At the time of the 'political earthquake' in Japan, Luo Fangbai, who came to Sudan from Aden to take up his post, was already leisurely checking the achievements of Port Sudan in the past few months.

Luo Fangbai offended people, and when the immigration bureau was abolished, Luo Fangbai not only did not go to the provincial level, but was kicked to the sky. Luo Fangbai has participated in all Chen Han's actions on the Tianfang Peninsula over the years, and his official position has taken a step forward.

But the interests of the Suez Canal are too great, and the commander-in-chief there has long been determined to be Duan Guorui, who has a deep footing, and although Luo Fangbai was promoted, he was kicked from the Tianfang Peninsula to Port Sudan in the middle of the Red Sea. His mission is to expand and strengthen Chen Han's power in Sudan.

Before Chen Han officially conquered South Africa, Chen Han's claws reached into Sudan. This rich land is vast, but the coastline is quite narrow, limited to the northeast section, and after a year of exploration, the exploration team only found this small fjord recessed in the middle of the northeast coastline, and established Port Sudan.

The harbor is really small, the coastline is less than five miles, the northwest shore is shallow for small boat docks, and the ocean boat docks are distributed on the east and south shores of the bay.

Since the establishment of the port, Sudan's economic activity has risen dramatically. Not only did goods flow more fully between the tribes, but the 'class' of indigenous traders officially entered the Sultan's history. Located in the middle of the Red Sea, Port Sudan is well connected between Egypt and the port of Aden.

One of the official orders given by Luo Fangbai after arriving in Port Sudan was to discuss a plan to upgrade Port Sudan from a town to a city, and Luo Fangbai was the protector of Sudan, and he was qualified to do so.

In China, such as Hongji City and Singapore City, these places are also from small port towns, and upgrading to 'city' is the road that Port Sudan must take in the future. Luo Fangbai just moved the time forward a little!

The plan was unexpected by many, but as soon as Luo Fangbai proposed it, it was strongly supported by local officials and expatriates in Port Sudan. Because each of them knows the benefits of upgrading the port town to a city, if Port Sudan becomes Sudan City, and preempts the promotion of the port of Aden, then it will also become the political center of Chen Han in the Red Sea region, which is very beneficial to officials, and it is also very beneficial to local expatriate businessmen.

When the Suez Canal is completed, the Port of Suez will inevitably become one of the important ports in the world, not only in terms of economic status, but also in terms of strategic status. It's a pity that the control of this port can't fall into Chen Han's hands in a short time. Although Luo Fangbai did not know the evil intentions hidden by Emperor Chen against the Ottoman Empire, he clearly saw that the control of the Suez Canal was in the Ottomans and no longer in Chen Han, and he felt that this was the best opportunity for Port Sudan.

Backed by the Suez Canal and the rich Sultan, Port Sudan is likely to become Chen Han's political center in the heavenly world, and the imperial court gave him the title of Sultan's protector, which also shows the high hopes of the imperial court for Port Sudan in a certain way, right?

Of course, Luo Fangbai is also selfish in doing this.

Luo Fangbai, the protector of the Sultan Metropolitan Protectorate, is also the mayor of Port Sudan, after all, the current territory of the Sultan Protectorate is limited to a small Port Sudan, Luo Fangbai really wants to upgrade the town and make himself the mayor of a big city.

Since he entered the officialdom, he has always been eager to be a herdsman, but unfortunately, Luo Fangbai has never had such an opportunity. He joined Chen Han when the Fu Han army went south to Liangguang and served in the Jiaying government, but his rank was not high. Later, he signed up to go south, and completed a major transformation from a middle- and lower-level civil servant to a seven-rank official in West Borneo, and when Li Kun was martyred, he was already from the fifth grade. But Luo Fangbai has always been an adjutant.

At the time of Li Kun's death, Luo Fangbai was the envoy of the Chinese delegation to negotiate with the Yogyakarta Sultan Hamengu Buwono II. Relying on this good fate, Luo Fangbai was transferred back to Guangdong from West Borneo, and his level rose and entered the threshold of the fifth grade, a middle-level official, but he was still not the chief official. Then he was transferred to the Immigration Bureau, and before the Immigration Bureau was abolished, his official position was already the deputy director of the Immigration Bureau from Sanpin. But what's the use of this? Isn't that still an adjutant?

But now the Sultan, he Luo Fangbai is a righteous official. But the importance of Port Sudan is a cut below the previous Port of Aden, and the level of Port Sudan is only from the sixth grade, what is the taste of this official?

But what if it is upgraded to 'City'? That's at least from the fourth grade, which is higher than the counties in China. Luo Fangbai is now an official position from the third grade, and this is a bit of a taste from the mayor of the fourth grade.

It didn't take much time for Port Sudan to come up with a formal upgrade plan.

However, any plan is empty until it is completed, and whether Port Sudan can be upgraded to a city as desired depends on the construction results of Port Sudan.

To be an official is in a 'do' word!

It's just that Luo Fangbai almost couldn't believe his eyes after really understanding the progress of Port Sudan's business development, and Port Sudan's recent earnings report really blinded his pair of 24K pure titanium alloy dog eyes.

"Three thousand pounds in a quarter? Make no mistake, right? Aren't you going to collect taxes even on the ships of the imperial court? "The Port Sudan Customs Commissioner's surname is Zhang. But when Commissioner Zhang showed the customs records to Luo Fangbai, Luo Fangbai's eyes were blind.

If you can have a tariff of 3,000 pounds a quarter, then you don't need 10,000 pounds or even 15,000 pounds a year.

That's not a small number. The operation of Port Sudan does not cost more than 100,000 Chinese dollars a year [more than 2,000 pounds]. The tariff on the port of Aden is only 100,000 Chinese dollars a year, or just over 20,000 pounds.

Although the trade between China and the Ottomans is becoming more and more numerous, the destination of merchant ships is the port of Suez at the end of the Red Sea, and in Luo Fangbai's impression, there are very few commercial ships unloading at Port Sudan.

You know, many ports in the South Seas may not have 10,000 pounds a year in pounds.

"Of course, the tax of the imperial convoy was confiscated. I'm not going to go to jail. Commissioner Zhang rolled his eyes and said. Tariffs in Port Sudan come more from exports and local expatriates. ”

Sudan is an extremely backward place, many tribes on the coastline here do not even produce salt, and a lot of salt is transferred from Egypt to the interior of Sudan. Sudan, with a population of at least three million, is by no means a small number of people per year.

The first thing they did when they arrived was to open up thousands of acres of salt pans in Port Sudan Sicher!

Then they exchanged the snow-white table salt for everything they needed – corn, wheat and a large number of livestock, even land, and cotton, peanuts, sesame seeds, and gum arabic.

And these materials that they exchanged were then sold by them to Arab merchants or Chinese merchants, and the benefits were very rich.

There are also iron tools, swords, sickles, spears, scissors, etc., which are all in demand for the Sudanese tribes.

"How can tariffs in a town of Port Sudan be so high?" Luo Fangbai was still a little unconvinced. To say that this amount is the tax of the entire town of Port Sudan, Luo Fangbai may believe it, but this is only the customs duty, which is really a staggering number.

"Duhu, gum arabic and peanuts are produced here in Sudan, and the farm across the street has been buying peanuts since last year and then extracting oil to send to the canal site. The people of this town have seen and started this business and have benefited a lot. ”

"Moreover, there are many gold mines in northeastern Sudan, and many tribes have gold and gold deposits, and there is no currency in this place, even Ottoman currency can only be used here for gold and silver. Trading with the natives of these tribes, who have gold sand in them, has benefited enormously. ”

In a word, Commissioner Zhang just wanted to tell Luo Fangbai that although Port Sudan is not as famous as the Port of Aden, it is not impossible to impose a tariff of 3,000 pounds in the first quarter, but it is very normal.

"Trade, trade, sure enough, trade makes money." Luo Fangbai sighed in his heart. Sudan is like a big market, and now this Port Sudan is the only window to the outside world, just like the thirteen lines of Guangzhou during the Manchu Dynasty. As long as we can penetrate into Sudan and open up the wider market of Sudan, the future of Port Sudan is extremely bright.

Ninety percent of Egypt is desert, and the Nile reaches Aswan at most, which is still a long way from Sudan.

If you want to transport large quantities of goods in and out of Sudan from Egypt, you might as well go through Port Sudan.

In fact, the expatriates in Port Sudan have only been here for a few days, but some are already wondering how to mine gold in the northeastern part of Sudan.

According to their investigation, there should be a gold belt in northeastern Sudan, and if the gold mine can be developed, then Port Sudan's fiscal revenue will have a qualitative increase.

Now the Port Sudan tariff of 3,000 pounds is really a little witch in front of the big witch.

After meeting with Commissioner Zhang of the Customs, Luo Fangbai met with a number of officials in key positions in Port Sudan, and finally summoned the Chief Financial Officer here, Lin Siwen.

"Port Sudan is developing well, Lord Lin, I think what you reported should also be good news, right?" Luo Fangbai asked with a smile.

Lin Siwen smiled, "Your Excellency, I don't actually have any bad news here. Port Sudan is financially accommodative, with a very high growth rate compared to the previous year. The increase in trade quota and the development of the trading market are very good. In addition, the influx of Sudanese indigenous labor into the town in the first quarter of this year was 50% of the labor force for the whole of last year. "That's a very high percentage of growth.

"We have more than a million in savings, and if we spend all of them, I wonder if we can build a road that connects Port Sudan directly to Atbara?"

Atbara is in the northeastern part of Sudan, between the Fifth and Sixth Falls of the Nile, five or six hundred miles from Port Sudan. It is an important control city of Elam in Sudan, and it can be regarded as the most marginal area of Port Sudan's current radiation area.

Further inland, in Khartoum, the political and military center of Iraq in Sudan, there is still a considerable distance.

But that's enough.

In Luo Fangbai's view, as long as Port Sudan expands its economic scope to Atbara City, then the Sudanese indigenous tribes within this range can fully support a 'Sudan City'.

He had already asked about the indigenous tribes of the Sudan, and the chiefs had great powers. 1,000,000 Chinese dollars for something that the indigenous Sudanese liked, give it to the chiefs of the tribe, and then let them send labor to build this route, which does not require much work, only digging a drainage channel on the surveyed route, then burning all the grass and trees, and crushing a piece with stones, and that's it.

There is no need to pave a stone pavement, just a simple treatment.

Luo Fangbai felt that it was not impossible to give it a try.

Anyway, this dirt road is not a real road, and the quality has to be taken into account. This dirt road was just a good advertisement for the expansion of Port Sudan.

It doesn't matter if it is anything else, anyway, the indigenous tribes between Port Sudan and Atbara will remember the name Port Sudan deeply.

Luo Fangbai is playing an advertisement worth millions of dollars.

But none of the administrative officials of the Sultan Protectorate objected, and even the local expatriates enthusiastically donated money after learning the news. They didn't know that it was just an advertisement from Luo Fangbai, and they thought that Port Sudan was really going to build a big road to Atbara.

Then they will definitely support it, because the expatriates in Port Sudan are planning to dig for gold in the northeast of Sudan.

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