August.

The sea breeze blowing from the southeast brought a heavy rain that rained for three days in a row, leaving the streets of the entire city wet.

Especially in the places where there are no roads, it is even more muddy, and when you walk over, your shoes are covered with thick mud.

After the first sunny day, the streets become crowded with pedestrians, cars and horses, and chaos, which is a scene that is difficult to see in East Africa, and it is estimated that Dar es Salaam and Mombasa can compare with the development areas.

Because the cities of East Africa will have special police officers to maintain order, they used to be soldiers, but after the reform, some soldiers in the cities became policemen.

So the order in East Africa is quite good, even in the countryside, there are security officers in the countryside, and at present, the security personnel in the countryside have not changed, so it has become a special existence.

The main reason is that there are too few people, and there are only a few people in a village, and they are under the jurisdiction of the police station in the township or neighboring city.

Ships entered the port as usual, and a large number of merchants and gangs at the wharf began to grab business, and the merchants mainly received goods, and the gangs were the factions formed by the wharf personnel themselves, most of whom were from the same village.

It's a bustling scene on the docks, but who would have thought it would be so prosperous three years ago, thinks Richard of the German Business Liaison Office.

When I arrived three years ago, it was still a small town, with a small population, incomplete port facilities, and "quaint" buildings, with many mud houses and straw roofs.

The only estimate that hasn't changed is that the inhabitants are still yellow-skinned, and it's clear that most of them are malnourished.

That's right, this is not East Africa, but Jiaozhou in the Far East.

Jiaozhou is a transit port for immigrants from the Far East in East Africa, where immigrants from North China will eventually converge and be transported to East Africa.

Of course, there are some people in the northwest who will start from here, but the number is very small, and the farthest place that the East African official can radiate is to Henan.

The current transit port in the south is Shanghai, where the Heixingen consortium has very little influence, and it has to compete with Britain and the United States even if it is engaged in immigration business.

It has to be said here that the Germans are a bit stupid, and they are definitely not as good as the Americans in terms of rumors, and even though many conditions in East Africa are "real", there are still many people who are fooled into going to the United States to work as railroad workers.

In the first half of this year, the Pacific Railroad in the United States was completed, and only the Chinese underground know how much blood and tears there is in it.

These are all unclear to the local Chinese, but Ernst has no way to expose this deception, the United States is not the United States imperialism now, and the threat to East Africa cannot be ignored.

Especially in the Far East, unless the Heixingen consortium does not want to do it, give up this source of immigrants and the market.

If Germany after reunification were to do this, it would probably be a fart in the United States.

Let's talk about Jiaozhou, Jiaozhou's status in the Far East is not high, and before the arrival of the Heixinggen Foundation, it was only the size of a small town.

After the Opium War, Xiyi relied on strong ships and cannons to open the gates of the Far East, and Western merchants also poured into the eastern coast.

Originally, Jiaozhou was a few small fishing villages, but the geographical location and natural conditions here are relatively superior, so there are a few Western merchants doing business here.

However, it was not until 1865 that the Qing government set up a checkpoint here to manage shipping and collect taxes, which shows that the importance of Jiaozhou to the Qing government was still insufficient.

This is the most dynamic and important port in Shandong and even the north in the future. It was Yantai, which was a treaty port for the British.

Before the arrival of the Heixinggen consortium, Jiaozhou was only a branch of Yantai East Customs.

In addition to immigrating here, the Heingen Foundation has now begun to do business, and its own industrial products are indispensable, and agricultural products such as rice from East Africa are mainly exported here.

In terms of competitiveness, the main thing is that it is cheap, and the migrant ships that set sail from East Africa and turn back will bring a large number of goods to East Africa.

At the same time, Heixingen also set up several small factories here, mainly textile factories, but the scale is too small to be successful.

The reason for choosing this place is very simple, East Africa and Germany are not suitable for the textile industry at present, East Africa is short of manpower, although the "labor" is almost "unlimited", but it is simply whimsical to expect blacks to engage in such fine work as textiles.

And Germany has developed the textile industry, but it has not worked very well, since someone has tried the water, Ernst naturally will not repeat the mistakes of the past.

Relying on the Heixingen consortium and the commodity trade of East Africa, Jiaozhou's economic development was very fast, especially the rapid rise of tariff revenue, so that it attracted the attention of the Qing government, which separated it from Yantai East Customs and managed it separately, and the local bureaucrats in Jiaozhou were thus on a higher level.

……

Just as Richard was touching, the plaque of the German Commercial Liaison Office had been removed and a brand new plaque of the Heixingen Far East Commercial Liaison Office had been replaced.

"Mr. Richard, what's wrong with your brand!" A Qing government official in charge of liaison with the Heixingen consortium asked.

"That's Mr. Wang, we received a notice from above, and we won't use the previous brand in the future."

"I know in Germany, but is this Heixingen the same as the newly built Heixingen Bank the year before last?"

"That's right, Heixingen is a state of Germany, so this kind of change is not much for you, and the main people who come to Jiaozhou to do business are the people of our Heixingen consortium."

Wang Enke was completely confused by Richard's words, and he asked, "The Heixingen Consortium?" ”

"The Heshingen consortium is one of the most powerful big companies in Germany, you can understand it that way."

"And where did Germany go?"

"Of course Germany exists, but now we don't just trade with us on behalf of Germany, so we don't need the previous name."

"Mr. Richard, I would like to take the liberty of asking, which side does your company represent?" Wang Enke hurriedly asked.

The main thing is that it is a little scary, not only for Germany, but also for other countries or regions.

"Heixingen East African Crown Domain."

"This?"

"A new country."

"Where is East Africa?"

"On the east coast of Africa, Africa is a continent, and you can imagine a place that is bigger than your Qing Dynasty."

"East Africa is so big?"

"Speaking of Africa, East Africa is just an important emerging country above, just like your Qing Kingdom is an important country on the Eurasian continent, and the full name of East Africa is Heixingen East African Crown Territory."

……

Although the German Business Liaison Office was renamed the Heshingen Business Liaison Office, there was no change in its functions.

The name change was a political signal after the migration of the Heshingen royal family to East Africa, which is now mainly engaged in trade in the Far East, and will definitely have to send diplomatic personnel after the establishment of the country in the future.

At that time, it was not good to still bear the name of Germany, and those who didn't know thought that it was Heixingen who unified Germany! (Le).

In addition to the Hexingen Consortium and the merchants of East Africa, there were also merchants from other German states and some missionaries.

Before Prussia completed the great cause of reunification, international influence could not radiate here, and the Heixingen consortium naturally had no problem representing Germany in Jiaozhou.

In fact, the main body of German trade activities in the Far East is now the Heixingen consortium, and other German businessmen are naturally united under the Heixingen banner.

Many of the negotiating issues were handled by the former "German Commercial Liaison Office", after all, the Hexingen Foundation was an armed merchant group overseas, and the merchant ships equipped with artillery were still very convincing.

However, because of Ernst, everyone naturally lives in peace, provided that they do not hinder their own immigration work, you can not support it, but you can't oppose it, this is a completely innocuous little problem for the Far Eastern authorities, or it is not a problem, I just let you pull people, and I can't catch up with the growth rate of the population of the Qing Dynasty.

As for the rest, accustomed to the brutality of Britain and France, the Heixingen consortium is simply the conscience of Xiyili, and it would be better if he could not bring a gun.

In this regard, Ernst said, "You are not at ease with my conscience, and I am not at ease with your discipline!"

(End of chapter)