African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1209: The Fourth Navy in the World
The term "human garbage" is obviously derogatory. Although it sounds unpleasant, it is a very objective description of these East African black slaves who are about to be dealt with.

For the East African government, these elderly black slaves are "garbage" that are no longer of any use value, so the final destination of the black people by the East African government is to "discard" them into the garbage dump.

The only region that can meet the definition of a "garbage dump" is West Africa. Although America can also be used as a garbage dump, it is someone else's backyard after all. Without the owner's consent, it will cause international disputes.

The American countries have now long since gotten rid of the colonial category, and the locals will certainly not allow East Africa to use the area as a garbage dump. But it is different in West Africa, as West Africa is just a European colony, and European countries do not care about the life and death of the colonies.

Therefore, East Africa's transportation of its black slaves to West Africa during this period would naturally not cause any international disputes. European countries were eager to please East Africa today and would never offend East Africa for such a small matter.

While Anton and Mars were talking, five or six vehicles transporting black slaves had passed by, but there were still vehicles following behind.

Mars said in surprise: "This is too many! I see that there seems to be more in the convoy behind. If we count based on dozens of people per car, there must be at least hundreds of blacks transported here this time."

Anton frowned and said, "I have never seen such a scene. Although there were black slaves from Falta going out to sea in the past, it was very rare. The last time was last year, there were only a few dozen people. How come there are so many this time?"

After the tenth car passed, a green-painted military truck followed closely. It was obvious that the people on board were not black people, but fully armed East African Defense Force.

This is obviously not a small fight. After all, the army has been dispatched, which means this is an armed escort.

After the military truck passed, the convoy did not break up, and there were still cars following behind. As Anton counted silently in his heart, he didn't know how long it had been before this long convoy finally ended.

"A total of fifty-five vehicles passed by, including five military trucks, and the remaining fifty vehicles had their trunks full of black slaves. The number of black slaves that arrived at Port Falta this time was at least over a thousand, which can almost be regarded as the size of an army," said Anton.

Even though the scale of East Africa's automobile industry has grown to a very strong level, it is rare to see a large convoy of more than 50 cars, which naturally attracted the attention of Falta residents.

Mars commented: "These should all be military vehicles, including the trucks that transported the black people. The license plates are also military license plates. This is obviously the intention of the government."

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At the port of Falta, a few rare sailing ships were moored at the dock, and a convoy of military vehicles finally arrived here.

"Captain Robert, the head count has been completed. The total number of people to be escorted for this escort mission is 1,800, and the actual number of people that have been escorted is 1,800." An East African soldier reported to Robert who had been waiting at the dock for a long time.

Robert said, "Very good. Next, you should contact the navy and escort all these black people to the ship."

Yes, these sailing ships are antique stocks of the East African Navy, and most of them are former products of the Zanzibar shipyard.

The reason why the East African military uses this antique to transport black people is actually because they cannot find enough ships to carry out the mission.

In terms of civilian ships, East Africa's prosperous trade with Europe has led to a surge in demand for ships, and ships around the world are in short supply.

The navy’s own ships are even less sufficient. Although the East African Navy is large in scale, it now has to carry out maritime missions very frequently.

After all, East Africa's huge commercial shipping volume requires the East African Navy to dispatch most of its ships for escort, and the East African Navy also needs to carry out missions in various places from time to time, including using force to deter some European countries.

As the war in Europe reached a stalemate, countries such as Britain and France became increasingly wary of civilian ships, especially those engaging in economic exchanges with hostile countries. If the navy did not step in, it would be a deadly threat.

It is worth mentioning that the total tonnage of the East African Navy has exceeded 900,000 tons, reaching 970,000 tons, and is only about 30,000 tons away from 1 million tons. This large-scale naval fleet has in fact reached the fourth place in the world, becoming the fourth largest navy in the world after Britain, Germany and the United States.

It can be said that if the East African Navy joined the European war at this time, it would be enough to bring about earth-shaking changes to the European battlefield.

It is precisely because of the possession of the world's fourth most powerful navy that East Africa's trade with Europe has not been greatly affected.

In recent years, the number of ports in East Africa has increased significantly. Basically, all natural seaports that can be used have been developed and utilized in East Africa. Farta Port is a typical example.

After all, the effective development of Falta Port in the previous life was something that happened in the 21st century.

The increase in the number of seaports naturally led to an increase in the number of shipyards in East Africa, and the scale of the shipbuilding industry in East Africa reached a new peak.

The East African Navy also had the confidence to grow rapidly into the world's fourth largest navy in just a few years.

"Captain Robert, it seems that this time we have to completely solve the problem of black slaves in the country!" said Navy General Brand.

Robert nodded and said, "It has been nearly twenty years since the South African War. Even the youngest black people are now in their twenties, while the life expectancy of black slaves is generally only in their thirties."

"In this case, the black people we have now are actually elderly people, so the government must definitely solve these problems in advance."

The South African War was East Africa's last chance to acquire a black population. Today, the vast majority of East African blacks were obtained from Angola and other newly incorporated areas of East Africa at that time.

This also means that the blacks in East Africa can no longer complete the natural replacement of the population, and the blacks in East Africa are completely of no use.

Robert went on to say, "With the unprecedented exploitation in recent years, the loss of black people is even greater than before. I heard that the black population counted this year is less than 800,000."

"You have to know that a few years ago, the black population in East Africa was still in the millions, which also shows the madness of the national canal plan."

"Although this plan has not been completed, what remains is just some finishing work. This means that we can rely on the power of others and complete the final work without causing too much loss, instead of using black people. I'm afraid that black slaves will really become a thing of the past in East Africa."

Brand nodded and said, "I guess the government doesn't want the last 800,000 blacks to die in their homeland. This time we received an order to escort these blacks to the Togoland colony. West Africa will be their final destination."

It is quite troublesome to deal with the old and weak black slaves. After all, East Africa has never advocated "massacre" unless there are extreme situations such as riots.

And it is impossible for East Africa to provide for the retirement of these black slaves. After all, retirement requires food and even medicine. After all, old age and physical frailty are prone to disease. If some plague were to break out in East Africa, East Africa would suffer a great loss.

Therefore, exiling these old, weak, sick and disabled people to West Africa is the best solution that the East African government can think of instead of killing them.

Togoland, as one of the newest colonies acquired in East Africa, was just the right place to exile these black slaves. Previously, East Africa lacked colonies in West Africa, so it was difficult to exile black slaves freely and had to transfer through the Kingdom of South Germany.

The Kingdom of South Germany was a landlocked country, and even escorting black people would cost a lot. With Togoland, these black slaves could be exiled to West Africa on a large scale by sea at a lower cost.

Of course, the Togoland colony is part of the current East African territory after all. The East African government naturally does not intend to turn Togoland into a black area. Instead, it will continue to use Togoland as a springboard to drive these blacks to colonies of other countries.

(End of this chapter)