Chapter 133 Northwest Immigration Work
The battle line advanced quickly, with the Kingdom of Rwanda and the Kingdom of Igala right in sight.
Rwanda and the Igala Kingdom were naturally under tremendous pressure from the East African colonies. They had finally suppressed the East Bantu people, but now they had new enemies to face.
Unlike the Kingdom of Karawe and the Kingdom of Burundi, the Kingdom of Rwanda and the Kingdom of Igala did not previously border East African colonies, so they had little knowledge of East Africa.
However, an enemy that can make the entire Burundi flee must be a ruthless character, and facing the new invaders, the Kingdom of Rwanda and the Kingdom of Igala, is also a headache.
After all, compared with the Kingdom of Burundi and the Kingdom of Karawi, Rwanda and the Kingdom of Igala were not much better. The previous impact of the Eastern Bantu people on the four southern countries was catastrophic.
Now the princes and ministers of the two countries are very conflicted about whether it is better to fight or escape. They may not win if they fight, but they are reluctant to leave their little belongings if they escape.
If it was before the invasion of the East Bantu people, the two countries would definitely have the confidence to fight a war with East Africa. Now looking at the situation in the country, it is a question whether they can put together a decent army.
Soon, the two countries no longer had to struggle, and refugees from Burundi and the Kingdom of Karawi helped the two countries make a choice.
Although this wave of refugees is nothing compared to the invasion of the East Bantu people, the two countries are no longer as strong as before.
Not only did refugees from Burundi and Karawi pour in, but rumors were also spread along the way. The East African colonial army was described as a devil, the kind that would eat human flesh without adding salt, and one of them was more powerful than a hundred East Bantu people (of course, most of the natives didn't know how to count, that's what I mean).
As for whether the people of Rwanda and Igala Kingdom believed it? If one person said so, it must be a rumor. So many people fled from the southeast, they must not be crazy. Everyone doesn’t know the East African colonies, but everyone knows the East Bantu people!
Even worse than the East Bantu! The people of the two countries, who had suffered so much from the war, took all their belongings and fled north with the refugees from Burundi and Karavi without waiting for any news from the central government.
The people of the country have all fled, so there is no point in resisting. The top leaders of the kingdom also plan to escape and gather all available forces to rush to the north.
Compared with the East African colonies, the natives are still willing to deal with other natives. Anyway, if the East Bantu people do it, then I can do it too. The two countries plan to go north and reopen.
Of course, the top leaders of the two countries are not stupid. They will not go to the four northern countries to cause trouble. They just plan to use it as a way to develop in the northwest region of Africa (towards Congo and Central Africa).
As for why we didn't go directly west, it was mainly because the mountains and forests in the west were difficult to travel through, so it was better to go through the northern countries (plateau grasslands).
The reason they chose to re-establish their country in the northwest was that these indigenous people originally came to East Africa from West Africa (African blacks originated in West Africa). Although the indigenous people had no written language to record their origins, they roughly knew that their ancestors came from the northwest through word of mouth and myths and legends.
National migration is very normal for such a low-level primitive civilization (refer to the changes of the capital in the Shang Dynasty). They were originally at the level of slash-and-burn agriculture, and the worst that could happen was that they would find a new place to develop.
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"Are all the people on board?" asked Werner Yori, captain of the East African Lake Force.
"Captain, everyone is here. Excluding our own people, there are a total of 127 immigrants on board. The supplies to be transported to the front line are also almost ready." Hanks Fisher replied.
"Well, let's get ready to go!" said Werner Jori.
While the war was going on on the front lines, the East African colonies were also accelerating the pace of immigration.
The East African Lake Troops also joined the task of transporting immigrants and supplies. The Mwanza Shipyard worked overtime to build ships to increase the transportation capacity of the Lake Troops.
In addition to water routes, East Africa has also opened up inland immigration transportation routes. Traveling inland is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so military supplies and other materials that are urgently needed to be transported to the front line are mainly transported by inland lake troops.
The first group of immigrants to the northwest set out with Alman's troops. They pushed food in simple wheelbarrows and carried rainproof cloth with them.
It takes exactly one month to walk to Burundi and Karavi, which is 28 days at the fastest and a little over 30 days at the latest. If there is a waterway in Mwanza, the fastest time to reach the destination is 23 days.
Of course, it was impossible to rely entirely on walking, so the East African colonies gathered a large number of livestock and vehicles to transport immigrants and supplies.
At the same time, villages and cities along the way were used as strongholds to provide convenience for immigrants and troops in sections, and rations and drinking water were prepared, which greatly saved time.
Especially in the central area and the upper coastal area, there are dense villages and a large population. In addition, the animal husbandry was developed early, and a large amount of transportation capacity can be temporarily loaned out to serve the immigrants.
At present, there are about three thousand immigrants arriving in Hong Kong every day (there are fluctuations, with more immigrants in some months and fewer immigrants in other months). This is the result of the recent superposition of German and Paraguayan immigrants.
Among them, about 1,800 were sent to the newly occupied area in the northwest of Buenos Aires, about 900 were sent to western Kenya, and the remaining more than 100 went to Omorate (Omo River Basin).
The first group of immigrants arrived in Burundi and Karawi on May 3, and it is now June (war preparations began in early April and the war began in May).
In nearly a month, more than 50,000 people were resettled in the East African colonies such as Burundi and Karawi. Fortunately, the East African colonies are now food production areas, and with the support of the Hexingen Consortium, they were able to supply so many immigrants in a short period of time.
Now that the war has been going on for more than a month, the East African army is about to advance into Igala and Rwanda (the army marches faster than the immigrants, so the army and immigrants set out at the same time, but the army is still faster in the later stage).
Sufficient immigration ensured the development of the newly occupied areas. After all, the indigenous nations in the Northwest had gotten rid of their hunting lifestyle and survived on primitive agriculture, so the new immigrants only had to accept the land of the indigenous people.
The immigrants' work is mainly to redivide and modernize the indigenous lands, and the development conditions are definitely better than those in the initial stage of the East African colony start-up.
After all, at that time only the Sultanate of Zanzibar had some plantations along the coast (the East African colony had not yet annexed the coastal lands of the Sultanate of Zanzibar), and all the land had to be developed by themselves.
Immigrants going to the northwest can be said to be picking up ready-made land directly. Of course, the new immigrants also have their own difficulties. The immigration route is more than a thousand kilometers long, which is a big challenge for these immigrants who have traveled across the ocean from the Far East, Europe and South America.
Fortunately, the East African colonial government arranged many service points along the route, otherwise the journey would have been absolutely tragic.
(End of this chapter)
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