Chapter 43： Administrative division

Chapter 43 Administrative divisions

The increase in immigration has undoubtedly made the East African colonies have stronger development potential. However, the population growth has also increased the difficulty of colony management, especially the current chaotic administrative management planning of the East African colonies, which has increased the difficulty of colonial management.

This situation forced Ernst to systematically re-plan the management organization of the East African colonies and establish a new administrative governance system. Only under the new administrative divisions can better statistics of the colonies be carried out, and plans should be implemented according to specific conditions.

For example, the Binhai District is the highest-level administrative unit in the current East African colony established by Ernst after the land and population reached a certain size.

The Lake Sauron District and the Great Lakes District were established with reference to the Binhai District, but the scale of their establishment was only equivalent to the size of a town in the Binhai District.

The number of colonial strongholds and the number of immigrants were very small, so it was convenient for statistical management.

Now the population size has reached, and some areas have developed, and one administrative unit in the coastal area is equivalent to the sum of the other colonies in East Africa.

In Binhai District, a huge place, three levels of administrative divisions have been formed, one is Binhai District, the capital is in the first town, and it is also the seat of the highest colonial governing body.

Down is the first town, the second town... Such small towns are relatively densely populated.

Below the first town, the second town and other small towns are the villages that have just been arranged, and they are distributed around six small towns.

In other areas, apart from the nondescript Lake Sauron area and the Great Lakes area, there are also scattered strongholds such as Karonga and Mbeya, but they are actually at the same level as the first three.

All in all, the management of the current East African colonies is relatively chaotic, and the names are relatively random.

After Ernsgot drew on the map with a pencil and a ruler for a long time, a primary administrative division of the East African colony was born.

First of all, the highest management hub of the East African colony, the East African colonial government, is still established in the first town, which is planned separately from the coastal area, and the second town is also included in the first town.

Followed by the provincial administrative regions of the East African colonies, also known as large regions, are divided into ten pieces.

The former Binhai District was renamed Upper Binhai District, with the third town (Kitunga) as the seat of administrative organs.

Below the upper coastal area, there are naturally two new districts to be planned, one is the central coastal province with the Lusen belt area along the Rufiji River as its capital, and the other is the lower coastal area with Ron Roda as its capital.

The three coastal areas are distributed from north to south, next to the Sultanate of Zanzibar, the north reaches Kenya, and the south borders the Portuguese forces.

The northern plateau area is set up in the west of the upper coastal area, and the capital is set up in Karatu.

Central Plateau District is set up in the west of the Central Binhai District, and the capital is established in Dodoma.

The East Malawi Lake District is set up in the west of the lower coastal area, and the capital is set up in Songgaia.

Establish the Upper Malawi Lake District in the northern part of Lake Malawi, with the capital in Mbeya.

Then the East African colonies set up the Great Lakes District around the Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) area, and the capital was established in Mwanza.

East of Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika), the Solon District is established, with the capital in Kigoma.

And set up a prairie area between the Sauron area and the central plateau area, with the capital in Tabora.

In this way, the ten administrative divisions of the East African colony are completed.

They are: Upper Coastal Area (Third Township), Middle Coastal Area (Lusen Belt), Lower Coastal Area (Ron Roda), East Lake Malawi Area (Songa), Upper Lake Malawi Area (Mbeya ), Central Highlands Region (Dodoma), Northern Highlands Region (Karatu), Savannah Region (Tapora), Great Lakes Region (Mwanza), Solon Region (Kigoma).

Then there are urban administrative divisions. In addition to the capitals of each region, there will be some places suitable for population gathering that will be divided into cities, such as Karonga on the shore of Lake Malawi, because there are already Mu Beja serves as the capital, so Karonga can only be divided into cities separately.

The last is the most basic village, that is, a natural village, which is generally managed by the surrounding towns as the center.

The current East African colony does not have the administrative unit of a county. Instead, it is a town similar to the German region, and the large region of the East African colony refers to the state of the later German Confederation.

This set of administrative division design will be used as an administrative plan for the transitional stage. In the future, the East African colony will change with the expansion beyond Tanganyika.

Among them, the central coastal area, the lower coastal area and the East Malawi Lake area have not been brought into actual control, and this will also be an expansion target for the next East African colony.

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The new Upper Binhai District, two kilometers north of Manda Town, is the newly established Longka Village, which is under the management scope of Manda Town.

This village is currently the northernmost village in the Shangbinhai District. There are about 400 villagers, including a colonial security team formed by five Chinese immigrants to guard against the invasion of indigenous tribes in the north.

Although the East African colony has already carried out a eviction operation in the upper coastal area, due to manpower, it has not completely encircled and suppressed the nearby tribes, so there is still the possibility of tribal invasions.

After all, although the East African colonies drove them around, they also lost the land and environment on which they depended.

If new resources cannot be found to sustain their livelihoods, some indigenous people may take risks and enter the upper coastal area.

For the safety of these immigrants, the East African colony has arranged a village-level security team of five or six people in each village. The leader is a German who is also the head of the village, responsible for the daily production activities of the village and the safety of the village. question.

Liu Damao is an honest farmer in North China. He used to have his own two or three mu of land in his former village.

There was a drought this year, and the wheat harvest was almost wiped out. Liu Damao was forced to borrow some grain from the landlord's house. Although the temporary minimum living requirements were met, Liu Damao's only two or three mu of land, which was not enough grain, was also taken away. Landlord Zhou's house took it away.

It happened that Zhang Gensheng, who was in the same village, came back from the East African colony to recruit people. He went to East Africa to open up wasteland, and Liu Damao, who had nowhere to go, signed up.

In this way, Liu Damao had to choose to live in the East African colony. Liu Damao, who first arrived in the East African colony, first went to the first town.

After registration, he was arranged to go to Longka Village. After several days of traveling, he and his companions arrived at Manda Town under the leadership of the Colonial Security Team, and then received basic living materials and production tools in Manda Town. .

When he first arrived in Longka Village, Liu Damao felt that the environment here was not bad, the terrain was relatively open, and the vegetation was relatively dense, but such a good land was abandoned at will.

Longka Village belongs to the Tanga region of Tanzania later. The natural conditions here are very superior and suitable for agricultural development.

Under the leadership of the German village head, Liu Damao and other villagers developed the land around Longka Village.

They built canals along the river, set up waterwheels, brought the river water ashore, and plowed the land along these canals, and pieces of farmland were developed.

The soil here has been accumulated for thousands of years. At the same time, no one has developed these lands, so the soil is very fertile and the crops grow very well.

Liu Damao and others' basic necessities of life are covered by the East African colony, so they don't have any worries, but they have to work on time every day to complete the planned production workload.

For example, how much land each person needs to develop every day has a minimum limit. If these tasks cannot be completed, then the food ration will be reduced, and those who fall behind will be punished, and the Germans will be in charge of supervising the work, and the Chinese security forces under them will patrol the work of immigrants.

The weapons and ammunition of the Chinese security forces in the village are provided by Manda Town. They are responsible for the security of the village. If the enemy is found, the German village chief will issue ammunition temporarily.

There are more than 100 small villages like Longka Village in the entire Xinshang Binhai District, which are managed by four town leaders.

The reason why small towns like Manda Town are slightly denser is because of their superior geographical location, most of which are close to sufficient water sources, so the production conditions are better than these small villages.

In the East African colonies, there are also some towns that are not affected by the natural environment because they are located on traffic arteries that connect the entire East African colonies.

While the upper Binhai area was undergoing vigorous agricultural development, an East African colony expedition team had already begun to go south. The places they were going to were the Central Binhai area and the Lower Binhai area planned on the map.

At the beginning, the expansion direction of the East African colonies was mainly to the west inland, so instead of ignoring the southern area close to the Sultanate of Zanzibar, the focus was also on the later generations of Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi. And important cities and regions such as Dodoma, the capital of Tanzania in later generations.

The energy of the colony was dispersed, and the southern part of the original coastal area was neglected. Now, Ernst's newly planned East African colonial administrative division has re-emphasized the southern part of Tanzania, so the colony began to move south.

(end of this chapter)