Chapter 142 Foundation

Despite these conveniences, Nobel was also worried about setting up the Nobel Prize in Greece.

First, the threat of war.

Due to historical reasons, the Balkan Peninsula where Greece is located has a mixed ethnic group, chaotic religions, and many conflicts. In the foreseeable future, this situation will not change.

This greatly increases the possibility that Greece will be threatened by war.

The second is the security of funds.

In this era, a fortune of 9.2 million US dollars is really an astronomical figure.

Money can move people's hearts, let alone such a huge sum of money?

So far, Greek politics is not a place with clear politics.

Nobel himself has not much time left. In order to maintain the award after his death, he must entrust the foundation to manage the property.

This requires that the location of the award should preferably be located in a country that is peaceful and socially stable.

Does Greece have such social conditions?

Considering these factors, Nobel did not immediately give a clear answer to Sophie's request to set up the award venue in Greece.

He still needs to consider it for a while.

"Your Highness, I will tell my family about what you said about hiring an experienced oil exploration team from Baku." Nobel picked up the hat on the table and left the Tatoi Palace, ending today's meeting.

After bidding farewell to this important guest, Sophie looked at Constantine and said, "Constantine, why are you also diligently trying to win Nobel's award?"

Why win Nobel's award?

Think about those who regard the Nobel Prize as the highest award in science in later generations. Whenever a country's scientific level is measured, the Nobel Prize must be mentioned.

There are many benefits to setting up such an award in Greece.

Therefore, Constantine solemnly said to Crown Princess Sophie: "It can be seen that Mr. Nobel respects you very much, Sophie, you should visit Nobel more recently and make sure that Nobel agrees."

"If you can do this, to some extent, the goal of your foundation, the goal of restoring the status of the Greek cultural center, will be achieved."

"Pay more attention to the troubles encountered in the establishment of his foundation and help him. After all, Nobel has not been in Greece for a long time and is unfamiliar with the place."

Win Nobel? He wanted to win over not only Nobel, but also the Nobel family behind Nobel.

Baku could become an oil city, and the Nobel family made great contributions.

If the Nobel family could be won over, Greece would be able to occupy a place in the upcoming oil revolution.

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With the help of Nobel, the Greek royal family hired an oil drilling team, carrying oil extraction equipment, to the south of Tirana, an important city in Albania (now the capital of Albania), 120 kilometers away from Feri, and began to explore for oil in the local area with the help of the Greek garrison.

Because there was no accurate geographical location (Constantine only remembered that the Italians had discovered an oil field here, but where exactly in Feri, Phuket), in Constantine's words, it was until oil was found. The head of the exploration team, Kastelios, was speechless for a while.

After arriving in Albania, they only stayed for a few weeks, and everyone complained bitterly. The poverty of Albania also opened their eyes.

I thought that in Europe, Russians were already poor, but Albania was even poorer than Russia.

After nearly three months of hard work, the first oil well was finally drilled when even the manager of the oil exploration team, Kasterios, was almost desperate.

When the sticky black oil gushed out of the ground, the exploration team cried with joy in the suburbs outside Feri - they could finally leave this barren place.

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Yakov nervously sorted out his clothes. Although he was wearing the best clothes in the family, all the finances were looted when the family fled Poland. This old suit bought by the whole family with money had faded. It was too disrespectful to meet a noble like Crown Prince Constantine.

Then he thought that this visit to Crown Prince Constantine was a precious opportunity - to change the poor situation of his family.

When he learned from the newspaper that the royal family was looking for someone with rich financial experience, Yakov felt that his chance had come.

"Beep beep beep"

Constantine, who was reading military documents in the office, said without raising his head: "Come in"

Butler Cape led a middle-aged man of about 40 years old, Yakov, in: "Your Highness, a gentleman came to apply for a job today, saying that he saw the royal family's advertisement in the newspaper"

Constantine rubbed his sore eyes, stood up, and looked at the middle-aged man in front of him: brown hair, big nose, black eyes.

This seems to be a Jew?

Butler Cape stood aside when he saw Constantine stand up.

"Can you tell me about your origins?" Constantine looked at this special visitor and said.

After receiving the news of the discovery of oil, Constantine immediately prepared to set up a special foundation in Athens and issued a recruitment notice in the newspaper.

"Your Highness, my name is Yakov, and I was from Poland before," Yakov took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.

"Mr. Yakov, the newly established foundation of the royal family needs capable people to manage it. First of all, it must have rich experience in finance, business management, etc., you?" Constantine asked.

"Sir, before coming to Athens from Poland, our family has been running a small bank in Warsaw and has been engaged in the banking industry for several generations, so you can trust my professional level," Yakov said nervously.

"Then why did you come back to Athens?" Constantine looked at Yakov's old suit and asked with some suspicion.

No matter how small the bank is, and all financial practitioners are gold-collar workers, it is impossible for them to not even have formal attire.

"This, this?" Yakov said nothing, with a confused look on his face.

"Is it because you are Jewish?" After all, we are recruiting fund managers, so we naturally want people who know the basics.

"Yes, there was another anti-Semitic movement in Warsaw before. A small family-run bank was robbed. Because it could not repay depositors' loans on time, the bank was forced to declare bankruptcy."

"All the family's property has been confiscated by the authorities," Yakov said anxiously.

At the end of the 19th century, there were a large number of Jews living in Eastern Europe, and anti-Semitic movements also occurred continuously.

The reason why Yakov felt uneasy when he heard Constantine say Jewish words was that he was afraid that the crown prince in front of him would also discriminate against Jews.