Konstantin continued, "Your Majesty, this is the Ministry of Transport's plan for the Greek Peninsula. In order to link the Greek Peninsula with our homeland as soon as possible, the Ministry plans to build a railway from Ioannina to Athens.
Including seven branch lines, the railway's total length will be roughly over 2,300 kilometers. The planned investment is 80 million lev, and construction is expected to take five years!"
Ferdinand nodded in agreement. Connecting the Greek Peninsula's railway network and strengthening control over the Greek Peninsula was one of Bulgaria's established national policies.
Well, Ferdinand had only been away for a little over two months, yet such a huge mess had already piled up. All one could say was that being king was no easy job!
If Ferdinand did not personally inquire into matters, perhaps many of them would simply be classified by the bureaucrats below as non-priorities. This was the common failing of bureaucrats the world over: they hurried over what worried their boss and fretted over what troubled their boss!
Although Bulgaria's moral standards had now reached quite a high level, Ferdinand had never placed complete trust in the bureaucrats under his command.
Perhaps they would not commit any grave errors, but whether they would loaf on the job was hard to say. After all, the Bulgarian government truly had far too much to do!
So much that they did not even have time for political infighting! They were human too—if they had a chance to slack off, how could they possibly pass it up?
As for giving them holidays? Ferdinand's answer was: impossible! In this era, annual leave was hardly a popular concept. All of Bulgaria followed a six-day workweek, and even he, the king, was no exception!
Besides, this was not even the busiest time