Taking advantage of the leisure time of the truce, the East African colonies fortified the roads within their borders.

If other countries want to industrialize, at least they have the accumulation of family funds in the agricultural era, or they have the support of big countries behind them.

Roads, bridges, agricultural irrigation systems, and even canals...... These things have been accumulated by other countries and developed colonies for at least a hundred years.

And before the arrival of the colonizers in East Africa, there was really nothing, and even the dirt roads were developed by the East African colonies themselves.

The road traffic situation in East Africa can be imagined, after a rain, it becomes muddy, but fortunately, the East African grassland terrain is flat and open, and the road construction is not difficult.

On the front lines of the East African road construction army were the indigenous captives, and the colonial government of East Africa was responsible for overseeing the work.

More than 100,000 people, at the same time, are struggling on the front line of road construction, although the tools are simple, but with the advantage of numbers, the roads in East Africa are still skyrocketing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The food in the East African colonies is not bad for the natives, with high salt and oil, which ensures that they are full of strength every day.

The food portions were not much, but they were more stable than their hunting, and the wild animals of the East African colonies fed the natives from time to time.

The natives, who work hard every day, not only did not get tired, but looked stronger than before.

In this era, whether it is a colony or not, it is to use people to work, especially outside Europe.

Like the development of the Suez Canal, the construction of the American Interoceanic Railway...... These projects are not only labor-intensive, but also in order to save costs, most of the laborers' food is extremely poor, the taste is poor, the food is spoiled, and they are often deducted.

As to why East Africa raised the natives to be fat, which is very different from other places, it is not the conscience of the colonial governments of East Africa.

In order to sell these indigenous laborers who had been discharged from East Africa for a good price, these slaves were to be given to the slave traders in Zanzibar for a while.

It just so happens that East Africa harvests the labor value of these indigenous people first, and uses a large number of indigenous people to complete the land in East Africa where the terrain is steep, or where the engineering is difficult and dangerous.

Every construction site in East Africa died due to accidents, and the colonial government of East Africa was not distressed at all.

The colonial government of East Africa has to ensure that the food of the natives is not too bad, and when it comes to night, the whole of East Africa is dark in the middle of winter, and it is impossible for these natives to work day and night.

The food is not bad, and with enough sleep, the natives are even more comfortable than hunting on the grasslands, the only drawback is the loss of freedom, and they are inferior.

As we all know, strength is practiced, in the past, these natives, the strength is not small, but the patience to do heavy work is too poor, perennial hunting, so that its explosive power is better, good at running, but the work also eats waist strength, arm strength, and to be patient.

Now, cultivated by the East African colonies, the daily struggle on the construction site has greatly strengthened the obedience and physical durability of the natives.

So much so that the East African colonies received unanimous praise after selling these decommissioned natives to slave traders in the Sultanate of Zanzibar.

The reason is that the customers of the Ottoman Empire, after using these trained natives, were pleasantly surprised to find that they were better and obedient than the previous slaves, and they were also healthier and had a lower rate of loss.

Of course, to ensure the quality of East African roads, or at least not to be too bad, indigenous labour alone will not be enough.

As mentioned earlier, the natives have poor patience and cannot do delicate work, so they still rely on immigrants in some sections of the road that require some skills.

In particular, bridges and other sections that need to be reinforced, and must be durable, and have technical content, ordinary immigrants are not enough, and they must find immigrants with relevant experience.

Through the combination of indigenous and immigrant populations, the East African colonies were able to connect the towns and cities within the colonies by roads.

One of the functions of this kind of mud road is to prevent immigrants from getting lost, the vast prairie, uninhabited, easy to get lost, and immigrants need to be constantly transported inland, so it is necessary to connect the strongholds of the colony with roads, in case they get lost in the wilderness, they can always find settlements and be rescued.

If the current East African roads are used for transportation, there are pros and cons.

The weather is sunny and good, and the road is indeed more comfortable than the grass, but when it rains, it is naturally easier to walk on both sides of the road with turf, although this is the case, there are not many cases of rushing on rainy days, so this road still needs to be repaired.

And now these roads are in poor condition, can they be upgraded in the future, not to mention, the road from Mbeya to Dar es Salaam is already undergoing sandand and petrification transformation.

Mbeya's coal mines need to be transported by vehicles to supply energy to the few factories in East Africa, so the roadbed has to be stronger than that of a normal road.

In addition, the Upper Marina District and the Central District, which were developed earlier, are also upgrading their roads, and other areas still have to solve the problem of whether they have or are not available.

During the truce, the East African colonies were mainly fortified by the road from the coast to Mwanza, and by rushing to build an improvised dirt road from the Great Lakes to the newly occupied territories.

During the war, the East African colonies suffered greatly from long supply lines and poor road conditions.

And the war is only halfway through, and there are the four stronger northern countries behind it, so it is necessary to make complete preparations to avoid overturning.

Although Ernst looked down on the natives, the natives were sometimes able to burst out with great power, and there were many cases in history in which the backward forces defeated the advanced forces.

So every battle should be carefully prepared, and if the British and Portuguese were to fight this war, they would definitely not be as safe as Ernst.

More than 10,000 East African colonial troops (including militias) armed with modern military weapons were enough to fight a skirmish on the battlefields of Europe.

And it is enough to pose a serious threat to some small countries, such as Greece and other Balkan countries, with a population of only a million, some armies are only tens of thousands, not to mention some weaker countries, such as many small states in Germany.

So East Africa is absolutely dedicated to these indigenous countries, and the Sultanate of Zanzibar did not enjoy this treatment at the beginning.

The Sultanate of Zanzibar has only a few hundred thousand men, and as soon as East Africa puts its forces invading the northwest in front of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, it is full of deterrence.

In a short period of time, the East African colonies can raise a contingent of 70,000 or 80,000 people in the whole of East Africa, which can only be done by Egypt at present.

That's why Ernst dared to say that he was based in Africa, and why it didn't attract the attention of other forces.

That was because the colonists of other countries did not go deep into the interior, so they did not know the details of East Africa, and East Africa was originally the only place for Europe to pass through India and the Far East, and a large number of merchant ships docked in Dar es Salaam and Mombasa every day.

It is also normal for people to come and go, and the landing of immigrants in East Africa is naturally not abrupt, and except for the East African colonies themselves, who has nothing to do to count how many immigrants have in East Africa.

After all, everyone recruits people from their own colonies, and the East African colonies only recruit a little more, and the East African colonies are completely closed, and Zanzibar merchants can only do business in the market of Dar es Salaam.

From the coast, it seems that East Africa and the Portuguese colonies in Mozambique are similar, so there is no reason for concern.

The Portuguese who really border East Africa have only seen a few villages in East Africa, and the west and East Africa are bordered by their subordinate indigenous forces, and most of the two colonies are separated by the Rufuma River, so the Portuguese are not clear about the strength of the East African colonies.

As for the Arabs, what is more familiar with East Africa is the Sultanate of Zanzibar, which is now trapped on the island.

Egypt's Sudan (South Sudan) is very close to Omolat in East Africa, but there are many indigenous nomadic forces in between, and Egypt's control over South Sudan is too weak (South Sudan is all black).

Of course, East Africa is not badly located, especially since Dar es Salaam is an important port of call on the Indian Ocean coast.

But Britain and France know that the Suez Canal is almost complete, and Britain has Cape Town, France has Madagascar, and both countries have their own footholds in the Indian Ocean, so Dar es Salaam is not so important.

What's more, now Dar es Salaam and other ports are armed with artillery, so East Africa can stand alone due to a combination of many factors.

If East Africa really wants to be targeted by other countries, of course there is a way, that is, to develop the mineral resources of East Africa on a large scale and realize it, which is obviously impossible.

(End of chapter)