African Entrepreneurship Records

Chapter 406 Black Industry Chain

Canal No. 1 is divided into three sections and has been started. Three kilometers have been excavated in the third town area. Because it is located on the alluvial plain between the Wami River and the lower reaches of the Little Rhine River, the soil here is relatively soft and the soil layer is deep. How many stones are there? The difficulty is very low. This is impossible for Canal No. 2 and Canal No. 3. Canal No. 2 and Canal No. 3 are closer to the piedmont alluvial fan plain. It is inevitable to encounter some boulders and rocks deposited here. gravel.

In order to ensure the excavation work of Canal No. 1, Ernst purchased 60,000 pairs of high-quality shovels and picks at a high price from the factories affiliated to the Hechingen Daily Necessities Company in Germany.

 Purchasing from your own company is not affordable in terms of price, but the quality can definitely be guaranteed. Currently, German products are mainly fake and shoddily made. The companies under the Hechingen Consortium are relatively better in this regard.

 Because Ernst attaches great importance to standards, the companies of the Hechingen Consortium have also customized relatively strict unified production standards for enterprises. The quality is superior, but it is unlikely to be cheap.

 A company like Hechingen Daily Necessities Company that is serious about producing products cannot avoid the fate of being copied, but Hechingen Daily Necessities Company also has a plan to deal with it.

 In addition to thinking about trademarks, the most effective method is to have your own specialty store, and this is the meaning of the existence of Heixinggen supermarkets and stores. As long as the tools purchased in these authorized stores and supermarkets are basically genuine. If you are greedy for cheap and buy fake goods from elsewhere, you can't blame the companies under the Hechingen Consortium.

Of course, according to the current income level of European workers and farmers, the first choice is definitely low price. It can automatically adapt to the inferior things. It can be reinforced and repaired in the blacksmith shop for another three years.

Since Hechingen Daily Necessities Company does not have much share in the European low-price market, and the market for mid-to-high-end products is not as large as the low-end market, part of the production of mid-to-high-end products will be absorbed by the East African Kingdom.

 As a semi-planned economy, East Africa is picky in terms of product quality and is not highly diversified, but the materials used are solid and durable.

 It is said that if a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. East Africa, a land that has not been developed for hundreds of millions of years, will be too difficult to develop without advanced tools.

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The earth excavated from the canal was piled directly on both sides of the river. Workers pushed carts to dump the soil on the river bank, which was then leveled by workers on the river bank.

Constantine personally went down to the riverbed to inspect the working conditions of the laborers, which made the guards feel like they were facing a formidable enemy. They tried their best to surround Constantine in the middle, while maintaining a certain distance to prevent affecting the king's senses.

 The overseers were also more cautious, and even took out their guns to prevent accidents at any time. Constantine arrived here without notifying him in advance, so they did not know who the big shot was, so they should be cautious.

Constantine said: "Don't be nervous, my safety will be taken care of by the guards. You can continue to work as usual!"

The king spoke, and the canal supervisor signaled to the overseers, and then continued to be busy supervising the laborers' work.

"These workers' clothes look very similar..." Constantine asked a little uncertainly when he saw the clothes worn by the workers.

“Yes, Your Majesty, the old models have been discontinued, but the mechanical equipment has not been retired, so it is specially used to produce shorts and shorts for these workers.”

The old style refers to the simple Prussian military uniforms that all East African immigrants had in their hands. They are no longer produced and distributed free of charge. East African citizens can now use Rhine shields to buy new styles of work clothes in specialized stores.

But those mechanical equipment were retained by Ernst to produce clothes for indigenous workers. After all, in the chaotic world of East Africa, they could not be allowed to work naked. It was too indecent. Paying some costs is not in vain. The slave trade is now closely investigated, and a characteristic of traditional slave ships is that black slaves have no clothes.

In this way, when the British, French and other countries inspect ships to identify whether slaves are illegally traded, they will see whether the black slaves are naked. The clothes issued to the indigenous laborers in East Africa can then play a role.

At the same time, these clothes can also help American buyers save a lot of trouble. They don’t have to spend more money and waste fabrics. They can just work on the farm when they arrive at the destination.

After cooperating with Haiti, the East African kingdom's own slave business is booming. The slaves sold in East Africa all have "working experience" in East Africa. Some even have multiple skills, and the prices are higher than in the previous slave trade era. Low, sometimes some defective slaves were even given away in batches as free gifts, which made the southern plantation owners quite satisfied.

What is even more satisfying is that the Haitian government issued labor certificates to slaves, which allowed southern plantation owners to bypass federal government laws and continue to be legal slaves.

Not only that, they have also become second-hand dealers themselves, providing cheap labor services to northern factory owners. The black slaves who have been domesticated in East Africa for three to five years are no worse in obedience than Chinese workers, Indians, and Italians in the Far East, and their prices are also high. It is cheaper to travel on the railway, which further promotes the current railway construction in the United States and Canada.

The East African Immigration Agency has even set up a strange agency - the Haitian Immigration Bureau. This Haitian Immigration Bureau is an official Haitian agency, but it does not exist in Haiti. After all, there are no restrictions on traveling to Haiti except the sea.

East African officials will issue a complete set of certificates to slaves transported to the Americas, and provide them with special bilingual documents in English and French.

 And the reason is also very valid, that is, the talent introduction plan promulgated by the Haitian government in January this year. The excuse is that the Haitian government recruits immigrants from all over the world for the sake of economic development of the country. After the announcement of this plan, no other region or country except Africa has responded.

 Has Haiti’s economy developed? The answer is that it has indeed developed, and it is developing at a high speed. The Haitian government and all parties can get a share of the slave trade. Even ordinary Haitians can benefit. As long as they are willing to spend a little money, they can solve their marriage problems. At the same time get your own slave.

This allows ordinary people in Haiti to develop more land, provided that they can suppress slave uprisings, and at this time the East African government can provide services again, buying slaves and giving away guns.

With the equipment of Dresser rifles, how to deal with the old rifles has become a problem. Now that the East African Army is about to phase out the Dresser rifles, those old antiques are even more useless.

With the supply of guns and a stable supply of slaves, Haiti's plantations can operate again. The Haitians have used the same methods that the French used on themselves on the slaves purchased from East Africa. Slave cultivation The garden reappeared on Haitian soil. These East African black people are not their own compatriots and can be squeezed hard (Haitian black people are mainly from West Africa).

In order to take care of the slave business in Haiti, Ernst recently planned to send some old ships in East Africa to Haiti for free, including two Zanzibar sailing warships serving in the navy.

  After all, East Africa can solve the problem of slave transportation from East Africa to Haiti, but the transportation from Haiti to the United States can only be solved by the Haitians themselves. It is obvious that Haiti's transportation capacity cannot solve this problem alone.

The ships donated by East Africa alone were not enough. The East African government specifically negotiated (ordered) with the Sultanate of Zanzibar to have the Sultanate of Zanzibar scrap some old ships that it no longer needed. In recent years, the Sultanate of Zanzibar has been backing There is also a lot of money to be made from East Africa.

With money, the merchants of the Zanzibar Sultanate also bought a lot of new ships. As for the old ships that were no longer needed, they were sent to Haiti together with the ships of the Zanzibar Sultanate Navy.

As the Kingdom of East Africa increasingly controls the Sultanate of Zanzibar, it is no longer necessary for the Sultanate of Zanzibar to keep its navy. After getting rid of the two warships that East Africa obtained from the Sultanate of Zanzibar, Zanzibar The Sudanese navy still has twelve warships. This is because the East African Kingdom only took the warships from the mainland part of the Zanzibar Sultanate, while the Zanzibar island part was not affected.

 (End of this chapter)