In the midst of the fierce fighting between Prussia and Austria, the East African colonial Primorsky had been expelled from all the natives, except for those sold to slave traders in Zanzibar, some of which were used for heavy manual work, and the rest were reissued with their own weapons and released.

These exiled natives were certainly not the East African colonies, they were so frightened by the military might of the Primorsky that they did not dare to return here, so they had to go west or north. Bound to encounter other indigenous tribes, armed with weapons and without land and food, it is natural that other tribes will clash, and when the time comes, they will fight to the death, and the East African colony will accept the new land.

And it is also unknown whether the natives who have lost their tribes will survive, in short, reduce the number of natives.

It is not possible to plant all the new land with crops, but it is possible to develop the area around the new base first.

Most of these are places with abundant water sources, which can provide a stable water supply for production and life, although the rainwater in the coastal area is also relatively abundant, but the current East African colonies have a small population, and the land is not planted much, as long as you find a river, you don't need to watch the weather to eat.

As the easternmost sub-district, the coastal area is very suitable for rice cultivation because of its proximity to the Indian Ocean and its hot and humid climate.

These newly developed lands naturally tend to favor rice in the choice of staple food, and wheat is suitable for cultivation in the western highlands because the temperature is too high and the yield will be reduced.

In addition, the precipitation in the western part of the East African colony is relatively low, which is suitable for the growth of drought-resistant crops such as wheat and millet.

Sisal was currently the colony's biggest product, and East Africa was suitable for growing many tropical cash crops, such as cotton, bananas, rubber, and coffee......

But sisal is the best growing here, and there is a relatively marketable market, and the competition for other cash crops is fierce.

In addition, cloves were also an important crop in the colony, and the Sultanate of Zanzibar was famous for its abundance of cloves, so the coastal areas adjacent to the Sultanate of Zanzibar did not let cloves be cultivated.

The production of cloves is relatively low, so there is no problem in selling them, and they can be shipped directly back to Europe for sale each time with the help of the Dutch fleet.

Nowadays, the use of horses and cattle to plough the land in the East African colonies has begun to appear, and with the increase of new horses, supporting arable land facilities have also been arranged.

Now the colonies also began to use horses for communication, and the news that used to take a month or two from the various strongholds could now be transmitted within a week or two.

With the help of horses, the East African colonies also began to explore further afield, including intelligence in areas such as Kenya and Zimbabwe.

Horse farming is prevalent in Europe, which makes Europe not as scarce as ancient East Asia, horse farming makes horses a necessary production tool, and people have the initiative to raise horses.

At the same time, it also caused the cattle in Europe to become a common food on the table because they were not so important, so Europeans liked to eat beef and drink milk.

This is also related to the fact that Europeans do not handle ingredients, for example, Europeans do not castrate boars, resulting in a strong smell of pork, which can only be masked by the strong smell of spices.

Of course, Europe does not eat much pork now, only Germany eats a little more, and the number will rise further in the future when Germany is reunified.

Beef only needs to be processed simply, the taste is good, naturally favored by Europeans, a piece of butter with a little salt, you can get a simple and delicious steak.

In the East African colonies, Ernst naturally chose horse farming, cattle were mainly used for meat, and later generations of Maasai were nomads in East Africa, herding cattle to make a living.

The mandatory use of horse farming will inevitably increase the demand for horses, and horses, as an important means of transportation, can improve the transportation capacity of the East African colonies.

After all, the infrastructure of the current East African colonies is basically non-existent, and it is still in the stage of hiking, and only a few Germans are equipped with military horses for passage.

Coupled with the flat and open terrain of East Africa, it is very suitable for horses to gallop, in short, the more horses you need, the better.

Manda, the northernmost part of the Marina District, can now be seen curling with smoke and immigrants starting fires to cook.

The nearby fields are almost finished, and the water is pumped into the rice paddies by water wheels, and the whole land is staggered.

These paddy fields are relatively large-scale, and horses are used to plough the land, and of course, some of them are completed by indigenous people as a driving force.

Some of them have already been planted with seedlings, others need time, and to the east is a hill that is used to grow sisal.

Rows of sisal from top to bottom, covered with hills, look like tea plantations in East Asia, all around the low hills and hills are quite spectacular.

Recently, the weather conditions in the coastal area are also good, and the time when the rain comes is relatively stable, and there are few cases that are not on time.

This is also a benefit of the Indian Ocean, where El Niño and La Niña events are known to be significant, exacerbating climate volatility in East Asia.

Although the Indian Ocean is also affected, it is not prominent, in addition to the influence of the equator and the plateau region in East Africa, the most important thing is the transfer of the trade wind belt, which will bring a certain amount of rain to East Africa every year when the trade wind belt moves south or north.

This results in East Africa having two rainy seasons a year, and the East African coast is also affected by ocean currents, most notably in coastal areas.

Without the Somali cold snap, precipitation would definitely increase along the coast of East Africa, resulting in topographic rain similar to that in northeastern India.

The stability of the climate in the East African colonies also led to the orderly progress of agricultural production, and the colonies already had a relatively mature agricultural calendar that could be used to guide the arrangement of new immigrants to participate in agricultural production.

At present, due to the turmoil in East Asia, the number of immigrants to the colonies of East Africa is also increasing rapidly, especially in the north.

Under the influence of the Kanto region, residents in the north now have two choices, one is to develop overseas, and the other is to develop in the northeast.

If you want to go overseas, East Africa is the best option at the moment, because Ernst is relatively early, and the northern region is not as early as the south to contact the outside world, so the migration network that Ernst has laid out in the north is larger and more mature.

In the southern region, especially on the southeast coast, there are more channels, some people choose to go to Nanyang for development, and the second destination is the Americas, after all, the channels are relatively wide, and many of them are clans and local groups to go to sea together.

Therefore, the immigrants in the south are more grouped overseas, but the infighting is also quite serious, because they also gather together overseas, forming a stronghold similar to Chinatown, and the fighting is a characteristic of the southern clans, and the overlap of their interests overseas is even more serious, you eat a little more, he eats a little less, so there is more fire than at home.

This is also one of the reasons why Ernst did not dare to choose southern immigrants, only to farm the land honestly, not to organize the moths, especially to form a group, although the number of Chinese immigrants in the East African colonies is the largest, but there is no one to lead, it is scattered, Ernst is very satisfied.

In Germany, Prussia and Austria were fighting fiercely, the East African colonies were peaceful, and everyone was contributing to the development cause.

Housing construction, farmland development, canal construction, new roads, animal husbandry, and an agrarian East African colony were rapidly being built.