Chapter 406 Black Industry Chain
Canal No. 1 was divided into three sections for construction. Three kilometers have been excavated in the area under the jurisdiction of the third town. Because it is located on the alluvial plain between the Wami River and the lower reaches of the Little Rhine River, the soil here is relatively loose and the soil layer is deep. There are not many stones and the difficulty is very low. This is impossible for Canal No. 2 and Canal No. 3. Canal No. 2 and Canal No. 3 are closer to the alluvial fan plain in front of the mountain, and they will inevitably encounter some boulders and gravel deposited there.
In order to ensure the excavation of Canal No. 1, Ernst purchased 60,000 high-quality shovels and pickaxes at a high price from a factory under the German Hechingen Daily Necessities Company.
Purchasing from one's own company is not affordable, but the quality can be guaranteed. Currently, German products are mainly counterfeit and shoddy products. The companies under the Heixingen Group are relatively better in this respect.
Because Ernst attached great importance to standards, the companies in the Hexingen Group also customized relatively strict corporate unified production standards. The quality is relatively superior, but it is unlikely to be cheap.
A company like Heixinggen Daily Necessities Company that takes its products seriously cannot avoid the fate of being copied, but Heixinggen Daily Necessities Company also has a solution to deal with it.
In addition to finding ways to change the trademark, the most effective means is to have your own franchise store, and this is the reason for the existence of the Hei Xinggen supermarkets and stores. As long as the tools purchased in these authorized stores and supermarkets are basically genuine. If you buy fakes from somewhere else because you are greedy for cheapness, you can't blame the companies under the Hei Xinggen consortium.
Of course, according to the current income level of European workers and farmers, the first choice is definitely low prices. They can automatically adapt to inferior products and take them to the blacksmith shop to reinforce and mend them for another three years.
Since the Hexingen Daily Necessities Company does not have much share in the low-price market in Europe, and the market for mid-to-high-end products is not as large as the low-end market, part of its production of mid-to-high-end products will be absorbed by the East African Kingdom.
As a semi-planned economy, East Africa is quite picky about product quality. The diversity is not high, but the materials used are solid and durable.
As the saying goes, if you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools. East Africa is a land that has not been developed for hundreds of millions of years. It will be too difficult to develop without some advanced tools.
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The earth excavated from the canal was piled directly on both sides of the river. Laborers pushed carts to dump the earth on the river bank, which was then leveled by the laborers on the river bank.
Constantine personally went down to the riverbed to inspect the working conditions of the workers, which made the guards feel like they were facing a great enemy. They tried their best to surround Constantine while maintaining a certain distance to prevent affecting the king's senses.
The supervisors were also quite cautious and even took out their guns to prevent any accidents at any time. Constantine had not been notified in advance of his arrival, so they didn't know who the big shot was and they just had to be cautious.
Constantine said, "Don't be nervous, my safety will be taken care of by the guards, you can continue working as usual!"
After the king spoke, the person in charge of the canal signaled to the supervisors and continued to supervise the workers at work.
"The clothes of these laborers look very similar..." Constantine asked uncertainly when he saw the clothes the laborers were wearing.
"Yes, Your Majesty. The old styles have been discontinued, but the machinery has not been retired, so it is used to produce shorts and shorts for these workers."
The old style refers to the simple Prussian military uniform that every East African immigrant had. It is no longer produced or distributed free of charge. East African citizens can now use the Rhine Shield to purchase the new style of work clothes in specialty stores.
However, those mechanical equipment were preserved by Ernst and used to produce clothes for the indigenous workers. After all, in the open air of East Africa, it would be too indecent to let them work naked.
The cost is not in vain. The slave trade is now under strict inspection, and a characteristic of traditional slave ships is that black slaves have no clothes.
In this way, when Britain, France and other countries inspect ships to determine whether they are engaged in illegal slave trade, they just need to see whether the black slaves are naked. The clothes given to the indigenous laborers in East Africa can then come in handy.
At the same time, these clothes can help American buyers save a lot of trouble. They don’t have to spend extra money or waste fabric. They can just take the clothes to the farm to work as long as they arrive at the destination.
After cooperating with Haiti, the East African Kingdom's own slave business became very prosperous. The slaves sold in East Africa all had "work experience" in East Africa, and some even mastered multiple skills. Moreover, the prices were lower than in the previous slave trade era. Sometimes some defective slaves were even given away in batches as free gifts, which made the southern plantation owners quite satisfied.
Even more satisfying was that the Haitian government issued labor certificates to slaves, which allowed southern plantation owners to circumvent federal government laws and continue to legally keep slaves.
Not only that, they also became second-hand dealers, providing cheap labor services to northern factory owners. The black slaves who had been domesticated in East Africa for three to five years were no less obedient than the Far East Chinese workers, Indians, and Italians, and were even cheaper, which further promoted the current railway construction in the United States and Canada.
The East African Immigration Agency even set up a unique agency - the Haitian Immigration Bureau. This Haitian Immigration Bureau is a formal official agency of Haiti, but it does not exist in Haiti. After all, there are no restrictions to traveling to Haiti from all over the world except the sea.
East African officials would issue a complete set of certificates to slaves shipped to America, arranging for them to have special bilingual certificates in English and French.
The reason is also very legitimate, that is, the talent introduction plan issued by the Haitian government in January this year, under the pretext that the Haitian government recruits immigrants from all over the world for the development of its own economy. After the announcement of this plan, no other regions or countries except Africa have responded.
Did the Haitian economy develop? The answer is that it did develop, and it developed rapidly. The Haitian government and various forces could get a share of the slave trade. Even ordinary Haitians could benefit. As long as they were willing to pay a little money, they could solve their marriage problems and get their own slaves.
This enabled ordinary people in Haiti to develop more land, provided they could suppress slave uprisings. At this time, the East African government could provide services, buying slaves and giving away guns.
With the introduction of the Dreiser rifle, the problem arose as to what to do with the old-fashioned rifles. However, as the East African Army was about to phase out the Dreiser rifles, those old antiques became even more useless.
With a stable supply of guns and slaves, Haitian plantations could operate again. Haitians used the same methods that the French had used on themselves on slaves purchased from East Africa. Slave plantations reappeared on Haitian soil. These East African blacks were not their compatriots, so they could be exploited as much as possible (Haitian blacks mainly came from West Africa).
In order to take care of Haiti's slave trade, Ernst recently planned to give some old ships from East Africa to Haiti for free, including two Zanzibar sailing warships serving in the navy.
After all, the transportation of slaves from East Africa to Haiti can be solved by East Africa, but the transportation from Haiti to the United States can only be solved by the Haitians themselves. It is obvious that Haiti’s poor transportation capacity makes it difficult to solve this problem alone.
The ships donated by East Africa were not enough. The East African government specially discussed (ordered) the Sultanate of Zanzibar to scrap some of its old ships that it no longer needed. In recent years, the Sultanate of Zanzibar has made a lot of money with the help of East Africa.
With the money, the merchants of the Sultanate of Zanzibar replaced many ships with new ones. As for the old ships, they were of no use anyway, so they were sent to Haiti together with the ships of the Sultanate of Zanzibar Navy.
As the East African Kingdom's control over the Sultanate of Zanzibar deepened, there was no need for the Sultanate of Zanzibar to keep its navy. Excluding the two warships that East Africa had obtained from the Sultanate of Zanzibar, the Sultanate of Zanzibar's navy still had twelve warships. This was because the East African Kingdom had only taken the warships from the mainland part of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, while the Zanzibar Island part was not affected at all.
(End of this chapter)
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