Juba, the capital of the Nile province.

Recently, there has been a big move in Juba, that is, a large number of workers and black slaves have been stationed, and of course, the most conspicuous is the army, which the 311th East African Division has marched into.

I don't know and think that there is a big battle to be fought, but it is obvious that this is a normal transfer, after all, Juba belongs to the rear, and if you want to fight, you should go to the north or the east, the north is Egypt, and the east is the Abyssinian Empire, but even if East Africa is at war with these two countries, there is no need to garrison troops in Juba.

The so-called Nile Province is also part of South Sudan and Sudan in the previous life, and the development of the Nile Province in recent years has been inconspicuous.

First of all, there is the topography, as a basin, the Nile province is not a habitable area among the highlands of East Africa.

Inherently located in the tropics, where the inhabitable regions of the tropics are in turn the temperate cold zone, the cooler climate areas such as mountains and plateaus are more suitable for human survival.

The most typical example in the previous life is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this time and space because of the existence of East Africa, naturally can not let Brazil be unique in the past, but this does not prevent the Brazilian highlands from being a good land.

Therefore, the tropical country dominated by the plateau terrain in East Africa is a rare and good place, in fact, it is also the same, and there are several large countries in the tropical region in the previous life, all of which are plateau countries, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico......

Indonesia may be a bit special, but the population is definitely concentrated in the highlands and mountains, as can be seen from the population disparity between the islands of Java and Kalimantan.

The Nile province is located in the tropics, or in the basin, so it is quite hot and humid, and this stuffy environment is not necessarily better than the desert areas to the north.

Although the northern desert is hot, it is dry, and the southern part of the Nile Province is like a cauldron with water and steamed buns, just like the sauna, if you occasionally enter the sauna then it is good to say, the taste of living in it is self-evident.

Even Ernst believes that the development advantages of the northern part of the Nile Province may be greater than that of the south in the future, the first is oil, and the second is the part of the Gezira Plain obtained by East Africa from the Sultan to watch the white prostitution, which is as fertile as the Nile River in Egypt, the area is not large, but it is easy to develop, trouble-free, worry-free, in fact, the population of the Nile Province is mainly distributed in the northernmost Gezira Plain.

Of course, most of the Gezira Plain is located in Sudan (Egypt), and East Africa is not the master of extermination, anyway, the oil field area is occupied, and there is no need to include Sudan in the country, provided that Egypt does not hit East Africa with small calculations, but Egypt is now a nest, and it does not dare to blow up with East Africa.

In fact, Egypt used to be a very supportive country, especially in the Ali era, which almost inherited the hegemony of the Ottoman Empire in the Arab world.

The Gezira Plain is such a good place, which is naturally used to grow grain, and Ernst planned two kinds of agriculture here, one is wheat, and Egyptian long-staple cotton.

Wheat is originally a product of the Arab region, and although the Qazira Plain belongs to East Africa, the climate is no different from that of most Arab regions.

The business of long-staple cotton is quite easy to do, after all, the quality of cotton in Germany is not as good as that of East Africa, and there is "soft gold" of long-staple cotton in East Africa, which is naturally in short supply, so the cotton planting area in East Africa is also getting larger and larger, and most of them are sold to Germany.

Otherwise, Bulawayo, in the province of Matabele, would not have taken a fancy to this business, and the textile industry has a lot of potential and potential, which happens to be lacking in East Africa and in Germany.

The development of the cotton textile industry in Germany is limited by raw materials, so it has made efforts in heavy industry and railways, while East Africa is required to develop military industry and heavy industry, and its policies are similar to those in Germany.

This mainly depends on what Ernst thinks, and Ernst must have preferred heavy industry and manufacturing, and these two industries are closely related to the military industry, so the central government of East Africa will also tilt towards these industries in policy.

The energy of the central government is limited, so the light industry naturally has more room for local governments to play, so if the city of Bulawayo can seize the opportunity, Ernst is willing to push them.

This is also related to Ernst's industrial layout, Bulawayo is deep inland, if it can develop well, it is conducive to the balanced development of East African industries.

Of course, it is undeniable that Bulawayo was able to make the textile industry flourish in Africa in the previous life, and the quality of local cotton is inseparable, although it is not as good as top cotton, but it is also a high-quality product, especially suitable for making jeans, jeans made of Zimbabwean cotton are also very sought-after, most of the cotton in Zimbabwe in the previous life was sold to Europe and the United States, so the strength should not be underestimated.

Back in the Nile provinces, the climate in the north is significantly different from that in the south, so the crops in the savannah areas in the south are also diametrically opposed.

As mentioned earlier, the Nile Province is a basin topography, surrounded by the Azande Plateau, the East African Plateau, and the Ethiopian Plateau, and these three plateaus are areas with rich precipitation, so large and small rivers flow into the Nile Province from the plateau, and the Nile Province has only one river out of the sea, so the Nile Province is not well drained, and the Nile Province is distributed with a vast area of swampy wetlands.

The main food crop in the Nile province is naturally rice, and with various plantations, it is not as open as the highlands.

If you want to develop South Sudan on a large scale, you can't avoid rivers and wetlands, but East Africa has no plans to do this, because East Africa has enough land and is quite abundant, and there is no need to compete with swamps.

After the 311th Division was stationed, Juba underwent earth-shaking changes, mainly due to the construction of a large number of military facilities, and the most touching thing for the citizens of Juba was the establishment of a large number of military restricted areas.

Many places were planted with wooden signs, and the words "Military important land, idlers are not allowed to enter" in large paint letters. "A few big words.

At the same time, the wooden sign is intimately painted with a pattern prohibiting traffic, and the blood-red round cross pattern is still quite familiar to East Africans.

The reason behind such a big move in East Africa is the construction of a super-large military training ground centered on the city of Juba.

Of course, this kind of thing is not unfamiliar with the training ground, such as the well-known Fort Irwin National Training Center of the US Army in the previous life, the 42nd Combat Training Center of the Russian Air Defense Force, and Zhu Rihe of the Far Eastern Empire.

There is no essential difference between the Juba Integrated Combat Training Base (ITQ) built in Juba by East Africa and these training grounds.

It's just that the conditions here are more complicated, plateaus, mountains, plains (basins), rivers, lakes, swamps, deserts (sand), jungles, grasslands, ...... It can be said that it is fully covered.

The Nile Province is a typical sparsely populated region in East Africa, with little potential for development, at least before oil development, making it ideal for military training.

East Africa is the country that attaches the most importance to operations in the tropics, and operations in the tropics cannot avoid several types of tropical climates, such as Juba and the surrounding areas are not very common in areas with various tropical climate types, and even if there is, it is not as large as the area here, that is, the training of the entire army of East Africa can be carried out here.

The most important training subjects in East Africa here are tropical jungle warfare, combined land and water operations, and mountain training.

These can be said to be the three most common types of operations in the tropics, and East Africa focuses on these three modes of warfare with a very simple mind, that is, to go to the South Seas.

East Africa has already established itself in the overseas province of Lanfang, and ERNST regards the future of South Seas as an important part of East Africa's world strategy.

Moreover, fighting a war in the tropics is not easy to fight, and the experience of the United States in the jungles of Vietnam in the past life has always been vigilant, and East Africa naturally wants East Africa to adapt to this mode of operation in advance.

Moreover, East Africa itself is also a tropical country, with a vast area, diverse climate types, complex terrain, and diverse national defense needs, which is why Ernst built the Juba comprehensive training base.

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