Ernst is commanding the front line of operations, and Constantine is in the rear to be a good tool man's responsibility, enriching East African industry has always been the cause of Ernst, and agriculture as the advantage of East Africa's industry, is also the top priority, East Africa's current agricultural products to achieve large-scale planting, and large-scale exports, a few of them, sisal, cloves, pyrethrum and so on are undoubtedly popular products, of which sisal perennial top of East Africa's export of tropical cash crops.

However, these cash crops can only be said to be relatively niche or out-of-the-way, among which the promotion of pyrethrum has a huge relationship with the mosquito repellent products launched by Heixingen Commodity Company, and the local area of East Africa is also actively planting pyrethrum, making an important contribution to blocking the mosquito-borne diseases in East Africa.

For example, the first batch of coffee planting in East Africa was in 1867, and it has only been harvested in small quantities, so it is not yet a profitable project, rubber was introduced in 1868, and other non-native cash crops were basically introduced after 1865.

These introduced cash crops, if the growth cycle is relatively long, are currently in the pure input stage and have no profit value.

Tea is a cash crop that has already entered production, and East Africa has tried to promote local black tea products to Central and Eastern Europe, but has encountered serious problems.

"Your Majesty, this is the tea we brought from the East, this time we have selected a total of 23 excellent varieties, mainly green tea, there are also some black tea, and at the same time we have introduced a group of 'professional' tea production personnel, which can better contribute to the development of tea in East Africa." Secretary of Agriculture Wiggins briefed Konstantin on the results of the Ministry.

The Ministry of Agriculture of East Africa is a very embarrassing existence, Wiggins, as a native of Austria, is a declining aristocracy in Austria, and it can be said that it is very big about how to carry out agricultural development in the tropical region of Africa, East Africa as a large rice producer, Wiggins has never seen rice before coming to East Africa, but fortunately, His Royal Highness Ernst, who is "wise and martial", pointed out the direction for himself and went to the East to learn from the experience, and the Far East rice varieties were introduced under the auspices of Wiggins.

Wiggins once asked Ernst why not learn from India, after all, India's agricultural conditions are not bad, and it is also a country with a long history, and it should be regarded as a leader in the field of planting, especially in the field of tropical crop cultivation.

Ernst's answer is that because of this, we can't learn from India, as a British colony, although India has become the world's most rice-producing region, but its technology is from Europe, the British have built a large number of new water conservancy facilities in India, and applied a lot of new technologies, these things East Africa itself has, modern agricultural technology can be directly imported from Europe.

The rest of the cash crops, the British does not have much technical content, such as cotton planting, opium poppy planting, and tea planting in India, which are also the three cash crops that Britain has invested the most in India.

There is nothing to say about cotton cultivation, it is entirely a necessity of British industry, but in terms of cultivation technology, the former slave owners of the plantations in the southern United States are the first to do so, opium is forbidden in East Africa, and tea is stolen from the Far East by India.

And the low-level Indians who believe in Hinduism are very casual and foolish, especially the Indians under the rule of the British have brought these character traits to the extreme, just like the black laborers who can grind foreign workers under the hands of East Africans, and they are not very motivated, and you are even less motivated to drive away with a whip, this kind of people, what can you learn from them?

Of course, Ernst is not belittling the indigenous people of India and Africa, but the whole tropics, especially living in a sweltering environment, not to mention activities, and sometimes eating without an appetite.

This also reflects the superiority of East Africa's climate, don't look at the East African natives are not diligent, in fact, in the previous life, Ernst compared with the blacks he had seen belonged to the most down-to-earth and hard-working black people in East Africa, and the best impression in East Africa was Ethiopia, which had been destroyed by Ernst, of course, Ernst This is mainly the conclusion drawn after comparing with Nigeria in West Africa, and Ernst in other West African countries did not know much about it.

This is also related to the economy, education issues, South Africa was very good in the early days, but it has been going downhill, after the black rulers came to power, they are really on par with the United States, and the essence of zero yuan purchase has been learned, this kind of unearned social atmosphere Ernst is very disgusted to see, not to mention any colonial oppression, Tanzania is a lot worse than South Africa's economy, and the economic conditions in Africa are not ranked, but Ernst has seen that some Tanzanian farmers can't even eat, and they are not like South Africans, You must know that South Africa is an agricultural powerhouse, and the level of mechanization is even higher than that of China.

As for what can be learned in the Far East, it is natural to learn traditional planting experience and agricultural product processing technology, and the Far Eastern farmers are indeed the best in this regard.

Ernst is not a compliment at all, but puts aside his previous identity in the Far East, and thinks realistically that the characteristics of agriculture in the Far East are intensive cultivation, the maximum use of the fertility and fertility of the farmland, and the ability to maintain and restore the fertility of the land by various means.

This is already evident in agricultural production in East Africa, where fallow farming is prevalent in Europe and the United States, but this is rarely the case in East Africa, where farmers come from a large base in the Far East, so the land is cultivated in a way that they are familiar with.

The only difference is that the land developed in East Africa is originally fertile land with favorable climate, water conservancy, soil and other conditions, and many areas can be used as arable land, but Ernst has not developed it on a large scale, such as Tanzania, Ernst does not plan to expand the scale of arable land, but turns to the inland areas to develop new cultivated land.

In addition, the peasants of the Far East are very good at accumulating agricultural experience, although most of the landlord class are not engaged in production, but their written summary of the agricultural experience of the Far East is quite perfect, and the government of the Far East is a typical heavy agricultural government, and it is also an old tradition of thousands of years of persuasion to teach agriculture and mulberry, which makes the traditional agriculture of the Far East quite developed.

Ernst used the word developed to describe it, but the emphasis was on the word tradition, not really letting Wiggins copy the Far Eastern model, but mainly letting him learn from it, even if East Africa borrowed one-tenth of the good experience, it would benefit immensely.

The introduction of Far Eastern tea varieties this time was carefully selected by Wiggins personally leading a team to go deep into several tea producing areas in the Far East.

Wiggins said to Constantine: "There are many kinds of tea in the Far East, there are 100 kinds of tea in Anhui Province alone, but I have limited time, so I can only pick a few important tea provinces for investigation, among which because Anhui and Jiangsu tea producing areas are next to our 'Huaihai Economic Zone', so it is the focus of my investigation, and then I heard that the black tea in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian is also very good, so I went to Fujian on the way back, and this time the tea varieties are mainly obtained from these three provinces." ”

Originally, Wiggins was also very interested in Zhejiang tea, especially West Lake Longjing, but I heard that the real West Lake Longjing only has a dozen tea trees, and it is also supplied to the royal family, and the Far East official looks very closely, not to mention the dozen or so tea trees, that is, the surrounding tea is very precious, then forget it, Wiggins values the yield in addition to quality, and he really has no time, otherwise he wants to go inland to the two lakes area to have a look.

The dilemma encountered by East African tea exports is that the varieties come from India, so that they cannot compete with British tea merchants, because the taste is the same, or even some inferior, and India has a large planting scale, high yield, and low labor costs, and this market is completely monopolized by them, unless East Africa "loses money" to do business.

And East Africa is indeed doing this, East African tea exports to Germany, basically half sold and half sent, fortunately, the labor cost in East Africa is equivalent to no cost, barely a little Deutsche Mark, Taylor and Austrian Rheinhoulder back to the cost.

So this time Wiggins went to the Far East to select tea varieties in order to open the European market, first of all, to introduce green tea, and the popular black tea in the European market staggered competition, popular black tea in Europe, an important reason is that the early introduction of green tea from the Far East tastes not as good as black tea, this is because the Far East is too far away from Europe, and the smell of green tea will dissipate after a long storage time, black tea is the opposite, East Africa will not have this concern, East Africa is not far from Europe, and steam is used on ships, As a result, the speed of the ships is not comparable to that of the old Portuguese ships transporting tea a hundred years ago.

There is also the best means of the Heixingen consortium is to touch the opponent, when the time comes to engage in a tea authenticity theory in Europe to lead the war, open the popularity of green tea, green tea brewed out not to mention how it tastes, on the whole it is more eye-catching than black tea, in the case of a few oriental allusions, improve the style, and then supply the European court, you can open the door to the high-end market, this aspect of the Heixinggen consortium is experienced.

Of course, East Africa will not give up the black tea market, this time Wiggins brought back several kinds of Far Eastern black tea, planted in Africa, and broadened the taste of European black tea.

Although it is said that drinking tea will form a habit,

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