In the blink of an eye, it was 1894. Over the past three years, East Africa's development of Mozambique and Angola had yielded considerable results. Mozambique alone had received 2.73 million migrants, and it was no longer as desolate as before.
Besides the native population continually pushing into the interior and remote regions, foreign immigration had also reached a small peak over the previous three years, though it still could not compare with the scale of immigration during the preceding thirty years.
Moreover, this wave of foreign immigration was mainly composed of Italians and Chinese, making population recruitment in the German territories even more difficult.
For one thing, the economies of Germany, Austria, and other German states were developing at breakneck speed. Looking across the world, not a single German state had performed poorly in recent years, including the Sigmaringen Royal Territory, which was carrying out colonial expansion centered on Chad. Though conditions there were harsh, it was vast, sparsely populated, and rich in resources, with highly promising development prospects.
Of course, absorbing foreign immigrants was only a stopgap measure, intended to create conditions for the rapid development of Mozambique, Angola, Orange, and other regions. East Africa's native population was growing rapidly; even without relying on foreign immigrant groups, it would only have needed another two or three years to develop Mozambique and Angola to their current level.
The United States' Westward Movement and East Africa's westward expansion had begun at almost the same time. Yet by careful calculation, the United States had started more than a decade earlier than East Africa. By the 1890s, the United States had basically finished as a whole, while East Africa's development of Angola had only entered its initial stage. Beyond that, vast regions in East Africa's north and south still urgently awaited development.