During the conversation between Waltz and Mori, large and small vehicles came in and out of the No. 1 Cable State Factory in Dar es Salaam, and the vehicles at this time were mostly manpower and animal power, and there were not many goods pulled at one time.

Fortunately, the railway station in Dar es Salaam is not far from the No. 1 cable state-owned factory in Dar es Salaam, and it is easy to purchase and ship, but the real difficulty is the origin of raw materials.

The copper and rubber for the Dar es Salaam Cable State Plant 1 come from the interior, mainly in the three provinces of Hohenzollern, Swabian and Hesse, and the coal can be taken from the city.

The provinces of Hohenzollern and Swabian are connected by rail, but the province of Hesse is very different, and the province of Hesse is also on the west side of the Mitumba Mountains, on the eastern edge of the Congo Basin.

Therefore, as the main rubber producing area of East Africa, Hesse Province is very inconvenient to transport after rubber harvesting, and Hesse Province is also a large resource province in East Africa, with a large number of mineral resources, such as copper, coal, iron, tungsten, etc., and the local area is also one of the most important forestry provinces in East Africa, backed by the Congo rainforest and the Mitumba Mountains, and the forestry resources are quite rich.

At present, there are few resource-based provinces that can stabilize Hesse, namely Hexingen Province (formerly the Transvaal Republic), Matabele Province (Zimbabwe), Southern Frontier Province (southern Transvaal Republic and the former Zulu Kingdom, Kingdom of Eswatini), Nile Province (South Sudan), Novo Baden Province (Botswana), Hohenzollern Province (Zambia), Swabian Province (Southern Congo Highland).

Among them, the provinces of Hehingen and Matabele are unique, and their mineral resources are comparable to those of most countries in the world.

For example, if you look at the province of Hexingen, if you look at it, its mineral value can enter the top ten in the world in the previous life, and most of the minerals in South Africa in the previous life were concentrated in this region, and South Africa is the fifth largest mineral country in the world.

Needless to say, although Zimbabwe's currency is very famous, Zimbabwe's industry is relatively developed in Africa, and Zimbabwe is still a landlocked country, so why this result is naturally inseparable from Zimbabwe's rich mineral resources.

In fact, this was also the case in the previous life of Hexingen Province, Johannesburg, the most economically developed city in South Africa, is in Hexingen Province, but because of Ernst's non-development of Hexingen Province, there is no city of Johannesburg in East Africa.

After all, Johannesburg relied on gold mines to make its fortune in the previous life, and South Africa's gold mines were too dazzling, and East Africa did not want to get into trouble because of this.

These provinces with large resources are also rich in mineral resources, such as South Salzburg, New Württemberg, Lorraine and other provinces.

It can be seen that the top 10 provinces in East Africa in terms of mineral resource value are basically distributed in the central and southern parts of East Africa, and the only province in the north is the Nile Province (South Sudan), mainly because of oil.

The North of East Africa, the boundary is mainly based on the plateau, and the East African Plateau and the North of the South African Plateau belong to the north, including the Northern Province, Juba Province, Turkana Province, Nile Province, New Bavaria Province, East Azande Province, and most of the Congo rainforest (former Somalia, southern Ethiopia, South Sudan, Central African Republic, most of the Congo, etc.).

The two major plateau regions north of the Zambezi River, the East African Plateau and the Katanga Plateau, collectively known as the Central Great Plateau in East Africa, are the central regions of East Africa, including the eastern coastal plains (Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, southern Congo, etc.).

The provinces south of the Zambezi River are the south of East Africa, which is a way of dividing East Africa's geography.

Among them, the plateau is an important dividing criterion, and the Zambezi River is an important geographical indication for dividing the plateau, because the two banks of the Zambezi River are actually not very different, and it is not a geographical dividing line with obvious differences in the climatic characteristics of the two banks of the Huai River.

Of course, there is also a very commonly used geographical division criterion in East Africa, which is mainly based on the degree of economic development and the degree of development.

According to this criterion, East Africa is divided into five parts: Eastern, Landlocked, Western, Southern and Northern.

According to this criterion, the eastern region is very widely distributed, and the east of the Great Rift Valley, dominated by the Nile River, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi, is the eastern part of East Africa, which generally refers to the area where East Africa was developed earlier, is more densely populated, and has a more developed economy.

According to this standard, Somalia is considered to be the east, but Somalia is also the north, but there is no need to dwell on this, Somali locals must agree that the east is more, because the east represents more developed in East Africa.

The interior mainly refers to the four provinces of Hohenzollern, Hesse, Swabian and Matabele, which are being developed, which is the geographical center of East Africa.

The southern part of the country has shrunk considerably, mainly South Africa and Botswana.

The northern boundaries are blurred, but generally refer to the provinces where the tropical desert and savannah meet, except for the Congolese rainforest.

The western part is the provinces and regions that are basically undeveloped, and it is also the most backward developed and the most uninhospitable area in East Africa, mainly Namibia in the previous life.

The above two geographical division criteria, no matter which one, Hesse belongs to the central region, of course, people like the eastern region can refer to the west as the west, which is the same as the Far Eastern Empire northeast people call the south of Shanhaiguan the south, which is the same reason.

Hesse is an important resource province in East Africa, and the most important industry is the rubber industry, and Hesse is very inconvenient for various reasons.

This increases the cost of production in East Africa's power industry and other industries, such as tires for bicycles and horse-drawn carriages.

If you want to transport rubber from Hesse, you can only rely on the so-called "roads" in Hesse, and the roads in other parts of East Africa are okay.

Hesse has rough terrain and heavy rainfall, so its road conditions are 100% certain to be among the worst in all of East Africa.

Of course, although the road conditions in Hesse are poor, they are not as bad as in Africa, because the roads of the East African government are effectively maintained every year.

However, this is also very time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the province of Hesse basically has to maintain the roads every once in a while, as short as two or three days, and at most a week to rebuild the roads, because when it rains heavily, the carriages will leave deep tire marks when they run over them, and if you walk a few more cars, you will form a deep crater with water.

In the future, the most worry-free way to solve the roads in Hesse is to harden the roads in Hesse, which is still relatively easy to solve, that is, to use cement to rebuild the roads in Hesse.

However, there is a large cement gap in East Africa, and the government has invested in other projects in recent years, and the consumption of cement has been in short supply, so the road hardening plan in Hesse has not been implemented.

However, with the development of industries such as electric power, the demand for the rubber industry has increased significantly, and the poor traffic conditions in Hesse are bound to be improved.

In the past, most of the main rubber producing areas of the country, its advantage is close to the ocean, convenient shipping, and the main rubber producing areas of East Africa are located inland, so the inland transportation of Hesse Province must be improved, otherwise the rubber produced in East Africa may not be able to compete with other major rubber producing areas in the world, after all, there is an additional transportation cost.

Ernst does not expect East African rubber to be cheaper than Southeast Asia and Brazil, but East Africa is definitely cheaper for domestic use than imports, of course, the rubber industry has always been profitable, and the demand for rubber is also rising every year, and the possibility of losing money is very small.

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