In August, in the Mbeya mining area, indigenous people were shackled with wooden shackles, bound on their feet, and carried hoes to clear the ground of weeds and rubble.

Because of the inconvenience of movement, it is not efficient, but the East African guards who supervise on the side are not afraid of inefficiency and bad things.

East Africa doesn't expect these natives to be efficient, and they can set a goal of death every day.

As for the inability to complete, it is natural that there is no shortage of bamboo whip fried meat and food reduction.

Anyway, the natives do rough work, and East Africa doesn't expect it to be perfect at all, as long as there are enough of them.

Digging soil, pulling bricks, digging trenches, cutting trees...... It's all skills that you can get started, and these natives can get a rough idea, and then the immigrants from East Africa can fix it again.

In particular, in the Mbeya mining area, where the population is very scarce, East Africa has to use a lot of indigenous people if it wants to ensure coal production.

The Mbeya Coal Mine is currently home to more than 3,000 indigenous laborers, who are slaves in nature, although they are nominally laborers.

In sub-Saharan Africa, there were two civilizations, one primitive society, which existed in the form of tribes, and the other in the form of a slave society, which took the form of a slave kingdom.

East Africa certainly belonged to a slave society, because there were a large number of black slaves in East Africa and it was an important part of the economy of the East African colonies.

Before the opening of the East African colony, although there were a large number of slaves in East Africa, the civilization was still dominated by primitive tribes.

Therefore, the natives of Tanganyika are called the Eastern Bantu tribes.

The establishment of the East African colonies was tantamount to changing the overall civilization of East Africa from a primitive society to a slave society.

The difference between the two is that the indigenous tribes of East Africa used slaves to trade with the Arabs, even as sacrifices and rations.

The East African colonies, on the other hand, used slaves for production and construction, turning slaves from commodities (food) into tools of production.

And by the time East Africa itself was in a state of transition from a slave society to a feudal society.

The immigrants of East Africa were feudal people with strong roots, and they were not disturbed by liberal ideas.

The black slaves in East Africa were in a state of decreasing, and the whole of East Africa was dominated by feudal people at that time, so East Africa will experience at least a short feudal era in the future.

Of course, no matter what stage it enters, the construction of East Africa is indispensable for the indigenous people to make great efforts, just like the southern plantation industry in the United States, which is all capitalist, and slaves should be used or used.

To engage in construction, especially in the tropics, then it is necessary to fill in with human lives, and the East African plateau is not bad, but the other tropical areas are really fatal.

The colonial governments of East Africa were well aware of this, and although the coastal areas were developed early (including the construction of the Sultanate of Zanzibar), they were really not as livable as the interior.

People often had to work in the heat, not to mention the slaves.

Mbeya is around 1,700 meters above sea level, and the higher the altitude, the lower the temperature, so despite being in the tropics, Mbeya is very cool.

Such good weather is naturally suitable for the indigenous people to work in the mines, and the immigrants do not do nothing, and the wooden frames (pit wood) that maintain the support of the mine road need to be completed by the immigrants.

To be honest, it's not a difficult job, but the natives can't do it, they will be perfunctory, or pretend to be stupid.

It is as if a small wooden frame support has become a world problem that is difficult for African natives to solve.

In fact, these natives are just impatient, and they would rather do the kind of hard and tiring but unskilled physical work than do the slightly more technical work.

This is not a lie, before they were captured by the East African colonies, when they were still in a tribal state, they could weave huts from branches, carve beautiful sculptures from wood, polish their weapons, and make bows and arrows......

But when they fell into the hands of the East African colonies, those innate skills seemed to disappear overnight, and they could only be used as animal power.

In the early days, some unbelieving managers in the East African colonies tried to use black people to farm the land (it was still in the east at that time), but the seedlings in the paddy fields were staggered and sparse, which made the Chinese farmers feel distressed, and finally all of them were torn down and restarted. (When our agricultural personnel assisted Africa to plant peanuts, they encountered a similar situation, and the local people did not learn to bury seeds at the same distance, and finally our agricultural personnel made the kind of rope with markings, and Africans could bury peanut seeds according to the marks on the rope.) ）

Agriculture is the primary industry in East Africa, and food production is even more related to the quality of the East African economy, so the indigenous people cannot be allowed to live so badly.

The work of the indigenous people is limited to those that are unskilled and physically demanding.

For example, in East Africa, where fields are exploited, the fields have to be turned over after they are burned, and the current shortage of animal power in East Africa is obvious, so indigenous people have become a substitute for animal power.

The indigenous slaves of Mbeya were used as mine carts, and all the raw coal under the mine had to be carried by the indigenous slaves.

Even so, the colonial government of East Africa was still not at ease with these natives, and had to go to the mines every once in a while to inspect them to prevent them from operating illegally in the mines.

The Mbeya coal was transported without the use of these natives, but by oxen and horse-drawn carts to haul the coal to East Africa.

Mbeya's production capacity is not high, but it is far from surplus compared to the current demand in the East African colonies.

Ernst stored the coal all over East Africa for a rainy day, and several steam engine factories in East Africa needed coal as an energy source.

Although East Africa is dominated by grasslands and has a large forest area, there is no shortage of wood in various places, which can be used to meet the fuel needs of each region (such as making fires for cooking, etc.), so the demand for coal is not high.

But Mbeya's coal can't be wasted, so he simply builds warehouses all over East Africa to store it.

As for selling to Europe, Germany has no shortage of coal in the Ruhr area, and it will also crowd out the capacity of ships originally used for immigration, so it is completely incompatible.

After the development of the Mbeya coal mine, the East African colonies no longer imported coal mines from Germany to East Africa, which saved a lot of money.

The Mbeya coal mining is mainly made by indigenous slaves, and the cost is very low, just need to take care of the food.

In addition, there is basically no input, and many tools are made locally, that is, some iron tools have to be imported from Europe.

In addition to the development of the Mbeya mining area, slaves were used extensively throughout East Africa to build production, but most of them were used for large-scale projects, after all, the immigrants could not be idle, and many of the jobs had to be done by the immigrants themselves.

For example, in the development of fields, at the beginning of development, indigenous people will be used as animal power, but after the development of the fields, it will be handed over to the immigrants themselves to complete all the work.

At the same time, immigrants are required to undergo military service, regularly clean up the colony area of wild beasts, and participate in the colony's expansion missions.

(End of chapter)