Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2263, Industrial Empire South Africa

When the textile industry of the Ming Empire migrated from the Ming Empire to overseas vassal states and colonies, each colony and vassal state also rushed to introduce various policies to attract these textile industries to settle on their own territory. .

For these overseas vassal states and colonies, it has been basically the original large plantation economy for decades, and many overseas vassal states and colonies have not had much development even for decades , Even the roads are rarely built.

If you can attract the textile industry to settle on your own territory, the benefits are still great, such as increasing taxes, creating jobs, driving industrial development, and so on.

Of all the colonies and vassal states, the only one that showed little interest in absorbing the textile industry was the South African colony.

At this moment, here in Nanzhou City, where the capital of South Africa is located on the big island of East Africa, Liu Da, Liu Jin's second son, as the head of the South African Ministry of Industry, is inspecting the South African Tiangong Automobile Factory here in Nanzhou City.

The Tiangong Automobile Factory is also the property of the Liu family. At the beginning, Liu Jin built the South African colony as a back road for his noble families, so the factories invested and built in Daming are basically in South Africa. There are also corresponding establishments here to promote the industrial development of the South African colony.

Because Liu Jin is very clear that agriculture is only able to maintain enough food, no matter how good the development is, that is the case. It takes a large land and a sparse population to develop a large-scale mechanized agricultural economy.

But no matter how well-developed agriculture is, it is still agriculture after all, and cannot be compared with industry. The value that industry can generate, the wealth it creates, the jobs it provides, the technological development it drives, and many other aspects are incomparable to agriculture.

From the very beginning, the South African colony has adhered to the policy of purely Han people. Since the day the South African colony was established, it has embarked on such a road, a road of forced expansion and killing by force.

Wherever the territory of the South African colony went, the local indigenous blacks were all expelled or killed.

Under such a cruel policy, this also means that there are no slaves in South Africa. Even the slaves imported from outside are all female slaves from Europe, the Middle East, and West Asia. They were introduced for the purpose of giving birth to Han people. .

From the very beginning, the South African colony faced a serious shortage of labor force, which once made the development of the South African colony very slow, because the labor force was very important during this period, and there were only people who could have everything.

Large land and sparse population have always been a major feature of the South African colony. The land area is very vast, covering almost all areas of southern, southeastern, and southwestern Africa in later generations, including South Africa, Madagascar, Mozambique, Sudan, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Zwana, Burundi and other countries.

The area is very vast, more than 800 million square kilometers, from the Indian Ocean in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, from the south across the sea from Antarctica to the inland prairie deep in Africa in the north to the equatorial region.

This is a truly behemoth, a huge country with extremely rich natural resources, such as iron ore, copper mine, gold mine, silver mine, diamond mine, coal, oil and so on.

There is also fertile land. In the northern part of the South African colony, Liu Dashuai's army aggressively expanded to the inland area and captured a large area of ​​fertile land. It has developed into the most important grain-producing area in South Africa. Its scale is large enough It is comparable to the Liaodong Province and Heitu Province of the Ming Empire.

The land is fertile, the rain is abundant, and the land is sparsely populated. Mechanized farming is carried out on a large scale, and the grain output is very large. It not only meets the needs of the South African colony itself, but also exports it to the surrounding colonies and vassal states on a large scale. .

Such a vast country has a population of less than 3000 million people until now, and all of these 3000 million people are concentrated in a few cities and immigrant urban areas.

The vast majority of areas are vast and uninhabited areas, uninhabited, a paradise and home for wild animals. In South Africa, wild animals are protected. Rare wild animals such as elephants, lions, hounds, cheetahs, etc. Other colonies and vassal states are often hunted, especially elephants, whose ivory is very valuable, so naturally they suffer even more.

But it is different in South Africa. The South African Governor's Office has introduced relevant wildlife protection laws to protect these wild animals, and has set up a large area of ​​nature reserves to protect these wild animal resources.

Coupled with the fact that the land is vast and sparsely populated, even the original local aboriginal blacks were expelled cleanly, which made many areas of South Africa a paradise for wild animals.

This is the basic situation of South Africa, so from the very beginning, it insisted on the road of industrialization. Under Liu Jin's instructions, it formulated an economic development road oriented by industrial development.

At the same time, in South Africa, the old school is completely abolished, and the new education system is fully implemented.

For these military generals of the Ming Dynasty, they were not less favored by those literati and civil servants in the past. Hanlin and Yushi of any item dared to point at first-rank and second-rank generals and call each other stinky. Qiu Ba.

And in the army, the soldiers have to look at the faces of the civilian officials everywhere, and the power to lead the army is in the hands of the overseer eunuchs and civilian officials.

These civil servants are not good at fighting, and they are all experts in internal fighting, but they made the military commanders and nobles of the Ming Dynasty miserable enough. There was no way that the military power at that time was in the hands of the Ministry of War.

Therefore, the military generals and nobles of the Ming Dynasty naturally did not have a good impression of these Confucian literati and civil officials. Naturally, in their own territory, the old-style Confucian education was completely abolished, and all new-style education was implemented.

It is also such a decision that has greatly promoted the industrial development and technological development of South Africa.

Completely imitating the new education and civil service examination system of later generations, and implementing the capitalist political system of later generations, the South African colony was the earliest capitalist country in this period, and it developed extremely rapidly on the road to industrialization and capitalization.

Regardless of the fact that South Africa has a smaller population, it is not as large as the population of the Ming Empire.

But the people here in the South African colony are basically new-style education. The perfect new-style education system has cultivated a large number of talents, which not only meets the needs of industrial development, but also greatly promotes the development of science and technology in South Africa.

Cameras and phonographs were all invented by engineers in South Africa. From this alone, it can be seen that South Africa has strong technological development and industrial strength.

It may not be as large as the Ming Empire, but it already has the strength to compete with the Ming Empire.

The shipbuilding industry, steel industry, automobile manufacturing industry, chemical industry, military industry and many other industries in South Africa are extremely developed. Like the shipbuilding industry, there are several shipyards in South Africa with strong strength and advanced technology, capable of manufacturing the most advanced Large steel ships are the first choice for colonies and vassal states in Africa to purchase ships.

There are also steel and related military industries that are also very developed. The quality of the arms and weapons of the Ming Dynasty is no worse than that of the Ming Empire, and they are mainly exported to various vassal states and colonies. The Empire is occupied.

There is no way, the South African colony has not fought any wars since its establishment, and the wars against those indigenous people are all one-sided massacres. It is not a war at all, and it will not spread to countries all over the world.

The Ming Empire was different. It expanded from east to west and beat up powerful empires in Europe, West Asia, and the Middle East one after another. The mighty Ottoman Empire was beaten twice by the Ming Empire. The whole world knows that the Ming Empire is powerful. This is naturally very helpful to the arms and weapons trade of the Ming Empire.

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The chemical industry is also extremely developed. Although the South African colony itself has oil, it is not the main area for oil production. However, South Africa is the largest oil refining and petrochemical base besides Daming.

It mainly imports oil from the Chaling Colony and Zhang Colony in the Persian Gulf in the Middle East, and then smelts and chemical products, and then sells the products to overseas countries and colonies.

Automobile manufacturing is also an important industry here in the South African colony.

There are many automobile factories in South Africa, among which Tiangong Automobile Factory is the most famous. The cars produced are famous all over the world for their high quality and high performance.

Even in the homeland of the Ming Empire, Tiangong Automobile has occupied a certain market. Although it is slightly inferior to Mercedes-Benz, it is also a car brand that is second only to Mercedes-Benz and comparable to BMW.

Just on the side of the Ming Empire, Tiangong Automobile can sell hundreds of thousands of cars every year, and it is the top ten automobile brands in the Ming Empire.

In South Africa and overseas vassal states and colonies, Tiangong Automobile is even more powerful, with more vigorous sales and higher market share.

Its extremely high performance, safety and reliability, atmosphere, cool appearance, novel design, etc. have firmly attracted many consumers to pay for it.

At this time, Liu Da was inspecting Tiangong Automobile Factory.

As the Secretary of the Ministry of Industry of South Africa and the head of several major departments under the Governor of South Africa, Liu Da has been in this position for several years.

It is also clear that the Ming Empire is now transferring the textile industry on a large scale, but South Africa has no interest in attracting these textile industries.

Because the textile industry is a labor-intensive industry that requires a lot of labor and creates limited value, it is impossible to get along in South Africa. The per capita income of the South African colonies has actually surpassed that of the Ming Empire, and labor costs are extremely expensive.

The development of labor-intensive industries does not show at all, and it is more necessary to develop high-tech and high value-added industries.

(End of this chapter)