African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1117 Public Opinion
Soon after the cruiser Luanda completed the rescue mission, the Titanic completely exceeded its carrying capacity. The entire ship quickly sank into the Atlantic Ocean, causing huge waves in the Atlantic Ocean, and some lifeboats that did not have time to escape were also affected.

There were still some lifeboats around the Titanic. The Luanda was mainly focusing on rescuing the Titanic at the time, so naturally it could not estimate the lifeboats that were scattered everywhere. That would greatly disperse and consume the rescue force of the Luanda, which would not be worth the cost.

Some lifeboats, due to improper operation, failed to leave the area affected by the sinking of the Titanic in time and were also carried under the surface of the Atlantic Ocean by this terrifying cruise ship.

After confirming that the Titanic had completely sunk, the cruiser Luanda began to return to the scene and released a large rescue bomb to guide the lifeboats that had gone out from below the Titanic before it sank to the Luanda.

The rescue operation continued until another British merchant ship arrived. At this time, the Luanda could only evacuate first. After all, the wounded and supplies required time, and the Luanda could not stay there forever.

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Rhine City.

The Titanic Sinks in the Atlantic Ocean...

Ernst was silent when he received the news sent back by the Luanda, because it was really a coincidence, and rescuing the Titanic was not what Ernst expected at all.

Although Ernst was familiar with the Titanic, a famous ship in its previous life, he never thought of saving this tragedy.

The most important thing is that Ernst had no idea that the Titanic would sink this year. After all, in Ernst's position, the information he received every day was about major national events. Who would care about a British cruise ship thousands of miles away?

As for the mission of the cruiser Luanda, it was entirely arranged by the navy department, and Ernst never intervened at all, so the Luanda's encounter with the Titanic this time was completely beyond Ernst's calculations.

Of course, this is not a bad thing for East Africa. It can still have a positive publicity effect on East Africa's international image, especially since the Luanda cruiser, as an East African warship, rescued a British cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, which is also the most famous cruise ship in the world. There is too much drama in it.

As for the arrangement of the Luanda cruiser, this is naturally a great opportunity for the East African media to promote East Africa.

Ernst said to Merk: "This is an opportunity to commend all officers and soldiers of the cruiser Luanda and show the good image of our army."

Merk nodded and said, "Yes, Your Highness."

For Ernst, now that the rescue of the Titanic by the East African warship Luanda was a foregone conclusion, the only thing left to do was to maximize the benefits.

After all, saving so many people this time is likely to have a huge impact on the course of history. You know, many people on the Titanic were either rich or noble. Who knows what kind of waves these people will cause in the future history after they survive.

Of course, history has changed long ago, so the matter is settled, and Ernst doesn't care too much about the interference of the Titanic incident on history. After all, Ernst himself is the biggest interference factor in the development of history.

"The propaganda department should take advantage of this opportunity to greatly improve our image in European and American countries, especially in the UK. I believe that with the help of this Titanic incident, our image among the British people will undergo a radical change."

East Africa has never had a positive influence in British public opinion. Even though East Africa and Britain have reconciled now, it has not immediately changed the attitude of the British people towards East Africa.

As a world hegemon, Britain also controls the hegemony of world public opinion. Since the end of the South African War, the British government has used this public opinion hegemony to blackmail East Africa for nearly 20 years. Even the poorest patriots in East London will spit on the ground when talking about East Africa.

In British public opinion, the image of East Africa can be said to be no less inferior than their ridicule of France or Americans. After all, the birth of East Africa destroyed Britain's grand strategy of colonizing Africa. It can be said that most of the more than 10 million square kilometers of land in East Africa today were colonies of the British in the past.

Of course, what the British hated most was the disastrous defeat in the South African War. Although the South African War was portrayed as a draw in external propaganda, everyone knew that for a country like Britain, the most powerful country in the world, a draw was just a fig leaf.

Since Britain could not defeat East Africa by force, it naturally had to make up for it in other ways. However, Britain's economic sanctions were not significant, and it only achieved revenge on East Africa through public opinion.

In short, the national image of East Africa is definitely not positive because of the pettiness of the British and the deliberate guidance of the British government.

If it were any other time, East Africa would naturally not care too much about this, but at this time East Africa needed the favor of the British in order to obtain more investment and loans from Britain.

So Ernst said: "Now when we borrow money from abroad, Britain always looks down on East Africa because of stereotypes and arrogance, which is definitely not a good thing for us."

"After all, Britain is now the country with the most abundant capital in the world. We cannot ignore Britain if we want to obtain development funds. Britain's long-term negative propaganda against our country has put us at a disadvantage in trade with Britain."

Although Britain lost millions of square kilometers of black African land in its previous life because of East Africa, Britain is still the world's largest colonial country and maintains its position as the world's financial center.

In this way, even without counting the British industry, the pound can maintain a strong value. After all, the pound can circulate in most parts of the world and represents the strongest purchasing power in the world today.

Therefore, no country can bypass the British pound in foreign trade, and the same is true for East Africa. For example, trade between East Africa and India must be completed with the British pound as the main medium.

If East Africa obtains enough pounds, it will be able to buy the goods, machinery and raw materials it wants in most parts of the world.

However, it is also fortunate that the pound is far less stable than the dollar hegemony in the past, otherwise East Africa would never have been able to achieve industrialization without bypassing Britain.

However, obtaining a large amount of pounds is absolutely beneficial to the development of East Africa's own industry. Britain's negative public opinion on East Africa has affected East Africa's efforts to obtain more pounds through borrowing, investment attraction or trade to accelerate its own industrial development.

This is also why Ernst wanted to use the Titanic as a breakthrough to change the negative impression of East Africa among the British people.

Ernst: "The more favorable British public opinion is to us, the more funds we can obtain for industrial development, thereby opening up the British colonial market in exchange for the resources and energy we want. Britain itself controls a market of more than 400 million people, and the Titanic incident can also help us open up sales in this huge market of 400 million people."

In the British colonial market, many British colonies originally had a bad impression of the East African country because of the attitude of the colonial power. This is unavoidable. For example, in the Far East Empire in the previous life, the influence of a certain area colonized by Britain was still difficult to eliminate even after Britain left, and it lasted until the 21st century.

Britain directly controls public opinion of nearly 400 million people and can discredit East Africa by writing a few small articles. However, East Africa's rescue of the Titanic is a positive event that cannot be covered up at all. If it can be used well, it will not only greatly change the British attitude towards East Africa, but also greatly improve the attitude of the large market of 400 million people controlled by Britain towards East Africa.

And emotions themselves can affect trade. After all, trade boycotts are common in history. Similarly, the improvement of British public opinion towards East Africa can greatly stimulate East Africa's foreign trade.

(End of this chapter)