traffic construction, officials of the Ministry of Transport have not worked hard, either running here or running there, urging construction to solve the problem!
"Or to say nothing! Your Majesty, it is the Ministry of Industry that they are not thinking ahead, how can they defile us?
The Ministry of Communications has nothing to do, and the length of new railways and roads every year is the best proof! The total mileage of road construction completed in Bulgaria last year is the highest in the world!
On the contrary, their Ministry of Industry has hindered us. Even the steel required for railway construction cannot be met. It is also a shame to use our precious foreign exchange and import from abroad! "
The words of the Minister of Transport undoubtedly stimulated the Minister of Industry. Now that the Bulgarian government has invested a lot of money in industry, it has also squeezed the funds of other departments, and many departments have opinions.
Now the Ministry of Industry breathes a sigh of relief, and must show results to show the people that the investment is worth it!
I saw the Minister of Industry stood up angrily and said, "You are a blood spurt. Why is our Ministry of Industry not working hard? Can't you see our growth in industry?"
The Minister of Transport said sarcastically: "It can be seen, but if this funding is given to us, the traffic problem now has been solved long ago, and it will not grow as fast as you!"
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Ferdinand growled: "Stop! Noisy, this is not the place where you scold, you have to go back and slowly!
You are both senior members of the Bulgarian government. You just quarrel for something. What about your qualities?
Can quarrels solve the problem? If you can, you will continue to quarrel. If you ca n’t, just sit down and think about solutions! "
To be honest, Ferdinand now only wanted to laugh. The arguing skills of these technical officials were really ashamed to the uncle's home.
The words spoken were full of loopholes, and they just popped out without going through the brain!
Even if you want to spit people, you have to scold others to expose them! They are scolding people here and there, obviously they are helping the watch?
As for the contradiction between the two sides, the word "money" was troubled. Prior to Bulgaria, the key investment has always been transportation construction. However, after the outbreak of the economic crisis, the focus of investment was shifted to the industry in order to make a low-end sale.
Now the problems that the two people said are real, and for a while, no one can solve them!
Ferdinand is a traversal, but he is not a god, and he does not bring a plug!
The road needs to be repaired one meter by one meter, and the industry also needs to accumulate little by little! And all of this takes time and cannot be achieved in one jump!
Now Bulgaria's traffic problems are mainly concentrated in Macedonia and Albania, as well as Kosovo.
During the Ottoman Empire, the Sudanese government probably did not have the concept of construction, and the infrastructure was terrible. Now these problems have come to Ferdinand's headaches.
Four years have passed since it started in 1897 and started construction in 1898. The construction of the main road of the transportation hub has only completed two-thirds of the preliminary construction, let alone the branch line!
According to the plan of the Ministry of Transport, after the completion, the total railway mileage in Bulgaria will reach 40,000 kilometers, and the total highway mileage will reach an amazing 90,000 kilometers!
Of course, this plan is just a plan. To achieve this goal, there is no way to go. At present, Bulgaria's total railway mileage is only 8867 kilometers, and the total highway mileage is only 18365 kilometers, less than a quarter!
Well, the big industrial plan of the Ministry of Industry is really terrible in comparison. Although the road plan of the Ministry of Transport is a bit bigger, and working hard for more than ten or twenty years, Ferdinand thinks that Bulgaria can still be completed!
Is that big industrial plan? Ferdinand thinks it's better not to mention it, to catch up with the goal of surpassing Britain and France, just think about it when dreaming. Does the German Empire still struggle for this?
Now that they have not experienced World War I or World War II, everyone in Britain and France is still in their heyday. It is enough to dream about Bulgaria's current family base.
If you want to achieve it, Ferdinand thinks that first expanding the homeland by ten or eight times, then increasing the population by ten or eight times, and theoretically struggling for another ten or twenty years, can almost be achieved!
Of course, Ferdinand did not wake them from the dream of the industrial power of the Ministry of Industry. At least people have found a great goal, and they are fighting for it, much better than the ideal walking dead!
There are more ways than problems, this is an idealist!
There are always more problems than solutions. This is a social reality!
Good ideas, Ferdinand does n’t have one, and no one at the top of the Bulgarian government can come up with it!
In any case, the problems raised by the Minister of Industry and the Minister of Transport exist objectively, and no one can solve them in the short term!
After Ferdinand thought for a while, he said, "You are all Bulgarian elites, guiding Bulgaria's way forward. If you encounter a problem, give me a solution!
For industrial problems, you Ministry of Industry will handle it yourself, and I will not intervene!
In terms of transportation, I have a suggestion. According to Bulgarian law, it is a national military service, but our population base has now increased a lot, and it is certainly impossible for the army to recruit all the troops!
Then the remaining part of the military service, simply set up a production and construction corps, specializing in production and construction.
Coordinate with the Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Army, and borrow it for use first, so that ~ EbookFREE.me ~ and a lot of extra labor can come! "
Ferdinand is very clear that the questions raised by the various departments are now aimed at giving an extra share of the next annual funding allocation.
Obviously, they are thinking too much, and the Ministry of Finance cannot promise to increase the budget! No money is the most commonly used and most effective reason for the Ministry of Finance!
No matter what kind of reason you have, the total financial expenditure is only so much. Go ahead and grab it with other departments!
As for his idea, it was just a puppet idea, at least for the Ministry of Transport!
The military is not so good at talking. If you want to borrow someone, you can give money. People's military expenses are also very tight!
Otherwise, even if people go to reclaim wasteland, they will not come to help in vain. How much is the income?
It turns out that Ferdinand did not expect that the final allocation of funds was basically planned as before. If you want to grab the food, you need at least one reason for Ferdinand to agree!