African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 530 Juba Comprehensive Training Base
Juba, the capital of the Nile Province.

Recently, there have been obvious big moves in Juba City, that is, a large number of workers and black slaves have moved in. Of course, the most eye-catching one is the army. The 311th East African Division has entered this place.

Those who didn’t know better thought that there was a big battle to be fought, but it was obviously a normal transfer. After all, Juba belonged to the rear. If you wanted to fight, you should go to the north or the east. The north was Egypt, and the east was the Abyssinian Empire. But even if East Africa is at war with these two countries, there is no need to station troops in Juba.

The so-called Nile Province is South Sudan plus parts of Sudan in the previous life. The development of the Nile Province in recent years has been inconspicuous.

The first is the terrain issue. As a basin, among the plateaus in East Africa, the Nile Province is not a livable area.

It is originally located in the tropics, and the livable areas in the tropics and the temperate cold zones, in turn, are areas with cooler climates such as mountains and plateaus, which are more suitable for human survival.

The most typical example in the past life is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Due to the existence of East Africa in this time and space, Brazil cannot be uniquely beautiful. However, this does not prevent the Brazilian plateau from being a good land.

Therefore, tropical countries like East Africa, which are dominated by plateau terrain, are rare and good places. In fact, this is also true. In the past, several major countries in the tropical region were all plateau countries, such as Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico...

Indonesia may be a bit special, but the population is definitely concentrated in the plateaus and mountains. This can be seen from the population gap in islands such as Java and Kalimantan.

The Nile River Province is located in the tropics and is a basin, so it is quite hot and humid. This stuffy "cooking" environment is not necessarily easier to treat than the desert area in the north.

Although the northern desert is hot, it is dry. The southern part of the Nile River Province is like a big pot filled with water for steaming steamed buns. It is the same as a sauna. If you occasionally enter the sauna, it is okay to say that it is like living in it. And it’s a metaphor.

Ernst even believes that in the future, the development advantages of the northern part of the Nile Province may be greater than that of the south. The first is oil, and the second is the part of the Jezira Plain that East Africa obtained from Sudan for free, which is the same as the Nile River in Egypt. The area of ​​fertile land is not large, but it is easy to develop, save trouble and worry. In fact, the population of the Nile Province is mainly distributed in the northernmost Jezira Plain.

Of course, most of the Jezira Plain is located in Sudan (Egypt), and East Africa is not the one to kill them all. Anyway, the oil field area is occupied, so there is no need to include Sudan in the territory. The premise is that Egypt does not make small plans to target East Africa. However, Egypt is so useless now that it does not dare to have a fight with East Africa.

In fact, Egypt used to be a very strong country, especially during the Ali era, and almost succeeded the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in the Arab world. If Britain and France hadn't been behind it, the people in the Arab world would have changed a long time ago.

A place as good as the Jezira Plain is naturally used to grow food. Ernst planned only two agricultures here, one is wheat, and the other is Egyptian long-staple cotton.

Wheat is originally a product of the Arab region. Although the Jezira Plain belongs to East Africa, its climate is no different from that of most Arab regions.

The business of long-staple cotton is quite easy. After all, the quality of cotton in the German region is not as good as that of East Africa. East Africa also has the "soft gold" of long-staple cotton. Naturally, the supply exceeds demand, so the cotton planting area in East Africa is also increasing. , mostly sold to the German region.

Otherwise, Bulawayo in Matabele Province would not be interested in this business. The textile industry has great potential and is full of potential, which is exactly what East Africa and the German region lack.

The development of the cotton textile industry in the German region is limited by raw materials, so efforts are made in heavy industry and railways, while East Africa needs to develop military industry and heavy industry, and its policies are similar to those in the German region.

This mainly depends on what Ernst thinks. Ernst definitely favors heavy industry and manufacturing, and these two industries are closely related to the military industry, so the East African central government will also tilt its policies toward these industries.

The energy of the central government is limited, so the light industry naturally has a lot of room for local governments to play. Therefore, if the city of Bulawayo can seize the opportunity, Ernst is willing to give them a push.

This is also related to Ernst's industrial layout. Bulawayo is deeply inland. If it can develop well, it will be conducive to the balanced development of East African industries.Of course, it is undeniable that Bulawayo’s success in the textile industry in Africa in his previous life is inseparable from the quality of local cotton. Although it is not as good as top-grade cotton, it is still a high-quality product, especially suitable for making jeans. Jeans made of Zimbabwean cotton are also very popular. In previous generations, most of Zimbabwe's cotton was sold to Europe and the United States, so its strength should not be underestimated.

Going back to the Nile Province, the climate in the north is obviously different from that in the south, so the crops in the savanna area in the south are also completely opposite.

As mentioned before, the Nile River Province is a basin terrain, surrounded by the Azande Plateau, the East African Plateau, and the Ethiopian Plateau. These three plateaus are areas with abundant rainfall, so rivers of all sizes flow from the plateaus into the Nile River Province. The Nile River Province has only one river that leads to the sea, the Nile River, so drainage is not smooth. The Nile River Province is dotted with vast swamps and wetlands.

The main food crop in the Nile Province is naturally rice, plus various plantation agriculture, but the area is not as open as the plateau area.

This is caused by too many rivers and swamps. If you want to develop South Sudan on a large scale, you cannot avoid rivers and wetlands. But East Africa has no such plan, because the land in East Africa is completely sufficient and quite abundant, so there is no need to compete with swamps.

After the 311th Division settled in, Juba underwent earth-shaking changes, mainly due to the construction of a large number of military facilities. What struck the citizens of Juba most was the establishment of a large number of military restricted areas.

Wooden signs were placed in many places, with big words written in big paint: "Strong military area, no one allowed to enter."

At the same time, he thoughtfully painted a no-passage pattern on the wooden sign. The blood-red circle cross pattern is quite familiar to East Africans.

The reason behind such a big move in East Africa is to build a super-large training ground centered on Juba City.

Of course, we are not unfamiliar with things like military training grounds. In the past, the relatively well-known US military Fort Irwin National Training Center, the Russian 42nd Air Defense Combat Training Center, Zhu Rihe of the Far Eastern Empire, etc.

There is no essential difference between the Juba Integrated Combat Training Base built by East Africa in Juba and these training grounds.

It's just that the conditions here are more complex, with plateaus, mountains, plains (basins), rivers, lakes, swamps, deserts (sands), jungles, grasslands... it can be said to be comprehensive coverage.

The Nile River Province is a typical vast and sparsely populated area in East Africa. At least it has low development potential before oil development, so it is very suitable for military training.

East Africa is the country that attaches the most importance to fighting in tropical areas, and fighting in tropical areas cannot avoid several tropical climate types. Areas like Juba and its surrounding areas that bring together various tropical climate types are rare, and even if they exist, they are not as good as here. The area is large, and even the entire East African army can be trained here.

The most important training subjects here in East Africa are tropical jungle warfare, coordinated amphibious warfare, and mountain training.

These can be said to be the three most common types of combat in tropical areas, and East Africa focuses on these three combat modes. The idea is very simple, it is aimed at the Southeast Asia region.

East Africa has already established a firm foothold in Lan Fong Overseas Province, and Ernst regards the future of Nanyang as an important part of East Africa's world strategy.

Moreover, fighting in the tropics is not easy. Ernst has always been wary of the lessons learned by the United States in the jungles of Vietnam in his previous life. It is natural for East Africa to adapt to this combat mode in advance.

Moreover, East Africa itself is also a tropical country with a vast area, diverse climate types, complex terrain, and diverse defense needs. This is why Ernst built the Juba Comprehensive Training Base.

(End of this chapter)