Chapter 337 Export Trade
The construction of railway transportation in the Han region was mainly entrusted to Germany, and about one-third of the railway lines in the southern region were divided into the construction of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
South America and North America are the largest grain import producing areas in Europe, and Argentina earned a lot of foreign exchange during World War I and World War II by exporting agricultural and animal husbandry products, and at the same time, it has maintained close economic and political ties with Germany because of the export of agricultural and animal husbandry products.
The Han State occupied the entire territory of Argentina, and the core grain producing areas of La Plata, including the two southern states of Brazil and Uruguay, were unified into one country, so the farming and pastoral conditions of the Han State were much higher than those of Argentina in the original history, and the traditional habits of industrious and intensive cultivation from the farming people also increased the output of agricultural products.
Under the influence of various factors, the three major agricultural and animal husbandry products of the Han Kingdom, such as grain, processed meat products, and fishery products, have cost and price advantages in the face of competition from other agricultural exporting countries in the Americas.
Germany is located in the middle of Europe, with a large population, and its local food supply depends partly on imports from Tsarist Russia, and partly from the Americas.
After the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, the relationship between Germany and Tsarist Russia gradually became estranged, in order to reduce its dependence on Russian grain imports, and to reserve sufficient reserves of grain materials and mineral raw materials before the war, the German government turned its attention overseas, and exchanged Samoa and Zilu, which lacked economic benefits and small areas in the South Pacific, for Cameroon colonies that were found to have huge aluminum mines, and increased imports of grain, meat processing products, rubber raw materials, leather products, etc. from Han.
With the expansion of the land area and the increase in the number of its citizens, Han gradually became Germany's most important importer of overseas agricultural and animal husbandry and industrial raw materials, and the gap with Russia, the largest grain importer, was also rapidly narrowing.
The agricultural and animal husbandry products from the Han Kingdom and the primary processing products related to agricultural products have brought valuable foreign exchange earnings to the Han Kingdom, among them, ordinary leather shoes, military leather boots and fur coats made of beef cattle and South American bison cow leather as raw materials are more and more popular among German importers, according to the latest import agreement signed between the two countries, the German government and businessmen will gradually increase the import amount of leather products, on the one hand, directly purchase leather processing products from Han, on the other hand, hire a group of leather workers from Han every year, Went to Germany to process and manufacture special military boots, military coats, aristocratic leather jackets and other goods for the German army and aristocratic merchants.
Stimulated by German orders, the government took the lead in organizing local leather processing factories to purchase a number of professional machinery from Germany and Austria-Hungary to expand the scale of leather factories, and at the same time encouraged leather merchants to visit the business environment in Germany, accept the conditions proposed by the German government, and build a joint venture leather processing factory with German businessmen.
The leather industry was allowed to establish a joint venture factory in Germany is the first step for the Han industry to go abroad, as a corresponding condition, the Han government also allows the German light and heavy industry to establish joint ventures in the local area, and the local area, the first batch of two-party joint ventures is to provide steel, screws and other supporting industrial products for the construction of the railway line steel smelting, processing enterprises.
Economic cooperation stresses reciprocity and mutual benefit, Han exports agricultural and animal husbandry products, industrial raw materials, and earns a lot of foreign exchange from Germany, and Germany through supporting the industrial development of Han China, exporting machinery, lathes, dispatching engineers, skilled workers, contracting railway construction, and establishing joint ventures based on industrial technology, that is, to find a new market for Germany's surplus industry and commerce, and to earn a large amount of money, deepen the economic and trade cooperation between the two sides, and have the benefits of killing multiple birds with one stone.
Political and economic factors prompted Germany to strengthen its cooperative relations with the Han State, did not follow the British, Italy, Belgium and other countries to implement a trade blockade policy against the Han State, nor did it tear up the 1878 colonial exchange agreement after the Argentine War and refused to transfer Samoa and Zilu to the Han government.
The reason why Germany did not break the treaty was not the strength of the Han State itself, but because of Germany's strategic considerations, so that the Han State could find a country that could temporarily cooperate during the blockade and hostility between Europe and the United States.
However, cooperation between countries is only related to political and economic interests, and it can be expected that after Wilhelm II ascended the throne, the cooperative relationship between Germany and Han China will also face great challenges with his attempt to use the Yellow Peril theory to win over Europe and deflect the predicament faced by Germany in Europe.
Eggs cannot be put in one basket, and countries cannot always count on one country in foreign cooperation, and finding multiple alternative countries to cooperate is the key to maintaining the stability of international relations.
The eighteen independent countries of Europe, Britain, Russia, and Italy, were either strained with Han or lacked a basis for close cooperation, and after careful analysis and selection, Austria-Hungary was the most suitable as a potential cooperative country except for Germany.
Austria-Hungary is one of the six major European countries, with many ethnic groups in the country, and the government's attitude towards yellow countries is a little better than that of Britain, Russia and other countries.
In the second half of the 19th century, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was the only country among the six major European powers that allowed domestic nobles to marry yellow people.
Although it is rare for ordinary whites to marry yellow people, it also happens from time to time, but white nobles and yellow people officially marry, in European countries, Austria-Hungary is the first, so some authors in later generations YY, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it is almost impossible for yellow people to obtain Western noble titles, or marry Western noble women, unless the yellow country rises at that time, and the protagonist marries the object of the Austro-Hungarian aristocratic family, then there is still a little chance.
Handing over part of the railway project to Austro-Hungarian merchants for construction was only the beginning, and the Han side would send an official delegation to Austria-Hungary to investigate the specific feasibility of commercial cooperation.
German engineers, with the help of translators, were busy directing a group of young Chinese to fiddle with measuring tools, while in several nearby Chinese settlements, huge banners and slogans showed a different scene of Han China.
"When one man joins the army, the whole family is glorious,
If you want to get rich in the countryside, you should have more children and build more roads.
Have more children and more fields, and the government will distribute supply money!
It's good to have more children, a child is a treasure!
It's as good as having a boy or a girl, and the government sends land to prevent old age!
The population has doubled in ten years, and we are working hard with all our strength
Give birth to a child and raise a baby, and serve the country!
Each family has two more babies, driving the population of the whole town to explode! ”
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The content of the banners or slogans is simple and easy to understand, and all of them are the results of grassroots officials in order to complete the biological indicators of newborns in their jurisdictions.
As long as it is put together with the promotion task, even after work at night, the government can intervene in the night life of Chinese couples.