"The city of Dredeva also wants to engage in border trade, do you think this line of work is passable?"

"In fact, the idea of the city of Dre Dawa may not be unrealizable, but we must take into account practical factors, such as the Red Sea coast was originally a place where merchants gathered, so I think their plan is very unreliable, our own ships will sometimes sell goods on the Red Sea coast, not to mention that the Red Sea now relies on the Suez Canal to connect the two major markets of Europe and Asia, and there is no shortage of goods at all."

"This is not necessarily, shipping is convenient, but it may not be able to meet all the demand, such as the tropical cash crops in the northern provinces, we must first sell to Europe, because other regions do not have this consumption power, or their quotations we are not satisfied, so the market demand is not a cold number, but flexible, the city of Dareva is on the border, there may not be no such market, but it is not worth our energy, but to give full play to the market and the ability of the border people to develop the market."

The most important markets in East Africa are nothing more than two, one is Europe, the other is the Far East, the European market is mainly for the supply of raw materials, after all, East African industrial products can certainly not compete with Germany and Austria, and the Far East is the main sales area of East Africa's industrial products.

Although the Middle East is the closest to East Africa, a large part of it is managed by Zanzibar businessmen, and the sales channels are in the hands of Zanzibar businessmen.

Moreover, now in the Middle East, the countries are not as rich as in the previous life, and the Ottoman Empire is too big to collapse, so the people in the region are still there, unlike the Arab countries in the previous life.

A large part of the industrial products of the Ottoman Empire came from Europe, and it was not easy for the industrial products of East Africa to squeeze in, and the Arabs were more shrewd, not to look at the current decline, in the long Middle Ages, the Arab region was the prosperous area of the world's commerce, especially relying on the ancient Silk Road, monopolizing the trade between the East and the West, and only after the Age of Discovery was the Europeans broke the monopoly.

East Africa is mainly Omani route, Omanis and Zanzibar are of the same origin, and Oman is an independent Arab country, in the past, the traditional maritime power on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the maritime country business is not bad, especially Oman, a country that is very dependent on overseas trade.

Although the quality of industrial products in East Africa is poor, the price is low, and the poor quality depends on how to divide, and Europe is certainly worse, but it still has a little advantage over countries outside Europe and the United States, especially after the economic crisis in 1873, East Africa introduced a lot of European equipment and technology.

And East Africa exports the most, and that is definitely raw materials, with grain, tropical cash crops, and minerals as the main content.

The destination country for the export of raw materials must be the more developed the industry, the stronger the demand, and obviously such a region is the Central and Eastern European countries dominated by the German region.

Only when there is a certain industry can a large amount of raw materials be consumed, and many raw materials for industrial development cannot be fully possessed in Europe, especially the three landlocked countries of Europe, Germany, Austria and Russia.

However, there is nothing wrong with being a supplier of raw materials, especially for East Africa at the moment, where there is little to do, it can make money, and it can also strengthen relations with the countries concerned.

After all, the production of raw materials is not the same as industry, it does not require too advanced and complex technology, and it is relatively convenient to manage, even the feudal state can do a good job in this regard, and the flexibility of the countryside is much higher than that of the city, because agriculture itself has the characteristics of self-sufficiency, and if it is industry, it is extremely dependent on the market.

As for the peasants, of course, there is also a risk of unemployment, but generally they encounter famines, grain harvests, or land annexation, and become tenant farmers in the nature of hired labor, like the homesteaders in this era, especially the European homesteaders.

For the time being, East Africa does not have this problem, because East Africa is a collective agricultural model, where agriculture is intensively produced, but it is different from the traditional manor, capitalist farm, or collective farm, and has the characteristics of all parties.

In other words, the left is not enough left, the right is not right enough, forming a mixed agricultural economic system, but Ernst is not easy to change now, in the West is very particular about choosing sides, black and white philosophical thinking, but the problem is that no matter in the capitalist countries of the previous life, or democratic countries, planning and the market can not be completely eliminated, you have me, I have you, it is nothing more than a matter of share.

As a large supplier of raw materials, East Africa's agricultural model is relatively stable, and the annual agricultural output is steady and improving.

Correspondingly, East Africa's agricultural output is generally in surplus, if according to normal countries, then East Africa should now reduce production on a large scale to break even, but East Africa is not a normal country, and the international market does not have so much demand, so East Africa can only exert its own enthusiasm and use the domestic market to digest the excess agricultural capacity.

Including various large-scale projects, national infrastructure construction, and capacity contraction, capacity contraction is not really contraction, but the further optimization and rational allocation of agricultural resources.

There is a lot of arable land in East Africa, but it is withdrawn and restored every year, and there are not a few arable lands that are returned to forests and grasslands, especially in the eastern region.

This is the case in the Northern Province, where a large number of pastures have been abolished, while the cultivation of cash crops has been actively promoted in order to seek higher economic value.

"The problem of Darewa is not simply an economic problem, but a national problem, and there are currently close to ten open port cities in East Africa, some of which are not even completed, and Darewa is very different from these coastal areas.

It represents the problem of border trade in East Africa, the border trade has always existed, but we have not any of them, the main purpose of the border trade in the northern province of Turkana is to give blood to the Abyssinian Empire and prevent them from being at a disadvantage in the competition with Italy, and the same is true of our arms trade with the Oranges in the south. ”

"The city of Dre Dawa is also a military town, so it is more worthy of our discussion here, its first consideration should be more military issues, of course, from the perspective of immigration, it must develop the local economy, otherwise only relying on government financial support, that can only solve the urgent need, here a little Nile province of Gezira city is doing very well.

Of course, the situation of Gezira is also very special, and the whole Nile province is the most advantageous in Gezira, suitable for development, and is located on the border, while the conditions of Darewa are much worse than Gezira. ”

"In the final analysis, it is still a question of whether the city of Dire Dawa can be opened or not, I think it should be opened, now East Africa is not what it used to be, we should belong to the first power in Africa, the security problem is not very significant, the strongest forces in the north are nothing more than the Italians and the British, and the British have controlled Egypt a few years ago, but we are bordered mainly by Sudan and British Somaliland in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the threat is not at the same level as Cape Town.

Not to mention Italy, where there is almost no military threat and whose support is needed to gain a foothold on the Ethiopian plateau. ”

This is not because the East African officials humiliated Italy, but because of the traditional psychological superiority of the Germans over the Italians, Italy itself is not a great power, especially after the restoration of the Kingdom of Naples, which is slightly stronger than the Kingdom of Portugal in the eyes of East Africa.

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