The war ended temporarily, and the East African colonies resumed their normal business schedules.

Sending migrants to the front lines during the war was a huge challenge for East Africa.

Therefore, the war machine of East Africa should also be slowed down, and the whole of East Africa is an agricultural colony, so the ability to support large-scale military is stronger than those traditional agricultural countries.

Fortunately, the East African colonies were grassy and large, with a large land area and a large area of arable land per capita, so the total food production was high, and the self-sufficiency was strong enough to support the movement of new immigrants and the army.

The army needs to rest, the new immigrants to the west must also work urgently to plant the land as soon as possible to create value, and the rest of East Africa must also step up the work of clearing the fields.

In these two months, East Africa received 170,000 immigrants (this data is not an exaggeration, referring to the slave trade, the ability of British ships to transport blacks, so what East Africa lacks is not capacity, but the source of immigrants, especially German immigrants. ), all of which were taken over by the newly occupied north-west, the West Kenya District and the town of Omorat.

If these 170,000 immigrants are divided among the colonies that have already been established, the whole of East Africa will certainly be able to reach a higher level of development.

In the first half of 1868, more than 500,000 immigrants were imported into East Africa, and in the first half of the year alone, Ernst's estimate of 600,000 immigrants a year by the end of last year was almost completed.

At present, the population of East Africa has reached 1.2 million, with a land area of about 1.5 million square kilometers, and Uganda in the previous life has been regarded as a meal on a plate, and it is more than 200,000 square kilometers of land.

It is expected that by the end of the year, it will definitely be swallowed, and if the migration activities go smoothly, it can reach at least 1.7 million.

And the population exceeded one million, resulting in the fact that now Ernst is not panicking at all, and a million is not only a unit, but also a tranquilizer, a country with a population of more than one million in this era.

In the 17th century, when the Netherlands arose, the population was in the millions; In the 19th century, Britain rose to prominence with a population of 10 million; In the 20th century, when the United States rose, its population was in the hundreds of millions.

With a population of more than one million, the East African colonies will be able to gain a foothold in Africa, and the strength of one acre and three points of land in Africa will be at least fourth.

The first, of course, was the Muhammad Ali dynasty of Egypt, which was under the nominal territory of the Ottoman Empire.

Those familiar with history know that Muhammad Ali's reforms brought Egypt into a period of rich and strong military power, and even defeated its suzerain, the Ottoman Empire.

It was only the intervention of Britain and France that saved the moribund Ottoman Empire, and Egypt was reduced to a semi-colonial state again.

Although Egypt's reform failed, Egypt has entered industrialization with half a foot, and its army has also completed modernization, so Egypt's comprehensive strength should be the first in Africa at present.

Egypt now includes Sudan (including South Sudan), which already borders the Omo River Basin colonies in northwestern East Africa.

The East African colonies may not be militarily afraid of Egypt, but the East African colonies are not as comprehensive as Egypt, with both industry, agriculture, and a navy, and even some self-sufficiency in weapons and equipment.

The second is France, France has nothing to say, and in terms of the distance between the French North African colony (Algeria) and the French mainland, it is no problem to say that France is the most powerful power in Africa.

In any case, the French mainly expanded in North and West Africa, and East Africa was not close to each other, and the closest French colonies to East Africa were the Comoros Islands and French Madagascar, and East Africa was separated by the Indian Ocean.

The third is Britain, which, like France, is so strong in the navy that there is no other power in the world that can compare with these two countries.

Why not put Britain and France before Egypt, it is because these two countries are not purely African countries.

So the native, minus the colonists, the first is Egypt, the second is the Abyssinian Empire, and the third Ernst himself does not know.

The British and French colonies were supported by national strength, and East Africa naturally did not dare to find itself uncomfortable in front of the two countries, but it was not at all intimidated in the face of the Boers and the Portuguese.

Because of the offense against Britain and France, East Africa can only be beaten, and it will not be able to get out of the Indian Ocean if it wants to fight back, and in the face of the remaining forces, it is different, the Boers have a population of hundreds of thousands, and the Portuguese in Mozambique, plus merchants and immigrants, may only have 10,000 people (maybe a few thousand).

And the East African colonies are on the same level as them, and as for the Kingdom of Portugal supporting Mozambique, just listen to it, and if you don't pull hundreds of thousands of troops over, Ernst won't take it seriously.

Fight a war and don't charge into battle yourself, as long as the immigrant population in the territory is large, the more the army, and the army is the foundation of Ernst to gain a foothold in East Africa.

Of course, there is no need for East Africa to clash with these forces at the moment, and there is still a lot of open space in Africa that can be developed.

Therefore, before the great powers set their sights on Africa, the East African colonies could expand as much as they wanted, and the opponents were only indigenous forces.

And the indigenous people could not be the opponents of the East African colonies without the support of external forces.

Don't look at the smooth sailing and rapid expansion of the East African colonies, which is based on Ernst's daily fears.

The East African colonies were nothing more than Ernst's use of the Hohenzollern family to give the outside world the illusion that the East African colonies were Prussia's attempts to colonize overseas.

Compared with Prussia, which spent its energy on developing colonies, countries were more worried about Prussia's unification of Germany, so the expansion of the East African colonies could be tacitly approved by Britain and France.

And Prussia itself does not have the energy to pay attention to overseas affairs, and now the top leaders of the kingdom are making various preparations for the unification of Germany, as for the Heshingen royal family to develop Africa, as long as Prussia contributes money and efforts, and the Hexingen royal family is its own people, and the development of colonies in Africa will eventually move closer to itself.

Needless to say, Tsarist Russia's interests are all on the Eurasian continent.

Austria-Hungary was supportive of Ernst, Austria-Hungary did not have the energy to expand overseas, and the relationship between the Habsburgs and Ernst was so good that they were almost a family, and Ernst recruited immigrants in Austria-Hungary, which was not only good for Austria, but also good for Hungary and stabilized its rule, and many factors caused Austria-Hungary to support Ernst's colonization.

But support is support, and Austria-Hungary is just selling Ernst, except for the easing of the immigration question, it is not at all practical good.

To sum up, there is not a single country that the East African colonies can rely on, and a complete fall to either side may be doomed.

Therefore, only by relying on immigrants and forming an army can they protect themselves, and of course immigrants must also have a threshold, if they accept any messy people, if imperialism knocks on the door, they will definitely lead the way.

This is also the reason for the slow immigration in East Africa, two or three million immigrants a year is easy without considering quality, and it took two and a half years for the East African colonies to reach the size of 1.2 million people, which is the result of Ernst's reverse raising of immigration standards.

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