Chapter 896: The Great Migration of the Grassland
Of course, compared with the Far Eastern Empire, a country with strong traditional agricultural strength and emphasis on the construction of water conservancy facilities, East Africa is naturally still far behind. However, compared with some underdeveloped countries and regions in Europe and the United States, the water conservancy facilities in central and eastern East Africa are already quite complete, not to mention some more backward and sparsely populated countries and regions.
In fact, the two national water conservancy construction projects in East Africa were completely unavoidable. The goal of the East African government, or Ernst, was to complete the development path that took other countries hundreds or even thousands of years in one generation.
Water conservancy construction is the blood vessel of agriculture. It requires hard work and there is no shortcut, so it can only be accomplished by "iron and blood". Of course, the indigenous people are the main force of bloodshed.
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As the East African government finalized various details, the second national water conservancy construction project was launched in full swing. This time, the East African government had the experience of the first national water conservancy construction project, so it was more adept at mobilizing national forces.
"Go to the West, go to the South, go wherever the motherland needs you!"
Although East Africa is an immigrant country, it also plays the "patriotism" card in its slogans. In fact, the number of native East Africans now exceeds the number of foreign immigrants.
And the main target of this mobilization is the new generation of young and strong labor force in East Africa. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the second national water conservancy construction project, East Africa plans to carry out a national population migration to the west and south at the same time, completely changing the situation in which central and eastern East Africa are dominant.
In fact, Angola, Mozambique and Orange now have a certain foundation after years of construction in East Africa. This is the basis for the large-scale immigration in East Africa this time.
Moreover, this immigration is mainly targeted at the agricultural sector. As for industrial immigration activities, they have long been carried out simultaneously with industrial transfer.
Kegel village, Kagera municipality, Western Great Lakes Province.
"According to national requirements, every family with a large population must send at least one person to work in the underdeveloped areas in the west and south. Our Western Great Lakes Province is the key area for this immigration. Everyone must actively cooperate with the government's actions and complete the mission indicators." said Andre, the village chief of Kegel Village.
Andre's words naturally caused a small ripple among the villagers. After all, immigration is never a simple matter. It involves many aspects, and every immigration means the "split" of some families.
However, the immigration did not cause major trouble. After all, this has become the norm for the people of East Africa. East Africa has been migrating people from densely populated areas to other places all year round. Even in the small village of Kegel, many young people leave every year and go to various parts of the country. It's just that this time the East African government has taken bigger actions.
"Andre, why is the immigration so huge this time?" a villager asked him by his name.
"This is actually easy to understand. The last time our country expanded its territory, we seized a lot of land from the Portuguese and the Boers. In order to control and develop these new territories, we naturally need manpower. Although there were immigration activities in several places before, they were just appetizers."
"Now, after several years of governance, places like Angola and Mozambique have achieved very impressive social security and economic foundations. Therefore, on this basis, in order to balance regional development, it is natural to further increase the number of immigrants."
To put it simply, in the past few years, the East African government has resolved the instability factors in these new areas. In addition to the needs of national development and the need for infrastructure construction such as water conservancy, the East African government plans to do it in one step and directly turn Mozambique, Angola and other places into the core territories of East Africa.
“Don’t take any chances on this matter. After all, as a backward country in East Africa, we must take drastic measures if we want to develop. And it’s just a matter of changing to a new living area. Life won’t change much when we go to a new place. After all, it’s all East Africa, and it doesn’t matter where you go!” Andre emphasized.
"Compared with more than a decade ago, this immigration is much simpler. Railways and roads are much more developed now, and it doesn't take too long to travel to all parts of the country. Ten years ago, immigration was a real chore. I don't need to say much. Many elderly people in the village can recall the hard times in East Africa."
Andre's words did evoke memories of some old immigrants, but if you trace back to the past, their lives were even more miserable when they were in Eurasia.
After more than a month of preparation, the first batch of people who relocated from Kegel Village finally reached more than 100 people. There may be a second and third phase in the future until the needs of the East African government are met.
As a major agricultural province, the Western Great Lakes Province has an extremely terrifying natural population growth rate in East Africa, so this immigration activity will not be a serious blow to the local economic development.
It can even be said that it has alleviated population pressure. After all, as a major agricultural province, Western Great Lakes Province has limited agricultural resources, but its population is growing at a fast rate. If it had not been losing population and had no industrial support, per capita resources would have become less and less, thus entering a poverty mode. If the population continued to grow disorderly and the industrial structure did not change much, then India and East Asian countries might be the future of Western Great Lakes Province.
Therefore, the government of the Western Great Lakes Province actually supports the population loss, although the agricultural potential of the Western Great Lakes Province itself has not yet been fully developed.
With population migration and engineering construction, a large number of people are continuously transported to all parts of the country through East Africa’s railways and roads. Many families bid farewell in tears, and the same scene is constantly played out in various regions in the east.
The central region is slightly better, as it is the second most populous region after the eastern region, but it is far from comparable to the eastern region, so it is not the main force of this immigration. However, due to the transfer of backward production capacity, the transfer of industrial population from the central region to other regions is greater than that in the eastern region.
According to statistics from East Africans in later generations, from 1894 to 1900, at least eight million people immigrated from East Africa to Angola, Mozambique and other places, which completely changed the population distribution across East Africa and caused the population in the western and southern regions to rise to tens of millions in a short period of time.
Of course, the value created by these people in local development and construction can only be reflected in the next century.
This massive national immigration activity is vividly called the "Great Migration of East African Savannah". As a country with a tropical savannah climate, the animal migration on the East African savannah is quite spectacular, but this time it is the migration of East Africans, so this is used to describe this East African population migration activity.
Of course, with the development of East African countries, the so-called great migration of grassland animals has actually become increasingly difficult to see in later generations, except in places like the Serengeti. The population migration and engineering construction in East Africa have obviously squeezed the living space of local wild animals.
This population migration has also been talked about by countries in later generations. After all, as a country that became a world power in a short period of time, many people are very interested in the rise of East Africa.
The rapid rise of major cities in East Africa such as Luanda, Cabinda and Beira is also believed to be related to this population migration, making them some of the most famous cities in the world in the 20th century.
(End of this chapter)
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