Kenya, central region, Masharoo Town.
To develop the newly explored area, the East African Colonial Government, after sending people to conduct on-site surveys, decided to grow tobacco here.
As a crop that favored warmth and sunlight, tobacco could be grown in almost every part of East Africa. Moreover, East Africa received moderate rainfall, enough to meet the crop's water needs during its early growth.
Masharoo Town lay ninety kilometers southeast of Nairobi, with an unnamed river running north to south through its territory.
There were only a little over thirty immigrants when they first arrived. They were led by the German Anthony, along with five immigrants from the Austrian Empire and more than twenty Chinese.
As he gazed at the boundless grasslands stretching to the horizon, Anthony could not help marveling at nature's grandeur and wonder.
Having once lived in Europe, Anthony had grown up seeing the agricultural estates and forests of North Germany, all delicate and brimming with life.
Africa's land, however, was filled with a wild nature, and its scale was so immense that it made one's heart surge like a tidal wave.
The Austrian Empire immigrants felt the same. Most of them had come to Africa for the first time and were even more shaken than Anthony. The Austrian Empire was a land of mountains and waters, and because the places where these immigrants had lived were relatively underdeveloped, they still retained a more rustic way of life.
Some had never even left their own villages in their entire lives. One could imagine how, after putting out to sea, they were first awed into submission by the sea's magnificent waves, then captivated by Africa's strange tropical sights after landing in East Africa.
The Chinese immigrants fared somewhat better. Due to where they came from, they had never