The geographical location of East Africa is always easy to give people a feeling of neglect, which is the habitual thinking caused by empiricism, under which no one will take Africa seriously, the most typical is the current United States.

The geographical location of the United States is quite superior, and all the conditions are also top-matched, but even if the United States is now second only to Britain in terms of development, its status in the world is very mismatched. U.S. political influence is limited to the Americas, like Mexico, and the small countries of the Caribbean basically revolve around the United States.

Because in the general impression that there has never been a world influential power in the Americas, such as the Black Ship Incident, the Americans opened the door to Japan, but the Japanese Navy learned from Britain and the Army from Prussia, but they did not learn from the United States.

The U.S. Army is weak, which is basically the unanimous view of most people, but the size and land area of the United States, theoretically speaking, the U.S. Army should always be much stronger than the British Army, and the reason why the U.S. Army has not developed is completely because Mexico and Canada are too stretched.

A powerful country like the United States cannot put pressure on the current Europe, and the small East Africa naturally does not have much presence.

However, the fact that Europe does not feel the development of East Africa does not mean that the countries and colonies around East Africa do not feel it.

When the Archduke Ferdinand sailed through the waters of Dar es Salaam, it was seen by the Portuguese who were spending money there.

As neighbors, the colonies of Mozambique were most concerned about the development of the East African kingdom, and they sent people to guard the city of Dar es Salaam to gather relevant information.

"That's ...... Battleships in East Africa? ”

Looking at the East African flag fluttering on the Archduke Ferdinand, the Portuguese said in disbelief.

"If it's really an ironclad ship in East Africa, then it's a big problem? This level of ironclad ship is difficult to deal with even if the kingdom's native navy comes! ”

After East Africa annexed the northern part of South Africa, Mozambique realized that it was really surrounded by the East African kingdom, bordering East Africa on three sides on land, and although the east was the ocean, the East African Navy also started cruising (in fact, the naval ships dispatched to the port of New Hamburg).

Although the strength of the East African navy was not weak in the Indian Ocean region, the Mozambican colonies did not think it was enough to threaten itself.

But if there were a top-tier ironclad like the Archduke Ferdinand, the form would be different.

"This situation must be reported to the governor, if it is really an ironclad ship purchased by East Africa, then the strength of the East African Kingdom is too terrifying!"

Originally, I felt that I couldn't beat it on land, and if I didn't have the advantage at sea, Mozambique might have become a piece of fat on the lips of the East African kingdom.

After Brazil's independence, the two most important colonies for Portugal were in Africa, one was Mozambique and the other was Angola, and there were two potential threats around Mozambique, one was Britain and the other was East Africa, and now this threat is only East Africa.

"Over the years, the Germans have developed too fast, and I heard that the Angolan colony also borders East Africa, which means that the Atlantic coast is no longer safe for us in Portugal."

"They also went further to take the Transvaal Republic and the Zulu Kingdom, and this form was no different from taking food from the British."

"And this ironclad ship, if it is really a warship of the East African Kingdom, it means that East Africa still has the ability to buy other warships from Europe, observing the displacement of this ironclad ship from the naked eye, it is estimated that it is above 5,000 tons, and it may even reach 7,000 tons, the cost of this ironclad ship is not cheap, East Africa can afford to buy an ironclad ship of this magnitude, then they must be able to buy some slightly smaller ironclad ships."

"There is no doubt that East Africa has purchased a lot of coastal defense gunboats in recent years, which shows that East Africa is gradually building its own maritime power, and the ambitions of the Germans are not only satisfied with the African continent, but also the western Indian Ocean."

"East Africa is destroying the balance of the African continent, but those European countries do not see this, someone must suppress the development of East Africa, otherwise there will be another United States in the future, and then the Germans will also be like the Americans, engage in an African version of the "Monroe Doctrine"? ”

The Portuguese are completely standing and talking without backache, and the achievements of East Africa today are not achieved by handouts, and besides, the starting point of East Africa is far worse than that of Portugal.

Before East Africa, Portugal had opened up the trade route between Angola and Mozambique, and as long as the Portuguese could have a little courage, they would not let East Africa catch up and occupy the interior of Africa.

Speaking of threats, East Africa also feels that Portugal threatens East Africa's security! You have an Angola and a Mozambique, one east and one west, and you just sandwich East Africa in the middle.

If Portugal had paid attention to the development of Mozambique and Angola and strengthened its two colonies in East Africa over the years, the situation would have reversed.

But what is Portugal like in mainland China, everyone knows that it is not merciless to take money from the colonies, don't think about supporting the colonies, you can't afford to pay money at home!

But the Portuguese don't think so, the development of your East Africa is a threat to us, although I don't vigorously develop the colony, that's not very normal, who treats the colony as their own to develop!

"These days, there are more and more ships from Europe to East Africa, and the transportation is mainly steel, which shows that East Africa is being developed and built on a large scale, and once East Africa stops construction, it means that they have completely digested the interior of Africa."

"What are East Africa going to do with so much steel?"

"I guess it's the railroad."

"Railroad? Is it possible? ”

"As long as you have a normal ear, you can hear the train whistle on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, which is unique to trains, and although East Africa is very closed, we can still infer from this that the Kingdom of East Africa has a railway, and I dare say that it is the only country in sub-Saharan Africa that has a railway."

"And the country with the craziest development of railways in Europe in recent years is Germany, and the application of railways in the military has been fully verified in the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War, so the Kingdom of East Africa attaches great importance to railways in the past, and the most important thing is that only railways can consume so much steel."

"And how will the East African Railway be built?"

"We can infer from the territory of East Africa, the territory of East Africa is not clear to others, but we can guess approximately, before the Kingdom of East Africa occupied the Transvaal and Zulu Kingdoms, the distance from East Africa to South Africa is at least 2,000 kilometers, what kind of transportation do you think can be used to closely link the two places?"

"Do you want to pay for it?"

"Hmm!"

"Fool, you think Africa is the Americas and Europe! It is also used to connect East Africa and South Africa, don't you know how much money this thing burns? And build such a long railway for the natives? How long to pay for yourself! Hundreds of years! ”

"In my opinion, even if East Africa is very good at building railways in the coastal areas, it still wants to open up East Africa and South Africa, unless the Hexingen royal family really wants to do charity, the problem is that there are few countries that can withstand such a test when doing charity, and the problem of money alone is not easy to solve, unless it can be said that the family investment like Rothschild can be moved, but others are stupid! Unless there is gold in East Africa. ”

In fact, there is really gold in East Africa, but the gold in East Africa is either not developed, and it does not flow into the international market.

So East Africa's current exports have always been dominated by agricultural products, you let the Europeans pan for gold they are more excited than anyone else, and they have to swim over out of their own pockets, and if you want him to farm, then you don't choose Africa, this is the benefit of Africa's notoriety, and countless explorers have summed up the experience with blood and tears for hundreds of years.

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