The people I faced in Moon Bay were British, and when I arrived in Djibouti, I was replaced by Ethiopians. 23us.
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After Lanfang and France exchanged Djibouti, Djibouti and Little Aden across the Red Sea became part of the Western Province. When Qin Zhiyuan arrived in Djibouti, Chen Kangjian greeted Qin Zhiyuan in Djibouti in accordance with regulations.
When Chen Kangjian took over Djibouti, the population of Djibouti was only more than 5,000. This was because the population had increased a lot after the French built the railway between Djibouti and Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
From this we can see how desolate Djibouti was in the past.
The entire area of Djibouti is only 23,000 square kilometers. Although the area is small, the terrain within the territory is complex. Most of the territory is plateau and mountainous areas with volcanic rock material. The coast is mostly plains and plateaus. The inland is dominated by plateaus and mountains. Including coastal areas
, most areas of Djibouti have a tropical desert climate, while the interior is almost similar to a savanna climate. The entire territory is hot and rainless all year round, and there is almost no rainfall in the interior areas.
It's no wonder that the French abandoned this place, Lanfang, without any hesitation. They only used this place as a treasure under the threat of the British.
Of course, Djibouti today is different from before. After Lanfang took over Djibouti, more than 20,000 Lanfang people moved from Lanfang itself, and then nearly 20,000 Qin Army members moved in. Now Djibouti is a big construction site, Chen Kangjian swears
We want to build this place into a military base and become Lanfang's thorn in guarding the Red Sea.
Djibouti itself also has the conditions to build a military base. It is 56 kilometers wide, 80 kilometers long, and the deepest point is 1,082 meters. The Tadjoura Bay is wedge-shaped in the Gulf of Aden and goes deep into the interior of Djibouti, dividing Djibouti into two different parts, the north and the south. Tajoura Bay
To the north of Lawan are mostly mountains with complex terrain, while to the south are mostly plateaus with an average altitude of 500 to 800 meters.
Chen Kangjian's construction is centered around Tajura Bay.
This place is different from Moon Bay. You don’t have to worry too much about the environment. You can come wherever is convenient.
We are currently quarrying in the mountains, and then transporting the stones to Tadjoura Bay via railway. I plan to build a breakwater with a length of about ten kilometers in Tadjoula Bay, so that battleships can be docked directly within the breakwater.
And aircraft carriers, it is also convenient for the use of merchant ships. Chen Kangjian is really generous. He talked about the sand table in the Governor's Mansion.
Qin Zhiyuan has a toothache when you think about the cost of ten kilometers. The construction of military bases is also part of the military expenditure, and Qin Zhiyuan has to pay for it.
In fact, the funds in Qin Zhiyuan's hands are not tight, and can even be called abundant. Old Renault's treasury bond business is doing well, and Qin Zhiyuan is ready to increase it again.
How much does it cost? Chen Kangjian looked confused and had no idea about the cost: Explosives are used to quarry mountains. We have so many in our warehouse that they will expire if we don’t use them. The stones are everywhere and no one is looking for them anyway.
I charge a fee. In this place where birds don't poop, no one asks whether it is environmentally friendly or not. We blow up the mountain and throw the rocks into Tadjoura Bay. We just build a base on the cleared mountain land. It's a very good plan.
It sounds really good. Someone is probably giving Chen Kangjian advice behind his back. Otherwise, Chen Kangjian is so stupid that he probably wouldn't have come up with this idea.
As for people, labor costs nothing. Qin Zhiyuan thinks more, labor cost is the biggest cost.
Hehe, labor is really not that much. We have a railway to Addis Ababa. I hired some people from Ethiopia. The labor is very cheap there. As long as the labor is enough, the black guy is a bit lazy, but he can do it.
Even when he got up, he still managed to survive. Chen Kangjian already had a perfect plan.
Qin Zhiyuan, who was hired, didn't believe it.
Ethiopia is a very resilient country. Before World War I, only Ethiopia and Liberia were independent countries in Africa, and the rest were colonies of European countries.
Liberia was able to become independent only because of the support of the Americans. After the Civil War, the Americans needed a piece of land to settle independent black people, so Liberia was created. Ethiopia was able to become independent entirely because of the strength of the Ethiopians.
As early as the 16th century, the Portuguese and the Ottoman Empire invaded Ethiopia. However, due to the resistance of the Ethiopians, neither the Portuguese nor the Ottoman Empire succeeded. By the middle of the last century, the British and the Sudanese invaded Ethiopia one after another, and then failed one after another.
, at the end of the last century, the Italians did not believe in evil and declared Ethiopia as a protectorate for the Italians. Unfortunately, this protectorate only existed for about five or six years, and then the Italians were forced to recognize Ethiopia's independence.
In such a country, it is hard to believe that the only requirement for their citizens to accept employment is to provide enough food.
Really, the hired Chen Kangjian has a very strict tone of voice, and he can't even swear to the heavens and the earth.
Okay, as long as you don't ask me for money. Qin Zhiyuan won't pursue it, just hire him.
How should I put it, black Africans do not have much status these days. Qin Zhiyuan still remembers that there were many pictures circulating on the Internet in the 21st century, all about the tragic situation of black Africans. Many African children and women had their arms chopped off by Western colonists.
Either the feet, or the hands and feet were chopped off. Those were the family members of black slave workers. As long as those slave workers failed to complete their tasks, their families would be brutally punished by the Western colonists.
Of course Qin Zhiyuan would not allow this to happen, so Qin Zhiyuan emphasized to Chen Kangjian: I don't care where you got the people or how you got them. After you get them, you must treat them according to the standards for treating workers. You can't do it deliberately.
If you abuse them, you must at least feed them and make some money. Otherwise, you should be careful. Even if I don't trouble you, Zixin can't explain it.
Qin Zhiyuan still has a bottom line, and he will definitely not abuse black people like Western colonists did.
No problem, your Majesty, please rest assured. In three years at most, I will return you a well-equipped military port with political conditions no less than those of Cam Ranh Bay. Chen Kangjian is steadfast in his oath and is confident.
In the evening, Qin Zhiyuan received a report from Gao Hongshi: Wu Dinggong obtained manpower from Yemen, and some from Somalia and Ethiopia. Both places had slave hunting teams, the British and Italians.
Organized, one person can basically buy it for about 100 yuan.
One hundred yuan, this is the price of a human life at this time.
It's so hot in this damn place. If we turn this place into a military base in the future, the soldiers stationed here will suffer. Qin Zhiyuan didn't focus on the slave hunting team. The hot weather made Qin Zhiyuan unable to concentrate on thinking.
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Djibouti has a tropical desert climate. Summer is from April to October every year. The average temperature is 37 degrees, and the maximum temperature can reach over 45 degrees. The temperature difference between day and night is still a bit large. At night, the temperature will drop sharply.
The temperature at night can sometimes drop as low as freezing.
If it were a good place, the French wouldn't give it to us. Gao Hongshi doesn't have a good impression of the French now. Since the helicopter incident, Gao Hongshi has some opinions on the French government: It's not all like this. A little further south is Ethiopia, and the geographical environment there is
not bad.
In fact, Africa is not all large deserts in the general sense, that is, it is more desolate in North Africa. In Central Africa, the vegetation is much more vigorous, especially in Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, which has a standard tropical rainforest climate and savanna climate. The environment
Much better than Djibouti.
Ethiopia should forget it. Qin Zhiyuan understood what Gao Hongshi meant, but he didn't have much idea.
In fact, the fact that Britain and Italy could not occupy Ethiopia does not mean that Lanfang cannot also occupy Ethiopia.
The British and Italians invaded Ethiopia to enslave the Ethiopian people and build plantations and mines to better serve capitalism. Therefore, the British and Italians had reservations when attacking Ethiopia. This is not the case in Lanfang, Lanfang
It has always been a matter of land but not people. With the Republic of China as its back, Lanfang had enough manpower and all it needed was living space, so if Qin Zhiyuan wanted to, it was still possible to conquer Ethiopia.
Of course, if you want to attack Ethiopia, you will have to face many difficulties. Ethiopia is dominated by mountainous plateaus, most of which belong to the Ethiopian Plateau. The central and western parts are the main body of the plateau, accounting for two-thirds of the entire territory. The East African Rift Valley
Running throughout the territory, with an average altitude of nearly 3,000 meters, it is known as the Roof of Africa.
It can be said that the British and Italians are placed at this average altitude. If Lanfang wants to attack Ethiopia, then Lanfang's soldiers must first overcome severe altitude sickness, otherwise the attack on Ethiopia will only end in failure.
Altitude sickness still has a great impact on people. Headache, dizziness, shortness of breath, chest tightness, etc. are considered mild. In severe cases, it can cause difficulty breathing and confusion. Once strenuous activities are carried out, the symptoms will be further aggravated. Therefore, the reason why Ethiopia can be independent is because of this.
It is better to owe it to the strong resistance of the Ethiopians than to the topography of Ethiopia. The roof of Africa is not given in vain.
You can try with Lao Yang. It would be much easier to get there from Sudan. Gao Hongshi was still unwilling to give in. This was like eating meat in his mouth. It would be really uncomfortable if he didn't eat it.
Both the British and the Ottomans launched their attacks from Sudan. It didn't matter which direction they attacked Ethiopia. Altitude sickness was a problem that had to be faced. Qin Zhiyuan disagreed, mainly because the gains outweighed the losses.
Ethiopia borders Sudan, and Sudan is now part of Egypt, which is Yang Deshan's territory.
