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"Kisangani city's related industries could also be considered in advance. The whole of Hesse Province was still mainly centered on rubber and mining, while Kisangani city also had cotton cultivation and a primary textile industry."

In fact, many crops could be grown near Kisangani city. Annual rainfall here reached 1,700 millimeters, and it lay on the edge of the rainforest, with exceptionally favorable water and heat conditions. Otherwise, the provincial capital would not have been chosen here.

However, Ernst's choice of provincial capital was certainly informed by experience from his previous life. Kisangani city had once served as Congo's temporary capital in his previous life, with a population of 680,000 and over 1.6 million people across its entire jurisdiction. Situated at the heart of the African continent, it was known as "the world's most isolated major city."

This indirectly showed that Kisangani's external connections had not been smooth in his previous life, mainly due to transportation problems. Yet for Kisangani to develop into a city of more than 600,000 people in impoverished Congo, its foundations had clearly been solid. Having once served as a temporary capital, Kisangani had many universities and institutions.

Under East African rule, Kisangani city naturally had not yet reached the splendor it possessed in its previous life, but its transportation was far better than that of Kisangani city in the previous life. This was thanks to East Africa's vigorous road construction throughout Hesse Province.

East Africa's obsession with infrastructure was beyond anything African nations of the previous life could compare with. The road-surfacing project currently being carried out in Hesse Province made Kisangani city one of its beneficiaries.

Bamir said, "The industrial foundation of the entire Hesse Province is extremely weak, and it differs greatly from the railway routes we planned in the past. The difficulty