Chapter 577 Ending
The Chinese Herbal Medicine Cultivation Institute does not have any fancy skills in selecting the location of ginseng production. The overall environment in East Africa still tends to be tropical, with two characteristics of plateaus. Some special areas, such as mountains, valleys and basins, have some difference.
So whether ginseng is suitable for local cultivation? Theory alone will not work. Instead, more practice is needed. Talking on paper is not advisable after all. Theoretical research can only provide a general direction for the Chinese Herbal Medicine Cultivation Institute. The specific problem is still It should be solved and analyzed after specific local practice.
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The first town.
Ernst went about his business as usual.
"Your Highness, we have signed an agreement with the Japanese government in accordance with your request. According to the Japanese side's request, this is a secret agreement. Please see if there are any omissions or dissatisfaction."
The subordinate directly handed Ernst a whole agreement on the Southern Ryukyu Islands. The precise name is: "Eastern Japan Agreement on the Division of the Southern Ryukyu Islands and the Miyako Strait."
Ernst opened the book slowly and looked through it. This was a big issue involving territory and sovereignty, and there was nothing to be careless about.
First is the outline, and then the text, which were determined one by one by East Africa and Japan. Of course, there are also reference opinions from the Far East Empire. After all, East Africa lays eggs by borrowing chickens.
Then there is the very accurate atlas of the Southern Ryukyu Islands, which uses a pen ruler and detailed data to mark the area of the Southern Ryukyu Islands in East Africa, including part of the Miyako Strait, which is included in the waters of the Southern Ryukyu Islands.
The text plus pictures, a total of 223 articles, clearly clarifies the results of this East African expedition fleet, and it is also the first victory achieved by East Africa through force oppression in overseas competition.
As for Lanfang Overseas Province, it can basically be said that it was sold to East Africa by the Netherlands, so the situation between the two is different.
After reading the agreement, Ernst returned it to his subordinates and said: "Well, that's a good job. Next, let the military speed up the construction of the Southern Ryukyu Islands, in order to prevent being surrounded by fishing boats from happening again next time. According to the situation, a batch of food and ammunition must be stocked on the island, and it must be properly managed so that it can be used immediately in a war.
It can last for at least three months, and more facilities such as water storage tanks should also be built. The freshwater resources in the Pacific are still very precious. In this regard, our local experts in East Africa can go to the local area to investigate and prescribe the right medicine.”
When it comes to research on drinking water, local experts in East Africa still have some methods, because during the colonial period of East Africa, they attached great importance to this aspect of work. After all, it involved Ernst's plan to successfully colonize Africa.
The drinking water resources in the Southern Ryukyu Islands are still relatively tight. A large part of them comes from rainwater. Therefore, in order to support the troops, it is necessary to treat the water sources in the Southern Ryukyu Islands, and purifying water resources is East Africa’s specialty. .
"Your Royal Highness, the communication problem in the Southern Ryukyu Islands also needs to be solved. So far, there is no telegraph connection to the outside world on the island, which has caused a lot of trouble in our previous work."
< br>"Well, this is indeed a problem. The telegram from the Southern Ryukyu Islands is received by Fujian Province, and it can be connected with our East Africa through the telegraph network of the Far Eastern Empire, especially Miyako Island, which is the outpost of the Southern Ryukyu Islands. , we can obtain information in a timely manner.”
Most of the telegraph companies in the Far East are now private enterprises, especially in the northern provinces where there are matchmaking companies in East Africa. German companies led by Siemens and Hechingen Electric Power Company have an absolute advantage. .
But that's the limit. As for the Zhuhai Commercial District, the area is too small, but there is a saying that everything is concentrated. This is the only economic development zone in East Africa in the Pearl River Delta, and it is naturally quite complete.
In the past, the total population of Zhuhai Commercial District was only more than 10,000, and most of them lived in villages. There was only one Xiangshan County in the surrounding area. Now, Zhuhai Commercial District has developed into a prosperous city with a population of more than 80,000. Many German and The merchant ships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire would stop here to rest and then head north to Jiaozhou. There are also those who set up factories, companies and stores directly in the trade zone. The most famous here is the raw silk industry, which is mainly sold to the German region and East Africa. However, the orders in East Africa are very small, and most of them are official purchases.
In fact, raw silk is a very popular product in East Africa, and you need to queue up to buy it. After all, the weather in East Africa is very comfortable to wear silk products during the day, it is breathable, cool and smooth, and it can be worn all year round. It can be worn, after all, there is no winter in East Africa.
So there is a huge demand for raw silk among East African citizens. It is not that there are no substitutes in East Africa, but it is not as popular as raw silk. Although wages in East Africa are not high, the corresponding prices are also low, and silk is in East Africa. It is an affordable luxury product.
East Africa and the German region are on the same road, and they are not very concerned about developing light industry, especially the textile industry, which is barely enough because labor costs in the Far East are lower.
The Zhuhai Commercial District has naturally become a center of the raw silk industry in the Far East. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are indispensable, and clothes are highly consumables. Even if each person in East Africa only buys one set, it will cost more than 3,000 There is a demand of 10,000 sets, so this market is very considerable. This is why the textile industry has become second only to agriculture in the world in this era, and it is also the most important industry in the industrial field.
Although Zhuhai Commercial District is prosperous, it is still far away from the Southern Ryukyu Islands. Therefore, if East Africa wants to send telegraph to the Southern Ryukyu Islands, it is more cost-effective to go through Fujian Province.
"Your Royal Highness, the Fujian Province in the Far East includes Danwan Island. Should we transit through Danwan Island?" The subordinate suddenly asked a very critical question.
Ernst then realized that Danwan Island was now part of Fujian. Influenced by his previous life, he always tended to treat Danwan Island as a separate province.
So Ernst said: "No, we can just lay the telegraph directly to Fuzhou through submarine cables."
As the provincial capital, Fuzhou had a telegraph as early as 1876, and the Hechingen Consortium was also in Fuzhou There is a telegraph branch, so the Southern Ryukyu Islands telegram passes through Fuzhou and then transferred to Zhuhai. Finally, it is connected to the international universal submarine cable through Guangzhou, directly to India, to Europe, and then back to East Africa.
After all, it is impossible for East Africa to build a submarine cable directly from East Africa to the Far East to transmit information at the moment. It is not cost-effective.
As for safety issues, there is no need to worry. International cables are naturally used by everyone. East Africa does not have to worry about anyone tampering with it. It just needs to pay a fee.
Then Ernst said a few more words, mainly to urge the people below to quickly complete the defense construction of the Southern Ryukyu Islands and build the Southern Ryukyu Islands into the steel claw of East Africa in the Western Pacific. After all, The Japanese have always been interested in Nanliu The ambition of the South Ryukyu Islands is to prevent Japan from jumping over the wall. As for Japan in the future if it really wants to seize the South Ryukyu Islands by force, East Africa will also have to break a big tooth. Knowing that this piece of fat is not so delicious, after discussing the South Ryukyu Islands arrange.
"Also, those few gunboats left in the Southern Ryukyu Islands can be considered an important armed force of the navy in the Pacific. They can be regarded as the base of the future East African Pacific Fleet for the time being."
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Lanfang Overseas Province Obviously more important than the Southern Ryukyu Islands, why not put Lanfang Overseas Province and the Southern Ryukyu Islands together?”
“The Nanyang region where Lanfang Overseas Province is located is much more important to us than the Pacific Ocean. , so it is regarded as a separate strategic region. "
Nanyang actually belongs to the Pacific region, but Nanyang is obviously more important to East Africa than all Pacific regions except Nanyang. This is the direction of East Africa's future main attack.
(End of this chapter)