Chapter 1281 Tavern
After half a day of handover work, the crew of the Liberty were finally free and rushed to a tavern in Davao City under the leadership of Wilkenitz.
As for the immigrants, it is the personnel of the Immigration Office in Davao City and the East African military. Davao City is a typical dual-use military and civilian port. From here, you can continue to Palau Island and New Guinea to the east. East Africa has a colony further east in the Pacific, so Davao City is an important strategic node.
"Edtal, how is business lately?" After walking into the tavern with a vicissitudes of life, Wilknitz asked a middle-aged man who was wiping a wine glass.
"Wilknitz, it's you, my friend, is it not easy to see you?" the tavern owner Edtar said, putting down what he was doing.
Wilknitz said: "This time I brought you a big business again."
Then he introduced Captain Hilda and others to Edtar, and Edtar Tal greeted them one by one in a friendly manner.
“It is not easy to meet fellow villagers in Davao City. Except for the government and the military, most of the people here are immigrants from nowhere in the world.”
“Also Only sailors on the mainland and Davao routes often come here to spend money. So I won’t charge you for the first drink. It’s my treat. Of course, I can only entertain you with local drinks. After all, local drinks are still very expensive when shipped here.”
Ed. Tal enthusiastically poured a large glass of wine for each of the crew members of the Liberty.
"This is the new bar you developed!" Wilknitz said to his old friend.
Edtar said: "Yes, this is banana wine brewed from local bananas. A sailor from the North Great Lakes Province and I learned from him the brewing method of banana wine in their hometown. At present, It tastes pretty good.”
The banana wine of North Great Lakes Province is a relatively famous alcoholic beverage in East Africa. The East Africans obtained the brewing method of banana wine from the indigenous people, and later improved the formula and production methods for industrial production. , regarded as a specialty product of East Africa.
Of course, there are also farmers in the North Great Lakes Province who make banana wine using indigenous methods, which is why Edtar was able to obtain this method of making banana wine.
Edtar said: "Among the agricultural products in Davao City, namely bananas, coffee is relatively good, so I can consider using local resources to prepare drinks that taste worse than local banana wine. A little, but my degree is slightly higher to ensure that you can enjoy it.”
In the Southeast Asian colonies, East Africa promoted typical plantation agriculture. Of course, there were basically no other agricultural models that could be developed here.
As far as East Africa is concerned, not only planting and plantation agriculture can be developed, but also animal husbandry can be developed. The climate of the Nanyang colonies is simpler than that of East Africa, except for the newly acquired Kra Isthmus territory, which has a tropical monsoon climate. , other East African colonies in Southeast Asia are all tropical rain forest climate areas.
However, the agricultural conditions in Davao City are considered good among the East African colonies in the Nanyang region. Rice can be grown here, and more importantly, the yield is not low. Because there are many volcanoes in Mindanao, some areas have formed Fertile volcanic ash soil like the island of Java.
There are many volcanoes scattered around Davao. For example, Mount Apo, the highest peak in the Philippines in its previous life, is only more than 40 kilometers away from Davao City, and its height is close to three thousand meters.
However, there is no record of an eruption of this volcano. After all, the level of civilization here is too low, and East Africa has only been here for nearly twenty years.
"By the way, this time you came to Davao City, what did you bring on board this time?" Edtar asked curiously.
Wilknitz said: "This time our ship is an old-fashioned sailboat organized by the government. It did not bring cargo, but immigrants from the Persian Gulf, basically all Russians. "
"Russians? That's not surprising. Davao City has accepted many Slavs in recent years, and most of them should be from Russia. After all, except for backward countries like Russia, there should not be many people willing to do so. Leave your hometown and develop in the colonies," Edtar said unceremoniously. Compared with East Africa, Russia is indeed relatively backward, but it has only been in the past twenty years that East Africa has truly left Russia behind.
In the 1980s, the gap between East Africa and Russia was actually not that big. In terms of economy, industry, agriculture, etc., they were only half the same.
Of course, this is mainly when the black slaves at that time are included in the population of East Africa. In fact, the quality of life of East African citizens has been higher than that of Russia for a long time, which means it was relatively worse in the early colonial period.
The main reason for this difference is the living environment. After all, Africa at the beginning of colonization was a truly wild land, and the conditions were not even comparable to Siberia.
After the 1980s, East Africa officially entered a stage of rapid development like a rocket. At that time, East Africa’s infrastructure began to develop. Before that, East Africa invested a lot of infrastructure and built water conservancy projects. , highways, railways.
These infrastructure constructions have also completely revitalized East Africa's economy, enabling East Africa to develop mines and realize national allocation of resources, thus boosting the development of East Africa's industry.
By the 1990s, East Africa was already not inferior to Russia in all fields. After all, it was impossible for a backward country to defeat Britain at that time.
After the 20th century, Russia was no longer a rival in East Africa. At that time, the countries that East Africa was targeting had become industrial powers such as France and the United Kingdom, and it was targeting Germany and the United States, the two most industrially developed countries.
Before World War I, the industrial scale of East Africa was basically the same as that of the United States. In the few years after World War I, it surpassed the United States and became the world's largest industrial country.
However, this is based on the fact that the population size of East Africa is larger than that of the United States. Today, the goal of industrial development in East Africa is to continue to expand capacity and begin to pay attention to the development of industrial quality.
Wilknitz said: "This group of Russians are mainly from Ukraine. They all come from Russia's occupied areas. The disadvantages of the Russian war even made it impossible for him to protect the safety of his own people. Of course, when they arrived in Mindanao, Not bad for them An opportunity. "
Edtar shook his head and said: "It is not easy to develop in Mindanao. After all, most of them cannot be arranged to have a certain degree of development in Davao City. place.”
"There is a high probability that they will be arranged to settle on the islands in the north of Mindanao. The islands in the north of Mindanao are almost undeveloped. It will take them a few years to be busy before they can enjoy the happiness of their new life."
"The government put them in Davao just to let them adapt to the climate and environment of Nanyang in advance and get rid of acclimatization. It is estimated that this period of time is also the most difficult time for them."
Wilknitz said: "Didn't our country develop in this way at the beginning? It was estimated that East Africa was better than here. It was also poor and white. It was only after the efforts of several generations that it became possible. Today’s East Africa.”
Although the history of East Africa is only more than half a century, this time is enough time for many families to update and iterate. The first batch of immigrants to East Africa may have great-grandchildren.
Historical changes have changed beyond recognition in such an inadvertent way. More than fifty years have passed, and the rest of Africa is still the same Africa, but East Africa has become a civilized country, with the population density ranking fifth in the world. After India, the Far East, Europe and the United States, its industrial strength ranks third in the world, second only to Europe and the Americas.
The reason why it is not completely compared with other countries is that the various data in East Africa are somewhat excessive. Just like Russia can be regarded as a continent, East Africa is not far behind. After all, Oceania, the smallest area, only covers an area of more than 8 million square kilometers. Of course, size is not the main factor. Canada, Australia, and Brazil are not small in size. The difference between Russia and East Africa is that both countries have a population of more than 100 million, which is larger than the entire South America.
(End of this chapter)