Chapter 50: Chapter 050: Opening of Sobu Railroad

"The streets run with colorful open, four-wheeled carriages. The warehouses of the rich have mountains of grain. The entertainment venues are filled with large color photographs of 'beautiful women' and...

The untold misery of the folk who have nothing on their tables, who have nothing to eat, and who rarely get a meal of white bread for many years..."

Does it look familiar? Yes, this is the original depiction of the (adapted a bit by the author). It is the current situation in the Balkans, as well as in Bulgaria two years ago.

Thanks to the purges of the Stambolov period, which cleared away a large class of the rich, Ferdinand was able to accumulate enough to relax the exploitation of the population and give the common people a sigh of relief.

Along the way, Ferdinand found that most of the former places of entertainment were closed for business. It put on the people's faces a glow of hope, the taxes returned to normal levels, and the mountain that was weighing them down was taken off again.

The bottom line is that there is no need to pay back the usury owed. The dead won't come to collect, and many of them are still grateful to the Stambolov government on this point.

Do not lose sight of the notoriety of the Stambolov government. In fact, its contributions to the country are still at the top of the list of all Bulgarian governments.

Bulgaria's varied and undulating landscape is characterized by mountains and hills, which account for about 64% of the territory. (Note: This was the topography in 1891. After the Second Balkan War and the successive defeats in the two World Wars, Bulgaria lost a large part of its plains, and in later times the mountains and forests rose to seventy-nine percent.)

The railroad was still under construction, and the automobile was still being developed. Ferdinand, even if he was the monarch, could not be an exception. He had to rely on carriages and suffered from bumps and bruises.

As for why not to ride a horse, before Li Mu traversed, that Ferdinand is a standard knight. However, the current Ferdinand would be unable to not fall off on horseback!

Fortunately, after traversing to Ferdinand's body, it is good to be able to withstand. If it is the past life of Li Mu, he would have vomited and suffered from nausea.

Along the way, as Ferdinand expected, the industrialization process everywhere is not bad. In agriculture, new technologies are spreading quickly in the plains, but mostly slowly in the mountains.

Of course, there is another benefit Ferdinand did not notice. Wherever he passed, they created a road in advance.

This ordinary road, which became the first connected road in Bulgaria, was called "Imperial Avenue", and was also called "Chama Road"1), meaning: the road where the monarch visited.