Nairobi.

The citizens of Nairobi, who were waiting for the locust plague, finally found that they were busy with their work, so the government disbanded the locust extermination teams on the spot and restored normal production order.

This made the citizens of Nairobi a little disappointed, why didn't this locust come! I thought I could be active and active!

If Ernst knew what the citizens of Nairobi really thought, he would definitely vomit blood, and you really don't know the price of firewood and rice!

"I heard that the locust plague is coming to us? This has been prepared for so many days, and I haven't seen it, is it fake news. Stephen said in Italian German.

"Aren't there more locusts these days! So there must have been a locust plague, but I heard that it was intercepted by the government, and the northern provinces and Juba provinces were severely affected, and the pastoral areas were also attacked, and the workers who delivered cotton two days ago said that the northernmost cotton-producing areas also suffered a little loss. ”

"After coming to Africa for so long, I thought there would be no disasters here! It doesn't seem like this is a paradise either. ”

"That's better than Italy, where wars are so frequent and life is hard, but when you go to East Africa, you feel much more comfortable, you can do your work step by step, and you don't have to worry about your livelihood, besides, is there anything you can avoid locust plagues? The Far East, the Americas, Europe, and even Russia are threatened by locust plagues. Chris said expertly pulling the spinning thread.

"Chris is right, fortunately the government put out the locust plague in time, otherwise it would have been terrible if it really flooded, I encountered it when I was in the Far East! None of you have ever suffered hardship, and I dare say that I never dreamed of living here, when the Yellow River was diverted, my hometown was a disaster area, and the next year there was a locust plague, and the black pressure weighed on a large area......" said Odbiao Meng.

"It's all the same, it's all the same, and Italy is also bitter! It's just that we have a little more way out, and we can run to other countries, but you just can't run away. ”

"Then there must be a way, my cousin ran away during the war, and was caught in the Italian barracks in a daze, and then went to the battlefield, and then I didn't hear from him, I don't know what happened now."

"I'm afraid it's a lot of bad luck, and the Kingdom of Italy is a shame to fight, I heard that it has been chased and beaten by us Austria."

"Ahem, what Austria, we are all citizens of the Kingdom of East Africa now, besides, the failure of Italy is the incompetence of the officers, and it has nothing to do with the soldiers below, and my ancestors are not Italians, Venice was also part of the HRE before! My father's uncle's cousin is still German! So I'm also half German. ”

“……”

"Then if you want to say that, I also count, my daughter-in-law and her grandmother's mother are also German, so I am also German."

“……”

"Okay, don't fight, now that you've registered, you can't run away if you don't want to be Germans! East Africa is a place where you can only enter and can't leave, but life here is not bad, but life is too boring. ”

"Hehe, Stephen, you're going to steal the fun! It's a bad thing in Italy, and it's good to quit in East Africa, everyone lives a good life, and it's no better than being a bastard before. ”

"Don't talk about that, next Sunday we have made an appointment to play football with the second factory, which of you will go to watch the game?"

"I don't have time, my wife said that I am not allowed to go anywhere this weekend, and I am not allowed to fish, alas!"

"If you want me to say that it's better to marry an Oriental wife, they are much more virtuous than Italy."

"Pull it down! Look at how pitiful Odbiao is, he is in the hands of his daughter-in-law, and if I want me to say that it is better to be in the East Indians, I have heard that they can marry four as long as they have money there. ”

"I'm peeing yellow, I'll wake him up first."

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"How lively the employees in the factory are!" Clayson, the director of Nairobi's No. 1 cotton textile factory, lamented: "It seems that they will have to be burdened this week. ”

"Hahaha, Mr. Factory Director, I'm sure those lads will thank you!"

Nairobi, the centre of light industry in the hinterland, has a population of more than 100,000 this year, having briefly become East Africa's largest city for a few months last year, before being overtaken by Mombasa, Mbeya and Dar es Salaam.

In the previous life, Nairobi became the largest city in East Africa because of its early development, the first-mover advantage was obvious, and it ate the dividends of the British to build the Uganda Railway in the early days, and after independence, Nairobi's infrastructure was much ahead of the neighboring countries, coupled with the long-term peace situation in Kenya, which made Nairobi effectively siphon the surrounding population and industry, and the food processing industry and other industrial fields were ahead of the Ethiopian countries that had experienced several turbulences.

This is actually easy to understand, it is easier for rich people to make money than ordinary people, Kenya, which developed first, compared to neighboring countries, that is, rich people.

Kenya's industrial products are not to mention international competition, but they still have obvious advantages compared with the surrounding countries, which has caused the development of many mineral-rich countries to be inferior to Kenya.

In the 21st century, when Tanzania and Ethiopia had a catch-up trend with the help of a major power, Kenya discovered oil again. So in the previous life, Kenya's fate was not bad, at least in East Africa.

There is no such opportunity in this life, although the planned Northern Railway will pass through Nairobi, but the upper limit of Nairobi's development is an important city, and it is impossible to reach the first level in East Africa.

In particular, East Africa has built a larger central railway at the same time as the construction of the Northern Railway, which makes Tanzania's infrastructure conditions no worse than Kenya's, and even more advantageous.

Not to mention that compared with Tanzania, even the coastal Mombasa has to overshadow Nairobi, after three transformations, Mombasa has the prototype of an international port, relying on foreign commerce, the development is changing with each passing day.

Although the upper limit is not high, the lower limit of Nairobi has also been raised by the Kingdom of East Africa, and no matter how bad it is, it will not be much worse.

The textile industry may not be so profitable in the 21st century, but now it is the 19th century, and this kind of railway, steel, coal and other industries are among the top high-quality industries, and it is still a textile industry or a light industry.

Coupled with the construction of the Northern Railway, the development of agriculture and minerals around Nairobi, and the distribution center of agricultural products in the Great Lakes region, all indicate that Nairobi's future potential far exceeds that of previous generations.

Of course, Ernst's development of Nairobi was only incidental, with the ultimate goal of opening up a link between the Great Lakes region and Mombasa.

For Ernst, the importance of the Great Lakes region is equivalent to the importance of the Sichuan Basin to the Far East, and it is an important area to ensure the agriculture, water and minerals of East Africa.

The current potential of the Great Lakes region is far from being realized, but it is already the most important agricultural and mining (mainly precious metal development) producing region in East Africa.

The next countries to surpass the Great Lakes region in agriculture are Zambia and southern Congo in the heart of East Africa, but they are too underdeveloped.

However, in terms of current agricultural development in East Africa, Tanzania is still far ahead, but Tanzania's hydrothermal conditions are not as good as those in the Great Lakes region and Zambia and southern Congo.

Of course, this comparison is not true, because the Great Lakes alone occupy nearly 70,000 square kilometres, and the overlap between the Great Lakes and Tanzania accounts for a quarter of the land area of the Great Lakes.

Zambia and the southern part of the Congo, there are no huge lakes on the East African plateau, but there is no shortage of water resources, only Zambia's surface water resources account for 25 percent of southern Africa, groundwater accounts for one-third of southeast Africa, and the river network is dense, which can be called the "Jiangnan water town" in East Africa, but if the Zambezi River is the boundary, it is actually more appropriate to say "Hebei water town".

In fact, the same is true of the Great Lakes region, where rivers flow into the Great Lakes in all directions, east, west, north and south, replenishing the water of the Great Lakes, and the only outflow channel is the White Nile.

The Great Lakes, Zambia, the southern Congo, and Tanzania are actually located in the center of East Africa, similar to the Far Northeast in terms of topography, but the precipitation is similar to that of the Far Southeast.

(End of chapter)