At the end of July, with the end of the war, there was also a wave of immigrants from East Africa, and for most of the year, Ernst dug into the corner, and the South German region was instantly hollowed out.

In order to seize the new land seized in the war, the Hexingen Foundation stepped up its immigration efforts, and in addition to all its ships for immigration, it also hired a large number of ships from the Nordic region.

Now that the war is over, the number of immigrants is sufficient, and the immigration potential of South Germany has been exhausted by Ernst in a short time, and it will only be a while before a wave can be accumulated.

Not only did the number of German immigrants fall back to a low level, but also the Far East and Austria-Hungary due to early development.

The Far East is currently in a period of great political stability, especially after the pacification of the Twisted Army, and the re-establishment of order in the North.

The perennial large-scale wars in the Central Plains and North China have basically ended, and from the beginning of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the Twist Army Uprising, many areas from the south to the north have been beaten, and now the rulers of the Qing State are about to resume local production, and a large number of people are needed.

In addition, the conditions of immigrants in East Africa have always been relatively high, and a large number of rural smokers and infected people have been screened out by just being healthy.

The constitution is too weak, and the conditions for immigrants in the Far East are definitely worse than those of European immigrants.

After all, European immigrants will return to their relatives in the future, and if they complain about the poor conditions on the ship to East Africa, won't they scare off a group of people.

As for the immigrants from the Far East, they are not qualified to pick and choose, especially the immigrants who take Dutch ships, they are basically mixed with people and goods, and the living conditions are even worse, and they are about to catch up with the treatment of black slaves.

Fortunately, East Africa is paid according to the survival rate, so the Dutch shipowners are not doing too much.

Of the many immigrants, only Paraguay and the Middle East remain stable.

As the war in Paraguay continued, and the coalition forces were getting closer to victory, the staff of the Hexingen consortium followed the advance of the front and slowly spread the business of the Paraguayan people to the interior of Paraguay.

Immigrants from the Middle East were women, and Zanzibar merchants grew in business and now not only traded slaves with East Africa, but also took over the marketing of products from the Heshingen consortium.

Large quantities of goods and tobacco, entered the Middle East, while Zanzibar merchants had to pay only the women of the East African colonies.

This is human trafficking, but the Sultanate of Zanzibar is enjoying it, and now the source of Middle Eastern immigrants is not limited to Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, who are even as far as the Russians, and their business reaches as far as Central Asia.

And with the festival of the aristocrats of Tsarist Russia, naturally there is no temperance, and the products of the Heixingen consortium belong to hard currency in Tsarist Russia.

And the Tsarist Russian officials in Central Asia are certainly not as good as the European masters, and their conditions are better than those in the exiled area of Siberia.

Therefore, it is more difficult for Tsarist Russian officials in Central Asia to get more oil and water, and now they only need to use Turkic women to exchange for goods.

This was a business for Tsarist officials, so the Central Asian region, which was relatively stable, has recently been rampant with horse bandits, specializing in robbing wealth and women.

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With fewer immigrants, Ernst easily put more ocean capacity into commodity transportation, and in the first few months of the war, in order to fill the gap in the newly occupied area as soon as possible, the Hexingen consortium was an overloaded migrant, and spent a lot of money in an instant.

Now that the population of East Africa has exceeded one million, Ernst is in no hurry to emigrate, and the number of immigrants can return to normal every month.

Now Ernst was really concerned with reducing the cost of construction of the colony and realizing cement, ironwork, and food processing...... Landing in East Africa.

For a long time, East Africa has relied heavily on imports of cement and other modern industrial materials, and the raw materials of these industrial materials are not much in East Africa, and they can be produced by themselves, while East Africa lacks only factories and other facilities.

The first country in Europe to industrialize cement production was the United Kingdom, in 1824, and then cement factories were all over Europe.

Cement is not a high-tech originally, of course, this high-tech is relative to European and American countries, and countries outside Europe and the United States still need to import a large number of them.

It was not difficult for the Heixingen consortium to obtain equipment for the production of cement (the first cement plant in Asia originated in 1871 in Japan), and it was possible to buy a small cement plant in Germany.

There were so many states in Germany, and each of them had some industry, so it was very easy for Ernst to get some technology and factories.

Ernst naturally did not plan to engage in cement production in Germany, and now the cement industry in Germany is very volatile, the profits are not too high, and the Heixingen consortium does not have any large-scale minerals in Europe to support these traditional industries.

Moreover, the giants of traditional industry are not something that Ernst can touch, so Heixingen made his fortune in light industry and relatively cutting-edge science and technology.

At present, many German power companies and companies engaged in scientific and technological research and development have investment from the Heixingen Bank, which are the cows of the future Heixingen consortium.

After the acquisition of the cement plant, the company and its personnel were transported directly from the port of Hamburg to East Africa on their own ships.

Second-hand, the deficit caused the boss to rush to sell, so the price was very cheap, and the employees of the cement factory were directly sent to East Africa by Ernst with the help of Mingyi.

If they were allowed to stay in East Africa, these workers would definitely not work, so Ernst sent them to East Africa to supervise the construction of cement plants in the form of high salaries and dispatches.

The site of the first cement plant was located in Dar es Salaam, and it was quite convenient to ship from Hamburg to Dar es Salaam by sea.

Next, Ernst plans to build cement plants in several important cities in East Africa, the first to be selected are Mombasa, Dodoma, Mbeya, Kisumu and Songaia.

The cities of East Africa, to be precise, are not enough to see at all, and ordinary people do not need them at all, and the houses built in the traditional way are very good, at least for the time being.

The investment is about 50,000 pounds, which is really very small, because East Africa does not use so much, and cement is mainly used in special sections and cities in East Africa, so the scale of the subsequent cement plants is not even comparable to the scale of Dar es Salaam.

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Dar.

The construction of the first cement plant in East Africa was under construction, and before the machinery and equipment were sent to East Africa, the staff in Dar es Salaam received the news by telegram.

The cement plant will be the largest cement production plant in the East African colonies and will remain there for some time.

Because it was necessary to speed up production and meet the needs of the East African colonies as much as possible, the scale could not be small.

The reason why a few more factories are built is also to reduce transportation costs, and if the East African colonies can solve the transportation problem, in fact, there is no big problem at present.

When developing northern Kenya, the East African colonies captured a large number of tribal populations to supplement labor, so in the northwest battlefield, East Africa did not capture the natives in the northwest, but drove them all out.

(End of chapter)