Japonica rice is grown in the Great Lakes region, in addition to considering the difference in temperature with the coastal plains of East Africa, and at the same time to enhance the competitiveness of the international market.

For example, the Far East, Japan, and North Korea include parts of Southeast Asia, and the rice requirements of these grain markets are very different from those in the Middle East and India.

And now the current situation of the international grain market is more and more volatile, with the addition of East African grain production, plus the expansion of production in the United States, Australia, Canada and Tsarist Russia.

Now it can be determined that the world's food production capacity has been overcapacity, even earlier than the previous life at this time, and the maintenance of food overcapacity is the rapid development of industrialization in various countries, and now the whole world is in the extreme prosperity before the economic crisis, everyone is blindly investing in production, anyway, doing everything to make money, once the economic bubble is punctured, there will inevitably be an economic crisis within one or two years.

In order to avoid risks, ERNST's next goal is to optimize East African industries, open up the East African internal market, dispose of European non-performing assets, and further strengthen East Africa's economic barriers and divide it from the world market.

In fact, East Africa has always been economically disconnected from the world market, and as a consortium-owned country, all foreign trade in East Africa must pass through the "connector" of the Hexingen Foundation, so East Africa's foreign trade is not in line with the world market.

Therefore, the impact of the world economic crisis on a purely agricultural country like East Africa is very limited, and even has a beneficial impact, which can be referred to in the Far East, which has become the hottest period of industrial investment during the world economic crisis.

Although it is beneficial to East Africa, the economic crisis will affect the question of how much money is earned by the Hexingen consortium, after all, most of the assets of the Heixingen consortium are in Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Because of the turmoil in East Africa, Ernst was not sure when this space-time economic crisis would suddenly erupt.

Historically, it was the beginning of 1873, but at the end of 1872 there were already signs, mainly because the production of American railroads could not stop, but the first place to break out was Austria-Hungary, and the center of the crisis was in the United States.

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July 1871.

Due to the construction of Nairobi in East Africa, some industrial workers were diverted from the Far East, and the orders caused by the end of the two wars in Europe were reduced, and some machines in Jiaozhou's textile industry were shut down, and it was imperative to reduce the capacity of Jiaozhou's textile industry.

This capacity reduction is aimed at the textile industry invested by the Heixingen consortium in the Far East, in fact, because of the immigration of workers, the production capacity of the cotton textile industry in Jiaozhou has been reduced, and the Heixingen consortium this time mainly sold the excess machinery after the capacity reduction.

Jiaozhou Textile Factory.

Levins, sales representative of Jiaozhou Textile Factory: "Mr. Qiao! If you look at these machines, they have been in operation for less than two years, and they can be used as new equipment, even if they will not be eliminated from the market in the next ten years, and there are already Japanese companies before you have bought them, but we still decided to keep most of these machines in the Far East. ”

It is impossible to sell the machines to Japan, which was the world's most advanced level when it was ordered, and it is still in the first echelon.

However, due to the reform in Japan, the textile industry has achieved great development, and ERNST does not want to help Japan improve the level of mechanization, and continuing to be a sweatshop is the best choice for Japan.

At present, there is a technological blockade between the West and the East, mainly the blockade of advanced machinery, even if the machinery is exported, it is also the export of some technologically backward machinery that is about to be eliminated, and the Jiaozhou Textile Mill This batch of machines was imported from Britain by the Heixingen Consortium in the name of Germany (Prussia), so there was no obstacle at that time, and the British manufacturers did not expect that the Heixingen Consortium would assemble and build factories in the Far East.

Qiao Zhiyong: "Mr. Levins! Although your machinery does look new, these machines are second-hand after all, and the price is too high! ”

Levins shook his head and said: "Mr. Qiao, I want to popularize some concepts for you, this batch of machines is first-class even in Europe, the production efficiency is very high, if you have the ability to go to the UK to investigate, you will find that many textile enterprises in the UK are not even applied, and are still using more backward machines, so we plan to sell this batch of machines in the Far East is completely priceless, if you miss this opportunity, this is your and even your country's loss." ”

Qiao Zhiyong: "Alas, having said that, I have no experience in this area of small business, so I have to take huge risks!" ”

There are ghosts in the faithful!

Jiaozhou Textile Factory is looking for its own considerations, and businessmen with poor economic strength are not qualified to come here to see the goods.

There are a group of business giants in the south who have the ability to take over, but they have a close relationship with British capital, and the Heixingen consortium does not even give them the opportunity to enter the door.

As a large consortium represented by German capital, Hazingen was one of the competitors of British capital in the international market, especially after the reunification of Germany.

As a commercial giant in the northern region, Qiao Zhiyong represents the most powerful Jin businessman in the north.

The representative business of Jin Shang is the ticket number, which is to open a bank in the West, and Heixingen Bank is half a peer, and its strength is naturally very strong.

The most important thing is that it has no influence from other foreign countries behind it, it is a business group born and raised in the Far East, and it is a partner that Heixingen Bank can work with.

Moreover, the base camp of Jin merchants is in the northwest region dominated by Shanxi and Inner and Outer Mongolia, and the business scope does not overlap with the Heixinggen Consortium, and the current business scope of the Heixinggen Consortium is mainly concentrated in North China, and the farthest radiation is northern Anhui, eastern Henan and the south of Zhili, which is already the limit, after all, the north does not have such a dense water network as the south, and there is Anglo-French competition in Yantai next door.

If the Heixingen Consortium and the Jin Merchants establish a cooperative relationship, the Heixingen Consortium and East Africa will be able to cover the business in the far east, west and north hinterland through the commercial channels of the Jin Merchants.

Levins: "Mr. Qiao, you are a far-sighted person, don't care about such a small profit, just imagine, if you get this batch of machines, you can use the population market and resources in the hinterland of your far northeast to build a cotton textile enterprise compared with the south, as far as we know, the north and northwest of your country are suitable for cotton planting." ”

While the two were negotiating, the workshop next door. The Jiaozhou textile factory is also negotiating with Hu Xueyan, a representative of Huizhou businessmen.

That's right, this time the Heixingen consortium is eating both ends, because Jiaozhou textile factory wants to halve its production capacity, and as the largest textile factory in the Far East, half of its production capacity is not a small number.

And East Africa is not a big country, it has a lot of influence in the Far East by pulling the tiger skin of Germany, and it is good to occupy a place in the north.

If you want to further develop in the Far East, you must have agents and partners, and the Jin and Hui merchants, as the two major merchant gangs in the Far East, are capable of cooperating with East Africa in terms of economic strength.

Although the two major merchant gangs now look prosperous, in fact both are now in a very dangerous situation, and as the second representative of Far Eastern commerce, they also face competition from foreign capital.

This time, it is good to demarcate their respective spheres of influence with Hei Xinggen, an outsider, and reduce the internal friction of the three to avoid other countries' capital from taking advantage of the void.

Everyone is a competitor of the capital of Britain, France, the United States and other countries, so it is necessary to huddle together for warmth, if the three parties are combined, they can stabilize the independence of the regional economy within their respective commercial scopes, of course, if the competitors open a breakthrough through war means is another matter.

For example, the geographical location of the Huizhou merchants is very dangerous, and the Jianghuai River basin is a bridgehead for British capital, and the entire Yangtze River is not very safe.

That is to say, the Hui merchants still have some resistance, such as Hu Xueyan, who historically confronted foreign capital, and was finally destroyed by the joint suppression of the domestic bureaucracy and foreign forces.

(End of chapter)