Citi has a vast territory, the southern states have a long history of cotton planting, the cotton textile industry is also the pillar of the United States light industry, the products have a great influence in North and South America, as far as the sales to Fuso, is a very competitive industry.

However, Citigroup's cotton textile industry has never been the strongest, because its products cannot enter the European market and the vast British colonial countries, which are the traditional markets of the cotton textile industry in the British Empire.

The Ocean Kingdom was also faced with this dilemma, and after many rounds of difficult meetings with the British Empire, it had to make self-limiting compromises;

The products of the cotton textile industry were limited to satisfying their own needs, and did not seek to enter the British colonial trading circles and the European markets and the Far East markets, so as to avoid direct competition with the main British woven cloth market.

There is no way, when it comes to issues involving its own interests, the British Empire has an extremely tough attitude, and no one can save face.

So

The main sales market of Mozambican cotton cloth is in the territory of the Ocean Kingdom, in addition to the Ryukyu Kingdom and the Yue Kingdom, this part of the market population is about 40 million (35 million in the Ocean Kingdom, 2 million in the Ryukyu Kingdom, 3.2 million in the Yue Kingdom), and a small part can also be sold to the French Indochina Peninsula and the Dutch East Indies, but the amount of this part is very small, because it is also the sales market of British woven fabrics, and it also has to deal with the competition of France and Citigroup cotton cloth, and there is no obvious advantage in comparison.

Among the overseas territories of the Ocean Kingdom, located in the vast northwest plateau of Mozambique, the rainfall is less, the average annual rainfall is 520~750 mm, the sunshine is sufficient, the temperature is suitable, it is an excellent area for the development of cotton planting, with incomparable natural advantages, and the natural environment is similar to the Nile River Basin in Egypt.

In order to develop the economy of Mozambique, after repeated investigation and demonstration by experts, it was finally determined that cotton, grapes and dried fruits are the main cash crops in the arid plateau of the upper Zambezi River, the rice producing areas of the lower Zambezi River are the main grain crops, and the wheat, soybeans and rape are the main development models in the middle of the Zambezi River.

After more than 10 years of development

There are many towns in the middle and lower reaches of the Zambezi River, more than 40,000 kilometers of ditches and rivers have been built for farmland and water conservancy facilities, and hundreds of various water diversion and irrigation stations and control gates have formed millions of acres of fertile land.

I have to praise the Chinese immigrants as natural cultivators, and the past ten years have only been a drop in the ocean in the course of Africa's development.

It took only 10 years for the industrious Chinese immigrants to turn large tracts of fertile land in the middle and lower reaches of Mozambique into fertile land for drought and flood protection.

When it comes to the harvest season, the golden heavy rice at a glance is particularly gratifying against the background of the blue sky and white clouds.

In addition to meeting the needs of Mozambique, the large amount of grain produced here every year is also exported to Somalia and the colony of Madagascar, the British Cape Governor's House in southern Africa, and the Orange Free State, the Transvaal Republic, which has become the great breadbasket of Southwest Africa.

By the end of July 1895

The total population of Mozambique has reached more than 6.2 million, including about 134,000 whites, more than 300,000 indigenous blacks, and more than 577 million Chinese immigrants (including nearly 400,000 women who entered the region from the Madagascar colony, many of which belong to the French colony and are trafficked by the French in an organized manner because of their profits), and the number of new births reaches 270,000 every year, which has produced a strong endogenous population growth momentum.

After a difficult initial start-up period, the Mozambique region is on a steady growth trajectory and has a bright future.

In light of this

Li Fushou, the monarch of the Ocean Kingdom, ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to gradually reduce the subsidies for Chinese immigrants to Africa, from the initial huge investment of 2.7 million pounds per year to the current annual subsidy scale of 720,000 pounds.

This investment is expected to eventually be reduced to zero in the next 10 years, which means that intergovernmental organized migration activities will cease completely.

In the past few years, there has been a sharp decline in the number of migrant ships that have frequently traveled between the Far East and Africa, and in the past two years, it has been reduced by about two-thirds.

The government's organized immigration has been reduced from nearly 300,000 Chinese immigrants per year to less than 80,000 per year today, and the review of immigration conditions is more stringent.

In terms of immigration policy, from flooding to today's planned and selective introduction, it means that the in-depth implementation of the immigration policy and the more effective use of immigration funds and the effect are more significant.

Relatively

Over the years, as the fame of Mozambique has grown, the number of spontaneous immigrants has increased, including overseas Chinese from Nanyang countries, merchants and craftsmen from overseas states and local areas of the Ocean Kingdom, and white immigrants from Europe, the number has grown from a few thousand a year to more than 30,000, which is a welcome change.

All in all

Since 1896, the population of Mozambique has continued to grow between 380,000 and 400,000 per year, a rate that is quite fast, mainly due to the rapid growth of the endogenous population.

In the next ten years

Due to the large number of couples in the childbearing period and the strong desire to have children, the newborn population will always maintain a rapid growth trend, and gradually form a baby boom in the golden age of development in Mozambique, which will become the main driving force of population growth.

Correspondingly, it will enrich the needs of society, and primary and secondary schools in the region have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, teaching the pronunciation of the national language prescribed by the Ocean Kingdom, using the education model prescribed by the Ocean Kingdom, and implementing standardized education.

A careful analysis of the demographic structure of Chinese immigrants in Mozambique shows that the contradiction between more men and fewer women is quite acute, ranking first among the overseas states of the Ocean Kingdom, and the population ratio is seriously unbalanced.

It is for this reason that the Interior Government has scaled back the scale of support for immigrants in order to prevent the imbalance from growing.

Among the total 5.77 million Chinese population, the total number of newborns born in the states of Mozambique is about 1.81 million, of which the proportion of men and women is half, and the female population is slightly larger.

The remaining 3.96 million adult population, including 1.176 million families, a total of 2.4729 million married people (due to the polygamous factor), monogamous families are less than 1 million, and nearly 200,000 more families are polygamous.

These 200,000 families belong to the spire of the pyramid in the region of Mozambique, and are the first to become wealthy, including soldiers, merchants, factory owners, shopkeepers, ranchers, ranchers, local officials and workshop owners, who can afford the high expenses of multi-wife and child-bearing families, generate more economic output for society, and thus occupy more social resources.

According to statistics, there are nearly 1.5 million single adult men in the entire Mozambique region, hoping to form their own families in the next 2~8 years.

Today, there are 80,000 people in the government's organized migration every year, of which about 50,000 are young women from the mainland, and the rest are urgently needed talents from all walks of life, such as langzhong, operas, cooks, midwives, teachers, various craftsmen, and so on.

This female population alone is almost a drop in the bucket, and it is basically impossible to alleviate the increasingly acute demographic contradictions in the region.

What's more, these Chinese women from the mainland are the first targets of the wealthy group, and they all want to marry home as wives, so there is really no superfluous.

There are many local media companies with deep pockets that have set their sights on Mozambique, a new hot spot, and are ready to send a large number of women through civil society organizations to meet the market demand.

in the final analysis

It is too far away from the mainland to southwest Africa, and there are quite few weak women who can withstand the slow sea and land turbulence, and the initial direct migration loss rate is as high as 2~3 percent, which can be described as costly.

The reason is that most of these girls from poor families on the mainland are too weak to support the long sea bumps for more than two months.

Later, a set of methods was developed to dramatically reduce the mortality rate of female immigrants to less than 1%.

The female population who are preparing to immigrate to Africa will be transported to Guangdong in advance to live in a concentrated manner, where they will reclaim fertile land, raise fat pigs, chickens, ducks and geese and other agricultural products, and try their best to recuperate their bodies and lay a good foundation for the voyage.

After six months to a year of recuperation, reaching a certain height and weight index, and after the doctor's signature and approval, they can board the migrant ship to Africa, and those who still do not meet the standards will go to Borneo or Shangri-La.

In addition, female migrants have adopted special migration ships, abandoned the design of universal large cabins, improved the living environment and sanitary conditions, increased the allocation of doctors on board, enhanced the supply of nutritious diets, and finally achieved the goal of safe and healthy arrival of ocean migrants.

But in doing so, it has greatly pushed up the cost of immigration.

The large ocean-going migrant ship, which was originally capable of transporting 3,000 people, could only transport more than 1,760 people after refit in order to add more space for activities, and the cost of single-person transportation increased sharply.

Even with a government subsidy of more than £10 per person, plus other costs, it would cost more than £30 per woman to immigrate, which is too expensive to replicate the experience on a large scale.

There are more than 1.5 million bachelors who want to solve their marriage problems, and the most realistic goal is still on the island of Madagascar.

The outflow of population from here is mainly female, with a scale of more than 100,000 people every year, which greatly alleviates the contradiction between the ratio of men and women in Mozambique.

The problem now is that the northern part of Mozambique, which is occupied by the Ocean Kingdom, has limited population resources, with a total population of more than 800,000, of which less than 300,000 are women of working age.

Therefore, many people have set their sights on the rich population of French Madagascar in the south, where the total indigenous population is more than 2.7 million, and there are more than 700,000 women from 12 to 30 years old, which has great potential.

Therefore, many powerful people secretly colluded with the French colonial government to engage in this transaction worth hundreds of millions of francs.

I have to say that there are still a lot of smart people among the French, they specially put the 7~12-year-old local indigenous girls with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, gathered in the church school, gave good accommodation conditions, and then asked Chinese teachers to teach Mandarin Zhengyin, teach Chinese customs and etiquette, dress and eat are strictly implemented in accordance with Chinese customs, and even teach music and poetry, it is strictly forbidden to speak local indigenous languages, and offenders will be severely punished.

Its purpose is self-evident, that is, to impersonate educated Chinese female immigrants and make huge profits from it.

Other French people followed suit, and many religious schools appeared in French Madagascar, which only admitted beautiful girls, and were not only responsible for food and lodging but also education, which was spectacular for a time.