From 1876 to 1900, these 24 years were a golden period of development, laying the strong industrial and agricultural foundation of the Ocean Empire, and its products have unique misaligned competitive advantages and resource advantages, and have strong market competitiveness.

From the perspective of the construction of grain production bases, Ocean Empire has built four major agricultural production bases, which can fully solve grain demand and have certain export capabilities.

The main local area is the agricultural and animal husbandry production bases built from Gusu City to Hangzhou City, Ningbo Town, Wenzhou Town and Fuzhou City. It is supplemented by agricultural production cities in each prefecture. It can basically meet about half of the local Australian grain, more than 70% of the supply demand for vegetables and fruits, and 30% to 40% of the supply demand for seafood.

The Qingshui River Basin in Xiangzhou east of Shangri-La Island is the main agricultural and characteristic planting base, covering seven cities, Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang and Yaoguang, and 10 surrounding towns. The grain, sugar, rubber produced is large in quantity and rich in varieties, and can supply a large amount of Australian local demand gap.

The Borneo agricultural production base is mainly located in Central Kalimantan State. It is from the important seaport Saimu to the important inland city of Sanpit. It continues to 180 kilometers along the river to reach Palangkalaya. Along the way, there are large fertile fields and plantations operated by the Dutch for more than 300 years. The total area of ​​fertile fields has reached 10.7 million Ying Temples. It is the largest and most important grain production base in the empire and a dense place with special spices, fruits, sugar, coffee, tea and other plantations. It has a rich variety of agricultural products and a huge number.

In addition to meeting its own needs, the agricultural products in the region are mainly used for export. The export areas include the Dutch East Indies, the Qing Dynasty, Fuso, the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan, especially grain and sugar.

Take sucrose as an example only;

In 1899, the total output of sucrose in Central Kalimantan and Southern Kalimantan was 1.77 million tons. Except for the domestic sales of 650,000 tons, the remaining 1.12 million tons were all used for export, and the supply was in short supply in the international market.

The export of Fuso cane sugar output is 440,000 tons, and it supplies more than 70 sugar factories in Fuso, accounting for as much as 70 of the country's sugar imports, worth 15.21 million Jinyang.

The export volume of sucrose in the Qing Dynasty was 270,000 tons, worth 10.55 million Jinyang.

Export 32,000 tons of sucrose in the French Indochina Peninsula, worth 1.29 million golden oceans.

Export 51,000 tons of sugar from the Korean Peninsula, worth 1.8 million Jinyang.

Exported to 185,000 tons of British Indian colonies, worth 6.56 million golden oceans.

Exported to 110,000 tons of Mozambique and Somalia, worth 3.5 million golden oceans.

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The Mozambique region in Africa uses the central and southern states in the middle and lower reaches of the Zambézi River as the main grain production bases. The large amount of grain and high-quality agricultural products produced can not only be supplied to local and Somalia, but also exported to South Africa and German African colonies.

The above four major agricultural product production bases together form a well-distributed regional agricultural production center, which solves the imperial grain needs and has an average annual export capacity of 4 to 5 million tons of various agricultural products.

The Ocean Empire has strong competitiveness in various special agricultural and animal husbandry products, especially the five products, wool, natural rubber, cane sugar, spices and tobacco leaves, are the most outstanding and have world-class competitiveness.

During the period of the electrification industrial revolution, the economies of the powers of the world's countries were developing rapidly, and the world's wool trade volume expanded from an average annual scale of 250 million pounds more than 20 years ago to a huge 563 million pounds at the end of the century.

Among them

Australia accounts for 82.6% of the world's wool trade, the remaining 5.4% belongs to Argentina, New Zealand only accounts for 1.1%, and the rest are local products from Europe, North and South America.

Citi, a world animal husbandry powerhouse, has a negligible market share in wool trade. In 1899, its sheep stock was about 3.6 million, and more than 90% were all kinds of meat sheep.

Australia's bulk products, comb strips and combed strips, account for more than 90% of the world market share, various mid-to-high-end cashmere sweaters, cashmere coats, cashmere scarves, and cashmere glove products account for 100%. More than 2,700 related factories have created more than 930 million Jinyang output value, more than 1.6 million workers in the industrial field, nearly 10 million employees in ranch and wool acquisition stations, transportation, warehousing and other related industries, making it the largest domestic industry.

The output value of the Australian wool industry, Jinyang, is equivalent to US$2.325 billion, and the per capita national output value is about US$252, and the profit can reach an average of 17.1%. In particular, the average profit margin of cashmere products reaches an astonishing 240%, which greatly increases the average profit margin of wool trade.

Although cashmere products only account for one-tenth of the total wool trade, the total profit is basically the same as the 90% of the wool bulk trade, which is a real money-making machine.

After years of planned large investment by the empire, the output of natural rubber has become increasingly large in the world market share, from 10%, 20%, and 30% to more than 80%, and has also expanded steadily at a rate of 30,000 to 40,000 acres per year, continuing to increase the world market share.

Different from the original historical space and time

Automobile and tractors, the largest product that consumes natural rubber, have been launched more than ten years ahead of schedule. After more than ten years of cultivation, the world's consumer market has faced the brink of pre-explosion.

The largest markets are the Citigroup market, the European market and the Australian market, especially the Citigroup market, which is rising like a rocket. The demand for the automobile market reached 17,000 units in 1899, and 99% relies on imports. This is almost equivalent to the annual automobile production of the Ocean Empire in 1897. This year is expected to surge by three times on the higher base last year.

This has led to major Australian automobile manufacturers setting up factories in Citigroup to avoid high import tax on automobiles and realize local production and local sales in Citigroup to win the maximum profit.

It is the explosive demand for mechanical products such as automobile tractors that have effectively driven the rapid rise in the natural rubber market prices. Compared with the same period last year, the prices of high-quality raw rubber blocks have risen by 121%, and this natural rubber plantation economy has injected vigorous vitality.

In the last quarter of 1899 alone, there were 17 natural rubber plantations companies listed on the Red River Valley Stock Exchange, raising up to 11.6 million gold oceans, most of which will be used to expand the production of new rubber plantations. Due to the slow growth of natural rubber trees, the rubber seedlings planted are expected to enter the rubber cutting period in 8 to 9 years, and see generous returns.

But this still cannot prevent a large amount of social funds from pouring into the rubber plantation field. Silkworm Golden Water River Basin and West Kalimantan State, and Central Kalimantan State ushered in a new round of natural rubber plantation investors.

Demand drives investment. They dance with money and open up new natural rubber plantations on thousands of acres. In the past, those plantations on one or two hundred acres were merged or continued to expand. Now the seedlings invested will enter the rubber cutting period after 1910, and the output will further explode.

Among the world's five high-quality continuous sugar production areas, Borneo, Shangri-La Island, Hawaii, Cuba and Puerto Rico in Central America, the British Straits colonies and southern Thailand, the Ocean Empire is the third of the five, with a total output accounting for 67% of the world's share, and the world's second.

The sweet career is developing very brightly. The world's per capita sugar possession is very low today, and the demand for the United States and Europe is strong. One of the reasons why the United States wants to occupy and control Cuba and Puerto Rico in Central America and control world-class important sucrose production is also one of the reasons.

When the living standards of European and American society generally improve, the demand for sugar will grow wildly. Without sugar, chocolate will be difficult to swallow, and without sugar, coffee will be bitter and hard to drink. For the afternoon tea of ​​British people, without sugar, it will be a disaster, and even cookies will not taste good.

The consumption of sugar is a hard-core demand, and it is the only way to solve the social development of food and clothing. Without sugar, you cannot feel the taste of happiness.

According to the development blueprint of the Luzon Islands, taking into account the advantages of geographical and climate, we will focus on the development of grain production, sugar and tobacco industries, fruit and natural rubber planting in the future, which will further enhance the position of the Ocean Empire in its dominant fields.

Borneo spice plantation industry occupies 21.6% of the world market, ranking third after the Dutch East Indies and the Indian subcontinent.

The tobacco industry developed in the Jinshui River Basin accounts for 12% of the world market and has a strong influence in the Nanyang region. Considering that the Luzon Islands are suitable for large-scale cultivation of tobacco, this is also a major development direction for the region's future agricultural production.

In addition to meeting local agricultural production, the economic development of the Luzon Islands focuses on the development of sugar, tobacco leaves and fruit production based on geographical and climatic characteristics.

Let’s not mention sucrose and tobacco leaves. These are the dominant agricultural products in tropical regions. They are very suitable for the geographical climate of the Luzon Islands and have the technical conditions required.

Sucrose products are favorable because of stable profits, which can solve the problems of living and employment of a large number of agricultural populations. Tobacco leaf products are favorable because of high profits and high taxes. It is the only way to develop the tobacco processing industry in line with the trend.

The fruit and melon industry originates from the geographical and climatic advantages of the Luzon Archipelago and can further develop into canned fruits, fruit winemaking, deep processing of fruit and melons.

Mozambique's cotton cultivation and textile industry accounts for 3.7% of the world market, which is exactly the same as the population of the Ocean Empire, and can meet domestic demand and export small amounts.

In addition to the wool industry, agricultural grain production and characteristic agriculture and grain processing industries such as sugar, natural rubber, spices, tobacco leaves, cotton, etc. involve tens of thousands of enterprises, solving the employment problem of 11 million people, accounting for about one-quarter of the national population.

In the industrial and manufacturing fields, there are dozens of categories, including steel and metallurgy, shipbuilding, agricultural machinery, automobiles, bicycles, rubber products, tires, crude oil extraction, refining, various chemical factories, agricultural machinery, clothing, printing and dyeing, cement, brick making, building materials, leather products and other industries. According to statistics in 1999, there were 314,000 home workshop factories including more than 5 people, with 5.2 million direct employees.

In addition, the mining industry, transportation, international and domestic trade, culture, religion, entertainment, hotel and catering services have a total of more than one million employees.

Overall

The Ocean Empire has entered the category of industrialized countries. The only backward thing in the empire's territory is the Luzon Islands. Due to the occupation for only two years, high-intensity infrastructure construction is underway. The emerging industry has not yet developed and is in a short-term absence.
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