African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 141 Central Asian Horse Bandits

  At the end of July, with the end of the war, there was also a wave of immigrants from East Africa. For more than half a year, Ernst poached corners, and the South German region was instantly emptied.

  In order to seize the new land acquired by the war, the Hexingen Consortium stepped up immigration efforts. In addition to all its ships being used for immigration, it also hired a large number of ships from the Nordic region.

   Now that the war is over, the number of immigrants is sufficient, and the immigration potential of South Germany has also been consumed by Ernst in a short period of time, and it can only be accumulated after a period of time.

   Not only did the number of German immigrants fall back to a low level, but due to early development, the Far East and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire also reached a low level of immigration.

  The Far East is currently in a very stable political period, especially after the Nian Army was put down, the northern order was re-established.

The long-term large-scale wars in the Central Plains and North China have basically ended, and from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the Nian Army Uprising, many areas from south to north have been beaten to nothing. Now the rulers of the Qing Dynasty are going to resume local production. population.

  In addition, the immigration conditions in East Africa have always been relatively high, and a large number of smokers and diseased people in the countryside have been screened out just by being healthy.

  The physique is too weak, and there are almost ten deaths and nine survivors at sea, and the conditions of immigrants in the Far East are definitely worse than those of European immigrants.

  After all, European immigrants will go back to visit their relatives in the future. If they complain about the poor conditions on the boat to East Africa, it will scare off a group of people.

  As for the immigrants from the Far East, they are not qualified to pick and choose, especially the immigrants who took the Dutch ships. They are basically a mixture of people and goods, and their living conditions are even worse. They are almost catching up with the treatment of black slaves.

   Fortunately, East Africa pays according to the survival rate, so the Dutch shipowners have not done too much.

  Among the many immigrants, only those from Paraguay and the Middle East remained stable.

  The Paraguay War is still going on, and the coalition forces are getting closer and closer to victory. The staff of the Hechingen Consortium followed the advance of the front and slowly spread the business of attracting people to the interior of Paraguay.

  The immigrants in the Middle East are all women. The business of Zanzibar businessmen is getting bigger and bigger. Now they not only trade slaves with East Africa, but also take over the sales of products from the Hexingen consortium.

   A lot of goods and tobacco, into the Middle East, and the Zanzibar merchants only have to pay the East African colonial women.

   This is human trading, but the Sultanate of Zanzibar enjoys it. Now the source of immigrants from the Middle East is not limited to the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

  The integrity of the Tsarist Russian nobles naturally has no integrity. The products of the Hexingen Consortium belong to hard currency in Tsarist Russia.

  The Tsarist Russian officials in Central Asia are definitely not as good as the European masters, and their conditions are better than those in the Siberian exile area.

  So it is more difficult for Tsarist Russian officials in Central Asia to get more oil and water. Now they only need to use Turkic women to exchange for goods.

   This is a no-cost business for Tsarist Russian officials, so horse bandits have been running rampant recently in Central Asia, which was originally relatively stable, specializing in robbing wealth and women.

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With fewer immigrants, Ernst conveniently invested more ocean-going capacity in commodity transportation. During the war in the past few months, in order to fill the gap in the newly occupied area as soon as possible, the Hexingen Consortium was an overloaded immigrant, and spent a large sum of money in an instant. money.

  Now that the population of East Africa has exceeded one million immigrants, Ernst is not in a hurry to emigrate. The number of immigrants can only return to normal levels every month.

  Now Ernst is really concerned about reducing the construction cost of the colony and realizing the landing of cement, ironware, food processing...in East Africa.

  For a long time, modern industrial materials such as cement in East Africa have relied heavily on imports, and there are not a lot of raw materials for these industrial materials in East Africa, and they can be produced by themselves. What East Africa lacks is only factories and other facilities.

  The earliest country in Europe to carry out cement industrial production was Britain in 1824, and then cement factories bloomed all over Europe.

  Cement is not a high-tech in itself. Of course, this high-tech is relative to European and American countries, and countries outside Europe and the United States still need a large amount of imports.

   It is not difficult for the Hexingen consortium to obtain cement production equipment (the first cement factory in Asia was built in Japan in 1871), and it can be solved by purchasing a small cement factory in the German region.

  There are so many states in the German region, and each state has some industries, so it is very simple for Ernst to get some technologies and factories.

Just do what you say, and soon the Heixingen consortium bought a poorly managed cement factory in Hamburg. Ernst naturally did not plan to engage in cement production in Germany. Now the cement industry in Germany is already very involved, and the profits are not too high. , and the Hechingen Consortium does not have any large minerals in Europe to support these traditional industries.

  Besides, none of the giants in traditional industries can touch porcelain with Ernst, so Heixingen made his fortune in light industry and relatively advanced technology.

  Currently, many German power companies and companies engaged in technology research and development have investment from the Heixingen Bank behind them. These are the cows of the Heixingen Consortium in the future.

  After the cement factory was acquired, the equipment and people were transported directly from the port of Hamburg to East Africa on their own ships.

  Second-hand, the shortage caused the boss to rush to sell, so the price was very cheap, and the employees of the cement factory were directly sent to East Africa by Ernst in the name of aiding construction.

  If they were allowed to stay in East Africa, these workers would definitely quit, so Ernst used the method of high salary plus dispatch to let them go to East Africa to guide the construction of the cement plant.

  The location of the first cement plant is located in Dar es Salaam, and the sea transportation from Hamburg to Dar es Salaam is quite convenient, and it is also convenient for shipment.

   Next, Ernst plans to build a cement plant in several important cities in East Africa. The first batch of selected ones are Mombasa, Dodoma, Mbeya, Kisumu, and Songgea.

  Cities in East Africa, to be precise, are small towns. The population is not enough, and ordinary people don’t need them at all. The houses built in the traditional way are very good, at least for now.

The investment is about 50,000 pounds, which is really very little, because East Africa does not use that much, and cement is mainly used in special roads and cities in East Africa, so the scale of the subsequent cement factories is not even comparable to that of Dar es Sa. Ram scale.

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  Dar es Salaam.

  The first cement plant in East Africa is under construction. Before the machinery and equipment are sent to East Africa, the staff in Dar es Salaam got the news by telegram.

   This cement plant will become the largest cement production plant in the East African colonies and will last for a period of time.

  Because it is necessary to start production as soon as possible and meet the needs of the East African colonies as much as possible, the scale cannot be small.

   A few more small factories will be built in the future. The reason for building a few more is to reduce transportation costs. If the East African colony can solve the traffic problem, there is actually no big problem whether to build it or not.

  The most indispensable thing in East Africa is manpower. When developing northern Kenya, the East African colonies captured a large number of tribal populations to supplement the labor force. Therefore, during the northwest battlefield, East Africa did not capture the indigenous people in the northwest, but drove them all out.

  (end of this chapter)