African Entrepreneurship Records

 Chapter 609 Promotion

Herbart understood Judley's difficulties very well, so he comforted him: "You don't have to worry about this. The supplies have been prepared from above. It will arrive in two or three days, so you can come back in three days."

It is definitely too late to purchase weapons from the Austro-Hungarian Empire at this time, but East Africa can still raise a batch of Austro-Hungarian weapons to provide to the Orange people.

  After all, a country as big as East Africa will definitely purchase a small amount of ordnance from other countries. This is true in many countries, but for East Africa, the "small amount" is not guaranteed in Orange.

The Orangemen don’t need too many rifles and ammunition now, at least in East Africa’s view, because the Orangemen’s army is not large in number. Before East Africa, wars in Africa were limited to less than ten thousand people all year round, especially After the colonists arrived, wars involving thousands of people were considered large wars.

The ones who disrupted the regional balance were the East Africans and the Italians, who brought the war in sub-Saharan Africa to the scale of tens of thousands of people. Especially during the colonial era in East Africa, all the people were soldiers, and more than 100,000 armed forces were often deployed to annihilate the hinterland of Africa. of indigenous forces.

On the contrary, after the professionalization of the military, such a grand scene no longer exists, but East Africa's mobilization capacity has been further strengthened, but more mobilization mechanisms are used in national infrastructure construction and other aspects. It can be regarded as a military-to-civilian transformation, and vice versa. The people can be transformed into the army. Of course, the fundamental reason is that the population in East Africa is now relatively sufficient and there is no need for frequent extreme mobilization.

Although Herbart said this, Udeli was not at ease. He said: "This matter is important this time, so I can stay here for a few days. I can just send someone to send the news back, so that all parties will not be in a hurry." .”

Herbart also agreed with Udeli's words. If it were him, he definitely wouldn't want to make the trip in vain, so he said: "Yes, but Fort Tenisen is an important military area after all, so you can't stay here. Fortunately, There is a business inn outside the city, you can stay there for a few days!"

There are very few civilians in Fort Tenisen, and most of them are military dependents or military service personnel. Therefore, it is a typical military fortress, or "military city" in the Southern Frontier Province, so it is naturally not easy to treat outsiders like Udley. In the city.

The store was built outside the city and was a place for trade between East Africa and the Orange Free State. East Africa certainly could not sell goods in the Orange Free State. After all, the British and the Transvaal prohibited East Africans from entering.

However, their own merchants could not help but cross the border to do business in East Africa, so the trading house was equivalent to the official trading place built by East Africa on the Fite River.

Udley said: "This is natural. My task is to receive the ordnance. I have received a positive reply from you, general, and I am very satisfied."

 After saying that, Udley and his men slowly walked out of Fort Tenisen, which was completely different from the rush when they arrived.

There are only two reasons for this result. One is that now that he has received approval from East Africa, his mission should be completed smoothly, but he is afraid that East Africa will delay and hold the Orange people back.

 The second thing is that it will take a few days for the ordnance to be delivered, and I am not in a hurry to go back now, so I am free.

As soon as he was free, Udley began to observe Fort Tenisen. He didn't pay much attention when he came in before. After all, he was so anxious that he didn't have time to worry about it. Now that he paid careful attention, Udley was convinced that East Africa could defeat the original Germany. The Transvaal Republic has psychological awareness.

This so-called Fort Tenissen is very similar to the medieval castles in Europe, but there are also big differences. However, at a glance, you can tell that many defensive measures have been added to deal with modern wars.

There should not be many people in the city. After all, although Fort Tenisen is very important, it is only a stronghold on the Feite River defense line in the Southern Frontier Province of East Africa, so the number of troops allocated is not very large.

And this is not a lot for East Africa. Compared with the Orange Free State, it is a large number. There should be a few thousand people in Fort Tenisim, most of whom are soldiers.

You must know that before the civil strife broke out in the Orange Free State, the Transvaal Restoration Army only had more than 6,000 people. Now it should have increased a lot, and I am afraid it is close to 10,000 people. But for the Transvaal people, That’s a lot. After the Transvaal was annihilated, the population in these years has been around hundreds of thousands, and 10,000 people is one-tenth of the population.

Orange people are better, with a population of only about 200,000. This is the result of absorbing some Transvaal people. However, the Orange Free State did not have a standing army before, so the Transvaal people caught up.

Udley said to his subordinates with envy: "East Africa has strong military strength, inherits the martial culture of the German region, and has strict discipline. No wonder it can destroy the country in a very short time by those white-eyed wolves in the Transvaal!"

"Mr. Udeley, the East African army should be on the same level as Europe. Unlike us in Orange, we didn't pay much attention to this aspect before, so we are lagging behind." The subordinate responded.

Udley shook his head and said: "I don't think so. If you want to build a strong army, you need the support of national strength. Look at the army organized by the Transvaal people. The military discipline is loose and they can only fight with the wind. How can there be such spirit as the East African soldiers?" .”

Of course, compared with the Transvaal, the Orangemen's armed forces were even less disciplined and not even organized. However, it was impossible for Udley to say that his own was wrong, so he could only arrest the Transvaal. People kept belittling and ridiculing.

 The current good military discipline of the East African army is actually based on multiple reorganizations and modifications.

At least during the period of East Africa's invasion of the Transvaal Republic, the East African Army at that time was probably not much better, and it was at the same level as Europe.

 In terms of military discipline, I am afraid that only the German army can compare with East Africa. This is the result of the improvement of East Africa's national strength.

The East African government now has relatively generous financial revenue without robbing and exploiting the indigenous people, so it has the confidence to correct the bad habits of the troops.

In recent years, the number of immigrants in the East African Defense Force has been larger, and the number of citizens has increased rapidly, but the number of army troops has not actually increased much compared with the colonial period.

 An important part of this is to carry out comprehensive transformation and upgrading of the East African Army and replace the group of people in the army who are merely filling the numbers.

The East African navy does not have this requirement. Because the navy was established relatively late, the relevant systems are more complete, and the threshold for the navy is high. There are academic requirements for entering the navy, so the quality of the soldiers is higher than that of the army from the beginning.

Of course, the current treatment of the East African army has been greatly improved compared to before, because now entering the army has discipline and learning requirements, which require discipline and hard training, so naturally more benefits must be provided in terms of welfare. support.

On the other hand, the living standards of East African citizens are now much higher than before, and the military is inherently a more dangerous occupation for the people, so the East African government must also improve the treatment of the East African military.

Not to mention other things, in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, the East African army is already much better than the civilians. Education and medical care are even more popular. Even the road to the future, the future after changing jobs is also broader.

 (End of this chapter)