The formation of dragoons was also to deal with the possible outbreak of war in the south, improve the mobility of the army, and respond to the infantry units at any time.

The choice of South Prussia was also a no-brainer, as East Africa was home to large horse farms in the northern pastures and in the provinces of South Prussia and the Orient.

The conditions in the south are not bad, but it is a process to start from scratch, and this is the only region in East Africa that has completed this process, and the livestock industry in other regions is either too small or has just entered its infancy.

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First Town City.

With the development of the preparatory work, a large amount of funds were invested in the military level, and this preparatory work occupied a large amount of administrative, transportation, and economic resources.

So Ernst convened an economic conference in the first town to discuss the development of the various regions of East Africa in preparation for war.

"What is urbanization? Urbanization is also urbanization, the population is concentrated in urban areas, and the development of urbanization must rely on industrial agglomeration. ”

"So for the current East Africa, industrialization is urbanization, the current East African industry is promoted by the government, local officials can not be timid, to integrate the location advantages, on the basis of reasonable and scientific planning assumptions for the city."

"You can't be ambitious, for example, when you see the development of Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, you want to eat fat in one go, you have to think about whether the location conditions of your city can meet the importance of these two cities!"

"For example, the city of New Frankfurt, which is the hub of the central railway, the hinterland of East Africa, radiates the whole country, and at the same time is close to the production area of industrial raw materials, which can realize the pooling of resources, which is the basic condition for the development of the city of New Frankfurt."

"The shortcomings of the new Frankfurt city are the lack of infrastructure construction, the lack of population, the lack of industry, the weak industrial and agricultural base, etc., which need to be solved by the new Frankfurt city city one by one, otherwise it will not be able to develop the new Frankfurt city for another 30 years."

"Some provincial capitals, don't think about one dominance, such as Plateau Province, as we all know, the capital of Plateau Province is Dodoma City, but the number one city in terms of economy is Mwanza, why Mwanza can become the first city in the economy of Plateau Province, there are many reasons."

"But the more important reason is not how good the conditions of Mwanza are, but the shortcomings of Dodoma City, which is first of all more restricted than Mwanza City in terms of terrain, and secondly, the rainfall is smaller than that of Mwanza City, so on the basis of agriculture, Dodoma City is not as good as Mwanza City, and transportation is the advantage of Dodoma, but Mwanza City has both large lake shipping and railway transportation, and its development history is not later than that of Dodoma City."

"Of course, this is not to restrict the development of Dodoma City, but that Dodoma City should devote more energy to its own advantages, just like the first town as the capital, but the economic development is not as good as that of Dar es Salaam, everyone is different, so there is nothing to blame, do you 'laugh' at the first town because the economy of the first town is not as good as that of Dar es Salaam?"

"All localities have their own characteristics and specialties, and according to local conditions, scientific development is the right way, just like corn, a crop, which is very suitable for growing in the tropics and temperate zones, and some people insist on planting it in the cold zone of Tsarist Russia, which is doomed to be harvested."

Who grows corn in the cold zone? This is the common idea of the people present, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also made everyone understand the core of this meeting through this simple joke, which is to develop advantageous industries and should adapt measures to local conditions.

"Of course, the waste of finance in recent years is also a big problem, do not blindly copy the urban development template, although our country is dominated by plateau terrain, but each city has its own characteristics, such as mineral distribution, farmland, pasture, river layout, population living characteristics, etc., do not blindly pursue the view that big is good."

"Many small European towns are also doing well in economic development, that is, they combine their own characteristics, typical like the Ruhr area, but the problems of the Ruhr area are also very serious, but the current blind pursuit of economic interests is ignored, I don't want us to repeat this mistake when we develop."

"The two technological revolutions have brought human society a sense of victory over the sky, but people and nature live in harmony and develop together without conflict, there is no need to compete all the time, nor is it to be motivated, but not to do wrong things, focusing on the material 'science' and 'reasonable'."

"Because of the rise in military spending and other reasons, the central government's requirements for lower levels of government naturally have to be lowered, for example, the urbanization rate, according to normal development, should reach 30 percent by 1890, and we have lowered this target to about 28 percent."

"If you follow the population data of 1880, 30 million people, that is 6 or 700,000, and now it should be more, there may be a million people who cannot live in the towns."

"At present, the urbanization rate of East Africa should be about 26 percent, if you count blacks, it may only reach the level of more than 10 percent, so the real data of our urbanization rate is very low, at present Germany and the United Kingdom are more than 40 percent, and the gap between us and them is very huge, of course, with the size of our country's economy, it has also created a great development of cities, especially since the introduction of industry in the seventies."

The economic achievements of East Africa, just like the previous years when the white South Africans were in power, the hard work of the blacks was undoubted, but the credit was all on the heads of the whites, but when the blacks were added, the original form was revealed.

Of course, there is still a fundamental difference between the two, and the number of East African citizens is not less than that of blacks, or even more than 10 million, so it is certain that most of the main achievements of the East African economy are indeed created by East African citizens.

"The western provinces, to absorb the experience of the eastern region, now the western 'natives' still have a lot of potential to tap, this is the resources you can use, so in some low-tech work, which requires a large amount of labor, it can be done by blacks, and the eastern part can transfer food and other materials to support the construction of the western region."

Completing the allocation of resources through administrative means is one of the core means of economic development in East Africa, after all, the international food price is now at a low level, so it is always necessary to find a place to consume, and it is better to be able to turn this consumption into real profits, rather than pouring milk into rivers like the capitalists.

At present, the demand in the western part of East Africa is still very strong, after all, compared with the east, there is a lack of everything, so the excess production capacity in the east is tilted to the west, and the economic jump in the western part of East Africa can be completed.

In addition, East Africa has a steady export of blacks every year, and it can ensure that there is room for resettlement work in the future, which is a lot of benefits.

The most typical is the construction of railways, the main force of the grassroots of East African railway construction is blacks, they have created a large number of jobs through the construction of railways with blood and sweat, and these jobs are supplemented by East African nationals.

The jobs required in the construction of the railroad are undoubtedly the most numerous, but also the most important and dangerous in the amount of work, and these dangerous heavy physical labor are handed over to the blacks, and East Africa does not have to worry about "compensation", "work injury", "death", etc.

(End of chapter)