African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 280 Bagamoyo Shipyards and the Culture Wars
Bagamoyo.

The southern part of the East African Naval Base, on the south bank of the Little Rhine, is being turned into a new construction site, and the Bagamoyo shipyard is being planned for construction.

The construction of the factory area has been completed, and an East African shipyard of the same scale will be built according to the Venice shipyard model combined with the geographical conditions of Bagamoyo Port.

The Bagamoyo shipyard is currently the largest project actively introduced in East Africa, which aims to enhance the independent shipbuilding capacity in East Africa.

Berstor, a technician from the Venice shipyard, is presenting the project with Constantine.

"The main reason for relocating the Venetian shipyard to Bagamoyo is to avoid occupying the operating space of Dar es Salaam port. Although Dar es Salaam's conditions and various infrastructures are stronger than Bagamoyo's, Dar es Salaam, as an open port, occupies an important position in the East African economy, and East Africa's import and export capacity is mainly concentrated in Dar es Salaam and Mombasa. From the current point of view, it is not impossible to build ships in Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, but considering the future of East Africa Regarding the development of various ports, His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince, specifically explained that the location of the shipyard should be located in a non-free port area. Among the non-free ports, only Bagamoyo and Mogadishu have the best conditions, but Mogadishu is located in the north, and the climate of Somalia makes the local lack of relevant raw materials. "

The current shipbuilding industry is still relatively dependent on wood, and Mogadishu, as an oasis city, happens to be at a disadvantage in terms of raw materials.

"Bagamoyo itself has good conditions, good water depth, Zanzibar Island on the opposite side to offset most of the sea breeze, and at the same time, like Dar es Salaam, it is located in the leeward bay of the mainland. All these conditions make the Port of Bagamoyo have the potential not to lose to Venice." Best said eloquently.

Belster is an Austrian, a technician at the Trieste shipyard, who previously studied at the Venice shipyard, and was appointed as the director by the Hechingen consortium after the Trieste branch was opened by the Venice shipyard.

The shipbuilding industry in East Africa is roughly divided into two systems. One is the inland shipbuilding industry relying on lakes and rivers. Typical examples are the Mwanza Shipyard along the Great Lakes, the Kigoma Shipyard on Lake Soren and the Karonga Shipyard on the shore of Lake Malawi.

Another is the just-started coastal shipbuilding industry. After listening to the suggestion of Ferdinand, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, East Africa established two small ship repair factories in Dar es Salaam and Mombasa respectively. Their main business is not only to provide maintenance for ships along the route, but also to produce small wooden fishing boats.

These two small ship repair yards are actually rebuilt on the basis of the original Zanzibar Sultanate shipyard. The technical system comes from Arabia, but the shipbuilding center of Zanzibar is actually on Zanzibar Island, mainly because Zanzibar has too little control over the coast.

Another city in East Africa with shipbuilding capabilities is Mogadishu. As a port with a long history on the coast of the Indian Ocean, Mogadishu has certain shipbuilding capabilities, but it is completely backward in technology.

Taking advantage of the outbreak of the war between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy, Ernst planned to copy the Hechingen shipyard in Venice to East Africa. The panic caused by the war helped the shipyard workers actively choose to develop in East Africa.

"The completion of the Bagamoyo Shipyard means that East Africa can develop independently in the shipbuilding industry?" Constantine asked.

"It depends on how you understand it. For example, now, the design, planning, and construction of the shipyard are completely completed by ourselves. This is considered independent! But in terms of hardware, the shipbuilding industry in East Africa cannot meet the conditions of independence at all." Belst said, "For example, the steam power system and important parts must be imported. Even if the Bagamoyo shipyard is built, it can only complete the construction of the hull alone, so it is still a large ship assembly plant in essence."

Best continued: "Currently, the completion of the Bagamoyo Shipyard is still a milestone for the East African shipbuilding industry. First solve the problem of availability, and then gradually fill in the missing industrial chain. Bagamoyo is a big place. In the future, it will rely on the Bagamoyo Shipyard as the center to form a shipbuilding-related industry."

"So that's the case!" Constantine said with emotion, "After the Bagamoyo shipyard is completed, what level will the ships it produce be in the world?"

"Unfortunately, Your Majesty, the technology is estimated to be two generations behind. In fact, because of the decline of Venice, the Venetian Shipyard itself lags behind its peers in technology. Now the shipbuilding industry has once again achieved a huge improvement in terms of technological progress due to the appearance of ironclad ships. Therefore, the shipbuilding technology introduced by Bagamoyo will definitely lag behind that of Europe."

The Bagamoyo Shipyard said it copied the Venice Shipyard. In fact, it bought the machines from the Venice Shipyard and assembled them in Bagamoyo for re-production. The original Venice Shipyard will introduce new equipment and technology for industrial upgrading.

With the opening of the Suez Canal, the revival of the Mediterranean economy is an inevitable trend, and Venice, the most brilliant port city on the Mediterranean coast in the past, will also have a second spring, so it becomes important to improve the shipbuilding level of the Venice Shipyard in Hechingen.

This is also one of the reasons why Ernst built the Bagamoyo Shipyard. The outdated technology and equipment of the Venice Shipyard are eliminated to East Africa. For East Africa, it is an advanced technology, and the Venice Shipyard can also complete industrial upgrading, which is good for both.

At the same time, by relocating most of the Italian workers in the Venice shipyard to East Africa, Ernst can recruit more Germans from Austria to work in Venice, which in disguise is equivalent to helping Austria control Venice.

Coupled with Ernst's previous poisonous plan, the population of the countryside around the city of Venice was emptied, and then turned into Austrians outside the city of Venice, isolating the city of Venice from the Italian-dominated countryside.

However, the Italian rural area separated from the city has a greatly reduced probability of being influenced by the city of Venice, because the general culture will consciously concentrate in the city and then radiate out.

Unable to accept the radiation of Italian culture in Venice, Austria can slowly assimilate the farmers in the Veneto region through education and other means. The premise is to break the interpretation rights of the local rural dignitaries, and then educate the old Italian farmers. Not to mention [-]%, most Italians will gradually become Austrians.

It is the general trend to supplement the urban population in the countryside. Slowly, the Italians in the city of Venice will be replaced by the surrounding Austrian countrymen due to fertility problems. In this way, from the upper class to the lower class, the Germans’ right to speak can be gradually strengthened. As the middle class, the mainstay of Italian culture, the Austro-Hungarian Empire will try to make them leave Venice. After all, the Kingdom of Italy cannot but accept these true Italian patriots. If you have to be a good person, you can still save it. If not, the Alaska snow package will be arranged.

Of course, this is just an idea, and comprehensive factors must be considered whether it can be completed. For example, if the Kingdom of Italy regains Venice in the future, this process will be interrupted, but the possibility is very low.

Another purpose of doing this is to block the spread of Italian culture in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Italian culture along the Adriatic coast is very strong, and these areas happen to be along the coast of Austria. Venice, the connection center, will be interrupted. Slowly, Italian culture on the east coast of the Adriatic will also decline. Next, we will start to solve the cultural imprint of the Slavs (mainly Croatia and Slovenia), at least the ethnic conflicts in Austria can be greatly alleviated.

This is essentially a culture war. Ernst, as the strategist, feels that if things are done, the future generations of Austrians must thank him. Of course, according to past life experience, the so-called virgin whores in the post-modern society will definitely criticize them if they know their "evil deeds", just like some people in the Saxons enjoy the blessings brought by their ancestors through exploitation and colonization, and then overthrow the sculpture of Victoria.

If they really repented of the evil deeds of colonialism, in Ernst’s opinion, these people should first cut off their own food, clothing, housing and transportation, and live the life of the poor people in Africa. After all, everything they enjoy is the legacy left by the British colonial system. I really think that working less than eight hours a day and being able to live comfortably is the result of technological progress!That is just the result of domestic capital trying their best to plunder wealth from other countries, and the colonial era is far from over, it has only been replaced by a more concealed economic colonization.

(End of this chapter)