The construction of the port takes a long time to prepare, and it will affect operations in the short term, so the plan of the British will not work for the time being, and they are struggling to build the port of Maputo, and Ernst is very unkind to think about whether it will be cheaper in the end.

In the same way, the United Kingdom and Portugal are also thinking that the ports of East Africa will eventually become their own assets, and the risks are quite high anyway.

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The beginning of 1880.

The census of East Africa continued, and the approximate population of East Africa was at the same time, with a total population of about 34.72 million immigrants and new births in East Africa in 1879, and 19.62 million blacks.

Combined, the entire population of East Africa is around 54 million, which is more than the United States, Germany and other countries.

Of course, black East Africans are generally not counted as a population, but the fact that black East Africans have definitely made a huge contribution to the construction of East Africa is indelible.

The population of East Africa (including blacks) exceeds 50 million, which meets the definition of a populous country in previous generations, and it is also the fourth most populous country in the world after the Far Eastern Empire, the British Empire, and Tsarist Russia.

If blacks are removed, the total population of East Africa is also larger than that of Japan, the same as the total population of Austria-Hungary, and slightly lower than that of Germany, and now the population of East Africa is large enough to compete with the world's major countries.

"The average life expectancy of most people in this era is relatively short, the average life expectancy in the world is about 30 to 40 years old, although we in East Africa actively play a role in reducing the pressure and burden on the population, but the average life expectancy has only reached the standard of about 35 years old, which is basically the world average level." Health Secretary Belled reported to the government.

"The reason for the high mortality rate of the population in East Africa is mainly disease, which our Ministry of Health has the most right to say, especially the immigrant population in East Africa, many of them have accumulated a certain amount of dark wounds in the early years, and when they arrive in East Africa, they will experience torture at sea, and finally they may be infected with diseases such as malaria, so short-lived people are indeed very common, but this is no different from other countries."

"We lack medical resources, especially doctors, which are quite scarce, but some essential drugs with unified standards are relatively well prepared, such as quinine, anti-inflammatory drugs, etc. In particular, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) provided strong support for the early national construction of East Africa, meeting the needs of grassroots medical staff and medical treatment. ”

"The good news is that the climate in East Africa is stable, and there is usually not much change when it comes to having children, and the bad news is that we lack childhood vaccines to improve the survival rate of newborns."

Most countries in the world do not have the conditions to provide such protection for newborns, let alone East Africa, which is extremely short of medical talents.

"The population of East Africa as a whole is young, more than the vast majority of countries in the world, especially the number of blacks, who share most of the loss of important national projects, which is a major prerequisite for ensuring social stability and the health of citizens in East Africa."

"However, the downward trend in the number of blacks has also slowed down, first, the implementation of many important projects in our country, which has intercepted a considerable part of the black population, and second, the decline in external demand, after the baptism of a long-term economic crisis, the consumption level of many countries has declined."

"In recent years, the black population has actually decreased by more than four million, you must know that we occupied part of the Portuguese territory last year, according to the normal law, the black population should increase, but the overall number of black people in East Africa is still greatly reduced, but this is still less efficient than in the past when we directly used war and other methods to drive out and reduce black people."

"Now the demand for blacks in East Africa has become greater, especially for nationwide projects, and we want to develop the country's land in a short period of time, and that is to add human lives to it, and this life cannot be you or me, let alone the people of East Africa, so it can only be blacks."

"So many of these blacks can't be sold, but die directly on East African soil, so we also have to be prepared for this, especially cremation and other procedures are essential."

This is not considered the destruction of evidence, after all, ordinary people in East Africa are also cremated after death, which is mandatory by the health department.

"More than 85 percent of the country's agricultural population is in agriculture, and the total population of industry, commerce, military, and transportation is less than 5 million, which shows that East Africa is still a backward agricultural country."

"Last year, agricultural tax revenue accounted for about 80 percent of the government's fiscal revenue, and with the increase in population, inland development, improvement of agricultural tools, and improvement of production efficiency, there is still room for further improvement in agricultural tax revenue in East Africa."

"In the national fiscal revenue, especially in the export-oriented economy, the export contribution of tropical cash crops accounts for more than 60 percent, but correspondingly, we also encounter some problems, one is logistics, the other is storage, many cash crops, especially fruits and vegetables, need a shorter time, better storage and preservation technology."

"In the national economic statistics of 1879 (excluding the Heixingen consortium), heavy industry accounted for 75 percent of the country's industry, especially steel and railroads contributed very highly, and at the same time led to the development of mining and other industries, and light industry developed at a slow pace, still in the form of small traditional handicraft workshops."

East Africa seems to have followed the old path of the Soviet Union, but there is no negative effect in the current environment, the proportion of heavy industry is only too large in the proportion of East African industry, and in fact East Africa is an agricultural country, and the process of East Africa's transformation from an agricultural country to an industrial country as long as it exists, then everything is under control.

"So to sum up, after 15 years of development, East Africa has entered a new stage, we are already a normal country, the population shortcomings have been filled, but we have also encountered a new problem, that is, East Africa, as a backward agricultural country, is actively seeking to transform into an industrial country."

The so-called normal countries in East Africa are like the vast majority of countries in the world, and this point has been going on in East Africa for 15 years, and although slavery still exists, this problem will definitely be solved in the next two or three decades.

In addition to the various initiatives in East Africa, the main thing is that black people in East Africa cannot live that long, the average life expectancy of black people is only in their twenties, less than thirty years old, so even if East Africa does nothing now, blacks will naturally die out in more than twenty years.

Facts have proved that the lower limit of people will continue to decrease, at the beginning Ernst was still relatively immature, thinking about sending blacks out of East Africa, and dying in other countries, now East Africa has left most of the fig leaf in order to develop the demand for demographic dividends.

The number of black people dying in East Africa is increasing year by year, especially large-scale construction projects, which are almost entirely completed by manpower, and medical care cannot keep up, so the black mortality rate remains at a high level.

But at the end of the century, Ernst also wanted to add to the burden of blacks in East Africa, especially in the development and construction of some harsh areas, which needed the blood and sweat of these blacks.

For example, transportation projects in mountainous areas such as Hesse can be completed by cheap blacks now, and a large part of the time can be saved in the future.

Some projects must be completed manually, so take advantage of the lowest labor costs in East Africa to arrange most of the infrastructure, and in the future, it is only necessary to check and fill in the gaps and daily maintenance.

(End of chapter)