Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Northwest Rebellion
Recently, life has been difficult in the Calaway Kingdom.
With the influx of a large number of tribes and displaced people from the east into the territory of the Karawi Kingdom, the security of the Karawi Kingdom can be said to be deteriorating.
As a slave kingdom itself, the Karavi Kingdom was relatively poorly organized and lacked strict laws and institutions.
Most of these Eastern Bantu tribes expelled by East African colonists live by hunting and are in excellent physical condition.
Compared with the Karawi Kingdom, which had reached a certain stage of development in Africa, the impact of the Bantu exile on the Karavi Kingdom was no different from that of ancient Rome in the face of Germanic barbarian invasions.
These tribal Bantu people, led by their chieftains, slaughtered, burned, looted and plundered the territory of the Karawi Kingdom, and occupied the mountains as kings.
The eastern part of the Calaway Kingdom soon fell into chaos.
The nobles of the Calaway Kingdom were naturally very annoyed, and they didn't know what these barbarians were crazy about coming west.
Also in distress is the Kingdom of Burundi, which has been affected by the "purge" movement in the East African colonies, and as the two gateways to the north-western eight, Burundi and Qarawi have naturally borne the brunt.
The invasion of large numbers of Bantu tribes has caused serious problems for both countries, and worst of all, countries such as Rwanda and Buganda, which have seen their neighbours unlucky, are also ready to stir up trouble on their borders.
Adhering to the principle that you are unkind and unjust, the Kingdom of Karawi and Burundi will not stop doing anything.
Since they can't control so many Bantu tribes, they simply don't care, and directly use force to drive them to the west and north, so that the countries in the west and north can also feel the pain of the two countries.
So, after the deliberations of the kings and nobles of the two countries, they carved a separate path in the country, and allowed the Bantu tribe to go west and north.
As for those who want to stay on and not leave, to be honest, it is very difficult according to the current situation, after all, there is still a steady stream of Bantu tribes coming behind them, and it is impossible to occupy the land in front of them all the time without the strength.
Like Karawi and Burundi, after all, they are countries, and they can still rely on their size to support themselves on their own land with the help of the terrain, and the Bantu tribes that migrated westward are not monolithic, but a group of scattered sand.
Unless they unite as one, it is possible to destroy these two countries directly, but it is obviously impossible, everyone is a chief, why should they listen to you!
The methods of the Karawi and Burundian kingdoms were still very effective, and after the combination of hard and soft measures, a large number of Bantu tribes continued to move north or west.
Before, they wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob the Buganda Kingdom, and the Igala Kingdom and the Rwandan Kingdom were instantly dumbfounded.
The continuous influx of migratory armies directly overwhelmed the local order, and even the kingdom of Nkole, which did not participate, suffered an unwarranted disaster, and its southeast fell into chaos.
In the entire eight northwestern countries, only the Turou Kingdom and the Gitara Kingdom, which are deep in the rear, have not been affected for the time being, but seeing the tragic situation of the six southeastern countries, the two countries have strengthened their military presence on the border overnight to prevent the onslaught of the Eastern Bantu tribes.
In the East African colonies, the disgraced people of the East Bantu people, who were beaten by the colonizers with hot weapons, found the feeling of galloping freely on the vast savannah of East Africa in the eight northwestern countries.
The eight northwestern countries have entered the primitive agricultural era, learned to settle down, and compared with the eastern Bantu people, they do not have to fight with wild beasts on the grassland, nor do they need to sleep in the open, and they can migrate at any time.
Therefore, the people of the eight northwestern countries are far inferior to the eastern Bantu people in terms of physical fitness.
The advantage of the eight countries in the northwest is that their social structure is more advanced, they can feed a larger population, and they can organize more manpower and troops.
However, after the barbarian invasion, these advantages were instantly neutralized by the Eastern Bantu tribes, and a large number of Eastern Bantu people poured into the territory of various countries.
As a result, its ruling system failed, and the local and central areas were divided by the large and small tribes of the Eastern Bantu people.
After losing the jurisdiction of the central government, the local government naturally expanded, and the centralized kingdom that it had built with great difficulty instantly returned to the era of tribal strife.
In the past, the animals of East Africa played military competitions on the East African grasslands, and the animals in East Africa did not play one-to-many with them, and all the animals on the grasslands were a large group, even if they were lions, they traveled in groups, so it was really difficult to deal with.
Now you only need to rob the resources of the eight northwestern countries to live, and the eight northwestern countries work all year round farming, and the saved grain goes directly into the stomachs of the people of Dongbantu.
This confirms the proverb, my neighbor stores grain, I store guns, and my neighbor is my granary.
Naturally, the local nobles of the eight northwestern countries could not watch their property being eaten and taken away by these barbarians, so they organized armies one after another and fought with the Eastern Bantu tribes.
The two sides fought in the dark, and the population of the northwest of the Great Lakes region was slowly consumed in this war.
The colonial government of East Africa, which was the initiator, was very satisfied with the immediate results, and as a colonizer, it was natural that there was endless greed for fertile land.
Unfortunately, the eight northwestern countries are located in the best places in East Africa and are most suitable for the development of agriculture.
The large size of the Great Lake (Lake Victoria) directly changed the local climate, creating an area of abundant rainfall.
Located on a relatively high level in the transition zone from mountains to highland basins, it may not be a good place in the temperate zone, but it is the most suitable place for human habitation in the tropics.
If we exclude the region of East Africa north of Sudan and Kenya (the area affected by the Ethiopian Plateau and the Sahara Desert), the savannah climate of East Africa alone is accounted for by the entire eight north-western countries that have more than half of the population in this region.
(In the 21st century, there were more than 47 million in Uganda, more than 12 million in Burundi, and more than 13 million in Rwanda.) The total is about 80 million. The population of the East African Community as a whole is about 130 million, which is equivalent to the eight north-western countries plus the East African colonies'. )
And as the largest lake in East Africa, the Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) itself are worthy of the hands of the colonial governments of East Africa.
This is a large lake with an area of nearly 70,000 square kilometers, and it is needless to say that the freshwater resources are precious, and the habitable zone of human beings will always be indispensable along the rivers and lakes.
The rivers of East Africa are more stretched, and the volume and length of water are not comparable to those of the world's great rivers.
As for the White Nile, it is not a river unique to East Africa, and its lower reaches are Sudan and Egypt are strictly North African.
The unique topography of East Africa has created considerable freshwater lake resources, such as Lake Soren (Lake Tanganyika) and Lake Malawi are all born along with the Great Rift Valley and are among the largest lakes in the world.
The Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) are also located in a plateau basin between the two fault zones of the Great Rift Valley.
And there is a series of small lakes in the eight northwestern countries, which are said to be small, but in fact, they are compared with whom, after all, there are the first three pearls in the front, and these slightly smaller lakes are not in the first echelon in East Africa.
Among them, Lake Frederik (Lake Albert) covers an area of more than 5,000 square kilometers, while Qinghai Lake, the largest lake in the Qing Dynasty, is only more than 4,000 square kilometers.
You must know that Qinghai Lake is still a saltwater lake, and its value cannot be compared with Friedrich's Lake as a freshwater lake.
Only the Great Lakes of North America can suppress the world's great lakes such as East Africa, and as for the Caspian Sea, saltwater lakes such as the Aral Sea are not in the scope of comparison.
(Let's find a reference to highlight the water resources of East Africa, Lake Victoria is about 2.8 trillion cubic meters of freshwater resources in China, while Lake Malawi has 7.7 trillion cubic meters of freshwater reserves and Lake Tanganyika 18.9 trillion cubic meters.) )
The rainfall in East Africa is only between North China and Jiangnan in the Far East, which is not abundant.
However, with such a terrifying freshwater resource backing, it will be more convenient to deal with the water crisis in the future.
The East African colonies may not have the capacity to transport these water resources to the rest of East Africa through large-scale water projects, but they can move more people along their shores so that they do not face the effects of insufficient precipitation in bad years.
Therefore, it was the established policy of the East African colonies to take over the three great lakes of East Africa and the lands along them, and the eastern and southern shores of the Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) had already fallen into their hands. The eastern shore of Lake Soren (Lake Tanganyika) is entirely in the hands of the East African colonies, only Lake Malawi is more difficult to solve in the future, and its southern part involves the Portuguese colony.