The seventh largest city in the Ocean Empire is Seoul in Mozambique, with a population of 750,000, which is a light industrial city with cotton textile industry as its core industry, dozens of cotton textile mills in the city have 220,000 spindles, and the Mozambican cotton cloth produced is exported to the empire itself, which is the economic pillar industry of Seoul City.

Different from the wool textile industry in the empire, the cotton textile industry in Seoul City has formed a unique industrial chain based on the advantages of cotton production in the central highlands of Mozambique, and has made outstanding contributions to the substitution of imports.

The Second Anglo-Boer War, which took place in close proximity to Mozambique, did not bring much opportunity for the development of the cotton textile industry in Seoul, because the British cotton textile industry is a strong industry that dominates the world, and of course it is impossible to give Seoul a piece of the pie.

Compared to the British cotton textile industry, Seoul is a drop in the bucket.

The war in southern Africa brought the biggest opportunity to Seoul was the food processing industry, and the British were no longer satisfied with the primary supply of flour, edible oil, soybeans, and wheat, but demanded a wide variety of cookies, cheese, chocolate, candy, various fruits, seafood and canned meat, and the order volume was huge, which made the food processing industry in Seoul and surrounding cities usher in a take-off.

Resources are readily available, as long as machinery and equipment are ordered from Europe and the United States for installation and production.

Therefore, Seoul City ushered in a new round of great development.

The eighth largest city is Samarinda in East Kalimantan, where Borneo is located, with a permanent population of 736,000.

The influx of hundreds of thousands of construction workers and immigrants as the empire invested heavily in the Balikpapan oil fields brought great opportunities for the development of Borneo's megacity, which was full of construction pylons, new railways and roads to weave a smooth traffic environment, and a construction boom everywhere.

For almost two years

The population of Sanmarinda has skyrocketed by about 300,000, and it has jumped from the 14th city to the eighth largest city, which is a leap forward.

The city's specialty has changed from traditional spices, sugar, and cocoa to the chemical industry, and the special railway line connecting the Balikpapan oil field 120 kilometers away has direct access to the oil depot area and dedicated wharf, and the huge throughput of oil and chemical products has led to the development of related industries.

The rapid development of special crude oil fleets, product oil fleets, tank wagons, and chemical transport ships has shaped this area into an important export center for petrochemical products and made an important contribution to replacing Citigroup's imports.

Ranked ninth is the traditional heavy industry city of Baihu City, with a population of 697,200 people, where the Hongshan Iron and Steel Plant, the Hongshan Coking Coal Plant, the Australian Aluminium Company, the Royal Mint, the copper product processing and smelting center are famous, and are the production base of gold, silver, copper, steel, aluminum and other metal products.

The city of White Tiger is characterized by large chimneys that resemble trees one after another, and smoke billows all day long, rendering the sky gray.

Ranked 10th is the southern metropolis of Melbourne, with a population of 691,500, after 10 years of recovery and development, the original largest city in Australia has regained its former glory, and especially more than ever.

With its rich gold resources, thousands of large and small pastures, Victoria's wool textile industry has developed in recent years, easily surpassing the total economic volume of New South Wales, ranking second only to Queensland in Australia.

The state has always been known for its affluence, and it is as glamorous as it once was.

Melbourne and its surrounding areas have a history of colonization for more than 100 years, with many castles and estates, good development foundations, perfect infrastructure conditions, beautiful and charming scenery, and is a concentrated area of aristocratic territory.

Victoria's economy is based on mining and woolling, and with port trade growing rapidly in recent years, Melbourne has undoubtedly shared the biggest piece of the pie, making the economy very resilient.

The eleventh is Tianshu City, with a population of 652,000.

The largest city in Dongxiangzhou, the vanguard of economic development in the Qingshui River Basin, seems to have encountered a bottleneck in recent years, and its development has been much slower than that of other sister cities in the empire.

Seven cities and dozens of towns lined up along the Qingshui River were important grain and special agricultural products producing areas in the empire, with Tianshu City as the leader, and the industrial economy was mainly composed of grain deep processing and tobacco industry, inland river shipbuilding industry, and the famous Royal Administrative University was located here.

Sugar mills, cigarette factories, flour mills, food factories, shipyards, agricultural machinery factories, etc., which are based on the advantages of local resources, are limited by demand, and have low added value and limited development prospects in addition to cigarette factories.

Steady, it is indeed steady, but unfortunately it is not explosive.

It is a big problem faced by Tianshu City in the development of Tianshu City, which is based on agricultural deep processing, and it is necessary to find new economic growth points, realize industrial upgrading, and continue to provide economic growth momentum.

The twelfth largest city in China is Qiqu City, with a population of 648,000.

As the most important industrial city in Mozambique, Qiqu City has abundant iron ore, aluminum ore, coal and tin ore resources, and established a complete industrial category during the time of Count Wu Mozhou, the general manager of Africa.

Due to the needs of the development and construction of various cities in Mozambique, the second phase of the steel plant expansion project that has just been completed will increase the annual production capacity of steel from 120,000 tons to 360,000 tons, and can provide more high-quality rails, rebar for construction, 4~10 mm thin steel plate and other products.

I never thought about it

The outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War was an opportunity for industrial production to take off in Qiqu City, and at the end of last year, it received a large order for a jaw-dropping order.

Lord Roberts, the newly appointed commander of the British Expeditionary Force, formulated the strategy of "encircling the battalion step by step", building tens of thousands of pillboxes as soon as he opened his mouth, using barbed wire to separate the various areas into disconnected blockade areas, destroying pasture buildings, emptying personnel and livestock, cutting off the logistics and support of the Boers, and restricting the large-depth transfer of cavalry, so as to achieve the operational objectives of annihilation.

Qiqu Iron and Steel Plant received a super large order of 250,000 tons of construction rebar, 50,000 tons of barbed wire, and 20,000 tons of thin steel plates, almost squeezing out the steel production capacity, with a total value of more than 2 million pounds.

With a wave of his wealthy hand, the British logistics officer directly signed a cash cheque for the bank of one million pounds, which was cashed immediately.

The necessary supplies were delivered on a monthly basis in 1900 on only one condition; Priority must be given to ensuring the material needs of the British army.

This kind of pie-in-the-sky good thing fell on the heads of the Qiqu City Iron and Steel Plant at once, and it really made them happy.

The board of directors discussed that it is necessary to ensure the needs of the British military and the transportation and urban construction of Mozambique, and the current production capacity is not enough!

Yes, simply buy a set of the latest German steelmaking blast furnace equipment that has been coveted for a long time, and this guy can add 500,000 tons of advanced production capacity, so it will be spent on 770,000 pounds as soon as it changes hands.

This good thing happened in Mozambican factories, where the tanneries received orders for 30,000 sets of cavalry leather harnesses, the carpentry factories received orders for tens of thousands of saddles, the horseshoes came first with 1 million, the shipyards had 80 patrol boats, 5 refrigerated ships, and 20 bulk carriers of 5,000 tons......

The order of 20,000 beef cattle and 2 million sheep is only the first order, because the number of British expeditionary forces will grow to 400,000, and beef and mutton, as an indispensable necessity on the table, must be guaranteed.

What...... Not so many cattle and sheep?

How can it be done, then the number of beef cattle will be reduced a little, and the number of live sheep must be increased, otherwise what will the army eat?

All kinds of orders came one after another, and 6,000 tons of cashew nuts alone were ordered, which was simply shocking.

All this has contributed to the industrial economy of Qiqu City entering a fever at the speed of light, opening a crazy continuous rotation mode, working overtime day and night, many companies offering high-paid recruits, new factories are laying the foundation every day, and thousands of people are pouring into the city every day.

In October 1899, the city's population was only 546,000, and two months later it surged to 648,000, an increase of 100,000 and a turn.

This is the case in Mozambique, where the cities are hot.

Ranked 13th is Humen in Somali Prefecture, with a population of 631,000, making it the brightest star city on the Red Sea coast.

Thanks to the war in southern Africa, the city has also received large orders for glassware, canned seafood, cattle, sheep and livestock, and the annual supply of various canned seafood has reached 44,000 tons, worth 5 million pounds.

The British people's favorite canned tuna, braised thornless fish, canned seafood mushrooms, canned soybeans, and canned braised beef are among them, which has caused the scale of Humen's marine fishing industry to skyrocket again and again.

Compared with Xi'an, which is located in the eastern Djibouti region, due to its location in a desert oasis, the lack of fresh water resources, the limited carrying capacity of land and population, and the hot climate, it has developed to a population of nearly 500,000.

Humen City is different, it is located in the plateau area with an average altitude of 800~1000 meters, bordering the Red Sea coast, the perennial maximum temperature does not exceed 24 degrees, the average annual precipitation is 800~1100 mm, the hinterland has a vast pasture, and the fresh water resources are abundant.

As long as the city has enough industrial and commercial bearing, there is no upper limit for development, and because of the pleasant environment, high salary standards, and perfect urban facilities, it has attracted the floating population from surrounding cities to settle down, buy homes, and develop more and more prosperously.

It has surpassed Xi'an, the capital of Somali Province, to become the largest city in the state.

The 14th largest city in the country is the city of Sydney, with a population of 624,000.

This is a once-sunken and phoenix-nirvana city, thanks to the good livestock production base of New South Wales, Sydney's pillar industries are ranching, port, education, finance and trade, and some light industrial enterprises.

Similar to Melbourne, Sydney is surrounded by a large number of new aristocrats, castles, estates, ranches, and wealth, so there is no shortage of motivation for development.

It is precisely because of the high-end needs of the emerging aristocratic groups that Sydney's financial, legal and service industries are developed, with hundreds of churches, Taoist temples, temples, various large theaters, nightclubs, opera houses, and Qinglou wine shops.

This can also be seen from the urban architecture, the urban architecture here has the British Victorian style, the French neo-romantic style, the Italian Mediterranean architectural style, and the high-end atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty architectural style, revealing the style of my money inside and out.

It is a city with commerce, education, service and port trade as its core industries, with the tertiary industry accounting for more than 60% of the economic output, animal husbandry accounting for 30%, and industry accounting for less than half of the economic share.

Because of this

Sydney can form a strong synergy with Beilun City on the other side of the bay, and the economy is highly complementary.