Vol 3 Chapter 17: , Education, industry, transportation

Towards the end of the year, Ferdinand's work suddenly became busy. Just after dealing with the ethnic issue, the annual plan and budget for 19o2 have reached the final step.
In fact, these issues have been discussed many times, but many things are not determined by people's subjective consciousness, but changed by objective facts!
For example, now, the Minister of Education Chekov said with a sad face: "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, the Bulgarian departments have rarely failed to complete their plans, especially the plans they made themselves!
"What's the matter?" Ferdinand asked suspiciously.
You must know that under the leadership of Chekov, the Ministry of Education has done a good job in all these years. Bulgarian basic education once became the world's first!
Now that the Ministry of Education has made a plan before it can be implemented, it declares that it cannot be completed. This is very abnormal!
Chekov smiled bitterly and said: "The previous estimate of our Ministry of Education was wrong. According to the rough data of the census, we now have a lot more illiterate people in Bulgaria than previously estimated!
We now have a population of more than 13 million, of which the number of illiterates will not be less than 7 million. Even if we deduct more than 2 million elderly people and children, there are still nearly 5 million people who need to receive literacy education. There are nearly one million more than we previously estimated!
Not only that, even the previous plan to build two comprehensive universities had to be suspended.
Now the number of high school graduates nationwide is about 12,000, of which 85 percent of the candidates are concentrated in our original territory.
If we expand the two universities now, then after we expand the enrollment, the annual number of admissions will exceed 5,000.
Then the quality of the source of students will definitely drop drastically. Rather than blindly increasing the number of students and lowering the quality of teaching, it is better not to expand the enrollment! "
Ferdinand patted his forehead with a headache. He thought that the population quality of the Balkans ruled by the Ottoman Empire was poor 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. According to the data, the immigrants from the Ottoman Empire are basically illiterate!
Of course, maybe they are not illiterate, but they don’t know the Bulgarian script. Now they can only pretend to be illiterate in order not to be repatriated to the Ottoman Empire!
It is no wonder that, except for a small part of the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire in later generations, they have gradually disappeared in the long river of history. After all, it is really not too simple to assimilate a bunch of illiterate people!
The literacy rate is so low, so the number of people who can apply for college is naturally even less!
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 successive Bulgarian governments!
Twenty percent of the annual fiscal revenue is invested in the export of religious culture. After more than 20 years, how can it be fruitless?
Ferdinand thought for a while and said: "This literacy education is still to be carried out. The local government must act to cooperate with the work of the Ministry of Education. The current plan is out of date. The Ministry of Education should come up with a new plan!
Regarding the issue of university expansion, let's build a science and engineering department first! We still have to continue to maintain the principle of Ning Que not abuse, to ensure the quality of students first, the number of students should not be too many! "
Bulgaria implements a basic education for all, and pays equal attention to elite education in universities. Naturally, it is impossible for Ferdinand to expand his enrollment. Higher education resources in this era are limited. Even if the tactics of crowding are not suitable for Bulgaria!
If you blindly build a bunch of universities with only quantity and no quality, what use is there in addition to wasting resources?
Is it really like what later generations said: University is not a place to learn knowledge, but a place to teach students how to learn?
Instead of this, Ferdinand might as well set up a few more technical schools. Anyhow, the engineers trained can directly contribute to the construction of Bulgaria without worrying about employment problems!
It's better than cultivating a group of talkers, without learning any professional knowledge, and knowing nothing after being born in society. Except for being forced, I have nothing to do all day, just accept some messy thoughts, and then think of revenge on the society!
Therefore, the liberal arts majors that the education industry has been striving for to enter the university, this time was taken away by Ferdinand. Anyway, it is Ferdinand’s established national policy to give priority to training talents in science and engineering, which can never be shaken!
It's not exactly the case. Practical majors such as law and foreign languages ​​have long been included in the classification of Bulgarian universities, and they are one of the few surviving achievements of liberal arts!
The Minister of Education Chekov replied with a wry smile: "Okay, Your Majesty! Our Ministry of Education will come up with a more suitable plan as soon as possible!"
He knows that there will be a lot of trouble in the future, and that literacy education will be nothing, not many people care about it; but the plan to add two universities is not a secret in the education circle, and many people are still waiting.
In particular, the liberal arts majors that were prepared to open before are now closed again, which is absolutely unacceptable to many old masters!
Protest and protest to the government? They still can't do this. The government has good reasons for doing this. In Ferdinand's words, "Everything is built on Bulgaria!"
This is recognized by all sectors of the Bulgarian society!
Now Bulgaria has finally climbed to the edge of a second-rate power. If you step in, it may not be able to become another European power after the six countries of Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Austria and Italy!
It is precisely because of this that many current social conflicts in Bulgaria have been suppressed by this common goal, and everyone is willing to fight for this great goal!
However, not being able to trouble the government does not mean that the Ministry of Education cannot be troubled. Old masters have no other way, but preaching Kungfu is still very powerful!
Chekov can already imagine his ears in the future, so don't think about being clean!
Of course, Ferdinand pretended not to know these questions. Even for these respected seniors in the education industry, even he did not compromise!
They really have high moral standards, love their own academics, and love Bulgaria, and are willing to do everything for this country!
When the Bulgarian University was established before, Ferdinand cut off the majors of many people on the grounds of the needs of the national exhibition, and they did not make a fuss. They accepted it!
Now that the country has grown, it makes sense to come out again to fight for the interests of the cause that I love!
Of course, there is another most important reason. This group of people are stubborn royalists and vanguards who reject all messy ideas. This is the main reason why Ferdinand has always confessed them!
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Ferdinand is currently in a very depressed mood. Before, Bulgaria has basically eliminated illiteracy and ranks first in the world in basic education. Even in the field of higher education, it is among the top ten in the world!
But now, the world's bottom-most place is not enough, Asia and Africa still have a lot of worse bottoms, but Europe's bottom-end is about to arrive, fortunately Montenegro and Greece next door give them the bottom!
Of course they were also dragged down by the new population!
After dealing with the educational troubles, Ferdinand thought it was going to be over, but he didn't expect more trouble to come again.
The Minister of Industry fired on the Ministry of Communications first: "Your Majesty, the current traffic conditions in our country are really terrible. Even many important cities are not covered by the railway network!
In addition, the quality of our road network is not up to standard. In many places, carriages are very reluctant to pass.
You must know that the 20th century is a century of progress. Now that the automobile has appeared, it may not be long before the automobile will replace the horse-drawn carriage and become the most important means of transportation.
The roads in many areas of ours are now difficult for horse-drawn carriages to run, let alone cars with higher demands on road conditions?
Now the domestic traffic in Bulgaria has restricted our economic development. The most important factor is that our Ministry of Transportation is too inactive! "
After hearing the words of the Minister of Industry, the Minister of Transport was immediately dissatisfied. The Ministry of Transport in Bulgaria is definitely the busiest Ministry of Transport in the world. The number of road-building troops under his command has exceeded 3% of Bulgaria's total population for more than ten years!
Is this still called inaction? What is called an act? For Bulgaria's transportation construction, officials from the Ministry of Transportation have not worked hard. They either ran here or there, urging construction to solve problems everywhere!
"Or to talk about it! Your Majesty, it's obviously the Ministry of Industry that they don't want to make progress themselves, how can they slander us?
Whether our Ministry of Transport has done anything to increase the length of railways and highways every year is the best proof! The total mileage of road construction completed in Bulgaria last year is the largest in the world!
On the contrary, the Ministry of Industry has dragged us back. They can't even meet the steel we need to build the railway. They have to use our precious foreign exchange to import from abroad, which is simply embarrassing! "
The words of the Minister of Transportation undoubtedly stimulated the Minister of Industry. Now the Bulgarian government has invested a lot of money in industry, and it has also squeezed the funding of other departments. Many departments have opinions.
Now the Ministry of Industry is taking a sigh of relief, and it is necessary to bring out the results and show them to the people to prove that the investment is worthwhile!
I saw the Minister of Industry stood up angrily and said: "You are bloody, why don't our Ministry of Industry work hard? Can't you see the growth of our industry?"
The Minister of Transportation sarcastically said: "It can be seen, but if the funds were given to us, the current traffic problem would have been resolved long ago, and it would not grow like yours!"
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Ferdinand roared: "Stop! What is the noise, this is not the place where you scold the street, please go back and make noise slowly!
You are all high-ranking officials of the Bulgarian government, so you quarrel about something. What is your quality?
Can quarrel solve the problem? If you can, you will continue to quarrel, if not, just sit down and think about the solution! "
To be honest, Ferdinand just wanted to laugh now. The quarreling skills of these technical officials were really embarrassing to the grandma's house.
The words spoken are full of loopholes everywhere, just without going through the brain, they will come out naturally!
Even if you want to spray people, you have to curse them! They seem to be cursing people here and there, they are clearly helping the watch?
As for the contradiction between the two sides, it was caused by the word "money". Before, Bulgaria's main investment has always been transportation construction. But after the economic crisis broke out, in order to buy bottoms at low prices, the focus of investment was shifted to industry.
Now the problems the two people are talking about are real, and for a while, no one can solve it!
Ferdinand is a traverser, but he is not a god, and he does not have a plug-in!
Roads need to be repaired one meter by one meter, and industry also needs bit by bit accumulation! And these all take time, and it is impossible to do it all at once!
At present, 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 in a mess. Now it is Ferdinand's turn to have a headache.
Four years have passed since the construction started in 1897 and the construction started in 1898. The construction of the main roads of the transportation hub was only initially completed by two-thirds, not to mention the branch lines!
According to the plan of the Ministry of Transport, when fully completed: Bulgaria's total railway mileage will reach 4oooo kilometers, and the total road mileage will reach an astonishing 9oooo kilometers!
Of course, this plan is only a plan, and achieving this goal is still far away. The current total mileage of Bulgaria's railways is only 8,867 kilometers, and the total mileage of roads is only 18,365 kilometers, less than a quarter!
Oh, by comparison, the Ministry of Industry’s large-scale industrial plan is really terrible. Although the road plan of the Ministry of Transport is a bit bigger, and after working hard for more than ten or twenty years, Ferdinand believes that Bulgaria can still complete it!
Is that big industrial plan? Ferdinand believes that it is better not to mention it. In order to catch up with the goals of Britain and France, it is enough to think about it when dreaming. Is the German Empire still fighting for this?
Now I have not experienced World War I or World War II. People are still in their heydays in Britain and France. Just dream of the Bulgarian property.
If you want to achieve it, Ferdinand believes that if you first expand the local area ten times eight times, and then increase the population ten times eight times, in theory, you will be able to work for more than ten or twenty years, and it will almost be achieved!
Of course, Ferdinand did not wake them up in the dream of industrial power in the Ministry of Industry. At least people have found a great goal and are fighting for it, which is better than walking dead without ideals!
There are always more solutions than problems, this is an idealist!
There are always more problems than solutions. This is a social reality!
Good idea, Ferdinand doesn't have it, and no one at the top of the Bulgarian government can come up with it!
In any case, the questions raised by the Minister of Industry and the Minister of Transportation, UU Reading www. uukanshu. com is an objective fact, and no one can solve it in the short term!
After thinking for a while, Ferdinand said: "You are all Bulgarian elites, leading Bulgaria on the way forward. If you encounter problems, you will find a way to solve them!
You, the Ministry of Industry, will handle industrial issues, so I, a layman, will not interfere!
For traffic problems, I have a suggestion. According to Bulgarian law, it is a system of full militia, but our current population base has increased a lot, and it is certainly impossible for the army to recruit all of them!
Then, for the remaining part of the military service, just form a production and construction corps to specialize in production and construction.
Your Ministry of Communications and the 6th Military Ministry will coordinate and use them first. In this way, a lot of labor can be produced! "
Ferdinand knows very well that the questions raised by various departments now are for the purpose of getting a more share of the next annual allocation of funds.
Obviously, they are thinking too much, and it is impossible for the Ministry of Finance to agree to increase the budget! Lack of money is the most common and effective reason for the Ministry of Finance!
No matter what reason you have, the total fiscal expenditure is only so much. If you have the ability, go and compete with other departments!
As for his idea, it was a bad idea, at least for the Ministry of Communications!
The military is not that easy to talk. If you want to borrow someone, you can just give money. People's military expenses are also very nervous!
Otherwise, even if people go to cultivate wasteland and farm, they will not come to help in vain. How much land is an income, isn't it?
The fact is not what Ferdinand expected. The final allocation of funds is basically as planned before. If you want to grab food, you need at least one reason that Ferdinand agrees with!
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