African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 56 Balance
Ernst returned from Austria to his home in Hechingen and spent Christmas 1866 with Prince Constantine.

The East African colonies are also developing step by step.

1867 1 Month 14 Day.

The first settlers from the Austrian Empire arrive at the port of Dar es Salaam.

The immigrants who first arrived in East Africa have long been tempered by the bumps on the sea, and now they are very happy to see the land.

Even because it is in the Sultanate of Zanzibar, the environment here looks good in the eyes of the immigrants. After all, Zanzibar has been developed for many years, and the urban construction is barely qualified.

People of all colors can be seen in Zanzibar, Germans, Arabs, Portuguese, blacks, Indians and Chinese...

Immigrants who have been living in the interior of the Austrian Empire have never seen this before. The architectural style of Zanzibar is also different from that of Europe, full of strong Arabic style.

With tropical beaches and coconut trees, everything is so novel to these immigrants.

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After three days on the road, these immigrants were brought to the first town. Officials from various regions of the East African colony had already been prepared, and they had come to pull the immigrants long ago.

The first immigrants to come today turned out to be white!Colonial officials who were accustomed to accepting Chinese immigrants in the past were a little surprised.

But soon this group of people fought for their brains. The officials in the colony are currently held by Germans. The students of the Hechingen Military Academy generally serve as translators and assistants, or serve as junior officers in the colonial army.

In fact, these Germans are also guilty in their hearts. After all, what should they do if the yellow people under them rebel?In the early days, it was okay, the population was not large, but in the last few months of last year, tens of thousands more Chinese immigrants came out, while the number of Germans was still 2000 at the beginning.

It is still possible to suppress tens of thousands of people with 2000 people, but the increase in Chinese immigration is too fast. This year, it will be tens of thousands, next year it will be 10,000+, and the year after that it will be hundreds of thousands.

This is still to say the least, no one knows whether Ernst will increase the number of ships to transport more people.

Although Chinese immigrants are more obedient and have a stronger labor force, the development of East Africa has greatly accelerated since the restrictions on Chinese immigration were lifted.

But for German officials, it is safe to use their own people (whites), because German officials cannot speak Chinese, and many of the work under them needs to be done by students from the Hechingen Military Academy.

The German officials who had already tasted the sweetness of power were naturally worried. After all, these students of the Hechingen Military Academy were loyal to Ernst and had a monitoring effect on the German officials in the colonies.

German officials believed that they were Ernst's reliance, and Ernst's over-reliance on the Chinese would lead to instability in the East African colonies.

Compared with the Germans hired by money and the students of the Hechingen Military Academy trained by himself, Ernst certainly trusted the students he trained more.

But people's hearts are unpredictable, so Ernst did not dare to hand over the colony to them. He would rather use Germans who are not very high-level (mostly retired veterans from the army and mercenaries who have gone overseas, and only a few high-level people are Hexinggen) managers of the consortium).

And this time the migration of people from the Austrian Empire was also to prevent the Chinese immigrants from dominating the family.

Ernst is just a feudal aristocrat with the ambition to open up the map, and there are always people who suspect Ernst is white-skinned and yellow-hearted.

In fact, Ernst didn't think about it that way. In addition to fulfilling the great ideals of his previous life, to establish a powerful country in East Africa and prevent those aboriginals from wasting the great land in Africa, Ernst has always put the interests of the Hohenzollern family into consideration. Put it first.

In Ernst's own opinion, Africa can support at least two world-class powers, one is West Africa and the other is Southeast Africa.

West Africa is a densely populated area with mixed forces from various countries. Colonists from various countries have their own sphere of influence on the Gold Coast, while in East Africa there is only the Portuguese as a top player.

Cape Town, South Africa has been controlled by the British, and the Boers are not easy to mess with, so it is not a good place to start.

In East Africa, there is basically only Portugal, a country that has gone downhill, and Ernst, the Sultanate of Zanzibar next door, has not been taken seriously (the colonial force has surpassed Zanzibar.).

The development of East Africa must squeeze out all the aborigines, and the best way to squeeze out the aborigines is to use immigrants to occupy the land of the Indians like the Americans.

For example, in the German East Africa in the previous life, when the local officials reported to the German government, it was impossible for white people to settle in Tanganyika on a large scale, and the large-scale land cultivation must be done by local labor.

So it’s not that Ernst doesn’t want to use Germans, but that there are too few Germans, and the population of the German region is just enough. Before the wars in Germany continued, many people chose to go abroad and immigrate overseas. Now Germany is basically stable under the control of Prussia. down.

The Germans, who were not threatened by war, naturally chose to stay in Germany, and the Prussian industry, which already had a unified foundation, developed rapidly, which was a bigger cake and could better solve the unemployment problem.

In addition, the standard of living in the German region itself is top-notch in this era, so Germans would rather wait than go abroad easily.

Even the Germans in Austria will give priority to the German region when choosing where to work and live.

Therefore, if you want to develop Africa, you must have a large amount of surplus labor, and the countries with the most abundant labor in the world are the Russian Empire, India, and the Qing Dynasty.

Russians are not easy to think about. After all, Russians live in temperate, sub-frigid and frigid regions all year round, where they are exposed to the African environment.

And India Ernst is even more impossible to use, not to mention the poor reputation of Indians in the previous life, India will still be a rare and powerful opponent in East Africa in the Indian Ocean in the future, and Ernst's ambition is to dominate the Indian Ocean.

And a unified India has the ability to interfere in all countries around the Indian Ocean. Later generations of Indians rely on the Indians who stayed in Africa during the British colonial era to influence the politics of African countries.

The Qing Dynasty did not have the capability of India, and its furthest impact was the Strait of Malacca. The problem is that Ernst never saw the Imperial Navy break through the first island chain until his death, let alone Malacca.

To be honest, as long as India chokes Malacca, it can kill half the life of the imperial economy. First, the main channel of oil and energy is interrupted. We all know that the two countries are superficially brothers, but the common threat prompts the two sides to stand together. It would be stupid for anyone to have real feelings.

Weakening India in the future is East Africa's long-term strategy. There can only be one hegemon in the Indian Ocean, and the goal of East Africa in the future is hegemony in the Indian Ocean.

Passages like the Strait of Malacca are also the goal of future East African colonies.

The first two cannot be used, so the only choice is Chinese immigrants. Ernst was a Chinese in his previous life, so he naturally has a good impression of the Chinese in his heart, and the Chinese are really easy to use.

Now Ernst is an out-and-out German. In terms of identity, Germany is of course the priority. After all, one's own identity as a German in this life cannot be changed, and the priority of the German is his own priority.

As for the development of the East African colonies, which of the Germans who took advantage of the development would be willing to come?It was impossible to let them come with a high salary, and Ernst's money was not blown by the wind. Just the two thousand Germans hired at the beginning accounted for a lot of Ernst's investment in East Africa.

Even the immigrants who flicked over from Austria were nothing but the ancestral farmers of the Hungarians and Slavs.

The population of the Austrian Empire can only be counted as the second tier, and the composition is complicated. Ernst doesn't care. After all, the United States of later generations is also ruled by Saxons from immigrants from all over the world. The largest immigrant group is German, and Latinos are in The rise of the United States cannot change the fact that the American Saxons are the ruling class, and English is the basis for maintaining American rule.

The country Ernst wants to build is naturally a German-speaking country, and all cultures are on par with Germany. After Tanzania became independent, English was still used as the official language. Therefore, race is second, and language and cultural identity are the basis of governance.

Otherwise, there is no need for a country like Brazil to exist at all. It is the Portuguese language and cultural identity that maintains the unity of Brazil.

Moreover, even if Ernst wants to recruit people from Germany on a large scale, it is currently impossible. If he learns from the United States and recruits some fraudsters and robbers, it will not work.

The United States is relying on its family and business, and its comprehensive conditions are the best in the world. Otherwise, the crime rate in the United States is basically the same as that in South America. The only difference is that Americans are really rich, while South America is really poor.

The inability to recruit Germans now does not mean that they will not be able to recruit in the future. The East African colony has been developed in the future, and naturally some people are willing to come and develop it. Moreover, there will be two world wars and the economic crisis. These are good opportunities for Ernst to start in Europe. Don't worry.

Conversely, if East Africa cannot be developed, even if they go to Europe and beg them to immigrate, they will not come.

Therefore, everything in the East African colonies is currently centered on the development of wasteland to improve agricultural construction, and the future will only be achieved after construction is completed.

When the agricultural conditions are mature and enter the stage of industrialization, it is the time when large-scale introduction of European immigrants is really needed.

As for the problem of excessive Chinese immigration, it is not a threat at all until the East African indigenous people are cleared, and Ernst has already begun to seek European immigration to balance the number of Chinese.

Both European colonists and Chinese immigrants are latecomers to the invasion of East Africa. They are just the relationship between the mastermind and the accomplice. After cleaning up the aborigines, there will be no peace of mind between the two races in the future. This is the effect Ernst wants. It’s easy to mention racial conflicts, just like the vast majority of Americans ignore Indians.

And Ernst did not learn from the United States and South Africa to practice apartheid. The current East African colonies follow the model of Brazil and Cuba. In the final analysis, cultural identity comes first.

Naturally, cultural identity must be instilled from an early age. Don't look at the immigrants in the colonies who don't have much culture. In fact, they are very good at heart!They have not received cultural education, but they have social experience passed down from their ancestors.

Wanting to change the thinking of the first generation of immigrants through education is basically thankless. As long as Ernst ensures that they can have a full meal, they will be grateful to Dade.

After all, the current Chinese don’t have any political ideas in their minds, unlike the unruly people in Europe who tried to make political appeals. Before the Republic of China, the Chinese would only rebel if they really couldn’t eat.

But if the Republic of China really came, Ernst would not recruit immigrants from the Far East. At that time, instead of recruiting immigrants, he recruited unscrupulous people who participated in the rebellion every day. All foreigners missed my Qing Dynasty. He really made me cry.

Ernst thought.

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The evil cause of colonization cannot be cleaned up. Ernst chose to drag the Chinese into the water. As an accomplice, the future has entered modernization, and the descendants of the Chinese in East Africa will not be able to speak hard.

Everyone learns from the tacit understanding of the United States. Let’s just pretend that there are no indigenous people in East Africa. The integration of German and Chinese is the kingly way.

Ernst did not choose to deal with the aborigines like the United States did to the Indians, even if it is the Holy Mother of God, none of the colonists in the current world is more noble than Ernst.

(End of this chapter)