At the end of November, the temperature in Romania had dropped to more than 10 degrees below zero, and people were now wearing thick winter clothes, but the news of the Crown Princess's pregnancy from the palace was heart-wrenching, and people were talking about it one after another.

"Andina, do you think the crown princess will give birth to a boy or a girl?"

On the street, a woman shopping for groceries was talking to her friend about the Crown Prince's pregnancy.

"I think it's better to be a boy so that the Romanian royal family can be continued."

The woman, Andina, expressed her expectations. In fact, Romania is now hoping that Crown Princess Sophie Marie will bring a new male member to the Hohenzollern family in Romania this time.

In the past ten years, the Romanian economy has been getting better and better, and people's incomes have also increased a lot, and everyone knows whose credit is this. Everyone is also worried about the small number of members of the royal family, so after the wedding of the crown prince two years ago, people are looking forward to the Austro-Hungarian princess being able to give birth to a new member of the Romanian royal family.

In the midst of the excitement in Romania about the news that the crown princess is pregnant, the princess Sophie Marie, who is in the public spotlight, is walking around the room accompanied by Eder. Now that Sophie Marie is pregnant, in order to prevent accidents, the royal family directly hired the most famous obstetrician and gynecologist in Romania, Dr. Maktina to sit in the palace. Several experienced nurses have also been hired as a medical team to take care of Sophie Marie.

"Eder, aren't you going to deal with things today?"

Sophie Marie looked at her husband beside her and said sweetly with a smile on her face.

"I haven't had anything going on lately, and besides, the government affairs are handled by Prime Minister Brettianu, and the army is handled by the Chief of the General Staff, General Prishan, so I can relax myself by taking a break for a while." Edel said, and finally looked at his wife, Sophie Marie, and began to talk about love. "The most important thing is to be with you."

"Click~Click~Click"

As Edel was talking to his wife, there was a knock on the door. Edel was a little uncomfortable with the sound that disturbed him and his wife right now, but he still called out politely. "What's the matter?"

A woman's voice sounded outside. "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, we are here to check the Crown Princess's body."

"Come in."

Hearing that it was for Sophie Marie to be examined, Edel had no choice but to let them in, after all, it was about his wife and the fetus in her womb.

As the crown prince's voice fell, Dr. Maktina walked in with several nurses from the medical team, dressed in a white lab coat.

"Your Highness, we are just doing a routine examination to ensure the development of the crown princess and her fetus, and it will be completed soon."

Edel also understands Dr. Maktina's explanation, this is not the era of the 21st century, when medical technology is very developed, and the current medical technology is still relatively backward, so for the pregnant Sophie Marie, this is the best protection.

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, please let me listen to your heartbeat."

Dr. Maktina spoke to Sophie Marie with the hearing aid she had with her.

"The crown princess has no problems and is very healthy, and I believe that the fetus will also develop well."

Dr. Maktina quickly finished the examination and talked to Mr. and Mrs. Eder about the results.

Both Eder and Sophie Marie were pleased with the result. Dr. Mactina left after informing the two of the results, leaving them to continue their sweet talk. Unfortunately, happy times are always short-lived, and after spending three days with Sophie Marie, Edel begins to deal with the things that have piled up.

"Your Highness, this is the statistics of domestic grain production this year."

One of the guards took the data he had just counted and put it in front of the crown prince, and Edel put down the latest population report in his hand and began to check the food statistics table that the guard had brought over.

In his population report, Romania now has a population of 8.68 million, and after deducting the 310,000 new people living in the newly seized Bulgarian territory, the real population growth is about 600,000 more than in 1910, and the average annual birth rate of 4.3% in Romania alone cannot be reached in three years, and after deducting the average annual mortality rate of 2.1%, the domestic population of Romania can only reach a natural growth rate of 2.2%.

Fortunately, Romania has been able to become a net importer of population thanks to its relatively high national income in the region. Most of those who became new Romanian nationals were from Lansylvania and Bessarabia. Combined with the majority of Romanians, it is possible to understand what is being done in Romania right now.

Eder picked up the table and began to look at it, and in the most striking position of this document, Eder saw that Romania's total grain production this year had reached a record high, with a total of 10.316 million tons. Among them, the largest increases were wheat and corn, with 3.767 million tons and 3.631 million tons, respectively. The fact that such a high yield can be achieved is also largely due to the fact that Romania has started to use fertilizers in large quantities.

KNOW THAT BEFORE 1905, WHEN ROMANIA HAD NOT YET BEGUN INDUSTRIALIZATION, THE FERTILIZER USE RATE PER HECTARE WAS 0.05 KG. It is important to know that the use of chemical fertilizer per hectare in the same era in Britain and Germany was 16.7kg and 18.7kg respectively, and Romania basically did not use chemical fertilizer. Excessive use of chemical fertilizers can easily make the land clumped, but now European countries are using chemical fertilizers on a large scale to increase their own food production to meet the growing populations of these countries. Romania's increasing total food production today is also largely due to its extensive use of chemical fertilizers and increased cultivated area.

This statistical table is well illustrated by the fact that Romania uses an average of 7.46 kg of fertilizer per hectare of arable land. Romania now has 6,711,000 hectares of cultivated land, a 10 percent increase from three years ago. This is also a consequence of the introduction of heavy use of mechanical farming in Romania, although the majority of the country's area is still used for accumulation farming.

The first is that the large landowners in Romania have not completely changed their thinking, and still adopt the method of subcontracting to farmers for farming, while most of the farmers who rent land do not have the financial resources to buy tractors, and the small number of tractors purchased by the landlords are used on a small amount of land that has not been subleased, and cannot produce maximum benefits in terms of scale.

Second, the price of producing tractors is not too close to the people, and many landowners cannot afford to spend so much money to replace machinery. In addition, the production capacity of machinery factories cannot keep up with demand, so Romania still occupies the majority of domestic farming.

However, a small gap was opened in Romania's traditional farming methods and tenancy relations, and Eder had reason to believe that the strong absorption capacity of industry in World War I had forced the country's large landowners to change their traditional patterns and ways of cultivating the land.