Tanzania still has some coal resources, but not much, mainly distributed in the southern plateau.

The reserves are about more than 1 billion tons, mainly high-quality low-sulfur coal, which is not outstanding in the whole of Africa, let alone other coal-producing regions in the world.

Originally, Ernst did not plan to develop such a pitiful number of coal mines in Tanzania in advance, but in order to follow up the development of agriculture in East Africa, Ernst changed his mind and planned to develop Tanzania's coal resources in advance.

The development of agriculture is inseparable from the processing of agricultural products, which in East Africa certainly cannot be done by manpower.

If you use natives, it will deviate from Ernst's bottom line, and if they are allowed to re-entrench, it will be easier to ask God to send God in the future.

Moreover, the processing of agricultural products is already the most basic industry, and even the plantation industry Ernst does not want to teach the natives, let alone industry.

After all, the fundamental reason for the explosive growth of Africa's population in the previous life was that the European colonizers taught Africans to farm.

For example, in Tanzania, a primitive society that relied on hunting for a living, the population was always maintained at a low level, and after German and British colonization, because of the development of plantations.

The number of indigenous people who have learned to farm has doubled from a few million to 60 million in two hundred years.

Before that, Zanzibar was actually colonizing eastern East Africa, but Zanzibar, which was engaged in the slave trade, had a completely negative impact on the population growth of the indigenous people of East Africa.

The Sultanate of Zanzibar does not need the natives to farm for themselves, it is completely greedy for their bodies, so provoking tribal wars to capture slaves is the way for the Sultanate of Zanzibar to make money.

In this environment, there are naturally fewer and fewer black people in East Africa, and in fact, in the whole of East Africa, including Somalia and Ethiopia, the Arab sphere of influence, and the indigenous population are decreasing.

Therefore, Ernst wanted to put an end to the situation of "teaching people to fish", such as building roads, digging canals, and mining mines, which consumed a lot of energy, and there was no technical level, and the heavy physical strength could still be handed over to these natives.

The processing of agricultural products in the colonies was carried out in order to make higher profits, and at the same time to facilitate the transportation of food.

Immigrants are currently a rare commodity in East Africa, and the total immigrant population in East Africa is just over 200,000.

Therefore, it is still necessary to import some machines from Europe for production, and the power of the machines naturally requires coal, and it is certainly unrealistic to import coal from Europe and other places.

Therefore, it is indispensable to develop Tanzania's local coal resources.

Mbeya, the capital of the Upper Lake Malawi District.

It was an important mining area in Tanzania in later generations, with gold, coal, and iron all distributed.

The world's current most attractive colonists have to mention the gold mines, many of which were founded because of the gold ore resources.

Mbeya was set up as the capital of the Upper Lake Malawi region by Ernst himself in accordance with the previous important city of Tanzania, and no significant resources had been discovered before.

Now, with the analysis of the local mineral resources by Ernst sending people to the field, its mineral resources have also surfaced.

If other colonists had discovered these resources, they would have been robbed of the area, and the colonial governments of East Africa had already taken control of the region.

Moreover, the East African colonies were completely semi-militarized, and there was no currency or any free economy, so they had good control over these resources.

Mbeyayu is located inland, the news is very well controlled, and it is not easy to be discovered by other colonists, and even if it is discovered, it is not easy to cross the East African colonies to the interior to rob it.

Unlike California, where everyone gets a piece of the pie, all the wealth of the East African colonies is controlled by the Heshingen consortium.

Therefore, Mbeya's resources were quietly developed by the Heixingen consortium, in which the coal and iron resources will be directly used for local construction, and the gold mine will be replenished to the Heixingen Bank.

In this era, mining was a manual job, so the natives who had been captured by the East African colonies had a place to work.

They were driven into the mines by the colonial governments of East Africa, where they fought day and night with simple tools and rudimentary safety facilities.

At present, the East African colonies have a large number of idle indigenous laborers, most of whom are working on the sites for road and water conservancy projects before their market availability is clear.

In order to connect the colony with various cities, villages and towns, the colony plans to build about 10,000 kilometers of roads this year with hundreds of thousands of natives.

These roads, of course, are not hardened cement and asphalt roads, but simple gravel roads, and even then, the amount of work is relatively large in this era.

East Africa is really poor and white, except for some roads built by the Sultanate of Zanzibar in the coastal zone, the vast inland area, before the establishment of the East African colony, did not have a decent road, or no road at all.

Of course, as a savannah region of East Africa, roads may not be useful to the indigenous people.

The East African colonies must rely on roads to manage the colonies, just the transportation of grain, there are certain requirements for roads, and East Africa is currently vigorously developing animal transportation such as horse-drawn carts and ox carts.

So easy roads are a must, otherwise according to the climate of East Africa, especially in the rainy season, the wheels will definitely get stuck in the mud and it will be difficult to move an inch.

The transportation of mineral resources in the East African colonies also inevitably relied on these gravel roads.

At present, the East African colonies could not afford to develop railways, and in order to transport coal and iron ore resources to the colonies, they had to rely on animal power to pull carts.

Railway development is not due to a lack of funds, but the development of resources along the railway line alone can pay for itself, mainly due to the lack of manpower.

The colonies had just driven out most of the indigenous people in the East African colonies, with only a few hundred thousand indigenous captives.

It's not that the East African colonies don't want to grab more labor, it's mainly that the food production of the East African colonies can't supply so many people.

Even the indigenous people can only survive at the basic level of food, but the amount of hundreds of thousands to consume is not a small amount.

In addition to the part needed by the immigrants, the food of the East African colonies was also used to provide the initial rations and seeds for the immigrants, and the rest was originally used for export.

But now it is necessary to feed these natives and build the roads of the colony, so the export is reduced, and the colony itself is basically digested.

However, human energy is limited, and it is impossible to have the energy to carry out other projects in the current construction of roads in the colonies, even if it is a water conservancy project at the same time as the construction of roads, in fact, it is mainly completed by the immigrants themselves.

When the primary road system of the colony is completed, Ernst will consider other large-scale projects, as for the natives, it is inexhaustible, and the eight northwestern countries are placed there, and they will contribute to the future development of East Africa.