The British in South Africa showed increasingly aggressive ambitions, as did virtually all the supposedly superior powers around East Africa.

The Portuguese colony is also accelerating, with the Mozambican colony intensifying its invasion of several indigenous kingdoms and Angola intensifying its invasion of the Kingdom of Congo in the north.

The Belgians had established themselves on the coast while including the Kingdom of Ankuz in their protectorate (the indigenous kingdom on the west bank of the Ubangi River).

The Italian side is also progressing relatively well, and now they have seriously threatened the security of the Abyssinian Empire, so that the various forces of the Abyssinian Empire have to stop their disputes and jointly deal with the threat of the Italian Kingdom.

Even Egypt waged war against the Sultanate of Darfur in an attempt to bring the Sultanate, a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, under its rule.

In other regions of Africa, the French, Spaniards, and Dutch were also active in Africa, and in the expansion of the colonization of these countries, they all encountered a presence that could not be ignored - East Africa.

At the defense conference, Defense Minister Yarman summarized the recent defense and security situation in East Africa and beyond:

"In February 1876, a Dutch colonial ship attempted to land in the bay of Jasenna, east of Nongwadû, on the coast of the province of New Württemberg, and was discovered by the inhabitants of the town of Nongwadör, and we expelled the Dutch who were trying to enter East Africa illegally."

"In August 1876, the province of West Azand reported the discovery of a six-man French expedition in the west, which claimed to have broken away from the larger force and had no intention of breaking into West Azand."

"In November 1876, an expedition from the British colony of Natal had secretly crossed the Tuguela River and was found to be expelled, along with several British forces in the Orange River who were trying to smuggle into our territory."

"In 1877, this year, we met with British ships during our colonization of South-West Africa."

"Also in May of this year, the Cape Town colony was merged with the Orange Free State, and the buffer zone between us and Cape Town has completely disappeared."

"At the same time, there are indications that there are also movements of British troops in Djibouti, and they may have thoughts about the Sultanate of Harald, near British Somalia."

"The Portuguese side is also not at ease, and we have had several skirmishes with civil colonial groups in South-West Africa and Angola."

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The above is only found in East Africa in the past two years, and if it has not been discovered, I am afraid that there will be more, and it is also very helpless, East Africa is too vast, plus the Congo rainforest zone directly exceeds 10 million square kilometers, if you add Southwest Africa, it will reach more than 11 million square kilometers.

Moreover, many areas on the border between East Africa and other countries are deserts and rainforests, rivers and mountains, which are not suitable for human habitation, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, and it is difficult to detect the infiltration of foreign forces.

Not to mention those areas where East Africa was occupied relatively late or have poor natural conditions, the eastern coastal areas of East Africa will also encounter this problem, such as the Dutch entering Jasena Bay, and it has been thirteen days when East Africa is discovered.

Jasena Bay is a large bay (for East Africa), about fifty kilometers south of the port of Soko.

East Africa's ports are all limited in development, with a focus on a few important ports, so it's easy to overlook the focus on some of the less well-conditioned ports.

This allowed the Dutch to seize the loophole, because from the sea, Jason Bay really looked like a piece of terra nullius, and East Africa had not developed it at all, so it remained in its most primitive state.

In fact, the first to discover the Dutch operating here were East African ships heading south to the port of New Hamburg to transport the rails, but this was not taken seriously because the Hashingen Ocean Trading Company and the East African government were not part of the same system.

In the eyes of the crew of the Ocean Trading Company, the Dutch in Jason Bay may be "their own people", after all, the government does not notify them in advance of the development of new ports.

Just like the port of Soko, which is being built, a newly established port entirely because of the planned Southern Railway in East Africa, and a "wild" bay like Jasena Bay, the average person does not have the time to get close and take a look at it.

It's also more dramatic that the Dutch were found out in the end, and if they stayed honestly on the coast, it was really possible to be black for a while, but what did the Dutch come for? They came to colonize, so after coming ashore, the Dutch colonial group went inland, trying to capture some black slaves and build a stronghold in Jason's.

As a result, after going inland for more than ten kilometers, they finally saw people, not to mention people, thanks to the construction of East Africa, the appearance of large areas of fertile land and German-style villages made the Dutch suddenly have a bad premonition.

East African farmers working in the fields also noticed the anomalies of these "outsiders", dressed in messy clothing and armed with weapons, and at first glance they were not serious people.

Subsequently, the Nonwadu Town Police Department collectively dispatched to intercept this group of illegal invaders, the East African police are basically retired soldiers from the army, and the villagers also have many militiamen, so they quickly surrounded this group of 100 Dutch people without fear.

After being interrogated by the Nonwado police station, the identities of the Dutch were also revealed, they had no background in the Dutch government, just a small colonial company registered in the Netherlands, because of the short period of establishment, so they were not familiar with African forces, and as a result, they plunged headlong into the territory of East Africa.

Ernst said at the defense and security conference: "The Jasona Bay incident shows that we do not have sufficient consideration for coastal security, especially some natural harbors that have not yet been exploited, fortunately this time it is just a civilian colonial gang, if a country takes advantage of this loophole to launch an attack on East Africa, the consequences are unimaginable, so we have to investigate all the harbors along the coast of East Africa, register all the harbors that can be developed and applied, and immediately develop and utilize them, even if they cannot be developed and utilized immediately, military facilities must be established first." In dispatching military personnel, the navy should make daily patrols in the coastal areas and lay up coastal telegraphs to prevent this kind of farce from happening again. ”

In fact, there was a telegraph line along the coast of East Africa, but it stopped abruptly in the city of Dar es Salaam, and the north led to the border of the Northern Province. There was also a telegraph in the south, but not in the coastal areas, because there were not many port cities in East Africa on the southern coast of Tanganyika, only two ports, Mtwara and Soko, which were still newly built. The telegraph connecting Mtwara to Dar es Salaam was done through the former capital of the Lower Primorday, Rhône Roda, which was inland, so there was no need for the route to pass through the southern coast.

Although the conditions of the mainland harbors in East Africa are very poor (excluding the islands, compared to the large countries of the same size, there is a lack of world-class natural harbors), but there are also a lot of them, especially small natural harbors.

These small harbors have been in a state of stocking before, and if East Africa wants to "close itself off from the rest of the country", it can't invest too much on the coast, so the coast of East Africa in this era is almost the same as the coastal state of the Far Eastern Empire.

Ernst's previous coastal defense system did not take into account these small natural harbors, but focused on the developed ports of East Africa, after all, most of the East African coast was really barren at that time. Now it seems that these small harbors should be used, in fact, Jason Bay is not a small harbor, but the lack of population and economy has kept it deserted, and Ernst could not have imagined that anyone would land from here, and even if he had considered it at the time, he would not have been able to manage it.

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