African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1175 Landing in Samarinda
Once East Africa has established a foothold overseas, it will be difficult for the guardians of the old order, such as Britain and France, to force East Africa to give up its markets and sources of raw material supplies.

Moreover, at that time, East Africa had a fellow sufferer, the United States, who could share the pressure from Britain and France. After all, the actions of the United States were not much smaller than those of East Africa.

It can be predicted that no matter how the European war goes, whether it is the victory of Britain and France or the victory of Germany and Austria, Europe's international status as a political bloc will be greatly reduced after the war.

And this is something that the Allies and the Entente cannot prevent now. After all, only the ultimate winner of the war in Europe will have the opportunity to sit down at the same table and negotiate with the future East Africa and the United States.

As for Russia, it is destined to be a loser. The Russian Revolution is bound to break out, and the future Russian government will naturally not be able to enjoy the dividends of a victorious country.

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East Kalimantan.

1915 October.

The new conqueror of East Kalimantan officially started the crackdown on local indigenous forces. East Kalimantan is actually the term for East Africa, which refers to the location of the Lan Fang Overseas Province in East Africa. It actually includes the eastern part of Kalimantan Island, as well as parts of the south and central areas.

Samarinda.

At that time, Samarinda was just an undeveloped bay with only a small fishing village with a population of dozens of people, and the 7th Infantry Regiment of the East African Guards Division landed here.

"This is Samarinda. Why did we choose this as our regiment's landing point? It is even more desolate than the East Africa described by our fathers." Clavier, commander of the 7th Infantry Regiment, complained.

As an East African and a member of the new generation, Clavel is well aware of the arduous pioneering journeys that his parents had talked about in the past. However, when Clavel was born, East Africa had already developed to a considerable scale. But after arriving in Samarinda, a bay marked on the map, Clavel finally understood the feelings of his parents when they first arrived in East Africa.

"Not to mention compared to the mainland, even compared to Pontianak, this place seems primitive and backward. But now is not the time to complain. We East Africans came here with the mission of transforming the local area. After all, when East Africa was not developed before, it was probably not much different from East Kalimantan." said the regiment's staff officer Yaril.

Pontianak is the capital of the Lan Fang Overseas Province. Although it is somewhat different from the mainland of East Africa, it is still a relatively prosperous city in the entire Southeast Asia.

As for comparing East Kalimantan with undeveloped East Africa, in fact, the conditions in East Africa during the colonial era were much better than those in East Kalimantan.

Under Ariel's persuasion, Clavier did not worry about the desolateness of his landing site. Now that the matter was done, he should solve the basic survival problem first.

He pointed to the small fishing village ahead and said, "That should be the only place where humans live nearby. Call all the villagers over here!"

Soon, under the pressure of the 7th Infantry Regiment's large numbers and the long-standing power of the Dutch, the entire population of the village was brought before Clavel.

"Captain Clavel, all the men, women, young and old in this village are here, a total of thirty-seven people. This village can be regarded as a large family and rarely communicates with the outside world. But according to them, there is a relatively large tribe twenty kilometers northwest along the coastline, and their village was moved from that place." The translator from the Lan Fang Overseas Province said to Clavel.

East Africa has been in Southeast Asia for so long that it naturally has a lot of people who can speak indigenous or Malay languages. The Lan Fang Overseas Province is a center for East Africa's trade with Southeast Asia, so translators are very easy to find.

Clavier looked at the villagers who presented no threat and asked the translator, "How many people are there in this area?"

The translator shook his head and said, "Of course they don't know this either. After all, they basically live a self-sufficient life and don't have much communication with the outside world."

"But the Dutch government has done a rough population census and the total population of East Kalimantan is only a few hundred thousand, which is impossible to pose a threat to us." Clavier nodded and said, "Of course, our regiment's strength is enough to suppress the entire East Kalimantan, not to mention that there are more than 10,000 armed forces in East Kalimantan this time."

This time, East Africa drew troops from across the country to form a mixed division in East Kalimantan, which can be said to have given enough face to the local indigenous forces.

As Clavier said, his regiment alone was enough to subvert all the indigenous armies, but East Africa's colonization of the region was never sloppy, especially in an environment like East Kalimantan.

Yaril said: "We cannot develop Samarinda by ourselves, so we have to gather the locals in the next few days."

"Let's start with the tribe these villagers mentioned. Since it's a tribe, they obviously have more opportunities to deal with surrounding forces. Then we will disperse the troops and concentrate the resources of the entire region in Samarinda to build the prototype of a city."

Ariel was not worried about the risk of dispersing his troops. After all, most of East Kalimantan posed no threat to East African soldiers. The population and kingdoms of the entire East Kalimantan were mainly concentrated in the north, and Samarinda was a deserted place.

Therefore, in order to support subsequent colonial activities, it is necessary to capture labor in the surrounding areas, and the 7th Infantry Regiment only needs to send a small force to do this.

Clavier said to one of his company commanders, "Anton, take a company to a certain tribe and transfer all of them, including the people and supplies, here. If there are any resistance, kill them without mercy."

Although Clavier's group had East African ships providing regular supplies, the food needed to gather the local indigenous people and form towns and even cities could not be provided by East Africa. After all, this was colonization, not poverty alleviation for the indigenous people.

After all, East Africa's colonial activities in Southeast Asia are different from those in Africa. In Africa, the black indigenous people are too recognizable, so it is impossible for East Africa to absorb black people as its own people.

The ethnic groups in the Nanyang region can only be said to be barely acceptable. Of course, if they are religious elements or resistance elements with national identity, it would be a different story.

There are many green believers and Hindus on the island of East Kalimantan, and those who are unwilling to accept East African transformation will be sent to hell by East Africans.

In other words, the indigenous people in the Samarinda area were too backward and lacked even civilization. If it were in the more civilized northern region, they would probably have been slaughtered by other East African troops.

The civilization around Samarinda is so backward that even the Dutch failed to establish order here. After all, there are so few people and they are scattered so widely. Setting up a tax collection agency would be a losing business. I am afraid that a year's tax revenue would not be enough to cover employee expenses.

Of course, things were different after the East Africans came. East Africa wanted to completely control the entire East Kalimantan and would not allow anyone to escape from East African rule. Since the population was scattered, they would be concentrated.

The East African government was not afraid of the indigenous resistance, but was afraid that they would hide in the mountains and forests. At that time, it would take a lot of effort just to check them out.

For example, it is very difficult to screen the indigenous Africans in the Congo rainforest in East Africa. To date, there are still a large number of areas that have not been explored by the East African government. No one knows how many black people are still there. It may not only be black people, but also San people.

Of course, the indigenous people who can survive in the heart of the Congo rainforest are all ruthless people, and it is impossible for them to grow and develop. Therefore, the current screening method for the indigenous population in East Africa, Congo rainforest, Southwest Africa and other regions is mainly to find and count them as a batch.

Although the environment in the hinterland of East Kalimantan is not as harsh as the Congo rainforest, it is not much better. At least the East African army will not enter rashly.

By arranging for immigration and developing East Kalimantan in the future, we will eventually be able to gain complete control over this place.

(End of this chapter)