African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1333 1919 years

When East Africa occupied Qatar, Britain, Qatar's nominal suzerain, chose to turn a blind eye as East Africa had expected.

In fact, the process and results of East Africa's invasion of Qatar had already spread around, especially to those third-party personnel who left Qatar, mainly businessmen and diplomats from various countries, including British diplomats in Qatar. After East Africa captured Bayda, they all retreated to Bahrain and other countries tacitly.

Before this, the Ottoman Empire actually had a small-scale garrison in Qatar, with only two or three hundred people, but they returned home as soon as the war between the Ottoman Empire and Britain broke out. Therefore, when East Africa invaded Qatar, there were no military personnel from other countries on the island.

Therefore, the process of East Africa's annexation of Qatar can be described as uneventful. However, this does not mean that Qatar is not important. As long as East Africa completes a series of military and strategic deployments in Qatar, East Africa will become one of the most influential countries in the Persian Gulf region.

Although East Africa is a world power in its own right and has strong military power, and it previously owned the Beibu Gulf territory, which was a wedge embedded in the Middle East, its influence in the Persian Gulf is growing day by day.

However, this influence is not enough to allow East Africa to be on an equal footing with Britain and Russia in the Persian Gulf region. The most direct reason is that East Africa lacks military deterrence in the Persian Gulf region.

This kind of military deterrence is similar to the situation in the Middle East in the past. If an unfavorable situation arose in the Americans, as long as the aircraft carrier formation was sent into the Persian Gulf, it would create a strong psychological pressure on the countries of all sizes in the Persian Gulf. For example, during the Iraq War, the number of aircraft carriers in the US Fifth Fleet directly increased to five.

In this era, the most intimidating naval weapon is the battleship, but the Third Fleet does not have a large home port for battleships, so the deterrent power of the East African Navy in the Persian Gulf will naturally be reduced to a lower level.

The British, who own important Persian Gulf naval bases such as Bahrain, do not have this worry. The Qatar Peninsula makes up for East Africa's shortcomings in this regard.

Although battleships do not necessarily fully represent naval combat, in this era, as long as a country is not ignorant, it is the most recognized most powerful naval battleship.

Just like in the past, Iran’s missiles can pose a threat to US aircraft carriers, but the deterrent power of aircraft carriers is more concrete and has greater deterrent power.

As for the army, Russia's deterrence in the Middle East was obviously greater than that in East Africa. After all, Russia borders the Middle East directly, creating an overwhelming momentum.

Of course, this kind of land-based deterrence is smaller than that of the navy, especially to the countries along the Persian Gulf. Therefore, although Russia's influence in the Persian Gulf ranked second before, it was far behind Britain.

East Africa and the Persian Gulf are separated by the Indian Ocean, and the ultimate deterrence to the region still depends on the navy to play a leading role.

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Time flies and 1919 years have passed.

In the past, World War I had ended a long time ago during this period, but now, even after the United States entered the war, wars are still raging in Europe and the Middle East.

In the second half of 1918, the Central Powers and the Entente each had their own victories and defeats. With the participation of the United States, Britain and France stabilized the situation on the Western Front and successfully withstood the offensives of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

However, the situation of the Allies on the southern front was not optimistic, especially under the leadership of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Central Powers achieved a series of military victories in the Balkans and the Middle East.

The Allies successfully opened up and further consolidated the land route between the Balkan Peninsula and the Anatolian Peninsula, so that the railway from Berlin to Baghdad was open again. As long as the Allied forces along the Persian Gulf coast were defeated, the Persian Gulf route would be restored.

Greece and Albania were eventually defeated at the end of 1918, which caused the Allied forces to shrink from the Balkan Peninsula to the Mediterranean line. While occupying Qatar in East Africa, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria, and Romania also arrived in Iraq, which greatly boosted the morale of the Ottoman Empire.

This also means that the focus of the southern battlefield has shifted to the competition for the Red Sea coast and the Persian Gulf coast, and the importance of the Persian Gulf to the Allies is far greater than that of the Red Sea coast.

On the one hand, the Allies had no large ports available in the Red Sea. On the other hand, transportation from the Red Sea to the core areas of the Allies was not convenient and might be harassed by the British and French navies from the Mediterranean.

The war on both the Western and Southern Fronts made it difficult to break the balance between the Allies and the Central Powers. In this situation, the only country that benefited was the Russian Labor Party, which was actively consolidating its regime.

With the arrival of 1919, the East African government was one step closer to 1920, which also meant that a new round of government statistical work had to be fully launched.

Data on population, industry, economy and other aspects began to be summarized in Rhine City, providing data support for the formulation of government policies in the next economic cycle in East Africa.

At a government meeting in Rhineland, Ernst stressed: "The world is now at a turning point. The next 20 to 30 years will most likely determine our country's position in the world."

"Therefore, this population census and economic census must be rigorous and meticulous, especially to put an end to the falsification of political performance data in the past, and all departments must seek truth from facts."

"The central government will send a supervision team to conduct random checks and supervise the authenticity and errors of data statistics across the country, and these situations will also be recorded in the files, affecting personal resumes and future promotions and demotions of officials."

It can be said that the East African government, including Ernst, attaches great importance to this national data statistics work.

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In addition to catching up with the important time node of 1920, East Africa would, as usual, compile statistics on its own population and other important data. It was also closely related to factors such as the drastic changes in the international situation and the full outbreak of the East African economy during the European war.

In fact, some of the government's statistical work had officially started since mid-1918, which means that this statistical work will take more than a year, and all statistical results must be released before 1920.

Ernst went on to say: "In addition, we must open up channels for public opinion, especially through the National Assembly and other forms, to accept suggestions from the public on some government decisions, correct some of the problems we have encountered in economic development in the past, and solve the problems that we have not paid attention to or have accumulated in the past."

"We will hold accountable some officials who have bad conduct or are passive and lazy in the past economic development, review the economic problems of some officials under the market economy, summarize the problems of market and social atmosphere, and further promote the development of a healthy market."

East Africa is a government that emphasizes the role of the government in the economy, so manual error correction and rectification are inevitable for the market economy. After all, under the market economy, it is impossible to avoid corruption in power institutions and departments, vicious market competition, monopoly and other problems.

Ernst certainly did not expect to solve all these problems. After all, no country in the world could do this. Even a country like the Russian Labor Party, which had completely abandoned the market, could not prevent the existence of the black market.

For the East African governments, it would be good as long as they can solve most of the problems. However, this "most" is obviously a vague term. What percentage is considered the "most"? Ernst believes that more than 50% is enough.

As Ernst finished speaking, some officials of the East African government suddenly fell into a state of tension. After all, the East African government has accumulated many problems over the years, and no one dares to guarantee that they do not have any problems. Of course, small problems are easy to deal with, but some problems that are too outrageous will definitely be selected as examples and then used as a warning to others, so naturally some people will feel guilty.

(End of this chapter)