November 5, 1868.

First Town.

The first town is northwest of the Little Rhine River, which was originally the land of the second town, but with the upgrading of the East African colony, the status of the first town has also risen, and as the seat of the East African colonial government and the capital of the central district, it is natural that the second town next to the first town will be annexed.

More than a month ago, the residents of the former Second Town saw a group of strangers come here for the first time in a long time, which is really unusual for the residents of the second town who have not seen a new face for nearly half a year.

Since the expansion of East Africa, all regions have needed immigrants, and in order to fill the newly occupied land, many areas in the east have rarely been injected because of their relatively early development and relatively large populations, and the second town is among them.

With the exception of the few port cities in East Africa and the first town of the East African colonial government, the plains near the coastal zone are largely devoid of new immigrants, who tend to move inland in the hinterland.

If it was just ordinary immigrants, then the residents of the second town would naturally not be curious, but the residents of the second town could see at a glance that this group of people was different from ordinary immigrants, after all, the residents of the second town were immigrants.

So when they migrated to East Africa, they still know very well, when they came to East Africa, they were embarrassed, and many of them didn't even have decent clothes.

It was still the uniform issued by the East African colonies when he first came ashore, and until now the vast majority of people in East Africa still wear the clothes of the Prussian military uniform.

Even the immigrants from Europe, they were not well dressed, but their clothes were not confiscated by the East African colonies.

Instead, after a simple disinfection, it was returned to them, and by the way, a set of Prussian military uniforms with East African characteristics was issued.

After all, European immigrants live more decently than Chinese immigrants, and their clothes are exquisite.

If you talk about the clothes of European immigrants, at least you can still see that they are clothes, but they may not fit well in terms of size.

The set of clothes that Chinese immigrants wore to East Africa at the beginning can be said to be a collection of all kinds of rags, none of which are complete, and the patches are all trivial, and the lines and holes cannot be counted, and even the same group of Chinese immigrants to East Africa wear single clothes and cotton jackets.

In order to facilitate the sanitization of bacteria and dust that migrants may carry, as well as to facilitate follow-up management, Ernst simply prepared new clothes for immigrants, and the tattered clothes of Chinese immigrants were directly confiscated by the East African colonies.

Of course, the confiscation of the clothes worn by the Chinese from the Far East in East Africa also has the consideration of assimilation, since it is to be Germanized, then it is thorough, the braids are cut, and there is naturally no need to keep the clothes with oriental colors.

Instead of confiscating their clothes, European immigrants simply cleaned them up and returned them, and some European immigrants brought a few pieces of their own ancestral clothing to change.

However, since East Africa has issued a new set of clothes, although it is a military uniform, it should not be in vain for the poor of this era.

European immigrants preferred to change their original clothes with Prussian military uniforms.

If people from European countries visit East Africa, they will see a strange scene.

The whole of East Africa, at a glance, is full of Prussian military uniforms, and if you don't understand it carefully, you think you have arrived at the Prussian military camp.

One of the victims was Anton Peruz, the same professor Ernst hired at the East African Institute of Tropical Agriculture.

When he first arrived in Dar es Salaam, Anton Peruz did not realize that because the port was after all the only window of communication between the East African colonies, in order not to frighten friendly countries, the immigrants at the port were not issued military uniforms, but ordinary European clothing.

It was also impossible for Ernst to close the traditional Indian Ocean coastal ports of Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, where merchant ships would have to dock and replenish.

If the port was blocked, the Anglo-Portuguese, French-Dutch forces would come to the door the next day, and Ernst's success in opening up the colonies in East Africa would also be a blessing to Prussia, which had not yet unified Germany.

In particular, Britain, the maritime hegemon, has quite good relations with Prussia at present, and East Africa is not a good place.

The fact that East Africa is not a good place is relative to the current perception of European countries, not to mention East Africa, there are few places in Africa that can be targeted by various countries.

West Africa is the Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast, the Slave Coast, the Pepper Coast...... So the countries looted.

Cape Town, British Somaliland, Gibraltar and the future Suez Canal each stifled Africa's most important maritime arteries

The coast of North Africa has been a region of European importance since Roman times.

Only the Portuguese managed a few colonies in Africa, but the Portuguese came to Africa hundreds of years ago, when the slave trade was still prevalent, and it was long since the beginning, but it is clear that Portugal has no energy to continue with such a long investment.

The influx of Europeans into Africa around 1880 was driven by the economic crisis of 1873.

Every economic crisis is fatal for capitalist countries, and at the same time it represents a bottleneck in economic development and the need to find a new outlet.

As a direct consequence of the economic crisis of 1873, the capitalist countries made the transition from the export of commodities to the export of capital, and the great powers set off a frenzy to divide the world for the sake of the origin of raw materials and the world market.

For the British, the years are quiet, and Britain is making trouble in South America, and there are major wars on the European continent one after another, and France and Russia have no energy to do anything, and the United States is busy cleaning up the mess of the Civil War and the development of the western region.

As long as Ernst can endure and does not expose the resources of East Africa in advance, basically no one is eyeing East Africa.

Back to Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, these two ports, as the only window of communication in East Africa, have to take care of the colonists of various countries adrift in the Indian Ocean in addition to their own use.

After all, it is an important node on the traditional waterway, and if you really take yourself seriously, there will definitely be no good fruit to eat if you close yourself off from the country.

Of course, Ernst eats alone in East Africa, so he only continues to maintain the status quo of these two ports and continues to provide convenience to other countries.

There is no need to share Tanga, Bagamoyo and Mtwara with other countries, these are all ports made by East Africa itself, and it is only for the own use of the Hexingen consortium.

But to be on the safe side, Ernst made it mandatory for all immigrants except the regular army to wear normal clothes in all ports, so that East Africa would look a little more normal in the eyes of ships from all over the world.

If other countries were to see the appearance of a large area of Prussian military uniforms in East Africa, I am afraid that anyone would think too much.

There is no need for the interior, and no one from any other country, except for immigrants and members of the Heshingen consortium, can go deep into the interior of East Africa to find out.

Arab traders and slave traders who used to operate in the interior of East Africa now waited directly at the border markets for deliveries from the East African colonies.

East Africa itself, in turn, is isolated from other countries and colonies connected to the world by terrain and indigenous tribes.

(End of chapter)