Chapter 771 Angolan inheritance (continued)
In addition to taking over the city of Luanda, East Africa has begun a new round of population migration. There is nothing more reassuring than immigrants in taking control of Angola.
Of course, this is also to accept the legacy of the Portuguese and avoid wasting resources. Although the Portuguese government has been driven away, production in Angola will continue.
Angola is very different from the areas occupied by East Africa in the past, that is, under the governance of the Portuguese, although it is not developed, the agricultural conditions are not bad, and there are a large number of plantations in East Africa that cannot be left alone.
After all, in the non-mechanized era, it is not easy to open up wasteland. East Africa knows this very well. It took more than 20 years for East Africa to build the national agriculture to its current scale, which cost a lot of time and labor costs.
Now there are large plantations in Angola that can be used for free, which is much easier than re-opening wasteland in East Africa.
The accumulation of hundreds of years by the Portuguese is not a small amount, especially in the highly developed western coastal areas. East Africa can directly occupy the magpie's nest and settle a large number of people.
This point is very important to Ernst, as it is related to the future industrial layout of East Africa, especially opening up national trade in East Africa and playing an important role in boosting the central economy.
ˆAlthough the three central provinces are rich in resources, limited inland development is a common problem in many countries. After all, we are in the age of the ocean, and the main mode of transportation for trade is by sea.
If the inland wants to compare with the coastal areas, the most effective way is to activate the inland water transport network. Just like the Yangtze River in the Far East Empire can transport coastal goods directly to the Sichuan Basin, and the most typical one is Germany. In addition to the role of railways In addition, the canal network is an important reason for the balanced economic development of Germany's regions.
Of course East Africa does not have superior water transportation conditions, but if the construction of the western section of the Central Railway is activated, 70% of the effect will be achieved in the future.
The most important thing for inland economic development is to connect with peripheral areas. At present, industrial investment in East Africa is mainly concentrated in inland areas. In this way, the economies of the three central provinces will gain first-mover advantages, thus offsetting some of the disadvantages in transportation and logistics.
The western part of the Far Eastern Empire not only has many mountains, but the economies of the Central Asian countries further west are also underdeveloped. The cost of land transportation cannot compete with the cost of sea transportation. At the same time, there is a lack of water resources, making it impossible to effectively connect the central economy.
East Africa is different. The situation on the east and west coasts of East Africa is similar, and the various situations they face are similar. For example, the west coast faces North and South America, while the east coast faces the Eurasian continent. This is the distribution of market demand.
In terms of energy and raw materials, the west coast is close to West Africa, and the east coast is close to the Middle East. In addition, the land in northern East Africa can connect to North Africa.
The main industrial resources of the United States and the Far Eastern Empire are mainly concentrated in peripheral areas in terms of important energy and minerals. For example, the United States is mainly around the Great Lakes, while the Far Eastern Empire is mainly in the west or northeast.
Furthermore, there is a very big difference between the interior of East Africa and the Far Eastern Empire, and the unpopular situation in the heartland of the United States, especially after the acquisition of Angola.
Then there is transportation. The transportation between the United States and the Far Eastern Empire is affected by the mountains. The western United States is the Rocky Mountains. If the economy of the western United States were not affected by the Internet and the strong economic rise of the Far Eastern Empire in the 21st century, it would be difficult to be close to the old industrial areas in Europe. compared to.
In other words, the development of the inland economy mainly relies on the domestic market, while the coastal economy mainly relies on the foreign market. In the era of sea power, the coastal economy will inevitably gain advantages, and East Africa is using various means to solve this problem.
East Africa happens to be mainly concentrated in the central and southern regions. However, the climate conditions in southern East Africa are not as good as those in the central region, and the environmental carrying capacity is weak. This is one of the advantages of economic development in the central region.
West Africa’s mineral resources are no worse than those of East Africa, and they can complement East Africa. The most important thing is that petroleum energy is relatively scarce in East Africa.
This has made up for the disadvantage of the lack of oil resources in East Africa to a certain extent. Of course, the rich oil and gas resources in Angola are sufficient for the development needs of East Africa, as long as the population is not too large. All in all, East Africa attaches unprecedented importance to Angola, just like when Ernst crossed Mozambique and wanted to get the Matabele Plateau and the Transvaal Republic first.
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The first town.
As the main person in charge of Angola’s post-war economic recovery, von der Leyen is reporting to Ernst on the government’s work.
"We have sent more than 600 professionals in various industries to Angola, but this is just a drop in the bucket for Angola. At present, Angola's main daily operations are mainly maintained by the army, but the army can only be responsible for public security issues and prevention Enemies at sea.”
“So if we want to restore production in Angola, we need a large population to do this. Since the central region is also relatively sparse in population, we can only think of ways from the east.”
“Affected by the war, our immigration policy has also been greatly affected. Now even the immigration business from the Far East has been suspended for a short period of time.”
“Before this, we have recruited many personnel from the east to join the army or support the battlefield in the central and western parts of the country. Therefore, judging from the population situation of our country, the development of the west is still very difficult.”
This is the past decade when East Africa has once again felt the constraints of labor shortage. Originally, the population of East Africa is not small in the world.
But there is a very big problem in East Africa, that is, the habitable zones in East Africa are richer than those in similar countries. This is mainly reflected in the area of arable land.
Except for desert areas, it seems that planting can be developed in most areas of East Africa, and even in desert areas, East Africa also has "rich" land suitable for the development of economic planting, such as the two river basins of Somalia.
Regarding this point, it is estimated that Tsarist Russia, which is also a large country in the world, will cry to death. The difference between tropical and cold regions is very significant.
Although the land area of East Africa is not as large as that of Tsarist Russia, when calculating the effective land area, it is reversed. Even the Congo Basin is just not suitable for development now. Except for the core area of the rainforest, it can be effectively used as long as it is willing to invest.
"Furthermore, the Portuguese have developed Angola to a very low extent, but after all, they have been operating for hundreds of years and have left a very rich legacy. In addition to a large amount of land resources, we also control many minerals. In order to maintain and future construction in Angola , we need to immigrate at least 40,000 people in advance to maintain normal operations of plantations and mines."
The Portuguese in Angola have now been basically centralized and controlled by East Africa, which has resulted in a direct stagnation of plantation and mine production.
Reviving the production activities of these plantations and mines is an important goal of the current East African government, and this requires people with governance experience.
"As usual, we can dispatch professionals from existing farms and mines to Angola. However, communication with Portuguese slaves is not easy, so we need a group of black people from the central and western regions to serve as translators to assist in directing the local black slaves in Angola. .”
Only 40,000 people can at most maintain a basic population structure. If you want to retain the plantations and mines in Angola, you will naturally have to rely on the two to three million black people in Angola to support them. This is also quite helpless.
(End of this chapter)