Vol 3 Chapter 22: , The development of 1903

When Ferdinand and his party returned to Sofia from London, it was early 19o4.
To Ferdinand's comfort, the Bulgarian government was still functioning in an orderly manner, without causing any disturbances during most of the half-year absence.
The Minister Constantine sent a summary sheet and said: "Your Majesty, this is the result of the Bulgarian Exhibition in the past year!"
Ferdinand accepted the report naturally, and looked through it, and soon he showed a satisfied smile.
In 19o3, it was definitely a leapfrog exhibition for Bulgaria. The equipment imported from abroad has been installed for 6 consecutive years and has been put into use.
As far as the total amount of industry is concerned, it has increased by 87% in four years compared to 1899!
Except for some factories left by the Ottomans, which have resumed operation, many industries in the country have made considerable progress.
Many workers who went to the construction site due to the economic crisis have also begun to return to the factory.
Bulgaria once again set foot on the highway of economic development and began to rush forward.
Of course, these industrial equipment have only exploded part of their production capacity. If you want to fully use the production potential, you have to wait at least until the end of 19o5. By then, Bulgaria's industrial production capacity will reach a new height!
For example, the steel industry: In 19o3, Bulgaria's steel output reached 546,000 tons, of which steel output: 234,000 tons; iron output: 303,000 tons; in addition, there were 90oo tons of special steel!
The most important thing is that the Bulgarian steel plant has finally begun to make a profit. Although there is only a trivial amount of hundreds of thousands of levs, and the amortization of equipment depreciation has not been calculated, this is also a huge improvement!
This shows that the steel plant has begun to enter a virtuous circle, which means that government finances no longer have to continue to invest money in the mouth of this gold swallowing beast indefinitely!
Coal: The total output of coal in Bulgaria is 1.266 million tons, of which 151,000 tons of coking coal, 569,000 tons of wood coal, and 546,000 tons of lignite.
Shipbuilding industry: The two 20,000-ton docks and three 10,000-ton docks planned by Ferdinand have all been completed and put into production.
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Education: Literacy education is still a long way to go. According to the estimation of the Ministry of Education, it is a great victory to reduce the illiteracy rate by half in the next five years. To eliminate illiteracy completely, twenty years is a relatively reasonable number!
Oh, this is equivalent to waiting for the next generation to grow up, but Ferdinand can do nothing about it.
After all, the foundation of Bulgaria now is different from before. In the previous Bulgaria, there were always a few scholars in every village, so it was not too difficult to carry out literacy education!
Now, many immigrant villages are all illiterate, and literacy education can only rely on the Ministry of Education to send people to teach in the past. Of course, the degree will not be fast.
Moreover, many villagers have little interest in reading and literacy, and the degree of learning can only be described as a turtle! For these people, Ferdinand can do nothing but give up selectively. Fortunately, illiteracy does not affect farming!
Not only that, the Ministry of Education has also found that the mathematics level of Bulgarians has dropped very sharply, because the new population has been pulled down!
While literacy education, teachers have to teach them simple digital knowledge!
In contrast, basic education is progressing smoothly. Many people do not have high requirements for learning cultural knowledge by themselves, but the requirements for the next generation are different!
Even the primary schools in many parts of Bulgaria are only spread in the towns. Everyone is still willing to walk dozens of miles and send their children over for reading!
Of course, this is also related to the low tuition fees. The current basic education is mainly based on financial appropriations, and tuition fees are indicative of the collection point.
The living expenses of students can be paid either by paying food or paying. The school is not profitable anyway, and the expenses are completely within the tolerance of ordinary families!
As for higher-level education, if you can afford the exam, you can apply for free education.
In this way, you don't need to pay a penny, as long as you follow the state to study in the major, and then deduct this part of the expenditure from the salary in batches after graduation.
Don't wonder why Ferdinand assigned his major in middle school. Now the two universities in Bulgaria have less than three thousand students each year!
Most people are not qualified to enter a university, and the direction of the exhibition is of course technical colleges. So now the middle school requires everyone to choose a subject specializing in research, and other subjects are minors!
Cultivating all-rounders has never been Ferdinand’s goal! Training professional engineers and scientific researchers is the purpose of Bulgarian education!
If you pay yourself, the cost is much higher. A middle school student's annual expenses start at 3,000 lev; if the tuition fee for a university education is less than 50,000 lev, don't even think about it!
Don't be too expensive. Bulgaria now adopts elite education. High-quality educational resources are used in a centralized manner, and the cost is of course high.
Since it is self-financed, this fee is of course paid out in full by myself, and it is still a professional supported by the government!
If it is for liberal arts majors other than administrative funding, the number is even greater, ranging from 200,000 lev to 500,000 lev, which is more expensive than many universities studying abroad!
The sequelae is that so far, the number of college students in Bulgaria has exceeded the five-digit number, but the liberal arts college students other than the financial allocation have never reached the three-digit number!
Financially: The total fiscal revenue of the Bulgarian government has reached 1.38 billion lev (about 5.52 million pounds).
The main reason is that the newly-added territories have regained vitality and can provide tax revenue to the government. Especially in the Istanbul area, it alone contributed 180 million levs of fiscal revenue!
There is also the result of the "Second Five-Year Plan", which has now begun to deny finances!
This figure has increased by nearly 1.4 times compared with 1898, and has also increased by 15.5% year-on-year. It has continued to maintain a relatively rapid rate of growth. Of course, in addition to rapid income growth, expenditures are also growing rapidly.
According to Ferdinand's plan, starting from 19o4, the navy will also be included in one of the key points of government financial allocation, and it is estimated that the opponent is the Ottoman Empire.
Oh, this can only be regarded as a small expense. The key is that the Bulgarian government previously issued bonds and some loans, which are already due for the 6th renewal period. The government must leave enough funds to pay. This is the main cause of financial tension!
In fact, the Bulgarian government has repeatedly borrowed new debts to repay old debts. Now Ferdinand finally understands the difficulties of the Ministry of Finance and decided to reduce its debt!
In 19oo, the total debt of the Bulgarian government reached its peak, reaching 2.6 billion levs. In the following years, the government took advantage of the economic crisis 6 to continue to collect several batches of debt at low prices, and also repaid several loans that had expired.
After three years, the Bulgarian government6 continued to repay 183 million levs. This year, there are still more than 870 million levs of loans that will expire. After the repayment, the government's debt pressure will slightly decrease.
And in the days to come, if there are no surprises, the Bulgarian government will reduce a portion of its debt each year, and increase the amount of debt to achieve financial normalization as soon as possible!
Oh, in fact, it doesn't work if you don't pay it back. If you don't reduce the debt in your hands, in the future international affairs, the Bulgarian government will be kidnapped by loans, and it will be difficult to extricate itself!
Who said that the current creditors are all powers? Don't expect people to be so obedient and make you anxious to force you to repay your loan in advance. What can the Bulgarian government do?
Originally, the international loan of this era was Bawang loan. According to the background of this era, people can dunning in advance as long as they give up the interest income!
Of course, Ferdinand was eager for someone to drew the money in advance, so that UURead www.uukānshu.com can also save a sum of interest.
The premise is that it is only for small creditors. For large creditors like France, forget it, and paying off in one go will bankrupt the Bulgarian finances!
Compared with industry, the growth rate in agriculture is even more exaggerated, which is a direct increase of 1.8 times compared with 1898.
Of course, this set of data Ferdinand does not care about it. As land increases, food increases naturally. The government does not play a big role in it!
The grains on the international market are not valuable now. In order to stabilize grain prices, the Bulgarian government has to spend huge sums of money to purchase a batch of grains from the market to use as reserve grains.
What makes Ferdinand most satisfied is the population growth rate of Bulgaria, and indeed it is the population growth of Cathay Pacific. The birth rate in 19o3 reached an astonishing 5.o1%, which was basically the same as the bear!
Of course, the mortality rate has also risen to 2.o3%. After all, after the population has grown, Bulgaria’s medical conditions have not kept up, mainly due to the shortage of doctors!
Ferdinand could not do anything about this long training period of more than ten years. So far, the doctors trained in Bulgaria have been qualified for graduation, and others are still undergoing internships!
After these hundreds of people were scattered throughout Bulgaria, not even a bubble came out!
According to estimates by the Population Department, the population boom in Bulgaria will occur in the next three to five years. Especially the immigrants from the Ottoman Empire. In the past few years, in order to move, they all reduced their fertility voluntarily. Now that their lives have stabilized, they must work hard to create villains!
According to the latest population statistics, the total population of Bulgaria has reached more than 14 million, and the population growth rate has reached 2.97%!
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