Chapter 318： Zhuba Zhen

Chapter 318 Zhuba Town

March is the dry season in South Sudan, and the hot weather is baking the land in Juba Town (the former capital of South Sudan, Juba, which is distinguished from Juba Province in Somalia).

Zhuba Town is a small village on the west bank of the White Nile, and it is also the most "prosperous" area in South Sudan. It used to be a stronghold used by the Ottoman Empire for preaching and slave hunting. Withdrew, and gradually the local area became the residence of the aborigines. The good life of the aborigines had not lived for a few days, and then the East Africans came.

At this time, Andre, the mayor of Zhuba Town, hid in the shade of a tree and shook his fan desperately, trying to cool himself down.

Andre said to Levins, the military chief of Zhuba Town: "This place is not too far from Beidahu Province. I didn't expect the weather to be so hot, and people would die!"

Levins: "Don't worry, there is still more than a month, and the rainy season here will arrive, and it will be cool at that time."

Although he said so, Levins knew in his heart that it was just words of comfort. Even in the rainy season, the temperature in South Sudan would not improve much.

If the climate of South Sudan is compared with that of North Sudan next door, it is simply great. Although it is next to the Sahara Desert, more than 95% of the land in South Sudan belongs to humid and semi-humid areas, but because of the higher altitude The reason for the low temperature is that it is hotter than the plateau area of ​​East Africa, even much hotter than the coast of East Africa. During the hottest day, the temperature can often exceed 40 degrees, and it is sultry, in stark contrast to the dry heat of the Sahara Desert.

Levins went on to say: "Now we are lying here, and we don't have any jobs every day, that is, commanding black slaves to work. What else are you not satisfied with? This is much better than being an ordinary villager in North Great Lakes Province before you gone."

Andre: "I was the mayor of the town I won by myself. Besides, there is probably no mayor in East Africa who is more miserable than me. If our town gets rid of your No. 100 leader, I'm afraid even The number of people in a village in the east is not enough."

Levins: "Hehe, don't be dissatisfied. I think you have seen an immigration team passing by here a few days ago. There are only about 40 people in their group, which is even less than ours. If there is no accident If not, I will accept your leadership in the end!"

The destination of the immigrants mentioned by Levins is about 40 kilometers west of Zhuba Town. Unlike Zhuba Town, which is a stronghold left over from the Ottoman Empire, it is simply an indigenous village, so there is a high probability that a village will be built.

Andre: "Forty or fifty kilometers away, it takes at least two or three days to deliver the news, so they should ask for more blessings."

While the two were chatting, the black natives had already cleared out another batch of vegetation at the gunpoint of East African soldiers, basically trees and weeds cut down with stone tools.

Under such inefficient productivity, the development of Zhuba Town has been completed very slowly, and it is still in the stage of land consolidation so far, relying on more than 2,000 slaves captured from the local area to clear the vegetation on the land little by little. and picking up stones from the fields.

Under the day and night labor of the slaves, the arable land in Zhuba Town is now more than six times larger than when East Africa first took over the land. The same indigenous people have also changed several batches to achieve today's results.

The slaves piled stones aside. As for the trees and weeds, they were piled together after clearing. After two or three days of exposure to the sun, the East Africans lit the fire again. After the smoke passed, a large amount of plant ash was left behind. Sprinkle plant ash into the field.

While the aborigines are developing the land, they can also drive away the animals living here, especially the snakes, to remove obstacles in advance for the next agricultural production of East African immigrants and ensure the safety of East Africans.

The land reclamation in South Sudan reveals a strong primitive style, which is a real "slash-and-burn farming". Because there are not enough iron tools, the land reclamation in South Sudan can only rely on slaves. The local slaves are almost unlimited. From time to time, the East African Army will go out for a period of time to capture a group of new slaves along the Nile River to supplement the loss.

Only East African immigrants can work with ironware. The supply of ironware is currently guaranteed in Zambia and Zimbabwe in the south of East Africa, so we can only suffer from the Nigs in South Sudan first.

Andre: "It is necessary to open up another 700 acres of land before the rainy season, otherwise it will be difficult to handle when it rains, so in the next month, we still have to work overtime to complete the project."

While Andre was planning the next work tasks in Zhuba Town, a black man who had worked for five hours under the scorching sun of more than 30 degrees suddenly had black eyes and fell down in the field.

East African soldiers stepped forward to check it out. He was still breathing. He was probably suffering from heat stroke, and then dragged him to a puddle to cool him down. East African soldiers have long been familiar with such a situation.

Abundant rainfall and water from the Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) have created large swamps and forests in the upper reaches of the White Nile.

Obviously, the climatic environment in South Sudan and sufficient water sources are the most suitable for rice cultivation, which meets all the conditions for rice cultivation.

Of course, the premise is to develop the land, and this step is also the most difficult. If South Sudan were placed in East Asia, it might have been developed long ago.

But this is Africa. For thousands of years, the local aborigines have not developed farming civilization. Instead, Sudan and Egypt in the Sahara Desert next door, as well as the Abyssinians on the plateau, pointed out the technology tree for farming.

The agricultural conditions in South Sudan are obviously the best in these places, but the locals are only nomadic, wasting water, heat and land resources.

Especially the fruits and vegetables of South Sudan in the previous life needed to be imported. This is simply a disgrace in African countries. Even if the efficiency of food crop cultivation is not good, fruits and vegetables need to be imported, which is simply appalling.

Now there are all kinds of wild fruits growing in the forests of South Sudan, which can’t be eaten up. Instead, they need to be imported in the 21st century.

The low-efficiency agricultural development model is doomed to prevent the development of South Sudan in the previous life, or to say that hard work makes South Sudan empty treasures, but it wasted. Various armed groups fight for oil fields, and then they can sit and collect money from foreigners up.

But this money is directly consumed to buy food, weapons and luxury goods. South Sudan’s hydropower, infrastructure, and roads have not improved at all. South Sudan, an oil-producing country, is among the worst in poor countries in Africa. South Sudan not only has oil, but is also rich in other resources.

To be honest, South Sudan complained every day when it was not separated from Sudan. It was said that the oppression of the northern Arabs caused South Sudan to fail to develop. As a result, after independence, it was busy fighting almost every day. It was more chaotic than the Sudan next door. Ordinary people The standard of living is not as good as it was before independence.

The only thing in Africa that can be compared to South Sudan is Somalia, where the warlords fought. Now it is basically certain that these two crouching dragons and phoenixes, which were judged by the international community in their previous lives, will no longer exist. It can be regarded as a good thing that East Africa has done.

(end of this chapter)