Sigmaringen is cost-effective, and East Africa is also cost-effective. East Africa’s material and labor costs are not high in themselves. During the previous railway construction, a large portion benefited freely from the global steel capacity surplus due to the economic crisis of 1873.
Now that various steel plants in East Africa are in production, eting its own needs is no longer an issue. As for labor costs, building this railway is nothing compared to current water conservancy projects.
East Africa completed its planning for steel, railway, and related industries over the course of the seventies, and in these two fields, it should be said to be on the sa level as Russia; the quantity is adequate, though the quality is relatively rough.
To get things done in East Africa, money is one aspect, and resource allocation is another aspect. With an annual steel production capacity of one million tons, East Africa’s state-owned enterprises, East Africa Steel and East Africa Railway, have already beco conglorates in their respective fields.
anwhile, the steel production level of England and Arica during the sa period is over 1.3 million tons, which is lower than before the economic crisis. The 1873 economic crisis at least caused one-third of steel enterprises in both countries to go bankrupt, and the economy continues to remain sluggish now.
In contrast, East Africa experienced extensive economic developnt throughout the seventies, acquiring nurous bankrupt steel companies and manufacturing equipnt from Europe and Arica. Through a national system and Ernst’s knowledge of East African mineral resources, East African steel enterprises grew rapidly and secured an important share in the world.
The most direct beneficiaries are East Africa’s military industrial enterprises and railway enterprises, while demand for steel in other fields is also very strong. Typically during the seventies, East Africa’s agricultural machinery had improved in terms of materials and quality, further promoting the release of East African agricultural productivity and paving the foundation for various engineering projects in East Africa.
As the seventies ended, East Africa’s railway industry got on track, reducing the actual demand for steel, with more steel capacity entering other fields or even being available for export to the international market.
So now East Africa’s steel production, when compared to other countries, is actually excessive. If East Africa were a free market nation, its steel industry would definitely undergo large-scale bankruptcy and restructuring, while East Africa has consistently practiced a planned economy, resulting in the country remaining in a state of overall deflation.
In fact, by 1880, the Arican Westward Movent had basically concluded, while East Africa was completing its own Westward Movent. The inland is under developnt, and by 1890, East Africa’s central region, primarily the Matebel Province, Hohenzollern Province, and Swabia Province, is expected to reach the current level of developnt of the eastern region.
East Africa’s Westward Movent is quite different from Arica’s. First, in terms of industry, the Arican Westward Movent primarily focused on agricultural developnt, while East Africa emphasized industry more.
As ntioned earlier, most of East Africa’s mineral resources are distributed in central regions, so most of East Africa’s recent industrial investnts have been in the inland, the most prominent being the tallurgy industries like steel, railway, and copper mining.
In contrast, Arica’s resources in the west evidently cannot match those in the northeast part of the country, so the most iconic result of the Arican Westward Movent is cowboys and farms; of course, the frenzy of railway construction is similar. Previously, Arica simultaneously built five railways between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, while during the sa period, East Africa only had one Central Railway, half a Two-Ocean Railway (due to Portuguese Angola, the Atlantic connection was incomplete).
Indeed, the timing of railway construction in East Africa is slightly later than that in Arica, with the economic crisis of 1873 being a dividing line. Although Arica seed chaotic nationwide post-crisis, the economic shrinkage was still not insignificant. In other words, economic data heavily inflated, and stock and investnt markets raised railway values above their rightful place.
Conversely, East Africa’s railway output value is more objectively real, because the East African governnt doesn’t need to inflate railway value.
Another reason why East Africa’s Westward Movent emphasized industry is that the eastern agriculture is already quite complete and developed. Before the Westward Movent, East Africa’s eastern grain production capacity was quite notable globally.
In contrast, industrial developnt in East Africa’s east was not advanced, while the rise of coastal industrial cities like Dar es Salaam and Mombasa was significantly boosted by the montum of the Westward Movent.
Before this, Dar es Salaam and Mombasa were still cities, but they did not emphasize industrial developnt and served as national-level goods distribution centers and service industry centers.
With the completion of Central Railway and Northern Railway construction, two cities were endowed with rich industrial assets; for instance, the railway locomotive manufacturing center remained in the east because this is where East Africa’s two major railways begin.
But this is just the initial industrial investnt East Africa had to make, and upon the completion of the two major railways, the focus of East Africa’s industrial investnt imdiately shifted to the central region taking priority, as transportation improvents provided conditions for industrial developnt in the central three provinces.
Industrial layout in this era still prioritized raw material origins rather than later generations’ market orientations, this is particularly evident in industries like steel and mining.
This is the significant reason why East Africa, despite starting industrialization simultaneously with Japan, managed to quickly widen the gap with Japan to the point where Japan couldn’t even see East Africa’s shadow—in Japan, there was scant mineral resource, making it hard to cook a al without rice.
Furthermore, East Africa’s version of the Westward Movent was entirely led by the East African governnt, while in the Arican Westward Movent, the governnt only served a guiding role and rarely intervened subsequently.
Hence, East Africa’s inland developnt is purposeful, planned, organized, and gradual, while Arica’s was wild, disorderly, chaotic, with fierce competition.
In comparison, East African governnt forces cleared inland threats, organized guided immigration orderly, reasonably laid out industries, with hardly any setbacks in between.
On the other hand, the Arican West faced a shortage of police forces from the start, conflicting ard groups, reckless massacres of Native Indians, rampant robberies and vendetta killings, reminiscent of a vivid scene of gang rule.
However, Arica’s developnt model naturally had both disadvantages and advantages, with plenty of drawbacks and also many rits. In the early stage, governnt input was minimal; Arica is a typical small governnt, finding tax collection challenging, with limited funds, forcing reliance on civil power.
After all, Arica’s history of ard taxation spans less than twenty years, with the Internal Revenue Service founded in 1862 to raise funds during the Civil War, only to be quickly abandoned after the war.
Moreover, Arica’s Westward Movent under intense competition represented opportunities, especially for ordinary people, being ruthless could rapidly accumulate vast wealth, creating many early-rich groups; unraveling how big and small banks and train robberies birthed nurous Arican wealthy individuals is an unknown.
Comparatively, East Africa appears petty, as the East African governnt contributed significantly, naturally taking away most of the wealth and profits, only eting migrants’ basic subsistence needs.
The East African governnt is a typical formidable national apparatus; under the army, police, and other violent forces, cri has little soil to exist, and screened East African citizens are typically manageable, small farrs and workers.
Two developnt paths, people see what they see, wise ones see their wisdom. But in the end, Arica and East Africa’s west have been effectively developed, except Arica’s Westward Movent took over a hundred years, while East Africa took less than ten years.
Though East Africa’s Westward Movent focused on the industrial sector, East Africa’s overall level of industrialization was originally not high, agricultural investnt still occupied the primary position.
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