Of course, Germany's loss is the government's investment, and the development of Cameroon's local colonial groups actually has little to do with it, and early colonial losses are also a normal situation, a few years ago, the Hexingen consortium still had to import funds into East Africa, thus slowing down its own development, otherwise it would not have been swallowed up by the German Electric Corporation in a large market share in Germany and fell to the third position.

Moreover, although the climate of Cameroon is similar to that of East Africa, the savannah area is located inland, and the coastal area is not suitable for development of the tropical rainforest climate, which is very different from East Africa, which is the land of Longxing, that is, Tanganyika, even if the coast is also a savannah climate, which is suitable for human habitation.

This can be seen in the Sigmaringen Crown Domain, which is located in the transition zone between savannah and tropical desert, which was geographically known as the "Sahel Zone" in Africa in the past.

The Sahel region was also a suitable area for the development of civilization in ancient times, such as the Ghanaian Empire, the Songhai Empire, and the Mali Empire of the black African people, all of which were conceived in this region, and there are actually many relics of civilization in the royal territory of Sigmaringen.

Sigmaringen lacks a natural outlet to the sea, otherwise the conditions are actually much stronger than Cameroon.

The development of tropical rainforest cities is actually quite difficult, as East Africa knows very well, and the typical rainforest cities in East Africa are actually only Kinshasa and Cabinda, but neither of them has a population of more than 10,000 (non-black).

Although the province of Hesse and the provincial capital of Kisangani, although located in the Congo Basin, belong to the transition zone of tropical rainforest and savannah, the eastern mountainous area and the southern highland area are actually very livable, if not inhabitable, Kisangani would not have briefly become the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and become a large city with a population of nearly 700,000.

There is hardly a population in Kisangani west to Kinshasa, an East African city due to its geographical location as an important transport hub on the Congo River.

In the past life, the Belgians used this place as the capital of the Zaire colony, which was developed from the military station, and from Kinshasa, it can go directly against the current.

But even in the 21st century, Kinshasa has grown into a megacity in Africa with a population of more than a million, and it is still surrounded by lush rainforests, similar to Cabinda.

In fact, before Germany, the Portuguese, British, and French all expanded in Cameroon, and Germany was able to catch up and occupy the region, which also shows that Cameroon's value is not particularly important.

Of course, Cameroon is in a very prominent position for Germany, and especially for the new government of Wilhelm II and Kaplivy.

The first is that both men supported Germany's overseas colonization, and Cameroon is now Germany's largest territory abroad.

In addition, Cameroon is the crown territory of Sigmaringen and East Africa to the east, which further enhances Cameroon's status.

Clear-sighted people know that if the communication channel between the three countries can be opened, it will be of great benefit to Germany to develop Cameroon, after all, Germany's access to the sea is mainly in the Atlantic, and Cameroon is in the South Atlantic Sea, which is the fastest region for Germany to reach East Africa, and the only pity is that the economic subject of East Africa is in the central and eastern regions.

But even so, East Africa's strength around Cameroon is not comparable to Germany's, and East Africa's northern railway directly to the western city of Bangui is only a little more than 1,000 kilometers away from the coast of Cameroon.

In fact, in addition to Bangui, the capital of East Azande province, East Africa controls the Shari River (the main river that flows into Lake Chad) and parts of the eastern part of Adamawa Mountain (the watershed of the Shari and Ubangi tributaries), so that East Africa is geographically bordered by Germany.

It's just that Germany's development of Cameroon is too slow, such as transportation problems, and cannot effectively connect East Africa and Sigmaringen's royal territory, so Germany's cooperation in developing Cameroon and East Africa and Sigmaringen is indispensable, which can greatly accelerate this process, compared to the two countries, Germany's main population in Africa is too small.

Of course, Germany naturally also thought about the situation of introducing people from the Far Eastern Empire to achieve the development of Cameroon, but Germany is not Sigmaringen after all, and Sigmaringen's development of the Chad region is actually a complete copy of the East African model, using East Africa as a model.

On the other hand, in fact, East Africa's support for the crown of Sigmaringen is tied to the conditions.

It is obviously difficult for Germany to accept these conditions, such as the introduction of Chinese immigrants, in Germany's view, it is completely better to go directly to the interior to capture the black natives, and then develop Cameroon, after all, even Chinese immigrants need time and money

Moreover, Germany's colonization of Cameroon itself was achieved through the support of local black forces, which is very different from East Africa and Sigmalingen.

East Africa and Sigmaringen were overlords, and every inch of land was beaten down, of course, the royal territory of Sigmaringen was relatively special, so the East African Defense Forces were invited as a substitute at that time.

Moreover, the positioning of the three countries in Africa is completely different, East Africa is to treat African land as a national territory, and the royal territory of Sigmaringen is not far behind, after all, Leopold has no Spanish throne succession, it is not bad to get a foundation in Africa, and Germany's positioning of Cameroon is a colony, development is greater than plunder, but now the plunder conditions are not mature, so the benefits are not as good as investment.

There is naturally no big problem for blacks to dig and mine, and to engage in plantations, but it is certainly unrealistic to further develop Africa by relying on blacks alone, and the cost of re-education is obviously not as convenient as that of Chinese immigrants.

Of course, it would be best if Germans could be introduced, but the problem is that with economic development in recent years, Germany has ended the history of large-scale population migration, after all, Sigmaringen cannot recruit people in Germany.

In this way, Cameroon is naturally at a level that is not much different from the West African colonies of other countries.

As the promoter of Germany's "new line", Kaplevy believes that the key to breaking the situation is East Africa, and if East Africa is done, the royal territory of Sigmaringen will be obtained.

This is also one of the purposes of Caplivi's visit to East Africa, he himself wants to build Cameroon into a colonial model, and this requires Cameroon colonies to make achievements, of course, Cameroon's problems are small things, and cooperation with East Africa is the big one.

This ensued a heated discussion between the two governments on economic cooperation, which was nothing more than the opening of the market in East Africa in exchange for German support for technology, capital and talent in East Africa.

The focus of East Africa is to obtain technical support in the field of chemical industry, because Germany is currently unique in the field of chemistry, in the absence of large-scale changes in German land, German agriculture has developed rapidly, and even the output is comparable to that of Tsarist Russia, and the chemical industry has made great contributions, which is the most lacking in East Africa.

Secondly, Germany also has its own technological advantages in industrial fields such as steel and railways, while there are still many factories in East Africa in traditional industries that use German technology from the 70s.

Finally, the academic exchange and talent cooperation training mechanism that Ernst values the most, Germany's higher education is in the explosive stage, which is the most coveted part of Ernst.

At the price, East Africa mainly allowed some German industrial products to enter East Africa, and exported some important industrial raw materials to Germany, especially non-ferrous metals and rare metals.

On December 13, 1891, East Africa and Germany signed the Agreement on Economic Cooperation and Development between East and Germany, and limited cooperation in the economic field was carried out.

The main reason for the limited cooperation is that the differences between the two countries are not small, first of all, East Africa is relatively conservative in the political field, and secondly, East Africa and Germany have a competitive relationship in some fields, especially in the field of agricultural products, you must know that the Junker aristocracy is the most important political force in Germany, and they oppose the unrestricted access of such a large agricultural country as East Africa to the German market, just as they oppose the cooperation between Tsarist Russia and Germany.

However, the cooperation between the two countries has achieved great results, after all, there are more options in East Africa, and in the field of food, East Africa does conflict with the Junker aristocracy, but East Africa is also the world's most important producer of cash crops, rubber, cotton, coffee, tea and other (sub)tropical cash crops are Germany's shortcomings.

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