Chapter 1410 Northeast Africa Game
However, it is obviously unlikely that East Africa will allow such a country to appear next to it, but this is not entirely certain. After all, Cuba can grow next to the United States, and Egypt's relationship with the Soviet Union was relatively close in his previous life. What's more, for the Russians, Egypt is obviously more worthy of win over than Cuba.
There are many countries in the world that plan the Suez Canal, but Egypt is not the issue that East Africa needs to consider now. After all, Egypt is still a British colony. In fact, if possible, East Africa wishes Suez, an important Egyptian channel, was abolished.
In this way, East Africa intercepts river water from the upper reaches and the Suez Canal is abolished again. It is unlikely that Egypt's population will grow in the same way as in the previous life.
However, East Africa can do the first point, and it is unlikely to achieve the latter point. The Suez Canal has become the artery of Eurasian trade. It not only involves one country in Egypt, but also relates to the entire three continents of Eurasia and Africa.
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The Egyptians are not completely unaware of the series of actions taken by East Africa in the upper Nile.
During the construction of Xingguo Reservoir in the Great Lakes Region alone, the Egyptians found that the water flow of the Nile River had become smaller, but this change was not enough to have too much impact on Egypt.
Khartoum.
As the capital of Sudan in his previous life, Khartoum is now one of the main cities in Egypt. Relying on the Jezila Plain and the Nile River, Khartoum has a good foundation for agricultural development.
The upper reaches of the Jezila Plain is the Jezila City in East Africa. However, the trade activities between Jezila City and Khartoum are not active. This is not because East Africa intends to stop it, but because the British are afraid of the people in the Sudan area to get in touch with East Africa.
The Sudan area today is actually a common colony between Britain and Egypt. However, Egypt is based on the British leader, and it is also a correct statement to regard Sudan as the territory of the British.
Of course, local Sudanese forces actually welcome Britain's rule.
The reason for this situation is very simple. Compared with the East African imperialism next to it, even if Britain adopts colonial rule in Sudan, it seems "harmless to humans and animals".
A few years ago, East Africa invaded the Darfur region in western Sudan, and now there is no indigenous people on the land in Darfur.
This scared the Sudanese people and local forces. In order to avoid following in the footsteps of "Darfur", the United Kingdom would probably take the initiative to withdraw from here, and the Sudanese people would not agree, and the Sudanese people's attitude towards the Egyptians changed.
Compared with the cruel East Africans, Britain and Egypt are now their "saviors" in the eyes of the Sudanese people.
In fact, East Africa's international reputation in Africa is not much different from that in Russia in Eurasia. However, due to the geography of Africa, East Africa has indeed fewer land neighbors, so there is not as much space for playing out.
This also leads to some European scholars calling East Africa "African Tsarist Russia". If East Africa is much smaller, it may not be impossible to be called "African Prussia".
To sum up, East Africa is undoubtedly a very "warlike" country in the eyes of other countries in the world.
As for this, many people in East Africa have completely unconsciously been the peace over the years, and many people in East Africa have a good impression of the government.
The reason for this illusion is that the wars launched in East Africa over the years have almost negligible impact on their own country. Wars are just "legends" to most East African people.
But the actual situation is that East Africa's territory overseas has been greatly expanded, and it goes without saying that the South Ocean region is the territory of the Persian Gulf exceeds more than 100,000 square kilometers. North Africa has taken over Darfur, the Horn of Africa in Northeast Africa, and most areas along the Gulf of Somalia were included. The Togoland colonies in West Africa have also been slightly expanded. There are also some islands in the Indian Ocean that Britain and France traded to East Africa during World War I.
Therefore, East Africa was the fastest-expanding country in the world from the mid-to-late 19th century to the early 20th century.
Faced with the imperialist countries like East Africa with ambitions and many powerful people with "massacre" and "extermination of clans", the weak Sudanese people can be said to live in fear every day, fearing that one day the East African army will head north.
The citizens of Khartoum, who are only more than 300 kilometers away from East Africa, also empathize with this, but they have no way out, because the essence of the entire Sudan is just along the Nile River, especially the Jezila Plain, which raises most of the Sudan population.
The city of Khartoum is established at the intersection of the Blue-White Nile River, and the plain between the Blue-White Nile River and the White Nile River is the Jezira Plain.
Nurturing by the two Nile rivers, the land of the Jezila Plain is extremely fertile, and the well-connected water irrigation system has nurtured a large number of high-quality wheat and cotton fields.
In the farmland along the White Nile, Sultan's farmer, Seidli, was complaining to his sons: "Damn East Africans, since they built cities upstream, the water of the White Nile has become dirty."
This is a very normal situation because the city of Jejila upstream is an industrial city, especially the cotton textile industry is very developed. At the same time, some high-pollution industries are also arranged in Jejila City.
At the same time, because of being in the upstream, the unethical East Africa can completely discharge industrial and domestic sewage downstream without any scruples.
Generally speaking, it is okay, but when the water is insufficient during this Nile River, pollutants will gather and then emit a strong "stench".
This undoubtedly caused great trouble to the Seedli family, because their farmland is on both sides of the White Nile River and is heavily irrigated by the river water here.
The White Nile River is not only related to the output of their farmland, but also is also their most important source of domestic water. Therefore, they are the direct victims of the pollution of the river water in the downstream.
Ablied, the eldest son of Seidli, looked at the white Nile river with glistening and said to Seidli in anger: "Yes, father, Allah will not let them go." Like the Egyptians, the residents of Sultan also regard the Nile River as a "holy river". After all, without the Nile River, Egypt and Sultan would not exist. The Nile River is the source of the residents of desert areas who rely on for generations to make a living.
East Africa's pollution to the White Nile River is visible to the naked eye. For the East Africans who polluted the White Nile River, the Sudanese people who were already dissatisfied with East Africa, they were even more sad and angry as if they were added to the fire.
What is angry is that East Africa has defiled this "great" river, but what is sad is that they have no choice but to do with the "murderer" of East Africa.
Seidli sighed and said, "East Africa is one of the most powerful countries in the world, and even Britain has no way to deal with them. Allah! Have you abandoned your people! Let these unbelievers go wild on earth?"
But Seidli didn't know that it was precisely because of the Allah he said that Ernst's attitude towards Egypt was so bad.
After all, for a big country like East Africa, there is no shortage of land resources in Jezira City. East Africa has more excellent land than Jezira City, and there is no need to build many industrial projects in such a border city.
For rulers like Ernst, unless he himself is a beneficiary of religion, religious elements are trouble and thorns for Ernst, let alone Arab religions that are prone to extremists.
Just look at the Abyssinian Empire next door to Egypt and you can see that East Africa treats two different cultural countries differently.
Although East Africa is not good for the Abyssinian Empire, it is not too bad. In the era when colonialism was still prevalent in the early 20th century, East Africa's colonial strategy for the Abyssinian Empire was mainly economic colonization. The Abyssinian Empire could still maintain a certain degree of sovereignty and freedom of development. Compared with traditional colonialism, this is indeed a kind of "progress".
The countries that can be colonized by the East African economy are actually "lucky" to some extent. After all, compared with those countries and regimes physically eliminated by East African countries, survival may not be unacceptable.
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But in fact, East Africa did promote the social progress of the Abyssinian Empire. With the economic colonization of East Africa, objectively speaking, the social thinking of the Abyssinian Empire has improved, and the influx of some technologies has also improved the quality of life of the people of the Abyssinian Empire.
Of course, the internal contradictions of the Abyssinian Empire are also more prominent, but this is not caused by the economic regression of the Abyssinian Empire, but because the gap between the rich and the poor in the Abyssinian Empire was exacerbated under the stimulation of the new economic development.
However, objectively speaking, the agricultural and industrial productivity levels of the Abyssinian Empire have been improved, and they cannot be worse than the agricultural era. As for most people in the Abyssinian Empire, their quality of life has declined instead of increasing. In addition to the economic plunder of institutions and imperialism, they themselves are not without problems, such as the problem of high fertility.
The Abyssinian Empire can be regarded as a densely populated area in Africa. After all, the population of more than 200,000 square kilometers is as high as more than 12 million. In Europe, it is considered a medium-sized country.
You should know that in the last century, due to Italy's invasion, Abyssinia lost a lot of its territory and sphere of influence, and its population even fell below 10 million. Now, relying on a smaller land area, the population of the Abyssinian Empire exceeded 12 million. One of the big factors is the improvement of productivity level.
And Egyptians like Seidli were also quite dissatisfied with the Abyssinian Empire. He said: "East Africa and the Abyssinian Empire are both pagan countries, as well as Britain and France, but these pagan countries have developed much better than our great Arab countries. How can Allah tolerate your believers being bullied by these pagan disbeliefs! Is it because we are not pious enough?"
Religion is this "weird" thinking pattern. If everything goes well, it is because Gods such as "God" or "God" are blessed and pious. If everything goes wrong, it means that believers do not work hard enough and are not pious enough, so they must be even more pious.
Anyway, under this thinking mode, it can be explained no matter how well. The basic principles of all religions are very similar. This is why religion can play a role in stabilizing the people's hearts. This is actually not much different from freedom and democracy.
In the past life, the American idea of freedom and democracy can also be compared to this "religious thinking". A country's development is all due to "freedom and democracy". If it is not developed well, it is not "freedom and democracy".
However, in Seidli's complaint, it is a bit ridiculous to consider the Abyssinian Empire in the ranks of imperialist countries such as East Africa.
In fact, the Abyssinian Empire is indeed a "imperialist" country for the people of Sudan. After all, the Abyssinian Empire also borders Egypt, and the two countries have been constantly in conflicts in history.
In the past, Egypt was supported by the British, so it had an advantage in competition with the Abyssinian Empire. However, now there is also East Africa behind the Abyssinian Empire, and the basic situation of the Abyssinian Empire was originally stronger than Egypt. Therefore, after the Abyssinian Empire introduced some modern agricultural technologies and equipment, as well as a certain industry, it did develop better than Egypt.
This also led to some suffering from the Sudan under Egypt. After all, it has been said before that the Abyssinian Empire has accumulated a lot of contradictions in the development of China. To transfer this contradiction, there is no better way for the rulers of the Abyssinian Empire than setting up a "target".
Italy obviously cannot afford to offend countries around the Abyssinian Empire, and East Africa dare not disobey. The best choice is Egypt, the old enemy.
Therefore, over the years, the border contradictions with Egypt have become increasingly prominent. For example, the Sultan's Jezila Plain frequently eroded the place after the Abyssinian Empire moved its capital to the west.
The east of the Jezila Plain is the Ethiopian Plateau, and the Abyssinian Empire has the advantage of being "conquering".
Of course, the Abyssinian Empire did not dare to do too much. After all, behind Sudan is Egypt and behind Egypt is Britain, so the conflict between the two countries is generally dominated by civil conflicts on the border. In the end, both sides can stop, but overall, the Abyssinian Empire still has the advantage.
Therefore, for the people in the Sudan area, the "dog" raised in East Africa, the "dog" raised in the Abyssinian Empire is not a good thing like his owner, but because of their strength, Egypt has no good way to deal with the Abyssinian Empire.
In the past, Egypt developed rapidly because it was closer to Europe, but in the past twenty years since the rapid development of industrialization in East Africa, the Abyssinian Empire was also able to acquire knowledge, technology, and channels for purchasing modern weapons from East Africa.
Over the years, the conflict between Egypt and the Abyssinian Empire has also become one of the main hot issues in Northeast Africa, and behind this actually involves the battle between the two powerful countries of Britain and East Africa.
Ernst didn't even mind that the Abyssinian Empire would annex the Sudan area in the future, because in this way, the countries bordering East Africa would be basically Christian countries, thereby isolating the contact between East Africa and Arab religion.
(This chapter ends)