For ordinary East Africans, moving to the cities for development posed no great obstacle, provided they could secure stable employment. Especially with East Africa's compulsory education system in place, even the new generation in the remotest regions had relatively broad horizons.
This was also the fundamental guarantee behind East Africa's population mobility in recent years. East African population movements were mainly achieved through administrative measures, and only an educated populace, guided by the government, could avoid causing excessive conflict and unrest.
This was no alarmist talk. In many European and American countries during the nineteenth century, a massive influx of agricultural populations into cities was bound to create serious social problems. Countries like Germany, where compulsory education was widely available, were somewhat better off.
But imagine illiterate, impoverished rural farmers from Poland, lacking urban living skills, entering German cities. Their prospects would inevitably suffer setbacks, especially during periods when economic crises struck frequently.
This example was not fabricated out of thin air. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a new round of capitalist economic crisis had already arrived, and the first unlucky victim was Tsarist Russia. While the East African government was busy drafting the First Five-Year Plan, Tsarist Russia's economic crisis had already erupted. This crisis was also the root cause of the Russo-Japanese War in Ernst's previous life.
Japan and Russia were both victims of this economic crisis, and their conflicts in the Far East Empire were especially acute. Therefore, there was a high probability that Japan and Russia would still meet in battle this century.
Of course, the economic crisis was an opportunity for East Africa. As early as the nineties, the East African government had begun adjusting the national economy, further shifting the East African economy toward a Planned Economy System. The First Five-Year Plan