"Richard", in fact, his real name is Augusta, is one of the heads of the British branch of the Dark Line Organization of the Business Intelligence Division of the Heshingen Foundation.

Founded in 1866, the Business Intelligence Division of the Heixingen Foundation was indeed initially responsible for collecting business intelligence for Ernst's reference.

Later, with the development of the consortium and the development of the East African colonies, it also began to search for national and regional intelligence, and Ernst directly separated some people from the intelligence department of the Heixingen Foundation to form a dark line organization, that is, nominally the group's commercial intelligence collectors, but in fact Ernst's spy agent organization.

Most of its members are selected from the Heixingen Military Academy, have received professional training, and have a relatively high degree of loyalty, but the disadvantage is that they are generally not very old, which is also the reason why Augusta and others are relatively immature.

The dark line organization of the Heixingen Business Intelligence Service does not belong to the East African government, but is a secret service organization under the private name of Ernst, and it is stored in the state audit and other departments in East Africa to supervise the operation of the East African country, and even Konstantin does not know the existence of this organization.

Although the Dark Line organization is now under Ernst's personal leadership, it is bound to be integrated into the East African state organs in the future, which is the predecessor of the East African national security department.

In foreign countries, the dark line organization of the Black Singen Business Intelligence Department mainly exists in the United Kingdom, the United States, France and other countries with elected governments, after all, the members of the dark line organization are relatively inexperienced, so it is better to work in these countries with lax regulations, and slowly accumulate the work experience of intelligence personnel.

An authoritarian country like East Africa, which has a strong government, is not suitable for spy activities and is easy to expose, of course, provided that the system of state organs does not collapse, and old countries such as the Far East and Austria-Hungary can be infiltrated into a sieve.

Fortunately, the current capacity of Ernst's intelligence services is limited, and the main activities are in countries that may pose a threat to East Africa, Britain, the United States and Portugal, with France being the focus.

Among them, Britain, Portugal and France have colonies in Africa, and the United States is looking for trade markets everywhere under British suppression, so East Africa is not very welcome to American businessmen, just like the United States is actively exploring in the Far East, American businessmen are also in the trade Far East and Japan The situation is more clear, East Africa is such a big country, can hide day by day, naturally do not want to deal with the Americans, even American businessmen seek to set up a trading place in Zanzibar is rejected by East Africa.

In this era, the United States is still the United States, not the American imperialism of the previous life, just a pitiful worm under Britain and France, so the people are very well packaged, and American businessmen do business in Zanzibar under the banner of fair and free trade, but Ernst chose to refuse.

American businessmen operating in the Indian Ocean also concluded that East Africa is a fairly closed country, but it is understandable that a German overseas colony, without the help of the mother country, should naturally be vigilant, anyway, except for the Austrians, the East African government has not yet seen any kind to the businessmen of any country.

In fact, there are still some of them, that is, the merchants of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, the Sultanate of Zanzibar is the younger brother of East Africa, so East Africa is naturally relieved, and at the same time, a large share of the import and export trade of East Africa is carried out through the Sultanate of Zanzibar, and the markets along the coast of the Middle East and the Indian Ocean also depend on the Sultanate of Zanzibar to open.

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Dar es Salaam City.

Three Hexingen ocean-going ships began to unload the Dreiser guns and artillery production machines that had been discarded from the Berlin Heshingen Arsenal, and the East African organization organized a large number of wagons and men to pick up the goods at the port.

"These machines are relatively new, and it has only taken four or five years, compared with those machines in the East African Arsenal, they are very advanced, and they are more complete, and the parts are sealed in the box, do not open the seal before arriving at the destination, and do not let the rain get on and penetrate the parts in the box." Vicente, a technician on board, said Bryce, an East African government official who came to hand over the ship.

Bryce: "Don't worry, we have prepared enough rainproof cloths and hemp rope to ensure that these machines will not be caught in the rain before they reach their destination." ”

Vicente: "Also, it's best not to be too bumpy on the road, although these machines are not so expensive, but it is not good in case of damage caused by transportation." ”

Bryce: "No problem, we have experience in transporting a batch of mining equipment to Mbeya, and we will send people to maintain the road from Dar es Salaam to Mbeya every month, unless there is extreme weather, the general road condition can still be guaranteed." ”

Vicente: "That's not the point, I want to know how the plant is going?" ”

Bryce: "I don't know, but there should be no problem, after all, the government will definitely take into account the problem of factories, at least on the way you come, there will be capacity building completed, there is no shortage of manpower in Mbeya City, and the ability to process and build a few factories is still there, and there is a telegraph contact, so they must have gotten the news two months ago." ”

The level of infrastructure in East Africa is still good, especially for large projects, there are about 10 million indigenous people living in East Africa, and there are so many that East Africa is too lazy to count now, at least the low-level labor force is in a state of overflow.

Removing the old, weak, sick and disabled, that is also millions of laborers, but the life expectancy of the indigenous people is extremely short, and there is basically no existence that is too old.

Ernst was lucky, this time the planning of the Mbeya Arsenal was a good time, the Prussian government intended to eliminate the already backward Dreiser rifles, plus the unification of Germany, and then the military products naturally had to be unified into Prussian standards, resulting in many German military enterprises, facing the problem of changing careers, lucky to be absorbed by Prussia, bad ones can only go out of business, especially the states below Germany, many of them have their own military industries, although they are mainly small workshops, but some of their equipment is still good, It's just that the scale is relatively small.

So almost at the price of scrap iron, you can buy a bunch of machinery and equipment, and put it together, which really allows Ernst to put together a complete chain of full-fledged weapons production.

Although the Berlin Heshingen Arsenal produced firearms, the parts were mainly procured, and there were complete workshops for the production of gun parts and accessories in these states.

After acquiring a large number of various weapons production machinery and equipment, as long as they are reassembled and produced in East Africa, basically most of the weapons that can be produced in Europe today, plus the steel in the city of Mbeya, East Africa can be completed independently.

Weapons that could not be produced in East Africa, including pistols, bayonets, daggers, and small artillery, were all supplied by East Africa in this purchase.

Although the output may be unsatisfactory due to the low production efficiency of handicraft workshops and the large gap in steel production capacity, East Africa has also taken an important step towards the independence of weapons and equipment.

(End of chapter)