African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 87 The Rebellion in the Northwest
Things have been rough for the Kingdom of Karavi recently.

As a large number of tribes and refugees from the east poured into the territory of the Karawi Kingdom, the law and order of the Karawi Kingdom can be said to be deteriorating.

As a slave kingdom itself, the Karawi Kingdom has relatively poor organizational capabilities and lacks various strict laws and systems.

Most of these Eastern Bantu tribes expelled by the East African colonists lived on hunting, and their physical fitness was extremely good.

Compared with the Karawi Kingdom, which had developed to a certain stage in Africa, the impact of the Bantu exile on the Karawi Kingdom was no different from that of ancient Rome facing the Germanic barbarian invasion.

Under the leadership of their chiefs, these Bantu people, who are organized into tribes, killed, burned and looted in the Karawi Kingdom, occupying the mountains as kings.

The eastern part of the Karawi kingdom was soon thrown into chaos.

The nobles of the Karawi Kingdom were naturally very annoyed. They didn't know why these barbarians came westward like crazy.

Also in trouble is the Kingdom of Burundi, which was affected by the "purge" movement in the East African colonies. As the two gateways of the eight northwest countries, Burundi and Karawi naturally bear the brunt.

The invasion of a large number of Bantu tribes has caused serious troubles for both countries. Worst of all, countries such as Rwanda and Buganda, which have seen their neighbors' luck, are also ready to move and frequently provoke troubles on the border.

Adhering to the principle that you are not benevolent, I am not righteous, the Kingdom of Karawi and Burundi will not stop doing one thing.

Since there are so many Bantu tribes that cannot be controlled, then simply ignore them, and directly use force to drive them to the west and north, so that the countries in the west and north can also feel the pain of the two countries.

So after the discussion between the kings and nobles of the two countries, they opened a road in the country alone, allowing the Bantu tribes to go west and north.

As for those who want to hang on, to be honest, according to the current situation, it is very difficult. After all, there are still a steady stream of Bantu tribes coming behind, and it is impossible to occupy the land ahead without the strength.

Like Karawi and Burundi, after all, they are countries, and they can still survive on their own land with the help of the terrain. The Bantu tribes moving westward are not monolithic, but a group of scattered sand.

Unless they unite as one, it is possible to directly destroy these two countries, but it is obviously impossible, everyone is a chief, why should I listen to you!
The methods of the Kingdom of Karawi and the Kingdom of Burundi are still very effective. After using both soft and hard methods, a large number of Bantu tribes continued to move northward or westward.

Before, they wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob the Kingdom of Buganda, and the Kingdom of Igara and the Kingdom of Rwanda were instantly dumbfounded.

The continuous influx of migratory troops directly overwhelmed the local order, and even the Enkole Kingdom, which was not involved, suffered an indiscriminate disaster, and its southeast fell into chaos.

Of the eight northwestern countries, only the kingdoms of Turou and Jitala, which are deep in the rear, have not been affected for the time being. However, seeing the tragic situation in the six southeastern countries, the two countries have strengthened their military presence at the border at night to prevent the impact of the Eastern Bantu tribe.

The disgraced Eastern Bantu tribes who were beaten by the colonists with hot weapons in the East African colonies found the feeling of galloping freely on the vast prairie of East Africa in the eight northwest countries.

The eight northwestern countries have entered the primitive farming era and learned to settle down. Compared with the Eastern Bantu tribes, they don't have to fight with wild animals on the grasslands, and they don't need to eat and sleep in the open, and migrate at any time.

Therefore, the people of the eight northwestern countries are far inferior to the Eastern Bantu tribes in terms of physical fitness.

The advantage of the eight northwestern countries lies in their more advanced social structure, which can support more people and organize more manpower and troops.

However, after the barbarian invasion, these advantages were immediately offset by the Eastern Bantu tribes, and a large number of Eastern Bantus poured into the borders of various countries.

As a result, its ruling system failed, and the local and central areas were separated by various tribes, large and small, of the Eastern Bantu.

After losing the jurisdiction of the central government, the locality naturally grew bigger, and the centralized kingdom it had finally established returned to the era of tribal disputes in an instant.

The East Bantu people live in the eight countries in the northwest, and they can be said to be like fish in water. They used to play military games with animals on the East African grasslands. Animals in East Africa don’t play one-to-many games with them. All the animals on the grasslands are a large group, even lions are adults. Travel in groups, so it's really hard to deal with.

Now it is only necessary to rob the resources of the eight northwestern countries to live. The eight northwestern countries have been farming and working all year round, and the food savings have directly entered the stomachs of the East Bantu people.

This confirms the old saying, if my neighbor stores grain, I store guns, and my neighbor is my granary.

Naturally, the local nobles of the eight northwestern countries could not watch their property being eaten and taken away by these barbarians. They organized armies one after another and fought with the Eastern Bantu tribes.

The two sides fought in darkness and blood flowed, and the population in the northwest of the Great Lakes region was slowly wiped out in this war.

As the instigator, the East African colonial government is very satisfied with the immediate effect. As a colonist, it naturally has endless greed for fertile land.

Unfortunately, the eight northwest countries are basically the places with the best water and soil conditions in the whole of East Africa and the most suitable places for the development of agriculture.

The vastness of the Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) has directly changed the local climate, making it a rain-rich region.

Its terrain is relatively high, and it is located in the transition zone from mountains to plateau basins. It may not be a good place in the temperate zone, but it is the most suitable place for human habitation in the tropics.

If you exclude the East African region north of Sudan and Kenya (the Ethiopian plateau and the Sahara Desert affected area), and only count the savannah climate region in East Africa, the entire eight northwest countries have more than half of the population in this region.

（前世21世纪，乌干达4700多万，布隆迪1200多万，卢旺达1300多万。合计约8000万左右。而整个东非共同体人口约1.3亿‘相当于西北八国加上东非殖民地’。）
And as the largest lake in East Africa, the Great Lake (Lake Victoria) itself is worthy of the East African colonial government.

This is a large lake with an area of ​​nearly 7 square kilometers. Needless to say, the preciousness of fresh water resources, the livable zone of human beings will never be without rivers and lakes.

The rivers in East Africa are relatively hip, and the water volume and length are incomparable with those world-class rivers.

As for the White Nile, it is not a river unique to East Africa, and the Sudan and Egypt downstream of it are strictly speaking North Africa.

The unique topography of East Africa has created considerable freshwater lake resources. Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika) and Lake Malawi were born along with the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. There are several large lakes in the world.

The Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) are also in the plateau basin between the two fault zones of the Great Rift Valley.

In addition, there are a series of smaller lakes in the Eight Northwest Countries. They are said to be small, but it depends on who they are compared with. After all, there are the first three pearls and jades in the front. These smaller lakes are not in the first echelon in East Africa.

Among them, Lake Friedrichshaf (Lake Albert) covers an area of ​​more than 5000 square kilometers, while Qinghai Lake, the largest lake in the Qing Dynasty, only covers an area of ​​more than 4000 square kilometers.

You must know that Qinghai Lake is still a saltwater lake, and its value cannot be compared with that of Friedrichsee, which is a freshwater lake.

Only the Great Lakes of North America can suppress the world's great lakes that appear in groups like East Africa. As for the Caspian Sea, saltwater lakes such as the Aral Sea are not within the scope of comparison.

(Let’s find a reference object to highlight the water resources in East Africa. Lake Victoria has the same fresh water resources as China’s whole country, both at about 2.8 trillion cubic meters, while Lake Malawi has 7.7 trillion cubic meters of fresh water reserves, and Lake Tanganyika has 18.9 trillion cubic meters of fresh water reserves. trillion cubic.)
The rainfall in East Africa is only between North China and Jiangnan in the Far East, and it is not considered abundant.

But with such terrifying fresh water resources as the backing, it will be easier to deal with the water resource crisis in the future.

The East African colonies may not have the ability to dispatch these water resources to various parts of East Africa through large-scale water conservancy projects, but they can migrate more people along their coasts so that they will not face the impact of insufficient precipitation in bad years.

Therefore, it is the established policy of the East African colonies to take the three Great Lakes in East Africa and the land along their coasts. Among them, the east and south shores of the Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) have already fallen into their hands.The east coast of Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika) is entirely in the hands of the East African colonies. Only Lake Malawi is more difficult to solve in the future, and its south involves the Portuguese colony.

(End of this chapter)