African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1139 The Tricolor Flag Falls

Immigrants also need connections. In the past, East Africa established two major immigrant recruitment systems in Germany and the Far East Empire respectively.

However, with the economic development of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German region has changed from an area of ​​population outflow to an area of ​​population inflow, so this system has been basically paralyzed since 1890.

East Africa's immigration system in the Far East has always maintained a certain scale. Of course, the main purpose of East Africa's absorption of immigrants in the Far East is to supplement the population of East African colonies rather than the local population. Now East Africa suddenly has nearly one million square kilometers of land out of thin air, and the gap in immigration has also increased accordingly.

Herman: "This is not a small project. Most of our ships are now used to transport war materials to Europe, so it is not easy to immigrate a million people to Togoland."

East African ships not only have to facilitate the export of local goods to Europe, but also have to take into account commodity trade in the Far East, South America, the Middle East and other regions. The pressure is enormous. It can be said that the current shipping industry has a shortage of ships. This situation is not conducive to the implementation of the so-called immigration plan in East Africa.

Hermann's words woke Ernst up. Now was indeed not a good time to immigrate, so he had to put it on hold for the time being.

However, Ernst said: "The immigration plan is difficult to implement, so we must first start with the implementation and consolidation of the local ruling order."

“Although these colonies already belong to the empire in name, the local ruling class is basically German. We still have a lot of preliminary work to do.”

"The troops and officials must be in place first, and they must also be responsible for communicating with the local Germans. After all, East Africa and Germany are fundamentally different."

After all, East Africa and Germany are two countries, so the methods of local governance and corresponding policies must be completely different, which is bound to cause dissatisfaction among some German businessmen and colonial groups.

However, this problem is easy to solve. The German colonies originally had few troops, and now they have all been withdrawn back to the country for the First World War. Once the East African troops arrive, they will be able to smoothly take over the local government. As for the local Germans, they are simply not a force to be reckoned with.

The main reason is that they are small in number. Take German Mitteleuropa for example. Before this, there were only a few thousand Germans in the entire German Mitteleuropa. These few thousand people also included German colonial troops. Now that the German colonial troops are about to return home, there are even fewer Germans who can stay.

After talking about Germany's colonies in Africa, the East African government finally began to shift the topic to Germany's islands in the Pacific.

The East African government has a headache about how to arrange these large number of islands, mainly because they are too far away.

"These islands are certainly not easy to rule, but it is also a great opportunity for us to establish influence in the Pacific region and use this opportunity to form a certain deterrent to Australia," Ernst said.

This is actually complete bullshit. Do we need to use deterrence against a colonial country like Australia? To be honest, if it were not a British colony, East Africa would have already taken action against Australia.

Of course, no one can say that Australia is not important. Although the environment is a bit harsh, it is still a continent and its resources are definitely abundant.

Siwei Te also nodded and said: "If we want to deal with Australia in the future, we do need some bases, and our mainland is indeed far away from Australia, so the location of these islands is good."

This is probably the only important value that the East African government can find in Germany's Pacific colonies. As for resources, except for Nauru, most of them are better than nothing to East Africa at this stage.

The most important resource on the small island of Nauru is "guano". The guano accumulated over the years has formed a rich phosphate resource that is very easy to mine.

When it comes to minerals such as phosphate, Ernst couldn't help but think that the Germans really knew how to choose places, such as the Togoland colony, where phosphate was also the most valuable mineral.

Out of concern for the "guano" on Nauru, Ernst said: "Nauru should send more troops to guard against Australia. After all, Nauru's phosphate resources are still quite valuable."

The reason why Ernst said this is mainly because in the previous life, Nauru was taken from Germany by Australia under the arrangement of Britain, so it is still necessary to send troops to Nauru, although it is very likely that Australia does not have the courage to provoke East Africa. Of course, the extra troops Ernst mentioned are only a hundred or so at most. Nauru, a small island, cannot bear it. After all, Nauru has a population of only a few thousand people.

Apart from Nauru, the most noteworthy colony in Germany's Pacific region is New Guinea Island, which is a relatively complex colony.

To the south of German New Guinea was the British colony, while to the west it bordered the Dutch East Indies colony, forming a three-way balance of power.

German New Guinea is not small in area. Even if Britain and the Netherlands occupy the majority, Germany still has more than 200,000 square kilometers. It must certainly send some symbolic people to garrison here.

Of course, don't expect the East African government to develop these islands. At present, East Africa has no energy or ability to develop and construct on these Pacific islands.

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Libreville.

"Beep beep..."

As the symphony orchestra played, the flag of the German Empire slowly fell, while the flag of the Rhine Empire with a lion emblem on the other side slowly rose to the top of the flagpole, fluttering in the breeze blowing from the South Atlantic, announcing that Libreville had welcomed a new owner.

A few years ago, the French flag was still flying here, but it was abandoned by France because of the Moroccan crisis. However, its new owner, Germany, also handed over the ownership of this place to East Africa in less than a year.

Watching the German flag fall and finally being put away, the Germans present were very sad. After all, this farewell not only marked the end of Germany's local rule, but also the last peaceful time before they were about to set out for the European battlefield.

Among them, Xavier, the Governor-General of German Central Africa, was also in a very complicated mood. A year ago, he still hoped to realize the grand blueprint of the development of German Central Africa through the hands of East Africa. As a result, now the entire German overseas colony has directly become East Africa's.

Of course, Xavier also knew that the resolution on the mainland was very necessary. Germany now had no time to manage these overseas colonies, so it might as well throw these burdens to East Africa.

But now, the war has broken out in the homeland, and he will embark on the journey home, rushing back to the homeland to join the war with only more than 1,600 armed forces. No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Now Germany is facing the siege of three major powers. Therefore, although Germany does not have many troops stationed in overseas colonies, it can only choose to recall them all, at least to ease the pressure on military strength.

In this war, the native populations of Britain, France and Russia were nearly three times that of Germany. The mobilization potential of these three countries alone was enough to overwhelm Germany.

"Sir Andel, I hope you in East Africa can treat this land well. After all, this place has left a deep impression on me. If I am still alive after the war, I will definitely come back to see this place where I have lived and worked. I hope it can realize its due potential in your hands."

Xavier has deep feelings for German Central Africa. After all, the area of ​​German Central Africa is not much different from that of Germany itself.

Therefore, Xavier, who previously controlled such a large piece of land, also experienced extraordinary happiness in German Central Africa. It would not even be an exaggeration to say that he was the local king of German Central Africa.

Andel, who was in charge of receiving German Central Africa, said, "Don't worry! Governor Xavier, since we East Africans have taken over this place, we will make it our German home. I also look forward to the day when you return safely from the European battlefield and witness the new look of Libreville."

In response to Andel's words, Xavier just smiled with a complicated expression, and then said: "In that case, let's say goodbye here!"

He waved to others, then boarded the ship with the troops from the former German Central African colony and officially embarked on the journey back home.

(End of this chapter)