Chapter 30 Dodoma
Dodoma is the destination of the first team of the East African advance team. While the other teams are still on their way, the first team has already started construction.
Dodoma, the later administrative capital of Tanzania, is more than 1,100 meters above sea level and has a cool climate. It is located near the upper source of the Wami River, with low mountains and hills and various terrains.
This is the stopping point for caravans from the Swahili coast to Lake Tanganyika. In the previous life, it was an important railway hub in Tanzania, so the geographical location here is very important.
Through Dodoma, goods disembarked from the port of Dar es Salaam can be transferred to various strongholds in the East African colonies, and subsequent immigration can be facilitated.
The annual precipitation in Dodoma is about 600 millimeters, and the annual temperature hovers between 15 and 30 degrees, which is very suitable for human habitation.
This provided convenience for the first team of the East African Advance Regiment. Before the rainy season came, the first team used kerosene lighters produced by Hexingen Company to set fires everywhere.
By the help of the southeast wind, the fire spread to the northwest, and many animals fled in all directions. The unlucky ones who did not escape added meat to the soldiers, and the wild bananas they picked were roasted on the fire to make them sizzling.
After the fire, the ash left by the fire just neutralized the acidity of the soil, and more than 500 immigrants who accompanied the army began to plow the land.
There are also indigenous tribes near Dodoma. This is where they trade with Arab merchants. When they see the first team of the new advance team carrying firearms (the Arabs also have them), people are naturally wary of strange things.
The most important thing is that it is rare to see the faces of East Asians here. Most of the local aborigines are Bantu people who migrated here from West Africa hundreds of years ago. They have dark skin and have dealt with both San and white people in East Africa. The skin color of the first team of the regiment is between the two, and the style of clothing has never been seen before. The difference can be seen from a long distance.
The first team has no intention of conflicting with these indigenous tribes for the time being. After all, they are newcomers, so it is better to build a camp first.
Fortunately, East Africa was still sparsely populated at this time, and the combined population of the East African grasslands in Tanzania may not be as large as the Mongolian grasslands.
After all, the Mongols can herd horses and herd sheep, and these indigenous people are still in the hunting and gathering stage, with low productivity and few people who can support them.
There are also Arabs who often provoke tribal conflicts, trigger wars, and traffic people. The population of East Africa has not increased but decreased in recent years.
Tanzania can have a population of 50 million thanks to the Germans and the British. Although the motives of the colonists are not pure, they really brought these barbarians into the farming era.
Therefore, after the independence of African countries, without the constraints of colonists, coupled with the increase in productivity, the population has doubled. For example, Tanzania had a population of just over 10 million in the 1960s, and it was close to 60 million before Ernst crossed. The birth rate continues to rise.
At present, on the land of 940,000 square kilometers in Tanzania, Ernst suspects that the population may not reach 5 million.
That's why Ernst dared to make an East African colony. After all, the population of many counties that Ernst had seen in his previous life was close to one million, and some even had two million.
Think about it, if it is said that the population of a country is evacuated, it will definitely be called idiotic dream, if it is the population of several counties, it is still possible.
After all, the mobilization ability of the motherland in the previous life was too terrifying, such as the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, the Three Gorges Reservoir... There are many such examples.
Moreover, the large-scale population resettlement work is completed in a relatively short period of time. Ernst still has time to spend 30 to 50 years in the future to concentrate on sending the aborigines away. There will be no racial problems in East Africa.
As for Chinese and white people, this is easy to solve, at least Ernst thinks it is easy to solve. After all, ethnic integration is a real case. Developed Americans have been talking about race in order to divert conflicts all day long.
An example like this is Cuba. Ernst admires the Cuban government very much. Under a homogeneous system, all races live in harmony. If it were placed in other small capitalist countries in later generations, they would have already lost their minds.
There are also negative examples, such as Yugoslavia. Ernst didn’t look at this country with colored glasses. Ernst felt that the disintegration of this country was the leader’s own fault, perishing in compromise and freedom, and he didn’t even know his own position. out superiority. (Scared, trembling.)
It's a long way to go, at least Ernst feels that he has the ability to solve this matter. After all, he has lived in a country with a tradition of three thousand years of centralization and two thousand years of great unification all year round, and he still knows some methods.
Ernst felt that the enfeoffment system like the Western Zhou Dynasty was more centralized than the West. After all, the enfeoffment system in the Western Zhou Dynasty also had a core. The Zhou royal family was still the nominal co-lord of the world in the later period. Not a good EU.
Russia is the only country in Europe that has the idea of bottom-level centralization, so I can’t blame the Americans for being afraid of Russia, because it really has the ability to unify Europe.
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Dodoma, the temperature is 23 degrees today, and the clothes of the Chinese immigrants are relatively simple, mostly Prussian military uniforms. In the first town, it was stuffy and hot because of the hot and humid environment, but it was just right in Dodoma.
So the state of immigration is very good, but the commander is still very cautious. In the eyes of Europeans in the past, Africa was a cursed continent. It is because Africa has a lot of tropical diseases, and most of the colonists are active on the coast and do not want to go deep into the inland.
Therefore, Ernst attaches great importance to the sanitation of the colony, and also gave a set of feasible solutions, such as boiled water for drinking, not eating half-cooked wild meat, and avoiding food with many parasites such as snakes and frogs. , Colonies should be regularly disinfected, attention should be paid to preventing mosquito bites, excreta should be collected and utilized reasonably...
These are the daily tasks of colonial officials, especially to strictly control the diet of immigrants. After all, people in a big foodie country who have suffered from famine all year round can eat things in different ways.
But the food in the East African colony is still sufficient, and there is really nothing to eat. Isn’t there wild bananas and fruits to fill the stomach? There is no need to get some weird animals to eat, even groups of large herbivores on the African grasslands can be hunted in teams, such as zebras and wildebeests, which are wild and dangerous.
At night, the view of the Dodoma area is excellent, the night sky is full of stars, and the temperature has dropped a bit. The immigrants who had worked for a day lay on simple wooden beds and fell asleep peacefully.
(end of this chapter)