Rows of freshly buried sisal seedlings are planted on the low hills of the Heixingen Foundation, the first town in Tanzania, and agricultural workers are turning over the soil.

In the aisles on both sides, the natives pull the iron ploughs purchased from Europe to turn over the soil of the aisles, and the Chinese are responsible for the soil around the sisal seedlings, which is a meticulous work, if these natives are allowed to come, they are afraid that the root system of sisal will be injured, so they can only be planed by experienced and meticulous Chinese farmers with hoes.

On the land that had already been completed, the Germans, under the guidance of Hispanic agricultural experts, directed and supervised the natives to dig drainage canals.

Wheat seedlings have been planted from high slopes to flat ground, and new aqueducts are being built to ensure water for wheat.

With the arrival of more and more Chinese immigrants, the scale of agriculture was already considerable, and these new immigrants were assigned by the company to participate in the reclamation work under the old men who had already arrived in the area first, and the Germans were the leadership, mainly responsible for overseeing the management and the armed forces.

In order to prevent some unsightly indigenous tribes and slave hunters, the remaining German mercenary groups would patrol the surrounding territories in groups.

The large army continued to explore inland, drawing maps, and sometimes grabbing some labor along the way to clear the land around First Town when they returned to recuperate.

The entire First Town is expanding westward at a visible rate, and as soon as follow-ups are in place, new strongholds will continue to pop up in the interior of Tanzania.

The entire colony team has already begun to plan a second stronghold, located on the banks of the Little Rhine, thirteen kilometers southwest of the first town, and in order to facilitate statistical management, this time the name is still as unpretentious as before, the second town (Ruvo), in addition to the third town is also planned.

The third town (Kitunga) is located in the north of the first town, about 10 kilometers in a straight line, and construction will begin when the follow-up personnel are complete.

The prototype of such an East African colony, with the first town as the center, connecting the port of Dar es Salaam to the east and radiating to the west, appeared, covering an area of about 150,000 acres.

Sisal prefers high temperature, humidity and uniform rainfall in a high-slope environment, especially in the daytime high temperature, dryness, full sunshine, and the climate with fog and dew at night is the most ideal.

East Africa just meets the above conditions, the daytime sunshine is strong and the temperature is high, and at night, because it is located in the plateau terrain, the atmosphere is relatively thin, the heat preservation effect is poor, the heat loss is fast, and the moisture in the air is easy to condense. So the daily temperature difference in Africa is greater than the annual temperature difference.

The temperature suitable for the growth of sisal is 27-30 °C, the upper temperature is 40 °C, the lower temperature is 16 °C, and the temperature difference between day and night should not exceed 7~10 °C, which is in line with the temperature conditions in East Africa.

The suitable annual rainfall is 1200-800mm. Its adaptability is strong, barren resistance, drought resistance, waterlogging resistance, but strong growth, a wide range of adaptation, suitable for planting in loose, well-drained, low groundwater level and fertile sandy loam, poor drainage, often wet places are not suitable for planting. Cold tolerance is low, and physiological leaf spot disease is susceptible.

These are the data provided by Ernst's agricultural Hispanic experts from Mexico, which originated in the Mexican highlands and was later brought to the world by Europeans.

The Hispanic expert was a sisal farmer in Mexico, and although he was not highly educated, his grandmother was from Germany, so he could speak German, which is why he was hired by the East African colonies.

The Mexican Plateau is similar to the East African Plateau, both near the equator, and the environment is somewhat similar, except that East Africa is closer to the equator and the equator passes through the middle, while Mexico is in the middle of the Tropic of Cancer and the equator.

Precipitation is unevenly distributed in Mexico, with rainforests in some parts and tropical deserts in others, better conditions in East Africa, and mostly savannahs south of Ethiopia and Somalia.

The colonies of East Africa were corporatized, and the Chinese immigrants were nominally workers of the Heixingen Consortium, but in practice the same was true, the land belonged to the Heixingen Consortium, and the consortium arranged for these agricultural workers to work collectively.

All the migrants were divided into working groups to develop the land in East Africa in a planned way, and finally the food supply was determined by the efficiency of each group.

The management of the colony would send someone to inspect the fruits of the agricultural workers' labor, including the amount and time spent, the quality of the field development, and the subsequent crop growth.

Theoretically, these agricultural workers can get wages, but no one gets them at present, and the Chinese agricultural workers do not care, the main purpose of coming here to work is to make a living, in the Far East most of them have lost their fields or gone bankrupt due to force majeure, and there is no way to live before they will cross the ocean to East Africa.

The East African colonies encouraged such people to come to East Africa to make a living, because what was most lacking now was people, and after comparing the use of Chinese and natives, the colonial leaders also found that the work efficiency of the Chinese was much higher than that of the natives and was easy to manage.

Most of those natives need to be supervised by the colonial team with whips, so they will work lazily, although they are affected by the oppression of the Heixinggen consortium.

But everything is afraid of comparison, and the Chinese on one side have no complaints about hard work, and obey the arrangement, let them do what they do, and there is no reluctance at all, why can't you local slackers do it.

In this way, the colony's top brass gradually "understood" the boss's painstaking efforts. These Chinese are indeed naturally high-quality workers, and they are not inferior to the Germans.

However, the amount of food that these Chinese workers eat is indeed not small, and it is difficult for ordinary Germans who can mix food and clothing in Europe to understand the Chinese desire for a full meal.

And the more you work in the East African colonies, the better, the more food you can eat, the better, and naturally work hard.

Because of colonial reclamation, the animals of the East African grasslands suffered great disasters, wildebeests, lions...... All the large animals were hunted by the colonists.

Most of the meat of these animals enters the stomachs of Chinese laborers, and for many Chinese laborers who have never seen the smell of meat all year round, it is simply the Chinese New Year.

Even in this era, many low-level people in the Qing Dynasty did not see any oil stars during the New Year, which is like now, as long as they work hard, they can make a living, and occasionally they can eat meat, although every day is very hard, but happiness and satisfaction appear on the faces of these people for the first time.

After the basic survival problem was solved, some families had already started to make babies, and yes, there were Chinese families in the East African colonies.

The East African colonies encouraged family immigration, after all, the formation of a family is a stable condition for maintaining the rule, of course, the kind of big family and clan are not among them, the big family and clan are unstable factors in Ernst's eyes, after all, the back of the big family and clan will be together, and it is not a joke, and it is not fair to the development of society.

Therefore, when Ernst recruited people in the Far East, it was strictly forbidden for large families and clans to interfere, and perhaps these families and clans would not want to come to East Africa, but Ernst still had to take precautions.

As for the kind of small family of two or three, Ernst vigorously welcomes it, not to mention anything else, as long as they have formed a family in the East African colonies or have already started a family, they will be assigned to separate residences, and as for the bachelors, most of them can only live in the Chase Shop.

There was a serious imbalance between men and women in the colonies, with a small number of families already in the Far East, and even fewer women were recruited alone.

In the future, it will be up to Ernst to solve the problem of the marriage of these bachelors, but now Ernst does not have the energy to do this.

ERNST is now focusing more on the development of the industry and the changes in the situation in Europe.