Liu Fu didn't care about this negotiation. Anyway, not an inch of the land could be returned, and investment and construction had already been carried out on these lands in accordance with the federal government's plan. He couldn't return it even if he wanted to. As for the attitude of the British, Liu Fu
Fu was not worried either. If he wanted a consulate or not, it would not matter even if the two sides severed relations. Anyway, the Strait of Malacca was under the control of the federal army. If the British were willing to lose the market in East Asia, then Liu Fu would not mind embarrassment for British merchant ships every day.
Liu Fu even looked down upon the Dutch who clung to the East Indies. The British Federation would not return the land, let alone the Netherlands, which had now become a second- or even third-rate country in Europe.
With the normalization of relations with the United States, the United Kingdom, and the member states of the League of Nations, the export trade that had been suspended for more than half a year began to gradually resume. More and more businessmen from various countries began to enter the major trade ports of the Federation and began to purchase
Various specialties of the Federation were shipped back to their home countries by sea to earn the price difference. Due to the relocation of the Federation’s capital, it turned out that
The ports of Tamsui, Hsinchu, and Citong on the island of Taiwan are all crowded with ships transporting machinery, equipment and personnel. They can no longer dock too many large ships. Moreover, as the process of relocating the capital deepens, many factories that were originally on the island of Taiwan
, the processing plants have moved to other places one after another, so that the foreign businessmen who came to purchase could not find the temple gate with their pig heads.
The federal government also noticed this situation. After obtaining Liu Fu's consent, the federal government opened the original Singapore Island, Palembang City, Saigon City, and Manila City into trade distribution ports, through tax adjustments and measures for domestic enterprises.
Preferential policies have begun to attract a large number of investors to these ports to set up trading companies and processing plants. These trading companies and processing plants will in turn drive local infrastructure construction and population flow, thus slowly forming a system that is oriented to different types of export commodities.
Developed professional trading port.
Since Singapore Port and Palembang City are located on the east side of the Strait of Malacca, they have extremely advantageous geographical locations and mainly face Europe. Therefore, the federal government has lowered tax rates on textiles, spices, sugar, medicines, and grain exported from here, and has used land
, loans and other policies to encourage domestic capital to invest and build factories here;
Although Saigon and Manila are relatively far from the Strait of Malacca, they are also very good ports. The federal government has reduced tax rates for machinery and equipment, electrical appliances, chemical products, precious metals, gems, coal, and steel exported from here. It also uses preferential policies.
Policies such as loans and preferential land encourage domestic capital to invest and build factories here;
For the export of resources such as oil, coal, timber, ore, the federal government has also set up special ports. However, these resources are federally controlled products and must obtain a federal license before they can be mined. Foreign capital is not allowed to enter these ports.
in the industry.
Since 1915, the South China Sea Federation has had a surplus in import and export trade. With the outbreak of World War I, this surplus has become more obvious. After the war, the Federation's import and export trade surplus did not increase much.
Agricultural products, textiles, chemicals, electromechanical products, machinery, special steels, alloys, pharmaceuticals, and shipbuilding have all become the Federation's main export products, while various minerals and petroleum have become the Federation's main import products.
Although many resources and minerals have been explored in the federal Anbei Province, Luzon Island in the Philippines, Mindanao Island, the Malay Peninsula, Java Island, Kalimantan Island, Sulawesi Island, Sumatra Island and other places, a rough estimate of
The reserves of iron ore are tens of billions of tons, the reserves of coal are hundreds of billions of tons, and the reserves of oil and natural gas are more than one billion tons.
In addition, there are also the world's second largest tin ore and abundant bauxite, titanium ore, apatite ore, nickel ore, copper ore, gold and silver ore, rare earth ore, uranium ore, marble, limestone ore, etc., although it cannot be said that
There are countless resources, and self-sufficiency is not a problem at all. More importantly, the mineral resources are comprehensive and there is no particular shortage.
However, due to the population size and development level of these areas, most mineral resources cannot be exploited well. At present, the federal government has only developed some iron ore mines in Anbuk Province, Kalimantan Island, Sumatra Island, Mindanao Island and other places.
, bauxite, copper and coal mines, as well as several oil fields near Palembang in southern Kalimantan and Sumatra. However, most of the remaining minerals are restricted by investment, geography, population and other conditions. The federal government still has
cannot be mined, so, from the United States
Importing large quantities of high-quality iron ore from Canada has become a top priority for the South China Sea Federation. In order to prevent state relations from affecting the federation's iron ore imports, Liu Fu has been importing these iron ores continuously since more than 20 years ago.
Can’t be used up or temporarily
Those that are no longer needed are hauled by train to nearby wasteland and piled up. Due to long-term weathering, when it rains, the vicinity of these ore mountains will be covered with red rainwater, making this area a tourist attraction near Keelung.
Place name - Hongtie Mountain.
At that time, it was because Taiwan did not have iron ore reserves. Liu Fu had to adopt a policy to reserve these ores at any cost. Although the South China Sea Federation now has no shortage of iron ore reserves, it still cannot fully stock up on them due to financial, material and manpower limitations.
Mining these minerals,
It also cost a lot of money to import from abroad, which made Liu Fu very uncomfortable. After almost turning over his precious world travel atlas that even his wife could not read, Liu Fu finally found a way to lower the South China Sea.
Costs and uncertainties in federal procurement of iron ore.
This method is not to increase the federal investment, nor is it to call on all the people to go mining, but to move the focus away from the land of the South China Sea Federation and to another place, Australia.
In later generations, anyone who cares about economics or current political news will have heard of the two major companies BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. They control local iron ore mines in Australia, and together with another company, Brazil's fresh water
Riverdale Corporation, which sets global iron ore trading prices.
Why are these three companies so powerful? Because they hold more than 70% of the trading volume of iron ore in the resource world. In addition, they are also involved in coal, copper, magnesium, nickel, diamonds, oil, liquefied natural gas and other fields.
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The two companies BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto got their start because they controlled the iron ore mines in Western Australia. They took advantage of the accelerated economic development of various countries after the war to make huge profits and became the current multinational resource groups.
BHP Billiton was formed by the merger of two Australian mining companies. BHP was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Melbourne; and Billiton was founded in 1860. The two companies merged in 2001 and established
BHP Billiton, that is to say, in 1920, BHP Billiton did not exist.
The Rio Tinto Group was founded in Spain in 1873. The reason why it got involved in Australia's iron ore mining business was because the discoverer of the iron ore areas in Western Australia could not find a supporter in Australia, so he had no choice but to find the Rio Tinto Group.
CEO Sir Dukan in London, and with his support,
Only then did they obtain the mining rights for iron ore in Western Australia, and Rio Tinto followed this discoverer and entered the mining of iron ore in Australia. k, translated as Hancock, is an Australian farmer.
The farmer likes to fly himself between his home in Melbourne and his farm in Western Australia.
One day in November 1952, Hancock, the national superman, drove a plane on the road again, but this time he was unlucky and encountered a thunderstorm, and his small plane could not fly above the clouds and return home.
The route was also covered with dark clouds, so he could only choose to fly close to the ground from below the clouds.
However, this is very dangerous. If you are not careful, you will hit a mountain or a tree and the plane will be destroyed. So Hancock flew the plane into the huge canyon, and relied on his familiarity with the terrain to fly along the
The Turner River at the bottom of the canyon is the guide that travels through the canyon.
Suddenly, he discovered that under the erosion of heavy rain, the cliffs on both sides were emitting a special red color. And with a little knowledge of minerals, he immediately understood that those were exposed iron ore, and he himself
We are flying in a canyon that is truly made of iron. (To be continued...)
