African Entrepreneurship Record-Chapter 697 - 1 Black Power

First Town.

Since East Africa prepared to strengthen its military capabilities in the late eighties, the relevant preparatory work has consumed most of the East African government's energy.

Fortunately, most of the projects in East Africa have been completed, so they are not in a rush and can carry out military deployments in the east, south, and west more calmly.

This also reflects East Africa's current geopolitical disadvantage. Counting the north with Egypt (British), East Africa is surrounded on all sides by enemies, and East Africa also needs to resolve this hidden danger at an appropriate time.

With the commencement of preparations for war, the work of gathering statistics on the population, especially the war-related population, has also begun.

The Black population count is an important criterion; in every war East Africa has engaged in, Black people have been an indispensable group.

Before the eighties, in every major war in East Africa, Black people were an important guarantee for the stable development of East Africa's economy because drafting troops from the front line was bound to influence production work at the rear, and logistics support also required a large amount of manpower, work that was generally completed by East African nationals.

Therefore, Black people are the stabilizing agent of East African production work, even more so as time goes backwards. During the colonial period of East Africa, production work at the rear was basically carried out by Black people, and the entire East African populace turned into soldiers.

Later, as the East African population increased, there was gradually less need for such a large army, and the number of professional soldiers was sufficient, but Black people still filled a certain labor force gap in East Africa.

The number of Black people is thus an important data indicator for East African warfare. However, the statistics of Blacks and East African nationals are calculated separately, belonging to non-national populations.

Starting from last year, East Africa has already begun relevant statistical work. Population means potential for war, and Black people are also part of East Africa's potential for war.

Of course, this is also related to East Africa's national policy. One of East Africa's policies is the "Tenglong Huanniao" policy, and the Black population is the most intuitive data reflecting this policy.

The Minister of Civil Affairs, Wimal, reported to Ernst: "Crown Prince, according to the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics, as of 1885, our domestic Black population has decreased from more than 19.5 million at the beginning of the eighties to more than 14.9 million, with over 2.1 million eliminated and exported based on age.

The Ottoman Empire remains the main buyer, including areas in North Africa that nominally belong to the Ottoman Empire, totaling around 350,000. Central Asia and other Arabic regions, including Persia, account for around 200,000. The United States, due to a previous conflict with our country resulting in trade restrictions, only captured about 100,000.

In the past five years, Brazil has become the main destination country for East African Blacks, totaling over 830,000, with the remainder mainly spread across Latin American countries, totaling around 500,000."

This represents the main data of the "Black Slave Trade" in East Africa over the past five years—two million Blacks of age-standard being sold by East Africa.

"Among them, 720,000 were exiled to West Africa. This population mostly comprised those with defects, making them unacceptable to other countries."

These 720,000 people actually consist of the old, weak, sick, and disabled, whom East Africa naturally will not support idly. Moreover, these 720,000 could not be sold, so the government spent some effort sending them to West Africa; as long as they do not die within East Africa's borders, it is out of sight and out of mind.

"Lastly, as for the Black laborers who are consumed within East Africa, this includes natural attrition due to short lifespans, disease, excessive physical labor, wildlife attacks, and other causes, which amount to roughly 1.7 million."

This segment of Black people is also the "contributor" to East Africa's infrastructure construction. East Africa's infrastructure construction can be described as unprecedented grand projects, including highways, railroads, farmland reclamation, water conservancy construction, housing construction, and more.

Before the colonial reign of Heixinggen's royal family in East Africa, the only areas with infrastructure within East Africa were in the Arab-populated regions along the eastern coast or the ruins of the long-defunct Great Zimbabwe.

Therefore, the nation-building of East Africa is truly "building skyscrapers from flat land," quickly making up for the country's shortcomings in East Africa, where its area spans tens of millions of square kilometers—any highway construction can easily exceed a thousand kilometers.

So, in over twenty years, constructing a national highway, railroad, water system, as well as reclamation, residential building, and other projects amounts to astronomical numbers.

And all these are established on the oppression of over ten million Black people by East Africa. Until now, the number of Black people lost in East Africa due to construction has exceeded four million, especially during the large-scale construction era of the seventies and eighties.

"Currently, the western provinces have the largest number of Black people, however, due to various reasons, a detailed survey is difficult. Our estimate is around 8 million, including the Congo rainforest, eastern Azande province, New Bavaria province, Nile province, southwestern Africa, the Danube province, and Letania province."

These provinces and regions are the last natural gathering places for Blacks in East Africa, while the Blacks present in other areas have basically been registered for East African farms, plantations, roads, railways, water conservancy project construction, and mining work.

Of course, the reason why such a large population remains in the west is related to East Africa's sparse immigrant population in the western provinces and areas. For instance, the immigrant population in the east and central areas is large, while the Black population is small.

"The exact number of East African laborers is 6,403,207 people, which constitutes the main part of East Africa's non-national economy, contributing over seventy percent to East Africa's economy in recent years."

In East Africa, laborers actually refer to Black people, but Black people are not necessarily laborers because only registered Blacks qualify as laborers.

For instance, the Blacks in the western self-retained lands do not qualify as laborers; they also currently have no way to create value for East Africa. The actual number of Blacks working for East Africa is just over six million.

However, even Blacks from self-retained lands are not useless—they help to fill the annual gap in Black labor for East Africa. After all, East African labor consumption is enormous; without a reservoir, it would have long been a case of draining the lake to catch fish.

In 1880, East African national labor was about five to six million, while the non-national Black laborers reached around seven million, comprising more than half of the East African labor force, and predominantly engaged in the most exhausting and dangerous work. Thus, the brilliance of East Africa's economy is backed by countless Black people's cries and blood.

The number of Black laborers has now declined to over six million, which is also related to the decrease in East African construction, especially the completion of many nationwide water conservancy projects.

The nationwide water conservancy projects involved over a million Blacks, and as many water conservancy projects are complete, the number of East African laborers has also decreased somewhat.

Of course, there is also the impact of the "animalization" movement in the central and eastern parts, where large livestock like cattle and horses gradually replace Black labor in East African agriculture, especially in planting. This is also an important reason for the decrease in labor numbers.

Overall, the "Tenglong Huanniao" operation in East Africa has achieved remarkable success, reducing the Black population in East Africa to over 14 million, a decrease of nearly five million. However, East Africa cannot yet implement a complete resolution of the Black issue in a short time.

Not only that, but the number of Blacks in East Africa might rise again because of the large populations of Blacks in Angola and Mozambique.

The number of Blacks in these two colonies is said to be over five million each. If East Africa annexes these two colonies, the number of Blacks in East Africa might return directly to over 20 million in scale.

The significant number of Blacks in Mozambique and Angola can be attributed to East Africa's past "tyranny" towards Blacks, with many East African Blacks fleeing to Portuguese colonies.

After all, compared to West Africa, Portuguese colonies, and the southern Cape Town, are obviously more suitable for Blacks to flee close by.