Let's discuss the shortcomings of East Africa, that is, the development of civilization was short. Before East Africa, there was no decent modern country in the entire Africa.
The top student in the African region before East Africa was Egypt, but Egypt was completely unable to compete with other blocks in the matching mechanism of the Eurasian region.
Therefore, after East Africa becomes the most representative big country in Africa, the most important thing to do is to make up for the mistakes. This is also the basic logic for East Africa to quickly transform from a big country to a truly world power through immigration, industrial development, and infrastructure construction.
The end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century can be said to be the last outlet for African continent. If the countries on African continent cannot rise rapidly during this period, they will basically have no chance to face the encirclement and suppression of Western world in the future.
East Africa is the country that suddenly appeared and led African continent to the peak competition. But when East Africa took over most of Southern Africa's regions, the difference in conditions can be imagined.
In terms of the latitude of the development of human civilization, Sub-Saharan Africa in the late 19th century still maintained its level of civilization at least five thousand years ago.
After all, at that time Far East Empire, a relatively mature farming civilization had already appeared in the Middle East, and many areas had entered a slave society from a primitive society.
Therefore, when East African colony was established, it was truly impoverished, the kind that made the new government of the Far East Empire in its previous life in 1949 shed tears when it saw it.
This also resulted in East Africa having to adopt the most radical means and methods in early colonial and national construction, such as the early "militarism" model, rationing system, complete nationalization of land, the most radical "centralization" model, and later the "completely planned economy" of the first two five-year plans, and now "New Economic Policy".
Yes, New Economic Policy is also very extreme. It can be said that during the Third Five-Year Plan period, East Africa adopted an outrageous degree of laxity towards the private economy. Basically, it was possible to do anything without prohibition by law, and even turned a blind eye to some companies that violated the anti-East African law.
These extreme policies and systems all have one thing in common, and that is "quick success". Basically in every economic development cycle, East African government likes to apply one-size-fits-all at the expense of and disregard of some interests, thereby allowing East Africa's national power, economy, population, military, infrastructure, agriculture and other fields to rapidly expand and develop.
Of course, East Africa's strategy is obviously successful. It is no exaggeration to say that East Africa only took about fifty years to complete the journey that other countries took hundreds or thousands of years to complete.
At least in East African mainland, thorough modernization has been achieved. The land that has not been developed for tens of thousands of years has been turned into farmland, villages and cities, roads, canals, etc. The first large-scale artificial management of rivers such as Zambezi River, Congo River, etc., which have never been regulated, has been carried out. The population of East Africa has also changed from 30 to 40 million primitive indigenous people to more than 100 million modern people who have received primary education...
Although the last point is a bit unethical, it is true that through large-scale immigration, the greatest country in history was born on African continent.
By the time World War I broke out, East Africa was obviously no longer the novice village it once was, but a world power that the whole world could not ignore. Currently, East Africa could compete with any other great power in the world.
The First World War was another crossroads for East Africa. If it is taken advantage of, East Africa will go further. It can be predicted that East Africa will become unprecedentedly powerful after the war.
Now the United Kingdom is a stumbling block on the road to East Africa's rise, so cracking down on Britain's interference in East Africa's trade is particularly important for East Africa.
Merke said, "Your Majesty, to bypass the obstruction of British, we must open up more trade channels, and the construction progress of Basra Railway should be accelerated."
Basra Railway's progress is relatively slow. According to the original plan in East Africa, it was planned to take one year to open this 700-kilometer-long passage. However, now the UK is doing the first grade, and East Africa is naturally doing the 15th grade.
Ernst nodded and said, "Originally I wanted to use Basra Railway and Ottoman Empire for transactions, but now it seems that it is no longer necessary, so Ministry of Railways speeds up the progress of Basra Railway and strives to officially open Basra Railway before July this year."
Originally, Ernst planned to use Basra Railway to hoist Ottoman Empire, but Ottoman Empire apparently did not want to speed up the progress of Basra Railway's project through territorial transactions.
However, Ernst doesn't care too much about this now. Although Ernst used to be greedy for the oil along the coast of Saudi Arabia in his previous life, East Africa is no longer what it used to be.
With the incorporation of new territories such as Gabon, Northern Bay Territory, East Kalimantan, and East Africa's advance layout in areas such as Venezuela, Romania, United States, East Africa has gained sufficient security in terms of oil resources.
Today, there are three ways to obtain oil in East Africa. The first is the mainland. The oil resources in the north and west of East Africa can basically guarantee the daily production and daily needs of East Africa.
The second one is the overseas colonies in East Africa. Alaska, Northern Bay Territory, and East Kalimantan are all areas rich in oil resources. With these overseas colonies, East Africa cannot lack oil supply.
The third is East Africa's overseas investment, such as United States, Romania, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Tsarist Russia, Venezuela and other major oil producers in the world at this stage have investments in East Africa.
The oil-producing areas of these other countries can also stabilize the energy security of East Africa. Among them, only Tsarist Russia is more risky. After all, Tsarist Russia is internally unstable.
Therefore, now that East Africa's oil and energy security has established a three-level firewall, Ernst does not need to be too anxious about this.
Ernst said, "Basra Railway construction is one of the key trade channels that stabilizes our trade with Central Powers camp, so the sooner it is completed, the more beneficial it is to our country's economy."
It is worth mentioning that East Africa still has not repaid all its debts to the two major camps, so in order to pay off its debts quickly and make a profit, East Africa urgently needs to maintain the scale of trade with Europe.
The main factor causing this result is United States. With United States, it is impossible to be alone in East Africa. The competition between the two countries has further equalized the profits of trade with Europe. This makes East Africa and United States now have not repaid their pre-war debts to European countries.
The main reason is that East Africa borrowed too much money before the war. With these loans, East African mainland's industrial production capacity almost doubled.
In 1910, the total industrial output value of East Africa was 120 billion Rheinland Shield, and now it has expanded to more than 270 billion Rheinland Shield in 1914.
With the money of European countries, East Africa's industry has achieved qualitative development, and even the economic and industrial growth rate has exceeded the previous two five-year plan periods.
And more than 270 billion Rheinland Shield, converted into US Dollar, is about 40 billion, while the total industrial production value of United States before the war was only more than 240 billion.
The current total industrial output of United States should be over 30 billion, but at this stage in the previous life, United States had already reached 50 billion. This shows how much market share East Africa has taken away from United States.
After all, Europe's purchasing power is limited. As United States competes with the two industrial giants in East Africa, the profits shared by each will naturally be less. According to East African government's estimate, it will take at least another seven months to completely repay the debts to European countries.
But now Britain's deliberate obstruction will obviously extend East Africa's debt repayment time, so East African government must find another way to maximize East Africa's gains from the war.
"Basra Railway has limited shipping capacity after all, so we have to think of other ways. As the war progresses, the difficulty of trade between us and Central Powers will definitely increase. Therefore, the more we need to strengthen our trade with Central Powers at this stage, the more difficult it will be to make money from Central Powers camp in the middle and late stages of the war."