Evening.

After walking for more than 20 kilometers, the convoy stopped, and the group spent the night in a village in East Africa.

Although the city of Dar es Salaam is not too far from the first town, considering the particularity of these "talents", it is not very fast.

In the evening, the people of the village have already started to make a fire to cook, a little smoke rises from the chimney, and the sunset cuts a dazzling red sea on the horizon, and the vast and crisp fields are sprinkled with the afterglow of the setting sun.

"What a soul-stirring picture!" Seeing this, Aryan couldn't help but admire.

This is also the first time that the mission has seen the countryside of East Africa in the past few days after arriving in East Africa, and after leaving the city of Dar es Salaam during the day, it has seen the wilderness along the way, and occasionally animals appear on both sides of the road, confirming the rumor that the East African kingdom is relatively barren, and now it finally sees fertile fields and villages.

Not Versailles, East Africa is vast and sparsely populated, especially the environment of East Africa makes most of the entire East African kingdom suitable for human habitation, so the villages and towns in East Africa are relatively scattered, and there is a large amount of undeveloped land between these villages and towns, which may be forests or grasslands, so it is inevitable that animals will grow fast.

It is also impossible for East Africa to do nothing every day, just encircle and exterminate these wild animals, and then simply release them and abandon them, as long as they are safe near their places of residence.

There is a sense of Australia being surrounded by an army of tens of thousands of kangaroos, but East Africa is much better than Australia and Canada, which are also relatively large at the same time, especially when the number of immigrants continues to increase on a large scale.

Australia's desert is vast, while Canada's desert is mainly located on the cold border, and the suitable places for human survival are really not comparable to East Africa.

The natural conditions of the Far East and the United States can be compared with those of East Africa, but in terms of land resources alone, East Africa is superior, especially since the arable land potential of the two countries is higher.

The village of Anka, where the mission stayed, was an important node on the road from the first town to the city of Dar es Salaam, and it was located right in the center of the road, with a large number of goods and people, and relatively complete facilities, including not one, but several, post stations, where migrants and convoys heading inland sometimes stopped.

The continuous inward migration of migrants is also the reason why the population growth rate of the eastern coastal areas of East Africa is relatively flat, although the development is relatively early, and the interior of East Africa is like a bottomless pit, digesting the immigrants who come to East Africa.

Anka is a large village with more than 1,000 households, larger and more populous than many provincial capitals of the Kingdom of East Africa in the Zambian region.

It is more of a town than a village, with the road passing south of Anka and the farmland of Anka to the north.

The fields are full of rice, and now that it is harvest season, most of the golden rice has been harvested, and the straw piles formed after harvesting can be seen everywhere.

This is also the first time that many people in the Mission have seen rice, after all, most of the members of the Mission are northerners, and most of them have never seen rice.

The first impression of Anka Village is still that it is clean and tidy, and at the same time, the village planning is very rigid, almost similar to the transition point of migration, as if measured in a straight line, the difference is that the life atmosphere of Anka Village is stronger.

Aryan: "It looks quite similar to the Far East, especially since many of the adobe houses are exactly like the Far East, the only difference is that there are a lot of public buildings in the German style in the village. ”

Robert: "In the early days of the colony, because of the lack of masonry and cement production, many villages were built with rough houses when they were just formed, and now with the increase in the production capacity of building materials in the kingdom, at least in the central province, the original adobe houses have been renovated, and it is expected that next year all the residents of our village will be able to live in safer, more spacious and comfortable new houses." ”

Robert, the head of Anka Village, was one of the first German immigrants to arrive in East Africa, and was actually one of the original mercenary members, who had participated in the campaign against the Sultanate of Zanzibar, but now that Robert was retired, as an old German, he was older than the original mercenary commander Yarman.

In the growing development of the East African colony, Robert believed that East Africa was a place with great potential, so he did not choose to return to Germany to retire like other comrades-in-arms, but let his children come to East Africa and start a new life in East Africa for his family.

Robert's extensive experience, as well as his long work in East Africa, has given him a wealth of knowledge about the history of Anka Village as a whole and the colonial period in East Africa.

Aryan: "His Majesty the King and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have always focused on people's livelihoods, and while East Africa may not be very wealthy, the standard of living of civilians is much higher than in other parts of the world. ”

Robert: "This is also the reason why I chose to stay in East Africa, the world is turbulent, especially in Europe, the history of the German region has been too frequent, so I think there will still be big wars in Europe in the future, and war is one of the biggest disasters for us ordinary people, in addition to the war factor, His Royal Highness Ernst's credibility, I fully believe, his promise to our old people has basically been fulfilled." ”

The old men mentioned by Robert, that is, the mercenaries who opened up the first colony in East Africa, were personally sent on the ship to East Africa by Ernst himself, and at that time, Ernst's promises to them, including wages, bonuses and pensions, were all paid in place, and they would also give some help and care to their families in Germany every year, so Robert had complete trust in Ernst.

And Ernst is so young, in the future, under his rule, the future of the East African Kingdom will definitely be bright for the next ten years, as for the more distant future, anyway, he himself will die at that time, Robert handed over the future of the second half of his life and future generations to the East African Kingdom.

It's not that Robert is naïve, but that most of the German commoners in this era still believe in the aristocracy, especially the nobles with a good reputation, and they will be loved by the commoners, especially in rural areas, such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, although there are many national contradictions, but the vast majority of the people still support the Habsburg royal family, no matter which nationality they are.

(End of chapter)