"The Congo River Basin, the only pity is shipping, terminates in Kinshasa, and Kinshasa is currently the only city on the Congo River that has the potential to be compared with the city of Kisan (Kisangani), but it is all based on the premise that there is an access to the sea, and without access to the sea, Kinshasa is just a dead port, which can only be used by East Africa itself, and its freight volume is not even as important to East Africa as the Ubangi River."

Historically, it was not until 1881 that the colonialist explorer Stanley arrived in Kinshasa, with scattered villages and thousands of black people.

East Africa, on the other hand, seized Kinshasa three years earlier, and now the population of Kinshasa is just over 3,000 people, because East Africa is not counted among the local black population.

"The Congo River Basin, excluding Hesse, and several provinces in the plateau, can be said to be extremely economically valuable, and the richest resource is logs, but logs cannot be exported, which is basically equivalent to no value, so there is basically no output in the Congo River Basin."

"At the same time, even if we open up the Atlantic Ocean and seize the sea from the Portuguese, Kinshasa will still be hindered by the waterfalls downstream, so we want to open up the Congo River basin to the Atlantic, basically two options, build a railway to achieve water-rail transport, or build a canal."

If the canal project relies on the way of vigorously flying bricks, there is a great possibility of realization, and while the blacks in East Africa still have a little role, the construction of a 100-kilometer canal can indeed bypass the downstream waterfalls.

The main thing that needs to be overcome is the terrain to slow down the river drop, and the fact that East Africa now has a considerable production capacity of explosives does not need to rely purely on manpower to solve all the problems.

However, the number of laborers required for this program is also beyond the sky, according to the current development trend in the west of East Africa, it is simply unaffordable, the most important thing is that the downstream is still controlled by Portugal, and if the Portuguese problem is not solved, then everything will be in the mirror.

"The inhabitants of Kinshasa, a certain percentage of them are the army, and secondly, they are engaged in the export trade to the downstream areas, including daily necessities and medicines, and in other aspects, they are basically competitive, such as the huge forestry resources, which are not lacking even in the eastern grasslands of East Africa, not to mention other forces in the same region, they can also export to their own country at the same time, and they also have much advantages in terms of mineral resources."

In the final analysis, the trade of Kinshasa was still dependent on East African industry, which did not exist in many colonies, so many of their goods had to be imported from Europe.

In East Africa, through shipping, these goods can be transported to the city of Kinshasa, and then the Belgians will operate them downstream, while Portugal has long since cut off trade with East Africa, especially those Angolan farmers who have the ability to spend.

The city of Kinshasa is a very young city, so there is little production capacity, and the main source of goods comes from the city of Kisan.

The distance between Kisan and Kinshasa is more than 1,500 kilometres, even if it is connected to Kinshasa by water, but the one-way journey from Kisan to Kinshasa is very fast.

The central part of the Congo River is a basin with flat terrain, but hundreds of tributaries all flow into the main channel, and the volume of water is very large, so the flow rate is also greater than that of ordinary rivers, and it takes less than a few days to get from the city of Kisan to Kinshasa.

But if you go upstream, you have to do the other way around, but not because of the steep drop in the lower reaches of the Kinshasa, as in the lower reaches of the Kinshasa.

However, this also puts forward requirements for the passage capacity of ships, there is no slender boat in the Congo rainforest, so it can only work the power of the ship, and the steam engine and internal combustion engine drive have become the first choice, fortunately, East Africa has accumulated relevant experience, especially in the three major lakes region of the river shipping development is very rapid, to solve the technical problems, so the shipbuilding industry in Kisan City is more developed.

However, even so, on the Congo River, it is mainly dominated by medium-sized ships, which are too small to control, and it is necessary to reserve fuel space, which is too large to maintain, and only a few dozen strongholds have been built in East Africa along the Congo River.

"Pharmaceuticals are a major part of Kinshasa's exports, and we in East Africa have a greater say in this regard than other regions, such as quinine, which is an indispensable export commodity, which is very popular in the Belgian Congo and Angola, and there is also a greater demand for other medicines."

This is mainly due to the good development and large population of East Africa, which has led to East Africa's sufficient experience and weight in this field.

After all, if the drug is not effective, East Africa will not be able to establish itself here, and it has the largest immigrant population in Africa, and the population of East Africa is a secret to all forces, but one thing is certain: East Africa has the largest immigrant population.

As for the blacks, as natives have strong immunity, of course, it is not excluded that they live scattered, so the disease does not have time to spread.

At present, the indigenous people of Africa are still dominated by primitive social systems, and villages and tribes are the mainstream, so the population is sparse and scattered, which hinders the spread of the disease to a certain extent.

Of course, diseases like malaria, which rely on mosquito bites, are unpreventable, and Africa is located in the tropics, and for mosquitoes, like South America and India, it is the most suitable continent to live in, but this also makes mosquito repellent products in East Africa become a hot seller.

However, in this era, few people understand the relationship between mosquitoes and malaria, so they are simply used as mosquito repellent products, rather than forcing them to become a necessity of life as in East Africa.

Therefore, even if some colonists bought mosquito repellent products to improve their quality of life, they rarely shared them with slaves and workers.

In this case, East Africa guarantees population growth, and the secret of curbing the spread of diseases is not spread, after all, mosquitoes are vectors of many tropical diseases, which greatly increases life expectancy and health in East Africa.

Moreover, other regions are in dire straits, and they can further expand the export and sales channels of East African medicines, which is a triple win.

So don't look at the small population of Kinshasa, look at the resale of medicines and household goods, the profits earned for East Africa are not at all lower than some cities in the east, and of course, the city of Kisan upstream is also a beneficiary.

"The cities in the entire western region of the Congo and Belgium, Bangui and Kinshasa, can barely be seen, and the military significance is greater than the economic significance, but according to the above information, in the next few years, the city of Kinshasa will continue to expand, and it will be directly led by the central government."

The Congo Rainforest Basin region has not been divided into provinces until now, but exists as a region in the same way as South-West Africa.

The only "big" city here is Kinshasa, so it's only natural that it will be directly managed by the central government, just as the three cities in South-West Africa are jointly taken over by the Ministry of Defence and the government.

Kinshasa is of great significance to the East African military, as it will serve as a forward city position for East Africa against Portugal in the future.

Because Kinshasa is built on the border between the two countries, it is the confluence of the Kwango River and the Congo River, it is a hub of water and land transportation, and the only thing lacking now is population, so in order to attack Angola, the development of Kinshasa City has also been put on the agenda of East Africa, and it is also a key development city near the South Atlantic Ocean in the future.

In fact, there is Brazzaville on the other side of Kinshasa, but Brazzaville is close to the left bank of the Congo River and is distributed in a narrow strip of land on the left bank of the Congo River, and the north is the Belgian Congo, so it is not the key development object of East Africa, and Kinshasa, which is across the river, can use the river to play a certain military defense and transportation function.

And in the future, East Africa intends to directly build bridges to connect Kinshasa and Brazzaville, after all, there is no need to develop two cities on both sides of the river.

(End of chapter)