The busy dockyard with hundreds of ships entering and exiting the harbour, the exquisitely paved cobbled footpath, cement roads, beautiful greenery, drainage channels beside every road, neat and tidy shop fronts, exquisite clothes, elegant jewellery, exotic and alluring women, and even some enchanting ornaments were all something they had never seen before.
Especially the sailors, they couldn't take their eyes off the young women of the Bharatiya Empire. Due to the fitness being promoted in the Bharatiya Empire in every school and college since childhood, young people in Bharatiya Empire are very fit and healthy, and since the Bharatiyas didn't have to go through 20 famines or are very unlikely to go through even in the future, the genetics of people in the subcontinent have not been fucked up, thereby causing bodies to store fat as energy more than necessary, which led to both men and women in the future generations to be very unathletic, prone to diabetes, developing skinny fat physic for men and becoming fat easily for women.
This led to the phenomenon of people in the Bharatiya Empire looking extremely attractive. With proper nutritional supplements provided by government schools, the heights of boys and girls are also not too short. If this continues for the foreseeable future, it is no problem for the people of the Bharatiya Empire to have an average height of six feet for men and 5.5 feet for women. In this situation, even if the face is not beautiful, the body, both men and women, adds to the attractiveness. This is something the sailors, who have been treated as slaves since childhood, had never seen or experienced. They couldn't help but stand on the deck of the ship and salivate. It wasn't until a few Bharatiya men looked at them with unkind gazes that they put away their lustful hearts.
The two princes did not know what had happened on their ship, but even if they knew, they wouldn't care much, since even they were attracted by the women of the Bharatiya Empire, especially given their age and the fact that they were unmarried. Fortunately, being princes, they still had some self-control. They knew that looking at women unkindly was not welcomed anywhere in the world, so they controlled themselves.
Mwanga and Ekema had learnt about the prosperity of the Bharatiya Empire from the mouths of the people in their kingdom who had been from here, but as they say, seeing is better than listening.
Suddenly a series of shouts caught their attention,
"GP Manjunath Company is hiring 250 labourers to work in Malaya Nagar!"
"Singha Construction Group is hiring 3,000 people to work in Purva Pradesh! Boarding, lodging, insurance, and a 50-acre fertile plot of land included—limited-time offer! Please sign up!"
"Pujar Group is hiring skilled craftsmen and artisans! 200 acres of fertile land for each artisan as well as a tax exemption, free business license, and one-term no-interest loan of 100,000 Varaha in order to immigrate to the Western Suvarna Dvipa frontier!"
Mwanga Sekate went to look at what was happening in Curiosity, and to his surprise, a lot of people actually entered the officers behind the hawkers, with expectations on their faces. A lot of people stayed outside as well, but they looked like they were deliberating.
Mwanga Sekate turned his head to Ekema Lobuko to see if he had any clue, but even he was looking at him with a doubtful expression. He saw that Matia was in the same condition, so he made up his mind, went forward, and asked a person standing in front of the shop what was going on.
Charan was taken aback when a Black man suddenly came to him. Still, seeing his unusual attire, he thought they were tourists, smiled, and replied, "Oh, that? These people are private companies looking for people to join the jobs in the overseas territories."
Mwanga Sekate's eyes widened. "Overseas territories? That means the Bharatiya Empire also has other places apart from the mainland?" He was shocked. After learning about the Bharatiya Empire for a long time, he knew some common sense, like what the so-called companies were and how large and what the population of the Empire was, but who could have thought that this is not the full extent of the strength of this behemoth.
"Haha," Charan was a little proud, "Of course, last year 8 new frontiers were opened up for the Bharatiya Empire, and this year six additional frontiers have been added."
"These frontiers are sparsely populated with a lot of resources and have a need for development, so the Empire has let the private companies establish branches in these frontiers in order to make their development faster after establishing a frontier governor and a military."
"So currently there is no shortage of jobs in the Empire, instead there is a shortage of people in some professions."
"It's a pity I don't know any craft or else I would have also gone overseas for a few years to earn a lot of money," he let out a sigh of disappointment.
Though it was not for long, he quickly recovered, "You see those people standing over there with luggage?"
Mwanga Sekate looked at the place where the man was pointing and nodded.
"They are the people who have signed up to work in the overseas territory of the Empire. They should be waiting for their ship to arrive — oh look, it's here."
Soon a gigantic 2000-tonne Guwahati-class armed merchant ship slowly docked at the port.
Mwanga Sekate, Ekema Lobuko, and Matia's mouths were agape. They had never seen such a massive ship; compared to it, the ship which they borrowed from the Ethiopian Empire couldn't even be considered as a child.
"Oh, it is the ship from the Brown Logistics Company. It should be going to the Suvarna Dvipa continent," he had completely ignored the shocked and surprised look on Mwanga's face and continued.
"I heard that there are a lot of mines on that island. A few people whom I know who have gone to the island have made a lot of money. Unfortunately, I don't know if it is the right thing for me to go, since I heard there are a lot of deadly spiders and wild animals that can kill a person before even knowing how they died. 'Shiver!!!' Just thinking about it gives me the chills."
The pair of Central African nobles stood shocked in their place for a long time. The prosperity of the Bharatiya Empire is simply beyond the dimension in which they can comprehend.
Soon they visited the famous Mangaluru Stock Exchange, which left them further astonished. As soon as the numbers on the tallest building they had ever seen changed, the people all around them screamed at the top of their lungs like they had won some sort of gladiatorial contest. The atmosphere was extremely exciting, and every now and then, the people would bring musical instruments to the Central Square of Mangaluru where the stock exchange existed and start playing rhythmic South Subcontinental beats.
Several times, Mwanga and Ekema were then pulled into the dance as well. Helplessly, Mwanga and Ekema had to show the people of the Bharatiya Empire what it is like to be gifted with rhythm. They danced and cheered with the locals while chanting,
"Matha baby care products 120% increase I!"
"Matha baby care products 120% increase II!"
"Matha baby care products 120% increase I!"
"Matha baby care products 120% increase II!"
It was only far into the future that Mwanga and Ekema understood what they were dancing to, but thinking back, they smiled in amusement.
The journey continued to the capital. During the journey, they saw more wonders like the magical watermills and windmills throughout the countryside, harvesters harvesting grains at a speed that was unimaginable to them, and even the unique gadgets that were available in some stores. During their journey, they even bought a hand-cranked fan and a new clothes iron for their college life. They did some local clothes shopping as well, choosing the best type of clothes that fit their aesthetic and their own culture. But the price once again shocked them because it was extremely cheap, and the quality of the clothes was also not low. It was the same quality that nobles treasured in their collection, but even the common people of the Bharatiya Empire could wear them like they were nothing. The empire had given them too many shocks—they were already numb. But when they reached the capital of the gigantic empire, Bengaluru, they had the shock of their life.
A loud, deafening ring of a bell was heard. Looking up, it was from a weird building even taller than the Stock Exchange Building which they had seen.
When they understood that it was a clock tower that could tell time, Mwanga and Ekema both felt complicated.
"Brother, can we ever catch up?"
"I don't know... maybe, but probably not."
P.S. Is this bias of mine a little racist I don't know because I think what I put forward is very close to the truth, but you could never tell so if my writing has offended any readers from Central Africa or Africa in general I apologize.