Heixingen Bank is the core component of the Heixingen consortium, or the backbone, and a number of large enterprises under it are branches that extend from this backbone, and the branches are surrounded by many branches and leaves, including these corporate business partners, raw material suppliers, sales terminals, small companies and enterprises invested by Heixingen Bank, etc., and the headquarters of Heixingen Bank is the brain of the consortium.

It is certainly impossible for the main body of the consortium to relocate to East Africa, which cannot support the development of such a world-class consortium at present, but the bank headquarters can be relocated to East Africa first, and as long as the communication is unimpeded, it can continue to direct the operation of the entire consortium.

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Ernst: "This matter is settled first, and now it is settled!" Let's talk about the second thing, about the textile industry, this section is in charge of Claessen, right? ”

Claisson: "Yes, Your Highness. ”

Ernst: "Tell us a little bit about the textile industry last year and this year. ”

Clayson: "No problem, Your Highness, the textile industry is in good shape this year, especially last year, when the war broke out with a large wave of production capacity, we received a large number of orders in Germany and Austria-Hungary, especially the abundant cheap labor in the Far East and the high efficiency of the new factories, which allowed us to share the pressure on the European factories, and took the lead in freeing up machines and workers to ensure the continuous and stable supply of military orders.

The army has always been the best customer, Germany only in North Germany last year to expand the scale of one million, and before that, the size of the North German Federal Army was about 600,000, the Italian-Austrian War, Austria also recruited 200,000 troops from the rear in the middle and late stages of the war, plus the South German countries at that time, the Franco-Prussian War and the Italo-Austrian War, these two almost contributed to the million-scale military market, and a soldier just changed clothes more than one set, plus these two wars almost all spanned from summer to winter, Therefore, the supply of winter clothing is huge, but in the later stage of the war, the production capacity of other competitor factories also increased, which diverted some orders from our subsidiaries and investment factories.

Military uniforms alone make a lot of money by relying on low production costs, sufficient production capacity and first-mover advantage.

And you need to note that in addition to military uniforms, quilts, bed sheets, backpacks, military boots and other related products, we have made a lot of profits, of course, compared with our best finance and investment, there is still a lot of difference. ”

The last sentence is basically nonsense, the Heixingen Bank's best must be the financial industry, plus it ate nearly one-third of the dividends of the Franco-Prussian War and the Italian-Austrian War, and the profits were astronomical, almost tripling the size of the Heixingen consortium compared with before the war.

Ernst concluded: "The textile industry is a profiteering industry, and the current consortium's textile industry can be divided into two categories according to equity, the first is our own enterprises and factories that are wholly owned, the second is the textile enterprises invested in the United States and Europe (mainly banks obtain benefits through loans), and the second category I will not discuss first, we will mainly talk about our own enterprises."

At present, the textile industry is mainly concentrated in Heixingen daily necessities company, which is managed by Heixinggen daily necessities company, which is the same as the original food processing industry, the textile industry has now reached the conditions that can be independent, so in order to facilitate management, I am determined to separate the textile industry from Heixingen daily necessities company, set up a new textile industry group, and take him as a subordinate enterprise directly led by Heixingen Bank, what do you think? ”

Ideas are no ideas, everyone unanimously supports the boss's decision, and the textile industry should have become independent from the Heixingen Commodity Company a long time ago.

From the time of the completion of the Far East textile factory, the production capacity of the textile industry of the Heixingen consortium has reached the first-class level, and the Nairobi textile factory is currently under construction, and the Heixingen consortium has a considerable voice in the field of the world's textile industry.

It is the fifth in the world after the four countries of the Anglo-American-French Far East, and the fifth in the world before it was the Kingdom of Italy, but the textile industry of the Kingdom of Italy was hit hard by the war, and it lost the domestic market of Venice and some industrially developed regions such as Lombardy, as well as Naples.

The reason why it is compared with the country is that the Hexingen consortium itself monopolizes the textile market in the East African Kingdom, and at the same time occupies a certain market share in the textile industry in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Tsarist Russia and the Far East.

As for the four countries of the Anglo-American-French Far East, they themselves are huge, have a large population, and at the same time have a huge supply of raw materials.

The most typical is the United States, where the combination of the huge scale of cotton plantations in the south and the industry in the north has led to a rapid increase in local production capacity.

Britain has nothing to say, it is enough to hold the trump card of India, France is also an old power, and Napoleon III is a good hand at developing the economy, so the textile industry ranks among the top five in the world.

The Far East is huge, relying on handicrafts alone to reach the world's top level, and its coastal areas in recent years because of the Westernization movement, a large number of government-run factories have been built, and the efficiency is also improving, but because of the government-run reasons, the management is relatively rigid, and the equipment upgrading is far less than the British, French and East African factories invested in China at the same time.

At present, the largest and most advanced equipment in the Far East is the Jiaozhou Textile Factory, and the Jiaozhou Textile Factory is counted as an East African industry, after all, the East African Consulate in Jiaozhou is involved in negotiations with local officials in Jiaozhou.

In addition to the above countries, Belgium is relatively strong in the field of textile industry, as well as the rapid development of Japan, Austria-Hungary and Germany, Tsarist Russia is also OK, but the Austro-Hungarian and German textile industry and the textile industry under the Heixingen consortium overlap greatly.

All in all, in 1871 the world as a whole was in a state of great prosperity, and even Paraguay, a country that had been almost devastated by the war, was recovering with the support of a steady stream of Italian immigrants.

The Kingdom of Italy and France are more miserable, but compared with the current anxiety of the Kingdom of Italy, although the north of France has suffered huge losses due to defeat, the development of the south led by Marseille is good.

The north of France will not be at peace next, and at the same time as the meeting of Ernst, the citizens of Paris, as the old district, are about to lead the world again, today is March 21, with seven days left.

Of course, Ernst knew the significance of this movement, but he didn't take it to heart, just like the African natives who were suddenly pulled into the capitalist society from the primitive society, they were not good at capitalism, but the slave kingdom society was more suitable for the current African natives, and it was a kind of progress to understand the slave kingdom first, the feudal kingdom was too advanced for the African natives, and the sudden pull-into the capitalist society by the colonizers would inevitably turn the scriptures into tribal capitalism with African characteristics.

East Africa does the same, it never transforms African tribes and kingdoms, if it is eliminated, it is eliminated, and if it is not eliminated, it will go to West Africa to continue to maintain the status quo, and it is naturally best to be willing to cooperate with East Africa, and what arms and industrial products will be sold as long as you pay for them, as for whether you are a tribe, a slave owner, a king, or just a village chief, it doesn't matter.

In a word, East Africa does not interfere in the internal affairs of the indigenous people, and those who should be slave owners continue to be slave owners, those who should be chiefs continue to be chiefs, and those who should be kings continue to be kings, provided that they are not hostile to East Africa or have conflicts with East African interests.

Well, when you think about it this way, it is indeed a bit difficult for the natives around East Africa, it all depends on the conscience of the East African kingdom, but from the moment Ernst started to colonize, he said that he did not have such a thing.

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