Chapter 1281 Tavern

After half a day of handover work, the crew of the Liberty finally had some free time. Led by Wilknitz, they rushed to a tavern in Davao City.

As for the immigrants, the staff of the Davao City Immigration Office and the East African military were the ones who received them. Davao City is a typical military and civilian port. From here, you can continue to the East African colonies in the eastern Pacific Ocean, such as Palau Island and New Guinea, so Davao City is an important strategic node.

"Edtal, how is your business recently?" Wilknitz, who looked vicissitudes of life, walked into the tavern and asked a middle-aged man who was wiping a glass.

"Wilknitz, it's you, my friend. It's not easy to see you?" The tavern owner Edtal put down his work and said.

Wilknitz said: "This time I brought you a big business again."

Then he introduced Captain Hilda and others to Edtal, and Edtal greeted them one by one in a friendly manner.

"It's not easy to meet fellow countrymen in Davao City. Apart from the government and the military, most people here are immigrants from who knows where in the world."

"Only sailors from the mainland and Davao routes often come here to consume, so I won't charge you for the first cup. It's my treat. Of course, I can only treat you with local drinks. After all, the price of local drinks shipped here is still very expensive."

Edtal enthusiastically poured a large glass of wine for each of the crew members of the Liberty.

"This is the new bar you developed!" Wilknitz said to his old friend.

Edtal said: "Yes, this is banana wine brewed from local bananas. I and a sailor from the Northern Great Lakes Province learned from him the brewing method of banana wine in their hometown. It tastes good so far."

The banana wine in the Northern Great Lakes Province is a well-known wine in East Africa. East Africans learned the brewing method of banana wine from the natives, and later improved the formula and production methods to carry out industrial production. It is considered a special product in East Africa.

Of course, there are farmers in the Northern Great Lakes Province who brew banana wine in a traditional way, which is why Edtar was able to obtain this banana wine brewing method.

Edtar said: "Among the agricultural products in Davao City, bananas and coffee are relatively good, so I also use local resources to prepare the wine. The taste is a little worse than the local banana wine, but my degree is slightly higher, and I guarantee that you can enjoy it."

In the South Seas colonies, East Africa promotes typical plantation agriculture. Of course, there is basically no other agricultural model to develop here.

As far as East Africa is concerned, not only can it develop planting and plantation agriculture, but also animal husbandry. The climate of the South Seas colonies is simpler than that of East Africa. Except for the newly acquired Kra Isthmus Territory, which has a tropical monsoon climate, other East African colonies in the South Seas are tropical rainforest climate areas.

However, the agricultural conditions in Davao City are good in the East African colonies in the South Seas. Rice can be grown here, and more importantly, the yield is not low. Because there are many volcanoes on Mindanao Island, fertile volcanic ash soil like Java Island has been formed in some areas.

There are many volcanoes around Davao, such as Mount Apo, the highest peak in the Philippines in the past, which is only more than 40 kilometers away from Davao City and has a height of nearly 3,000 meters.

However, there is no record of the eruption of this volcano. After all, the level of civilization here is too low, and East Africa has only been here for nearly 20 years.

"By the way, what did you bring on your ship this time when you came to Davao City?" Edtal asked curiously.

Wilknitz said: "This time our ship is an old sailing ship organized by the government. It does not carry any goods, but immigrants brought from the Persian Gulf, basically all Russians."

"Russians? That's not surprising. Davao City has accepted many Slavs in recent years, and most of them should be from Russia. After all, except for backward countries like Russia, there should not be many people willing to leave their homes to develop in colonies." Edtal said bluntly.

Compared with East Africa, Russia is indeed relatively backward, but East Africa has really left Russia behind in the past 20 years.

In the 1980s, the gap between East Africa and Russia was not that big. The economy, industry, and agriculture were only about the same.

Of course, this was mainly because the black slaves at that time were counted as part of the East African population. In fact, the quality of life of East African citizens was higher than that of Russia for a long time, which was relatively worse in the early days of colonization.

And this difference was mainly due to the living environment. After all, Africa at the beginning of colonization was a real wilderness, and the conditions were not even as good as Siberia.

After the 1980s, East Africa was like a rocket, officially entering a stage of rapid development. At that time, East Africa's infrastructure began to take off. Before that, East Africa invested a lot of infrastructure to build water conservancy, roads, and railways.

And these infrastructure constructions have also completely revitalized the economy of East Africa, enabling East Africa to develop mines and realize the national allocation of resources, thereby helping the development of East African industry.

By the 1990s, East Africa was no less inferior to Russia in all fields. After all, a backward country could not defeat Britain at that time.

After the 20th century, Russia was no longer a rival to East Africa. At that time, East Africa's benchmark countries had become industrial powers such as France and Britain, and they were targeting Germany and the United States, the two most industrially developed countries.

Before World War I, the industrial scale of East Africa was basically on par with that of the United States. In the years after World War I, it even surpassed the United States to become the world's largest industrial country.

However, this is based on the fact that the population of East Africa is larger than that of the United States. Now the goal of East Africa's industrial development is to continue to expand while paying attention to the development of industrial quality.

Wilknitz said: "This group of Russians mainly came from Ukraine. They all came from the occupied areas of Russia. The disadvantages of the Russian war even made it impossible for him to protect the safety of his own people. Of course, arriving in Mindanao is not an opportunity for them."

Edtal shook his head and said: "It is not an easy thing to develop in Mindanao. After all, most of them cannot be arranged to live in places like Davao City that have been developed to a certain extent."

"It is likely that they will be arranged to settle on the islands in the north of Mindanao. The islands in the north of Mindanao have hardly been developed. They will be busy for several years. It is estimated that Only then can they enjoy the happiness of a new life. "

"The government put them in Davao, just to let them adapt to the climate and environment of Southeast Asia in advance and get rid of acclimatization. It is estimated that this period of time is also the most difficult time for them. "

"Wilkenitz said: "Didn't our country develop in this way in the beginning? East Africa was probably only slightly better than here. It was also poor and blank. It took several generations of efforts to create today's East Africa. "

"Although the history of East Africa is only more than half a century, this time is enough for many families to update and iterate. The earliest batch of immigrants to East Africa may have great-grandchildren.

And the changes in history are so inadvertent that they have become unrecognizable. More than 50 years have passed, and other parts of Africa are still Africa, but East Africa has become a civilized country. Its population density ranks fifth in the world, second only to India, the Far East, Europe and the United States, and its industrial strength ranks third in the world, second only to Europe and America.

The reason why it is not completely compared with countries is mainly that various data of East Africa are somewhat exceeded. Just as Russia can be regarded as a continent, East Africa is not much behind. After all, the smallest Oceania has an area of ​​only more than 8 million square kilometers. Of course, area is not the main factor. Canada, Australia and Brazil are also not small in area. The difference between Russia and East Africa and them is that the population of both countries has reached more than 100 million, which is more than the entire South America.