Chapter 1209 The Fourth Navy in the World
The word "population garbage" obviously has a derogatory connotation. Although the words are ugly, it is a very objective description of these East African black slaves who will be processed.
For the East African government, these elderly black slaves are "garbage" that no longer have use value, so the East African government's final destination for black people is to "discard" them in the garbage dump.
The only area that can meet the positioning of this "garbage dump" is West Africa. Although the Americas can also be used as a garbage dump, they are other people's backyards after all. Without the consent of the owner, it will cause international disputes. of.
American countries have long since got rid of the colonial category. The locals will definitely not allow East Africa to use the area as a garbage dump, but West Africa is different. West Africa is only a European colony, and the life and death of the colonies depends on European countries. Don't care.
Therefore, East Africa's transportation of its own black slaves to West Africa during this period will naturally not cause any international disputes. European countries are eager to please East Africa today, and it is impossible to offend East Africa for such a trivial matter.
While Anton and Mars were talking, five or six vehicles transporting black slaves had passed by, but there were still vehicles following behind.
Mars said in surprise: "That's too much! I see there are still more in the convoy behind. If we count dozens of people in one car, I'm afraid there will be at least 100 black people transported this time." Hundreds of them."
Anton frowned and said: "I have never seen such a scene. Although black slaves have gone to sea from here in Falta in the past, it was very rare. The last time was last year. There are only a few dozen people, why are there so many this time?”
After the tenth car passed, a green-painted military truck followed closely. It was obviously not a black man, but a heavily armed East African. Wehrmacht.
This was obviously no small matter. After all, the army was dispatched, indicating that this was an armed escort.
After the military truck passed, the convoy did not disconnect, and there were cars following behind. As Anton counted silently in his heart, after an unknown amount of time, this long convoy finally ended.
“A total of fifty-five vehicles passed by, including five military trucks. The back compartments of the remaining fifty vehicles were all black slaves. The number of black slaves arriving at Port Falta this time was at least More than a thousand people can almost be regarded as the size of an army," Anton said.
Even though the scale of the East African automobile industry has developed to a very powerful level, it is rare to see a large fleet of more than fifty cars, which naturally attracted the attention of Falta residents.
Mars commented: "These should all be military vehicles, including the trucks that pull black people, and the license plates are also military license plates. This is obviously what the government means."
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At Falta Port, several rare sailboats docked at the dock, and the military vehicle convoy finally arrived here.
"Battal Commander Robert, the number of people has been counted. For this escort mission, the total number of escort targets is 1,800, and the actual number is 1,800." An East African soldier said to Robert, who had been waiting at the dock for a long time. reported.
Robert said: "Very good. Next, you will contact the navy and escort all these black people to the ship."
Yes, these sailboats are antiques of the East African Navy. Most of the inventory is the product of the former Zanzibar shipyards.
The reason why the East African military uses this old antique to transport black people is actually because it cannot find enough ships to carry out the mission.
In terms of civilian ships, East Africa's now prosperous trade with Europe has already caused a surge in demand for ships, and the entire world's ships are in short supply.
The navy's own ships are not even enough. Although the East African Navy is large in scale, it now has to perform more frequent maritime missions.
After all, the huge maritime commercial ships in East Africa require the East African Navy to dispatch most of its ships for escort, and the East African Navy also needs to perform tasks in various places from time to time, including deterring some European countries by force.
With the stalemate in the European war, countries such as Britain and France have become increasingly wary of civilian ships, especially ships that have economic transactions with hostile countries. If the navy does not come forward, it will be a fatal threat.
It is worth mentioning that the total tonnage of East African naval warships has now exceeded 900,000 tons and reached 970,000 tons, which is only about 30,000 tons short of one million tons. And this large naval fleet has actually reached the fourth position in the world, becoming the fourth largest navy in the world after Britain, Germany, and the United States.
It can be said that if the East African Navy joins the European war situation at this time, it will be enough to bring about earth-shaking changes to the European battlefield.
It is precisely because of having the fourth most powerful navy in the world that East Africa's trade with Europe has not been greatly affected.
In the past few years, the number of ports in East Africa has increased a lot, but all the natural seaports that can be used have basically been developed and utilized in East Africa. The Port of Falta is a typical example.
After all, the effective development of Falta Port in the previous life was a matter of the 21st century.
The increase in the number of seaports has naturally led to an increase in the number of East African shipyards, and the scale of the East African shipbuilding industry has reached a new peak.
The East African Navy has the confidence to rapidly grow into the world's fourth largest navy in just a few years.
"Batalion Commander Robert, it seems that this time the domestic black slave problem will be completely solved!" Admiral Brand said.
Robert nodded and said: "Nearly twenty years have passed since the South African War. Even the youngest black people are now in their twenties, and the life span of black slaves is generally only more than thirty years old. Years old.”
"In this case, the black people we have now are actually old people, so the government must solve these problems in advance."
The South African War was the last opportunity for East Africa to gain a black population. Now there are absolutely no black people in East Africa. Most of them were obtained from newly incorporated areas in East Africa such as Angola at that time.
This also means that the black people in East Africa have been unable to complete the natural replacement of the population, and the black people in East African hands have no use value at all.
Robert continued: "With the unprecedented oppression in recent years, the loss of black people is even greater than before. I heard that the number of black people counted this year is less than 800,000."
" We must know that the black population in East Africa was still measured in millions a few years ago, which also shows the madness of the national canal plan.”
"Although this plan has not been completely completed, what is left is just some finishing work, which means that instead of using black people, we can also rely on the power of He and others to complete the final work without causing too much damage. Work, black slaves may really become a historical term in East Africa."
Brand nodded and said: "I guess the government doesn't want the last 800,000 black people to die in the country. This time we received the news. The order is to escort these black slaves to the Togoland colony, and West Africa will be their final destination."
It is still more troublesome to deal with the old and weak black slaves. After all, East Africa has never advocated "massacre". Unless there are extreme circumstances such as riots.
And it is impossible for East Africa to provide for these black slaves in old age. After all, food and even medicine are needed for old age. After all, old age and frailty can easily cause diseases. If there is any plague in East Africa, then East Africa will be at a loss. Big.
So exiling these old, weak, sick and disabled people to West Africa is a better way that the East African government can think of than massacre.
As one of the latest colonies acquired in East Africa, Togoland was used to exile these black slaves. In the past, East Africa lacked colonies in West Africa, so the exile of black slaves was not free and needed to be transited through the Kingdom of South Germany.
The South German Kingdom is a landlocked country, and even the cost of escorting black slaves is much higher. With Togoland, these black slaves can be exiled to West Africa on a large scale at a lower cost through sea routes.
Of course, the Togoland colony is, after all, part of the current East African territory. The East African government naturally does not intend to turn Togoland into a black area, but will continue to use Togoland as a springboard to move these black people to other places. National colonial drive.
(End of this chapter)