Chapter 406 Black Industrial Chain
The construction of Canal No. 1 is divided into three sections. 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 softer , the soil layer is deep, there are not many stones, and the difficulty is very low. This is impossible for the No. 2 Canal and the No. 3 Canal. The No. 2 Canal and the No. 3 Canal are closer to the piedmont alluvial fan plain, and it is inevitable to encounter Some of the boulders and gravel deposited here.
In order to ensure the excavation of Canal No. 1, Ernst purchased 60,000 pairs of high-quality shovels and picks at a high price from the factories affiliated with 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 shoddy. 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 Co., Ltd. that is serious about producing products cannot avoid the fate of being copied. However, Hechingen Daily Necessities Co., Ltd. also has a plan to deal with it.
In addition to thinking about trademarks, the most effective way 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 All above are 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.
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, so 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 about 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 trolleys to dump the earth 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 powerful enemy. They tried their best to surround Constantine in the middle, while maintaining a certain distance to prevent affecting the king's senses.
The supervisors were also more cautious, and even took out their guns to prevent accidents at any time. Constantine did not notify him in advance when he arrived, so they did not know who the big shot was, so they should be cautious.
Constantine said: "Don't be nervous, everyone. My safety will be taken care of by the guards. You can continue to work as usual!"
The king spoke, and the person in charge of the canal signaled to the overseers. After a while, he 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 style has been discontinued, but the machinery and equipment have 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 East African immigrants had in their hands 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 the indigenous workers. After all, in the bright 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 Britain, France and other countries inspect ships to identify illegal slave trade, they will look at whether the black slaves are naked. The clothes distributed to indigenous workers in East Africa will then be able to play a role. effect.
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 “work experience” in East Africa, and some even master a variety of skills, and the prices are relatively low. In the old slave trade era, it was even lower. 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 work as 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 more obedient than the Chinese and Indian workers in the Far East. Italians are inferior and cheaper, further fueling the current railroad construction in the United States and Canada.
The East African Immigration Service has even set up a strange agency - the Haitian Immigration Service. This Haitian Immigration Service is an official Haitian agency, but it does not exist in Haiti itself. The sea has no limits.
East African officials will issue a complete set of certificates to slaves transported to the Americas, and arrange for them to have special bilingual documents in English and French.
The reason is also very legitimate, 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 enables 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 going 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 in the purchase of goods from East Africa. Slave plantations reappeared on Haitian soil. These East African blacks were not their own compatriots and could be squeezed hard (Haitian blacks mainly came 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. Obviously, it is difficult for Haiti's transportation capacity to solve this problem alone.
The ships donated by East Africa alone are not enough. The East African government specifically discussed (ordered) with the Sultanate of Zanzibar and asked the Sultanate of Zanzibar to scrap some old ships that it no longer needs. Over the years, The Sultanate of Zanzibar also made a lot of money with East Africa as its back.
With money, the merchants of the Sultanate of Zanzibar 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 Navy of the Sultanate of Zanzibar. .
With the increasing control of the East African Kingdom over the Sultanate of Zanzibar, it is no longer necessary for the Sultanate of Zanzibar to keep a navy. Get rid of the two ships that East Africa obtained from the Sultanate of Zanzibar. There are 12 warships in the Zanzibar Sultanate's navy. 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)