There were many more preachers like Wang Dazhi, who went deep into their hometowns to promote the benefits of the East African colonies and dispel the concerns of the Chinese.

Of course, it is also for these illiterate and uninformed suffering people to find a way, without access to the way or someone to help, ordinary people will not easily step into their unfamiliar territory.

Who wants to starve in their hometown, they didn't know before, or they didn't have a way, but now they know, as long as they give their mouths to eat, what is it if they sell their lives!

One of the most exaggerated is a preacher named Zhang Gensheng, whose hometown is suffering from drought, and when he returns, the response is very strong, including the villagers of several villages next door have taken the initiative to report for duty.

What is the situation in the East African colonies, these people who have been affected by the disaster do not know, but Zhang Gensheng's appearance does not seem to have suffered, and in this era, looking at how a person is doing, his appearance is basically determined, most of the ordinary people are yellow-skinned, the bones on their bodies are clearly visible, and they can't see a little fat.

And Zhang Gensheng's stop is the kind of robust state that people are pursuing in this era, which represents a full meal.

And Zhang Gensheng! Who in the vicinity doesn't know, when foreigners came here to recruit workers, life was barely maintained at that time, and everyone watched Zhang Gensheng get on the "thief ship" with the mentality of watching fun, after all, what good intentions can foreign devils have.

There are even rumors that Western devils are man-eating ghosts, and Zhang Gensheng will definitely not be able to come back, but now that a year has passed, Zhang Gensheng is back, and the rumors are self-defeating.

Looking at Zhang Gensheng, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes and refreshed, the people who had been affected naturally asked questions, as for Zhang Gensheng shaved his braids, everyone didn't care much, didn't they see the appearance of the township officials nodding their heads when the group came?

It shows that people are not afraid of the government at all, after all, only the revolutionary party in the Qing State in this era will shave their braids, or wear their hair like the long hair in the south.

This kind of person, the government will never talk to you well when he sees it, and a set of procedures will be directly pulled away, and he will be imprisoned at least and shot at worst.

This Zhang Gensheng obviously does not belong to these two categories, so the acquaintance of the villagers asked Zhang Gensheng what the situation was, and Zhang Gensheng naturally knew everything.

Hearing Zhang Gensheng's description, the group of villagers was excited, there was such a good thing in this world, and the villagers who couldn't even eat were naturally running to each other.

So the nearby villages also learned about this, and the people were so bold that these villagers thought that they would go to this East African colony together, so that they could take care of it.

It is understandable for these immigrants to think this way, but it is a pity that the East African colonies will not put these people together, and they will still be scattered and distributed to various parts of the colony, and these villagers will naturally not know.

As a result, more than 1,000 people in the area Zhang Gensheng was in charge of signed up to go to East Africa on the same day, which made it difficult for the staff in Jiaozhou Bay, and only after urgently dispatching a batch of food and medicine did they arrange for these people.

In this way, it was necessary to report to the higher authorities that a few more ships would come, and at the same time inform the East African colonies to prepare more rations to prepare for the reception of these immigrants.

Ernst also bought a batch of grain from Europe and sent it to East Africa to stock up on preparation.

In this way, there are many people in the Shandong Zhili area north of Jiaozhou who choose to go to the eastern part of the country, and the south of Jiaozhou, especially the junction of Hui, Henan, and Lu provinces, choose to go to East Africa, and the East African colonies are very effective in recruiting people, and they also take care of food on the way to the harbor, and provide free rations all the way to East Africa, and when they arrive in East Africa, they must participate in labor.

Those who really don't want to leave their homeland naturally have no way to take them, but in the future, they will regret it, it doesn't matter whether East Africa is heaven or not, the important thing is that East Asia is hell now.

Later, according to the population registration of the East African colonies, more than 50,000 immigrants came to the East African colonies in the next three months after the Chinese returned to China to persuade immigrants.

The skyrocketing population quickly filled the land gap in the coastal areas of the East African colonies, which were only a few hundred thousand in Zanzibar next door, and approached 60,000 in the coastal areas after this migration campaign.

That is, now the Ernst family has a big business, otherwise who would accept 50,000 people in a short time!

The other winner of this migration was the Dutch, with whom Ernst had a long-term agreement, and these commissions were essentially fixed.

And this sudden surge in immigration will necessitate the temporary rental of more ships from the Dutch, so the price will naturally have to be increased.

Thereafter, the Dutch fleet was divided into three batches, which were to go to the East African colonies every six days, and immediately return to East Asia after unloading the population at the port of Dar es Salaam.

When these immigrants arrived in the East African colonies, a portion of them were allocated to areas under construction in the west, such as the Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) and Lake Soren (Tanganyika) districts......

Most of them filled the empty space in the coastal area and then drove out the natives, and the land here has been barren.

Now, as soon as the manpower arrives, they will immediately arrange in groups to enter the hinterland of the coastal area to open up wasteland, starting from the north and continuing south to the vicinity of the first town.

The steady flow of immigrants did give the Zanzibaris in the port of Dar es Salaam a little shock, and after the Sultan of Zanzibar heard about the huge movement of the immigrants, he did not move, but lay more flat, and it can be said that the current East African colony has completely established its footing.

Even if Zanzibar and Portugal unite, they can't shake the rule of the East African colonies in the region, and the threat of force was only a short-term measure, but now the population has risen, which is the real long-term peace and stability.

With the help of these immigrants, more than 100 villages were formed in the coastal area, which were roughly a few hundred people, and the three strongholds that were later built were upgraded to three town-level administrative districts, one or two thousand people in one town-level administrative district.

As long as the population of these towns is a little larger, Ernst intends to put some simple primary industries here to form some prototype cities with some industry.

And this time, the migration is no longer the same as in the past, but because of the impact of natural disasters, some small families have also come to East Africa en masse to earn a living.

In order to facilitate the administration of the government, these immigrants were dispersed, and the immigrants from various regions were mixed together to form new villages.

Therefore, the inhabitants of these new villages may not even speak the same dialect, and everyone is not familiar with them, so they naturally rely more on the coordinated management of the colonies.

New iron farming tools were distributed to these immigrants, and the immigrants who were given the tools of production were highly motivated, with the help of advanced agricultural tools and some indigenous captives, plus horses and cattle.

The resettlement has developed nearly 500,000 mu of land, accounting for 10 percent of the entire coastal area, 30 percent of the arable land area, and 70 percent of the irrigated cultivated land.

Among them, the area of paddy fields has reached 200,000 mu, and it is estimated that 30 million kilograms of rice can be harvested in a single season, and there will be a surplus of 8 million kilograms after deducting the ration (one kilogram of rice produces about six taels of rice). The rest of the land is cultivated with sisal and other crops.

Of these, grain was used for further immigration and expansion, so it was not intended to be exported, and five percent of the value of sisal exports was used to distribute wages to colonial immigrants and managers, although the colonists did not need it, after all, there were no entertainment and other places of consumption in East Africa, so Ernst did not need to pay them too much wages, that is, it was more symbolic.

In this way, the land to be cultivated by the immigrants of the East African colonies was more than eight acres per capita, and the manual labor brought was still very large, but Ernst did not treat them badly in terms of rations, and it was almost close to the per capita staple food consumption of later generations, so even if he did not pay them wages, Ernst had no burden in his heart.

After all, in the Far East, you can't eat enough to eat, and in the East African colonies, although you are still very tired, you can eat far better than all the countries in East Asia today.

In addition, although there is a lot of land reclaimed, the intensity is not as great as expected, such as tools, which are of much better quality than those brought from Europe, and the use of livestock, together with indigenous labor and collectivization, has reduced the labor intensity.

And there is no need for intensive farming like in the Far East, where pesticides and fertilizers are shipped from Europe, and farmland management is relatively rough.

Of course, in order to increase the production enthusiasm of these immigrants, the colonies also developed an effective system of rewards and punishments, such as good food, especially meat distribution, and if they did not do well, they might go hungry and have to work as a punishment.

In the leisure time, the East African colonial coastal area organized the construction of 196 kilometers of primitive dirt roads, basically connecting the six most important towns in the coastal area.

By the end of October 1866, there were more than 97,000 new and old immigrants and Germans in the entire East African colony, and the important places and land in the East African colony Tanganyika were basically controlled.

Between these settlements, there is also a vast area of land occupied by the local natives, who may number more than three million, and there are also small indigenous tribes in other areas except the coastal area.

In contrast to these large numbers of indigenous people, the East African colonies can be said to have initially completed the strategy of encircling the countryside (tribes) with cities (towns).

But immigrants continued to come to East Africa from the Far East, which provided the conditions for further expansion of the East African colonies.