The French government was not able to provide assistance to the colonial government of Madagascar, so all the revenues of the colonial government of Madagascar came from taxes in Madagascar.

The most common tax in this period was actually the poll tax, which was levied by the Natal government, which eventually led to the rebellion of Africans in Natal.

Madagascar was more policing than Natal, and there were guerrilla forces in the central highlands and in the south of the island, so the Malagasy colonial government received more of its income from mining companies in Madagascar and farms throughout Madagascar.

According to statistics, French companies in Madagascar own more than 10 million hectares of land in Madagascar, accounting for one-sixth of the entire island area of Madagascar.

These mining companies and plantations do not pay taxes according to the regulations, and large enterprises such as Marseille and Lyon have a deep background in France, so the colonial government is often helpless.

At this time, a law-abiding and tax-paying Mayotte company jumped out, and Mickey Byron was so happy that he could imagine how happy.

"The Governor has decided to sell 150,000 hectares of land around Anbanza to Mayotte, which has promised to invest no less than 1.5 million francs in these lands, which is certainly not Malagasy francs—" Mitch Byron also knew that the Malagasy franc was not in good standing.

For Madagascar, Mitch Byron is just a passerby, he is an official appointed by Paris, and after five years in Madagascar, he will go to other colonies, so Mitch Byron will not care about the future of Madagascar, as long as he can survive his tenure safely, it will be the biggest victory.

Of course, if the financial statements of his tenure were any better, Mitch Byron would have been a brilliant colonial official.

150,000 hectares of land is not a lot, but it represents Mayotte's official entry into Madagascar's farms, so Leo Parker and Brown Joel are a little ugly.

"Wasn't the land around Anbanza not in the Governor's plan to sell it?" Brown Joel directly questioned that the land around Ambanza is a relatively well-developed farm, and it can be profitable to take over, and the Marseille company also wanted to buy it before, but the Doge's Palace did not sell it.

"It's normal to make adjustments to the plan—" Mitch Byron replied, and the Mayotte company buys land for about one franc a hectare, and the Marseille company buys the farm, and the price for one hectare is only five su, which is too much difference.

One franc is equal to 20 sus.

In addition to the price of the land, the subsequent benefits of the plantation are not the same.

The vast majority of the plantations run by the Marseille company are sold to mainland France, and for some well-known reasons, the transaction volume is large, but the price of the transaction is not high, which leads to a somewhat small amount of taxes.

The simplest example, the price of a kilogram of white sugar in mainland France is about fifteen sous, and the price in Madagascar has reached twelve sous, and the price of Marseille sells white sugar to companies in France, and the price of one kilogram is only two raw dings, even if these two raw dings are all taxes, that's all.

One Su is equal to five shengding.

Therefore, Mayotte's commitment to the Governor's Palace is that all products will be sold at the actual price, and there will be absolutely no harm to the interests of the Governor's Palace.

In fact, it is normal for the price of 12 sasks to become 15 sus, but the Marseille company would rather transport the sugar back to France than sell it locally in Madagascar, which made the Madagascar colonial government very dissatisfied, but there was no way to take the Marseille company.

Although the governor of Madagascar was a directly appointed official in Paris, and the Marseille company was also a member of the court, the colonial government of Madagascar preferred to sell the land to the Mayotte company rather than to the Marseille company, which was detrimental to the public and private interests.

"God, what did I hear? An upright Frenchman is actually discriminated against on French soil, and I suspect that there is a serious transfer of interests between you, waiting for the congressional questioning! Brown Joel was furious, and turned away angrily.

Mitch Byron smiled and didn't take it seriously, since the establishment of the colonial government of Madagascar, the French government has never given the colonial government of Madagascar even a single franc, if Congress wants to investigate the colonial government of Madagascar because of this-

In other words, the governor of Madagascar is not easy to mess with, after all, he is also a feudal official.

"Congratulations—" Andrew Charley offered to raise a glass to Robert.

"Thanks, we'll talk about the new contract later, and we'll be busy next-" Robert was in a happy mood, 150,000 hectares of land is just the beginning, Madagascar has at least 50 million hectares of unsold land, take your time, it's a big business.

Of course, this little business does not have much weight here in Roque, and Roque was really busy with work during this time, and even neglected the construction of Port Elizabeth.

The war-ready warehouses in Rhodesia are much larger than those reported by Roque, and they store not only oil, but also important reserves of weapons and ammunition.

About two weeks ago, Roque instructed the Nyasaland Arsenal to start ramping up production and preparing to stock up supplies in the event of an impending war in Europe.

It was not the First World War, the First World War was still a few years away, and the war between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire was imminent, that is, the Italo-Turkish War.

Because of Nyasaland's aircraft, both the Italian and Ottoman empires sent people to Nyasaland to negotiate with the Nyasaland Aviation Institute to buy planes and hire pilots.

At a reception, Italian and Ottoman officials in charge of procurement "bumped into" Nelson Molly of the Nyasaland Arsenal, and then the Italian and Ottoman officials visited the Nyasaland Arsenal separately and took great interest in the weapons produced by the Nyasaland Arsenal.

It is unimaginable that in the twentieth century, countries like Italy and the Ottoman Empire are not yet self-sufficient in weapons production, and still need to purchase foreign countries to meet the needs of their troops.

Italy's military industry is really not good, until Napoleon's invasion of Italy in 1796, Italy has been in a state of fragmentation, in 1861, the current Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed, the former king of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Vittorio Emanuele II, became the king of Italy.

After the reunification, Italy also embarked on the capitalist colonial path of foreign expansion, and tried to appear as a great power in European politics and diplomacy.

However, what does not match the ambitions of the Kingdom of Italy is the strength of the Kingdom of Italy, and compared with Britain, France, and Germany, the strength of the Kingdom of Italy is still not enough, so the Kingdom of Italy went around and started the idea of the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire is known as the "sick man of Europe", so the strength of the Ottoman Empire can be imagined.

In fact, the heavy artillery of the Ottoman Empire is still very good, but the industrial development of this country is a bit deformed, the heavy artillery technology is one of the best in Europe, but the foundation of the basic industry is not good, and the troops are still equipped with single-shot rifles that have been eliminated by the southern African troops.

So the Ottomans were interested in the Nyasaland rifles produced by the Nyasaland Arsenal.

The Nyasaland rifle is actually Lee Enfield produced by the Nyasaland Arsenal, and more advanced weapons are not absent, anyway, the Ottoman Empire will not take the weapons purchased in Nyasaland to fight with the troops in southern Africa, so the Nyasaland Arsenal did not hide its secrets, and while recommending the Nyasaland rifle to the Ottoman officials, it also showed the performance of the general-purpose machine gun to the Ottoman officials.

Compared with the 30-kilogram Maxim heavy machine gun, the general-purpose machine gun produced in Nyasaland is lighter and more maintainable, because the barrel can be changed quickly, and it is also free from the dependence on water.

But for the Ottoman Empire, whether it is a Makqin or a general-purpose machine gun, a huge problem is the consumption of bullets, because the troops in southern Africa are equipped with trucks, so they can be equipped with general-purpose machine guns unscrupulously, the troops of the Ottoman Empire have not even realized the mule and horse, and the transportation of weapons and ammunition has to rely on manpower to carry it on the shoulder, so even if the performance of the general-purpose machine gun is good, the Ottoman Empire will not buy it.

It's not that you can't afford it, it's that you can't afford it.

This thinking also carried over to the Nyasaland rifles, so much so that the magazine isolators, which had been obsolete in southern Africa, were asked by Ottoman officials to be reinstalled on the Nyasaland rifles sold to the Ottoman Empire.

As a result, the magazine rifle was turned back into a single-shot rifle, and it cost a higher price than a single-shot rifle, and Roque simply could not understand the behavior of the Ottoman Empire.

If you don't understand, you don't understand, the customer is God, the officials of the Ottoman Empire asked for this, and of course Roque would not be pedantic enough not to sell it, after all, the first batch of orders from the Ottoman Empire was 50,000 rifles, according to the output of the Nyasaland Arsenal, this order was enough for the Nyasaland Arsenal for a year.

That's why Roque asked the Nyasaland Arsenal to increase production, after all, there are still orders from the Kingdom of Italy to be completed, and the Kingdom of Italy has a more urgent need for weapons, and the first orders include thousands of different types of pistols in addition to 20,000 rifles, as well as mortars whose technology is already very mature in Nyasaland.

The Nyasaland rifles sold by the Nyasaland Arsenal were sold for forty-five rand each, so the two orders from the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire were worth a lot of money.

But that's not the end of it, as larger orders come from all sorts of luxury goods produced in Nyasaland, such as cars and gold jewelry.

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