June.
Port Bagamoyo, Little Rhine River.
Bagamoyo, as East African colony, is second only to Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, it is the fourth port of Tanga and the focus of East African colony's development.
A factory building covering an area of more than 1,000 square meters was built in Port Bagamoyo. It is entirely made of masonry concrete structure. The red wall looks out of place with the surrounding white Arab buildings.
Its style completely copies the current architectural style in Europe, which is in sharp contrast with the short Arab houses around it. Even the local Arab religion hall in Bagamoyo looks a bit small in front of it.
The tall chimney protruded from the ceiling in the middle of the factory building, and the billowing black smoke lit up the blue sky of East Africa. The smell of industry was blowing in East Africa.
Sultanate of Zanzibar There are also some small-scale handicraft industries in East Africa, all of which are traditional small workshops, such as blacksmith shops, tailor shops... these traditional handicraft industries.
Bagamoyo Flour Mill is the second recorded modern industry using large machines for production in the entire East Africa region.
The first time is Tanga Sisal Processing Plant, which has been in business for a long time. It is currently doing well in the market.
But sisal is East Africa's dominant industry, and only parts of Brazil and Southeast Asia in the world can compete with it.
Flour mills are a relatively common industrial industry today, especially in Europe and the United States. There are countless such factories, including of course small ones that may only have one or two machines.
The Bagamoyo flour mill uses steam power, that is, a boiler. Its boiler power source is coal developed from the interior of East Africa, which drives the steam turbine to provide uninterrupted and stable power to the equipment in the factory.
The machinery and equipment in the factory are all the latest models imported from German territories. They are loaded in the form of spare parts at the Germany port along the coast of the Baltic Sea, and finally unloaded at Port Bagamoyo.
After the guidance of professional and technical personnel, dozens of machines have been installed. These machines are large and all made of metal parts.
The entire workshop is simple and elegant, making it convenient for cleaning and disinfection.
The lighting system all adopts Berlin Electric Company's own technology, which can maintain continuous operation even at night, and the generator is an imported Siemens Company product.
Closely connected to the production workshop is a huge modern warehouse. The climate in the coastal areas of East Africa is relatively humid, which is not conducive to the preservation of food, so the storage requirements for food are higher.
Therefore, the construction of the warehouse fully adopts the best technology and planning of the current era.
In order to prevent moisture and rats, the ground is entirely made of poured concrete structure. The drainage system is designed by professionals, fully considering the local climate environment. At the same time, the warehouse is equipped with various measuring instruments. Workers can check the indoor temperature and humidity at any time and adjust the environment in the warehouse.
The Bagamoyo flour mill is an extension of the agricultural industry. With the help of local port conditions, the processed East African colony wheat can be directly exported in the form of flour.
Its staff, in addition to the professional and technical personnel hired by Hechingen Company to maintain the operation of the machines, are mainly immigrants with a little education from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, supplemented by a small number of Chinese.
On the contrary, more Chinese are needed in the stages of transporting materials, packing and transporting finished products.
For these Austro-Hungarian Empire and Chinese immigrants, simple training is still required. In addition to health and safety education, they must also be familiar with the operating principles of the machine.
The flour produced by Bagamoyo flour factory will be marked with the trademark Hechingen Company and sold in Europe.
The returning Hechingen Ocean Trade Fleet brings back Trieste and sells it directly through the commercial outlets established by the company in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
At the same time, it can also take this opportunity to recruit immigrants. After all, this batch of flour can prove that East Africa has its own products and is not a barren land.
Bagamoyo was once one of the largest slave trading markets in East Africa. With the defeat of Sultanate of Zanzibar, Bagamoyo was also captured by East African Colonial Government.
However, East African Colonial Government only opened a slave trading market to Arabs in Dar es Salaam Port. The slave trading markets in Mombasa, Bagamoyo and other places were closed.
As early as the 18th century, Bagamoyo was the most important port in East Africa. At its peak, more than 50,000 indigenous slaves boarded ships and sailed from here every year.
As Sultanate of Zanzibar developed Dar es Salaam, Bagamoyo gradually declined, and now East African Colonial Government has taken it up again to develop Bagamoyo.
After all, there are still too few excellent ports in the entire East African coast. It may seem sufficient now, but with the development of East Africa and the increase in population, port resources will inevitably become precious in the future.
At present, the factories that can be opened in East Africa can only be located in the coastal areas. Taking advantage of the port's maritime transportation, the machines arriving from Europe can be implemented.
As for the inland, don't even think about it for now. The cost of moving these stupid, bulky machines to the inland is too high.
Moreover, the machines of this era are relatively expensive. If they get caught in the rain, get stuck in the mud, or get bumped, it will be difficult to repair them according to the conditions in East Africa.
Wheat is currently the largest food crop in East African colony. The annual output is still considerable, and with the arrival of immigrants and land development, the potential will be greater and greater in the future.
As for rice, in fact, compared to wheat, rice is grown in the coastal plains of East Africa, which has a distance advantage.
However, because Europe mainly produces wheat crops, after industrialization, the development of agricultural machinery naturally favors wheat and other European native crops.
Ernst It is impossible to import rice planting and processing machinery from Europe. Just like in the previous life, Japan only vigorously promoted the advancement of rice planting and processing technology in East Asia after the industrial development of Japan, and was the first to realize mechanized production of rice in the Far East.
Therefore, developing wheat is an important step for Ernst to enter the grain processing market. It is simple and easy to operate. Moreover, East Africa has a large land area, a wide area of arable land, and precipitation is suitable for wheat cultivation.
Currently, East African colony wheat planting area has exceeded rice planting area. This is based on the fact that the population in the eastern rice growing area is higher than the population in the western wheat growing area.
Wheat embodies its obvious advantages of being easy to care for and more resistant to drought. It is very suitable for the tropical grassland climate. Especially East Africa has significant plateau characteristics. The temperature is lower than that at the same latitude. The yield can reach above the average level. Coupled with the advantage of planting area caused by the vast land and sparse population, the yield is considerable.
Bagamoyo Flour Mill is a food processing enterprise built on this potential advantage, further extending the agricultural industry chain, improving the East African colony agricultural industry level, and obtaining higher profits.