African Nationhood

Chapter 285 Internal Affairs Meeting-Commercial Minerals
  (Many book friends are dissatisfied with the growth rate of immigration. There is nothing we can do about it. If the population grows excessively, the British will definitely be alert.

In addition, the colony has only been established for eleven years. If the golden finger is too large, it will make people feel untrustworthy.

In addition, development was deliberately suppressed in the early stage. After all, it was not independent yet. When we become independent, immigration transportation will be sped up, so be patient. )
  The main reason why the Dutch were so anxious to develop transportation was because they discovered large coal fields in their colony, and their mining crews also discovered gold and iron ores.

It can be said that the mineral resources of Tete Province in Mozambique in later generations were concentrated on this small piece of land.

Moreover, investing in railways is a guaranteed profit, so the Dutch want to build railways as soon as possible to transport coal and copper ore out.

Although the grade of the gold mine is very low, they also widely publicize it to encourage citizens to immigrate to mine for gold.

In addition, the Dutch also negotiated with the Rhodesian Company and wanted to purchase land from the Rhodesian Company and wanted to have direct access to Lake Malawi, but they were rejected by Governor Cecil Rhodes.

The Dutch also longed for land, but their territory was too small and they did not have enough troops to send to the colonies.

After Nanhua Company made a deal with them, they should seize the opportunity and do everything possible to continue to expand their land.

It is a pity that they were afraid of the dangerous natural conditions here and discovered large-scale coal mines. Domestic short-sighted capital devoted themselves to mining.

By the time they wanted to expand their land, Cecil Rhodes's vanguard troops had already arrived, directly curbing their idea of ​​​​expanding.

They reacted quite quickly. Since the east side was not available, they took the time to follow the Zambezi River southward for more than a hundred kilometers until they met the people from the Rhodesia Company.

The Dutch were completely trapped now, but these tens of thousands of square kilometers of land were enough for them to colonize.

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As for the city of Beira, it was used by the Portuguese to replace the increasingly silted city of Sofala.

As the oldest port in southeastern Africa, Sofala was already an important part of the Indian Ocean monsoon trade system in the 10th century.

In 1489, a Portuguese explorer and spy came to Sofala pretending to be an Arab merchant. He discovered that it was a gold outlet and quickly returned to Lisbon to report to the king.

Afterwards, Portugal logically entered the port of Sofala from 1505 to 1506, landed and occupied it.

Sofala flourished as an iconic large city in East Africa until the 19th century.

Last year, the Portuguese planned to build the city of Beira about 30 kilometers to the north to replace Sofala's increasingly congested port.

Unfortunately, the uprising of the Korean chiefs broke out last year, so the Portuguese only built some framework things in Beira City.

But the port has been repaired and can accommodate 8 to 10 large ships at one time.

Moreover, there are still many Arabs settled in Sofala. When Nanhua Company was liquidating, they had already reached an agreement with those Arabs, and they were willing to submit to the rule of Nanhua Company.

Therefore, Nanhua Company asked them to move to Beira City as soon as possible to build new buildings, and the old city of Sofala was abandoned. If they pay attention to maintenance, it can still be used as a tourist attraction to make money in the future.

Nanhua Company will continue to build Beira City. The company has already planned internally. This city will replace Mapu Port as the new immigration port of entry for Nanhua Company.

Therefore, the city's railway line will be built as soon as possible, and by then immigrants will be able to go directly to Jianye City (now Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe).

Bulawayo and Jianye City in Matabeleland will be the two key cities built by Nanhua Company in the future. When several railway lines are completed, the headquarters of Nanhua Company will be moved to Bulawayo.

Mapu Port will be transformed into a coastal naval base. Currently, the "Guan Yu" and "Zhou Yu" are anchored in Mapu Bay, and the Nanhua First Shipyard is also located in Mapu Bay.

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"Since the Dutch are so enthusiastic, let them invest. Don't let the benefits that come to your door go to waste."

James List nodded and agreed, "Okay, Mr. Shi, I will arrange for someone to negotiate with them as soon as possible."

"Because the transportation construction in the two administrations has basically taken shape, our focus in the next stage will be the East Africa Administration. The main goal is to achieve land and water transportation connectivity in all important cities before 1893. I'm done."

Shi Jintang looked at Shi Jinyong, "Come on, it's your turn, God of Wealth."

Shi Jinyong nodded, took out a mineral map and hung it up, "Let me first tell you about the exploration results of our department's mineral resources in the East Africa Administration." He pointed to the long strip at the junction of the Mata Administration and the East Africa Administration (today's Mata, Mozambique). Nika Province) said: “Gold deposits associated with copper deposits have been discovered in this area. We have not yet tested the specific grade, and it is not considered a rich ore by visual inspection.

However, the copper ore reserves are not bad, but the grade of the copper mines here is too poor compared to the copper mines in the Lunda Administration.

The mining value of gold and copper mines here is not high and can be opened to private investment in the future. "

Hearing what Shi Jinyong said, no one was surprised, because there were too many gold mines in the Mata Administration and everyone was already tired.

Moreover, the grade of the Rand gold mine is shockingly high, so everyone has already treated the gold mine with a normal attitude.

After finishing speaking, he continued to gesture near this area, "According to our exploration, we have also found bauxite here, the grade should be good, and it has mining value.

The company is in urgent need of bauxite and can build an aluminum production plant here. "

This matter is really urgent. After Shi Jintang returned from Europe, the construction of the aluminum plant has been delayed.

Now that Otto Lilienthal's flight tests have almost been accumulated, the aircraft project will be launched soon, and the alloy aluminum industry must be established.

"Well, your commercial department should step up to handle this matter. I need to see the results as soon as possible."

Boss Shi spoke, and Shi Jinyong naturally had to agree, "Okay, Boss Shi, where will the specific factory construction be located?"

Shi Jintang thought for a while and said, "We will set it up in Harbin for the time being. A hydropower station is being built there. Once the hydropower station is built, we can directly use electricity to smelt bauxite."

"Okay, Mr. Shi, I'll do it as soon as possible."

After answering, Shi Jinyong continued to point to the map and said: "In addition to the concentrated mineral resources I just introduced, there are also some small mineral resources in the entire East Africa Administration. Most of them are not climatic and have little mining value."

Shi Jintang had different opinions on Shi Jinyong's words. There are large areas of natural gas and oil deposits along the coast of East Africa, but they currently lack exploration technology. If necessary, they can explore here in the future.

Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) is the sixth largest country in oil and natural gas resources in Africa. The reserves along the eastern coast are very rich and are world-class gas fields.

The east bank of the Zambezi River is richer in coal, iron, lithium and titanium resources, and there are some oil deposits at the junction with Tanganyika.

We must seize it in the future, and we cannot let these resources go to waste.

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"Although the East African Administration is not rich in mineral resources, it is a rare coastal plain area that is very suitable for the development of plantation industry, so it can vigorously develop agriculture and tropical crop plantations."

Shi Jintang interrupted him, "These will be taken care of by the agricultural department and the East African Administrative Office. Stop meddling in other people's business and continue to introduce your duties."

Shi Jinyong chuckled, "Let me talk about the development status of some industries within the company. Because Mr. Shi is determined to develop the layout of the entire industry chain, the company has been engaged in the introduction of industrial categories in the past few years.

At present, we have relocated most industries in the light industry category such as condiments, clothing, textiles, leather, paper making, sugar making, household appliances, daily necessities, rubber, chemicals, food, building materials and other major industries.

At present, the scale of these industries is not large. The small ones only have dozens of people, and the large ones only have hundreds of people. However, they have retained the possibility of continued expansion. When the time comes, they will expand on a large scale.

The output value of light industry has been growing over time, and the growth rate is still very large.

In addition, shipbuilding, metallurgy, light weapons manufacturing, locomotive manufacturing and other heavy industries have developed rapidly, while other mining, machine tool manufacturing and heavy weapons manufacturing are still in the blank stage and are the focus of our future development.

Last year, the company's various industries created an output value of 37 billion yuan, profits reached 30% to 35%, and the number of employees reached 18.9.

In addition, the dividend income of the company's overseas companies has been taken over by the finance department with the approval of Mr. Shi, so I won't go into details here. "

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