In addition to taking over the city of Luanda, East Africa has embarked on a new wave of migration, and there is nothing more reassuring than immigration to take control of Angola.

Of course, this is also to accept the Portuguese heritage and avoid a waste of resources, although the Portuguese government has been ousted, but Angolan production will continue.

Angola is very different from the areas occupied by East Africa in the past, that is, under the rule of the Portuguese, although it is not developed, but the agricultural conditions are not bad, and a large number of plantations in East Africa cannot be directly left alone.

After all, in the era of non-mechanization, it is not easy to open up wasteland, for which East Africa has a deep understanding of this, East Africa has only been building the country's agriculture to the current scale for more than 20 years, which has taken a lot of time and labor costs.

Now Angola has large plantations that can be used for free, which is much easier than reopening East Africa.

The accumulation of Portuguese numbers over the past hundred years is not a small number, especially in the western coastal areas with a high degree of development, and East Africa can directly occupy the magpie's nest and settle a large number of people.

This point is very important to ERNST and is related to the future industrial layout of East Africa, especially to open up the national trade of East Africa and boost the economy of the central region.

Although the three central provinces are rich in resources, the limited development of the inland is a common problem in many countries, after all, it is the era of the ocean, and the main mode of transportation for trade is through shipping.

If the inland wants to compare with the coastal areas, the most effective way is to activate the inland water transport network, just like the Yangtze River in the Far Eastern Empire can directly transport coastal goods to the Sichuan Basin, and the most typical is Germany, in addition to the role of railways, the canal network is an important reason for the balanced development of the German regional economy.

Of course, East Africa does not have superior water transport conditions, but if the construction of the western section of the Central Railway is activated, it can achieve 70% of the effect in the future.

The most important thing in the development of the inland economy is to connect the peripheral regions, and at present, the industrial investment in East Africa is mainly concentrated in the inland areas, so that the economies of the three central provinces will gain a first-mover advantage, thereby offsetting some of the disadvantages in transportation and logistics.

In other words, the development of the inland economy mainly depends on the domestic market, while the coastal economy mainly depends on the foreign market, and the coastal economy inevitably gains an advantage in the era of sea power, and East Africa is solving this problem by various means.

Moreover, there is a very big difference between the interior of East Africa and the Far Eastern Empire, and the unpopularity of the heartland of the United States, especially after the acquisition of Angola.

The main industrial resources of the United States and the Far Eastern Empire are mainly concentrated in the periphery in terms of important energy and major minerals, for example, the United States is mainly around the Great Lakes, while the Far Eastern Empire is mainly in the west or northeast.

East Africa happens to be mainly concentrated in the central and southern regions, but the climatic conditions in the southern part of East Africa are not as good as those in the central region, and the environmental carrying capacity is weak, which is one of the advantages of the economic development of the central Africa.

And then there is the transportation, the transportation between the United States and the Far Eastern Empire is affected by the mountains, the western United States is the Rocky Mountains, and the western economy of the United States is not the reason for the strong rise of the Internet and the economies of the Far Eastern Empire in the 21st century, I am afraid it is difficult to compare with the old industrial areas close to Europe.

However, the western part of the Far Eastern Empire not only has many mountain ranges, but the Central Asian countries further west are not economically developed, and the cost of land transportation cannot compete with the cost of sea transportation, and at the same time, there is a lack of water resources, so it is impossible to effectively connect the central economy.

East Africa is different, the situation on the east and west coasts of East Africa is almost the same, and the various situations faced are similar, for example, the west coast faces North and South America, and the east coast faces the Eurasian continent, which is the distribution of market demand.

In terms of energy and raw materials, the West Coast is close to West Africa, the East Coast is close to the Middle East, and the northern land of East Africa can connect to North Africa.

This means that in the future, East Africa will be close to the world's three main commodity oil producing regions, as well as raw materials such as iron ore.

The mineral resources of West Africa are no worse than those of East Africa, and they can complement East Africa, the most important thing is that oil and energy are relatively scarce in East Africa.

To a certain extent, this makes up for the disadvantage of the lack of oil resources in East Africa, of course, the abundant oil and gas resources in Angola itself are enough for the development needs of East Africa, as long as the population is not too large.

All in all, East Africa is paying more attention to Angola than ever before, just as Ernst had to get the Matabele Plateau and the Transvaal Republic first when he crossed Mozambique.

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First Town City.

As the main person in charge of Angola's post-war economic recovery, von der Leyen is reporting to Ernst on the government's work.

"We have sent more than 600 professionals from various industries to Angola, but this is only a drop in the bucket for the Angolan region, which is currently mainly maintained by the military, which is only responsible for law and order and to protect against enemies at sea."

"So if we want to restore production in Angola, we need a large population to do this, and given the fact that the central region is also relatively deprived, we can only think of a way from the east."

"Now that we are affected by the war, our immigration policy has also been greatly affected, and now even the Far East immigration business is in a state of short-term shutdown."

"Before that, we had already recruited a lot of personnel from the east to join the army or support the battlefields in the central and western regions, so judging from the population situation of our country, it is still very difficult to develop the western region."

This is the first time in nearly a decade that East Africa is feeling the constraints of labor shortages, and the population of East Africa is not small in the world.

But there is a very big problem in East Africa, which is that East Africa has more habitable areas than similar countries, and this is mainly reflected in the arable land.

In addition to the desert area, it seems that most of East Africa can develop crop farming, and even in the desert area, East Africa has "rich" land suitable for economic crop development such as the two valleys of Somalia.

In this regard, it is estimated that Tsarist Russia, which is also a large country in the world, can cry to death, and the difference between the tropical region and the cold zone is very significant.

Although the land area of East Africa is not as large as that of Tsarist Russia, once the effective land is calculated, it is reversed, even if it is the Congo Basin, it is only now not suitable for development, except for the core area of the rainforest, as long as it is willing to invest, it can also be effectively used.

"And the Portuguese have a very low degree of exploitation of Angola, but after all, it has been in business for hundreds of years, and the legacy is very rich, in addition to a large amount of land resources, we also control a lot of minerals, in order to maintain and future construction of the Angolan region, we need to resettle at least 40,000 people in advance to maintain the normal operation of plantations and mines."

The Portuguese in Angola are now largely under the centralized control of East Africa, which has led to a direct stagnation of plantation and mine production.

Restoring the productive activities of these plantations and mines is an important goal of the current East African government, and this requires people with experience in governance.

"It is customary to send professionals from existing farms and mines to Angola, but the black slaves in Portugal are not easy to communicate, so we need a group of black people from the central and western regions to act as interpreters to assist in directing the local black slaves in Angola."

Relying on only 40,000 people is at most to maintain a basic population framework, and if you want to keep Angola's plantations and mines, you naturally have to let the two or three million black people in Angola support it first, which is also quite helpless.

(End of chapter)