Deska focused on this problem and said: "No matter what method is used, the surrounding rainforest must be solved first, but the most lacking thing in Cabinda now is manpower, it is impossible for your garrison to complete this matter, and you do not have many manpower." ”

"Mr. Deska, you can rest assured that our primary goal now is to solve the problem of receiving supplies in Cabinda around the port, and when the problem around the port is resolved, food and supplies will be guaranteed, and then government personnel will be stationed, and at the same time organize people to clean up the surrounding rainforest," Barco said. ”

So far, there has been no government in East Africa in Cabinda, which is why Balko, a military officer, will take over the work of the Deskar team.

Of course, in the future, the military attributes of Cabinda will not be weakened, and Cabinda, as the terminus of the Congo River and the end point of the northern defense of East Africa, will still be stationed here.

Throughout the right bank of the Congo River, East Africa will deploy a certain number of troops, although the Belgians on the border are not strong and have no hostility towards East Africa.

"In this case, it is better to take advantage of the small population of Cabinda now, we can carry out large-scale burning of the rainforest area to reduce the difficulty of future work, of course, this requires your coordination, after all, arson is also a technical job, in case of accidentally burning to the opposite Belgian area, I am afraid it will cause some misunderstandings." Deskar said.

"Mr. Deska, fire is indeed a solution, but it is not easy to complete in the rainforest area, you used to work mainly in the east, and you also know that the savannah and the tropical rainforest are completely two climates, there is too much rainy weather here, even people can't develop the fire too much, and even the burned forest needs to be cleaned up by manpower, so it is better to wait until the domestic population is transferred to solve the problem."

"You're right, Lieutenant Balko, but now we have too many problems, Cabinda is completely an island in the rainforest, our connection with the rest of the region can only rely on sea transportation, there is no clean water here, there is no electricity, and because of the rainforest, my survey work is also difficult to complete, all kinds of work are difficult to carry out, and it is not ordinary to build a city here."

The Belgians must have agreed with Deska's words, and they encountered exactly the same problem when Belgium built Pointe-Noire, which until now has only a few thousand people.

Descartes could not understand the East African government's positioning of Cabinda on the same level as those large cities on the eastern coast, and in his opinion it was better to develop Cabinda than to vigorously build Luanda.

Of course, there are not a few people who think the same as Descartes, but Ernst knows that Cabinda is now inconspicuous, that is only limited by the times, and what is really important about Cabinda is the rich oil resources, and the oil resources alone are worthy of Ernst to put Cabinda in the list of important cities in East Africa, so the sooner the construction of Cabinda, the better.

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Over time, in May, the first government officers and slaves arrived in Cabinda, and the Cabinda Municipality was officially formed.

Subsequently, the grass platform team of the Cabinda city government began to cooperate with Deska to repair the port of Cabinda.

At the same time, a large amount of timber was transported to Walvis Bay Harbor and Orangemond and other areas in the south, so that the most worthless "wood" in the tropical rainforest could be reused.

Southwest Africa has a predominantly desert climate, so there is a lack of raw materials such as timber, and Cabinda Development effectively solves this problem.

At this time, shipping on the west coast had resumed, so there were more East African ships on the west coast, but unlike a large number of slave ships in the past, these were serious merchant ships.

In just a few months, Cabinda has more than quadrupled in size, surpassing Portugal's efforts in several years.

At the same time, the foreign trade between Cabinda and Belgium has also made initial achievements, the construction of Cabinda can be borrowed from Belgium, although the current Cabinda products are not rich, but some specialties are still available, such as the famous "Cabinda bark".

East Africa sells some of the resources produced during the exploitation of Cabinda to Belgian merchants in Pointe-Noire at a low price, so that some of the money is a drop in the bucket, but it is still worth something.

At the same time as Cabinda was being developed, Luanda and Benguela were being built faster, and of course, thanks to the excellent infrastructure of Luanda and Benguela, East Africa did not actually invest much in these two regions.

The city has also maintained its original Portuguese rule, mainly restoring houses and roads that had been destroyed during the war.

The development of the west coast in East Africa is getting on the right track, and of course, the most important thing is the construction of the Central Railway, which has entered the geological exploration stage.

This also made East Africa even more strained and scarce in terms of labor, and the black forces, which caused major problems for troops such as the 331st Division in the South African War, suffered.

A large number of blacks from the former Kingdom of the Congo were incorporated into the slave army of East Africa to develop the west coast, and East Africa took a harsher approach to these black Angolans who had caused trouble in East Africa than to blacks in other regions.

East Africa is completely learning from the Kingdom of Belgium in the north, and the blacks of Angola have become the main force in the development of the west coast of East Africa, and for reasons of "revenge", they do not enjoy "labor" treatment.

It has become another black group that has been treated differently in East Africa after the Ndebele people, and the result of the Ndebele people is that this group of more than 100,000 people has completely disappeared in the long river of history, and most of the Ndebele people have physically disappeared in the process of building the Eastern Canal.

Angola has outnumbered Ndebele and has been hit harder, especially in the development of rainforest areas.

At this time, East Africa was actually a little hungry, although the population of East Africa was growing rapidly, but it could not keep up with the faster growth rate of East Africa's land.

Moreover, the problems caused by territorial expansion have become more prominent, and at this time, even the so-called "densely populated" areas of East Africa are actually far from meeting the normal national standards of the Eurasian continent.

The population density of Angola and Mozambique is almost comparable to that of Siberia under Russian rule.

In this case, East Africa could only use black slaves in large quantities, coupled with the strong hostility of the black Angolan to the East African army during the war, as well as the conflict, so when supervising the black Angolan soldiers, East Africa showed an unprecedented "means of revenge".

Of course, compared with the methods of the United States against the Indians, East Africa is still somewhat inadequate, and even the Belgians in the Belgian colony next door think that East Africa's methods are too "benevolent".

At this time, the East African government, especially the military on the west coast, although there was an emotional element towards the black Angolan people, but the main purpose was to make full use of the value of these black people to develop the western region.

Naturally, we can't really exterminate these blacks, and if it is really easy to dispose of them all, then it will be very uneconomical for East Africa to do it themselves.

If it had been before, of course, this could have been done, when there was a lot of immigration resources in East Africa that could be exploited, but since the German region has stopped leaving the population, this model has not worked.

(End of chapter)