Port of Dar es Salaam.

Ernst set foot on this land again, his heart was full of mixed emotions, "It's different! "It's different, the city of Dar es Salaam in the past is completely different from the city of Dar es Salaam today.

In the past, Ernst's first stop in East Africa was Dar es Salaam, which was the most developed city in Tanzania at that time, and was actually no different from most developed cities in the world.

In fact, the vast majority of African countries are like this, although they are very backward, but there are always one or two big cities that can show their hands as windows, which are not much different from the whole world. However, their urbanization rate is very low, and the rural areas are very unbearable, and some places should not even be considered rural, but are the reservations of the aborigines, living the life of primitive people.

The city of Dar es Salaam is such a typical example, Ernst first came here in his previous life to see the sun, sand, coconut palms, modern ports, modern high-rise buildings, although a little worse than Nairobi and Mombasa, but in the world is not bad.

Of course, Tanzania is far from being compared with the modernized Far East, and the 18th-tier small county towns in the Far East are considered big cities in Europe, so Dar es Salaam, the most prosperous city in Tanzania, can only be compared with the county towns in the Far East. In Ernst's previous life, the urbanization rate in the Far East was close to 70 percent, and coupled with the exaggerated infrastructure, even the most sparsely populated region such as Tibet was well urbanized.

Today's city of Dar es Salaam is completely different, and if Ernst were to find the most similar city, it would probably be Trieste in Austria-Hungary.

It's about 9 a.m., and the city of Dar es Salaam is quite active, with passing ships bringing economic prosperity, even compared to Trieste.

"Your Highness, the city of Dar es Salaam is quite well built, and if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought that I hadn't left Africa."

Ernst leaned on the railing of the ship and looked at the city of Dar es Salaam and replied: "This shows that our efforts over the years have paid off, and if the potential of East Africa can be developed in the future, it will not be worse than that of Europe." ”

It's not impossible to even replace Europe! Ernst silently added in his mind that this was not an empty word, but a real possibility.

What were the shortcomings of Africa compared to Europe in previous lives? It's not the number of people, it's not resources, it's not a system, Africa has more people than Europe, Europe itself is very lacking in resources, and even more so in Europe after the elimination of Russia, and even Ernst doesn't value this kind of thing very much, Africa has experimented with almost all the institutional models in the world, and the United States and the Soviet Union have promoted what they consider to be advanced systems here. But Africa is still lagging behind, so the problem facing Africa is economic.

Spreading out the world map, we can find that Africa is almost parallel to Europe, and Europe's advantage in comparing Africa is that it is almost at the same latitude as North America and Asia, while Africa is at the same latitude only competing with Africa who is more backward South America, Oceania (Australia), which is not large, and Southeast Asia, which is scattered and fragmented. It is unmistakable to say that although Southeast Asia is broken, it is the region with the most potential.

As for the countries and regions in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, they are all competitors of Africa in the future, among which India is the most severe, and it is inevitable that East Africa will attack India in the future, and its location and size are the biggest threat to East Africa's control of the Indian Ocean.

Africa has one thing in common with Europe, that is, it shares the same Indian Ocean shipping route to Asia, and whoever can control this channel will basically have the world's largest wealth code.

There are no powerful countries around East Africa, only colonies can be used, and India is the most threatening colony, the biggest obstacle to control the Indian Ocean shipping lanes.

Assuming that Africa can develop, then the Indian Ocean shipping lane, the most important trade route, will be driven by Africa, and the impact on Europe will definitely be huge, and its impact will be no less than the impact of the new shipping route on the Mediterranean coast economy before the opening of the Suez Canal.

But because Africa was the lowest economy in the world in the previous life, Africa's foreign trade is far from being compared with Europe, Europe's position is not comparable to Africa, Africa is facing the eastern trade route, and Europe still needs Suez, Cape Town, can't bypass Africa, or can only rely on land, or take an extra distance on the Pacific route.

The premise for giving full play to this geographical advantage is that Africa's economy can be compared with Europe's, even if it is only half the level of Europe, which is enough to stimulate it.

However, all this is a relatively distant thing from the current Africa, and it is better to lay the foundation of the East African Kingdom first, so that there is hope for the future.

Ernst's fleet passed along the coast of the city of Dar es Salaam, but did not enter the port, but headed for the new port southeast of the city of Dar es Salaam.

The main function of the new port in Dar es Salaam is to share the pressure of the old port, which is regarded as the port of the Kingdom of East Africa, so the population of the new port is not large, but the port area is larger than the old port, and the facilities are more complete and regular.

Soon the fleet entered the new port, and the East African government had already prepared its carriages and horses to wait for Ernst, mainly the "treasures" used for Ernst.

The wharves were mainly port managers, and Ernst came to East Africa in a relatively low-key manner, and there was no welcome ceremony.

"This location, if I'm not mistaken, should have been the area of the Great Mosque and a university in Dar es Salaam in the previous life." Ernst muttered to himself. Ernst judged from an island on the other side of the harbor that had been a beach spot in the past, so Ernst remembered it well.

"Your Highness, welcome to the city of Dar es Salaam, I am the manager of Newport, the regional head of Dar es Salaam of the Hahinden Ocean Trading Company, Mox."

It turned out to be a subordinate of his own subordinates.

Ernst: "Very well, then you organize the personnel to be responsible for unloading the things on the ship, among them" The things of the Vostok and Chris must be careful, they are not big, but they must be careful, if you hit a corner, I will ask you!" ”

Mox said embarrassedly: "Yes, Your Highness! ”

After two days of busy work, all the belongings were finally removed.

"Your Highness, are these things pulled to the train station or just by road?"

Ernst asked, "Is the railway to Soga finished?" ”

"Your Highness, the construction of the railway branch line of Soga has also been completed, but the construction of Soga has not yet been completed."

Ernst: "It doesn't matter, let's go to Soga first, put some of the stuff there, and then go to First Town." ”

It didn't matter if the city of Soga was not completed, Ernst knew that the construction of the National Library there had been completed, it was one of the earliest buildings in Soga, and it was one of the buildings in Soga that Ernst focused on.

When Ernst went there, he took the books he had brought with him to the Soga National Library, which covered a wide range of topics, including astronomy, geography, biology, mathematics, chemistry, and physics...... In addition to the books available on the market, there are also books that are hard to find on the market from various university libraries in Germany.

(End of chapter)