African Entrepreneurship Record

The Far East is a huge market, and Japan at the same time was an emerging market. It was also an important source of immigrants and a food trading market for the East African Kingdom in the Far East.

In order to express its importance to Japan, the East African Kingdom established diplomatic relations with the Japanese government the day after establishing diplomatic relations with the Qing government.

General manager of the Hechingen Bank branch in Japan, Sebastian served as minister to Japan, and East Africa set up a number of consulates throughout Japan.

After the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the Japanese government began to develop large-scale industries. However, establishing industry required a large amount of funds. The Japanese government used two methods to raise funds. One was borrowing from Western and domestic businessmen, and the other was extreme internal exploitation.

Japanese women and farmers were among the hardest hit areas. The Meiji government of Japan encouraged women to engage in textile and other work. At the same time, the second industry in terms of female employment in Japan was the “special service industry.”

Given this condition, East Africa certainly couldn't miss it. After sending diplomatic envoys, it even more blatantly introduced female immigrants from Japan.

The Meiji government first invested in light industries such as silk and cotton, and hired foreigners to guide industrial production. However, industrial modernization projects required a large number of labor forces, especially the textile industry, which required a large number of female labor forces. But difficulties were encountered in recruiting workers. Recruiting workers in the countryside is not going well, and farmers' daughters are reluctant to leave their villages. As a result, nationwide government propaganda aimed to persuade women to work in factories. In order to achieve propaganda purposes, some local officials first sent their daughters to work in factories. Only after the government's demonstration role appeared, many people began to regard the factory as a safe place.

This provides convenience for the introduction of immigrants to East Africa. The method for East Africa to introduce Japanese female immigrants is very simple. They invest in establishing textile factories in Japan, specifically recruit female workers, and then arrange for them to work in "Europe" in the name of intra-company transfers.

What followed was a wave of outrageous operations. Ships heading to "Europe" often encountered storms, pirates and other problems at sea and were "crash". In just one incident, they lost 1,800 people.

Then the factory owner came forward to express sympathy for the "shipwreck" and would issue a symbolic pension to the Japanese authorities. As for whether it could be distributed to his family, East Africa would not care.

"Shipwreck" is a force majeure, so the Japanese government can't make irresponsible remarks. In addition, Japan's current international status is low, so naturally it will not pursue it. I have already paid a pension, what else do you want?

This is not without its disadvantages. Handbag companies started in East Africa often have to move to another location. Next time, another group of people will come to continue the scam. The excuses are all ready. The previous factory owner suffered huge losses due to the shipwreck. This led to bankruptcy and the insolvent factory was acquired.

As for taking the blame, naturally the Kingdom of East Africa cannot take the blame. They are all investment businessmen from Germany and even European countries. Where are they from? Poland, Ukraine, Tsarist Russia, Italy, and even countries that existed in the Shinra era but have now disappeared.

The second is to buy directly from Japanese farmers. That’s right, it’s buying. In this era, the status of Japanese women is extremely low and they have no human rights at all. When many Japanese people can’t afford to eat, they can only choose to sell their daughters. After all, they still need boys. Stay and carry on the family lineage.

This is also the current situation in Japan. The East African kingdom can buy a large amount at a price slightly higher than the Japanese market, and pay directly with food. This is also a win-win situation. After the Meiji Restoration, it became the second largest employer of women after the textile industry. It is a "special service industry". The Meiji government criminalized abortion and infanticide, so when famine and crop failures hit, many families in the countryside sold their girls to "special services."

Therefore, during the Meiji period, the "special service industry" not only exceeded the Tokugawa shogunate period in terms of quantity and growth rate.

The East African government exchanged food for Japan's surplus population, and their families could make ends meet with the food. These women did not have to work in the "special service industry", and everyone had a bright future.

Although it is relatively unethical for East Africa to do this, it can make the Japanese government turn a blind eye and naturally have its own way of turning a blind eye.

Although the textile factory is an old actor, there is also a group of regular women who have been working. They can earn a sum of money and remit it to their families. At the same time, the salary is slightly higher than that of the Japanese textile industry at the same time, and they never default on arrears, which is also considered a fixed sum. Income, if you have stable employees, you will naturally have output, and this part of the tax will be cheaper for the Meiji government of Japan.

As for the disappearances caused by the shipwreck, I can only express regret. With the cooperation of these stable employees, there will still be "simple" people working in factories invested in East Africa next time.

Stable employees do not just work as they please. The wages in the Japanese textile industry are extremely low, and it was not until 1880 that Japan set a minimum wage standard. Even so, many people did not receive wages.

Factories invested in East Africa have such excellent remuneration in Japan, and their stable employees naturally have high status, and most of them have relationships with local Japanese officials.

This echoes the previous example. In order to trick women into working in factories, Japanese officials sent their own female relatives to work in factories as an example.

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"Mr. Sebastian, I'm sorry to trouble you! Thank you very much for your help!" A group of Japanese officials in Tokyo bowed at a standard ninety degrees.

"Hahaha, this is what I should do as a diplomat." Sebastian said.

Just now, Sebastian, the minister of the Kingdom of East Africa with a "just" spirit, obtained a pension for the local government from the arrogant "Tsarist Russian" businessmen.

Tsarist Russian government: I don’t know! Businessman from which country?

Slavic immigrants from East Africa who have been trained are very good at pretending to be Tsarist Russian businessmen. Even Tsarist Russian diplomats can't see through it. After all, it doesn't look like they are acting. They speak fluent Russian, have a detailed understanding of Tsarist Russia, and have good conversational skills. , no matter how it looks, it looks like the real thing.

Especially his carefree character filled the last loophole. In factories run by "Tsarist Russian" businessmen, if Japanese employees were "disadvantaged" overseas, the local government would of course have to take action.

As a result, after telling the cause of the shipwreck, the problem has not been solved. As a big country in the world, the "Tsarist Russian" businessmen are naturally not used to it. This is force majeure, force majeure, force majeure! …

Then he threatened to beat out these unruly Japanese thugs. "Just in time", Sebastian, the minister of the Kingdom of East Africa who was out to "buy" breakfast, passed by. Sebastian, who had a strong sense of justice, beat him hard. He reprimanded the "Tsarist Russian" businessmen for their practices.

Finally, under Sebastian's mediation, the two sides shook hands and made peace. At the same time, the "Tsarist Russian" businessman compensated a pension, and the matter was over.

"Sesan was a great man and a true gentleman."

"Yo Xi, it would be great if foreigners in Tokyo were as reasonable as Sesan."

"Sesan dared to face the Russians directly, and even reprimanded them face to face. From now on, the Yamato nation will have to stand up like this..."

"His Majesty the Emperor is on board! We will definitely..."