The 19th century was a tragic one, especially for the indigenous people of the colonial regions and countries, both the United States and East Africa were typical colonial countries, and the Americans were doing the same when East Africa persecuted the indigenous people of southern Africa.

Also in 1890, the United States broke out the Battle of Ondedene, or the "Wounded River Massacre", December 29, 1890, the Battle of Ondeidney, is a landmark event in American history, is the last armed conflict of the United States against the Indians, for the Indian war that lasted for more than 300 years in a tragic way to draw a tragic end.

Sure enough, with the help of his peers, Ernst's treatment of blacks was extremely "merciful", after all, compared with the massacre, it was always more "humanitarian".

However, this also means that it will be difficult for the Indians in the United States to survive from now on, and the United States will completely eliminate the indigenous resistance, and it will take longer for East Africa.

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Port of Maputo.

As in the past, an East African-flagged merchant ship docked at the port of Maputo should not have caused much concern, but today something different has clearly appeared in the port of Maputo.

The East African Defence Forces blockaded the port and then moved a lot of big guys from the ship, or rather, a lot of big guys.

The thick black smoke of the "Tutu ......" accompanied by a loud noise lined up on the dock, there are as many as eight of them, and if you are well-informed, you will definitely recognize this as a "tractor".

It's just that this is the world's earliest internal combustion engine-powered tractor, not the traditional steam tractor, as the "cutting-edge technology" of East Africa, so it makes sense for the army to escort it.

"Chief Coles, I'm going to trouble you in the next few days, the final transportation location of this batch of tractors is Shaokui Town, which is used for farm development in the Limpopo River Plain, and it is a valuable thing, so it can't be driven directly to Shaokui Town, and it must be sent to Shaokui Town by vehicle." The driver who led the team said to Captain Coles.

Looking at these "behemoths", Captain Coles was still quite surprised, he had only seen tractors in newspapers before, and this was the first time he had seen real things.

"Mr. Kessel, don't worry, we will use the heavy artillery vehicles of the troops to transport these big guys away this time, and we will not delay your trip."

Kesore was followed by a number of people, including three repairmen, two engineers, a mechanic, and eight drivers, all of whom had gone to the state farm in the town of Sauquay, and Kesore himself was a member of the management of a state farm in Dar es Salaam.

In this era, drivers are definitely scarce talents, and now even the number of car drivers is rare, and drivers of "special vehicles" such as tractors are very scarce.

Subsequently, with the cooperation of the military and Kessel's team, the tractor was moved to a large vehicle, and it took eight horses to pull one.

The internal combustion engine tractor weighed much less than the steam tractor, and in 1890, that is, this year, Benjamin built a wheeled steam tractor, with all-metal wheels, 7.3 meters long, 60 horsepower, and a total weight of 22 tons, of which the water that supplied the steam alone weighed more than two tons.

Therefore, there is basically no difference between the steam tractor and the locomotive, even if the weight is reduced, it is the weight of the "small locomotive" head, and such a tractor is naturally not easy to use when plowing.

And the East African internal combustion engine power tractor uses solid rubber-clad iron tires to achieve further weight reduction, as for hollow tires, obviously for the weight of the tractor, the current technology is not enough, of course, this is much lighter than the all-iron wheels.

Of course, there are crawler tractors, unfortunately the current technology does not meet the requirements, there are currently more than 100 invention patents related to crawler tractors in the world, but the prototypes made have failed in the test.

For example, Benjamin, the American tractor developer mentioned earlier, in 1903, he went to the United Kingdom, the pioneer country of the Industrial Revolution, to investigate the development of crawler tractors, but he was disappointed that he did not see a successful example, so he hastily ended his trip to Britain and returned to his own factory in the United States to continue to develop crawler tractors.

It is only 1890, and it is naturally impossible for East Africa to break through the track technology in a short time, but the current research on track in East Africa is also at the forefront of the world.

Ernst knew about the historical success of tracked tractors, especially the later military application of this technology, which led to the emergence of the "King of Land Warfare" tank.

Naturally, Ernst does not ignore this issue, and the current research on crawler structures in East Africa is dominated by research institutes in several cities, such as Dar es Salaam, Mbeya and Harare.

With direction and support, the progress is naturally not slow, among which the Mbeya Mechanical Research Institute has taken the lead in achieving results, but it is still too early to apply tracks to special vehicles.

After all, the tractor technology is not very mature now, otherwise the East African government would not have equipped these eight tractors with such a luxurious team.

It is not so much that these eight tractors are coming to develop the southern plains of Mozambique, but that East Africa is waiting for the eight masters.

The performance of these eight tractors may not be satisfactory, and there should not be too many big problems, and there are definitely many small problems.

Because the Dar es Salaam Tractor Factory only manufactured prototype vehicles before, there are still many technical deficiencies, and the current main business of Dar es Salaam City is actually steam tractors.

As for the internal combustion engine-powered tractor, it is completely a new track opened up in East Africa, and the internal combustion engine-powered tractor performs well at the test site, but in a "wild" region like Mozambique, I am afraid it is difficult to be satisfied.

However, there is no way to do this, if East Africa wants to make achievements in the industrial field, it must dare to be the first, and the technology is not mature and slowly improve, as long as there is enough time, one day East Africa will become a leader in this field.

In fact, East Africa is already far ahead now, and although the technology of internal combustion engine-powered tractors is immature, it appeared nearly a decade earlier than in history.

Internationally recognized as the world's first gasoline tractor, it was the "No. 1" tractor manufactured by Hart and Parr in the winter of 1901 in Charles City, Iowa, USA, with serial number 1205, sold to farmers in July 1902, and successfully used for 17 years.

Although the tractor in East Africa is still technically doubtful, it has been studied early, and as long as it withstands the test, East Africa can complete a corner overtaking in the agricultural field.

As the tractor was loaded, Kesor had a raincloth cover over the body, so that from a distance, the masses who didn't know the truth would only think that it was the army consigning artillery and other classified items.

"Captain Coles, I'll trouble you below." After confirming that there was no problem, Kessel said to Coles.

"No problem!"

So under the escort of the Wehrmacht, Kesor and his entourage headed towards the town of Shaokui with the "heavy weapons of the great powers" of East Africa.

The establishment of the first state farm in Shaokui town also heralded the advent of an era of great change in East African and world agriculture, and was destined to write a strong stroke in the history of East African agriculture, which is considered to be the starting point of agricultural mechanization in East Africa, and thus remembered by East Africans.

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