Rise of Empires: Spain

Industry Secretary Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla certainly knows that his demands are excessive, but he also knows that this is the best time to acquire these companies.

Don't look at the fact that this acquisition order requires 520 million pesetas. If it were placed before the economic crisis, even if the acquisition funds were tripled, it might not be possible to acquire these companies.

The existing equipment, technology and assets of these companies alone have far exceeded 520 million pesetas, which also means that as long as the Spanish government can acquire these companies, it will definitely make a profit without losing money.

What’s more, these companies can also provide vital help to various industries in Spain. If this acquisition order can really be completed, according to estimates from the industrial sector, Spain's future industrial development will receive strong help, and it is more likely to become a true industrial power.

"Minister Ruiz, with all due respect, the government does not have so much funds for the industrial sector to purchase these companies." Before Prime Minister Primo could express his opinion, Finance Minister Ewald could no longer sit still and stood up quickly. Rise up against the proposal of Industry Secretary Ruiz.

Let’s not talk about whether the Spanish government has the funds to come up with it. Even if there were, Ewald would never agree to the acquisition plan proposed by the industrial sector.

Because the industrial sector is not the only one that needs to acquire companies to improve its foundation, and the range of companies that can be acquired is not limited to those designated by the industrial sector.

If all acquisition orders from the industrial sector are approved, the next thing the financial department will have to face is a series of acquisition orders from other departments.

Even though Ewald knows that the acquisition is only good for Spain, the problem is that the money is not spent this way.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, we are confident that after this acquisition, we will quickly improve our country's industrial development." Industry Minister Ruiz did not pay attention to the objections of Finance Minister Ewald, but continued to express his concerns about the acquisition to Prime Minister Primo. The company’s optimism: “

Especially in heavy industry and chemical industry, if we can obtain the assets of these foreign enterprises, it will be a great improvement for us.

After absorbing these foreign assets, our steel production will exceed 200,000 tons and iron production will exceed 500,000 tons within one year.

If given five years, I am confident that steel production will exceed 1 million tons and iron production will exceed 3 million tons, thereby making up for the gap with other powerful countries. "

"One million tons of steel production? 3 million tons of pig iron production?" Prime Minister Primo was not intoxicated by the ambitious goal proposed by Industry Secretary Ruiz, but questioned this goal.

In terms of steel production, 1 million tons of steel production and 3 million tons of iron production can indeed make up the gap with other European powers.

Considering that other European countries are experiencing severe economic crises, as long as this requirement is met, Spain's industry will once again be ranked among the top five in Europe.

But the question is, is it really a good thing that Spain's industry has received a huge improvement in such a short period of time?

The current economic crisis has proven that too fast industrial and economic development is not a good thing. Only steady growth that suits Spain's own environment is the best way to develop its economy and industry.

Spain does have enough funds for acquisitions, and it does hope to increase its steel production to several million tons within five years.

But doing so has little benefit other than the blind pursuit of steel production. Instead, it is a burden to the country's development.

Prime Minister Primo is not unfavorable about acquisition plans of foreign companies. But acquisitions must also be in line with the actual development of Spain, rather than adding all valuable companies to the acquisition list for the sake of false and grand goals.

As time passed, Prime Minister Primo still looked like he was thinking and did not give any answer.

Industry Secretary Ruiz was a little anxious and took a step forward to continue to persuade Prime Minister Primo, but was interrupted by Prime Minister Primo with a wave of his hand.

"The acquisition plan is necessary, but the companies on the acquisition list need to be carefully considered." Finally, after pondering for several minutes, Prime Minister Primo gave his own opinion: "

At the same time, the acquisition targets should not only focus on factories in European countries, but also on medical companies and private research laboratories in various countries.

Minister Ewald, how much money can the government currently spend on acquiring foreign companies? "

Upon hearing Prime Minister Primo's inquiry, Ewald immediately blurted out: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, the funds currently available to the Ministry of Finance are 320 million pesetas.

This year there is still a part of the tax revenue that has not yet been transferred to the finance department, but taking into account the budgets of other departments and our debt, the maximum amount that can be misappropriated is 210 million pesetas. "

Prime Minister Primo shook his head, obviously dissatisfied with the share of funds that could be embezzled: "The financial department has collected another 90 million pesetas, and a total of 300 million pesetas have been invested in this acquisition plan.

For this acquisition plan, I hope to carefully select the factories and enterprises to be acquired. The development of Spain does not need too ambitious goals. We need to make steady progress step by step on the existing basis. "

"Yes, Your Excellency Prime Minister." Finance Minister Ewald nodded, not daring to question Prime Minister Primo's order at all.

Industry Secretary Ruiz also had a smile on his face at this time. Although the funds ultimately used for the acquisition were less than 60% of what he proposed, it was still a large sum of 300 million pesetas.

With the economic crisis raging across Europe, the value of this money is at least equivalent to the 1.5 billion pesetas before the economic crisis broke out.

Spending 300 million pesetas to acquire foreign companies was a decision made by Prime Minister Primo after careful consideration.

The Spanish government is not unable to provide more funds. Although the current amount of funds in the Ministry of Finance is not large, with the gold in the temple treasure, there is no problem for the Spanish government to print hundreds of millions more pesetas.

But you also need to know how to bite off more than you can chew. Spain can indeed purchase more factories and enterprises from foreign countries, but whether it can successfully absorb these factories and enterprises is still unknown.

What's more, if you unscrupulously purchase bankrupt companies from these powerful countries, it will inevitably attract the attention of these powerful countries.

Originally, Spain was already easy to be remembered for not suffering too much impact from the economic crisis. If it still gets worse during the economic crisis, I am afraid that the subsequent diplomatic situation will not be so wonderful.

Although 300 million pesetas is not too much money, it can ensure that Spain purchases a sufficient number of companies and factories to fill the gap in Spain's industrial heritage.

With these factories and enterprises, Spain's industrial development can also usher in faster growth. Coupled with the impact of the economic crisis on other countries, the gap between Spain and European powers will further narrow.

Furthermore, Spain's development still needs to be done step by step steadily, and we cannot pay too much attention to the data on paper.

For example, 1 million tons of steel production and 3 million tons of iron production are completely unnecessary for Spain now.

Under the order of Prime Minister Primo, Industry Secretary Ruiz still revised the plan for the industrial sector.

The latest industrial sector plan is to increase Spain's steel production to 100,000 tons and 200,000 tons respectively within one year. Increase Spain's steel production to 500,000 tons and 1 million tons respectively within five years.

As long as this goal can be achieved, Spain will be able to join the ranks of industrial powers. The steel produced every year can not only meet Spain's domestic demand, but can even be exported to neighboring Portugal and other industries.

A few days later, Prime Minister Primo again reviewed the acquisition list submitted by the industrial sector and eliminated all military factory-type companies from it.

The reason is also very simple. The royal family's acquisition plan includes military factories, so there is no need for the government to make extra efforts.

The funds available to the Spanish government are really limited, and there is no need to repeat the purchase of companies that the royal family has already purchased.

In fact, buying bankrupt companies is only one of the plans. It is implemented together with the plan to buy bankrupt companies, and there are also actions to tap talents in various countries.

Obviously, these companies alone are not enough. Spain must make up for the gap with other countries in terms of technical talent in order to further develop all walks of life in Spain.    The current economic crisis is a good opportunity. Not only ordinary workers are unemployed due to the economic crisis, but also skilled workers, technical workers and senior engineers with certain technical abilities.

Of course, compared to skilled workers and technical workers, the current situation of senior engineers is obviously better.

Except for those engineers whose companies have gone bankrupt, most engineers can still make ends meet, at least maintaining a subsistence life is not a problem.

After all, senior engineers in this era are already at the middle and senior levels of an enterprise, and their income level has reached the upper level.

Because of this, there are detailed divisions for tapping talents from various countries.

Although there are obviously more senior talents in big countries, the environment for these senior talents will be better. It is difficult for the companies where they work to face the crisis of bankruptcy. Even if there is a crisis of bankruptcy, there is a high probability that they will be saved by the government.

Although there are not many senior talents in those small countries, the companies they work for will also be relatively small. Naturally, small businesses cannot withstand the impact of the economic crisis, and small countries have limited capabilities and cannot save every business.

Spain's plan to tap talents is a short one, which is to give priority to collecting technical talents and senior engineers in related fields from small countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, and Portugal.

If these small European countries cannot meet all the talent needs of Spain, then they will turn their attention to the European powers such as Britain, France, and Germany to further fill the talent vacancies.

The advantage of this is that it will not attract the attention of those powerful countries. Even if small countries discover Spain's crazy buying and digging behavior, the most they can do is condemn it, and naturally they are unable to take practical actions.

Compared with the development of Spain, being condemned by these small countries is just condemning. Although there is a certain gap between Spain and the great powers, compared with these small countries, it is still a powerful giant.

Another problem with this is that the talents being tapped speak different languages ​​​​from various countries, and they even need translators to communicate with local Spanish companies and experts.

But there is nothing that can be done about it. Spain's decline has lasted for a long time, and Spanish has not received a warm welcome in Europe.

In the early stage, these technical talents and senior engineers can only be equipped with translators to ensure that there will be no problems with their work and normal communication.

In the later stage, we can only open language learning classes for them to help them master Spanish faster. After all, these excavated talents will serve Spain in the future. If they don’t learn Spanish, can they let the Spaniards learn their language?

At this point, the importance of Portugal is also reflected. Portuguese and Spanish are very similar, and can even be understood as two evolutions of one language.

The communication between Portuguese and Spanish is mutually understandable. In comparison, Portuguese can understand Spanish better, and Spaniards need to listen carefully to understand Portuguese.

This also creates a fact, that is, Portuguese people can live easily in Spain. Because there are almost no obstacles in language, this is also the special feature of Portugal and Spain as the two teeth of Iberia.

It is precisely because of this that when Prime Minister Primo proposed the need to excavate talents in the industrial sector, he specifically ordered that the first stop for excavating talents be placed in Portugal.

No matter whether these talents have lost their jobs due to the reasons of their companies, as long as they are senior talents in Portugal, they will all be excavated first.

As a neighbor on the Iberian Peninsula, Spain is not afraid of offending Portugal. Even Portugal is only worthy of trembling in front of Spain, the gap in strength between the two countries is very large.

Although there are not many senior engineers in Portugal, there are still some relatively excellent technical workers and ordinary engineers.

Prime Minister Primo's opinion is naturally to dig a batch of them. Anyway, Portugal's development does not need so many talents, and they are destined to fail to develop.

Soon, at the request of Prime Minister Primo, various departments jointly submitted a talent demand list that is heavier than the acquisition plan.

In this talent demand list, each department put forward its own demand for talents, and the whole list is several stacks thick.

Spain currently needs two types of talents most. The first type is skilled technical workers, engineers from all walks of life, etc. required for industrial development.

The second type is scientific researchers, or scientists. Whether it is researching physics or chemistry, or researching biomedicine, steel smelting, oil mining and refining, the Spanish government has an attitude, that is, to accept all comers, and the country's door is open to these talents at any time.

Prime Minister Primo and Carlo reached a consensus on the wooing of scientific research talents.

First of all, Spain is very short of such scientific research talents. In the later generations, Spain did not have any Nobel Prize winners in physics and chemistry, which also proved that Spain lacked such talents.

In order to express the importance of these talents, whether they were talents recruited by the royal family or the government, they would all join the Royal Academy of Sciences established by Carlo.

The Royal Academy of Sciences has been established for several years, and has built several large laboratories for research in physics, chemistry, biomedicine, mechanical design and chemical engineering, which are open to all scientists of the Royal Academy of Sciences for free.

If you don't like this kind of large laboratory that has to compete with other experts for time, the Royal Academy of Sciences also provides private laboratories for scientists with sufficient levels to ensure that scientists can conduct their own scientific research anytime and anywhere.

Yes, after several years of development, the Royal Academy of Sciences has also formulated a more detailed level division.

Carlo himself attaches great importance to scientists, and naturally attaches great importance to the development of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

Although the Royal Academy of Sciences is only an academic research institution, it still has considerable power.

All scientists who join the Royal Academy of Sciences are called academicians of the Academy of Sciences, and enjoy three incomes: basic salary + R\u0026D rewards + appointment rewards.

First of all, basic salary. There are three levels of academicians in the Royal Academy of Sciences, namely first-level academicians, second-level academicians and third-level academicians.

The basic annual salary of first-level academicians is 1,800 pesetas, the basic salary of second-level academicians is 3,200 pesetas, and the basic salary of third-level academicians is 4,500 pesetas.

Although the level of basic salary is not the top in Europe, it is more than ten times the income of ordinary people.

What's more, basic salary is only one of the incomes of academicians of the Academy of Sciences, and it can't even be regarded as the bulk of the income.

In addition to the basic salary, all the research conducted by academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences will be rewarded with a certain share according to the contribution of the research results, up to 5%.

Although one-twentieth of the share is not much, it depends on what the research results are. For example, a more advanced drug has been developed in biology, which may represent hundreds of millions or even billions of pesetas of income.

In this case, even a 5% share is enough to make academicians of the Academy of Sciences become millionaires.

Finally, it is about the income of the position. All scientists in the Royal Academy of Sciences are called academicians, even the president of the Academy.

Although there is no difference in rank between the president and other positions, there are still big differences in power and income.

However, there are still fewer positions within the Academy of Sciences, and more positions are actually the Royal Academy of Sciences, which is closely related to the Royal Academy of Sciences.

Academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences can work part-time in the Academy of Sciences, and the lowest position is honorary professor, with an income of 500 pesetas.

The three incomes combined can ensure that the income level of the Royal Academy of Sciences members is similar to that of senior talents in other European countries, or even slightly higher.

This is also the confidence of Carlo and Prime Minister Primo to attract talents. After all, no matter how much scientists love research, they have to eat first.

5,100-word two-in-one chapter, please support!