This time, the entire Nairobi city plans to move in 80,000 people, plus the previous 20,000 people, which will almost exceed 100,000, and is expected to become the first large city in East Africa with a population of more than 100,000.

The planned industry to support so many people in Nairobi is the textile industry, and cotton is the main cash crop grown in the agricultural areas around Nairobi.

At the same time, in order to broaden the product range, East Africa has plans to introduce Egyptian cotton for cultivation in the upper river areas of Somalia. Egyptian cotton, also known as Egyptian long-staple cotton, has a long reputation in the world and is known as "platinum".

Egyptian cotton is native to the South Asian subcontinent, likes high temperature and rain, and the savannah, temperate zone and tropical monsoon areas are the most suitable for its growth.

However, the best quality is the Egyptian improved Egyptian long-staple cotton, and the East African Kingdom intends to directly introduce Egyptian varieties of long-staple cotton to cultivation.

Egypt's Nile Delta and along the Nile, because the existence of the Nile River ensures that cotton cultivation will not lack water, the moisture content of the soil is consistent, the humidity is constant at about 60%, the temperature is constant and high, the sunlight and rainfall are too suitable for the growth of cotton, it is a perfect natural cotton irrigation system, and the typical God appreciates food.

Looking for a similar environment in the world, Somalia is unparalleled, although it is not blessed by the world's longest river, but the Shabelle and Juba rivers are both major rivers in Africa.

The Shabelle River, in particular, is most similar to the Nile in terms of natural conditions, as it flows from the savannah climate zone to the tropical desert, forming irrigated areas downstream.

At present, Egypt is the world's largest producer of long-staple cotton, in the Ali era, Ali vigorously built water conservancy, dredged old canals, dug 20 new canals to build nearly 30 dams, promoted the improvement of waterwheels, tried steam irrigation and drainage machines, introduced new crops, new varieties, the famous Egyptian long-staple cotton was promoted during this period. Cotton exports increased from 944 bales in 1821 to more than 250,000 bales in 1849, and cotton cultivation facilitated the development of Egypt's cotton textile industry, which in turn provided the Ali government with a large amount of funds to open more modern factories.

Of course, now Egypt's economic system has been completely destroyed by the British, especially the cotton textile industry, Britain as the world's factory, its most important thing is the textile industry, so its colonies of India and Egypt The original cotton textile industry has been destroyed by it and turned into a single cheap raw material supplier.

That is, now the Egyptians are growing cotton for the British, and the textile industry established in the Ali era no longer exists.

East Africa grows long-staple cotton, in addition to its rich economic interests, and at the same time depends on the Austro-Constitutional Empire and the German regional market, they are not suitable for long-staple cotton planting, so East Africa has a natural advantage in this regard, and it will not conflict with its local textile industry, because the positioning is different, the characteristics of long-staple cotton are destined to focus on the high-end consumer market.

Therefore, Ernst's plan is to build several new long-staple cotton planting bases in the northern province of Somalia and Juba province.

Finally, the cotton is harvested and transported to the city of Nairobi, where it is processed and exported to the Middle East and Europe.

The Venetian textile industry has a long history and was the most important textile center in medieval Europe, so there were no technical problems for workers who migrated to Nairobi.

At the same time, the city of Nairobi is located near the livestock production area of northern East Africa, where there are plans to raise large numbers of sheep in the Kenyan grasslands.

While promoting the city of Nairobi to become the cotton textile center of East Africa, it will also become the center of the wool textile industry in East Africa, and even Ernst intends to introduce silk technology from the Far East and build another silk industry center in Kisumu City in the Great Lakes Region, which will form the center of light industry manufacturing in East Africa together with Nairobi and Mombasa.

At present, due to the war in Austria-Hungary, Franz's plan to cooperate with the Hashingen royal family to develop Kenya has not been carried out for a long time, so East Africa can only develop Kenya alone.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire did not fail to contribute to Kenya's development, and a large number of peasants in the Venetian area landed in the port of Mtwara with migrant ships, and then sailed up the Ruffoma River to Lake Malawi after a land journey, then changed boats, and then reached the west shore of Lake Malawi, and then poured into the Zambian region.

The citizens of Venice, who were trapped in the city by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, were imported from East Africa to various cities in the east, and most of them were used to promote the development of East African handicrafts, such as glassmaking, textiles, ironware, etc.

Most of these Venetian citizens are workers, so they have a certain technology, and are divided by various cities in East Africa, although its Italian cultural attributes are relatively deep, especially in Nairobi, but the city develops to a certain stage, it will inevitably enter the stage of negative population growth, and the rural areas of East Africa have long been left with a single German cultural population by then, so the regional cities where they are located are destined to be assimilated by Germany.

Through the Italian-Austrian war, the number of Italian immigrants in East Africa is expected to be close to Slavic immigrants this year, and Slavic immigrants except for a small number from the Balkan Peninsula, most of them come from Tsarist Russia, and the Slavs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire are classified as Germans by East African statistics, mainly Slovenes and Croats in the previous life, which are deeply influenced by German culture, and there is not much difference between them and Austria in life, only language and religion are different, and East Africa has been promoting German communication, and at the same time deliberately de-religious.

Nairobi itself currently has a population of more than 20,000 Germans, so there is not much problem in assimilation, and the subsequent mixing of Far Eastern immigrants and Italian immigrants will inevitably lead to language communication problems, Italian and Far Eastern languages cannot communicate directly, and German will automatically become this bridge of communication.

All in all, Nairobi, a small city that was originally inconspicuous in East Africa, will become an important industrial city in East Africa after passing through the blood-sucking Venice.

Now Ernst only had to wait until the day when Austria attacked Venice, and then prostitute Venetian machinery and equipment to East Africa, completing a kind of bandit-like industrial transfer.

The staff of the Heixingen consortium had already greeted the Austrian military, and the Haxingen Bank helped to cash in the "knick-knacks" captured by the Austrian soldiers, who were responsible for transporting the "gadgets" to the docks.

The price is not high, after all, it is impossible for these soldiers to take these machinery and equipment as trophies, and East Africa only needs to pay for transportation.

As for the business owners and landlords of Venice, a large part of them had already been pronounced death by Austria-Hungary, and the vast majority were former opponents of Austrian rule and colluded with the Kingdom of Sardinia, who either fled abroad or were exiled, and their land and assets were confiscated by Austria-Hungary, and in addition to being paid to the imperial soldiers, they were used to settle a large number of Austrians.

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