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Seeing the old and new Greek nobles gathered in the same room in front of him, Constantine said to everyone first: "First of all, I know that everyone is very concerned about the income of the Purple Robe Foundation."

Hearing Constantine mention the Purple Robe Foundation, everyone who was originally relaxed and casual subconsciously focused their attention on the Crown Prince's words.

From the investment of the Purple Robe Foundation, according to the royal family's announcement, each noble will receive a certain proportion of investment dividend income.

In addition to fiefs, this was another channel given by the royal family to these Greek nobles to increase their wealth.

Of course, when everyone first saw the rule that the dividend ratio for each noble would not exceed 1%, they were a little disapproving of the Purple Robe Foundation.

According to this dividend ratio, no matter how much the Purple Robe Foundation earns, how much can a one percent share be?

Unexpectedly, the Purple Robe Foundation, which invests in the oil business, is the main shareholder of Hellenic Petroleum Company. With the rapid increase in oil demand in Greece, the nobles read in the newspapers that Hellenic Petroleum Company's sales of hundreds of millions Well, I still can't help but calculate the income they can share according to the operating rules of the Purple Robe Foundation.

There is no way, even though they are all nobles, limited by their income, after becoming nobles, the financial pressure will be even greater.

After all, they are now named nobles, and they must pay attention to the face of the nobles and pay attention to all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation.

For example, as a means of transportation, they used to be just civilians, and it didn't matter whether they had a carriage or not.

It's different now. As a noble, you can't rent a carriage to attend social occasions. If someone exposes you, it will be very embarrassing.

This is only one aspect. In fact, after becoming nobles, their daily expenses have increased rapidly. Even with their originally generous remuneration for senior officers, they are now complaining.

Not long ago, the Athens Daily used the headline "Aristocrats in decline" as a front-page headline, ridiculing the so-called aristocrats of Greece who had just been canonized as nobles and were already in decline.

The photo in the newspaper was of Giannis, who had just been made a nobleman, and his family riding a public carriage when traveling.

Giannis, as the Minister of Arms of the Greek Army, is naturally among the canonized.

The democratic newspapers in the society also ridiculed and directly named some so-called aristocrats in Greece. Their income could not cope with the life of the aristocrats. They had just become aristocrats and were already in poverty.

The whole Greek aristocracy was disgraced.

As for the fiefdoms granted by the royal family, these lands are indeed vast in area, basically hundreds of hectares, but water from far away cannot quench the thirst of nearers.

First, the development of these lands takes time after all.

Under Constantine's instructions, the fiefdoms of these nobles were deliberately placed in Macedonia.

The Macedonian region had been ravaged by war for a long time, resulting in serious population loss. There was a large area of ​​wasteland and undeveloped land, and there was enough land to reward the nobles.

The arrival of these nobles will also enhance Greece's ability to control this area.

Hundreds of hectares of land are indeed a huge wealth, but a large part of this land is wasteland and needs to be cultivated by the nobles themselves.

In a short period of time, these lands, not to mention providing income for the nobles, will require everyone to spend a large amount of money to develop them.

Therefore, one of the purposes of this gathering is actually that after Constantine heard too many complaints from the nobles recently, he planned to ask the Purple Robe Foundation to pay emergency dividends to relieve the dry pockets of the nobles.

"Jacob, come and introduce the Purple Robe Foundation to everyone," Constantine said to Jacob, the manager of the Purple Robe Foundation.

Jacob, standing behind Constantine, took out a form from his pocket and reported to everyone: "Since the construction of the Greek Petroleum Company's factory has slowed down this year, there is a sum of 42 million German dollars in the oil company's account. Lakma’s Profit”

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Hearing this figure, the nobles present could not help but heave a sigh of relief. It seemed that the oil business invested by the Purple Robe Foundation was indeed very profitable.

"Based on 60% of the shares held by the Purple Robe Foundation, a dividend of 25.2 million yuan can be obtained."

As soon as Jacob finished speaking, everyone couldn't help but be surprised. According to the ratio of 1%, each person can get a dividend of about 250,000 drachmas.

250,000 drachmas, even for them, is not a small amount of money.

The general salary of a senior military officer in Greece is about 6,000 to 8,000 drachmas per month. This figure is already several times that of ordinary workers.

The Purple Robe Foundation mainly invests in oil, and Constantine naturally understands the lucrative profits of the oil business.

The reason why the Purple Robe Foundation was originally established was to use this foundation to unite the Greek nobility and gather around the royal family.

If the Purple Robe Foundation does not have high income, it will not be able to achieve this goal.

"After that you will receive a check from the Royal Bank of Greece and then we will talk about something else," Constantine said.

"Everyone knows that although your fiefdom is huge, after successful development, it can provide you with a lot of income every year. But I want to remind you that it is too fanciful to make a fortune by farming. "

The grain market situation in Greece is somewhat special.

First, Greece imports large amounts of rice and other grains from Congo every year.

Since Greece has no grain import tariffs, a large amount of Russian wheat has also poured into the Greek market.

Secondly, the agricultural cooperative movement in Greece is ongoing. After several years of development, the agricultural cooperative model, which relies on farmers' partnership operations, is gaining recognition from more and more Greek farmers.

These agricultural cooperatives use operating companies to conduct agricultural production and purchase a large number of various tools for agricultural production, including tractors, with extremely high production efficiency.

Even if the nobles have large fiefdoms, it may not be easy to rashly compete with these cooperatives that have been developed for many years.

Under the fierce competition between foreign imported grain and domestic agricultural cooperatives, the prices of Greek agricultural and animal husbandry products are low, which means that even if the nobles develop the land in their hands, the benefits will be very limited.

"Yes, the price of food in the country is too low. Even if our fiefdom is developed, it will not be profitable."

"Although the dividends from the Purple Robe Foundation can alleviate everyone's tight financial situation, compared with the current huge daily expenses, it is still somewhat difficult to make ends meet."

Manugianasky understood that Constantine had brought up the land issue at this gathering, so he naturally had some plans and asked proactively: "Your Highness, do you have any suggestions?"

Seeing the probing eyes of everyone, Constantine did not hide it: "I hope you, the new Greek nobles, can take the initiative to join the agricultural cooperative movement. Taking advantage of the recent return of Macedonia, you nobles with large land areas can , take the initiative to lead the development of agricultural cooperatives in Macedonia”

“Not only that, you must also play an active role in the development of agricultural cooperatives.”