As soon as Britain taught East Africa a lesson, Germany came to it, but the Germans obviously did not want to be unhappy with the British, and the relationship between the two families was superficially good at this time.

"Your Majesty Constantine, do you need help from Germany, we have already heard about British sanctions against East Africa, which are not very friendly to the development of your country." Ambassador Klein asked.

"Thank you for your concern, if there is a need, we will not be polite." Konstantin rejected Germany's good intentions.

In fact, there is really nothing to ask for in East Africa now, if it was more than ten years ago, then East Africa would definitely not be like this, and now the times have changed.

This made Klein feel more and more sorry that if East Africa had been established in the early days, Germany might have been able to bring a strong ally to Germany in the future. Of course, Germany wants a puppet regime more, and East Africa obviously has its own interests and does not want to be a follower of other countries.

Now East Africa is off to a pretty good start, and after more than a decade, it has reappeared in the international community, and it is no longer the weak East Africa it used to be.

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Dar es Salaam South urban area.

"Woo......"

As the railway arrives, stevedores begin to carry the resources transported from the inland into the wagons, which are then piled up on ox carts and headed towards the industrial park.

The vast majority of these materials are exported directly in the industrial zone of Newport, either processed and re-exported, or digested in East Africa itself.

Therefore, the southern urban area of Dar es Salaam, with its large chimneys, billowing black smoke polluting the African sky, obscuring the clouds, industrial sewage flowing into the sea along the pipes, and the sea water at the sewage outlet is spicy and smoky, and the entire urban area of Dar es Salaam South is like the cyberpunk in the cultural works of the previous life, full of violent aesthetics.

It looks spectacular, but it is too harmful to the environment, fortunately there is no industry in the first town, otherwise Ernst would definitely have to move to this level of pollution.

Stephen, director of the No. 2 Dar es Salaam Cable Plant, was very happy to see the truckloads of copper ore being pulled into the warehouse, which means that the No. 2 plant can also start production.

"Since the end of the Portuguese War and the resumption of operation of the Central Railway, copper ore can now be transported from inland to Dar es Salaam, and this year it is finally possible to further expand production."

"In the past, due to the impact of the war, raw materials were given priority to the first factory, but now our second factory can finally touch the light of the railway."

During the Portuguese War, the Central Railway was requisitioned by the military, which had a certain impact on the production of East Africa, among which copper, rubber and tobacco were greatly affected.

Copper ore and rubber are important raw materials for cable production, so the central railway first supports the military, and the development of the power industry will definitely be restricted, but the central railway specifications are relatively high, and it can operate at the same time with both military and economic needs, but the wagons are tight.

Now that the war is over, the capacity has been restored, copper and rubber are abundant, and the expansion of the Dar es Salaam II cable plant has begun.

Adhering to the principle that eggs cannot be put in one basket, two new cable factories have been added in Mbeya and Lubumbashi, one of which is controlled by the East African National Power Company and three by the Hexingen Power Company.

"Our current market supply is mainly in the Far East and the domestic two parts, as for the foreign market, the product quality is not enough to support exports, and the yield rate is worse than that in Germany."

In fact, East Africa's cable production capacity is not enough by itself, but it is better to give priority to meeting customer needs than self-use.

Therefore, the quality of East African cables is a little worse, but they can still be sold at a high price, especially in economically less developed areas, they do not need too high-end products, and the priority is price.

The mid-to-high-end power manufacturing industry is mainly distributed in the United States and Germany.

Although Ernst had the Heshingen Power Company and a number of factories and R&D departments in Germany and Austria, it was impossible for him to move directly to East Africa.

Therefore, first put the industries with low technology content or Germany and Austria that are not suitable for East Africa, including cable production, after all, East Africa has more advantages in the production of raw materials.

The main materials of the cable are none other than copper and aluminum, and the price of aluminum is still not low, so cheap copper ore has become the first choice.

Of course, Ernst knew that electrolytic aluminum could reduce the production cost of aluminum on a large scale, but now electricity prices are not cheap.

Electricity as a high-end technology industry is not a joke, now unlike the previous life, power plants are rare, the first power plant in the previous life was built in 1882, so now electricity is simply not surplus, can even be said to be extremely short, as the saying goes, scarce is expensive, in the case of power shortage, the price of electricity is naturally expensive.

Therefore, now power investment is definitely a high-investment and high-risk industry, which may also be the reason why countries such as Britain and France are surpassed in the power field.

Just like the beginning of the promotion of trams in the previous life, it was extremely difficult, and no one could predict the speed of technological development, especially many entrepreneurs, who specialize in business, may not have any prescient vision of the scientific concept of development.

Of course, once someone makes a breakthrough, the capital is the bloodiest, and they will quickly occupy new markets, and this is how the Hexingen Power Company developed.

"In order to support the development of enterprises, the government plans to expand investment in the power industry in East Africa, including communications, lighting, etc., and plans to connect some important towns and villages between cities, and renovate the lighting systems in Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, and Nairobi."

"This is our initiative to cultivate the domestic electricity market, East Africa's consumer demand is actually not strong, long-term deflation, but the early stage of doing so will not be too much of a problem, East Africa from the colony to the present, just a dozen years, even if the market is opened, it is impossible to cultivate more consumer markets than other countries in the world, so all this depends on the government to promote."

The richest in East Africa is the Heixingen royal family, followed by the East African government, and the gap between the rich and the poor is really not big for others, so the development of the power industry must rely on the joint efforts of the Heixingen consortium and the East African government.

For example, the problem of electricity demand, the common people in East Africa must not be able to afford it, and they do not have the desire to consume in this regard.

"Government offices and factories, as well as post offices, are the big consumers of electricity in East Africa, so first they have access to electricity, and then cities, especially Soga and First Town, need to be the first to electrify."

Sogana is a science and technology city in East Africa, so there is no problem with the priority of good things to popularize, and it can also reflect the importance that the Heixingen royal family attaches to scientific talents, as for the first town, it is a political need, and other cities depend on economic strength.

In terms of economic strength, it is the four cities of Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, Nairobi and Mombasa. Of course, some strategic locations can also be deployed in advance, mainly in the field of communications, so that East Africa can monitor the surrounding environment, especially against Portugal and the United Kingdom, such as the city of New Hamburg in the far south of East Africa.

(End of chapter)