Mashuru Township, Central, Kenya.

In order to develop the newly explored area, the colonial government of East Africa decided to grow tobacco here after sending people to study the area.

As a temperature-loving and light-loving crop, most of East Africa is suitable for tobacco cultivation, and the precipitation in East Africa is moderate, which can meet the water needs for early growth.

The town of Mashuru, 90 kilometres southeast of Nairobi, has an unknown river running north-south.

There were only about 30 immigrants who first arrived here, led by the German Antony, five immigrants from the Austrian Empire, and more than 20 Chinese.

Looking at the endless grassland reaching the sky, Anthony couldn't help but feel the magnificence and magic of nature.

Anthony, who used to live in Europe, grew up and saw the agricultural estates and forests of the North German region, which were full of beauty and vitality.

And the land of Africa is full of wild nature, and the area is so large that you can't help but feel a surging heart.

The same is true of the immigrants of the Austrian Empire, most of whom came to Africa for the first time, and were even more shocked than Antony, the territory of the Austrian Empire is a place where there are mountains and rivers, especially the immigrants live, because of the relative backwardness, they still maintain a relatively simple way of life.

Some people have never even left their villages in their lives, but it is conceivable that after going to sea, they were first impressed by the magnificence of the sea, and after coming ashore in East Africa, they were attracted by the strange tropical scene of Africa.

The Chinese immigrants were relatively better, because of the origin, they could not see such an area of grassland in northern China, but the farmland there was also not far as the eye could see.

Although the German and Austrian empires were far less than the large countries in the Far East, the Far East was far inferior in terms of land holdings per capita.

It's just that the Far East is too large, especially the endless plains, and the long land area, it is always easy to ignore its huge population size.

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Settlers began to build temporary shelters, built out of mud, because there were too few people to waste too much time to improve living conditions.

After disembarking from the ports of Tanga and Dar es Salaam, replenish supplies in the first town, led by experienced elders.

This was where the first immigrants from Mashulu came from, and the necessities of life were all in two wagons, farm tools and rations.

Looking down from the sky, more than 30 people, in the vast grassland, seem so small, their houses are like matchboxes.

This was the initial size of the town of Mashuru, and the East African colonies planned to send nearly 1,000 more immigrants to the town in the future.

At the same time, towns and villages like Mashuru were growing rapidly in Kenya.

From the coastal strip in the east to the shores of the Great Lakes in the far west, migrants quickly fill the local ecological niche.

The immigrants in this period were all mixed, led by Germans, and composed of immigrants from the Austrian Empire and Chinese immigrants.

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After a month of development.

The population of Mashulu Town has reached more than 400 people, and it already has the appearance of a village, and the fields are also being developed.

Along the banks of the Nameless River, the inhabitants of the town of Mashulu have opened up thousands of acres of tobacco plantations.

On the rows of ridges, the green tobacco seedlings, full of vitality and vitality, are rooted in the red soil.

These are the future suppliers of raw materials for Heixingen Tobacco Company.

Historically, the company has mainly purchased tobacco from businessmen from other countries, which it has then machined into cigarettes.

This is a huge waste of production costs, because the pricing power of tobacco is in the hands of those merchants.

East Africa, on the other hand, has a large area of barren land suitable for growing tobacco, which can not only provide the Hexingen Tobacco Company with a large quantity and high price, but also the quality is quite good.

The colonial government of East Africa planned to build 50,000 acres of tobacco plantations near the town of Mashuru.

On the one hand, it can speed up the migration to Kenya, and on the other hand, it can generate revenue, so you can get the best of both worlds.

When the tobacco harvest is over, it is collected by the Heshingen Tobacco Company, sent to the seaside to the port of Mombasa or Dar es Salaam, and then shipped back to Europe.

Anthony looked at the town of Mashulu in front of him, and a sense of pride arose.

As mayor of the town, Anthony was one of the last members of the German mercenaries in the colony.

When they came to East Africa at the beginning of that year, there were only 2,000 German mercenaries in the entire East African colony, and later as the population of the colony increased.

In keeping with the principle of primacy and subordination, the Germans became the seed candidates for natural rulers, and one after another, Antony's teammates rose to the rank of local officials or gained more power in the army.

And Anthony is still standing still, this time to develop the Mashulu area, it is finally Anthony's turn, he was elected mayor of Mashuru Town.

As a mercenary and a former Prussian soldier, Anthony didn't like to fight and kill.

Anthony, who came from a peasant family, was more willing to work with the land than with the war.

After becoming the ruler of the town of Mashuru, he did not behave in a domineering manner, but behaved like a peasant in Prussia.

Every day, leading the big guys, working in the fields, and looking at the crops full of vitality, Anthony's heart is more and more happy and satisfied.

The immigrants of Mashulu Town were also influenced by this kind and amiable mayor, and they were passionate about the cause of land reclamation.

Three different groups of people from Germany, Austria and the Far East all had a common language because of their peasant status.

In their work in the fields, they exchanged and shared experiences, and Antony shared some of the scientific knowledge popularized in Prussian education, and the experience of immigrants from the Austrian Empire, especially in some agricultural facilities. Far Eastern immigrants, on the other hand, are a little more sophisticated in vegetable cultivation and non-staple food research.

Because of the frequent communication together, Anthony learned some dialects and many Chinese phrases in the Austrian Empire, and the immigrants of the Austrian Empire knew some German and now learned a small number of Chinese words, and the Chinese also touched the threshold of some European languages in their communication with the first two.

The inhabitants of Mashulu live in harmony as if he were connected to the iron and red earth under the red sunset.

In the entire East African colonies, with the exception of immigrants who worked in agriculture, the largest number were soldiers, so there were no significant differences in class.

This has created conditions for different ethnic groups to live together, eat in the same pot, and receive similar benefits, and the estrangement and vigilance caused by historical and geographical reasons have slowly dissolved.

Of course, the natives of East Africa are not counted here, after all, these natives don't even have decent clothes, and their faces are covered in floral tattoos, and they look fierce. And the dark complexion is difficult to be accepted by ordinary people, whether from the perspective of civilization or race.

And the colonial government of East Africa also deliberately strengthened the minds of immigrants that the natives were cruel, did not work, were not civilized, and were evolutionarily backward and primitive (by comparing the faces of orangutans with the aborigines, the lower face was convex). impressions.