Chapter 527: East-British (Indian) Trade
Now that the landmark had been chosen, East Africa quickly solicited proposals from European designers and selected the one that best suited the father and son’s tastes.
"The lighthouse of civilization is exactly one hundred meters high. This height is high enough for most ships in the Indian Ocean to see it. At the same time, the statue of the goddess of peace is used as the spire, and the four-sided lion sculpture is engraved on the tower body as an East African element. The earth is the highest point. In the future, it can be..."
After looking at the design drawings, Ernst was very satisfied with this work. There was no meaning behind the height, or rather, one hundred meters itself was a good meaning. The difficulty was not great. At the same time, in this era, a one hundred meter building itself was a breakthrough.
Currently, the world's tallest building, the Great Pyramid of Khufu, is only over 100 meters high and will not be replaced by the Cologne Cathedral in Germany until next year.
The Statue of Peace. Germans must like this element very much. There is a Statue of Peace on the Brandenburg Gate.
The lion and the earth, now with both East African and world elements, can make the beacon of civilization more worthy of its name.
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Southern Frontier Province.
The border between East Africa and Cape Town.
The situation was tense as usual. East African border guards Hans and Charlie started patrolling again to prevent the enemy from infiltrating into East African territory.
"Hey, Hans, the number of people in the UK seems to have decreased recently. They may have let down their guard!"
Charlie didn't know that the British troops in Cape Town were supporting the Afghan battlefield. This top military secret was only known to the bigwigs in East Africa.
In fact, this was not a secret, but the East African border guards had no channels to know about it. However, Charlie still discovered with his naked eyes the fact that the number of British troops on the border had decreased.
"Why think so much? Anyway, we haven't received any plan to invade Cape Town. It doesn't matter to us whether the number of the enemy troops decreases or increases." Hans said with some pride.
Hans' words were obviously a bit Versailles. Of course, as a German, and serving in an army like the East African Wehrmacht that had not been defeated for many years, his confidence, especially in the army, was even stronger.
The German Army is the best in the world, so the East African Army is naturally the best in Africa. In this era, the overall honor of the Germans exists as a nation rather than a country.
Because there are too many German countries but only one German nation, and the German Army is the best in the world, the Germans in East Africa are naturally proud of it.
"You're right, but these British guys are really annoying. They must have encountered some trouble, hehe." Charlie laughed a little unkindly.
The laughter traveled through the barbed wire to the ears of Letta, a British man on the opposite side. He looked at the presumptuous Germans on the opposite side with displeasure.
As a member of the British Army, he certainly knew why the Cape Army had been reduced, as many of his comrades had gone to Afghanistan to suppress the uprising.
Seeing Leta's embarrassed expression made Charlie laugh even more happily. In fact, they were all old acquaintances. If Charlie knew English, he might have chatted with Leta for a few words.
"Hahaha……"
The people who laughed even happier than the East African border guards were the border merchants who had just made a deal.
"Mr. Max, it's a pleasure to work with you!"
“It’s a pleasure to work with you!”
Dugin counted the pounds in his hand and was quite satisfied with the transaction. Max wanted to pursue higher profits, so he was happy to make more money by reselling supplies from East Africa to Cape Town.
Not forgetting the past is a lesson for the future.
Obviously British businessmen do not have this awareness.
The last time East Africa annexed the Transvaal Republic, we have to start with the border trade between East Africa and the Transvaal Republic.
After annexing the Orange Free State, the British naturally learned this information from the Boers of the former Transvaal Republic who fled to the Orange Free State.
In addition, Britain had already imposed economic sanctions on East Africa, so naturally it prohibited its businessmen from doing business in East Africa.
But in Cape Town and East Africa, the ban was like a blank slate, and both East African and British merchants chose to ignore it.
Especially after the opening of the Central Railway, the trade volume between East Africa and Cape Town has more than tripled compared to a few years ago. East African goods are directly exchanged for pounds as part of the East African treasury.
The pound sterling is a fairly stable hard currency. Although normal trade cannot be carried out between East Africa and Britain, East Africa has plenty of ways to spend these pounds and exchange them for the materials it wants.
In fact, there are not many resources that East Africa needs in the UK. Instead, it is the UK's colonies that need many raw materials imported by East Africa. Of course, it is not that East Africa does not have most of the raw materials, but that the UK is more cost-effective.
For example, East African coastal cities import bulk commodities such as coal, iron ore and timber from India as raw materials for industrial development, and in turn dump industrial products such as steel to India through Zanzibar merchants.
The trade volume between East Africa and India has been growing year by year. The UK's sanctions against East Africa have not had any effect. Instead, they have caused British companies to lose a lot of orders from East Africa.
Britain restricted India's industrial development, making India's economy dependent on the export of raw materials and British industrial products.
India's economy relies on the export of raw materials, so British colonial officials had to export more raw materials in order to generate revenue. There were no buyers before, but after the emergence of East Africa, a country with the highest consumption capacity near the Indian Ocean region, the two naturally fell in love with each other.
East Africa imports industrial products to India with its low commodity prices, and these bureaucrats then sell them to wealthy Indians, forming a perfect closed loop.
As for the sanctions bill, that is a British sanctions bill. What does it have to do with my great India? The Queen of India is Victoria? Well, it is still related.
But when the cash flowed into the pockets of Indian officials, they felt at ease. As for selling out the country, that did not exist, after all, the great Queen Victoria was printed on the pound.
Indian colonial officials were typical profiteers of both ends. The bulk of the money from East Africa's imports of Indian minerals and resources flowed into their pockets, while selling East African industrial products to Indians allowed them to squeeze a fortune out of them.
The price paid is nothing but the blood and sweat of the Indian people, and the least valuable thing in India is human life, so where can we find such a good thing?
East Africa, Germany and the United States can be said to be the biggest enemies of Britain's industrial development. The former relied on trade with British colonies to develop smoothly, while the latter two relied on copycat products to steal Britain's back.
The labor cost in the UK is relatively high, and prices in the island country are also relatively high. In fact, prices in the UK are not too high, but they are obviously not comparable to those in mainland countries.
Therefore, it is an irreversible trend that British industry will be surpassed by late-developing industrial countries. It would be better to vigorously develop the financial industry. After all, the world's business channels are now in the hands of Britain.
The reason why East Africa can steal India is because of its location bonus. Although Britain is the suzerain of India, this cannot be changed. The distance between Britain and India is about twice that of East Africa, and the closest industrial country to India is East Africa.
India is the largest economic entity in the British colonial territory, so it is impossible for East Africa to turn a blind eye to the existence of the Indian market and try every means to develop the Indian market.
Under the dual attack of transportation advantages and cost advantages, the import and export trade between India and East Africa has become an important part of East Africa's foreign trade, and may even exceed East Africa's trade volume with the Far East Empire.
(End of this chapter)
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