Chapter 87 Northwest Rebellion
Recently, the Karavi kingdom is having a hard time.
As a large number of tribes and refugees from the east poured into the territory of the Karawi Kingdom, the law and order of the Karawi Kingdom can be said to be deteriorating.
As a slavery kingdom itself, the Karawi Kingdom has relatively poor organizational capabilities and lacks various strict laws and systems.
And these Eastern Bantu tribes expelled by the East African colonists mostly live on hunting, and their physical fitness is extremely good.
Compared to the Calawi Kingdom that had developed to a certain stage in Africa, the impact of the Bantu exile on the Calawi Kingdom was no different from that of ancient Rome facing the Germanic barbarian invasion.
These Bantu people, who are based on tribes, under the leadership of their chiefs, killed, burned and looted in the Karawi Kingdom, occupying the mountains as kings.
The eastern part of the Karawi Kingdom soon fell into chaos.
The nobles of the Karawi Kingdom were naturally very annoyed. They didn't know why these barbarians came westward like crazy.
Also in trouble is the Kingdom of Burundi, which was affected by the "purge" movement of the East African colonies. As the two gateways of the eight northwest countries, Burundi and Karawi naturally bear the brunt.
The invasion of a large number of Bantu tribes has caused serious troubles for the two countries. The worst thing is that countries such as Rwanda and Buganda, which have seen the bad luck of their neighbors, are also ready to move and frequently provoke troubles on the border.
Adhering to the principle that you are not benevolent, I am unrighteous, the Kingdom of Karawi and Burundi will not stop doing one thing.
Since there are so many Bantu tribes that cannot be controlled, then simply ignore them, and directly use force to drive them to the west and north, so that the countries in the west and north can also feel the pain of the two countries.
So after the discussion between the kings and nobles of the two countries, they opened a road in the country alone, allowing the Bantu tribes to go west and north.
As for those who want to hang on, to be honest, it is very difficult according to the current situation. After all, there are still a steady stream of Bantu tribes coming, and it is impossible to occupy the land ahead without the strength.
Like Karawi and Burundi, after all, they are countries, and they can still survive on their own land with the help of the terrain. The Bantu tribes moving westward are not monolithic, but a group of scattered sand.
Unless they unite as one, it is possible to directly destroy these two countries, but it is obviously impossible. Everyone is a chief, so why should they listen to you!
The methods of the Kingdom of Karawi and the Kingdom of Burundi are still very effective. After using both soft and hard methods, a large number of Bantu tribes continued to move north or west.
Before they wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob the Kingdom of Buganda, the Kingdom of Igara and the Kingdom of Rwanda were instantly dumbfounded.
The continuous influx of migrating troops directly overwhelmed the local order, and even the Kingdom of Enkele, which did not participate, suffered unwarranted disasters, and its southeast fell into chaos.
In the eight northwestern countries, only Turou Kingdom and Jitara Kingdom, which are deep in the rear, have not been affected for the time being. However, seeing the tragedy of the six southeastern countries, the two companies have strengthened their military presence on the border at night to prevent the impact of the Eastern Bantu tribe.
The disgraced Eastern Bantu tribes who were beaten by the colonists with hot weapons in the East African colonies found the feeling of galloping freely on the vast grasslands of East Africa in the eight northwest countries.
The eight countries in the Northwest have entered the primitive farming era and have learned to settle down. Compared with the Eastern Bantu tribes, they don’t have to fight with wild animals on the grasslands, and they don’t need to eat and sleep in the open, and migrate at any time.
So the people of the eight northwestern countries are far inferior to the Eastern Bantu tribes in terms of physical fitness.
The advantage of the Eight Northwest Countries lies in their more advanced social structure, they can feed more people, and they can organize more manpower and troops.
But after the barbarian invasion, these advantages were instantly offset by the Eastern Bantu tribes, and a large number of Eastern Bantus poured into the borders of various countries.
It caused the failure of its ruling system, and the local and central areas were separated by various large and small tribes of the Eastern Bantu.
The East Bantu people live in the eight countries in the northwest, and they can be said to be like fish in water. They used to play military games with animals on the East African grasslands. Animals in East Africa don’t play one-to-many games with them. All the animals on the grasslands are a large group, even lions are adults. Travel in groups, so it's really hard to deal with.
Now you only need to rob the resources of the eight northwest countries to live. The eight northwest countries have been farming and working all year round, and the food saved has directly entered the stomachs of the East Bantu people.
This confirms the saying, neighbors store grain, I store guns, neighbors are my granaries.
The local nobles of the eight northwestern countries naturally couldn't watch their property being eaten and taken away by these barbarians. They organized armies one after another and fought with the Eastern Bantu tribes.
The two sides fought in darkness and blood flowed, and the population in the northwest of the Great Lakes region was slowly wiped out in this war.
As the instigator, the East African colonial government is very satisfied with the immediate effect. As a colonist, it naturally has endless greed for fertile land.
Unfortunately, the place where the eight northwest countries are located is basically the place with the best water and soil conditions in the whole of East Africa and the most suitable place for the development of agriculture.
The vast area of the Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) has directly changed the local climate, allowing it to form a rain-rich area.
Its terrain is relatively high, located in the transition zone from mountains to plateau basins. It may not be a good place in the temperate zone, but it is the most suitable place for human habitation in the tropics.
If you exclude the East African region north of Sudan and Kenya (the area affected by the Ethiopian Plateau and the Sahara Desert), and only count the tropical grassland climate region in East Africa, the entire eight northwest countries have more than half of the population in this region.
(In the 21st century in the previous life, there were more than 47 million people in Uganda, more than 12 million in Burundi, and more than 13 million in Rwanda. The total is about 80 million. The population of the entire East African Community is about 130 million, which is equivalent to the eight countries in the Northwest and the East African colonies.)
And as the largest lake in East Africa, the Great Lake (Lake Victoria) itself is worthy of the East African colonial government.
This is a large lake with an area of nearly 70,000 square kilometers. Needless to say, the preciousness of fresh water resources, the livable zone for human beings will never be without rivers and lakes.
The rivers in East Africa are relatively hip, and the water volume and length are incomparable with those world-class rivers.
As for the White Nile, it is not a river unique to East Africa, and Sudan and Egypt downstream are strictly speaking North Africa.
The unique topography of East Africa has created considerable freshwater lake resources. Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika) and Lake Malawi were born along with the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. There are several large lakes in the world.
The Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) are also located in the plateau basin between the two fault zones of the East African Rift Valley.
And there are a series of small-scale lakes in the eight countries in the northwest. It is said that they are small, but in reality it depends on who they are compared with.
Among them, Lake Friedrichshaf (Lake Albert) covers an area of more than 5,000 square kilometers, while Qinghai Lake, the largest lake in the Qing Dynasty, is only more than 4,000 square kilometers.
You must know that Qinghai Lake is still a saltwater lake, and its value cannot be compared with that of Friedrichsee Lake, which is a freshwater lake.
The world's great lakes that appear in groups like East Africa can only be suppressed by the Great Lakes of North America. As for the Caspian Sea, saltwater lakes such as the Aral Sea are not within the scope of comparison.
(Let’s find a reference object to highlight the water resources in East Africa. Lake Victoria has the same fresh water resources as China’s whole country, both at about 2.8 trillion cubic meters, while Lake Malawi has 7.7 trillion cubic meters of fresh water reserves, and Lake Tanganyika has 18.9 trillion cubic meters of fresh water reserves. trillion cubic.)
The rainfall in East Africa is only between North China and Jiangnan in the Far East, and it is not considered abundant.
However, with such a terrifying freshwater resource backing, it will be easier to deal with the water resource crisis in the future.
East African colonies may not be able to dispatch these water resources to various parts of East Africa through large-scale water conservancy projects, but they can migrate more people along their coasts so that they will not face the impact of insufficient precipitation in bad years.
Therefore, it is the established policy of the East African colonies to take down the three Great Lakes in East Africa and the land along them. Among them, the east and south shores of the Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) have already fallen into their hands. The east coast of Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika) is entirely in the hands of the East African colonies. Only Lake Malawi is more difficult to solve in the future, and its south involves the Portuguese colony.
(end of this chapter)