Tanzania There are still some coal resources, but not much. They are mainly distributed in the southern plateau area.
The reserves are about one billion tons, mainly high-quality low-sulfur coal. This reserve is not outstanding in the whole of Africa, let alone compared with other coal-producing regions in the world.
Originally Ernst did not plan to develop such a pitiful amount of coal mines as Tanzania in advance, but in order to follow up the agricultural development of East Africa, Ernst changed its mind and planned to develop Tanzania's coal resources in advance.
The development of agriculture is inseparable from the processing of agricultural products, and the processing of agricultural products in East Africa certainly cannot be completed by manpower.
If you use indigenous people, it will deviate from the bottom line of Ernst. If they are allowed to take root again, it will be easier to invite gods than to send them away.
Moreover, the processing of agricultural products is already the most basic industry. Ernst doesn't even want to teach the indigenous people about planting, let alone industry.
After all, the fundamental reason for the explosive growth of Africa's population in previous generations was that European colonists taught Africans how to farm.
For example, Tanzania In primitive societies that relied on hunting for a living, the population would always remain at a low level. However, after German and British colonization, due to the development of plantations.
The number of indigenous people who learned to farm doubled from a few million to 60 million within two hundred years.
Before that, Zanzibar was actually colonizing eastern East Africa, but Zanzibar, which was engaged in the slave trade, was completely negative for the population growth of the indigenous people of East Africa.
Sultanate of Zanzibar does not need the natives to farm land for him, he is just coveting their bodies, so instigating tribal wars and capturing slaves is the way for Sultanate of Zanzibar to make money.
Under this environment, there are naturally fewer and fewer black people in East Africa. In fact, throughout East Africa, including the Somalia, Ethiopia regions, and the Arabs sphere of influence, the indigenous population is showing a decreasing trend.
Therefore, Ernst wants to put an end to the situation of "teaching a man to fish". Heavy physical work such as building roads, digging canals, and mining, which consumes a lot of energy and does not have any technical level, can still be left to these indigenous people.
The purpose of processing agricultural products in the colonies was for higher profits and to facilitate food transportation.
Immigrants are currently a rare commodity in East Africa, and the total immigrant population in East Africa is just over 200,000.
Therefore, we still need to import some machines from Europe for production, and the power of the machines naturally requires coal. It is definitely unrealistic to import coal from Europe and other places.
Therefore, it is essential to develop Tanzania's local coal resources.
Mbeya, the capital of Upper Lake Malawi Region.
This was an important mining area for later Tanzania, where gold, coal, and iron were all distributed.
The most attractive thing for colonists in this world is the gold mine. Many colonies were established because of gold mine resources.
Mbeya was completely set up as the capital of Upper Lake Malawi Region by Ernst in accordance with the important city of Tanzania in the previous life. No important resources had been discovered before.
Now, as Ernst sent people to conduct on-site inspections and analyze the local mineral resources, its mineral resources have also surfaced.
If other colonists discovered these resources, then this place must have been robbed, and East African Colonial Government has already completely controlled the East Africa region.
Moreover, East African colony is completely semi-military management, without even currency or any free economy, so it can control these resources very well.
Mbeya is located inland, and the news is easy to control, so it is not easy to be discovered by other colonists. Even if it is discovered, it is difficult to cross East African colony to the inland to snatch it.
Unlike United States California, where everyone can get a share of the pie, all the wealth of East African colony is controlled by Hohenzollern Conglomerate.
Therefore, the resources of Mbeya were quietly developed by Hohenzollern Conglomerate. The coal and iron resources will be directly used for local construction, and the gold mine will be supplemented to Hechingen Bank.
In this era, mining was a manual job, so the indigenous people captured by East African colony had a place to find employment.
They were driven into the mine by East African Colonial Government, and relied on simple tools and rudimentary safety facilities to fight day and night in the mine.
Currently, East African colony has a large number of idle indigenous laborers. Before their market is clear, most of them are working on roads and water conservancy projects.
In order to connect cities, villages and towns in the colony, the colony plans to use hundreds of thousands of indigenous people to build about 10,000 kilometers of roads this year.
Of course, these roads are not hardened cement and asphalt roads, but simple gravel roads. Even so, the amount of work is relatively large in this era.
East Africa is really poor. Except for some roads built by Sultanate of Zanzibar in the coastal areas, in the vast inland area, before the establishment of East African colony, there was no decent road, or no road at all.
Of course, as East Africa is a savanna region, roads may not be of any use to the indigenous people.
And East African colony must rely on roads to manage the colony. Just the transportation of food requires certain requirements for roads. Currently, East Africa is vigorously developing animal-driven transportation such as horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts.
Therefore, simple roads are necessary, otherwise according to the climate in East Africa, especially during the rainy season, the wheels will definitely get stuck in the mud and it will be difficult to move forward.
The transportation of East African colony mineral resources must also rely on these gravel roads.
At present, East African colony is unable to develop railways. If you want to transport coal and iron ore resources to various parts of the colony, you must rely on animal power to pull cars.
The reason for railway development is not that there is a lack of funds. Simply developing the resources along the railway line can make the money back. The main reason is that there is a shortage of manpower.
The colony had just driven away most of the indigenous people in East African colony, leaving only hundreds of thousands of indigenous captives in hand.
It's not that East African colony doesn't want to recruit more labor force, the main reason is that East African colony's current grain output cannot supply so many people.
Even for the indigenous people, their food level can only maintain the most basic survival, but the consumption of hundreds of thousands is not a small amount.
As for East African colony's grain, in addition to the portion needed for immigration, it is also used to provide initial rations and seeds for immigrants. The rest was originally used for export.
But now we have to feed these indigenous people to build colonial roads, so exports have decreased and have been basically absorbed by the colonies themselves.
And human energy is limited. Currently, it is impossible to have the energy to carry out other projects during the construction of colonial roads. Even the water conservancy projects at the same time as the road construction are actually mainly completed by the immigrants themselves.
Ernst will not consider other large-scale projects until the primary road system in the colony is completed. As for the indigenous people, they are inexhaustible. If Eight Northwestern Kingdoms is left there, their efforts will be indispensable for the future development of East Africa.