African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 92

South America, Paraguay.

Allied occupation of the area (Tripartite South America).

Devon Gearhart watched George Swinding come out of the village with a large group of children.

"Mr. Swinding, if the old man knows your good deeds, he will reward you with good health and the prosperity of your company's business." Devon Gearhart said.

George Swinding said: "General Gearhart, you are joking. We just don't want to see these children suffer. War has nothing to do with these innocent children."

"As a soldier, my duty is to obey. Although there is no distinction between good and evil in this war, I am a participant in the war after all. Their parents may be innocent people who died in the war, but I can do nothing. The reprimand made me support your company's work even more," Gearhart said.

Gearhart, an officer on the Argentine side of the Paraguayan War, is currently resting in Paraguay.

George is an employee of the Hechingen Consortium. This time he went on a business trip to South America to take care of the orphans caused by the war.

The population problem has always been the biggest problem facing the East African colonies, and there is no rush to solve the population problem in the East African colonies.

Otherwise, the introduction of a large number of garbage populations would have solved the problem long ago, and even the local aborigines would be enough without introducing them.

The problem is that this is certainly not what Ernst wanted. What Ernst wanted was stable and well-governed immigrants.

For a long time, the Far East has been the main force of East African immigrants, but Ernst's strict restrictions have caused the number of Far East immigrants to East Africa to completely fail to reflect the population of the Far East.

On the one hand, in order to culturally assimilate the immigrants in the East African colonies, Ernst introduced a large number of illiterate people.

On the other hand, Ernst also had to balance the populations of the parties, so that one of them could not have an absolute advantage.

For example, with the recent immigration from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ernst was a little worried that too many Yugoslavs were brought in, and most of them were Croatians and Serbs, especially the Serbs who were still on a rapid upward trend.

So Ernst tried his best to obtain more sources of immigrants.

A caring person, God does not give up.

This opportunity has just come.

Coincidentally, Ernst suddenly discovered an unremarkable piece of news while reading the newspaper recently.

The content of the news happened in South America. In this era, there are not many news about South America in Europe.

What is written!It was the worst war in South American history, the Paraguay War.

How tragic is this war!

According to statistics, the population of Paraguay in 1865 was 525000, but in 1871, there were only 221079 people left in Paraguay.Among them, there were 106254 women, 86079 children, and only 28746 adult men.

This war completely exhausted the potential of Paraguay, leaving a large number of widows and orphans, and also created the unique polygamy system in Paraguay in the previous life.

Now, the war is not over yet, but Paraguay is already powerless. More than half of its soldiers in its 1-strong army are old people and children.

In addition to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, the enemies facing the Paraguayans are the British who are behind the scenes of the Three Kingdoms.

Just this year, the Triple Alliance had just re-enlarged its military, and Paraguay was about to face an even more brutal situation, that's what the newspapers said.

Thinking of the severely unbalanced population ratio of Paraguay after the war, Ernst thought that this is the opposite of the East African colonies?
Paraguay has more women than men, while the East African colonies currently have more men than women.

Putting this question aside, Ernst is also greedy for the orphans born of the war.

The younger you are, the younger you are, and the room for reforming your thoughts and culture will be larger.

Moreover, most of the Paraguayans are Hispanic, which can be used to balance the colonial population. It is still mainly women and children, and it is a proper high-quality immigrant.

So Ernst embarked on a plan to pull people in South America, and through money to clear the way, the Hechingen Consortium quickly contacted Argentine government officials.

In the name of not being able to bear the displacement of so many orphans during the war, the Hexingen Foundation plans to adopt these children who lost their relatives due to the war.

Not only that, single women who lost their husbands in the war can also take their children to live in East Africa.

Now most of the men in Paraguay are conscripted and sacrificed in the flames of war, leaving behind a large number of single-parent families.

These single-parent families are currently the main force of Paraguay's domestic residents, and most of them are women who have lost their husbands and brought their children.

There are also some single women who have not yet married, and the young and middle-aged men in Paraguay are almost exhausted by the war.

This is not nonsense. Most of the men who are not running in Paraguay are in the army, and the age range for recruiting soldiers is gradually expanding.

From the gray-haired old man to the underage children, they can be seen in the Paraguayan army.

At the end of this war, children of seven or eight years old and female soldiers could even be seen in the army.

Currently, the ruler of Paraguay, Francisco Lopez, is not dead and continues to resist, so the Paraguayan government still exists.

And Ernst's recruitment of orphans and population from Paraguay will undoubtedly make the future of Paraguay worse.

Paraguay, which is going through a war, already has a large population reduction, so how can it withstand Ernst's poaching.

Without the population, what will Paraguay, which has ceased the war in the future, use to continue to develop. Ernst has no control over the life and death of the Paraguayan government.

As long as this group of immigrants can be attracted, it will contribute to the development of the East African colonies and stabilize the ruling foundation of the East African colonies.

With so many single women, or forced single women, some with children, life in the East African colony was bound to be difficult despite the promise of subsidies and free education.

And these people are not machines, and their own emotional problems have to be solved. It's not that Ernst is talking nonsense, those single men from the Far East are really hungry, even if they marry with their children, it doesn't matter.

Many of them don't care about adopting the children of their ex-husbands a few years ago. After all, families in the Far East can support as many as they can. It is too common for a family to have seven or eight children.

However, Chinese immigrants are influenced by traditional concepts. As long as they can stay in the future, they have completed the tasks assigned by their ancestors. It is not a big deal to adopt the children of their ex-husbands.

It doesn't matter what Ernst thinks, anyway, no one can guess his mind, and it doesn't matter that there are smart people in the Paraguayan government who can see his plan.

First in Paraguay, it is already difficult to protect himself, so Ernst has no idea of ​​​​talking to Francisco Lopez at all, and directly bribes the officials of the Triple Alliance who are fighting against Paraguay. how many people.

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Gearhart asked: "Excuse me, but I don't know if your company really intends to adopt so many orphans? It's not dozens or hundreds, it's estimated that tens of thousands are possible in Paraguay!"

George said: "In this regard, you don't have to worry too much. The boss of our company is a nobleman of the Kingdom of Prussia and the prince of the Hohenzollern Hechingen family. He has an absolutely reliable reputation. You must know that he often recruits orphans from the Far East and Germany. Funding them to go to school, the future is bright for these kids."

(End of this chapter)