African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 141
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 won by the war, the Hexingen Consortium stepped up immigration efforts. In addition to using all its ships 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 exhausted 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 the early development, the immigration from the Far East and the Austro-Hungarian Empire also reached a low level.

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 conditions of immigrants 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 immigration conditions in the Far East are definitely worse than those in Europe.

After all, if European immigrants 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 were not qualified to pick and choose, especially the immigrants who took the Dutch ships. They were basically a mixture of people and goods, and their living conditions were even worse. They almost caught 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 was still going on, and the coalition forces were 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, and 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 had to pay the East African colonial women.

This is human trafficking, 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.

However, with the integrity of the Tsarist Russian nobles, there is naturally no integrity. The products of the Heixingen Consortium belong to hard currency in Tsarist Russia.

And 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.

Therefore, 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.

For Tsarist Russian officials, this is a no-cost business, so horse bandits have recently been rampant in the relatively stable Central Asia region, 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, and the number of immigrants can only return to normal levels every month.

Now what Ernst is really concerned about is 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 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 to import a lot.

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

There are so many states in Germany, 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.

Moreover, none of the giants in traditional industries could be touched by Ernst, so Heixingen made his fortune in light industry and relatively advanced technology.

At present, 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 purchasing the cement factory, 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 it is quite convenient to ship all the way from Hamburg to Dar es Salaam, 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 Songgaia.

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

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

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Dar es Salaam.

The construction of the first cement plant in East Africa is underway. Before the machinery and equipment were 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 current East African colony 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 more is to reduce transportation costs. If the East African colony can solve the traffic problem, it will not be a 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, East Africa did not capture the indigenous people in the northwest during the Northwest battlefield, but drove them all out.

(End of this chapter)