As soon as Christmas is over, East African immigrants are busy again, and unlike Africa, it is really winter in Europe, and farmers can rest for a while.

In many parts of East Africa, during the light rainy season (usually November to December), migrants need to dredge rivers and ditches to drain and divert water while growing food.

The climatic conditions of the East African colonies are not only unique, but also above the world average, as long as the water source is sufficient, for example, rice can be grown for 2.5 crops a year (5 crops in two years).

At present, the land developed in East Africa is close to rivers and lakes and other places with abundant water sources, or places with abundant rain, and if the water problem is solved, planting is not a problem, so the immigrants are busy.

That is, in the process of growing crops, there is a leisure time, and during the leisure time, the East African colonies will recruit immigrants to conquer other regions.

This is the expansion model of East Africa, where the people are served in agriculture and soldiers in wartime, and even if there is no war, militia training will be organized, and there is rarely time to be idle anyway.

Neither delaying production nor fighting was the basis for the orderly expansion of the East African colonies, which, in addition to the militias, already had standing armies.

Under normal circumstances, it is enough for the militia to deal with the natives, and if they can't take the hard stubble, it will be the turn of the regular army to go out.

However, this situation will only appear when East Africa expands, and in the future, East Africa will stop expanding, or the population will be sufficient, and there will be no need for militias to participate in the fighting.

The main thing is that if you want to clean up the indigenous people, there are not enough people, it will definitely not work, they are still familiar with the terrain, and they drill into the mountains and forests.

With the strength of the regular army, it is impossible to hide and seek with the natives, so it is necessary to mobilize the militia forces and conduct a large-scale survey of the land in the conquered areas.

Even if there are a small number of fish that slip through the net, there is no fear, such as many invasive species, even if two or three individuals break in and cannot find a mating partner, they will not be able to reproduce.

This is the case in the East African colonies, where there are certainly fish that have slipped through the net, but they are detached from society, and even primitive societies such as indigenous tribes are difficult to survive in the wild.

After all, the good places are occupied by East African immigrants, and they can only be accompanied by wild animals, even if they rely on their skills to escape the beast's mouth, and the investigation of the East African colonies, and live to the end, they can only die alone in the end.

For example, most of the wild animals in Africa live in groups, rarely moving alone, and the animals are much more adaptable to the East African environment than humans.

They still need to huddle together for warmth, not to mention human beings, and an important reason why East Africa is not as densely populated as West Africa is that there are fewer people.

The indigenous tribes of East Africa are at most five or five different from the animals in the East African savannah, and the reason why the immigrants from the East African colonies are different is that it is the dimensionality reduction strike of thermal weapons.

No matter how powerful the wild animals are, they can be knocked down with one shot, and the natives need to unite and cooperate, at least four or five people need to deal with a wild beast, and a large animal like an elephant hippopotamus needs the cooperation of the whole village to catch it.

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Christmas, that day, can find time to celebrate, which is already considered the East African government's respect for traditional festivals.

The rainy season is the busiest time in East Africa, where development is weak and infrastructure is poor.

The concentration of precipitation is also a challenge for East Africa, which used to have to collect rainwater along the terrain during the rainy season, so that low-lying areas are prone to flooding.

This is also the reason why the natives do not live close to the river, they generally only need to go to the river to fetch water, and they live by hunting anyway.

Therefore, in the documentary, you can often see Africans carrying a kettle on their heads to go to a very far river to fetch water, of course, there are more wild animals near some water sources, which is more dangerous, which is also the reason why Africans do not live near water sources.

Agriculture is the most important industry in the East African colonies, and agricultural cultivation is naturally as close to the water source as possible, as for the beasts, they have long been eliminated by the East African government, so most East African immigrants live near water sources such as rivers and lakes.

In order to draw water from the river to irrigate the fields, canals were dug and water diversion facilities such as water wheels were built.

In East Africa, during the rainy season, some sections of the river are prone to flooding, so in order to avoid flooding and threatening people's homes and farmland.

In the rainy season, dredging the river and building embankments became necessary, and these major projects required the joint action of all the colonists.

Of course, the main thing is prevention, and the chance of a real flood disaster is not very large, only in extreme years, when too much rain occurs.

And as long as precautions are taken in advance, even if they suffer losses, the East African colonies can bear it.

After all, the land developed by the East African colonies is relatively large, and the part along the river is only a small part, and the water is mainly diverted through ditches for irrigation.

Now the conditions are relatively poor, and in the future, when the conditions are good, it will definitely be necessary to introduce important tools such as pumps, and then there will be no need to rely on manpower to drive the water pumping device.

Even without having to wait that long, a machine with primitive power such as a windmill could be introduced in advance, and Ernst planned to send someone to the Netherlands to learn from the experience.

In fact, the windmills in the Netherlands were first introduced from Germany, but the Dutch played all kinds of new tricks with the windmills.

In addition to absorbing and draining water, windmills were also used by the Dutch as an important source of power, grinding grain, tobacco, oil, felt, and paper......

With the advent of the Steam Age, the windmills in the Netherlands gradually declined, but they still had a lot to offer in a wild place like East Africa.

Anyway, there is no shortage of materials in East Africa, the main wood and masonry pipes are enough, and other materials can also be imported from Europe.

The current conditions of the East African colonies are not yet in the industrial age, but all the advanced tools and experience of the agricultural age can be put to use.

The main thing is to save costs, the threshold of industry is too high, it is not achieved overnight, and the traditional agricultural tools can be made by the East African colonies themselves.

Coupled with the advanced experience of the agricultural era summarized over thousands of years, the production efficiency of East Africa can at least be improved to the extreme of the agricultural era.

The agricultural era is only a transitional stage in the East African colonies, and it will not continue forever, and Ernst also knows that industrialization is the future, but to build a house, the foundation must be laid first, and the industry without the support of agriculture is just rootless duckweed.

Of course, it is not impossible to engage in small-scale industrialization, the problem is this, Ernst might as well enclose himself directly in the small part of Heixingen, the talent of East Africa is so good, it cannot be wasted, and large industry cannot be separated from agricultural independence.

It was a kind of progress for the East African colonies to improve the original primitive social and economic system of East Africa to the agricultural age, let alone complete the agricultural civilization that other countries had spent hundreds or thousands of years in a few decades.

(End of chapter)