This possibility had existed only a few years ago. Now that the Imperial Japanese Navy had developed, it was basically impossible for the Far East Empire navy to "keep it in check" again.
Throughout the entire 1880s, the United States, Japan, and the Far East Empire had all expanded their navies. The East African Navy had instead fallen somewhat behind in this regard. However, with the South African War over, Ernst no longer intended to focus his energies on military expansion.
Moreover, the enormous military expenditures caused by a full year of high-intensity warfare, together with the war's impact on East Africa's foreign trade, had inflicted tremendous economic losses on East Africa.
After the war with Britain ended, East Africa's surrounding environment would remain secure for the next twenty years. Therefore, over the coming decade, East Africa should devote itself wholeheartedly to economic development, especially to driving industrial upgrading.
First Town.
The Ministry of Agriculture was reporting to Ernst on the current state of East African agricultural development.
Minister of Agriculture Augustin said, "Over the past twenty-odd years, our nation's agriculture has achieved brilliant results. In the 1880s alone, we opened up a total of sixty million hectares of new farmland, two to three times Germany's total cultivated area at present. The nation's total cultivated land has reached 120 million hectares."
East African officials had always liked using Germany as a benchmark for data. Aside from East Africa's national character, the most important reason was that Germany was the country East Africa understood best.
140 million hectares amounted to roughly 1.8 billion mu of land. Of course, compared with the United States, East Africa's land scale was utterly dwarfed. The United States had around four billion mu, perhaps even more than five billion.
This was because the United States