At present, East Africa is developing rapidly, although it is an era of industrialization, and there is almost no development in East Africa in terms of industrialization.

However, the conditions in East Africa itself are not very good, especially before the development of East African colonies, most of the local areas were still in a primitive hunting civilization.

The Sultanate of Zanzibar, the only modern state that could be considered a huge land, was largely dependent on the slave trade in the continental part.

The introduction of the East African colonies into an agrarian society was already quite a remarkable achievement.

Agriculture is the foundation of East Africa, even in the past life, East Africa is a rare agricultural belt in Africa, which can basically reach the level of self-sufficiency, and Tanzania and the countries near the Great Lakes region are important agricultural countries in Africa.

Of course, the countries of East Africa are certainly more willing to be resource countries than to be an agricultural country, but from the perspective of the development of East Africa in the previous life, East Africa is a relatively backward region in the whole of Africa.

Because East Africa's own resource endowment is not outstanding in the whole of Africa, of course, this also has some advantages, in the previous life, East Africa compared with other regions of Africa, conflicts and wars were relatively few, and the overall society was relatively stable.

Of course, not being outstanding does not mean that there is a lack of resources, but that East Africa lacks the main mineral resources in industrialization, such as coal, iron, oil, etc., which are in great demand and widely used, which is the foundation of industrialization.

For example, in the previous life, Africa was the most famous and highest-producing diamond resource in the world, and this kind of hyped luxury goods basically did not help much for Africa's industrialization, and its profits were still taken away by European and American capital.

As for coal and iron resources, as far as the continent as a whole is concerned, the reserves of the whole Africa are relatively small compared with other continents, and the oil resources are good, which can be mainly distributed in the coasts of North Africa and West Africa.

The fundamental reason why the African continent is rich in resources in the eyes of the world is that Africa has a low level of development, low resource utilization, and the mining industry is a pillar industry in many countries.

Moreover, with the development of science and technology, especially after the 21st century, the demand for non-ferrous metals, including heavy metals (such as copper, lead, zinc), light metals (such as aluminum, magnesium), precious metals (such as gold, silver, platinum) and rare metals (such as tungsten, molybdenum, germanium, lithium, lanthanum, uranium) is increasing, especially for the research and development of rare metals, and these resources are relatively abundant in Africa.

However, in terms of importance, the status of oil, coal, iron, copper, aluminum, and gold cannot be shaken.

Especially for energy, so many wars are energy wars, and many countries are fighting for energy.

Oil resources, East Africa is not to think about, there are considerable reserves in South Sudan all around, but now Ernst does not plan to have a conflict with Egypt, but any country with some strength deserves to be respected.

East Africa has few coal reserves, but there are a lot of coal resources in southern Africa, especially Zambia and Zimbabwe, which happen to be "ownerless" now.

Moreover, Ernst has long been interested in Zambia, and has always been obsessed with the copper belt of the Katanga plateau (the copper-cobalt belt of Central Africa).

This is the most accessible belt of world-class important metals in East Africa, which can directly affect the pricing power of the world's copper mines.

With the Great Lakes to the northwest and northern Kenya settled, the main direction of expansion of the East African colonies in 1869 was definitely the Katanga Plateau.

This time, East Africa as a whole maintained its previous expansion strategy, trying to avoid conflicts of interest with regional powers and other colonists, bypassing their core areas of interest, that is, Egypt, Britain, Portugal and other forces.

At present, there is a large buffer zone between East Africa and the above countries or their colonies, avoiding direct contact between the two forces.

To the south was the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, and to the north were the colonies of Egypt and British Somaliland. East Africa and these powers are separated by terrain or indigenous peoples.

This also dooms the next expansion of East Africa to the west, and due west is the Congo, there is little interest in Rainforest Ernst, and there is nothing to attract East Africa to expand in the northwest.

So only the southwest region remains, first of all, to take the Katanga plateau, and secondly, to prepare for the expansion of energy reserves (coal) in the future.

These are the current state of the East African colonies' resources, their periphery, and their expansion plans of 1869.

In 1869, the goal of East African immigration was to exceed 2 million people, yes, Ernst's requirements are so low now, the current population of East Africa has reached more than 1.75 million, and it can be said that it can be easily exceeded 2 million, and it may be possible to achieve it with the new population alone.

Two million is a threshold, and if Ernst crosses it, he will no longer have to worry about the security of East Africa.

In the future, the new ships and transportation capacity of the Heixingen consortium will no longer be invested in immigration, but will be used for industrial transfer and commodity transportation.

This change also means that the screening criteria for immigrants in East Africa have increased instead of falling, and the requirements for immigrants will now rise.

Of course, the rate of growth of immigrants from East Africa should not change much, and since the second half of 1868, East Africa has entered a phase of slow importation.

The Far East and Germany are politically stable, the willingness of civilians to go to sea has declined dramatically, and East Africa has been overstrained in the past, and the migration potential of the two regions has been drained and it will take time to recover.

Therefore, the current migration capacity in East Africa is somewhat surplus, but fortunately, the newly introduced Slavs have filled some of it, but the overall migration rate has entered a slowdown stage.

Of course, East Africa still welcomes immigrants from the German region, but there is really not a drop, and in the context of the decline in German immigration, Ernst intends to reduce the entry of other immigrants into East Africa.

German immigrants need to be at least 30 percent, the rest of Europe should be at 20 percent, the Far East at about 40 percent, and other regions (e.g., the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the Americas) at 20 percent.

In this way, although there are many Chinese immigrants, there are more European and other immigrants, and the Europeans are mainly Germans, and the immigrants from various regions in the East African colonies intermarry, this demographic structure has been relatively stable, and the next only need to continue to promote the Germanized culture.

This is also an important factor in Ernst's no longer the pursuit of the number of immigrants, every group of immigrants, there must be a certain number of German immigrants to neutralize, and now that German immigrants are decreasing, then reduce the number of other immigrants, or introduce new sources of immigrants, to prevent immigrants from any region except German immigrants from becoming dominant.

In his lifetime, Ernst was a German, and he had to ensure the dominance of German culture and thought in East Africa, especially in the pre-colonial period.

And Ernst now needs to prepare for the Franco-Prussian War, the Franco-Prussian War is an important opportunity, Ernst must seize the opportunity to make the Heixingen consortium to a higher level, and at the same time, the opening of the Suez Canal, also this year, will also have a profound impact on East Africa, Ernst will definitely make some adjustments to the East African colonies, and the issue of immigration will no longer be so important this year.

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