Chapter 520: Arriving at the Hawaiian Islands for Inspection
The entire Southeast Asia region covers an area of about 4.57 million square kilometers. The Far East controlled area does not include Dutch Indonesia and British Burma, which covers an area of about 3 million square kilometers. However, it has a population of 200 million, so the development speed of Southeast Asia can be rapid.
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This region is collectively known as the Far Southeast Asia Autonomous Region, and is divided into three administrative parts, one is the Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand Autonomous Region, the other is the Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Autonomous Region, and the third is the Philippines Autonomous Region.
Because Southeast Asia is a relatively densely populated area with a large number of Chinese people living together, it provides strong governance conditions for the Far East Group. Therefore, this area is considered by Li Ningyu to be one of the most dynamic and potential areas for the Far East Group's economic development in the future. However,
From the perspective of the political and economic structure of the future world, Southeast Asia has a more important strategic position, mainly because Southeast Asia has been the only way for China to lead to the world since ancient times.
Among them is a famous waterway in Asia, the Strait of Malacca.
Malacca is a narrow waterway running from northwest to southeast, with a total length of about 1,185 kilometers. The strait is trumpet-shaped, wide at the northwest end and narrower at the southeast. There are many small islands distributed at the bottom of the strait. The bottom of the strait is flat, and the water depth of the main channel is about 25 meters.
to 150 meters, and generally ships under 200,000 tons can enter and exit at will.
Because the Strait of Malacca is located near the equator, the wind here is weak and the wind is always calm in the channel. In addition, after the Far East Army took over, it began to improve the navigation system, so it is very safe to sail here, so the Strait of Malacca became Europe.
It is a major shipping channel to Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. It is the main maritime hub for mutual exchanges between Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania, making the traffic location very important. According to incomplete statistics, various types of ships pass through the Strait of Malacca every year.
There are about 50,000 ships, and on average more than 150 ships pass through the strait every day, so the Strait of Malacca is also the busiest strait in the world.
Since the Strait of Malacca has had an important strategic position and considerable economic value since ancient times, it has been occupied by Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France since the 16th century. It was not until the outbreak of the Eight-Power Allied Forces incident that the Strait of Malacca was returned to the coastal countries. Malacca is now
The Strait is jointly managed by the Far East authorities and the Dutch authorities, but the main decision-making power lies in the hands of the Far East Group.
Therefore, in the planning and construction of the entire South Asia region, it is completely a fully functional and extensive area. Because it has a natural and excellent deep-water port and geographical location, coupled with the advantages of natural seasons, agricultural development can easily form a large scale and population base.
It is relatively large and self-sufficient in traditional handicrafts and light industry. At the same time, after many years of construction by the Far East authorities, the machinery manufacturing and heavy industry foundation here has now formed a certain scale of supporting facilities.
The dozen hydroelectric power plants in the Mekong River Basin alone provide five industrial bases in South Asia. The main ones include the five branches of the Far East Group's First Automobile Manufacturing Plant, three aircraft manufacturing plants, and two engine manufacturing plants.
factory and an all-round arsenal, and the total number of supporting enterprises required by the above enterprises is as high as hundreds.
At the same time, five large deep-water terminals and seven shipyard construction bases have been built here. It can be said that the current development of South Asia has already surpassed North Korea. As long as it takes a little time, North Korea, the most important production and processing center of the Far East Group,
, the manufacturing base will be replaced by South Asia.
He stayed in South Asia for about three days. As Li Ningyu's horse made non-stop inspections and visits, he finally left South Asia with great satisfaction. However, before leaving, he continued to encourage the authorities in Far Southeast Asia to take greater steps.
A little, a little faster.
In accordance with Li Ningyu's highest instructions, the new South Asia large-scale construction and large-scale production plan has begun for another five years.
Next, Li Ningyu inspected the Philippines and Taiwan. After seeing satisfactory answers, he went to the next stop, the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
The Kingdom of Hawaii is an independent country, but it is also a relatively important part of the Far East region, because the annual trade tax revenue here can support the Far Eastern Legion in the Yellow Sea, two large naval fleets in the Pacific, and tens of thousands of Far Eastern garrison troops in the Americas.
Coupled with its important and critical position on the Pacific Ocean and its role as a springboard, this place is naturally the top priority for Li Ningyu's inspection, but this time he came with personal matters.
The incident on the Hawaiian Islands that year was still fresh in Li Ningyu's memory. If it hadn't been for the surprise attack by the Far East Legion in that incident, the U.S. authorities would not have given up on Alaska so easily, and the disheartened Queen of Hawaii
, and it is impossible for him to spend his personal money to help Li Ningyu build the Far East Army again and again.
Li Ningyu can still clearly remember that he borrowed almost 50 million pounds from the Queen of Hawaii. You must know that at that time, the price of a 10,000-ton battleship was less than 2 million pounds.
There is a saying that a drop of kindness is repaid by a spring. Li Ningyu is a person who knows how to repay kindness, so in addition to bringing a lot of gifts, he also prepared a big gift for the retired Queen of Hawaii.
I haven’t been to the Hawaiian Islands for many years. Everything here seems to be the same as before, but the current level of prosperity can reflect the importance of the Hawaiian Islands today, because here is the famous Pearl Harbor Naval Base of the Far East Corps.
, four bomber formations and two fighter formations are also deployed here.
Today's Hawaiian Islands, in addition to the original economic foundation, have developed many new industries, such as seafood processing and tourism, but they are mainly sugar refining and military bases.
After the last Queen of Hawaii retired, her niece Kaola took over. This time, Li Ningyu came for another important purpose, which was to marry this person who had already had a close relationship with Li Ningyu and had already helped her in private.
He gave birth to a big fat little Hawaiian queen.
It turned out that during Li Ningyu's trip to Spain, Ka'ola was secretly pregnant, but she didn't know it. After the trip to Spain, Ka'ola returned to the Hawaiian Islands to take over the throne and found out that she was pregnant, but she didn't.
Instead of notifying Li Ningyu, she secretly gave birth to the child. It wasn't until last month that she secretly told Wan'er.
And Wan'er told Duan Tong, and finally Li Ningyu found out, so Li Ningyu finally flew directly from Taiwan to Hawaii without going to North Korea for inspection first. This time he could be regarded as both public and private!
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