Chapter 684 Black Power
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Since East Africa prepared to strengthen its armaments in the late 1980s, related preparations have diverted most of the energy of the East African government.
Fortunately, most of the various projects in East Africa have been completed, so we are not too busy and can complete military deployments in the east, south, and west directions relatively calmly.
This also reflects East Africa's current geographical disadvantage. If Egypt (UK) in the north is included, East Africa is surrounded by enemies on all sides. East Africa also needs to solve this hidden danger within an appropriate time.
As war preparations began, statistical work on the population, especially the war-related population, also began.
The number of black people is an important indicator. In all the wars in East Africa, black people are a group that cannot be ignored.
Before the 1980s, every time there was a war in East Africa, black people were an important guarantee for the smooth development of the East African economy. Because the deployment of troops to the front line would inevitably affect the production work in the rear, and logistics support also required a large number of manpower. This kind of work was generally done by East African nationals. To be done.
Hence, black people are the stabilizer that ensures production work in East Africa. The further time goes forward, the more so. During the colonial period in East Africa, the rear production work was basically carried out by black people, and all the people in East Africa were soldiers.
Later, as the population of East Africa increased, there was no longer a need for so many troops. The number of professional soldiers was enough. However, black people still filled a certain labor gap in East Africa.
So the number of black people is an important data indicator of the East African war. However, black statistics and East African national statistics are calculated separately and belong to the non-national population.
Minister of Civil Affairs Weimar reported to Ernst: "Your Royal Highness, according to the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics, as of 1885, the total number of black people in our country dropped from more than 19.5 million in the early 1980s to more than 14.9 million. A total of more than 2.1 million people were eliminated from exports.
This is the main data of the "black slave trade" in East Africa in the past five years. Two million black people who have reached the standard have been sold by East Africa.
Of course, this is also related to the national policy of East Africa. One of the national policies of East Africa is to "vacate the cage and replace the bird". The number of black people is the standard data that most intuitively reflects this policy.
Brazil has become the largest destination country for black people in East Africa in the past five years, with a total of more than 830,000, and the remainder is mainly shared equally among various Latin American countries, around 500,000. "
Since last year, East Africa has started relevant statistical work. Population means war potential, and black people are also part of East Africa's war potential.
The Ottoman Empire is still the main buyer, including North Africa and other areas that are still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire. The total is about 350,000. Central Asia and other Arab regions, including Persia, are about 200,000. The United States had an enmity with our country last time and the slave trade Restricted, there are only about 100,000.
These 720,000 people are actually the old, weak, sick and disabled. East Africa will naturally not be able to support a group of idle people, and there is no way to sell these 720,000 people, so the government can only spend some effort to send them to West Africa. As long as they do not die in East Africa, Out of sight, out of mind.
"Finally, the black laborers who were consumed in East Africa, including short life span, disease, excessive physical labor, attacks by wild animals, etc., the natural loss caused by various reasons, is almost 1.7 million."
"720,000 of them were exiled to West Africa. Most of these people have defects that make them unacceptable to other countries."
This group of black people are also the "heroes" of East Africa's infrastructure construction. Infrastructure construction in East Africa can be said to be an unprecedented large-scale project, including roads, railways, farmland reclamation, water conservancy construction, housing construction, etc.
Before the colonization of the royal family of Hechingen, the only places with infrastructure in the entire East Africa were the Arab-inhabited areas on the eastern coast, or the ruins of the long-lost Great Zimbabwe.
Hence, the establishment of a country in East Africa is truly a matter of "raising a building from a low ground", and making up for the shortcomings of East African countries in a short period of time. East Africa covers an area of tens of millions of square kilometers, and the construction of any single road exceeds thousands of kilometers. Therefore, in more than 20 years, the amount of construction of national highways, railways, water conservancy and other systems, as well as land reclamation and residential construction has been astronomical.
And these are all based on the oppression of tens of millions of black people in East Africa. So far, the number of black people in East Africa has been lost due to project construction, as many as four million, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. A period of great infrastructure development in East Africa.
"At present, the number of black people is the largest in several western provinces. Due to various reasons, detailed surveys cannot be carried out. We estimate that the number is around 8 million, including the Congo Rainforest, Eastern Azande Province, New Bavaria Province, Nile Province, Southwest Africa, and Danube Province. , Province of Letania."
These provinces and regions are the last natural gathering areas for black people in East Africa. Black people in other areas are basically registered to work on farms, plantations, roads, railways, water conservancy project construction, mines, etc. in East Africa.
Of course, the reason why the west retains such a large population is related to the sparse immigrant population of East Africa in the western provinces and regions. For example, in the east and central areas, where the immigrant population is large, the number of black people is small.
"The accurate number of our East African labor data is 6,403,207 people. They are a major component of the national economy of East Africa and have contributed more than 70% to the East African economy in the past few years."
In East Africa, workers actually refer to black people, but black people are not necessarily workers, because only registered black people are workers.
For example, the black self-reserved lands in the west do not belong to the labor force. They have no way to create value for East Africa for the time being. The number of black people currently working in East Africa is only these six million people.
However, the role of black people in private land is not useless, that is, to make up for the annual shortage of black people in East Africa. After all, the labor losses in East Africa are huge, and without water reservoirs, the fishing has long been exhausted.
In 1880, the national labor force in East Africa was about five to six million, while the number of non-national black workers reached seven million at that time, accounting for more than half of the labor force in East Africa, and they were basically engaged in the most tiring and dangerous jobs. Therefore, behind the economic glory of East Africa is the history of blood and tears of countless black people.
The number of black workers has now dropped to more than 6 million, which is also related to the decline in the number of projects in East Africa, especially the large-scale construction of national water conservancy projects.
The number of black people involved in the construction of national water conservancy projects alone exceeds one million. Now that many water conservancy projects have been completed, the number of East African laborers has also declined.
Of course, there is also the impact of the "cattleization" movement in the central and eastern parts of the country. In East African agriculture, especially the planting industry, large livestock such as cattle and horses are gradually replacing black labor. This is also an important reason for the decline in the number of laborers.
Overall, East Africa's "empty cages and replace birds" work has achieved remarkable results. The number of black people in East Africa has also reduced to more than 14 million, a drop of nearly 5 million. However, if East Africa wants to completely solve the black problem, there is still no way to implement it in a short time.
Not only that, the number of black people in East Africa is likely to rise again, because there are large black populations in Angola and Mozambique.
The number of black people in the two colonies is at least over five million. If East Africa annexes these two colonies, the number of black people in East Africa may directly return to more than 20 million.
An important reason why there are so many black people in Mozambique and Angola is the "tyranny" of black people in East Africa. Many black people in East Africa fled to the Portuguese colonies.
After all, compared with West Africa, the two Portuguese colonies and Cape Town in the south are obviously more suitable for black people to escape nearby.
(End of this chapter)