The war is temporarily over, and East African colony has resumed its normal operating procedures.
During the war, immigrants had to be transported to the front line, which was an overloaded challenge for East Africa.
Therefore, the war machine in East Africa needs to be slowed down. The entire East Africa is an agricultural colony, so its ability to support large-scale military operations is stronger than those of traditional agricultural countries.
Fortunately, East African colony is a grassroots enterprise with a large land area and a large per capita cultivated land area, so the total food output is high. It is self-sufficient and strongly supports the actions of new immigrants and the military.
The army needs to rest and recuperate, and the new immigrants heading to the west must work quickly to plant the land as soon as possible and create value. Other areas in East Africa must also work hard to open up fields.
In the past two months, East Africa has received 170,000 immigrants (this figure is not an exaggeration. It refers to the slave trade and the capacity of British ships to transport black people. So what East Africa lacks is not transportation capacity, but the source of immigrants, especially German descendants immigrants.), all of which were accepted by the newly occupied northwest areas, Western Kenya District and Omorate Town.
If these 170,000 immigrants were divided among the already established colonial strongholds, all parts of East Africa would surely reach a higher level of development.
In the first half of 1868, East Africa imported more than 500,000 immigrants. In the first half of the year alone, it almost completed the Ernst estimate of 600,000 immigrants a year at the end of last year.
At present, East Africans has a population of 1.2 million people and a land area of about 1.5 million square kilometers. In addition, Uganda in its previous life has also been regarded as a meal, with an area of more than 200,000 square kilometers.
It is expected that by the end of the year, it will definitely be able to swallow it. If the immigration activities go smoothly, it can reach at least 1.7 million.
The population has exceeded one million, causing Ernst to not panic at all now. A million is not only a unit, but also a tranquilizer. In this era, a country with a population of more than one million.
In the 17th century, when the Netherlands rose, its population was in the millions; in the 19th century, when the United Kingdom rose, its population was in the tens of millions; in the 20th century, when United States rose, its population was in the hundreds of millions.
With more than one million people, East African colony will be able to gain a foothold in Africa. On one-third of an acre of land in Africa, its strength will be at least fourth.
The first one is naturally the Egypt Muhammad·Ali dynasty under the nominal territory of the Ottoman Empire.
Anyone familiar with history knows that the Muhammad·Ali reforms allowed Egypt to enter a period of rich countries and strong military forces, and even defeated its suzerain country Ottoman Empire.
Later, Britain and France's intervention saved the dying Ottoman Empire, and Egypt was reduced to a semi-colonial state again.
Although Egypt's reform failed, the reformed Egypt has half a foot into industrialization, and its army has also completed modernization. Therefore, Egypt's comprehensive strength should currently be the well-deserved number one among local forces in Africa.
The current Egypt territory also includes Sudan (including South Sudan), which actually borders the Omo River watershed colony of East Africa Northwest Region.
East African colony may not be afraid of Egypt militarily, but East African colony is not as comprehensive as Egypt. It has industry, agriculture, and navy, and has even achieved self-sufficiency in some weapons and equipment.
The second is France. France has nothing to say. As far as the distance between the French North Africa colony (Algeria) and the French mainland, it is no problem to say that France is the strongest force in Africa.
Anyway, French mainly expands in North Africa and West Africa, and is not close to East Africa. The French colony closest to East Africa is Comoros and French Madagascar, separated from East Africa by Indian Ocean.
The third is Britain. Like France, its navy is too strong, so no other power in the world can compare with these two countries.
Why not put Britain and France before Egypt? That's because these two countries are not purely African countries.
Therefore, in the local area, excluding some colonists, the first is Egypt, the second is Abyssinian Empire, and the third is Ernst who doesn't even know it.
The British and French colonies had national support, so East Africa naturally did not dare to feel uncomfortable in front of the two countries, but it was not at all timid when facing Boers and Portuguese.
Because it offended Britain and France, East Africa could only be beaten, and Indian Ocean couldn't even fight back. But facing the remaining forces, it was different. Boers only had a population of several hundred thousand, and Portuguese including merchants and immigrants in Mozambique probably only had tens of thousands of people (maybe just a few thousand).
East African colony is on the same level as them. As for Kingdom of Portugal's support for Mozambique, just listen to it. Unless hundreds of thousands of troops are brought over, Ernst won't take it seriously.
When fighting a war, don't charge into battle yourself. As long as the immigrant population in the territory is large, the army will be larger, and the army is the foundation for Ernst to establish a foothold in East Africa.
Of course, there is no need to conflict with the above-mentioned forces in East Africa at present. There is still a lot of open space in Africa that can be developed.
Therefore, before the great powers set their sights on Africa, East African colony can expand as much as it wants, and its opponents are only indigenous forces.
Without the support of external forces, it is basically impossible for the indigenous people to be East African colony's opponent.
Don't look at the smooth development of East African colony and its extremely rapid expansion, which is based on Ernst's daily fear.
East African colony is just Ernst using the identity of House of Hohenzollern to give the outside world an illusion. East African colony is Prussia's attempt to colonize overseas.
Compared with Prussia focusing on developing colonies, various countries are more worried about Prussia unifying Germany, so East African colony's expansion can get the acquiescence of Britain, France and other countries.
And Prussia himself has no energy to pay attention to overseas affairs. Now the top leaders of the kingdom are making various preparations for the reunification of Germany. As for the Hechingen Royal Family to develop Africa, as long as Prussia otherwise contributes money and effort, and Hechingen Royal Family is one of his own, he will eventually have to move closer to himself when developing colonies in Africa.
Needless to say, Tsarist Russia's interests all lie in Eurasian continent.
Austro-Hungarian Empire supports Ernst. Austro-Hungarian Empire has no energy to expand overseas. Moreover, Habsburg and Ernst have such a good relationship that they are almost becoming a family. Ernst's recruitment of immigrants in Austria-Hungary not only benefited Austria, but also benefited Hungary, stabilizing its rule. Many factors caused Austro-Hungarian Empire to support Ernst's colonization.
But support is support, and Austro-Hungarian Empire is just as good as selling Ernst. Apart from being more relaxed on the immigration issue, it has no practical benefits at all.
To sum up, there is no country that East African colony can rely on. If it completely falls to any party, it may be doomed.
Therefore, we can only protect ourselves by relying on immigration and forming an army. Of course, there must be a threshold for immigration. If all kinds of people are accepted, then if imperialism comes knocking on the door, they will definitely lead the way.
This is also the reason why East African immigrants are slow. If quality is not taken into consideration, two to three million immigrants can easily arrive every year. However, it took East African colony two and a half years to reach a population of 1.2 million. This is the result of Ernst's reverse improvement of immigration standards.