The South Route Army of East Africa, whose goal was to conquer the Matabele Plateau, and the arrival of the South Route Army was undoubtedly a disaster for the local natives.

With the Portuguese in the east and the Boers in the south, there was already the barren land of the West - the Kalahari Basin and other black countries in the north, but with the East African expedition, they were completely surrounded by colonizers.

If, as usual, there were only a few hundred, at most a thousand colonial troops, the natives of Zimbabwe could still cope with it, but the entire Southern Route Army was more than 20,000 people, which was too much for the natives.

Great Zimbabwe ruins.

A platoon of the Southern Route Army stationed here is responsible for setting up a material transfer station here to ensure the smooth flow of logistics channels.

"It's an empty city, but it's all made of stones, and it's a good height, which is really rare in Africa, but why should the local natives abandon it!" Platoon Commander DeMeyer wondered.

"Well, it's hard to say, it doesn't have to be built by the natives themselves, maybe it's the Arab idea." The deputy platoon commander said.

"I don't see it that way!" At this time, a voice came from nearby, and I saw a middle-aged man with a backpack and crutches, followed by a black man, helping him carry his luggage.

"Who are you? Why is it here? Why do you speak German? Maidel watched the unexpected visitor warily as he raised his gun.

"Don't be nervous friend, I'm a German geographer, Carl Moher, who studies the culture of the indigenous people here, and this is my rented servant." Carl Moher explained.

Hearing this man's self-description made Medel let his guard down a little, and he said: "Germans, that's wonderful! This is the first time I have met Germans in the interior of Africa other than the Kingdom of East Africa, where are you from? ”

"This gentleman, I'm from Saxon, from Dresden, have you heard of it?" Carl Moher said.

Medel finally put down his gun, he walked up to Karl Moher, stretched out his hand, and said, "Hello, Monsieur Mohe, I am also from Germany, and I used to be from Württemberg. ”

"Look at your outfits?" Carl Moher looked at the military uniform of the East African Kingdom and said, although the style is very similar to the German region, there are some different elements.

"Royal Army of East Africa."

"The Kingdom of East Africa? Haven't heard of this country? Moher said curiously, and this is the name of an African country!

"Mr. Mohe, I wonder how long you've been in Africa?" Medel didn't answer immediately, but asked.

"Soon, it's only two or three years."

"Then it's no wonder that you haven't been back to Europe all these years?"

Karl Moher shook his head and said, "Not really, I'm here to survey historical sites, such as this Stone Town where you are, because it is difficult to collect useful information, and this site has a long history, so I have been staying here." ”

"I see!" Medel suddenly realized, "Actually, Mr. Mohe, your news here is a bit closed, the East African Kingdom is a kingdom established by our Germany in Africa, and it has only been established for a few months. ”

"Well, aren't they all colonies overseas? I thought it was a Prussian or Austro-Hungarian colony! ”

"The Kingdom of East Africa was founded by the royal family of Heshingen, a state in South Germany, you should know it!"

"I've only heard of the name Heixingen Kingdom, but I really don't know much about it."

"Our king's surname is Hohenzollern."

"I see, the Hohenzollern family makes sense, but it's really a bit unusual for the Germans to establish a country in Africa, but I've been active here for a while, why haven't I seen you before!"

"That's because this place has just been incorporated into its territory by the Kingdom of East Africa, and there are no immigrants who have migrated here except for the army." Medel explained.

The East African army of more than 20,000 people looks bluffing, but it is scattered over more than 500,000 square kilometers of land and cannot even make a wave, so it is normal that Carl Moher has not encountered other East African troops before.

"Then your East Africa should be quite large! It's the interior of Africa, and the east is the Portuguese, and I'm coming from the port there, and the Boers are in the south, so you can only come from the north. ”

"It should be very large, and it will take more than ten days to get here from the newly established Southern Frontier Province in East Africa alone."

In fact, the vast majority of East Africans have no way of knowing how big East Africa is, even Ernst, because the territory of East Africa is constantly changing.

Southern Frontier Province? Karl Moher heard another message, and the East African kingdom had been divided into administrative districts.

"I wonder what you think of this ruin?" Medel asked, bringing the conversation back to the scene when Carl Moher appeared.

"Yes, I personally think that this large cluster of stone buildings is in the European style, probably from Europe, and you see that there are no roofs here, and they are all made of gray granite blocks with elaborate technology, and some of the stones have been carved. The tall stone walls on the hill are clearly European-style buildings. Hearing Medel's inquiry, Karl Moher said.

"This ...... What a new point of view! "But if I want to say that this thing is probably made by the African natives themselves, at most it has something to do with the Arabs, and it can't have anything to do with Europe at all." ”

Hearing Medel refute his arguments, Carl Moher said, "What do you think? ”

"Although the scale of this ruin is not bad, but it is too rough, and the carving marks you mentioned seem to me to be the skills of some primitive people and savages, I have seen many natives, and some of their stone grass are very good, the kind that is knocked out of stone by hand, and this is a circle surrounded by a large number of stones, and it may have included houses in the past, and it is not difficult to build a house with stones, and the architecture of Europe is not so simple."

"What you say is very reasonable, but I don't think that the indigenous Africans have the ability to build such a huge project on their own, I have been to many places in Africa, such large-scale stone relics only exist in North Africa, and these stone towns are the only ones scattered here in the entire sub-Saharan Island, and I have investigated the surrounding indigenous people, and they do not have such a skill inheritance, so these buildings are absolutely impossible to be completed by the indigenous."

……

The stone ruins that the two argue are actually the famous Great Zimbabwean ruins in Africa in the past life, and there are more than 200 ruins of the same style in Zimbabwe, and each one is called "Zimbabwe" by the local aborigines, and there has been controversy over who built it.

In the previous life, Karl Moher was the first to make this miracle public, although it is called a miracle, it is still in the list of world cultural heritage, but for Ernst, this thing is not worth the price at all, that is, Africa (excluding North Africa), there is really no historical and cultural heritage to brag about, so the so-called Great Zimbabwe site is a "chicken head".

Except for Australia, sub-Saharan Africa is the most culturally deserted region in the world, and the Indians are playing with stones, and the Indians throw more than a dozen streets in sub-Saharan Africa.

(End of chapter)