Chapter 1078 Navy’s trip to South America
In addition to cars, East African home appliances are particularly eye-catching at this Nanyang Industry Conference.
“Electric kettle, electric teapot, electric coffee pot, what’s the difference between these three?”
"I won't go into details about the electric kettle. Its main function is to boil water. The electric teapot is a special appliance we launched for your country's tea culture. The electric coffeepot is similar to a teapot and is specially used for making coffee. It is similar to a traditional stove. The biggest difference between them is that they all use electricity to generate heat to heat liquids, instead of using fire.”
“Wouldn’t it work if I used an electric kettle to make tea or coffee?”
Facing the inquiry from the Far Eastern Empire customer, the East African staff said: "Sir, of course you can do this. These items may have similar functions, but they are more to meet different needs. Ordinary people may not be particular about it. These, but people with a certain style or status prefer to be innovative, such as tea or coffee, which can be cooked in a rice cooker, but this does not prevent many nobles or businessmen from using special utensils."
Similarly interesting conversations are endless in the East African Pavilion. This time, the Nanyang Industry Encouragement will open the eyes of many people in the Far Eastern Empire, especially the development of external industrial civilization.
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While East Africa was selling goods in the Far Eastern Empire through the Nanyang Quadrant, a sizable East African fleet was marching toward the Americas in the Atlantic Ocean.
This fleet consists of two dreadnoughts, two pre-dreadnoughts, and three cruisers, and heads west along the ocean current near the equator.
A fleet composed of two dreadnoughts is definitely a big deal at the moment. Apart from the United Kingdom, only two countries can do it, namely Germany and East Africa, and the destination of this East African fleet is South America.
If the exchanges between East Africa and the Far Eastern Empire were based on friendship through literature, then the exchanges with other regions were more about deterrence by force.
In order to expand the market, East Africa participated in the Nanyang Industry Encouragement Conference organized by the Far Eastern Empire. This was a completely peaceful and friendly exchange platform.
As an emerging market that East Africa attaches great importance to, South American countries do not have such a good temper. After all, East Africa is essentially a member of the great powers.
Rio de Janeiro.
As the capital of Brazil, the most powerful country in South America, Rio de Janeiro developed rapidly in the 19th century and is now in no way inferior to other cities in the world.
Of course, the development of Rio de Janeiro is not of universal significance to Brazil. Only Rio de Janeiro in the whole of Brazil looks like it. If we look at the whole country, Brazil is either an undeveloped virgin land or a large area of plantations and Farms, compared to those industrial powers in the world, the entire Brazil is a large rural area.
It’s no wonder that the Paraguayan war in the last century was very embarrassing. Although Brazil won the war, Brazil was much larger than Paraguay, not to mention that at that time, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina joined forces to deal with Paraguay.
“This is Rio de Janeiro. It seems to be developing well. It looks similar to Luanda.” East African Navy Rear Admiral Chel said.
"General, Rio de Janeiro is the capital of Brazil. It also has the best port conditions in Brazil, so it has developed quite well. However, the overall development level of Brazil is somewhat difficult to describe. You must know that the history of Brazil's founding is much longer than the empire, but now it has We are left far behind," said the accompanying Ambassador Lycamon. Cher: “I don’t know much about the situation in Brazil, but their development is indeed not as good as that of East Africa.”
Ambassador Lecamon said: "In terms of population, as early as the middle of the last century, Brazil's population exceeded 10 million, but now Brazil's population is only more than 20 million, less than 30 million, so Brazil's slow development is normal. , our population growth rate and that of the United States is much higher than that of Brazil.”
Chel: "After all, Brazil's original suzerainty, Portugal, didn't have a large population. Now it's good that Brazil can surpass Portugal in terms of population. Unlike in East Africa, whether it's the Far East Empire or the German region, these two main sources of immigrants, the population Nothing can compare to small Portugal.”
Lecamon: “In addition to the population, Brazil’s national management is also very chaotic. Now Argentina is more attractive to immigrants than Brazil. You must know that Brazil’s conditions were much better than Argentina before.”
In Lecamon's view, Brazil is not inferior to Argentina in terms of natural talent, and it was far ahead of Argentina before. Although Argentina's development was also very poor in the first and middle of the 19th century, after the 19th century, it can now be said that Argentina is the fastest growing country in the world. At the stage of development, in terms of wealth alone, Argentina, an agricultural country, even surpasses East Africa and many European countries.
With the support of foreign countries led by the United Kingdom, Argentina's population has increased nearly five times from the 1970s to the present, its railways have reached more than 30,000 kilometers, its annual exports of wheat exceed three million tons, and its beef exports have reached more than 300,000 tons. tons, making Argentina one of the few rich countries in the world, with a per capita income level that is comparable to industrial powers such as Germany and France.
At the same time, Brazil was not only prospering, it could also be said to be in decline. As the Republican government came to power, the Brazilian government launched a fierce internal fight. It was originally poor and worked hard, but with the addition of East Africa in the 1990s, Brazil's domestic Politics became more turbulent, with various forces forming such as pro-America, pro-British, pro-East Africa, pro-Germany, pro-France, pro-Grape... etc.
The countries with the strongest political influence on Brazil are the United Kingdom, the United States and East Africa. The three countries all attach great importance to Brazil and have different attitudes.
However, compared to the United Kingdom and the United States, East Africa has a slightly weaker influence on Brazil. This is also a normal phenomenon. After all, in the last century, East Africa, which was also an agricultural country at the time, was not much stronger than Brazil.
Moreover, compared to Britain, the United States and even France, they have been dealing with Brazil much earlier than East Africa, so an intricate network of interests has been formed in Brazil.
The situation began to change in the 1990s, when East Africa had just defeated Portugal and Britain in South Africa. The country of East Africa first appeared as a military power in Brazil.
After all, Brazil’s suzerain country is Portugal. Although Portugal has long been in decline, it was not comparable to Brazil at the time. Defeating Portugal would cause a certain shock to Brazil, not to mention that Portugal had an extremely powerful ally in the United Kingdom at that time.
Since the 1990s, East Africa began to strengthen trade and exchanges with South America. The 1990s and early 20th century were an era of rapid industrial development in East Africa.
With the dual support of influence and industrial strength, the trade volume between East Africa and Brazil has increased rapidly. Today, East Africa is Brazil's third largest trading country.
The emphasis on industry is mentioned here because if East Africa were still an agricultural country, trade with Brazil would not be smooth sailing.
Because Brazil is a typical agricultural country and its climate is similar to that of East Africa, East Africa was Brazil's main competitor in the international agricultural market in the early days. For example, Brazil's rubber industry was defeated by East Africa.
Of course, East Africa is now Brazil's primary enemy in the agricultural field. As East Africa began to transform into an industrial country in the 1990s, East Africa could establish more trade relations with Brazil. And because of the change in East Africa's foreign policy towards South America, East Africa Only when the government offers certain benefits to buy off Brazil will there be more room for trade between the two countries.
The method is also quite simple, that is, East Africa purchases agricultural products from Brazil, and then processes and sells them to other regions. For example, East Africa purchases Brazilian coffee raw materials, processes them into finished products in East Africa, and then sells them to the Far East, the Middle East, etc. through the East African trade network. area.
(End of this chapter)