African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1331 Batavia
At this time in the previous life, the population of Qatar was about 16,000. Of course, this was definitely not something Ernst knew. After all, who would care about the population size of a small country like Qatar?

The population of Qatar is nearly 3,000 people less than in the previous life, which is also affected by East Africa. The main reason is the early emergence of artificial pearl farming technology, which has severely impacted Qatar's pillar industries.

In the past, at the beginning of the 20th century, Qatar's population was nearly . Due to the advancement of Japan's artificial pearl culture technology, the population fell back to more than .

Later, Qatar did not really become rich from oil until the 1935s. In 1939, Qatar and the United Kingdom formally signed an oil concession agreement, and formal exploration began two years later. In , oil fields were finally discovered in western Qatar.

So even if East Africa did not intervene, Qatar would have to endure at least a dozen years before they could live a good life. Now they can go to Batavia to "enjoy their lives" in advance.

It is worth mentioning that today's Doha is far from the big city with a population of over 1.5 million in Qatar in the past. It is just a small settlement in the Gulf area with only more than 200 residents on ordinary days.

"Everyone board the ship in an orderly manner." East African officers and soldiers commanded on the coast.

Qatari men, women, young and old were basically all temporarily concentrated in Doha. In order to maintain order, the 37th Brigade took the initiative to help.

This was in stark contrast to East Africa's initial calls for war and killing of Arabs on the Pirate Coast (UAE), where some East African officers and soldiers even had several lives on their hands.

The East African soldiers, armed with live ammunition, even took the initiative to assist the elderly Qataris and helped them successfully board the immigrant boat, which was quite similar to the "style" of American soldiers in Afghanistan as portrayed by the American media in the past.

In just less than a month, the 37th Brigade followed the clues and cleared out the entire population of Qatar. The biggest difficulty in finding the Qataris was that some nomadic tribes or families were difficult to trace, so it took a lot of time.

But it was easy to find the people. The East Africans used trucks to take them directly to Doha. Given the small area of ​​Qatar, it didn't take much time at all.

This invasion of East Africa and the evacuation of Qatar were completed in one go, and not a single person lost their life due to war and conflict before leaving Doha.

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Batavia.

Compared with the entire South Seas, Batavia is indeed a very developed city. After all, it is the center of the Dutch East Indies.

The Dutch occupation of Batavia can be traced back to the early 17th century, so the city developed under Dutch control for nearly three hundred years, and the whole city is full of "Netherlands" flavor.

Next year will be the 1619th anniversary of the founding of Batavia. Of course, Batavia has a longer history. The so-called th anniversary is based on the fact that the Dutch renamed the city Batavia in .

Compared with most areas of Southeast Asia, the entire Batavia can be said to be two completely different worlds. Both the roads and the buildings are in a unified European style. The Dutch have made a systematic plan for Batavia, which is also one of the economic centers of the Southeast Asia region.

In addition to being an important spice distribution center in Southeast Asia, Batavia's economic development was stimulated by East Africa's desire to reopen the Sunda Strait route and East Africa's demand for building its own colonies in Southeast Asia.

In Batavia, apart from the natives and the citizens of their sovereign country, the Dutch, the most common people to be seen are East Africans.

Batavia is the nearest trading place for some colonies in East Africa. In Southeast Asia, the most developed city in East Africa is Pontianak, but Pontianak is not as prosperous as Batavia. Therefore, some commodities or transactions can only be obtained or conducted in cities such as Batavia.

For example, if some East African colonies produced special products and resold them to Europe, Dutch merchants were a good choice, and the largest trading volume was the spices of Southeast Asia. Batavia was the largest gathering place for Dutch spice buyers, and most of the spices from the entire East Indies were concentrated here and then shipped back to Europe by the Dutch for sale.

Therefore, some colonial merchants in East Africa liked to come to Batavia to handle the goods on hand, not only spices, but also other cash crops or minerals.

In addition, many East African ships chose to dock in Batavia, especially when East Africa’s colonies in the South Pacific were connected with their homeland, Batavia could be said to be a must-stop.

"That is Sangiang Island. Today, this island has become a large construction site. I heard that the Empire will build this island into a solid fortress in the Sunda Strait to ensure the safety of local merchant ships."

The East African captain who was transporting the Qataris pointed to the isolated Sangiang Island in the middle of the Sunda Strait and spoke to the crew.

"In the past, Sangiang Island was completely covered with green rainforests. Now a large part of the island has been cleared. The Empire has built several military facilities on the island. We can't see the prototypes yet, but I guess they are most likely fortresses."

"When the time comes, we can build a few reinforced concrete turrets, and the entire Sunda Strait will be within the range of the Empire's 'truth'."

While the crew listened to the captain bragging about the empire's great achievements, the Qataris on the ship also looked at the two sides of the Sunda Strait in amazement.

This was the first time they saw land after leaving the Gulf of Oman, and the scenery was completely different from the vast desert on both sides of the Persian Gulf. The land here was covered with lush green forests, which could be said to be two extremes from their living environment.

Sangiang Island is the first island with buildings that Qatar has seen in recent days. Of course, there are no ordinary residents on this island, only East African officers and soldiers and engineering teams.

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On Sangiang Island, in addition to the construction of basic facilities such as turrets, the biggest attraction is an airport built by East Africa. The airport has not yet been completed, but the largest open space near the center of the island is East Africa's preparation for the construction of this airport.

After crossing Sangiang Island, the next stop was Batavia. Before dark, the immigrant ship arrived at Batavia, the central city of the East Indies.

After seeing the prosperous city of Batavia and learning that this would be where they would live in the future, all the Qataris on the ship breathed a sigh of relief and began to look forward to a new life.

Judging from the scale and construction of Batavia alone, this city is beyond the imagination of Qataris. It can be said that most Qataris have never seen such a prosperous city in their lifetime.

The Dutch Batavia Governorate, which had received the notice long ago, also sent personnel to receive these Qataris.

The Dutch Governor of Batavia was not surprised by what East Africa did. It can be said that Batavia was the destination of the people persecuted by East Africa. In the past, when East Africa colonized Southeast Asia, many wealthy indigenous rulers from Kalimantan or Mindanao fled to Batavia.

However, this is the first time I have seen such a large number of "victims" being escorted to Batavia from East Africa. What's more, the victims who came to Batavia this time were from the Middle East, which is even more rare.

So many Dutch people came to the dock to watch the excitement. They were not worried that these Qataris would cause trouble. After all, what the East Indian colony lacked the least was Arab believers, and the least valuable thing in the entire East Indies was Arab believers. More than 10,000 Qataris were a drop in the bucket for the Dutch government.

According to the requirements of the East African government, the Dutch only needed to find a place to settle these Qataris, while the Dutch Governor of Batavia planned to directly incorporate some of the Qataris into the colonial army to suppress the resistance activities of some indigenous ethnic groups in East India, especially the Indonesians.

(End of this chapter)