African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 269 Great Zimbabwe Site

  The East African South Route Army, their goal is to conquer the Matabele Plateau, and the arrival of the South Route Army is undoubtedly a disaster for the local indigenous people.

  There are Portuguese in the east and Boers in the south, leaving the barren land in the west—the Kalahari Basin and other black countries in the north, but with the East African expedition, they were completely surrounded by colonists.

  If it is the same as usual, there are only a few hundred or at most a thousand colonial armed forces, the aborigines in Zimbabwe can still handle it, but the entire Southern Army has more than 20,000 people, which is too much for the aborigines.

  The site of Great Zimbabwe.

   A platoon of the South Route Army stationed here is responsible for setting up a material transfer station here to ensure the smooth flow of logistics channels.

   "This is an empty city, but it is all built of stones, and the height is not bad. It is really rare in Africa, but why did the local aborigines abandon this place!" Platoon leader Demier wondered.

   "Well, it's hard to say about this matter. It doesn't have to be built independently by the indigenous people. It might also be the idea of ​​the Arabs." The deputy platoon leader said.

   "I don't think so!" At this time, a voice came from nearby, and I saw a middle-aged man with a backpack and a cane, followed by a black man, helping him carry his luggage.

   "Who are you? Why are you here? Why do you speak German?" Medel looked at the unexpected visitor vigilantly, and raised his gun at the same time.

   "Don't be nervous, my friend. I am a German geographer, Karl Moher. I am here to study the culture of the indigenous people. This is my rented servant." Karl Moher explained.

Hearing this person's self-report, Medel let down his guard a little. He said: "Germans, that's great! It's the first time I've seen Germans in the interior of Africa other than the Kingdom of East Africa. You are from Germany. that place?"

   "Sir, I am a Saxon from Dresden, have you heard of it?" Karl Moher said.

  Midel finally put down his gun. He walked up to Karl Moher, stretched out his hand and said, "Well, Mr. Moher, I am also from Germany, and I used to be from Württemberg."

   "Look at your attire?" Karl Moher looked at the military uniforms of the East African Kingdom. Although the style is very similar to that of the German region, there are still some different elements.

   "East African Kingdom Army."

   "The Kingdom of East Africa? Have you never heard of this country?" Moher asked curiously, and it must be the name of an African country!

   "Mr. Moher, I don't know how long you have been in Africa?" Medel did not answer immediately, but asked instead.

   "Soon, just two or three years."

   "That's no wonder, haven't you been back to Europe these years?"

Karl Moher shook his head and said: "Not really, I am here to investigate historical relics, such as the stone city where you are, because it is difficult to collect useful information, and this relic has a long history, so I have been staying here here."

   "So that's it!" Medel suddenly realized, "Actually, Mr. Moher, your news here is a bit closed. The East African Kingdom is a kingdom established by our Germans in Africa, and it was established only a few months ago."

   "Uh, isn't it a colony overseas? I thought it was a colony of Prussia or the Austro-Hungarian Empire!"

   "The Kingdom of East Africa was established by the royal family of Hexingen. Hexingen is a state in South Germany. You should know it!"

   "I've only heard of the name of the Princely Kingdom of Hexingen, but I really don't know much about it."

   "Our king's name is Hohenzollern."

   "So that's the case. The Hohenzollern family makes sense, but it's really strange for the Germans to establish a country in Africa, but I've been active here for a while, why haven't I seen you before!"

   "That's because this place has just been included in its own territory by the Kingdom of East Africa. Except for the army, no immigrants have migrated here yet." Medel explained.

  The East African army of more than 20,000 people looks very bluffing, but it is scattered on more than 500,000 square kilometers of land, and it can't even make a wave. Therefore, it is normal that Karl Moher has not encountered other East African troops before.

   "Then your East Africa should have a large area! This is the inland of Africa, the east is the Portuguese, I landed from the port there, and the south is the Boers. If you want to come here, you can only come from the north."

   "It should be very large. It will take more than ten days to get here from the newly established Southern Frontier Province in East Africa."

  In fact, it is impossible for the vast majority of East Africans to know the size of East Africa, even Ernst, because the land of East Africa is constantly changing.

  Southern Frontier Province? Karl Moher heard another message that the East African kingdom had drawn up administrative divisions.

   "I wonder if you have any unique insights into this ruin?" Medel asked at this time, bringing the topic back to the scene when Karl Moher appeared.

"Yes, I personally feel that this large group of stone buildings has a European style, and it may have come from Europe. You see, there is no roof here, and it is all built with gray granite stones with exquisite technology. , Some of the stones have been carved. Those tall stone walls on the mountain are clearly European-style buildings." Hearing Meidel's question, Karl Moher said.

   "This... is really a novel point of view!" Medel commented, "But if I want to say that this thing is probably made by the African natives themselves, at most it has something to do with the Arabs, and it is impossible to have anything to do with Europe."

   Hearing Meidel refute his point of view, Karl Moher said: "What's your opinion?"

"Although the scale of this ruins is not bad, it is too rough, and the carving traces you mentioned, in my opinion, are the skills of some primitive people and savages. I have seen many indigenous people, and some of their stone grasses are very good. , the kind knocked out by hand with stones, and this is a circle surrounded by a lot of stones, which may have included houses in the past. It is not difficult to build a house with stones, and European buildings are not like this Shabby."

"What you said makes sense, but I don't think African indigenous people have the ability to build such a huge project by themselves. I have been to many places in Africa. Only North Africa has such a large-scale stone relic. The entire sub-Saharan is only distributed here alone. These stone cities, and I have investigated the surrounding aborigines, they do not have such skills inheritance, so these buildings are absolutely impossible to be completed by aborigines."

  …

  The stone relics they are arguing about are actually the famous Great Zimbabwe ruins in Africa in the previous life. There are more than 200 relics of the same style in Zimbabwe, and each of them is called "Zimbabwe" by the local indigenous people. There has always been controversy about who built it.

In his previous life, Karl Moher was the first person to announce this miracle to the world. Although it is called a miracle, it is still on the World Cultural Heritage List, but for Ernst, this thing is not worth the price at all. It is Africa (excluding North Africa), which has no historical and cultural heritage to brag about, which makes the so-called Great Zimbabwe site a "chicken head".

  Except for Australia, sub-Saharan Africa is the most culturally deserted area in the world. Just playing with stones, the Indians throw away more than a dozen streets in sub-Saharan Africa.

  (end of this chapter)