African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 227 East Africans lacking virtue

  The Far East is a huge market, while Japan is an emerging market in the same period. It is also an important source of immigrants and a grain trade market for the East African Kingdom in the Far East.

  In order to express the importance it attaches to Japan, the Kingdom of East Africa established diplomatic relations with the Japanese government the day after it established diplomatic relations with the Qing government.

  The general manager of the Hehingen Bank branch in Japan, Sebastian served as the minister to Japan, and at the same time, East Africa set up a number of consulates in various parts of Japan.

  After the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the Japanese government began to start a large-scale industry, but the industry required a lot of funds. The Japanese government raised funds in two ways, one was borrowing from big businessmen from the West and the country, and the other was extreme internal exploitation.

   Japanese women and farmers are the hardest hit areas. The Meiji government of Japan encourages women to engage in textile and other work. At the same time, the second industry of Japanese women's employment is "special service industry".

   With this condition, East Africa certainly cannot miss it. After sending diplomatic envoys, it even more blatantly introduced female immigrants from Japan.

  The Meiji government first invested in light industries such as silk and cotton, and hired foreigners to guide industrial production. However, industrial modernization projects required a lot of labor, especially the textile industry required a large number of female labor. However, they encountered difficulties in recruiting workers. Recruitment in the countryside is not going well, and the daughters of farmers are reluctant to leave their villages. Thus, a nationwide government campaign aimed at convincing women to work in factories. In order to achieve the purpose of publicity, some local officials first sent their daughters to work in factories. When the demonstration role of the government appeared, many talents regarded the factory as a safe place.

   This facilitates the introduction of immigrants to East Africa. The method of introducing Japanese female immigrants to East Africa is very simple. Invest in the establishment of textile factories in Japan to recruit female workers, and then arrange them to work in "Europe" in the name of internal transfer within the company.

   Then there was a wave of operations. Ships going to "Europe" often encountered problems such as storms and pirates at sea and "wrecked". Not many times, they lost thousands of people.

  Then the factory owner came forward and expressed sympathy for the "shipwreck". He would issue a symbolic pension and hand it over to the Japanese government for processing. As for whether it could be sent to his family, East Africa didn't care.

  "Sea disaster" is force majeure, so the Japanese government can't make irresponsible remarks. In addition, Japan's international status is now low, so naturally it will not pursue it. I have already given a pension. What else do you want?

This is not without its disadvantages. The leather bag companies established in East Africa often have to be shot and changed to another place. Next time, another group of people will continue the scam. The excuses are ready-made. The former factory owner suffered huge losses due to the shipwreck. Resulting in bankruptcy, the insolvent factory was acquired.

  As for the blame, it is natural that the Kingdom of East Africa cannot take the blame. They are all investors from Germany and even European countries. Where are they from? What Poland, Ukraine, Tsarist Russia, Italy, and even countries that existed in the Shinra era and have now disappeared.

The second is to buy directly from Japanese farmers. There is nothing wrong with buying. In this era, the status of Japanese women is extremely low, and there is no human rights at all. When many Japanese can’t afford food, they can only choose to sell their daughters. Leave it to the next generation.

This is also the current situation in Japan. The East African Kingdom can buy a large number of them at a price slightly higher than the Japanese market, and pay directly with food. This is also a win-win situation. After the Meiji Restoration, it is the second largest female employer after the textile industry. It is a "special service industry". The Meiji government criminalized abortion and infanticide, so when famines and crop failures came, many families in the countryside sold girls into "special services."

   Therefore, in the Meiji period, the "special service industry" not only surpassed the Tokugawa shogunate in both quantity and growth rate.

  The East African government exchanged food for the surplus population of Japan, and their families can make ends meet with the food. These women do not need to work in the "special service industry", and everyone has a bright future.

  Although it is immoral to do this in East Africa, there is naturally a way to make the Japanese government turn a blind eye and close one eye.

Although the textile factory is an old actor, there are also a group of regular women who have been working all the time. They can earn a sum of money and remit it to their families. At the same time, the wages are slightly higher than that of the Japanese textile industry at the same time, and they never default, which is also considered a fixed sum. Income, stable employees will naturally produce output, and this part of the tax is cheaper than the Japanese Meiji government.

  As for the disappearance caused by the shipwreck, I can only express regret. With the cooperation of these stable employees, there will still be "simple" people working in factories invested in East Africa next time.

   And it is not easy to be a stable employee. The wages of the Japanese textile industry are extremely low, and the minimum wage standard was not set in Japan until 1880. Even so, many people cannot get wages.

  The factories invested in East Africa are treated so well in Japan, and the natural identities of stable employees are not small, and most of them are related to local Japanese officials.

  This echoes the previous one. In order to fool women into working in factories, Japanese officials sent their own female relatives to work in factories as a demonstration.

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   "Mr. Sebastian, I am really sorry for your trouble! Thank you very much for your help!" A group of Japanese officials in Tokyo bowed at a standard ninety degrees.

   "Hahaha, this is what I should do as a diplomat." Sebastian said.

  Just now, Sebastian, the minister of the Kingdom of East Africa with the spirit of "justice", obtained a pension for the local government from the brutal "Tsarist Russian" businessman.

  Tsarist Russian government: I don’t know! Which country businessman?

The trained East African Slavic immigrants are very good at pretending to be Tsarist Russian businessmen. Even if the Tsarist Russian diplomats come, they will not be able to see through. , no matter how you look at it, it looks like the real thing.

  Especially the carefree personality, which made up for the last loophole. The factory run by the "Tsarist Russian" businessman, the Japanese employee "killed" overseas, of course the local government has to intervene.

   As a result, after telling the cause of the shipwreck, the problem has not been resolved. As a big country in the world, "Tsarist Russia" businessmen are naturally not used to it. This is force majeure, force majeure, force majeure! …

Then he threatened to beat out this group of rambunctious Japanese thugs. "Just in time", Sebastian, the Minister of the Kingdom of East Africa who was out to "buy" breakfast, passed by, so Sebastian, who had a "sense of justice" bursting He severely reprimanded the "tsarist Russian" businessmen for their actions.

  Finally, under the mediation of Sebastian, the two sides shook hands and made peace, and at the same time, the "Tsarist Russian" businessman paid a pension, and the matter was considered over.

   "Sesan is a great guy and a real gentleman."

   "Yo Xi, if only foreigners in Tokyo were as reasonable as Saisan."

   "Sai San dared to face the Russians, and even reprimanded them face to face. In the future, the Yamato nation will also stand up like this..."

   "His Majesty onboard! We will definitely..."

  (end of this chapter)