First Town City.

Since East Africa was preparing to rearm itself in the late eighties, preparations have been a distraction from much of the East African Government.

Fortunately, most of the projects in East Africa have now been completed, so they will not be busy and will be able to calmly complete military deployment in the eastern, southern, and western directions.

This also reflects the current geopolitical disadvantage of East Africa, if you count Egypt (Britain) in the north, East Africa is surrounded by enemies, and East Africa also needs to solve this hidden danger in a suitable time.

As preparations for war began, so did the work of counting the population, especially those related to the war.

Among them, the number of black people is an important indicator, and in the previous wars in East Africa, black people are a group that cannot be ignored.

Before the 80s, whenever there was a major war in East Africa, blacks were an important guarantee for the smooth development of the East African economy, because the transfer of troops from the front line would inevitably affect the production work in the rear, and at the same time, logistics support also required a large number of manpower, and this kind of work was generally completed by East African nationals.

So the Negro was the stabilizer that ensured the production of East Africa, and the more time went on, the more this was the case, and in the colonial period of East Africa, the production work in the rear was basically carried out by the Negroes, and the whole people of East Africa were soldiers.

Later, the population of East Africa increased, and there was no longer a need for so many troops, and the number of professional soldiers was sufficient, but blacks still filled a certain labor gap in East Africa.

Therefore, the number of blacks is an important statistical indicator of the war in East Africa, but the black population is calculated separately from the East African national statistics, which belongs to the non-national population.

Since last year, East Africa has been working on relevant statistics, and population means war potential, and blacks are also part of East Africa's war potential.

Of course, this is also related to the national policy of East Africa, one of which is to "vacate the cage for birds", and the number of blacks is the most intuitive reflection of this policy.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, according to the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics, by 1885 the total number of blacks in our country had decreased from more than 19.5 million at the beginning of the eighties to more than 14.9 million, of whom more than 2.1 million had been eliminated from export according to age," the Minister of Civil Affairs, Wimar, reported to Ernst.

The Ottoman Empire is still the main buyer, including North Africa and other areas that still nominally belong to the Ottoman Empire, with a total of about 350,000, Central Asia and other Arab regions, including Persia, which is about 200,000, and the United States has been restricted from slave trade because of the last war with China, only about 100,000.

In the past five years, Brazil has become the largest destination for black people in East Africa, with a total of more than 830,000, and the rest is mainly spread among Latin American countries about 500,000. ”

This is the main data of the "slave trade" in East Africa in the past five years, and two million blacks who reached the age of the standard were sold in East Africa.

"Of those, 720,000 people have been exiled to West Africa, and most of them are so defective that other countries are not accepted."

These 720,000 people are actually old, weak, sick and disabled, and East Africa naturally will not raise a group of idlers, and these 720,000 people have no way to sell, so the government can only spend some effort to send them to West Africa, as long as they do not die in East Africa, they will not be out of sight and out of mind.

"In the end, the natural attrition of black laborers that are consumed in East Africa, including short lifespans, diseases, excessive physical labor, attacks by wild animals, etc., is about 1.7 million."

This part of the black people is also the "hero" of East Africa's infrastructure construction, which can be said to be an unprecedented large-scale project, including roads, railways, farmland reclamation, water conservancy construction, housing construction and so on.

Before the Heshingen royal colonization, the only infrastructure in East Africa was the Arab-inhabited areas of the eastern seaboard, or the long-extinct ruins of Great Zimbabwe.

Therefore, the establishment of East Africa is a real "flat land to build high-rise buildings", in a short period of time to make up for the shortcomings of East African countries, and the area of East Africa has reached 10 million square kilometers, and the construction of any road has exceeded 1,000 kilometers.

Therefore, in the past 20 years, the construction of national highways, railways, water conservancy and other systems, or the amount of land reclamation and residential construction has been astronomical.

And these are all based on the oppression of tens of millions of black people in East Africa, up to now, the number of black people in East Africa has been lost because of engineering construction, especially in the 70s and 80s, the big infrastructure period in East Africa.

"At present, the western provinces have the largest number of blacks, and for various reasons it is impossible to investigate them in detail, but we estimate that they are around 8 million, including the Congo rainforest, East Azande, Novobavaria, Nile, South West Africa, Danube, and Letania."

These provinces and regions are the last natural gathering areas of black people in East Africa, and the black people in other regions are basically registered for farms, plantations, roads, railways, water conservancy projects, mines and other jobs in East Africa.

Of course, the reason why the west retains such a large population is related to the sparse immigrant population in the western provinces and regions of East Africa, such as the eastern and central regions, where the immigrant population is large and the number of blacks is small.

"The exact number of our East African labour data is 6403207 people, which is a major component of the East African national economy, contributing more than 70 percent to the East African economy over the past few years."

In East Africa, labor actually refers to black people, but black people are not necessarily laborers, because only registered blacks are laborers.

For example, those black land in the west is not laborers, and they have no way to create value for East Africa for the time being, and the number of black people who actually work for East Africa is more than 6 million people.

However, the black people in the self-occupied land are not without a role, that is, to make up for the annual black shortage in East Africa, after all, the labor loss in East Africa is huge, there is no reservoir, and it has long been exhausted.

In 1880, the national labor force in East Africa was about five or six million, and the number of non-national black laborers reached seven million at that time, accounting for more than half of East Africa's labor force, and they were basically engaged in the most tiring and dangerous work, so behind the economic glory of East Africa was the history of blood and tears of countless black people.

The number of black laborers has now dropped to more than six million, which is also related to the decline in the volume of construction in East Africa, especially the construction of national water conservancy projects.

More than a million blacks have been involved in the construction of national water conservancy projects, and now that many water conservancy projects have been completed, the number of workers in East Africa has also declined somewhat.

Of course, there is also the impact of the "livestockization" movement in the central and eastern regions, where large livestock such as cattle and horses are gradually replacing black labor in East African agriculture, especially in crops, which is also an important reason for the decline in the number of workers.

Overall, East Africa has achieved remarkable results in the work of "freeing cages for birds", and the number of black people in East Africa has also decreased to more than 14 million, a drop of nearly 5 million.

Not only that, but the number of black people in East Africa is likely to rise again, as there are large black populations in Angola and Mozambique.

If East Africa annexes these two colonies, the number of blacks in East Africa may return to more than 20 million.

An important reason for the large number of blacks in Mozambique and Angola is the "tyranny" of blacks in East Africa, many of whom fled to Portuguese colonies.

After all, compared to West Africa, the two Portuguese colonies, as well as Cape Town in the south, were obviously more suitable for blacks to run nearby.

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