Chapter 459 Working Meeting
Beginning in 1876, the railway bridge over the Zambezi River of the East African Central Railway was completed. Trains can pass directly to the Zimbabwe region through the railway bridge. In order to develop the inland areas, East Africa began to follow the Central Railway Continue to build an East African version of agricultural cooperatives for the arteries.
“This year we plan to build more than 1,500 new agricultural cooperatives in Zimbabwe along the railway lines to promote the development of the inland areas.” The Minister of Agriculture said at the government work meeting.
Agricultural cooperatives are actually not a unique industrial model in the East. Such organizations exist in areas such as France and Germany where small farms and family farms are relatively developed. They are essentially union-type organizations, formed voluntarily by farmers.
Previous French law stipulated: "Agricultural cooperatives and their cooperative alliances are a special type of enterprise that is different from civil enterprises and trading enterprises. It has independent legal person rights and full civil rights." Agricultural cooperatives are variable capital enterprises.
The agricultural cooperatives in East Africa are different from those in France in their previous lives, because the agricultural cooperatives in East Africa are dominated by the East African government and are semi-political economic organizations. The land has not yet been privatized and is allocated and used by the kingdom.
The main functions of the East African Agricultural Cooperatives are to scientifically guide planting, provide improved seeds, purchase and store grain, manage and distribute livestock and slaves, maintain and manage agricultural equipment, and organize agricultural project construction.
The East African Agricultural Cooperatives are affiliated to the grassroots governments of East Africa, but specific guidance is completed by the East African Agricultural Corporation, which is the upstream of the industrial chain of East African agriculture.
The East African Agricultural Corporation only exists in East Africa, but it is connected to the Hechingen Consortium industrial clusters in Germany and Austria, providing raw materials and basic agricultural products to these Hechingen enterprises, and at the same time working with many business groups Stay in touch and lead East African grain export efforts.
The main business is procurement and sales, so the East African Agricultural Corporation is a syndicate-like super agricultural monopoly organization. The difference from syndicate enterprises is that it is too large and aims to strengthen the competitiveness of East African agricultural products in the global market. This kind of competition is not a competition between enterprises, but simply a competition between countries. It is a useful weapon in the competition between East African grain and the United States and Russia. Those grain producers in the United States are indeed strong, but they also look like guerrillas in front of the East African Agricultural Corporation. Be brave.
Of course, although the East African Agricultural Corporation is huge, its external exports still rely on the food companies, supermarket channels, and large and small dealers of the Hechingen Consortium in Europe. Therefore, the name of the East African Agricultural Corporation is basically unheard outside East Africa. head.
In this way, the East African Agricultural Corporation will have a certain conflict with the authority of the Ministry of Agriculture, but for the current East Africa, it is still more suitable for the national conditions of East Africa.
The staff of the Agricultural Corporation is composed of more professional personnel. However, because the education level of the Ministry of Agriculture is too low, its role in promoting the agricultural development of East Africa is not as good as that of the Agricultural Corporation.
“As for the construction of new villages, our suggestion is to open up some tobacco fields. Just some time ago, the German government announced a tobacco monopoly. This is not a good thing for tobacco profits. The taxes to be paid are More, so in order to better monopolize the German market, we must drive down the cost of tobacco products in East Africa and maintain our advantage over the German region.”
Bismarck promoted a new bill to increase revenue and reduce expenditure for the German government. This is a blow to the Hechingen Consortium. Tobacco taxes are already relatively high. Now that Germany has become a tobacco franchise, it will have to pay more money to purchase a sales license.
However, no matter how dissatisfied it is, it can only be suppressed. The market is controlled by the German government, and the power of the German government is different from that of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Hechingen Consortium can use public opinion to force the central government of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to make compromises. Obviously in a more centralized Germany, the Hechingen Consortium cannot do this. However, this is acceptable to East Africa. The main thing is to sell East African tobacco to Germany. The local tobacco market in East Africa has a large consumption capacity, but it is obviously not as attractive as the German market. The more important role of local tobacco consumption is Return currency.
“In recent years, all countries have increased tariffs, especially steel and agricultural import tariffs. As a steel importing country, we are not worried. The significant increase in agricultural tariffs by various countries will hit us the hardest. "
Ernst said: "Food consumption still depends on the local area. Now the development of inland areas requires a large amount of food to support the development. While increasing the inland population, we must increase the amount of food consumed inland this year. The Conquest of the Mainland Slaves I will concentrate my efforts on building roads, water conservancy and other projects in the newly added areas. At the same time, I plan to develop a number of mines along the Zimbabwe Railway. The mines can also consume a lot of food production.”
It's not terrible. If there is a surplus, we will start construction. This kind of thing will never be completed. There are still large areas of undeveloped land in the inland areas. All of these require manpower, and development requires food rations, so the extra food can be used consumed.
As for using excess food to improve the living standards of people in East Africa, haha, I think too much! To put it bluntly, this is indeed not conducive to the struggle of the people of East Africa. Although East Africa has won, but no other country has won, and if it provides some benefits to the people, it will really be easy for them.
The most typical example is Argentina in the previous life. The people just wanted to receive welfare with peace of mind, and politicians also used this as a campaign tool. That is, no one concentrated on work or construction, but Argentina was originally underdeveloped, so the welfare policy It can only be maintained by borrowing money, without industrial support. In the end, it will be in debt and the country will be lifeless.
Of course, this is just an exaggeration and one-sided statement. Argentina has too many national problems. All in all, the Argentine government has created a social atmosphere that is not conducive to struggle. Politicians and the people are playing an extremely abstract game. The game keeps Argentina's broken ship sailing.
However, Argentina does have bad conditions. Its agricultural conditions are better than those of the United States, and its population is not large. If it really cannot maintain the basic cost of living for the people, the worst case scenario is that the military government will come to power, and the game can continue. Always in the cycle of reincarnation, this style of play is actually the style of all backward countries, especially South America and Africa.
As a new country, East Africa is actually developing quite well. There is no need for the Hechingen royal family to join in the troubles with those imbecile "insects". Taking advantage of the current chaos in the international system, it has every chance to become a leader on the international chessboard. chess player.
Although there are so many great powers in this era, it is precisely because of the large number of great powers and uneven distribution of accounts that other countries have great opportunities. Japan can seize the opportunity to become one of them. This is not a kind of multipolarity.
The conditions in East Africa may not be top-notch, but they are much better than Italy, Japan and the like, and their potential is much greater than other countries except the United States and Russia.
“We must make full use of the inland iron ore and coal resources to continue to increase the steel production capacity in East Africa, and by 1880 at least exceed the one million tons level.”
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