Chapter 30 Dodoma
Dodoma is the destination of the first team of the East African advance team. While other teams are still on their way, the first team has already started construction work.
Dodoma, the administrative capital of Tanzania in later generations, is located at an altitude of more than 1,100 meters, with a cool climate. It is located near the upper reaches of the Wami River, with undulating low mountains and hills and diverse terrain.
This is a stopping point for caravans from the Swahili Coast to Lake Tanganyika. In the past, it was an important railway hub in Tanzania, so its geographical location is quite important.
Dodoma can be used to transfer goods landed at the port of Dar es Salaam and send them to various colonies in East Africa, and it can also provide convenience for subsequent immigration.
The annual precipitation in Dodoma is around 600 mm, and the annual temperature hovers between 15 and 30 degrees, making it very suitable for human habitation.
This provided convenience for the first team of the East African advance team. Before the rainy season arrived, the first team used kerosene lighters produced by the Hexingen Company to set fires everywhere.
With the help of the southeast wind, the fire spread to the northwest. Many animals fled in all directions. The unlucky ones who did not escape provided the soldiers with a meal of meat, which was paired with wild bananas that they picked and roasted on the fire.
After the fire, the ash left behind just neutralized the acid in the soil, and the more than 500 immigrants who followed the army began to plow the land.
There are also indigenous tribes near Dodoma, which is the trading place between them and Arab merchants. They saw the first team of the newly arrived advance group carrying firearms (the Arabs also had them). People are naturally wary of unfamiliar things.
The most important thing is that you rarely see East Asian faces here. Most of the local natives are Bantu people who migrated here from West Africa hundreds of years ago. They have dark skin and have dealt with both the San people and white people in East Africa. The skin color of the first team of the advance group is between the two, and the clothing style is also unknown. You can see the difference even from a long distance.
The first team had no intention of conflicting with these indigenous tribes for the time being. After all, they had just arrived, so they should build the camp first.
Fortunately, East Africa was still vast and sparsely populated at that time, and the total population of the East African grasslands in Tanzania might not be as large as that of the Mongolian grasslands.
After all, the Mongols knew how to herd horses and sheep, while these natives were still at the stage of hunting and gathering, with low productivity and a small population that could be supported.
In addition, Arabs often stir up tribal conflicts, trigger wars, and engage in human trafficking. As a result, the population of East Africa has not increased but decreased in recent years.
Tanzania was able to have a population of 50 million thanks to the Germans and the British. Although their motives as colonizers were not pure, they did bring these barbarians into the agricultural age.
Therefore, after the independence of African countries, without the constraints of colonists and with the improvement of productivity, the population doubled. For example, Tanzania's population was just over 10 million in the 1960s, but it was close to 60 million before Ernst traveled through time, and the fertility rate continued to increase.
Currently, in Tanzania's 940,000 square kilometers, Ernst suspects that the population may be less than five million.
Because German East Africa had undergone decades of development in the past and had a population of only over seven million before World War I. German East Africa included Rwanda and Burundi, two of the most densely populated areas in Africa.
That was why Ernst dared to set his sights on the East African colony. After all, many of the counties Ernst had seen in his previous life had a population close to one million, and some even had two million.
Think about it, if you want to evacuate the entire population of a country, it would definitely be considered a pipe dream. But if it is the population of several counties, then it is still possible.
After all, the mobilization capabilities of our motherland in the previous life were too terrifying, such as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the Three Gorges Reservoir... there are many such examples.
Moreover, the resettlement of a large population can be completed in a relatively short period of time. Ernst still has plenty of time. If he spends the next 30 to 50 years to send the indigenous people away, there will be no racial problems in East Africa.
As for the Chinese and white people, this problem is easy to solve, at least Ernst himself thinks it is easy to solve. After all, there are real cases of ethnic integration. For example, in Brazil, everyone is extremely poor, so who would have the energy to do these things? On the contrary, it is the highly developed Americans who use race as an excuse to divert conflicts all day long.
Another example of this is Cuba. Ernst admired the Cuban government very much. All races live in harmony under the same system. If this happened in other small capitalist countries in later generations, they would have been beaten to a pulp long ago.
There is also a negative example, that is Yugoslavia. It is not that Ernst looked at this country with tinted glasses. Ernst felt that the disintegration of this country was the fault of the leaders themselves. They perished in compromise and freedom, and they could not even figure out their own position and failed to exert their superiority. (Fear, trembling.)
I have gone too far. At least Ernst felt that he was capable of solving this problem. After all, he had lived in a country with a tradition of centralization for three thousand years and a tradition of unification for two thousand years, so he knew some tricks.
Ernst felt that the feudal system like that of the Western Zhou Dynasty was better than the centralized system of the West. After all, the feudal system of the Western Zhou Dynasty also had a core. In the late period of the Zhou royal family, it was still the nominal ruler of the world. Europe was directly like Rome per capita, but they fought two world wars in vain and could not even establish a European Union.
Russia is half the only country in Europe with a centralized ideology, so it is no wonder that Americans are afraid of Russia, because it really has the ability to unify Europe.
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In Dodoma, the temperature today is 23 degrees. The clothing of the Chinese immigrants is relatively simple, mostly Prussian military uniforms. In the first town, it was stuffy and hot due to the humid environment, but when we arrived in Dodoma, it was just right.
So the immigrants were in good condition, but the commander was still very cautious. Africa was a cursed continent in the eyes of Europeans before, because there were so many tropical diseases in Africa, and the colonists mostly stayed on the coast and were unwilling to go deep inland.
Ernst therefore attached great importance to the sanitation of the colony and provided a set of feasible solutions. For example, raw water must be boiled before drinking, half-cooked wild animal meat must not be eaten, snakes and frogs with many parasites must not be touched, the colony must be disinfected regularly, attention must be paid to preventing mosquito bites, and excrement must be properly collected and utilized...
These were the daily tasks of colonial officials, especially the need to strictly control the diet of immigrants. After all, the people of a country of foodies who had suffered from famine for many years could eat things in various ways.
But there was still enough food in the East African colonies. If there was nothing to eat, there were still wild bananas and fruits to fill their stomachs. There was no need to get some exotic animals to eat. Even the large herbivores on the African grasslands could be hunted by teamwork, such as zebras and wildebeests, which were very wild and dangerous.
At night, the view in Dodoma area is excellent, the night sky is full of stars, and the temperature has dropped a little. The immigrants who have worked all day lie on their simple wooden beds and fall into a peaceful sleep.
(End of this chapter)
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