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Chapter 1251 – Settling East Africa
7th month, 15th day, Imperial Capital.
The aftereffects of Qin and Tang submitting were slowly settling down, and the battle of mid plains had come to an end.
The best part about conquering Zhou, Song, Qin, and Tang was getting close to 100 million in population. Along with Kenya in Africa, Great Xia’s population had reached a new stage, breaking the 500 million point.
Be it in terms of population or land, the Great Xia Emperor dynasty had exceeded every dynasty in history.
The huge amount of population surging in undoubtedly gave the Imperial Court a massive burden. Luckily, the weather was great this year, and the first rice harvesting season granted bountiful rewards and helped to reduce the hunger from the past winter.
The 10th month calamity last year had left repercussions. Be it farmers or herders, they all amassed a large quantity of grain at their homes just in case.
In the words of the people, “We are not going to go through such a winter again.”
Along with the mid plains being unified, the civilians were living a prosperous life and loving what they did. The Great Xia native population would soon welcome an explosive growth when the new population settled in.
The kids born during the 1st year of Gaia had already grown up in the 7th year of Gaia. Their generation had grown alongside the Emperor dynasty and were the most loyal and active-thinking generation.
They were the foundations of the country.
Just like Shadow Guards Cui Tianqi, who was just a teenager when he came to Shanhai Village. Now, he had now grown into a young handsome lad, becoming Ouyang Shuo’s sharp sword in the night sky.
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10am, Imperial Reading Room, Ouyang Shuo was discussing personnel arrangements with Jiang Shang, Kou Zhun, and Zhang Tingyu. Their discussion included the arrangements for the old officials of Qin and Tang as well as the choice for Guanxi Provincial Governor.
Apart from that, there was also the personnel matters for the Africa Governor-General House.
During the past three months, Great Xia had continued their wars in Africa. Under Baiqi’s leadership, the four legion corps in Africa had fought war after war.
4th month, 10th day, Great Xia took down Uganda. Same month, 8th day, they took down Tanzania, completing the second step of the military operation. During this period, Baiqi also smoothly wiped out two small countries – Rwanda and Burundi.
Rwanda had Tanzania to its east, Burundi to its south, and its west and north-west were connected to Congo. It was north to Uganda. It had many mountains within its borders and was named the country of hills.
Although its size was not comparable to Qiongzhou Island, it had one million players, so it was the most densely populated country in Africa. Around 83% of its population was spread out through the villages.
Tungsten and forest resources were its specialty.
Let’s talk about Burundi, which was connected to Rwanda. It was slightly bigger, with around 800 thousand players. Similarly, their activities mainly consisted of farming and herding.
In modern society, as these small African countries did not have a foundation for industrialization, they were having a really tough time. However, in the game world, the place was a godly granary due to its natural environment.
The Imperial Court decided to merge Uganda into Kenya Province while using Tanzania as the main body to merge with Rwanda and Burundi to establish the Tanzania Province.
The Tanzania Provincial Governor role would temporarily be left empty; the area would be managed by the Africa Governor-General.
After resting up for a short time, in the later part of the 5th month, the Africa warzone started its third stage of military operation. The targets this time were Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.
Malawi was located at the southeast of Africa and was an inland nation surrounded by Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia. Its size was comparable to Donghai Province and was populated with around 1.3 million players.
The country got its name from the Malawi lake within its territory, which was the third biggest lake in Africa. It was over 30 thousand square miles big and was 700 meters at its deepest, having many of the world’s Quine freshwater fishes.
Malawi’s economy mainly consisted of farming, and its main exports were coffee, tea, cotton, sugarcane, and tobacco. Amongst these, tobacco was their most important export.
Mozambique, which was right next to it, was connected by the Malawi lake and was a Portuguese colony in history. Its size was similar to Qinghai Province, and the place had around 2.5 million players.
Apart from that, Mozambique was next to the ocean and was located at the southeast portion of Africa. The Mozambique straits between Mozambique and Uganda was the world’s longest strait at 1670 kilometers.
Mozambique had many rivers within its borders and was a humid and hot country. They country had an average temperature of 19.4 degrees. It had a lot of rainwater and a large quantity of ocean and forest resources.
It was a heaven of tuna and seafood. In the north, there were many varieties of sharks.
One could say that Mozambique was a natural treasure trove, so it was no wonder that the Portuguese in history craved for it.
Finally, let’s talk about Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe was a really important civilization starter in the south of Africa. In the Middle Ages, there was a civilization established by a Shona person, and their culture left behind many historical ruins. The Zimbabwe olden city was among these ruins, and it was from this that the name of the country originated.
The Mutapa Empire, which used the city as its capital, slowly became strong in the 11th century through trade with Muslim traders from the Indian Ocean. It made use of local gold, ivory, and copper to exchange for linen and glass from the Persian gulf region.
During the 15th century, the Mutapa Empire became the biggest City-State in South Africa.
Zimbabwe was a country whose industrialization was more advanced. Manufacturing, agriculture, and mining were its three huge pillars. It was famous for producing high-quality crocodile leather and had the title of home of crocodiles.
Zimbabwe was around the size of Yunnan Province and had around 1.4 million players.
It was not hard to notice that in East Africa, apart from in Rwanda, the population density was relatively low. Furthermore, East Africa was rich in natural resources and had basically been completely colonized historically, falling behind in terms of industrialization. Additionally, East Africa had great weather.
All things considered, it became the best place to manufacture raw material.
Along with the first industrialization spreading across the world, regions like this became the treasure targeted by every power. As a result, the dynasties all fought to split up the Africa Continent.
At the end of the 6th month, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe were all conquered by Great Xia. The Imperial Court decided to merge them all to form the Mozambique Province.
At this point, the East Africa strategy of Great Xia came to an end.
After taking down Zimbabwe, the Africa warzone entered a relatively long resting period to focus on internalizing and expanding.
There were two reasons for this.
First, in the short half a year, the Africa warzone had conquered nine countries in a row, so the soldiers were tired. The grain that the Imperial Court had provided was basically completely used up and could not support further huge wars.
Even an iron army could not continue to go on and on.
Secondly, the Africa Governor-General House had established four provinces. Its territory had expanded by four times, and there were 30 million more people. They were swelling up too quickly, so they needed to stop and digest. If not, many problems would arise.
One must not forget that after conquering nine countries, the players would not be transported to the trial lands anymore and would remain instead. This placed a much higher demand on Great Xia’s ruling standards.
The Tanzania and Mozambique provinces did not even have a Provincial Governor decided.
Thirdly, there was nowhere else in East Africa worth trying to conquer at the moment.
South of Mozambique was the Bantu Dynasty, and it was currently not a suitable time to go to war with them. The Indian Ocean was located east and north of the Africa Governor-General House. Apart from Madagascar, Mauritius, and the like, there was nowhere else to conquer.
The only side that they could target was the west.
In the west, apart from Zambia, which was connected to Zimbabwe, Congo and Central Africa belonged to the middle region and was where the Dawson Dynasty was mainly focusing on.
When Great Xia was taking down East Africa, Dawson Dynasty had conquered
Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea. Their next target would be Congo.
In history, Congo was split into the democratic republic of Congo and the republic of Congo. In the game world, they were the same country. Its size was bigger than 10 Yunnan provinces and had around eight million players.
Be it the Dawson Dynasty or Great Xia, trying to take down Congo would not be an easy matter. If one considered how both sides would interfere and restrict one another, it would make matters even more complicated.
Congo would probably be where the two dynasties would truly engage for the first time.
As such, Ouyang Shuo ordered the Africa warzone to rest up and prepare well. At the same time, he told them to cooperate with the Governor-General House to stabilize East Africa.
As long as the development of East Africa headed onto the right path, it would be able to sustain the resource depletion of the four legion corps without needing any support from China. Once they achieved that, they would be able to truly go all out.
Ouyang Shuo summoned the three ministers. Apart from discussing personnel arrangement, he also planned to discuss how to support the Africa Governor-General House and largely develop Africa.
