When the textile industry of the Ming Empire migrated from the Ming Empire to overseas vassal states and colonies, each colony and vassal state also rushed to introduce various policies to attract these textile industries to settle on their own territory.
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For these overseas vassal states and colonies, they are basically still the original large plantation economies for decades. Many overseas vassal states and colonies have not even developed much for decades.
, even few roads were built.
If we can attract the textile industry to settle on our own territory, the benefits will be great, including increasing tax revenue, creating jobs, promoting industrial development, etc.
Among all the colonies and vassal states, the only one that had little interest in absorbing the textile industry was the South African colony.
At this moment in Nanzhou City, where the capital of South Africa is located on the large island of East Africa, Liu Jin's second son Liu Da, as the head of the South African Ministry of Industry, is inspecting the South African Tiangong Automobile Factory here in Nanzhou City.
The Tiangong Automobile Factory is also an industry of the Liu family. Liu Jin originally built the South African colony as a way out for his noble families, so the factories invested and built in Daming will basically be in South Africa.
Some were also built here to promote the industrial development of the South African colonies.
Because Liu Jin knew very well that agriculture could only sustain enough food, and no matter how well it developed, it would only be like that. It requires vast land and sparse people to develop a large-scale mechanized agricultural economy.
But no matter how great the development of agriculture is, it is still agriculture after all, and cannot be compared with industry. The value that industry can generate, the wealth it creates, the jobs it provides, the technological development it drives, and many other aspects are incomparable to agriculture.
The South African colony has insisted on a purely Han policy from the beginning. From the day the South African colony was established, it has embarked on such a path, a path of forced expansion and killing by force.
Wherever the South African colony expanded, all local indigenous black people were expelled or killed.
Under such a cruel policy, it also means that there are no slaves in South Africa. Even the slaves imported from outside are all female slaves from Europe, the Middle East, and West Asia, imported to give birth to children for the Han people.
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From the beginning, the South African colony faced a severe labor shortage, which made the development of the South African colony very slow, because labor was very important during this period, and only those who have everything can do it.
The vast land and sparse population has always been a major feature of the South African colony. The land area is very vast, covering almost all areas of southern, southeastern, and southwestern Africa, including later South Africa, Madagascar, Mozambique, Sudan, and Botswana.
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It covers an area of over 8 million square kilometers, from the Indian Ocean in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, from across the sea from Antarctica in the south to the inland savannah of Africa in the north, all the way to the equatorial region.
This is a truly behemoth, a huge country with extremely rich natural resources, such as iron ore, copper mine, gold mine, silver mine, diamond mine, coal, oil, etc.
There is also fertile land. In the northern part of the South African colony, Liu Dashuai's army expanded aggressively into the inland areas and seized a large area of fertile land. It developed into the most important grain-producing area in South Africa, and its scale was sufficient.
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The land is fertile, the rain is abundant, and the land is vast and sparsely populated. Large-scale mechanized farming is implemented. The output of food is very large, which not only meets the needs of the South African colonies themselves, but also is exported to surrounding colonies and vassal states on a large scale.
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The population of such a vast country is less than 30 million until now, and all of these 30 million people are concentrated in a few cities and immigrant towns.
Most of the areas are vast and uninhabited areas, which are paradises and homes for wild animals. Here in South Africa, wild animals are protected. Elephants, lions, hounds, cheetahs and other precious wild animals are here.
In other colonies and vassal states, they were often hunted, especially elephants, whose tusks were very valuable, so naturally they suffered even more.
But it's different here in South Africa. The Governor-General of South Africa has promulgated relevant wildlife protection laws to specifically protect these wild animals, and has also established large-area nature reserves to protect these wild animal resources.
Coupled with the vast land and sparse population, even the original local indigenous black people have been expelled, which has turned many areas of South Africa into a paradise for wild animals.
South Africa's fundamentals are like this, so it has insisted on the path of industrialization from the beginning. Under Liu Jin's instructions, it formulated an economic development path oriented to industrial development.
At the same time, in South Africa, the old school has been completely abolished and a new education system has been fully implemented.
For these military officers and nobles of the Ming Dynasty, they were often criticized by the literati and civil servants in the past. Hanlin and censors dared to point at the first- and second-grade generals about any item and call each other a stinker.
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Moreover, in the army, soldiers always have to look at the faces of civilian officials, and the power to lead the army is in the hands of the eunuchs and civilian officials.
These civil servants were not good at fighting and were experts in internal fighting, but they made the military officers and nobles of the Ming Dynasty miserable enough. There was no way that the military power at that time was in the hands of the Minister of War.
Therefore, the military commanders and nobles of the Ming Dynasty naturally had no good impressions of these Confucian scholars and civil servants. Naturally, in their own territory, they completely abolished the old Confucian education and implemented the new Xinxue education.
It was this decision that greatly promoted South Africa's industrial development and technological development.
Completely imitating the new education and civil service examination systems of later generations, and implementing the capitalist political system of later generations, the South African colony was the earliest capitalist country in this period and developed extremely rapidly on the road to industrialization and capitalization.
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Although the population in South Africa is slightly smaller, it is not as huge as the population of the Ming Empire.
But the people here in the South African colony were basically educated in the new style. The perfect new education system cultivated a large number of talents, which not only met the needs of industrialization development, but also greatly promoted the development of science and technology in South Africa.
Cameras and phonographs were invented by South African engineers. From here alone we can see South Africa's scientific and technological development strength and industrial strength.
Perhaps it is not as large as the Ming Empire, but it already has the strength to compete with the Ming Empire.
The shipbuilding industry, steel industry, automobile manufacturing industry, chemical industry, military industry and many other industries in South Africa are extremely developed. For example, in the shipbuilding industry, there are several shipyards in South Africa, which are powerful and technologically advanced and can manufacture the most advanced ships.
Large steel ships are the first choice for colonies and vassal states in Africa to purchase ships.
Steel and related military industries are also very developed. The quality of Ming Dynasty's arms and weapons is no worse than that of the Ming Empire. They are mainly exported to various vassals and colonies. The markets in Europe, the Middle East, and West Asia are still dominated by the Ming Dynasty.
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There is no way. The South African colony has not fought any wars since its establishment. The wars against the indigenous people are one-sided massacres. They are not wars at all and will not spread to other countries in the world.
The Ming Empire was different. It expanded from east to west and successively defeated powerful empires in Europe, West Asia, and the Middle East. The powerful Ottoman Empire was beaten twice by the Ming Empire. The whole world knew that the Ming Empire was powerful.
This was naturally very helpful for the arms and weapons trade of the Ming Empire.
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The chemical industry is also extremely developed. Although the South African colony itself has oil, it is not a major oil-producing area. However, South Africa is the largest oil smelting and petrochemical base besides the Ming Dynasty.
Here we mainly import oil from Chaling Colony and Chang Colony in the Persian Gulf in the Middle East, then carry out smelting and chemical processing, and then sell the products to major vassal states and colonies overseas.
Automobile manufacturing was also an important industry here in colonial South Africa.
There are many automobile manufacturers in South Africa, among which Tiangong Automobile Factory is the most famous. The cars it produces are famous all over the world for their high quality and high performance.
Even in the homeland of the Ming Empire, Tiangong Automobile occupies a certain market. Although it is slightly inferior to Mercedes-Benz, it is also a car brand second only to Mercedes-Benz and comparable to BMW.
Just in the Ming Empire, Tiangong Automobile can sell hundreds of thousands of cars every year, making it one of the top ten car brands in the Ming Empire.
In South Africa and overseas vassal states and colonies, Tiangong Automobile is even more powerful, with more vigorous sales and a higher market share.
Its extremely high performance, safety and reliability, grandeur, cool appearance, novel design, etc. have firmly attracted many consumers to pay for it.
At this time, Liu Da was inspecting Tiangong Automobile Factory.
As the Minister of Industry of South Africa and the head of several major departments under the Governor-General of South Africa, Liu Da has been in this position for several years.
It is also clear that the Ming Empire is transferring its textile industry on a large scale, but South Africa does not have any interest in attracting these textile industries.
Because the textile industry is a labor-intensive industry that requires a large amount of labor and creates limited value, it is impossible to survive in South Africa. The per capita income of the South African colonies has actually exceeded that of the Ming Empire, and labor costs are extremely expensive.
The development of labor-intensive industries does not show any signs at all. It is more necessary to develop high-tech and high value-added industries.
