Borneo's Industrial Heartland

In the next few days, George and a dozen of his subordinates who came from France and North Africa have been negotiating with the US military.

What are they negotiating about?

Of course, it's weapons and equipment.

It has to be said that the Americans are still very generous.

At least to a certain extent, under the intervention of the top leaders, the US military provided an army of weapons and equipment. Although they look down on the M1 rifles and M1 carbines provided by the US military, who would refuse to get weapons? Fifty or sixty thousand light and heavy weapons.

However, the Americans are also stingy. In terms of artillery, they directly reduced the water. They said that they were in accordance with the US military's organization, but they directly cancelled the 155mm howitzer, and the M2 105mm howitzer became the divisional artillery. As for the regiment artillery, it was the M1A1 75mm mountain artillery.

However, no one felt that the weapons and equipment for free were hot.

After finalizing the weapons and equipment, it was necessary to coordinate the transportation of troops and the training after arriving in the Philippines. The matter was very cumbersome. For this reason, George even had to set up a coordination team to coordinate these matters in Washington, and he himself returned to New York.

After all, he couldn't put all his energy in Washington. There were other things to deal with in New York. After all, in the next few months, at least before Borneo was liberated, he couldn't return to New York.

Not only that, it was also necessary to pave the way for the subsequent construction of Borneo. After all, the demise of the Third Reich was imminent, and then tens of thousands of German scientists and engineers would go to Borneo through various channels. They must play their role to the full, and this required corresponding factories, enterprises and research institutions.

These are all money!

And it's a lot of money!

Therefore, the black market business still needs to be done. Not only that, but also before leaving the United States, you have to carry more goods several times to at least ensure that there are enough goods to sell to the Gambino family in the next few months.

In fact, if it weren't for tariffs and other issues, George even considered whether to use his own fleet to transport goods.

So, George came to Cuba again, but unlike before, in addition to buying sugar, he also came to his own plantation on purpose.

When he came to Havana several times to persuade overseas Chinese to invest in Borneo in the future, George also made a small investment in Cuba. In fact, it was not an investment, but just rented a piece of land. The area was not large, just more than a thousand hectares.

"Zhiyuan, are you sure that these oil palm seedlings can be shipped back to Borneo in a few months?"

Song Chengjun has always been unable to see through the young man around him. He could not figure out how he shipped sugar out of Cuba, and he could not see through some of his practices.

Just like renting such a large piece of land to cultivate oil palm seedlings.

At that time, Song Chengjun subconsciously thought that he was messing around. After all, almost all plantations in Cuba grow sugarcane, so shouldn't they cultivate sugarcane seedlings?

"No problem, two to three months at most,"

Looking at the plantation with oil palm seedlings in front of him, George said.

"Then, these oil palm seedlings can be sent to Borneo."

"Oil palm, can oil palm really be used?"

Song Chengjun was confused. In George's opinion, it was nothing out of the ordinary. Not many people knew what oil palm was these days.

"Mr. Song, don't underestimate it. This kind of palm tree can be used to refine oil. Oil palm is the most efficient oil-producing plant in the world. It produces more oil per unit area than coconut, peanut and soybean. Palm oil has a wide range of uses. It is not only an excellent edible oil, but also suitable for making margarine or cheese. It can also be used to make soap, candles and lubricants."

As a colonizer, George certainly has his industrial plan for Borneo. Industry must be developed, but agriculture must also be developed. In addition to normal rice planting and tropical plantations such as rubber and sisal, oil palm plantations are the focus of agricultural development in Borneo in the future.

The reason why we chose oil palm is that it has a high yield - the oil yield per acre of oil palm is 9 times that of soybeans, 5 times that of peanuts, and 3 times that of rapeseed. The second reason is that the market demand is large. After the war, with the improvement of living standards in Europe and the United States, people's demand for edible oils is also increasing. Compared with tropical planting industries such as rubber and coffee, oil palm with excellent market prospects is a real sunrise industry. Even in the 21st century, the oil palm planting industry in Southeast Asia is still expanding.