Chapter 684 Black Power
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Ever since East Africa began preparing to strengthen its military in the late 1980s, related preparatory work has distracted most of the East African government's attention.
Fortunately, most of the projects in East Africa have been completed, so there is no need to be too busy and we can complete the military deployment in the east, south and west more calmly.
This also reflects East Africa’s current geopolitical disadvantage. If Egypt (UK) in the north is included, East Africa is surrounded by enemies, and East Africa needs to resolve this hidden danger within the appropriate time.
As preparations for war unfolded, statistics on the population, especially those related to the war, also began to be carried out.
Among them, the size of the black population is an important indicator. In all the wars in East Africa, blacks are a group that cannot be ignored.
Before the 1980s, whenever there was a major war in East Africa, blacks were an important guarantee for the smooth development of the East African economy, because the withdrawal of troops from the front line would inevitably affect production work in the rear, and logistics support also required a large number of manpower, which was generally done by East African nationals.
Therefore, black people are the stabilizer that ensures production work in East Africa. The further back in time we go, the more this is true. During the colonial period in East Africa, production work in the rear was basically carried out by black people, and every citizen in East Africa was a soldier.
Later, as the population of East Africa increased, the need for so many troops gradually ceased, and the number of professional soldiers was sufficient, but blacks still filled a certain labor gap in East Africa.
Therefore, the number of blacks is an important data indicator of the East African War. However, the black statistics and East African national statistics are calculated separately and belong to the non-national population.
Since last year, East Africa has started relevant statistical work. Population means war potential, and black people are also part of East Africa's war potential.
Of course, this is also related to East Africa’s national policy. One of East Africa’s national policies is to “empty the cage and replace the bird”. The number of blacks is the most direct standard data reflecting this policy.
Minister of Civil Affairs Wilmar reported to Ernst: "Your Highness, according to the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics, as of 1885, the total number of blacks in our country has dropped from more than 19.5 million in the early 1880s to more than 14.9 million, of which more than 2.1 million were eliminated due to age.
The Ottoman Empire was still the main buyer, including North Africa and other areas that nominally still belonged to the Ottoman Empire, with a total of about 350,000, Central Asia and other Arab regions, including Persia, with about 200,000. Because of the last conflict between the United States and our country, the slave trade was restricted, and there were only about 100,000.
Brazil has become the largest destination for East African blacks in the past five years, with a total of more than 830,000, and the rest are mainly distributed among various Latin American countries, about 500,000.
These are the main statistics of the "slave trade" in East Africa over the past five years. Two million black people who reached the standard age were sold in East Africa.
"Among them, 720,000 were exiled to West Africa. Most of these people had defects that made them unacceptable to other countries."
These 720,000 people are actually the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled. East Africa naturally will not keep a group of idle people, and there is no way to sell these 720,000 people, so the government can only spend some effort to send them to West Africa. As long as they don't die in East Africa, then the government will not have to see them or worry about them.
"Finally, the number of black laborers lost in East Africa due to natural causes, including short life expectancy, disease, excessive physical labor, attacks by wild animals, etc., is about 1.7 million."
This group of black people are also the "heroes" of East Africa's infrastructure construction. East Africa's infrastructure construction can be said to be an unprecedented large-scale project, including roads, railways, farmland reclamation, water conservancy construction, house construction, etc.
Before the colonization of the Hechingen royal family, the only areas with infrastructure in the entire East Africa were the Arab-inhabited areas on the eastern coast, or the long-extinct ruins of Great Zimbabwe.
Therefore, the establishment of a nation in East Africa is truly like "building a tall building on flat ground", which can make up for the shortcomings of East African countries in a short period of time. The area of East Africa reaches tens of millions of square kilometers, and the construction of any road can exceed thousands of kilometers.
Therefore, over the past twenty years, the amount of work involved in building national highways, railways, water conservancy systems, as well as land reclamation and housing construction has been astronomical.
All of this is built on the oppression of tens of millions of black people in East Africa. So far, as many as four million black people have died in East Africa due to engineering construction, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, the period of large-scale infrastructure construction in East Africa.
"Currently, the number of blacks in several western provinces is the largest. Due to various reasons, it is impossible to conduct a detailed survey. We estimate that the number is around 8 million, including the Congo Rainforest, East Azande Province, New Bavaria Province, Nile Province, Southwest Africa, Danube Province, and Letania Province."
These provinces and regions are the last natural gathering areas of black people in East Africa. The black people in other areas are basically registered and work on farms, plantations, roads, railways, water conservancy projects, mines, etc. in East Africa.
Of course, the reason why the West retains such a large population is related to the sparse immigrant population from East Africa in the western provinces and regions. For example, in the East and Central regions, there are many immigrant populations and fewer black people.
“The exact number of our East African labour data is 6,403,207 people, which is a major component of the East African non-national economy, contributing more than 70 percent to the East African economy in the past few years.”
In East Africa, laborers actually refer to black people, but black people are not necessarily laborers, because only registered black people are considered laborers.
For example, the black private plots in the West do not belong to the labor force, and they have no way to create value for East Africa for the time being. Currently, the number of blacks who actually work in East Africa is only about six million.
However, the blacks in the private plots are not without use. They make up for the annual shortage of blacks in East Africa. After all, the labor loss in East Africa is huge, and without a reservoir, the fish would have been drained out long ago.
In 1880, the national labor force in East Africa was about five to six million, while the number of non-national black laborers reached seven million, accounting for more than half of the labor force in East Africa. They were basically engaged in the most tiring and dangerous work. Therefore, behind the glorious economy of East Africa is the blood and tears history of countless black people.
The number of black workers has now dropped to more than six million, which is also related to the decline in engineering projects in East Africa, especially the construction of large national water conservancy projects.
The number of black people involved in the construction of national water conservancy projects exceeds one million. Now that many water conservancy projects have been completed, the number of East African workers has also decreased to a certain extent.
Of course, there is also the impact of the "livestockization" movement in the central and eastern regions. In East African agriculture, especially in the plantation industry, large livestock such as cattle and horses are gradually replacing black labor, which is also an important reason for the decline in the number of workers.
Overall, East Africa's "emptying the cage and replacing the bird" work has achieved remarkable results, and the number of black people in East Africa has also been reduced to more than 14 million, a decrease of nearly 5 million. However, if East Africa wants to completely solve the black problem, it will not be able to do so in a short period of time.
Not only that, the number of black people in East Africa is likely to rise again because there are large black populations in Angola and Mozambique.
The number of black people in the two colonies is at least over five million. If East Africa annexes these two colonies, the number of black people in East Africa may directly return to over 20 million.
One of the important reasons why there are so many black people in Mozambique and Angola is the "tyranny" of black people in East Africa in the past. Many black people in East Africa fled to the Portuguese colonies.
After all, compared with West Africa, the two Portuguese colonies and Cape Town in the south are obviously more suitable for black people to escape.
(End of this chapter)
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