Greece’s Roman Road

In June 1887, the promotion of compulsory education in Greece was in full swing, and children were either curious or forced to be sent to school by their parents.

It can be said that, so far, Constantine's colonial achievements in the Congo - the money from the colonization, have all been invested in the popularization of education.

At the invitation of Constantine, Tesla, who came to the University of Athens to study the alternating current system, hurried to Constantine's residence, the Tatoi Palace.

"Your Excellency, we have broken through!" Tesla rushed to Constantine's office and said excitedly.

Looking up and seeing Tesla, Constantine stood up and asked Tesla to sit down.

"What was the breakthrough?" Constantine asked suspiciously.

"The experimental team has finally broken through the practical transformer technology, which can withstand transformers ranging from several hundred volts to several thousand volts," Tesla said excitedly to Constantine, blushing.

"What will happen if there is a breakthrough?"

"Transformers enable the economical transmission of electricity over long distances, that is to say, the advent of transformers makes it possible to provide alternating current services to users who are far away from power plants"

"Your Excellency, this means that all the technical difficulties of the AC power system have been theoretically overcome by our team. Now, the only factor hindering the use of AC power is that there is no real AC power plant in the world", Tess Pull explained to Constantine.

It turned out to be an alternating current system. After nearly two years of investment regardless of cost, it finally broke through the technical difficulties.

Hearing the good news of Tesla, Constantine took Tesla to the Prime Minister's residence to discuss matters with Trikupis.

The two told Terry Kupis about the breakthrough in alternating current technology.

"What's the use of this thing?" Trikupis asked in confusion, looking at the two incoherently excited people in front of him.

Constantine looked at the gray-haired Trikupis, patted his head, and suddenly realized that most of his life has been used by the old man on the political stage.

"How can I explain the use of alternating current to you? Well."

Constantine scratched his head, trying to figure out the language.

"Let's put it this way, in the past, the machines in large factories were powered by steam engines. Now, alternating current can replace steam engines and directly power machines, which is a new energy source."

"In the past, factories that could not be built in Greece due to the lack of high-quality coal can be built with AC power and a little modification. For example, the textile industry in Greece has been unable to develop due to high production costs due to lack of energy. "

There are some handicraft workshops in Greece, which use manpower to produce cotton cloth. Due to the low price of imported cotton cloth, the development of Greece's own textile industry has been difficult, and foreign imported cotton cloth has been firmly occupying the Greek domestic market.

It took a lot of effort to finally make Trikupis understand the use of alternating current.

"Tesla intends to build street lighting facilities on the streets of Athens to provide the people of Athens with clean and efficient electric lighting, which requires the approval of your prime minister."

"Of course, in addition to this, there are also the development planning of the textile industry, which I will discuss with you," Constantine said.

Greece has a production of several thousand tons of cotton. Greece's neighbors Egypt and Turkey are all high-quality cotton growing areas.

Egypt and Turkey are suitable for growing cotton due to their long sunshine time and dry climate.

Especially the high-quality cotton produced in Egypt, known as Egyptian long-staple cotton, has long velvet, silky luster, tough texture and good dyeing effect.

It is the first-class raw material for the textile industry, and has a long-standing reputation in the world market, with the name of "platinum".

After solving the energy problem in Greece, Greece has the unique advantage of being close to the cotton production area, and Greece can vigorously develop the cotton textile industry.

Ancient and modern, all over the world, when it comes to industrialization, the textile industry is almost a topic that cannot be avoided.

In the early stage of industrialization, all countries attached great importance to the textile industry, and there were also special reasons.

The textile industry is a labor-intensive industry, that is to say, enterprises need to employ a large number of workers, which provides a considerable number of jobs.

And its product cloth, as long as the people still need to wear clothes, will not worry about sales.

Therefore, the textile industry occupies a special position in the economy of various countries.

"Developing the textile industry? If the energy problem can be solved, given the geographical location of Greece and the lack of raw materials, it is indeed a suitable breakthrough for industrialization," Trikupis replied thoughtfully.

"Do you need me to cooperate with tariffs?"

"Yes, Greece's import tariff on textiles is only 10%, which is not enough for domestic textile enterprises to develop. It is necessary to increase the tariff on textiles, and at the same time reduce the import tax on raw cotton to reduce the production cost of enterprises."

"If you want to develop the textile industry and you want to build a textile factory, I have a friend who wants to introduce you," said Trikupis.

Trikupis has been in Greek politics for 20 to 30 years, and he naturally knew a lot of Greek businessmen~www.wuxiax.com~ Constantine came to discuss this matter with Trikupis. meaning to ask for help.

"Cantoriotis, a Greek who lived in Alexandria (Egypt)," Trikupis said.

Since the fall of Eastern Rome, the Greeks have played an important role in the domestic commerce of Ottoman Turkey, which also makes it possible to have Greek settlements in important commercial cities or ports in various territories that originally belonged to Ottoman Turkey.

It seems that this Cantoriotis is one of them.

"Is there anything special about him? He deserves to be introduced to me by the Prime Minister himself," Constantine asked curiously.

"The import and export of cotton in Egypt has always been controlled by the Cantoriotis family and some other Greek families. In fact, the Greeks in Alexandria also controlled the production of cigarettes, the production of cement, soap, wine, and the production and manufacture of paper. Waiting for the industry," Terry Kupis said in a tone of admiration.

"That's a group of powerful Greek businessmen. Cotton in Egypt has always been purchased by these Greeks and handed over in Alexandria. These people have dominated Egypt's cotton import and export trade for a long time."

"You said just now that you had the idea of ​​setting up a textile factory, and I thought of this person." Saying this, Trikupis looked at Constantine.

"If Your Excellency the Duke can cooperate with him, it will definitely be twice the result with half the effort. I think a shareholder with a large amount of cotton production will be of great benefit to the development of the textile industry in Greece."

"After all, that means a steady source of raw materials," explains Terry Kupis.

A group of Greek businessmen living in Egypt have been engaged in the trade of raw cotton. Now there is an opportunity to expand to the downstream cotton industry, and these big Greek businessmen will definitely be interested.

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