Chapter 1082 Industrial Axis

This round of the East African National Canal Plan still follows the previous idea and indirectly achieves the purpose of river-sea combined transportation by building a number of artificial rivers to connect the national water network.

Counting the previous canal projects built in East Africa, when the East African National Canal Plan is realized, the total length of East Africa's artificial canals will reach an astonishing approximately 5,000 kilometers. You must know that the length of the Congo River is only more than 4,000 kilometers. If these artificial canals are connected in series , no less than digging a Yellow River.

Of course, there are no examples of horrific projects like this in East Africa. The Soviet Union and the Far East Empire’s canal construction in the past can be described as “crazy”, which is beyond the understanding of most Western countries.

The Karakum Canal built by the Soviet Union in Central Asia alone is more than 1,400 kilometers long. Secondly, the Soviet Union also built man-made canal projects such as the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal, Volga-Don Canal, and the Far Eastern Empire. The construction of "Crazy Devil" has never stopped similar projects since ancient times.

Of course, the East African National Canal plan is mainly focused on shipping, and Ernst's more purpose is to reduce the cost of transportation in the country.

With the rise of East Africa's domestic industry and transportation industry, East Africa is also facing severe energy issues. Therefore, diversification of public transportation modes is an important guarantee for the economic and transportation strategic security of East African countries.

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One wave after another, the East African Navy's trip to South America still attracted the attention of the British. Ever since East Africa started trouble in the Persian Gulf last year, the UK has been dissatisfied with East Africa, and East Africa's diplomatic activities in South America can Said that once again stirred the nerves of the British.

Since the 19th century, Britain has been trying to expand its influence in South America. For example, the British invaded Rio de Janeiro in the early 19th century. Although it ultimately failed, Britain's penetration of South America never stopped. Later, the Guano War and the Paraguay War were all inseparable. Open the shadow of Britain.

By the end of the 19th century, Britain had de facto controlled the South American economy. Britain had become the largest investor in South America, and Britain's economic colonization of South America was more aggressive than ever before in history.

The main reason for this result is the rise of East Africa. You must know that in the previous life, the British Empire finally took shape. Africa, especially East Africa, now accounts for a large part of the territory. Uganda, Rhodesia, Kenya, South Africa, etc. are all British. The so-called "Crown Jewel".

The emergence of East Africa can be said to have cut off most of Britain's interests in Africa. Although Britain's colonies in West Africa were retained, it faced fierce competition with a number of European and American countries.

As a result, Britain can only turn its attention to other parts of the world, and South America is undoubtedly a fat piece of meat. Although most of the countries in South America are Spain or Portugal, the decline of the two countries is severe now, and Portugal was crippled by East Africa. , Spain was also left half-dead by the United States, which also provided more favorable conditions for British penetration into South America.

Britain's penetration into South American countries has made Britain the country with the largest interest in South America. The activities in East Africa will obviously not make the British happy.

Current British Prime Minister Asquith: "In the past two years, East Africa has been very active around the world. Now the unrest in the Persian Gulf region is obviously supported by East Africans. Now East Africa has extended its hands into South America. Both regions happen to be empires. Where the interests lie.”

There is nothing that can be done about this. As the world's largest colonial power, Britain's influence spreads all over the world. It can be said that changes in most countries or regions will involve the interests of the British.

Take East Africa as an example. East Africa is surrounded by British colonies or economic colonies in four directions: Egypt in the north, Persian Gulf, India in the northeast, British West Africa in the northwest, Australia in the east, South Africa in the south, and South America in the west. British economic colony.

No matter where East Africa expands or expands its influence, it will have an impact on Britain. This is inevitable.

Finance Minister George said: "The country of East Africa has been evil since its birth. At least the government's incompetence has led to East Africa's expansion on the African continent. In recent years, East Africa's industry has developed rapidly, even having a certain impact on our country's market. The streets of London are even more You can see a lot of cars produced in East Africa.”

"This also means that East Africa's industrial capabilities have developed to a certain extent. From a global perspective, Germany, the United States and East Africa have formed an axis of new industrial power, and the empire is surrounded by these three emerging industrial powers. ”

In fact, East Africa, the United States and Germany are currently the three major centers of the second industrial revolution. However, East Africa's industrial background is far less than that of the United States and Germany, so the full development of East Africa as a center began after the 20th century.

Speaking of this, Asquith also frowned: "The empire has successfully fought many challengers in the past, but new forces have always risen, posing new challenges to the empire's hegemony, and Germany, the United States and East Africa are just like this. Representatives of a new type of power, and their threat is even greater than that of France, Austria-Hungary and Russia. "

France, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia can be said to be Britain's competitors in the past. France has been greatly weakened by the Franco-Prussian War, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire is even more fragile and no longer poses a threat. As for Russia, it was also because of the Russo-Japanese War. Failed, and now I can only lick my wounds.

The last time Britain took action was to support Japan, which dealt a huge blow to Russia, causing this powerful competitor for British hegemony to collapse.

But when one thing is suppressed, another one pops up. Even if Britain's diplomatic and military capabilities are superb, once it falls into this endless competition, it seems a little powerless.

"Germany still has countries on the European continent to check and balance, but the United States and East Africa are the real big troubles. They are outside the control of the empire, and we don't have a good countermeasure to check and balance these two countries." Asquith said.

Britain is actually well aware of the threat to the United States. After all, the United States has been tossing around the world in recent years as much as East Africa.

The Spanish-American War was the beginning of the expansion of American power, and then the United States infiltrated in Central and South America and the Far East.

East Africa and the United States are like two sickles, frantically harvesting political influence in areas outside Europe, one in the south and one in the north, one in the east and one in the west, and the first to bear the brunt is Britain, the leader of the current world order.

George said on the side: "It is impossible for the United States to be completely suppressed. As for East Africa, perhaps we can think of a way. After all, it has a short development time and has not yet reached the strength and status of the United States."

Asquith sighed and said: "This is a bit taken for granted. In fact, the United States is easier to deal with than East Africa, because we can at least have an impact on the US economy and politics, while East Africa is like a copper wall and iron wall that is difficult to penetrate."

"East Africa can be said to be the largest closed country in the world. If East Africa is like Russia, perhaps we would not have so many troubles."

Russia's economy is controlled by foreign countries. This is Russia's fatal flaw. Other countries can use economic sanctions and other means to make Russia more honest, but East Africa is obviously not the case. Britain has done so before, but observing the development of East Africa in the past decade, it is obviously not very effective.

After the South African War, war was no longer within the scope of Britain's consideration. Britain essentially hoped to restrict East Africa's industrial development through economic sanctions, but the opposite happened. East Africa is becoming increasingly powerful.

What impressed the British the most was the East African dreadnought. At that time, the first British dreadnought had just been launched, and East Africa followed closely, becoming the second country in the world to have a dreadnought. It was hard for East Africa not to attract the attention of Britain.

Britain naturally understood the difficulty of manufacturing such a big killer. It was almost impossible to achieve without a strong shipbuilding industry. East Africa had dreadnoughts almost at the same time as Britain. Does that mean that East Africa's shipbuilding industry is not inferior to Britain in a certain sense?