Chapter 526: Africa, Japan

PS: The child is sick these days and is receiving infusion in the hospital, so the update is affected.

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September 17, 2779 (1938), Nishikyo, Moshan Prefecture (Mozambique), People's Republic of Japan.

"Xijing" is a new city, which was called "Beira" during the Portuguese rule. In another time and space, it is the second largest economic center and main port in the Republic of Mozambique after Maputo, and the capital of the province of Sofala.

Of course, this is all a matter of another time and space, and in this plane it is called "Xijing", which belongs to the "sacred and inalienable territory" of the Japanese People's Republic and is also the capital of Japan. Judging from the development in recent years, Xijing has faintly replaced Tokyo and become the capital of Japan.

Xijing (Beira) is located on the north bank of the mouth of the Pengwe River and the west bank of the Mozambique Strait (Mozambique Strait), with a current population of 3.2 million. The city was originally founded by the Portuguese in 1890 and quickly grew into the main port of the Portuguese in Mozambique. It is not only Mozambique, but also Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi's main gateway to the outside world.

Both the old Japanese monarchy and the new socialist government after the revolution attach great importance to the land of Mozambique. After wrestling control of Mozambique from Portugal in World War I, they did not treat it as a colony, but as a local man. After signing the transfer agreement in Portugal, Japan directly renamed the place "モザン", which is written as "Moshan", and the capital of the place, Maputo, was renamed "Magu" ("込" is pronounced the same as "迂").

However, Magome's location is too remote, already the southernmost point of Mozambique, bordering South Africa and Eswatini, with little strategic depth, and the historically insecure Japanese certainly cannot regard it as a political center. Therefore, Bella, who is located in the middle, becomes a more suitable choice.

Beira Port is a natural harbor with a wide hinterland and deep waterways, which can dock 200,000-ton large sea vessels, and is an important trading port on the East China Sea Line of Africa. Japan really built it as if it were a local area, and put a lot of effort into it. By the time of the Japanese Revolution, industries such as steel, textiles, sugar, electrical appliances, aluminum, cement, paper, tobacco, meat and fish processing had been built here, and special wharves for ore and sugar had been built to export materials such as chromium, copper, cotton, tobacco, and sisal.

After the Japanese Revolution, it was regarded as the focus of construction. As we all know, Japan has a continental complex since ancient times because of frequent disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons, and volcanoes, as well as the barrenness of the land. In the past, they were fighting on the East Asian continent, that is, Korea and China, but they were withdrawn during the Tang and Ming dynasties. It wasn't until the rotten era of the Qing Dynasty that they finally had the opportunity to covet the East Asian continent.

In the First Sino-Japanese War, I was beaten by Japan, and Japan finally tasted the sweetness of pushing back the boss, and then in the Russo-Japanese War, it withdrew from Tsarist Russia, and it was out of control, thinking that it was the boss of the East. But they didn't have long to be complacent, and history turned a corner here, and Wen Deji came.

After that, it was the normal process of history, and Japan, which was trying to grab the crown of the East, was once again withdrawn from its prototype in the Ugly War, and this time it was drawn worse by Mr. Wen than Tang Ming's two times before. Japan was also woken up from the dream of the "King of the East" this time, and they found out that the boss was still the boss. Although it has declined for a while, it is only a special case of history, and under normal circumstances, this crown on the East Asian side is absolutely not coveted by other countries.

In the aftermath of the war, people of insight in Japan could not help but lament: "Japan is too far from heaven and too close to China." Since then, he has never wanted to develop on the East Asian continent, but in this world, all other places in the world have been occupied by European and American powers, and Japan has no place to develop at all.

But then World War I broke out, and things took a turn for the better. After various coincidences, Japan was given the treasure land of Portuguese East Africa. At this time, Japan reacted, oh, there is still such a large piece of territory as Africa on the earth to grab. As a result, Japan shifted most of its efforts to this new territory, which is 800,000 square kilometers, equivalent to more than two Japanese archipelagos. A few years later, the British, eager to pacify India, transferred Zambia (Northern Rhodesia), Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), and Malawi (Nyasaland) to Japan.

Now Japan is really crazy. At that time, the size of Japan was only 37. 40,000 square kilometers, and Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), Zambia (Northern Rhodesia), Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), Malawi (Nyasaland) add up to 205. 80,000 kilometers, which is almost equivalent to five and a half Japanese archipelago.

And not only is it a large area, but the most important thing is that it has earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoons, etc., which can be ignored compared to Japan. In addition, the fertile land and abundant resources in Africa are far greater than those in Japan. For the Japanese, who have been living on the mainland for thousands of years, Africa is a real godsend. Another point is that this place is far away from the major hooligans. Well, of course, there are disadvantages in Africa, that is, the weather is a little hotter, there are more mosquitoes, and the foundation is a little thinner.

In the era of the old Japanese imperial government, although the Japanese government was also vigorously developing here, if the magnates were used to being small, even if they got so much land, they were also the kind of urine that picked the door, and they always felt that it was difficult to give up the good money, and they always wanted to take advantage of the benefits, and they were not even willing to distribute the soup to the lower-class civilians. Japanese lower-class civilians are not stupid, who wants to do things that are not beneficial?

In addition, East Africa is far away from the mainland, and it takes a long time to ship construction materials from Japan to East Africa, and the cost of shipping is expensive. Of course, it is possible to purchase from Europe a little closer, but Europe itself was ruined at that time, and the materials were not enough for themselves, so even if they were willing to sell to Japan, the price would be bargaining. So what about using the Eurasian railway to sell it from China? Of course, China is willing to sell it, but the price, hehe, you know. It's a little cheaper than the European ones, well, a little bit. This is normal, doesn't it cost money to ship from China to the Middle East?

As a result, Japan's development in Africa did not go well until 1924. It was not until after the Japanese Revolution that the development of their African territories was truly on the fast track. On the one hand, Japan's new socialist government introduced the Homestead Law, which allows each adult to receive one hectare of arable land, as well as new policies such as tax exemptions and exemptions to encourage immigration to East Africa. On the other hand, because they joined the People's Revolutionary Federation, when they bought materials from the Middle East, they could get internal preferential prices, and the construction cost was greatly reduced.

On top of that, China has also encouraged them to develop in Africa, providing them with huge construction loans totaling 1.6 billion yuan on the condition that they can accommodate 10 million Chinese immigrants. Of course, the purpose of this loan is targeted, and China has a special regulatory committee. In other words, if Japan gets this money, it can only use it for the development of the African region, and it can also buy its own things for use, but if it wants to use the money to import things, it can only buy Chinese products and services, such as machinery and equipment related to the development of tropical areas, as well as drugs such as artemisinin for the prevention and control of tropical diseases, and pesticides for mosquito and insect control, as well as related technical support, personnel training, and so on.

Such a loan is very cost-effective for China. After all, most of everything that Japan wants to use is purchased from China, and China is nothing more than opening a printing house and printing 1.6 billion Chinese dollar banknotes for them. In addition, the industrial raw materials used by Japan to repay the loan are also continuously transported to China, and turned into products on the production line and sold all over the world.

The Chinese dollar bills they paid to domestic enterprises were also handed over to the factories and transportation companies that produced the equipment, and then to the raw material suppliers, as well as to ordinary farmers and workers. The increase in income has also increased the purchasing power of these people, and this money has quickly flowed to large and small shopping malls, and then to various daily necessities, clothing, electrical appliances, and even automobile and airplane production enterprises...... The flow of commodities continues to drive the continued prosperity of China's economy.

In fact, a team of Chinese economists has always believed that Wen Desi's banknotes are printed too little, otherwise China's "chicken fart" can at least exceed 20 percent growth, and if he loosens the restrictions on the real estate market, it is estimated that it will not be a problem to break through 30 percent, becoming a miracle in the history of human economic development.

However, the former question is still negotiable, and according to the current economic situation, it is time to print more money. As for the latter question, Wen Deji did not want to relax at all.

He is not stupid, of course he knows that real estate is a big killer that increases the "farts of chickens". But he knew better that the "chicken fart" thing was empty, and it was useless at all. And once the real estate market opens, it will be useless except to create a bunch of digital bubbles and house slaves. "Chicken fart", it's just a fart. And Mr. Wen doesn't like this at all, he doesn't need a bubble-like "chicken fart" to brush up on a sense of achievement, he is not short of money, and he doesn't need to grab money from **** through real estate. If we can't even solve the problem of housing for citizens, how can we reflect the superiority of the scientific socialist system?

So until now, China's real estate industry has been very strict, and only commercial buildings are open to the market. As for residential housing, because of a large number of welfare housing for enterprises and institutions, and new rural housing and urban housing under the auspices of the government, as well as low-rent housing, and in order to encourage immigration, the new territory also implements a no-down payment installment system of moving in first and then paying.

At present, China's real estate market is said to be "ten thousand households singing ghosts", after all, the transaction of commercial buildings such as shops, warehouses, and office buildings is still relatively hot, but the residential housing can only be described as a bird.

Well, that's a long way to go, moving on to Japan's African construction.

Thanks to the vigorous help of the Chinese-led People's Revolutionary Union, Japan's construction in Africa has been greatly accelerated. Since 1925, Japan has been vigorously developing Africa, and on the other hand, it has begun to migrate to Africa on a large scale, and they have not enough ships of their own, and they have rented many merchant ships and trains from China specifically to move people.

Japan has a total population of 79 million, of which 33 million have migrated to Africa. And this migration boom continues at a rate of about 1.8 million to 2 million people per year, which is the largest migration in history.

That's moving. Japan has relocated not only its population, but also its factories, businesses, schools, and so far, half of its local industrial capacity has been transferred to Africa. If we add in the new companies in Africa, Africa already accounts for about 65% of Japan's industrial production capacity, and this proportion continues to rise.

The Japanese themselves are very happy with this situation. Nima, after more than a thousand years of hard work, finally went to the mainland, and also found a piece of land with few earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoons, fertile land, and rich resources. The most important thing is that it is finally out of that terrifying "East Asian monster room", far away from China, and close to heaven.

Although Japan is now hugging China's thighs, it still has some ideas of its own. If it continues next to China, then there is no room for it to come out at all, and it can only be a third-rate country forever, after all, the surrounding north, south, and west are blocked by China, and the east is the ocean, and it is still developing a hairy ah. I didn't have a chance before, I could only hold back, and I once had a delusional idea of replacing China, but this dream was awakened. But there is another opportunity, and there must be a monster house in East Asia, and with the behemoth of China, no country in the surrounding country can think of developing.

But Africa is completely different, and the environment here is much better than in East Asia. Today's African territory is located in southeastern Africa, bordered by the East African Republic to the north, the Federation of South Africa to the south, the Republic of Madagascar to the east, and the three West African states of the United States to the west. Although the United States is also a big monster, it is not their home country after all, and the pressure is much less.

As for the other three local countries, the Japanese didn't take it seriously at all. South Africa is the strongest, but their population is small, less than 3.5 million, and as for East Africa and Madagascar, it is not worth mentioning. So in Africa, Japan's space for development is very vast.

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The streets of Xijing now look very similar to those in China, not only with similar layouts, but also with a large number of Chinese character signs. This is the reason why the new Japanese government has vigorously promoted the Chinese language and increased the amount of Japanese kanji. At present, the Japanese government clearly stipulates that all the contents of trademarks, signboards, and other things must be expressed in Chinese characters only if they can be expressed in Chinese characters, and only some meanings that cannot be expressed in Chinese characters can be used in kana. In addition, Japanese kanji is now completely copied from Chinese simplified characters, which is why it looks similar to that of domestic cities.

At this time, Ai Xichu and Wu Hao were strolling through the streets of Xijing. Of course, the two of them are Chinese, but in fact, there are quite a few Chinese in "West Japan" (that is, Japanese Africa). The resident population of the entire western Japan is currently about 44 million, of which 11 million are Chinese, which is accepted according to the agreement between the two countries. Of Xijing's 3.2 million people, there are 500,000 Chinese. Because the Japanese are afraid of heat, they also play a trick in the resettlement of Chinese, and most of these Chinese immigrants are settled by them in the north, mainly in those places bordering East Africa and the Congo state of the United States.

Ai Xichu and Wu Hao are both colleagues of China Tiger Film and Television Art Company, Tiger Film and Television is a private enterprise, of course, their main business is to make movies and television, uh, mainly small movies, three-level films and other love action films, in addition to producing photo albums, gongkou novels, comics and other peripherals. Their series of love action films such as "Tiger" and "Ya Hot" are extremely popular in the market, and are quite popular with the majority of silver people, and they are representatives of vulgar art.

Ai Xichu is the company's owner, producer and director, and Wu Hao is the company's chief screenwriter and editor-in-chief of the novel and comic department, both of whom are major shareholders. Of course, they are here for nothing else, but to visit the filming site on the spot, as well as part-time talent scouts, and discover a few new people by the way.

"Lao Wu, how do you think of that girl? It is very in line with the temperament of the heroine of the "Ninja Hell" series you just wrote, soft and soft, and she looks like a bully. Ai Xichu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed to a Japanese girl who was buying ramen opposite.

Wu Hao hurriedly helped his glasses, took a closer look, and felt his eyes light up: "Yes, yes, this girl is very in line with the image of the heroine in my mind, but I don't know if she is willing to ......"

"Just ask, what does it matter. Anyway, Japanese chicks don't care about this kind of thing at all......" Ai Xichu smiled and walked straight over.

Wu Hao saw Mr. Ai walk over directly, handed a business card to the girl, and began to blow. The chick blushed and smiled reservedly. Ai Xichu took out another photo album and showed it to her, and the girl's face turned even redder. After a while, Ai Xichu walked over with a smile.

"Hehe, it's done, this girl agreed to come to the interview. Ai Xichu said proudly: "This girl's name is Aoi Feng, 18 years old, her image and temperament are good, her skin and figure are good, and she is a famous character if she is packaged a little." ”

Wu Hao was stunned for a moment and said, "She actually agreed like this? Does she know what our company does?"

"I made it very clear, we're a company that specializes in romantic action movies, and I showed her some stills. Lao Wu, you haven't come out to pull people much, and you don't know the outside market. Here in Japan, this kind of thing is nothing at all, and even if she refuses, it won't be anything. In my experience, the success rate is as high as one third. You must know that the domestic custom industry is now supported by Japanese girls and Siamese girls, and eighty percent of the practitioners in China's customs industry are from these two countries. Making films for us is much faster and much faster than them going to the customs industry to make money, how can you not be willing?"

Wu Hao sighed endlessly: "These Japanese women really don't care about this kind of thing, they feel that they are completely different creatures from our Chinese women......"

Ai Xichu also said: "This place in Japan is really a paradise for us, if I am in China, if I dare to ask like this, even if I am not killed, I will be sent to labor reform...... "The image of the heroine in my mind, I just don't know if she is willing to ......"

"Just ask, what does it matter. Anyway, Japanese chicks don't care about this kind of thing at all......" Ai Xichu smiled and walked straight over.

Wu Hao saw Mr. Ai walk over directly, handed a business card to the girl, and began to blow. The chick blushed and smiled reservedly. Ai Xichu took out another photo album and showed it to her, and the girl's face turned even redder. After a while, Ai Xichu walked over with a smile.

"Hehe, it's done, this girl agreed to come to the interview. Ai Xichu said proudly: "This girl's name is Aoi Feng, 18 years old, her image and temperament are good, her skin and figure are good, and she is a famous character if she is packaged a little." ”

Wu Hao was stunned for a moment and said, "She actually agreed like this? Does she know what our company does?"

"I made it very clear, we're a company that specializes in romantic action movies, and I showed her some stills. Lao Wu, you haven't come out to pull people much, and you don't know the outside market. Here in Japan, this kind of thing is nothing at all, and even if she refuses, it won't be anything. In my experience, the success rate is as high as one third. You must know that the domestic custom industry is now supported by Japanese girls and Siamese girls, and eighty percent of the practitioners in China's customs industry are from these two countries. Making films for us is much faster and much faster than them going to the customs industry to make money, how can you not be willing?"

Wu Hao sighed endlessly: "These Japanese women really don't care about this kind of thing, they feel that they are completely different creatures from our Chinese women......"

Ai Xichu also said: "This place in Japan is really a paradise for us to do what we do, if I dare to ask like this in China, even if I am not killed, I will be sent to labor reform......