Chapter 624 Trade

The cargo ship's automatic unloading crane hoists the packed small simple containers one by one. These containers appear to be crudely made and are all made of welded steel bars.

The reason why this kind of container is used is mainly to adapt to the simple ports of Tianzhu. Due to the destruction of civil strife, the supporting facilities of many large ports were either bombed or dismantled by the refugees.

This situation makes it difficult to find large crane equipment in most ports along the Tianzhu coast, especially in some small ports.

In order to ensure the smooth flow of trade, cargo ships can be equipped with their own loading and unloading equipment.

Guderian and Mao Mingsheng discussed the next batch of grain procurement shares.

At the port, many poor coolies were numbly carrying bags of rice. There were not many transport vehicles that the Andhra Army could mobilize, and after they were dispersed to various places, there were even fewer.

The name of this port city is Gilala City, which is very close to Guntur City, the core area of ​​the Andhra Army.

Near the city of Guntur is the essence of the area controlled by the Andhra Army. This area has two connected river delta plains, namely the Krishna River Delta Plain and the Godavari River Delta Plain.

Occupying these two delta plains allows the Andhra Army to obtain relatively sufficient farmland. As long as it stabilizes, with sufficient water resources and low-latitude light and heat conditions, this is an agricultural area comparable to the Mekong Delta plain.

This kind of fat is naturally a good place for development when it is internally stable; unfortunately, the current chaotic situation in Tianzhu has caused these two delta plains to turn into a big fat.

The northern, western, and southern parts of Andhra Pradesh are all forces ready to move. The Andhra Army bordering the three forces will naturally become the target of plunder.

In particular, the Tiger Army, which was suffering from severe drought, fought several times with the Andhra Army in order to snatch food.

In more than a year of fighting, the southwestern region of Andhra Pradesh was overrun by the Tigers.

This is also one of the reasons why the Food Alliance agreed to assist the Andhra Army. Ensuring the calm of various forces and then gradually stabilizing their control areas is the main goal of the offshore balance strategy.

As for annexing this place, the appetite is not that big yet. At present, it is just to get back the previously lost land, and the remaining area will be decomposed.

After all, this is a region with a population of more than one billion, and its race and culture are incompatible with the traditional Chinese civilization circle.

No matter how confident Greater China is, it will not have the confidence to absorb such a huge population.

You must know that Korea, Japan and Indochina are actually the radiation areas of the Chinese civilization circle. With nearly two thousand years of cultural penetration, coupled with similar races, there are also a large number of overseas Chinese in the local areas.

With a multi-pronged approach, the initial integration was barely completed.

For example, the Nanyang Islands and Oceania are diluted by a large number of immigrants, hoping to complete the initial assimilation in the next 50 years or so through subtle influence.

For regions such as South Asia and Central Asia, the main strategies are offshore balancing, economic control, cultural export, and talent siphoning.

The entire population of South Asia is indeed too large, and it is very difficult to transform. Rather than engaging in thankless annexation, it is better to learn the strategy of an empire on which the sun never sets.

Mao Mingsheng and Guderian talked for more than half an hour. The two sides got a preliminary verbal condition and ended the negotiation.

Originally, Guderian wanted to invite him to lunch, but Mao Mingsheng refused directly. The last dinner he entertained was something he would never forget.

Back on the ship, the first mate Mangsha reported to him the rice loading and unloading situation.

The port does not have many transport vehicles and machinery and equipment, resulting in slow unloading. It took more than two hours to unload about 1,700 tons of rice.

Maung Mingsheng looked at his watch and estimated that it would not be possible until early tomorrow morning to remove them all.

In order to maximize the benefits of the voyage, they also accepted the order from the Mining Alliance to transport a batch of bauxite and timber from the local area back to Claxi City.

Kraxi City, located on the west side of the Kra Isthmus Canal, is also one of the important integrated transportation centers for raw materials.

For example, the bauxite and timber transported by Maung Mingsheng this time will be sold to local crude aluminum smelters and timber factories.

These primary raw materials are processed and turned into secondary and tertiary raw materials before being transported to the mainland in Greater China.

The mining alliance, which controls global mineral pricing power, has a huge advantage in international trade.

This is also one of the competitive advantages of industrial products in Greater China. A large part of the world's mineral production companies are directly or indirectly controlled by the mining alliance.

If you are disobedient, the consequence may be direct bankruptcy. After all, Greater China can completely achieve internal circulation. Minerals from other regions are now imported for three main purposes:

The first is to support the economy of younger brothers or friendly forces; the second is to ensure sufficient economic penetration; the third is to consume rich overseas mineral resources.

Why does Australia import iron ore from Samba, Africa, Central Asia and Lucia even though it has so much iron ore?

The purpose is to consume the rich minerals in these areas, even if some powerful man appears in these areas in the future and tries to revitalize industry.

Greater China can also block the opponent from raw materials.

For example, now in Tianzhu, the eight major internal forces have steel plants and the like, but in addition to local iron ore, if they want to import iron ore from other regions, they must obtain approval from the Mining Alliance.

If any region dares to ignore the mining alliance, the consequence will be a comprehensive economic blockade.

Due to technical reasons, Greater China's economic blockade is more comprehensive than that of Noah's Society. It is like an airtight network, enough to suffocate most of the forces.

Maybe Noah will be able to compete with Greater China, but Noah will now implement a comprehensive contraction strategy. If they dare to come to Asia to cause trouble, then Greater China will definitely attack Central America.

In this general environment, Tianzhu is almost isolated and can only continue to be chaotic for a period of time, and then gradually form a group of new small forces.

The port area of ​​Gilala City.

In this tropical harbor, the gentle sea breeze brings a touch of coolness under the setting sun.

In the coastal mangroves about two kilometers away from the cargo ship, as the tide rose, a small fishing boat slowly sailed out of the mangroves.

There were more than a dozen people on board, staring at the cargo ship with bright eyes. Except for the two leaders, who carried hunting rifles, the others only carried machetes and spears on their backs.

They knew that the Coast Guard only had one patrol boat and generally did not patrol the sea at night.

Of course, these people did not dare to blatantly rob the cargo ship. They just wanted to steal some rice.

As night fell, the fishing boat circled out to sea and then cautiously approached the other side of the cargo ship.

It's just that they didn't realize that after several previous theft incidents, the ships coming to Tianzhu for trade had upgraded their monitoring systems.

The fishing boat approached the cargo ship five hundred meters, and an alarm sounded in the cockpit. The first officer Mangsha took a look at the opponent's trajectory and quickly judged that the person was evil.

Immediately call the Coast Guard in Gilala City and ask them to come out and take care of this.

After being awakened, Maung Ming-sheng immediately ordered the crew to pick up weapons, and at the same time, he also prepared for the worst.

If you do business in such a chaotic area, you will more or less encounter some trouble.

The coast patrol, which was notified quickly, also quickly dispatched, but the fishing boat also fled to the open sea.

After looking at the surveillance system, Mao Mingsheng sneered and shook his head. Obviously the fishing boat had something to do with the patrol, otherwise it would not have escaped so fast.

For such a decadent force, it is normal for internal and external collusion to occur.

But he is not easy to fool, and he will beat Guderian tomorrow.

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