Chapter 823 West Coast Development
Delka focused on this issue and said: "No matter what method is used, the surrounding rainforest must be solved first, but the biggest shortage in Cabinda now is manpower. It is always impossible. Let your garrison complete this matter, and you don’t have many people.”
Barco said: “Mr. Delca, you can rest assured that our primary purpose now is to solve Cabinda around the port. After the problem of receiving supplies around the port is resolved, food and supplies will be guaranteed, and government personnel will be stationed in the future, and at the same time, manpower will be organized to clean up the surrounding rainforests.” Cabinda has not yet established a government, so Balco, a military personnel, takes over the work of Delca's team.
Of course, in the future, Cabinda's military attributes will not be weakened. Cabinda is the end point of the Congo River and the end point of the northern defense of East Africa. Troops will still be stationed here.
On the entire right bank of the Congo River, East Africa will deploy certain forces, 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. We can carry out large-scale burning of the tropical rainforest area to reduce the difficulty of future work. Of course, this requires your coordination. After all, arson is also a technology. If it accidentally burns into the opposite Belgian area, it may cause some misunderstandings," Delka said.
"Mr. Delcar, fire is indeed a way, but it is not easy to accomplish in the tropical rainforest area. You used to work mainly in the east. You also know that savannah and tropical rainforest are completely different climates. Here There are too many rainy weather, and even people cannot make the fire grow too big, and even the burned forest requires manpower to clean up, so it is better to wait until the population is transferred from the country to solve this problem. "
"You are right, Lieutenant Balco, but we are encountering too many problems now. Cabinda is completely an isolated island in the rainforest. Our connection with other areas can only rely on sea transportation. There is no clean water here. There is no water source, and there is no electricity. At the same time, it is difficult to complete my survey work due to the rainforest, and it is difficult to carry out various tasks. It is not ordinary to build a city here. ”
The Belgians definitely agree with what Dilcar said. When they built Pointe-Noire in Belgium, they encountered exactly the same problem. Until now, Pointe-Noire has only a few thousand people.
The East African government positioned Cabinda at the same level as those big cities on the eastern coast. Descartes could not understand this. In his opinion, developing Cabinda would be worse than vigorously building Luanda.
Of course, there are many people who think the same as Descartes, but Ernst knows that Cabinda is inconspicuous now. That is just a limitation of the times. What is really important in Cabinda is its rich oil resources. Oil resources alone This alone is worthy of Ernst putting Cabinda on the list of important cities in East Africa, so the sooner Cabinda is built, the better.
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As time passed, in May, the first batch of government personnel and slaves arrived in Cabinda, and the Cabinda City Government was officially established.
Then the grassroots team of the Cabinda City Government began to cooperate with Delca to repair Cabinda's port.
At the same time, manpower was organized to cut down the rainforest around Cabinda, and a large amount of wood was transported to Walvis Bay, Orangemond and other areas in the south through Cabinda, allowing the least valuable "timber" in the tropical rainforest to be reused.
Southwest Africa is dominated by a desert climate, so it lacks raw materials such as wood, and the development of Cabinda effectively solved this problem.
At this time, shipping on the west coast has been restored, so there are more and more East African ships on the west coast. However, unlike the past, which were mostly slave ships, these are serious merchant ships.
In just a few months, Cabinda has more than quadrupled in size than before, exceeding Portugal's efforts in several years.
At the same time, the foreign trade between Cabinda and Belgium has also achieved preliminary results. The construction of Cabinda can completely borrow from Belgium. Although Cabinda is not rich in products at present, there are still some specialties, such as the famous of "Cabinda Bark". East Africa sold part of the resources produced during the development of Cabinda to Belgian businessmen in Pointe Noire at low prices, thus obtaining some funds. Although it was a drop in the bucket, it was still of some value.
While Cabinda was being developed, Luanda and Benguela were being constructed faster. Of course, benefiting from the excellent basic conditions of Luanda and Benguela, East Africa’s investment in these two regions was actually not very high. It's pretty big.
The city also maintains its original appearance during the Portuguese rule, mainly repairing the houses and roads that were destroyed during the war.
East Africa's development of the west coast is getting on the right track. Of course, the most important thing is the construction of the Central Railway. At present, the west line of the Central Railway has entered the geological exploration stage.
This also made East Africa even more nervous and scarce in terms of labor force. As a result, the black forces that caused major trouble to the 331st Division and other units during the South African War suffered.
A large number of blacks from the former Kingdom of Congo were incorporated into East Africa's slave army to develop the west coast. East Africa adopted harsher measures against these Angolan blacks who had caused trouble to East Africa than against blacks from other regions.
East Africa completely learned from the Kingdom of Belgium in the north. Black people in Angola became the main force in developing the west coast of East Africa, and for "retaliation" reasons, they did not enjoy "labor" treatment.
After the Ndebele people, they have become another black group that has been treated differently in East Africa. The result of the Ndebele people is that this ethnic group of hundreds of thousands has completely disappeared in the long history of history. Most of the Ndebele people have been treated differently in East Africa. The Belay people died physically during the construction of the Eastern Canal.
The number of black people in Angola is much larger than that of the Ndebele people, so they have been hit harder, especially in the development of rainforest areas.
At this time, East Africa was actually a bit hungry. Although the population of East Africa was growing very fast, it could not keep up with the rapid growth of East Africa's land.
Moreover, the problems caused by territorial expansion have become more prominent. At this time, even the so-called "densely populated" areas in East Africa are actually far from the standards of normal countries in the Eurasian continent.
The population density of Angola and Mozambique is almost comparable to that of Siberia under Tsarist Russia.
Under this situation, East Africa could only use a large number of black slaves. In addition, during the war, the Angolan blacks had strong hostility towards the East African army and the conflict, so when supervising the Angolan blacks, East Africa showed an unprecedented "retaliation" means".
Of course, compared with the United States' methods towards the Indians, East Africa still has some shortcomings. Even the Belgians in the Belgian colony next door think that East Africa's methods are too "merciful".
At this time, although the East African government, especially the military on the west coast, had emotions towards black Angolan people, their main purpose was to make full use of the value of these black people to develop the western region.
Naturally, we cannot really kill all these black people. If it is really easy to deal with them all, then it will require people from East Africa to do it, which is very uneconomical.
If it were in the past, of course you could do this. At that time, East Africa had a large amount of immigrant resources to utilize, but since the population in the German region stopped flowing out, this model has become unusable.
(End of this chapter)