1890 King of Southeast Asia

Half a year has passed since 1999. As of May, Nanhua has passed its first busy farming season.

Liu Yiming and Xu Hui are summarizing the first quarter.

"During the busy farming season, we rushed to plant 70,000 hectares of palm trees and 100,000 hectares of rubber. This year's rice harvest will drop by about 10%." Xu Hui yawned. He was a little sleepy after working overtime all night to summarize.

"It's okay if there is less rice. We still have a large stock. It won't affect us. How much food shortage is there this year?" Nanhua can only be self-sufficient in rice. In addition, wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans all need to be imported, and the quantity is still large.

Wheat and sorghum are okay. They are mainly eaten. Corn and soybeans are mainly used to make feed to support the development of animal husbandry and provide more meat for Nanhua.

"We have to import nearly 3 million tons of various crops every year, mainly corn and wheat. Last year, we imported more than 2 million tons of corn. This is not wheat exchanged for rice. It is real money!" Xu Hui kept muttering.

Nanhua can also grow corn, just avoid the rainy season. The sufficient sunlight and high temperature in the dry season can also make corn grow well.

But Liu Yiming did not promote it.

"Don't be nervous, it's equivalent to exchanging cars for corn. I will use this to negotiate with Sam later and ask them to lower the import tariffs on cars. We will make a few cheap models. Don't worry, we will make a profit." Using industrial products to exchange agricultural products is a shortcut to industrialization.

"Last year, the import value of grain, meat, leather, cotton, cotton cloth, silk, and various mineral raw materials exceeded 600 million yuan, and the machinery was 140 million. The United Kingdom, the United States, and the Qing Dynasty traded with us most frequently.

In addition, the negotiation with Germany on the technology of 10,000-ton hydraulic presses collapsed. Their price was too high, but we have already manufactured 8,000-ton free forging machines..." Xu Hui listed the problems one by one.

Liu Yiming's mind gradually dispersed. Nanhua's current flagship products are still medicines and daily chemical luxury goods.

Including sugar, tobacco, coffee, spices, rubber and palm oil, etc., in general, the surplus is small because of the war, and the surplus last year was less than 10 million yuan.

Last year, due to the war, the production capacity was squeezed, and not many cars were exported. The annual production of 200,000 vehicles of various types (including large tractors, small ones are considered farm tools...), most of which were taken up by the army and the Construction Corps.

Later, various plans to support the big release of money took up this year's production capacity again. Fortunately, the productivity has been completed. This year's production capacity has risen to 500,000 wheeled vehicles and 50,000 crawler tractors.

Such a large production capacity cannot be digested by Nanhua, and it is urgently needed to expand abroad. It happens that the United States has a large amount of agricultural products, especially corn, to be exported, which cannot be digested locally, and its agricultural machinery is obviously not as good as the tractors imported by Nanhua.

"It is expected that the United States will import a large amount of Cuban sugar next year, and the share of other parts will definitely be reduced. Most of our exported sugar goes to the United States. I think we should be prepared for shocks." Xu Hui finally said a piece of news that attracted Liu Yiming's attention.

"What is the total export value of sugar this year?" Liu Yiming asked.

"8.1 billion, but this is a war stimulus. We pulled out our strategic reserves and sold them to our allies. Under normal circumstances, it would be 70 to 80 million, with a large fluctuation." Sugar is a pillar industry after all. The most important thing is that almost all the plantations directly inherited by Nanhua are planted with sugarcane, with a large output and no need for re-planning.

"The government implements subsidies, based on the European sugar price, and exports to Europe at the same price as beet sugar. How much do we need to subsidize?" Liu Yiming asked.

"I haven't calculated it carefully, probably a few million. Why do we do this? If we can't export it, we can keep it, whether it's for reserve or raw material..." Xu Hui didn't understand why he had to throw money into the water.

"The country with the largest sugar production in Europe is Germany. While the sugar has just been put into storage this year, take all the remaining old sugar and sell it. It's best to make a fuss with Germany." Liu Yiming sighed. He originally wanted to talk about cooperation with Germany.

In addition to the German emperor, Nanhua and Germany can still cooperate in other aspects. The fifth import and export trading partner is France, and the fourth is France. With such a fuss, the trade between the two sides will definitely shrink.

"Why?" Xu Hui didn't understand even more. If they were selling at a fair price, they could be called clearance sales. Why did they have to fight with Germany? But the construction of those islands hadn't been completed yet, so it was useless to rob them!

Liu Yiming was stuck. He couldn't say that the Boer War would start in five months. The pro-German Boers and the German volunteers who joined the Boer army would bring the Anglo-German confrontation to the surface. Even if he didn't take sides at this time, he had to make his position clear.

Nanhua's location was very important. On the one hand, Britain and the Qing Dynasty had a trade volume of hundreds of millions of pounds, all of which had to pass through Malacca; on the other hand, Nanhua could go to the Indian Ocean through Sumatra, which was too close to the crown on the Queen's head.

If Nanhua had a good relationship with Germany, who knows who the Allies would deal with first...

By then, dozens of battleships from Britain, France, Russia and Japan would rush into Nanhua. Even if they were repelled by wolf pack tactics, the losses would be extremely heavy, and there would be no benefit at all.

Do you expect that polio patient who was full of ** theories to have a little bit of conscience at the most glorious moment?

Besides, the worse the relationship between South China and Germany is, the more benefits South China can get. For example, it can use this as an excuse to expand its support for the Arabian Peninsula. Unless it involves Suez, Britain will just turn a blind eye.

"Isn't it pioneering the market? There are contradictions to focus, and the focus is exposed, which is equivalent to promoting our sugar for free. When South China sucrose is a bit influential, buy a batch of plausible experts. You can cut the leeks. "Liu Yiming was a little nonsense.

"And we must increase trade with Europe in order to facilitate our actions in Oman. Touch the fish in muddy water and stir the water." Liu Yiming's mind moved.

"Southeast Asian sucrose has always been in the market in Europe. Now, we have controlled the glucose output of 1 \\/3 in the world. This reason is not established." There are more than 10 million losses in full. Xu Hui must know the specific reason.

"In the British Germany trade, Germany's oversupply is close to 100 million pounds, which is equivalent to 500 million yuan, and this situation has lasted for more than ten years. Old reasons.

"Do you think the deterioration of Yingde is coming soon? Even a war broke out?" Xu Hui asked in surprise.

"It only needs a small contradiction. Worsening will be fast, but the war will not, at least in the short term, but we are also favorable. When British and German relations worsen, Britain will definitely draw us. This is his. The consistent approach is the best moment for us to increase the Arabic garrison. "

Liu Yiming hid the first half -why it worsen and said part of the interests he wanted to get.

As for another part of interest, of course, it is consumed by Britain.

The fact that Britain's expansion was over, after 1902, after the Boer War was really over, it spent 500 million pounds (about 500 million US dollars or 1.6 billion white silver). In 1900, the German naval military expenditure was only 7.4 million pounds.

After that, Britain, which was unable to maintain a huge colonial system, gradually emerged, including Australia, including Australia, and Granda, etc., and finally became the federal.

"Is the Arab garrison? I would think of a way ..." Xu Hui thought about it and said.

Arabia is one of the two core cores developed in South China in the future. According to the plan, it will be established in the Arabic region to establish the petrochemical center of South China. One of the core of the chemical industry in South China is Brunei Petroleum Modeling. Πéw

When it comes to countless Brunei, Xu Hui is still very generous, but it is necessary to adjust the fiscal budget, so Xu Hui will feel tricky.

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In the command of the Arabian Peninsula, the opportunity for construction and development is also considering construction and development.

"Commander, we have built three oil storage tank areas, and the maximum storage volume can reach 300,000 tons. Should it be enough? Is it the construction of the oil refinery?" The book entered Zheng Lei's office.

Said to be built, it is actually digging a pit and then assembling. The explosives and machines are dug up in a month. They are near the mountains to prevent wind and sand.

"When can the laying of the oil pipeline be completed?" Zheng Lei Gu Zuo said right.

"The pipes up the mountain have been paved, and those who go down the mountain will be fast, and it will end in two weeks." Chen Hong said happily.

"Chen Gong, this is the case. In principle, we can only use the small refinery in the No. 1 well, and Oman no longer builds a large -scale refining facility." Zheng Lei carefully said that during this time, Chen Hong was greedy for the early days. Zheng Lei was afraid of injury. By his enthusiasm, he dared not say.

Many people think that this will be the next Brunei, becoming a petrochemical center, and another engine of South China. Unfortunately, it is just a oil depot for the time being.

"Is it to keep secret?" Chen Hong had no special expression, but was a bit lost.

"Yes, in the past six months, we have hit 17 exploration wells, and the output is particularly large. The output is still very large. It is ridiculous. Cada spent only 1,600 yuan. "More." Zheng Lei laughed.

"I can understand that our country is still not strong enough, so a big fortune is far from the homeland. Once it is discovered, we can't keep it. We know the sin of being guilty. "Chen Hong smiled bitterly.

After all, I do n’t know how many years I have been waiting for, South China ’s development momentum is very fierce, but to surpass the United Kingdom, it looks early. He has been thirty -eight. Is South China erecting the tube on this sand?

"Let's work hard, eat hard, can catch up sooner or later. At that time, our descendants will not have to be so tired, and we can live a good life.

Chen Gong, my wife said that Nanhua's elementary school has begun to provide beef ... "Zheng Lei and Chen Hong talked about the sky, talked about the changes in South China in the past ten years, the more he talked about it ...