"Congo River basin, the only pity is that shipping ends in Kinshasa, and Kinshasa is currently the only city on the Congo River that has the potential to be compared with Kisangani city (Kisangani). However, all this is based on a premise, that is, the issue of the sea outlet. There is no sea outlet. Kinshasa is just a dead port and can only be used by East Africa itself. Its cargo volume is not even as important as Ubangi River to East Africa."
According to the original history, it was not until 1881 that the colonial explorer Stanley arrived in Kinshasa. At that time, there were scattered villages and thousands of black people.
East Africa captured Kinshasa three years earlier. The current population of Kinshasa is only more than 3,000, because East Africa is not included in the local black population.
"Congo River basin, excluding Hesse Province, and several provinces in the plateau area, can be said to have extreme economic value. The most abundant resource is logs, but logs cannot be exported, so they are basically worthless, so Congo River basin basically has no output."
"At the same time, even if the sea channel of Atlantic Ocean is opened and the sea entrance is seized from Portuguese, Kinshasa will still be hindered by the waterfalls downstream. Therefore, we want to open up the sea channel from Congo River basin to Atlantic Ocean. There are basically two options: building a railway to achieve water-rail combined transportation, or building a canal."
If the canal project relies on vigorously flying bricks, it is very possible to realize it. While the black people in East Africa still have some role to play, building a 100-kilometer canal can indeed bypass the downstream waterfalls.
The main thing that needs to be overcome is the terrain difficulties to slow down the river drop, and now that East Africa has considerable explosive production capacity, there is no need to rely solely on manpower to solve all problems.
However, the number of laborers required for this plan is also sky-high. According to the current development trend of East Africa and the west, it is simply unaffordable. The most important thing is that the downstream is still controlled by Portugal. If the Portugal problem is not solved, everything will be a mirror.
"A certain proportion of Kinshasa's residents are members of the military. Secondly, they are engaged in the export trade to downstream areas, including daily necessities and medicines. In other aspects, they are basically competitive, such as the huge forestry resources. Even the grasslands of eastern East Africa are not short of such things. What's more, other forces in the same region can also export to their own countries at the same time, and they also have many advantages in mineral resources than here."
In the final analysis, Kinshasa City's trade still relies on East African industry, which does not exist in many colonies, so many of their items need to be imported from Europe.
East Africa can transport these materials to Kinshasa City through shipping, and then Belgians will operate them to downstream areas. As for Portugal, it has already cut off trade with East Africa, especially those Angola farmers who have the spending power.
Kinshasa City is a very young city, so it has little production capacity. The supply of goods mainly comes from Kisangani city.
Even if Kisangani city is connected to Kinshasa City by water transportation, the distance is more than 1,500 kilometers, but the one-way speed from Kisangani city to Kinshasa City is very fast.
The middle part of the Congo River is in a basin with flat terrain, but hundreds of tributaries all merge into the main channel. The water volume is large, so the flow speed is faster than that of ordinary rivers. It only takes a few days to go from Kisangani city to Kinshasa.
But if you go upstream, you have to do the opposite, but it won't be like the downstream section of Kinshasa, which is unnavigable because the terrain drops suddenly.
However, this also puts forward requirements for the traffic capacity of the ship. There are no trackers in Congo rainforest, so we can only work more on ship power, and steam engines and internal combustion engine drives have become the first choice. Fortunately, East Africa has accumulated relevant experience, especially the rapid development of inland waterway shipping in the three Great Lakes Region areas, which has solved technical problems, so the ship manufacturing industry in Kisangani city is relatively developed.
But even so, Congo River is mainly dominated by medium-sized ships. They are too small to be easily controlled and require reserved fuel space. They are too large to maintain. Only a few dozen strongholds have been built along the entire Congo River coast in East Africa.
"Pharmaceuticals are a big part of Kinshasa City's exports. We in East Africa have a greater say in this regard than other regions. Quinine is an essential export commodity. It is very popular in Belgian Congo and Angola. In addition, the demand for other drugs is also relatively large."
This is mainly because East Africa has developed well and has a large population, which results in East Africa having sufficient experience and weight in this field.
After all, if the medicine is not effective enough, East Africa will not be able to gain a foothold here, and it has the largest immigrant population in Africa. East Africans is a secret to all forces, but one thing that is certain is that East Africa has the largest immigrant population.
As for black people, as indigenous people, they have strong immunity. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that they live in scattered places, so the disease has no time to spread.
At present, African indigenous people still have primitive social systems, with villages and tribes being the mainstream, so the population is sparse and relatively dispersed, which to a certain extent hinders the spread of diseases.
Of course, diseases like malaria that rely on mosquito bites are difficult to prevent. Africa is located in the tropics and is the most suitable continent for mosquitoes to live in, like South America and India. However, this has also made mosquito repellent products in East Africa a hot seller.
However, in this era, few people understand the relationship between mosquitoes and malaria, so they are simply used as mosquito repellent products, rather than becoming a mandatory daily necessity like in East Africa.
Therefore, even if some colonists purchased mosquito repellent products in order to improve their quality of life, they rarely shared them with slaves and workers.
In this case, the secret of ensuring population growth and curbing the spread of diseases in East Africa has not been spread. After all, mosquitoes are the vectors of many tropical diseases, which has greatly improved the average life expectancy and health level of East Africans.
Moreover, other regions are in dire straits, and it can further expand the export sales of East African pharmaceuticals. This kind of thing kills three birds with one stone.
So don't look at the small population of Kinshasa. Look at the resale of medicines and daily necessities. The profits earned for East Africa are no lower than some cities in the east. Of course, the upstream Kisangani city is also a beneficiary.
"The cities in the entire west and the intersection of Belgium Congo, Bangui city and Kinshasa City can barely be seen, and the military significance is greater than the economic significance. However, according to the above news, in the next few years, Kinshasa City will continue to expand, and it will be directly led by the central government."
The Congo rainforest basin area has not been divided into provinces so far, but exists as a region like Southwest Africa.
The only "big" city here is Kinshasa City, so it is normal for it to be directly managed by the central government, just like the three cities of Southwest Africa are jointly taken over by Ministry of Defense and the government.
And Kinshasa is of great significance to the East African military. It will serve as the frontier urban position for East Africa's battle against Portugal in the future.
Because Kinshasa is built on the border between the two countries, it is the intersection of the Kwilu River and Congo River, and is a water and land transportation hub. The only thing lacking now is population. Therefore, in order to conquer Angola, the development of Kinshasa City has also been put on the East African agenda, and it will also be a key development city near South Atlantic in the future.
In fact, there is Brazzaville on the other side of Kinshasa, but Brazzaville is located close to the narrow strip of the left bank of the Congo River, and Belgian Congo is to the north, so it is not a key development target in East Africa. However, Kinshasa across the river can use the river to play certain military defense and transportation functions.
Moreover, East Africa intends to directly build bridges in the future to connect Kinshasa and Brazzaville. After all, there is no need to develop two cities on both sides of the river.