African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 156 Burning (content may cause discomfort)
bang... bang... bang...

Gunfire erupts in northern Kenya.

With the sound of gunshots, the wild animals in Africa fell down. In order to clear the pastures, the bison, lions, warthogs, hyenas, leopards, zebras on the African grasslands...

All the animals that could be seen suffered, and the East African colony was first hit by a fire, which directly ignited the grassland.

The animals were driven around by the fire, and the unlucky ones who couldn't escape were buried in the sea of ​​fire, and some half-dead lay on the burned land moaning in pain.

There are still some places that cannot be covered by the fire, and the East African immigrants need to solve it by themselves.

At present, the life of East African immigrants in East Africa can be summarized as the normalization of three things: farming, fighting, and setting fires.

Farming is naturally the top priority in East Africa, and it is not difficult to understand.

Fighting is to deal with the acquisition of land. East Africa often conflicts with indigenous forces, so it is strange that the East African colonies do not fight.

Setting fire is rather strange. Land reclamation requires setting fire, opening up residential areas requires setting fire, and destroying the living environment of animals still requires setting fire.

There is nothing more time-saving and labor-saving than setting fire to the African grasslands in the dry season. The whole of East Africa presents a kind of primitive wild beauty of slash-and-burn cultivation.

The opening of the East African colony can be said to be in conflict with blacks and wild animals. No matter whether it is a human or an animal, as long as it is a native of East Africa, it can be wiped out for no reason.

Ernst wants to emphasize that he has no prejudice against the aborigines, which is entirely caused by a conflict of interests.

The owners of this piece of land in Africa are not blacks, but these groups of wild animals. They are evenly distributed throughout the sub-Saharan region from south to north.

Except for the tropical rainforest, which is truly a forbidden place for humans, no one knows what is hidden in it.

On the African grasslands, you can basically see regular visitors, typically lions, wildebeests, elephants, zebras, hyenas, wild dogs, warthogs...

The entire African grassland of more than 800 million square kilometers, from West Africa to East Africa to South Africa, is basically these guys.

Ernst didn't feel distressed at all when he killed it, because it couldn't be finished, let alone extinct.

Ernst actually didn't have any respect for the extinction of species. In the news of his previous life, he didn't know how many species were extinct.

Moreover, it's not that Ernst didn't give these animals a way to survive, if they were to blame, they were born in the wrong place.

The policy of the East African colonies is that wherever the immigrants go, they will destroy everything there.

Now East Africa can be said to be vast and sparsely populated, and the immigrants all choose good places to live. Those valleys, virgin forests, deserts... don't even bother to go.

For example, the Serengeti Grassland, such a large area (about 3 square kilometers), Ernst did not plan to develop it, it can be regarded as a nature reserve.

To develop Africa, it is natural to use thunder means, and a large number of grasslands and forests will inevitably be destroyed.

In fact, Ernst's practice of slash-and-burn farming has another purpose, which is to break the local ecosystem.

Africa is a hotbed of various diseases, not only for humans, but also for animals.

What impressed Ernst most in his previous life was African swine fever and African horse fever.

African swine fever is simply "AIDS" in pigs. It has been an incurable disease for more than 1927 years since it was first discovered in Kenya in 100. Until Ernst crossed over, there was no known effective vaccine developed. .

Moreover, the spread of African swine fever is extremely wide. While raging throughout Africa, it has also gained a firm foothold in Europe. The Americas and Asia are not immune. Even the cold zone of Russia has African swine fever.

In areas where African swine fever is found, the problem can only be solved by large-scale disinfecting. Basically, it is found that live pigs within a few kilometers of African swine fever are not spared.

African swine fever is highly contagious, with a mortality rate as high as [-]%. After it is discovered, the infected pigs can only be eliminated, blocked, culled, disinfected, and harmlessly treated. There is no effective prevention and control method.

The initial vector of African swine fever is parasites such as soft ticks, and African horse fever is also a disease transmitted by parasites such as Culicoides.

There have been bitter parasites in Africa for a long time, so the East African colonies faced the same problem if they wanted to engage in animal husbandry.

Of course, these two diseases did not exist in this era, but Ernst did not dare to gamble.

Burning wasteland is the most economical and trouble-free means, one size fits all, one size fits all, such is the condition of this era.

Ernst's first cut was on the heads of East African animals. They are hosts of various diseases and parasites, and they themselves pose a threat to livestock.

Therefore, it is necessary to clean up the animals in the pasture, and with a big fire, the living environment of those parasites can also be destroyed.

When the rainy season comes, the pastures will grow new pastures, and it will be much safer to put cattle and horses in the pastures in East Africa.

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"Andre! This pork is roasted, I can smell the aroma, what a pity!" Porter Yang said, looking at the warthog that was hit by the fire.

"Hehe, don't even think about it. The higher-ups have ordered that all animal corpses will be cremated. Although the game is good, you have to live to bear it." Andre said.

"I can't see how this thing is harmful, isn't it just a pig!" Potter Yang retorted.

"This is not Eurasia, and if you look at something that is not threatening, it doesn't mean it is safe.

Especially for these wild animals, when they first arrived in East Africa, they could survive without food, and now there is no shortage of food, so why gamble with their lives.

Don’t be unconvinced when I say this. These are the experiences accumulated by the local aborigines with bloody lessons. There are a lot of parasites and diseases in animals in tropical areas, and rash consumption may cause serious consequences.

At the beginning, I saw an aborigine, good guy, there was no whole body, it was full of parasites, and I didn't have a good meal for three days. "Andre educated.

The natives that Andre saw were not actually infected with parasites by eating wild animals. That unlucky man was caused by drinking unclean water, but it did not prevent Andre from using this incident as a negative lesson.

African natives are often infected with various parasites. Unlike immigrants, the natives don’t even wear clothes, and don’t pay attention to food and drink. Therefore, the old immigrants are well-informed, and with the popular science in the colonies, they dare not violate the regulations.

Porter Yang obviously had some bad memories caused by the case mentioned by Andre, and hurriedly said: "You said that, I really didn't pay much attention before, I also saw an aborigine who didn't wear shoes, then I don’t know what’s bitten my feet so badly (sand fleas), I can’t even walk, it’s really scary when I think about it now.”

"That's right! So we just obey the orders honestly. The gentlemen above are more knowledgeable than us. They said that this is science." Andre said.

"You're right, this science is indeed a good thing. Those who didn't listen to persuasion at the beginning, many of them were prone to get sick, but later they became honest. I have to pay more attention in the future." Potter Yang said in agreement.

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In the evening, the settlers piled the collected animal carcasses on firewood.

The person in charge poured kerosene on it and ignited it with a lighter. In the raging fire, the corpses of these animals turned to ashes and ashes to ashes.

The grassland burned by the fire was scorched black, and when the rainy season came, it would be full of green again, but at that time, the original wild animals could not be seen on the grassland, only the livestock raised in East Africa moved on the grassland.

(End of this chapter)