In Somalia, the once small village of Ras Canpoli has thrived due to the prosperity brought about by the establishnt of the Ras Canpoli trade market in the East African colony.
Ras Canpoli village does not belong to the East African colony; rather, it is located within Somalia. It’s just that when East Africa was being colonized, people were too cumberso to na the market and simply took the local na directly.
Therefore, Ras Canpoli Market and Ras Canpoli Village are not the sa concept; they belong, respectively, to the East African colony and the Gledi Sultanate in southern Somalia. The Gledi Sultanate was forrly the Aqulan Sultanate, which had been in a constant state of fragntation until unified by its founder, Adel.
This era marks the end of the Gledi Sultanate’s strength. The forr Sultan, Yusuf Mahmoud Ibrahim, had many military successes, defeating the Oman Empire of the ti (including Zanzibar). However, according to historic records, in 1871, the Zanzibar Sultanate defeated the Gledi Sultanate and beca its vassal until the arrival of Italian colonizers.
Thus, both the Gledi Sultanate and Zanzibar Sultanate have already declined, with their nation’s power rely appearing good on the surface, but ready to crumble with a re poke.
Many Arab rchants gather at the Ras Canpoli trade market, purchasing goods and commodities from here, and promoting them to the inland regions of North Africa.
Moreover, Ras Canpoli Village under the rule of the Gledi Sultanate also benefits from the Ras Canpoli trade market. rchants pay much attention to costs, so many small rchants choose to stay in Ras Canpoli Village to save so money.
Even so, so rchants still choose to stay directly in the hotel inside the Ras Canpoli trade market.
Because the architecture in the Ras Canpoli trade market is entirely European in style, the facilities are relatively complete, far beyond what a small village under the rule of the Gledi Sultanate can compare to; so rchants who pay attention to enjoynt or keep up appearances would still choose the hotels within the Ras Canpoli trade market.
After half a year of developnt, the Ras Canpoli trade market has beco quite prosperous; only large cities like Mogadishu in the Gledi Sultanate can compare to it.
It has also beco East Africa’s first significant area for tax revenue, with the Ras Canpoli trade market basically monopolizing trade throughout the East African colony and North Africa. Previously, the route for Arab rchants traveling south to conduct business was forcibly interrupted due to the expansion of the East African colony.
Additionally, the East African colony did not stop there; to prevent native people’s return flow and so-called explorers from entering the colony to probe the situation, they directly sealed the borders, hence blocking out Arab rchants and slave traders.
Cutting off people’s financial pathways is like killing one’s parents, so, alongside sealing the borders, East Africa has established the Ras Canpoli trade market as a place for trade with North African rchants.
Moreover, the East African colony has not increased prices on the original produce of East Africa, and frequent wars have led to the continuous decrease in the prices of slaves, thereby lowering costs for Arab rchants rather than raising them.
Logically speaking, the Ras Canpoli trade market in the East African colony should not be very lucrative because coastal cities like Mombasa and Dar es Salaam should be the pri comrcial areas of East Africa.
However, the East African colonial governnt imposes little to no tax along the coast, rely symbolically collecting so service fees.
After all, mariti colonizers are not easy to provoke; creating the East African colony was no easy feat, and they have to continue acting humble.
As for sovereignty, in this era, it’s heard but not taken seriously. Even a unified Germany had no support from naval power, making overseas colonies nothing more than at on England and France’s plate.
After World War I, they were completely divided by various countries, but of course, the German navy itself was not weak. Unfortunately, it was heavily beaten at their ho front by the British.
A unified Germany was indeed a top-tier power with strong national strength, yet East Africa, as a "lonely island" in Africa, naturally lacks the strength to negotiate with those mariti powers.
In the Europeans’ eyes, even the declining Portugal and Netherlands are seen as mariti powers by East Africans, let alone the English and French.
Collecting taxes is simple; East Africa relies on coastal fortifications to resist temporarily, but the Heixinggen ships at sea are the foundation of the East African colony.
They maintain immigration and comrcial routes between Europe and the Far East. Without immigrant populations, the East African colony can only slowly rely on the natural reproduction growth of the existing immigrant population, which takes at least twenty years for a generation to grow up, cooling down the montum.
By relying on natural population growth, East Africa cannot develop. At best, it reaches the level of South Africa’s predecessor, even less than that, as South Africa has abundant resources.
Although East Africa has relatively rich resources, the most important coal, iron, and oil resources are quite scarce.
Moreover, the population is insufficient to et the threat posed by Western powers in Africa; East Africa may have no ability to respond. East Africa is a German colony, and if international relations are handled badly, they may be beaten collectively.
Although the current immigrant population in East Africa far exceeds those colonizers in Africa, they nevertheless have native people who can be pulled over as cannon fodder.
All in all, collecting taxes in economically developed coastal cities like Dar es Salaam is impossible. In an era without the Suez Canal, so many rchant ships dock in East Africa; if a strong enemy is provoked, it’s not good.
Ernst naturally is not afraid of various colonizers but is unwise to have disputes with them, as East Africa would suffer too much, sacrificing developnt potential for nothing more than giving other colonizers discomfort.
The Ras Canpoli trade market is different, primarily targeting North African Arabs; East Africa fears those Western mariti colonial powers but never flinches in the face of North African Arabs.
After all, most of the North African trade routes are on land. East Africa may be weak at sea but is formidable on African soil.
Therefore, East African tariffs are concentrated in the Ras Canpoli trade market, and the North African market is not small, especially the tribes living in the Sahara Desert and oases, lacking everything.
Africa, before the establishnt of the East African colony, had large-scale cultivation of cereal crops only in Egypt, Ethiopia, and parts of West Africa. The entire sub-Saharan Africa, although planting cereals, lacked high-quality seeds, such as wheat, rice, corn... These staple grains were brought over by later colonizers.
So the cultivation practices of African natives are difficult to summarize; take the recently annihilated eight northwestern countries of East Africa, for example.
They are still in a state of semi-agriculture, semi-pastoralism, semi-fishing, and hunting, with occasional technical innovations observed in their originally fard lands.
For instance, terraces and hydrological facilities have appeared in so areas, but Africa’s backwardness has prevented the spread of these innovations.
These innovations discovered in the northwest countries are individual cases, for one simple reason: Africa is too leisurely, making cultivation far less convenient than directly waiting for various tropical fruits and vegetables to mature.
Moreover, lacking good seeds in Africa ans crop yields might not surpass those of wild plants, coupled with the flood of animals in Africa. If Ernst were an African, he’d lack the motivation for agriculture.
Africa’s agricultural output has always been poor, compounded by North Africa’s culinary habits influenced by Arab culture being completely different from sub-Saharan Africa.
Therefore, North Africa primarily relies on the diterranean or Middle East regions for grain imports. Now the East African colony offers them one more channel, particularly enabling Somali Arab rchants to engage in competition alongside diterranean and Middle Eastern rchants.
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