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When Zheng Zhilong came to Beidu, Yu Gong wanted to use the semi-finished products smelted from various ores produced in the south to buy local goods, while Yu privately wanted to buy elixirs.
Among many commodities, cars are the first to bear the brunt. This epoch-making means of transportation has replaced daily necessities and become the only choice for other countries to import.
Thanks to Zheng Zhilong's service for Emperor Haojing in his early years, and the eldest son Zheng Chenggong also made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty.
Zheng can not only enjoy extremely low prices in purchasing weapons and equipment, but also benefit from cars.
Now that the annual production of cars is as high as 3 million, Zheng Zhilong can get 5% of the share.
Don't underestimate the scale of these hundreds of thousands of cars. What Zheng Zhilong got was a car with an ex-factory price!
This can be regarded as Emperor Haojing's aid to the West, helping the Zheng family and his son manage this resource treasure land far away from the mainland.
Since the exploration and refining of Angola's oil fields has begun, the West is no longer short of oil.
Not only can it be used in people's daily lives, but it can also provide enough fuel for cars.
The poor road conditions in Africa, combined with the vast land and sparse population, made Ming people extremely dependent on cars.
When there were no cars before, railways were the main vehicle, supplemented by horses and steam vehicles.
With the availability of oil-burning cars, it was much more convenient for Zheng Jun and the people who moved to the local area.
Trucks are needed for mining, and trucks are also needed to transport people. This is also the case when Zheng Jun is suppressing indigenous people in various places.
Fortunately, the strongest aspect of the Zheng Group is maritime transportation. It is not a problem to transport tens of thousands of trucks and cars every year.
With the large-scale construction of steam merchant ships, the Zheng Group's shipping capabilities are also increasing day by day.
On the occasion of Emperor Haojing's ninetieth birthday, the number of people who had migrated to the West, mainly Fujianese, had reached more than five million.
Counting the three generations born and raised locally, the total population of the West (excluding indigenous people) has exceeded the 10 million mark!
The south of the Congo has become the Zheng family's territory. Even if the population of the Western Region reaches 100 million, it will still be vast and sparsely populated.
The local climate is pleasant, crops can be harvested twice a year, and the surrounding sea areas are extremely rich in fishery resources, which is very suitable for the people who migrated there.
At first, the vast majority of the people felt that Emperor Haojing was boasting and were very suspicious of the slogan "Every family is a local owner".
After Zheng Zhilong moved his trusted distant relatives there, he made preliminary confirmation.
Only when we arrived in South Africa did the people know that there were such wonderful places in the world.
There are no Rakshasa, no Tatars, no Xiyi, only Kunlun slaves.
The livestock everywhere and the endless plains are much better than the remote areas in Fujian with not much arable land.
Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong were also very generous to the soldiers who had made military exploits.
All were allocated the best land, which was fertile farmland in Mozambique.
It is not like the arid inland, because there are many rivers and abundant rainfall throughout the year.
After adopting the farming model and a little plowing with tractors, fertile farmland was almost everywhere.
Tanzania to the north of Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and even Angola are all suitable for farming.
Namibia in the far west is a different story. There is drought all year round and rivers often dry up. Botswana in the east also has the same conditions.
However, these two areas were also used by Zheng Chenggong as territories for the indigenous people who cooperated with the Zheng family. On their own territory, the indigenous people could still do whatever they wanted.
The area close to the coastline was bought by some wealthy gentry as their own manor, where they could vacation, graze, hunt, support their families, and enjoy leisure and entertainment.
The area of each manor will not be less than a thousand acres, and many of them cover an area of 10,000 acres, and there are private planes for patrolling.
Zheng Zhilong has very loose control over remote areas because he has
If it is strict, then no people will move there to settle, which will not be conducive to one's control.
As long as the local wealthy gentry did not collude with the barbarians and rebel, Zheng Zhilong was too lazy to take care of other aspects.
The focus of Zheng's business is on major cities, mining areas and farming areas, which is due to the trinity strategy of population, resources and food.
Since South Africa was purchased from the Dutch, and the strength of Zheng's fleet ranks second in the world.
Emperor Haojing would naturally not worry about enemies attacking from the sea, which would be self-destructive.
After the expedition to Spain and North America, the Zheng Army's land warfare capabilities were significantly improved after reorganization and installation of advanced heavy weapons.
The 50,000 Zheng army armed with planes, tanks, and heavy artillery can defeat the 200,000 to 300,000 Western coalition forces, not to mention the local natives who cannot hold up the wall with mud.
When a brigade of Zheng troops landed in South Africa, it meant that this land had fallen into the hands of the Ming people, and there would be no hope of finding other owners in the future.
To this day, although Zheng's army only has 200,000 troops, they are basically elites who are brave and good at fighting.
And if something happens, about 500,000 to 600,000 reserve troops can be mobilized at any time to participate in the war.
Zhu Cixiang believed that fighting in central and southern Africa, Zheng's army of 500,000 people was almost invincible.
There is no suspense in the naval battle, with the configuration of four kings and eight blüchers.
Not only other armored ships, but these twelve battleships alone can make the enemy fleet feed the fishes!
It can be said that among many overseas vassal states, Xi Di has the strongest ability to protect itself and is the one that reassures Zhu Cixiang the most.
Through mining, Zheng Zhilong also achieved the small goal of making the Zheng Group's annual income of hundreds of millions of silver coins.
It can be said that the Western Region run by the Zheng family has the third highest annual income in the world after the Ming Empire and the Inca Empire, and its earning power even exceeds that of the Ottoman Empire.
This is due to the innate conditions of South Africa being full of mines. There is no shortage of manganese, chromium, iron, lead, zinc, copper, vanadium and other metals. It is also rich in fluorite, mica, and coal.
Zheng Zhilong invested hundreds of millions of silver coins in the early stage of Zijin in the local mining area. The mining area not only built a railway, but also realized mechanized mining.
Now is a good time to harvest. The West's average annual economic growth rate in the past forty years has been as high as about 20%, which is higher than any other vassal or territory.
The resulting purchasing power is naturally extremely amazing. Whether it is a fleet departing from the West or a fleet returning from the mainland, every merchant ship is fully loaded throughout the year.
According to Zhu Cixi's analysis and summary of information obtained from various channels, the total tonnage of merchant ships owned by the Zheng family has surpassed that of the Netherlands, ranking second in the world, second only to the Ming Empire.
Because the Netherlands was not involved in the Second European War and William III's strong support for maritime trade, the Netherlands maintained its third place in the world.
However, it faced dual challenges from the recuperating French Empire and the prosperous Ottoman Empire, because everyone saw the huge role that maritime trade played in promoting the economic development of their country.
Whoever owns more merchant ships with larger tonnage will make more money and pay higher taxes. This is the simplest truth.
Although Zhu Cixiang is a late player, he has the huge advantage of striking first.
That is, with the strong local shipbuilding capacity, steam merchant ships can be launched in batches.
All shipyards combined can build hundreds of ocean-going merchant ships with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons in one batch.
The average number of commercial ships launched every year is no less than two hundred, and this does not include steam fishing boats that can operate in deep seas.
Thanks to Zheng Chenggong's efforts, the shipyards under the Zheng Group have also begun to resume production after moving to the West.
Nowadays, about twenty merchant ships of more than 3,000 tons can be launched every year, as well as ironclad ships with a total tonnage of about 20,000 tons.
Zhu Cixiang has transferred the construction technology of the seventh-level battleship (King) to Zheng and his son at a preferential price.
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In less than ten years, we should be able to see this type of battleship launched by Zheng Shipyard.
By then, the seventh-level battleships will not lag behind the times, because only the Ming Dynasty and the French Navy, and Zheng Zhilong himself, have eighth-level battleships (Scharnhorst).
Except for the New Inca Empire and the Ottomans, the navies of other countries, including the Netherlands, may not be able to afford expensive eighth-level battleships.
In fact, even if you can afford it, you can buy it. Since there is no war to fight, this kind of battleship is of little use. It is just to show off the strength of the country's navy, nothing more.
In today's world, without hordes of capital ships on both sides, especially battleships and cruisers, it is almost impossible for a large-scale naval battle to break out.
Even if there was a fight, it would be equivalent to an adult beating a child. Even if the beating was a one-sided crushing attack, it would be exactly the same as when the Ming Navy's expeditionary fleet took down the Spanish Navy.
Zhu Cixiang can responsibly say that even the navy of the new Inca Empire has produced one "King" type battleship, two "Blücher" type cruisers, and eight "Yoshino" type frigates.
Then you can walk sideways on the sea, and no one dares to mess with you.
The firepower of this level of fleet can destroy the dough in an instant...
Zheng Zhilong has four kings, eight Blüchers, eight Bismarcks, eight Dingyuans, twenty Yoshinos, and a bunch of small ironclads.
This kind of strength is equivalent to directly radiating to the South Atlantic and South Indian Ocean!
If you mess with me, of course!
But if you try it, you will know what the consequences will be!
France controlled West Africa, and the Ottomans owned all of North Africa and parts of East Africa.
However, neither of these two families is the overlord of Africa. Privately, there is only one recognized overlord in Africa, and that is the Zheng family!
Although it is a vassal state under the Ming Empire, there is only one word that has the right to speak in international affairs - strength!
If you don't have the strength, let alone open your mouth to speak, you are not even qualified to fart, and you have to hold it back if you fart!
If you have strength, don't even open your mouth to speak. Even if you fart in public, everyone will nod and think it tastes so good!
This is the law of the jungle, and Zhu Cixiang is now the global hegemon.
Augusta was dissatisfied before, but now it's better, the king has become the lord of the city!
The overlord of Eastern Europe, Boli, was gone within a month, completely wiped off the map.
If the global hegemon divides the territory and then the cars, I believe there will be no one who would disagree.
It doesn't matter if you don't agree, Zhu Cixiang won't send troops to destroy you.
If you don’t like our car, then you can continue to ride horses!
The main roads in Beidu New City are much wider than those in the old city. At the beginning of its construction, some people criticized this, thinking that it was unnecessary and a waste of money.
Nowadays, the advantages of this advanced design have been reflected. Motor vehicles and bicycles can run completely without any interference.
If we copy the situation in the old city, it would be as ridiculous as a sardine can every day during the morning and evening rush hours.
Over in Xindu (Omsk), the main road has twenty lanes in both directions, and it is a motorway, not a bicycle lane.
Zhu Cixiang just wants to lay a solid foundation directly. There will be no need to widen the main road in the next three hundred years.
At present, the number of cars in Beidu exceeds 200,000, with an average of one car for every fifty people.
This does not mean that ordinary people can afford cars, but it is because there are many yamen and local companies in Beidu, as well as many embassies and foreign companies.
Many generals and wealthy gentry, especially the grassland lie-win gang, have also settled in Beidu. Each of these people has at least one car, and some have more than a dozen.
Apart from mining, the best-selling cars are not cars or off-road vehicles, but small light trucks that can haul people and goods, also known as pickup trucks.
This four-door car can seat five people, and the cargo compartment can hold half a ton of cargo. The price is only one thousand silver coins, and it has become a favorite in the market once it is launched.
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The price of a one-ton light truck has risen to 1,500 silver coins. However, many families cannot use such a large load capacity, so pickup trucks are more affordable.
People who run small businesses, such as grocery store, butcher shop, and breakfast shop owners, all like to buy this kind of car.
The disadvantage is not the vehicle itself, but the fact that there are so many people looking to buy it. It takes more than two years from placing a deposit to getting the car.
The truck factory needs to follow the orders of the Ministry of Rites and give priority to exporting its hot-selling products to earn foreign exchange, then satisfy the purchase orders of the Ministry of War, and finally sell them to the people.
The reason is simple. Export prices are much higher than domestic sales, and the Ministry of War is a major customer of the automobile factory, placing orders for tens of thousands of vehicles at a time.
In this case, the car lottery method was born.
All car owners who place a deposit will have an opportunity to participate in the lottery every quarter.
Just like a lottery, as long as your own number is drawn, you are directly qualified to receive a new car.
Everyone who got the number looked very excited and felt lucky to be lucky.
As for everyone else, you can continue to ride your bike or take the bus.
There are bus lines in the first and second category streets, and there is a bus passing by every fifteen minutes. It is no different from the later generations.
There has already been a lively scene of people squeezing buses during the morning and evening rush hours after get off work, but the thieves were very happy...
If you have immortal power, and your commute to work is in the city, the road conditions are good, and the journey is not very far, then riding a bicycle is also a good choice.
According to statistics, Daming's factories have produced more than 100 million bicycles so far.
In a place like Beidu, there are many more bicycles than cars.
Those decoration workers generally ride bicycles to work because it is easier to carry their tools.
Cyclists can enter the new city unimpeded, and the new city still implements the previous orders.
Only motor vehicles and bicycles are allowed to enter. Livestock vehicles are strictly prohibited from entering.
