Rise of Empires: Spain.

Chapter 129 Technical School

Prime Minister Primo first reported to Carlo on the recent work results of the government, and then extended the topic of discussion of the meeting to the current problems of the government, that is, the lack of technical talents in Spain when developing industry.

In fact, it is not just Spain. Any country that wants to develop industry will face the problem of lack of technical talents.

Industry cannot be built simply by accumulating money. In addition to using a large amount of advanced technology and equipment, it also requires technical talents with a certain amount of knowledge reserves.

Even the most basic steelmaking has very strict requirements on the technical level of steel workers. The technical level of workers not only determines the quality of steel, but also determines the work efficiency and safety.

Carlo had already anticipated the lack of technical talent in Spain.

Although some talent gaps have been solved by building universities and attracting foreign talent, the gap in technical talent, especially technical workers, has not been filled.

When Spain's industrial scale was not large before, such vacancies were acceptable. But now that Spain's industrial scale has gradually taken shape after a long period of development, the vacancies of skilled workers have to be taken seriously.

Spain's reserve of technical talents and skilled workers is only enough to meet the needs of a small industrial base in Seville. For the Barcelona industrial base currently under construction, it is not enough to rely solely on the existing technical talents in Spain.

Compared with the Seville industrial base, the Barcelona industrial base is not only much larger in scale, but also completely different in importance.

The Seville industrial base can only provide about 3 jobs at most, but the first phase of construction of the Barcelona industrial base can provide about 10 jobs.

If the construction of the three phases of the Barcelona Industrial Base is completed, the entire industrial base is expected to provide more than 50 jobs, which also means that the vacancies for technical talents will also be as high as hundreds of thousands.

It is not easy to fill the talent vacancies of hundreds of thousands. It also requires a huge cost to build relevant technical schools to specifically train technical talents other than college students.

"Your Majesty, these are the development difficulties the government is facing now. It is not very obvious now, but after the Barcelona Industrial Base is completed, our vacancies for technical talents and skilled workers may reach more than 50,000, and it is very likely to affect the development of the Barcelona Industrial Base." After reporting on the current work progress of the Spanish government, Prime Minister Primo said respectfully to Carlo.

"Does the government have any good solutions at the moment?" Carlo nodded and asked.

"Yes." Prime Minister Primo nodded and replied: "We can establish relevant comprehensive technical schools to help us train the technical talents we need.

However, because we need a large number of technical talents in the short term, it is still difficult to establish relevant comprehensive technical schools at present.”

In fact, if we only talk about building a comprehensive technical school, it can be easily done relying solely on the power of the government.

But the problem is that Spain's demand for technical talent is not just a few thousand or tens of thousands, but a gap of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

With such a huge gap, it is difficult to rely on the government alone. Even if the government can build so many technical schools, it will waste too much energy and money in this regard, thus ignoring the development in other directions.

The best way is to cooperate with the royal family. The royal family has enough funds, after all, Royal United Bank has become the largest bank in Spain.

Knowing this, Prime Minister Primo invited Carlo to attend this cabinet meeting and tried his best to invite Carlo and the royal family to join in the construction of the technical school so that Spain can fill the gap in technical talents as soon as possible.

Carlo certainly knew what Prime Minister Primo was thinking. But the royal family certainly couldn't waste a lot of money to help the government build a technical school, at least they had to reach a certain exchange of interests.

Carlo's goal was not only to help the government build technical schools, but also to let the royal family take the lead in the construction and popularization of technical schools and reap the first credit.

In the future, when a large number of technical talents are trained from schools and enter factories and enterprises, these people will be grateful to the royal family. After all, it is the royal family that gave them the opportunities.

If the royal family had not built technical schools to help them master crucial technical skills, they would never have been able to take on some of the more technical positions that require higher skills, and their income would naturally not have increased significantly.

Prime Minister Primo was actually clear about some of Carlo's demands. No matter how Carlo cooperated with him in reform, it could not change the fact that Carlo was a young king.

Young kings are all ambitious. There is no young king who does not want to take power into his own hands and make comments on the work of the government.

Although Prime Minister Primo understands this, he will not stop Carlo's actions and demands. For Prime Minister Primo, the current reform and development of Spain is the most important, and other things are secondary.

Moreover, it would take at least several years for Carlo to cultivate his own confidants and forces and slowly take power. During these years, Carlo would fully support Prime Minister Primo's reforms as much as possible, which was what Prime Minister Primo wanted to see the most. As for Carlo's desire for more power in a few years, it actually had nothing to do with Prime Minister Primo.

Prime Minister Primo will soon be 60 years old, and he will not worry about the long years ahead. Moreover, with the support of Archduke Serrano and the royalists who were originally loyal to the Bourbon family, it is only a matter of time before Carlo gains some power in the government and the army.

Currently, the only person in the entire Spanish government who can prevent Carlo from taking power is Prime Minister Primo, but Prime Minister Primo will not do so.

Because Prime Minister Primo deeply and clearly understands that the stability of the Kingdom of Spain depends to a large extent on the current monarchy.

If Spain had become a republic, there would not have been so much tolerance between the various factions. Rather than letting the radical republic destroy Spain, it would have been better to allow Carlo to return to power.

At least based on observations over the past few years, Carlo is not likely to be a foolish monarch like Queen Isabelle. At least he is a more qualified king.

What's more, even if Carlo wanted to take over power in the government and the military, it would not be smooth sailing.

Other parties may not be willing to see a king with absolute power. Even if Carlo has some power, he will be restricted by parliament and the government.

This is another reason why Primo is relieved to be the prime minister. If Carlo himself is not too capable, the opposition of these parties will be enough to ensure that Carlo's power is not too great. Spain is still a constitutional monarchy, so there is no need to impose too many restrictions on Carlo's power.

If Carlo could seize power despite opposition from many parties and other forces, and gain the trust and love of the people, then it would also prove that Carlo was a very capable king.

In this case, why would Prime Minister Primo need to prevent Carlo from taking power?

"It is indeed difficult to fill the gap of hundreds of thousands of technical talents." Carlo nodded, pretending to be in deep thought, and then spoke after a moment: "

Faced with the major challenges of Spain's development, the royal family cannot sit idly by. Let me take a portion of the royal family's property to establish the Madrid Comprehensive Technical School and build as many branches as possible.

The requirements for the construction of comprehensive technical schools do not need to be too high, as long as they can train technical talents in related fields for us. The restrictions on the enrollment of technical schools can also be relaxed. As long as you have an elementary school education, you can enroll in our comprehensive technical schools, and after graduation you can obtain a high school diploma. "

This favor must be done. After all, the stronger Spain is, the more benefits Carlo can gain.

As for the role and contribution of the royal family in the construction of technical schools, I believe that with Prime Minister Primo in charge, he naturally understands Carlo's intentions.

Moreover, Carlo himself owns a large number of newspapers as public opinion organizations. With a little large-scale publicity, he can naturally let the public know who made great efforts to build the technical school.

When some cabinet members heard Carlo nod his head and agreed to let the royal family fund the construction of a technical school, their expressions changed slightly when they looked at Carlo.

Prime Minister Primo's cabinet government follows the principle of reform first, and indeed a considerable number of cabinet members support the monarchy and Carlo.

But at the same time, there are some people in the cabinet government who oppose the monarchy, or who are not very optimistic about the monarchy.

This is mainly due to the influence of the Bourbon dynasty, Queen Isabella and her father on Spain. The Spanish people experienced more than 50 years of dark rule.

Carlo's willingness to agree to the royal funding so readily obviously exceeded the expectations of some cabinet members.

After all, if Queen Isabella was in power, not only would she be unwilling to waste the royal money on these things, she would even use government funds to accomplish royal affairs.

Although this could not directly change the attitudes of some cabinet members, it at least made them aware that Carlo was different from the previous Queen Isabella.

This is also one of Carlo's goals. Although most of the current cabinet government will bid farewell to the core political stage of Spain after Prime Minister Primo leaves office, there will still be some people who will continue to fight in the Spanish political arena and even challenge the position of prime minister.

What Carlo had to do was to change some people's views on the Spanish monarchy and to select as many talents as possible from them to make them his helpers.

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