Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 2321 Eggs for 40 francs

What De Gaulle felt most deeply in southern Africa was the confidence of southern African citizens in their country.

Since its independence, southern Africa has experienced rapid economic development, and its people live and work in peace and contentment. There has never been a war in its territory. This is in stark contrast to Europe, which experienced two world wars in less than 30 years.

The French used to be full of confidence in France. From the No. [-] Army in Europe to the No. [-] Army in the world, France was once so strong that it required the whole of Europe to unite to fight against it. The seven anti-French alliances left a deep impression on Europe, especially Britain. The memory of the United Kingdom has a major impact on the national policy of the United Kingdom.

Britain's continental balance policy is essentially to contain France. Germany was unified for a short time. For a long time, it was not qualified to be checked and balanced by Britain. It was after the Franco-Prussian War that Germany was listed as an object of check and balance.

Now France is being abandoned by the French.

Before the outbreak of the last world war, more and more French people fled France.

The sad thing is that most of these French who escaped from France are the French elite. Ordinary people don't realize the weakness of France at all. Even if they realize it, they have no ability to leave.

Although the price France paid in the last World War was painful, at least it won the final victory and completed its revenge against Germany after the failure of the Franco-Prussian War.

In this World War, France stopped resistance early and withdrew from the war. The entire northern part of France was ceded to Germany. The Vichy government became a vassal of Germany. The French completely lost the spirit of independence and freedom that they had been proud of since the French Revolution.

Many French people have lost confidence in France. De Gaulle tried to reshape the spiritual core of the French, but he didn't know how to start.

After leaving school, de Gaulle went to the branch of Nyasaland Military Industry in Pretoria.

To de Gaulle's surprise, the branch was small and had few employees, which did not match the reputation of Nyasaland's military industry.

"We are just an office here. The company's R&D headquarters is in Los Angeles, and the factories are located in Walvis Bay and Port Edward. The labor costs there are cheaper, the state government offers more preferential policies, and it is more conducive to export. "The branch business manager, Kenny Covedale, accompanied him throughout the whole process. This is another Frenchman, and like Charles de Gaulle, he is from Lille.

"Why isn't the R&D headquarters in Pretoria? Don't those well-paid engineers yearn for the life in Pretoria?" Charles de Gaulle was very puzzled. The French wanted to go to Paris, so Paris Become a super city in France.

Kenny Covedale's attitude towards de Gaulle was not very respectful, and he sneered.

"What else is there in Pretoria except the sanatoriums in Hot Springs Valley? This city is nothing compared to Los Angeles." Kenny Covedale is from Nyasaland, and Los Angeles is Kenny Covedale's heart City of God.

De Gaulle was speechless, and then he remembered that the situation in France and southern Africa was completely different.

France does not include overseas colonies, and its land area is only 55 square kilometers. It has not yet split up Nyasalanda.

The area of ​​France's overseas territories is 20 times that of the mainland, and it relies heavily on overseas territories to suck blood in order to guarantee the luxury life of the French.

More specifically, the luxury life of Parisians.

The development of southern Africa is more balanced than that of France. Pretoria is only a political center, not even a cultural center. In the ranking of cities in southern Africa, Pretoria has been suppressed by Los Angeles for a long time. If there is no support from the federal government Support, Pretoria's ranking is not as good as that of Salisbury, the capital of Rhodesia.

"The Nyasaland military industry has been developing well in recent years. We can produce 100 million rifles, 2000 tanks, 1500 aircraft, and 1 heavy-duty trucks every month-with the opening of our factory in Katanga, the production capacity will increase." It can be further improved." Kenny Covedale didn't care about De Gaulle's attitude, and the production capacity of the Nyasaland military industry has surpassed the production capacity of the entire country of Free France.

Nyasaland Military Industry is not the only military enterprise in southern Africa. Nyasaland Heavy Industry and Rhodesia Industrial Group are also processing enterprises with strong industrial capabilities. The logistics manager.

De Gaulle didn't want to talk, feeling a little closed.

Ten years ago, when European countries talked about the economic miracle in southern Africa, it was inseparable from the exploitation of cheap workers from neighboring countries.

Now the situation has improved significantly. Southern African military enterprises have produced more industrial products, and the number of factories has increased, but the number of workers has not increased, but has decreased. This is due to the improvement of automation technology.

Enterprises in southern Africa have been working to improve production efficiency. During the First World War, the Nyasaland military factory had an average of about 1500 workers, but now there are only about 900. The assembly time of a car has also gradually increased from the previous 20 hours. It was shortened to one and a half hours, and the efficiency of workers has been greatly improved.

Before the assembly line was introduced, the assembly time of a car was nearly 800 hours.

De Gaulle didn't know how long it took Renault to produce a car. Even if it could reach an hour and a half, the efficiency would definitely not be as high as Nyasaland's military industry, because Renault's workers often went on strike because of issues such as income and treatment. The workers of Lanjun Industry have never behaved like this.

"How do you manage workers?" De Gaulle was really curious. It is impossible that workers in southern Africa do not have similar demands.

"Sorry, I'm only in charge of the business, not the management of the workers—" Kenny Covedale couldn't answer this question, and the treatment of Nyasaland Military Industry was quite good.

In fact, neither 996 nor 007 is the key, the key is enough money.

While shouting wolfish culture while letting workers eat grass, the workers will definitely rebel. If the French capitalists can be more generous and distribute more income to the employees of the company, French workers will not go on strike every day.

If this problem cannot be solved, French companies will never be able to compete with southern African companies.

Back at the hotel at night, de Gaulle and Leonard Capet chatted about this issue.

Leonard Capet went to Henry today, hoping to get more cheap and high-quality raw materials from Fawalt Steel Group.

Well, this is another weakness of French companies. Southern African companies seem to have endless cheap industrial raw materials. French companies can only spend a lot of money to buy from southern Africa, which fundamentally widens the gap.

In this commercial competitiveness, southern African companies are both athletes and referees. How can French companies win?

"I went to find Christian today. That's right, he is the Christian who was called a 'human trafficker' by the French Soirée. He owns southern Africa—maybe the largest human resources company in the world." Reina De Capet took another approach. France is actually qualified to cultivate the world's largest human resources company. Unfortunately, as long as such a company appears in France, it will be scolded to death by French newspapers.

How can there be inferior creatures like "human traffickers" in France, which is famous for its national freedom.

"Christian also owns the largest construction company in southern Africa. Many major projects in southern Africa, such as the Zambezi River Dam and the Nyasaland Power Plant, were undertaken by Christian's company. His company is famous for its low price and reliable quality. It is known that more than 80.00% of the company's workers are Africans. These Africans are paid about one-tenth of the salary of southern African workers and contribute to major projects in southern Africa. If it were in France, Christian's company would not be able to Survival, but in the neighboring countries of southern Africa, Christian is known as a good man." Reynard Capet himself is the largest capitalist in France, and he must have a say in this regard.

"For the French, the unfairness of salary and benefits is unacceptable, but for the people of the countries around southern Africa, Christian provides them with jobs so that they can support their families, and their salaries are comparable to those of southern African workers. The salary gap is huge, but compared with domestic workers, the salary is already high, so many people hope to work for that 'human trafficker', even for life."

To de Gaulle, it was a great irony that the word "human trafficker" came out of Leonard Capet's mouth.

Reynard Capet was also not well-received in France.

According to the vitriolic French media, Leonard Capet is the spokesperson of southern African capital in France, a traitor, a comprador, and a blood sickle for southern African capital to plunder French wealth.

But after the editors scolded Leonard Capet in the newspaper, they took the southern African car sold by the Capet family to France and returned home to taste the "high-quality wine" also from southern Africa.

Wines from southern Africa are not allowed to use the "champagne" trademark in France. The quality is not inferior to French champagne, but the price is much cheaper than real champagne.

"To compete with Southern African companies, we must first have human traffickers like Christian, who provide our companies with endless and hard-working bottom workers-and at the same time, we must have resources like Fawalt Steel Group and Adan Company Enterprises provide us with high-quality and cheap industrial raw materials, and in the end there must be fair and honest government officials who are not interested in food and cards, but in serving business operations, do we have these?" Leonard Capet With a bitter smile, he has accepted the reality, but de Gaulle has not yet accepted it.

"Even if the southern Africans do not carry out industrial production, they can make all southern Africans live a happy life just by selling resources. You only see the strong industrial capacity and perfect social services in southern Africa, but you don't notice that all the southern Africans are African farms, those farms are the greatest strength to maintain stability in southern Africa.” Leonard Capet was full of emotion, France also has vast overseas territories, but unfortunately it cannot generate a lot of profits, the French government instead wants to maintain colonial rule, Continue to increase investment in the colony.

It seems paradoxical to draw blood from the colony while transfusing it to the colony.

In fact, it is normal. The United Kingdom began to shrink its strategy 40 years ago. How could France not be affected.

This is the savvy of the British.

The British will try to solve the problem at least after discovering the problem, although in many cases it is not the optimal solution.

France waited more passively. After the sinking of the "France", France realized that Madagascar's independence was irretrievable.

After Germany broke through the French defense line from the French-Belgian border, the French began to regret not enclosing France with the Maginot Line.

After the French Navy sank, the French began to ask why the French government couldn't even keep the last fleet?
Speaking of farms in southern Africa—

This is one of the shortcomings of France.

There are about 55 million people living in the 4100 square kilometers of mainland France. The population density is much higher than that of southern Africa. Moreover, French farmers are keen on growing cash crops such as grapes, and rarely grow basic rations such as wheat and corn.

The farms in southern Africa grow everything, and they are used to raise poultry and livestock if people can’t finish them. As a result, the poultry eggs at home can’t be eaten up. The Rhodesia company will send the marinated eggs that have been processed and can be stored for three months to France. An egg sells for 40 francs, which is about the same as the price of raw eggs in France.

In the past 20 years, prices in mainland France have soared a lot.

Before the outbreak of World War I, the price of an egg in Paris was 0.087 francs. Before the outbreak of World War II, the price had risen to 3.5 francs, and now it is 40.
Eggs are the epitome of inflation in France. Compared with France, the price of eggs in southern Africa has hardly changed from before the outbreak of the World War. It is also a little cheaper than during the Great Depression. This is mainly due to the improvement of food processing companies’ technology .

"We are in North Africa, can we replicate the model of Southern Africa?" De Gaulle was not reconciled. From the description of Renard Capet, the decline of France was unstoppable.

"Impossible. Most of North Africa is a desert, and it is still being exploited. You may not believe it. Even the efforts made by the Abyssinian Empire in terms of sustainable development are much better than ours." Leonard Capet also has nothing to say. Most capitalists in France are also mercenary. What is sustainable development?

Renard Capet is the Prime Minister of Free France and the largest capitalist in France, but he cannot interfere with the operations of other French companies.

The reason is simple. Renard Capet’s enterprise eats meat, and it has to let other French companies eat soup. Not only can Renard Capet not interfere with the operations of other French companies, but he has to find ways to help other French capitalists make money, otherwise other French companies French capitalists will vote with their feet for a prime minister who will help them make money.

"The only thing we can do now is to participate in the economic operation of southern Africa as much as possible and try to be a part of it, so that we can survive." Reynard Capet reminded de Gaulle that France, as the leader of the world order The age of man is over.

De Gaulle didn't speak, and slumped on the chair as if his spine had been pulled out. He lost all energy in an instant, as if he was ten years older.

De Gaulle went to see Roque again the next day, and this time his attitude was much better.

(End of this chapter)