Burleyland spoke so extravagantly that his words seemed to rain flowers from the sky, yet the inspection team showed not the slightest reaction. Instead, they held their notebooks and recorded everything point by point.
"Mr. Shalier'an, hearing is false, seeing is believing. Next, I'll take you to inspect the site in person. Then you'll naturally gain a more intuitive understanding of Bella City's conditions."
Afterward, under Burleyland's arrangements, he led everyone directly into the urban area. By then, Bella City had already built quite a number of factory buildings, though most of them stood vacant.
"Look, this area is less than a kilometer from the railway station. To the left is the Peng Kui River, whose water can be fully utilized."
Chemical enterprises were generally built beside rivers or the sea, because the industry consumed enormous amounts of water and also brought severe pollution.
Thus, in later generations, chemical plants prioritized sites downstream along rivers or coastal areas with looser discharge standards. Of course, in the 19th century, there was no strict concept of "pollution." BASF Company's main factory, for instance, was built inland along the Rhine River.
"The railway can directly transport coal, lead, zinc, and other resources from Matabele Province and the central regions to Bella City. Moreover, East Africa lacks nothing less than rubber. It is the world's largest rubber producer. We have also planned new rubber-producing areas west of the railway. By then, Mozambique will become an important rubber-producing region in East Africa as well."
Mozambique, especially its central and northern regions, received abundant rainfall. Combined with its climate, it was extremely suitable for rubber cultivation. Beyond the Matabele Plateau, however, rainfall began to decrease under the influence of the plateau terrain, making those areas less suitable for growing rubber.
Naturally, an important reason East Africa