The seventh largest city in the Ocean Empire is Seoul in Mozambique, with a population of 750,000. It is a light industrial city with cotton textile industry as its core industry. Dozens of cotton textile factories in the city have 220,000 spindles. The Mozambique cotton cloth produced is sold to the empire and is the economic pillar industry of Seoul.

Unlike the wool textile industry in the empire, Seoul City's cotton textile industry relies on the cotton production advantages of the central plateau of Mozambique to form a unique industrial chain and make outstanding contributions to replacing imports.

The Second British-British War, which took place next to Mozambique, did not bring much development opportunities to Seoul City's cotton textile industry. This is because the British cotton textile industry is a strong industry that dominates the world, and of course it is impossible to give Seoul City a share of the pie.

Compared with the British cotton textile industry, Seoul is a tiny.

The biggest opportunity that the war in southern Africa brought to Seoul City was the deep food processing industry. The British were no longer satisfied with the supply of primary flour, cooking oil, soybeans and wheat, but instead required a variety of cookies, cheese, chocolate, candies, various fruits, seafood and canned meat. The order volume was huge, which made the food processing industry in Seoul and surrounding cities usher in a huge rise.

The resources are ready-made, just order machinery and equipment from European and American countries to install and produce.

Therefore, Seoul City ushered in a new round of great development.

The eighth city is Sanmalinda, East Kalimantan State, Borneo, with a permanent population of 736,000. This once-Dutch regional rule center city has distinct Northwest European characteristics.

As the empire invested heavily in the construction of the Balibaban oil field, hundreds of thousands of construction workers and immigrants flocked, bringing major development opportunities to this Borneo city. The city is full of construction towers, and new railways and highways have weaved a smooth transportation environment, and a construction boom is surging everywhere.

In the past two years

The population of Sanmalinda has soared by about 300,000, and it has jumped from the 14th city to the eighth largest city. It is a tremendous improvement.

The city's specialties have changed from traditional spices, sugar and cocoa to chemical industry, connecting the special railway line of the Balibaban oil field 120 kilometers away, directly reaching the oil reservoir area and the dedicated terminal. The huge throughput of oil and chemical products has brought about the development of related industries.

The special crude oil fleet, refined oil fleet, tank carriages, and transport chemical ships have developed rapidly, forming this place into a major export center for petrochemical products, making important contributions to replacing Citigroup imports.

The ninth ranks Baihu City, a traditional heavy industrial city with a population of 697,200. Here, the Hongshan Iron and Steel Plant, Hongshan Coking Coal Plant, Australian Aluminum Company, Royal Mint, and copper product processing and smelting center are well-known, and are a production base for metal products such as gold, silver, copper, steel, and aluminum.

The characteristic of Baihu City is that it is a large chimney like a wood, with thick smoke emitting all day long, making the sky gray.

The tenth ranks in the southern metropolis Melbourne, with a population of 691,500. After 10 years of restoration and development, this originally largest metropolis in Australia has regained its former glory, especially in the past.

With its rich gold mining resources, thousands of ranches of all sizes, Victoria has developed its wool textile industry in recent years, easily surpassing New South Wales' total economic output, second only to Queensland in Australia.

The state has always been famous for its wealth, but its style is still as good as that of the time.

Melbourne and its surrounding areas have been colonized for more than a hundred years. It has many castles and manors, a good foundation for development, complete infrastructure conditions, and beautiful scenery. It is a concentrated area of ​​aristocratic territory.

Victoria's economic pillars are mining and wool textile industries. Port trade has developed rapidly in recent years. Melbourne has undoubtedly shared the biggest cake, so its economic development is very stable.

The eleventh ranks Tianshu City, with a city population of 652,000.

This largest city in Dongxiangzhou, the vanguard of economic development in the Qingshui River Basin, seems to have encountered bottlenecks in development in recent years, and is much slower than other brother cities in the empire.

The seven cities and dozens of towns lined up along the Qingshui River are important grain and characteristic agricultural products production areas of the empire. With Tianshu City as the leader, the industrial and economic components are mainly grain deep processing and tobacco industry, inland ship manufacturing industry, and the famous Royal Administrative University is located here.

Such industrial economic components have obviously reached the upper limit of stage development. Sugar factories, cigarette factories, flour factories, food factories, shipyards, agricultural machinery factories, etc., based on local resource advantages, are highly limited by demand, with low added value in addition to cigarette factories and limited development prospects.

Steady is indeed stable, but unfortunately, it is not enough explosive power.

It is the major problem facing Tianshu City's development based on deep agricultural processing. It is necessary to find new economic growth points, realize industrial upgrading, and continue to provide economic growth momentum.

The twelfth ranks in China is Qiqu City, with a city population of 648,000.

As the most important industrial city in the Mozambique region, Qiqu City has rich iron ore, aluminum ore, coal ore and tin ore resources. During the period of the African General Manager Wu Mozhou, a complete industrial category was established.

In order to develop and build cities in Mozambique, the newly completed steel plant Phase 2 expansion project has increased the annual steel production capacity from 120,000 tons to 360,000 tons, and can provide more high-quality railway tracks, rebar for construction, 4-10 mm specification thin steel plates and other products.

Never thought

The outbreak of the Second British-British War became an opportunity for the rise of industrial production in Qiqu City, and received a shocking large order at the end of last year.

Lord Roberts, the newly appointed commander of the British Expeditionary Force, formulated a strangulation tactic of "take step by step and encircle iron walls". As soon as he opened his mouth, he would build tens of thousands of bunkers, divide the areas into blockade areas that were not connected with each other, destroy pasture buildings, clear up people and livestock, cut off the logistics and support of the Boers, and restrict the large-scale transfer of cavalry, so as to achieve the combat goals of each annihilation.

Qiqu City Iron and Steel Plant suddenly received a super large order of 250,000 tons of construction rebar, 50,000 tons of wire mesh, and 20,000 tons of thin steel plates, almost squeezing out the steel production capacity, with a total value of more than 2 million pounds.

The British logistics officer waved his hand with a wealthy and arrogant hand and directly signed a cash check of Huitong Bank of one million pounds, which was cashed out immediately.

The required materials can be delivered monthly in 1900, with only one condition; priority must be given to the British military's material needs.

This kind of great thing that a pie fell from the sky suddenly hit the head of Qiqu City Steel Factory, which really made them very happy.

After a few people on the board of directors discussed, they should ensure both the needs of the British military and the transportation and urban construction in Mozambique. The production capacity is not enough now!

If you want to buy a set of the latest German steelmaking blast furnace equipment that you have been greedy for a long time, this guy can increase the advanced production capacity by 500,000 tons, so he spent 770,000 pounds in one go.

This kind of good thing happened in various factories in Mozambique. The leather factory received orders of 30,000 sets of cavalry leather horse harnesses, the wood factory received orders of tens of thousands of saddles, and 1 million horseshoes first came first. The shipyard had 80 patrol boats, 5 refrigerated ships, and 20 5,000 tons of bulk carriers...

Ordering 20,000 beef cattle and 2 million sheep is only the first order, because the number of British Expeditionary Forces will increase to 400,000, and beef and mutton are indispensable necessities on the dining table, and supply must be guaranteed.

What... don't have so many cattle and sheep?

How can that be done? The number of beef cattle will be reduced a little, and the number of live sheep must be increased, otherwise what will the army eat?

Various orders came one after another, and 6,000 tons of cashew nuts were ordered alone, which was a shocking loss of teeth.

All this has led to the industrial economy of Qiqu City entering a hot fever at the speed of light, and has started a crazy round-robin mode. Working overtime day and night, many companies have offered high salaries to recruit personnel, and new factories are laid every day, and thousands of people are pouring into the city every day.

In October 1899, the city population was only 546,000, and it soared to 648,000 in two months, an increase of 100,000 and it was still turning.

This is the case in Mozambique, and all cities are hot.

The thirteenth ranks Humen City, Somalia, with a city population of 631,000, making it the most dazzling star city along the Red Sea coast.

Thanks to the Southern African War, the city's glassware, canned seafood, cattle, sheep and livestock also received large orders. The supply of various canned seafood signed throughout the year reached 44,000 tons, worth 5 million pounds.

The British favorite canned tuna meat, braised thornless fish, canned seafood and mushrooms, canned soybeans, and canned braised beef are all among them, which has caused the scale of the marine fishing industry in Humen City to soar again and again.

Compared with Xi'an, located in the eastern Djibouti region, due to its location as a desert oasis, there is a lack of freshwater resources, limited land and population carrying capacity. In addition, the hot climate, it is already the limit to reaching a population of nearly 500,000.

Humen City is different. It is located in a plateau area with an average altitude of 800 to 1,000 meters. It is bordered by the Red Sea coast. The annual maximum temperature does not exceed 24 degrees, and the annual precipitation is 800 to 1,100 mm. The hinterland has vast pastures and abundant freshwater resources.

As long as this city has enough industrial and commercial support, there is no upper limit for development. Moreover, because of its pleasant environment, high salary standards and perfect urban facilities, it has attracted migrant populations in surrounding cities to settle down, buy property, and develop more and more prosperously.

It has surpassed Xi'an, the capital of Somalia Province, and is the largest city in the state.

The fourteenth place in China is Sydney, with a population of 624,000.

This is a city that once fell and reborn. Thanks to the good animal husbandry production foundation in New South Wales, Sydney's pillar industries are ranch, port, education, finance and trade, and some light industry enterprises.

Similar to Melbourne, Sydney is similar to that of Melbourne. A large number of newly-restored aristocratic groups are gathered around the city, with castles and manors and pastures, and wealth is gathered, so naturally there will be no lack of motivation for development.

It is precisely because of the high-end demand of emerging aristocratic groups that Sydney has developed financial laws and service industries, with hundreds of churches, Taoist temples, and temples, various large theaters, nightclubs, opera houses, brothels and restaurants, making it a luxurious city with bright lights and wine.

This can also be seen from urban architecture. The urban architecture here has British Victorian style, French Neo-Romantic style, Italian Mediterranean architectural style, high-end and atmospheric architectural style of the Tang Dynasty, revealing my rich style inside and outside.

This is a city with commerce, education, service industry and port trade as its core industries. The tertiary industry accounts for more than 65% of economic output, animal husbandry accounts for 30%, and industry accounts for less than half of the economic share.

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