African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1158 Historical Origins
It is not difficult to squeeze some people into Venezuela. It is even easier than in Europe. On the one hand, Venezuela itself is also an immigration country, but it is not as attractive as Brazil and Argentina. On the other hand, there are Indians in many countries in South America.

In the previous life, Venezuela was a mixed-race country, with Indo-European mixed-race people accounting for more than 50%, and Indians accounting for only about 2%. However, in this era, the proportion of Indians is obviously much higher than in the previous life.

With the Indians as cover and East Africa as the pillar behind, it is not difficult for the mixed-race Germans to settle down in the local area. The only thing that needs to be paid attention to is to match the education system well.

After all, the original Indo-European mixed people in Venezuela do not look much different from East Africans in appearance, and the two ethnic groups can only be distinguished through cultural identity. East Africa does not want to make wedding dresses for Venezuela in vain.

a few days later.

Under Ernst's instructions, the Immigration Agency has already submitted a rough plan.

Sharon said with a happy face: "Your Majesty, based on our analysis of Venezuela's national conditions and the intelligence we have gathered, the probability of success is very high, and the basic conditions are even much higher than those in the Neretva region."

"As early as 1529, the famous Welzer banking family in Augsburg in southern Germany obtained the right to lease Little Venice by lending money to the King of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, but this colonization activity ultimately failed."

Charles V was the first king of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty. At that time, the Habsburg family was at its peak, and Charles V ruled over vast lands including the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, and Spain. Therefore, Venezuela, which was a Spanish colony at the time, was naturally sold by the Habsburg family to the Welser banking family.

Having said that, the Welzer banking family and Ernst are half colleagues, except that Ernst has achieved great success.

After all, the two had different purposes. The Welzer banking family colonized the Little Venice area in search of gold mines, while Ernst's colonial activities in East Africa were to expand the family business.

Little Venice was the northern part of Venezuela at that time, and there were naturally no gold mines there, so the Welzer banking family had to stop immediately. Moreover, the Welzer family was rather stingy in their investment, and only hired a colonial team of two to three hundred people.

In contrast, Ernst sent more than 2,000 people to colonize East Africa, and even recruited retired soldiers from Prussia and other countries. In addition, he used cheap immigrants from the Far East to achieve today's results by farming steadily in East Africa.

There is a big gap here. Take the Far East immigrants for example. They are not only the main force for farming in East Africa, but also the main source of soldiers for the colonies.

After all, colonial activities would be subject to resistance from local forces and face a harsh living environment. Without personnel reinforcements, it would naturally be difficult to accomplish. The forces available to the Heixingen family at the time were obviously not comparable to those of a civilian organization.

It was also the first time that Ernst heard about Germany’s colonial history in Venezuela. Of course, there were some differences, as it was still the era of the Holy Roman Empire.

He asked Sharon, "So, if we implement relevant policies locally, we won't encounter too much resistance?"

Sharon said affirmatively: "Of course, and we don't need to squeeze into towns like Maracaibo. We just need to learn the agricultural reclamation immigration system in the Neretva area."

"The most important point is that Venezuela is vast and sparsely populated. There is a large amount of undeveloped land around Lake Malacaibo. We can purchase a large amount of land from the Venezuelan government at a low price, develop plantations and farms, and then promote the establishment of local German villages, gradually encroaching on Zulia State in northwestern Venezuela."

Zulia is one of more than twenty states in Venezuela, and almost all of Lake Maracaibo and the Maracaibo Basin are located in this state.

It is separated from the eastern states of Venezuela by the Mérida Mountains, and to the west is Colombia, and communication is basically based on sea transportation, which is also the reason for the inconvenient transportation mentioned earlier.

Before investing in East Africa, Zulia State only produced some tropical agricultural products. For example, its capital, Maracaibo, was a small port that mainly exported coffee. Moreover, Zulia State is not small in area, almost as large as Bosnia, with an area of ​​nearly 60,000 square kilometers, but the population is only 200,000 to 300,000, and many of them are concentrated in the capital, Maracaibo.

So Sharon said: "Except for the city of Maracaibo, the vast area in the southern part of Zulia State is very sparsely populated and has a large amount of tropical rainforest. However, as long as we develop along Lake Maracaibo, we can establish a large number of immigration bases through local lake transportation."

As the largest lake in South America, Lake Maracaibo has a large area of ​​more than 10,000 square kilometers, which ranks among the top even in East Africa.

"We plan to use the oil and gas resource distribution areas explored by various companies as anchor points, arrange immigration work, form a development zone with the oil development zone as the core, absorb the local indigenous population, and promote German education."

"Our original investment in the local area was of a similar nature, but it was limited to local employees. We can expand the scope to develop schools for children of workers in the zone and establish a German education system that can be promoted throughout Zulia State."

There are two core elements of Document No. 0: one is immigration and the other is the German language. Only mixed-race immigrants who speak German can be considered true mixed-race Germans.

East Africa had accumulated a lot of experience in early colonial activities, so it was easy to handle. It did not require too much investment in education, as long as they could learn German, unlike the East African mainland which had to provide other courses.

Moreover, investing in German education in the local area has some historical roots. Although Germany's colonial activities in the local area ultimately ended in failure, there are still quite a few German immigrants among the local white people.

This was a common point among almost all the colonies in America at that time, from North America to South America. As Germany was once the region with the most serious population loss in Europe, it can be said that there are Germans in every country in America.

There are now many immigrants from the German region in Venezuela, who are an important source of white people. There are also some smaller German communities, such as the German-speaking community in its capital, Caracas.

In summary, according to the investigation of the East African Immigration Agency, Venezuela is indeed more convenient for the implementation of Document No. 0 in the local area.

Of course, Ernst still reminded: "We must be cautious in doing this. After all, Document 0 is related to our century-long plan for East Africa and is one of the important national policies."

It is indeed rather unethical for East Africa to do this, and it is almost no different from what the Jews did in previous lives. Of course, there are essential differences between the two. After all, the protective forces established in East Africa have East Africa as their backer.

In the past, the Jews only had a small country on the surface. As for the United States, although it was very powerful, it could not be the only country that had the final say, and many of its actions had to be cautious.

Many other major powers have done this kind of racial plan in East Africa, but their overseas colonies in East Africa are far less numerous or valuable than those of Britain and France, and Russia basically only infiltrates along the periphery.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, there were many Russians in many of its member states, including Kazakhstan, which was one of the most famous. For this reason, Kazakhstan even moved its capital to Astana to get rid of Russia's influence.

However, precisely because of this, we can also see the benefits of cultivating "our own people". As long as Document No. 0 is successfully implemented in Zulia State, East Africa will not only be able to call the shots in the local area, but will also be able to get a lot of support, and can even directly plan for the local area to separate and become an independent country.

This is not impossible. Zulia State itself is a border area between Colombia and Venezuela, and is separated from both countries by mountains. If separatist activities are really carried out, the possibility of success is very high.

(End of this chapter)