In Somalia, the former hamlet of Las Campoli prospered as a result of the establishment of the Las Campoli trade market by the East African colonies.

The village of Lascanpoli does not belong to the East African colony, but is located in Somalia, but the East African colony was too lazy to name the market in order to save trouble, so they took the local name and named it directly.

Therefore, the Lascanpoli market and the village of Lascanpoli are not the same concept, but belong to the East African colonies and the southern Somali Gheledi Sultanate, which was formerly known as the Sultanate of Aquilan, which has been in a state of fragmentation until it was unified by Adel, the founder of the Gredian Sultanate.

This era was the end of the Gelti Sultanate's power, and the previous Sultan, Yusuf Mahmoud Ibrahim, defeated the Omani Empire (including Zanzibar) in 1871, but according to the original history, the Sultanate of Zanzibar defeated the Sultanate of Gradi in 1871 and became its vassal, until the arrival of the Italian colonists.

Therefore, the Sultanate of Graddi, like the Sultanate of Zanzibar, has declined, and its national strength is only better on the surface, but in fact it can be broken when it is stabbed.

Many Arab merchants gathered at the Lascanpoli trade market to procure goods and goods for the interior of North Africa.

The village of Lascampoli under the rule of the Geldi Sultanate also benefited from the Lascampoli trade market, and merchants were more cost-conscious, so many small merchants would choose to stay in Lascampoli village to save a lot of money.

Even so, some merchants choose to stay directly in hotels in the Lascampoli trade market.

Because the architecture of the Lascanpoli trade market is completely European-style, and the facilities are relatively complete, far from being comparable to the small village under the rule of the Gelti Sultanate, some merchants who pay more attention to enjoyment or have a better face will still choose the hotels in the Lascampori trade market.

After more than half a year of development, the Las Campoli trade market has been quite prosperous, and only large cities such as Mogadishu can compare with the Las Campoli trade market in the Gradi Sultanate.

It also became the first tax center in East Africa, and the Lascampoli trade market basically monopolized the trade of the entire East African colonies and North Africa, and the original route of Arab merchants to the south was forcibly interrupted because of the expansion of the East African colonies.

Moreover, the East African colonies did not stop doing anything, and in order to prevent the return of indigenous people and so-called explorers entering the East African colonies to find out what was going on, they directly blocked the borders, so that Arab traders and slave traders were also kept out.

Cutting off people's financial routes, such as killing their parents, so East Africa opened up the Las Campoli trade market while sealing the border, which was used to trade with North African merchants.

In addition, the East African colonies did not increase the price of the original East African property, and the frequent wars led to the continuous reduction of the price of slaves, and the cost of Arab merchants fell instead of rising.

It stands to reason that the Lascampori trade market should not be very profitable in the East African colonies, because coastal cities such as Mombasa and Dar es Salaam should be the best commercial areas in East Africa.

However, the colonial governments of East Africa collected little taxes on the coast, or only a nominal service fee.

After all, colonists on the sea are not easy to mess with, and it is not easy to create a colony in East Africa, so you still have to continue to pretend to be grandchildren.

As for what sovereignty is, it is good to listen to it in this era, even after the reunification of Germany in the previous life, without the support of maritime power, overseas colonies are still a plate of meat in the mouths of Britain and France.

After the First World War, it was divided up by various countries, of course, the German navy itself was not weak, but it was a pity that it was blocked by the British at the doorstep and beaten.

After the reunification, Germany was a top power, and its national strength was so strong, and the East African colonies, as an African "island" that had sprouted from its own enclosure, naturally did not have the strength to negotiate terms with those maritime powers.

And Portugal, the Netherlands, which has declined in the eyes of Europeans, is a maritime power in the eyes of the East African colonies, not to mention Britain and France.

Taxation was simple, and East Africa relied on coastal fortifications to resist for a while, but the Hexingen ships at sea were the foundation of the East African colonies.

Maintaining the migration and commercial routes of Europe and the Far East, without the immigrant population, the population of the East African colonies can only slowly rely on the existing immigrants in the country to grow and grow, and it will take at least twenty years for a generation to grow up, and the daylilies will be cold for twenty years.

East Africa cannot grow up with natural population growth, and in the future, at most, it will reach the level of South Africa in the previous life, or even compare to South Africa, which still has abundant resources.

Although East Africa is also rich in resources, the most important resources such as coal, iron and oil are relatively scarce.

Moreover, the population is not up to it, and in the face of the threat of the Western powers in Africa, East Africa may not be able to deal with it, after all, East Africa is a German colony, and if it does not handle international relations well, it is very likely to be beaten by a group.

Although the number of immigrants in East Africa is far greater than the number of colonizers in Africa in the previous life, they still have indigenous people to be used as cannon fodder.

All in all, it was impossible to collect taxes in economically developed port cities such as Dar es Salaam, and in the years when there was no Suez Canal, so many merchant ships docked in East Africa, and it would not be good if they provoked a strong enemy.

Of course, Ernst was not afraid of the colonizers of various countries, but that East Africa would suffer too much if he had a dispute with them, which was tantamount to sacrificing his own development potential and making other colonists unhappy.

The Lascanpoli trade market was different, the audience was mainly North African Arabs, and the East African colonies were afraid of the colonists of the Western maritime powers, but they were never afraid of the Arabs in North Africa.

After all, the trade routes of North Africa are mainly on land, and on the sea East Africa is indeed a dish, and on the land of Africa, East Africa is like a great power.

Therefore, the tariffs in East Africa are concentrated in the Lascanpoli trade market, while the North African market is not small, especially the tribes living in the Sahara Desert and oases, and they lack everything.

Before Africa was colonized in East Africa, only Egypt and Ethiopia and some countries in West Africa cultivated food crops on a large scale, and although the whole of sub-Saharan Africa also cultivated food, they lacked good seeds, such as wheat, rice, and corn...... These staple foods were brought with them by later settlers when they colonized Africa.

Therefore, it is difficult to describe the cultivation industry of indigenous Africans, take the eight northwestern countries that have just been wiped out in East Africa.

It was still in a state of half-farming, half-herding, half-fishing and half-hunting, and the East African colonies could occasionally see some technological innovations in the land they had originally cultivated.

For example, terraces, water conservancy facilities, etc., have appeared in some regions, but the backwardness of Africa has not allowed these innovations to spread.

These innovations found in the northwestern countries are also an example, for the simple reason that Africa is too comfortable to grow and wait for all kinds of tropical fruits and vegetables to ripen.

Moreover, Africa, which lacks good seeds, may not be able to produce as much crop yield as those wild plants, and Africa's overrun of animals makes it impossible for Ernst to engage in farming as an African.

Africa is not good at agricultural production, and North Africa is influenced by Arab culture, and its food habits are completely different from those in sub-Saharan Africa.

Therefore, North Africa mainly relies on the Mediterranean or the Middle East to import grain, and now the East African colonies provide more channels for it, especially the Arab merchants in the Somali region can also participate in the competition with the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern merchants.

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