Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 728 Population conflicts

  Citi has a vast territory. The southern states have a long history of planting cotton. The cotton textile industry is also the backbone of the US light industry. Its products have great influence in North and South America. It is a very competitive industry that is sold as far as Fuso.

  But Citi’s cotton textile industry has never been the strongest because its products cannot enter the European market and the vast British colonial system countries, which are the traditional markets of the British Empire’s cotton textile industry.

  Ocean Kingdom also faces this problem. After many rounds of difficult meetings with the British Empire, it had to make a self-limiting compromise;

  Cotton textile industrial products are limited to meeting their own needs, and do not seek to enter the British colonial trading circle, European markets, and the Far East market to avoid direct competition with the main British woven fabric market.

  There is no way. The British Empire is extremely tough when it comes to issues involving its own interests.

Thus

The main sales market of Mozambique cotton is in the territory of the Ocean Kingdom. In addition to the Kingdom of Ryukyu and Vietnam, this part of the market has a population of about 40 million (35 million for the Ocean Kingdom, 2 million for the Kingdom of Ryukyu, and 3.2 million for the Kingdom of Vietnam), and it can also be sold in a small amount. To the French Indochina peninsula and the Dutch East Indies, but the amount of this part is very small, because here is also the sales market of British woven fabrics, but also to deal with the competition of France, Citigroup cotton, there is no obvious advantage in comparison.

Among the overseas territories of the Ocean Kingdom, the vast northwest plateau of Mozambique has little rainfall, with an average annual rainfall of 520-750 mm, sufficient sunshine and suitable temperature. It is an excellent area for the development of cotton planting and has unparalleled natural advantages. The natural environment is similar to that of the Nile River in Egypt.

In order to develop the economy of Mozambique, after repeated inspections and demonstrations by experts, it was finally determined that the economic crops in the arid plateau area of ​​the upper Zambezi River are mainly cotton, grapes, and dried fruits, and the grain crops are mainly rice-producing areas in the lower reaches of the Zambezi River. The development model of wheat, soybeans, and **** in the central region has proved to be a very successful decision.

  After more than 10 years of development

  There are many towns in the middle and lower reaches of the Zambezi River. There are more than 40,000 kilometers of ditches and rivers built by farmland water conservancy facilities. There are hundreds of various water diversion and irrigation stations and control gates, forming millions of acres of fertile land.

  I have to admire that Chinese immigrants are natural farmers. Ten years of development in Africa are just a drop in the ocean.

It took only 10 years for the industrious Chinese immigrants to turn large areas of fertile land in the middle and lower reaches of Mozambique into fertile land for guaranteed harvests due to droughts and floods. The crops are planted twice a year, and one season is left uncultivated.

  In the harvest season, I looked at the golden and heavy rice at a glance. It was very gratifying against the blue sky and white clouds.

In addition to meeting the needs of the Mozambique region, the large amount of grain produced here is also exported to Somalia and the colonies of Madagascar, the British Cape Governor's House in Southern Africa, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal Republic, becoming the largest in Southwest Africa. granary.

  As of the end of July 1895

The total population of Mozambique has reached more than 6.2 million, including about 134,000 whites, about 300,000 indigenous blacks, and more than 5.77 million Chinese immigrants (including the nearly 400,000 women who flowed into the region from the colonies of Madagascar. Many of them belong to French colonies because of their advantages. Kotu is organized and trafficked by the French), with as many as 270,000 new births every year, the industry has generated a strong endogenous population growth momentum.

  The Mozambique region has spent the initial difficult entrepreneurial time, is entering a stable growth track, and the future development is bright.

  In view of this

  The monarch of the Ocean Kingdom Li Fushou ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to gradually reduce the subsidies for Chinese immigrants to Africa. From the initial huge investment of 2.7 million pounds per year, the annual subsidy scale has been reduced to 720,000 pounds.

  This investment is expected to eventually be reduced to zero in the next 10 years, which means that intergovernmental organized migration activities will be completely stopped.

  In the past few years, the number of immigrant ships that traveled frequently between the Far East and Africa has decreased drastically in the past two years, which is about two-thirds less.

  The government has organized immigration. From the initial scale of nearly 300,000 Chinese immigrants per year, it has been directly reduced to less than 80,000 people per year. The review of immigration conditions is even more demanding.

  The resettlement policy has changed from flooding with water to today's planned and selective introduction, which means the in-depth implementation of the resettlement policy, the more effective use of resettlement funds, and the more significant effects.

Relatively speaking

Over the years, with the growing popularity of Mozambique, the number of private spontaneous immigrants has increased. There are Chinese and overseas Chinese from various countries in Southeast Asia, merchants and handicrafts from overseas states and locals of the Ocean Kingdom, and white immigrants from Europe. , The number has grown from a few thousand per year to more than 30,000. This is a welcome change.

in summary

  Since 1896, the population growth in Mozambique has remained between 380,000 and 400,000 per year. This rate is quite fast, mainly due to the rapid growth of the endogenous population.

  In the next ten years

  Due to the large number of couples during the reproductive period and the strong desire to have children, the newborn population will always maintain a rapid growth trend, gradually forming a baby boom during the golden period of development in Mozambique and becoming the main driving force for population growth.

   Correspondingly, social needs will be enriched. Elementary schools and middle schools in the area have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, teaching the local Chinese language and pronunciation of the Ocean Kingdom, using the education template uniformly prescribed by the Ocean Kingdom, and implementing standardized education.

  A careful analysis of the demographic structure of Chinese immigrants in Mozambique will find that the contradiction between more men and fewer women is quite acute, ranking first among the overseas states of the Ocean Kingdom, and the population ratio is seriously unbalanced.

  It is precisely for this reason that the Kingdom's Ministry of Internal Affairs has greatly reduced the scale of support for immigration funds to prevent the imbalance from becoming more and more serious.

  Among the total Chinese population of 5.77 million, the number of newborns between the ages of 0 and 9 who were born in the states of Mozambique is about 1.81 million. Among them, the proportion of males and females is half, and the female population is slightly larger.

  The remaining 3.96 million adult population contains 1.176 million families, and the married population totals 2.4729 million (due to polygamous factors). There are less than one million monogamous families, and nearly 200,000 families are polygamous.

These 200,000 families belong to the spire of the Pyramid in Mozambique and are the first group to become wealthy. There are soldiers, merchants, factory owners, shopkeepers, farmers, ranchers, local officials and workshop owners. They are able to afford polygamy and multiple children. Expensive household expenditures have created more economic output for the society, thus occupying more social resources.

  According to statistics, there are nearly 1.5 million single adult men in the entire Mozambique region, hoping to form their own family in the next 2 to 8 years.

Nowadays, among government-organized immigrants, there are 80,000 people each year, of which about 50,000 are young women from the mainland, and the rest are urgently needed talents from all walks of life, including doctors, actors, cooks, midwives, and teachers. , Various craftsmen, etc., and so on.

  Only relying on this female population is almost a drop in the bucket, and basically cannot alleviate the increasingly acute population conflicts in the region.

  What's more, these Chinese women from the mainland are the targets pursued by the wealthy group. They all want to marry home and be their regular wives. There is really no need for one.

  Many local media companies with strong wealth in Australia have targeted Mozambique, an emerging hot spot, and are preparing to send a large number of female populations through non-governmental organizations to meet market demand.

  In the end

  It is too far from the mainland to Southwest Africa. There are very few weak women who can withstand the slow sea and land turbulence. The initial direct migration loss rate is as high as 20 to 30%, which can be described as costly.

  The reason is that most of these girls from poor families on the mainland are too weak to support the two-month long turbulence on the sea. Coupled with unaccustomed water and soil, they can easily die halfway.

  After groping, he came up with a set of methods that drastically reduced the death rate of female immigrants to less than 1%.

  The female population who is going to immigrate to Africa will be transported to Guangdong for concentrated residence in advance, cultivate fertile fields in the local area, raise fat pigs, chickens, ducks and geese and other agricultural products, try their best to maintain their health, and lay a good foundation for the voyage.

  After six months to one year of recuperation, they can reach a certain height and weight index. After the doctor’s approval, they can board the migrant ship to Africa. Those who still do not meet the standard will go to Borneo or Shangri-La.

In addition, female immigrants adopted special immigration ships, abandoned the design of universal large cabins, improved the living environment and sanitary conditions, increased the provision of doctors on board, enhanced nutritious meals, and implemented various measures to finally achieve the goal of ocean immigration. Reach the goal of safety and health.

  But this way, it will greatly increase immigration costs.

  The large ocean-going immigration ship that could transport 3,000 people, in order to add more space for activities, can only transport more than 1,760 people after modification, and the cost of single-person transportation has increased sharply.

  Even if there is a government subsidy of more than 10 pounds per capita, plus other expenses, each female immigration fee will exceed 30 pounds, which is too expensive to promote this experience on a large scale.

  A total of more than 1.5 million bachelors want to solve the marriage problem, the most practical goal is to Madagascar.

  The population flowing out from here is dominated by women, with a scale of more than 100,000 people every year, which greatly eases the contradiction between the male and female population in Mozambique.

  The problem now is that the northern part of Mozambique occupied by the Kingdom of Oceans has limited population resources, with a total population of more than 800,000, of which the population of females of school age is less than 300,000. After more than two years of high-intensity output, it is facing the embarrassing situation of resource exhaustion.

  Therefore, many people have set their sights on the southern French Madagascar region, which is rich in population and resources. The total indigenous population here is more than 2.7 million, and there are more than 700,000 females of the right age from 12 to 30 years old, which has great potential.

  Therefore, many powerful figures secretly colluded with the French colonial government to engage in this transaction worth hundreds of millions of francs.

I have to say that there are still many smart people among the French. They specially gathered 7-12 year old local aboriginal girls with good looks to church schools and provided them with good food and lodging conditions. Then they invited Chinese teachers to teach the Chinese language and Chinese customs and etiquette. Dressing and eating are also strictly enforced in accordance with Chinese customs. Even teaching melody and poetry is strictly forbidden to speak local aboriginal languages. Violators will be severely punished.

The purpose of    is self-evident, which is to pretend to be educated Chinese female immigrants and make huge profits from it.

  Other French people have done the same. There are many church schools in the French Madagascar area, which only enroll beautiful girls. They are not only responsible for board and lodging but also for education, which is spectacular for a time.

  (End of this chapter)