African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 97 Daily Life
Ernst can't control the life and death of the natives on the land of East Africa. As a colonist, he should be hard-hearted, otherwise he's just playing a fart, and he should end himself as soon as possible.

As a Western colonist, Ernst is completely a white lotus among his peers. After all, he is not as perverted as some countries, who use aboriginal...

Based on the principle that if you don’t think about it, you can treat it as if it didn’t happen. Ernst never thinks about the consequences in this regard, as long as the East African colonies complete their tasks according to their own goals. As for extinction, anyway, the East African colonies did not do it themselves. doesn't count.

On the one hand, he is in charge of the government affairs of the East African colonies, and on the other hand, he is taking care of the company's business in Europe. Ernst is busy most of the time.

Today, I took half a day off to drink afternoon tea with the old man in the garden.

Ernst drank authentic oriental green tea. There were only a few common beverages in this era. Anyway, Ernst was not used to drinking coffee, and he only tasted some when visiting others or entertaining guests.

Prince Constantine likes to drink coffee, and he is not surprised that his son likes oriental tea. After all, the British like to drink tea very much, and there are also tea sold by the Dutch in Germany. This kind of drink is not uncommon.

Ernst's own fleet will also bring some tea from the Far East, all of which are famous teas designated by Ernst himself, and the staff of the Far East will go to the tea area to purchase them in person.

Ernst did not embarrass the staff. After all, the current Heixingen consortium's business is mainly in the north, so most of them go to tea areas close to North China to purchase tea, such as Lu'an Guapian, Xinyang Maojian...

The tea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions is also good, but foreigners know a lot about it (Nanyang overseas Chinese merchants), and they are well-known, and the local dignitaries compete fiercely (the consumption in rich areas is high). Some of them are fake goods, especially Westerners like the staff of the Hexingen Consortium, who are the easiest to be fooled.

It is more reliable to go directly to the tea area to buy spot tea, and the inland tea area is not like the coast and the south, where foreigners are more common.

"Ernst, how is your East African colony doing recently? I haven't heard you mention it for a long time!" Prince Constantine asked while holding a coffee cup.

"Father, everything is under control now. Since the telegraph line was laid, I can now process messages from East Africa on the same day. Immigration is also increasing steadily. If there is no accident, it will still be possible to reach 50 by the end of the year." En Ster said to Prince Constantine.

Prince Constantine leaned back in his chair and said with a little surprise: "The East African colony has not been opened for two years! You have recruited so many people. The entire Hexingen plus the countryside is estimated to be more than tens of thousands!"

"Father, you need to understand a concept first. The area of ​​the East African colony is currently twice the size of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but the population of the East African colony is only one hundred of the population of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (the population of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was more than 1870 million in 3300) One-third, so this immigration is not enough." Ernst and Constantine said.

"Has so much land been developed in East Africa?" Constantine was a little surprised.

At the beginning, Ernst told himself that he didn't take the development of the East African colony seriously at all. Anyway, it's not a bad thing for children to have their own ideas, and it doesn't matter whether it succeeds or not.

I didn't expect my son to be so good. The original promise was basically fulfilled. The company and the bank were opened, and they became the top batch of European countries.

Konstantin also knew about buying Alaska with money, but it was a world of ice and snow, so there was nothing to say, so he just treated his son as a fool with too much money.

Constantine knew that the land in East Africa was Ernst's most important thing, but he didn't expect him to do it on his own (without the endorsement and support of national power).

"Having a population of 50 and a land area of ​​120 million square kilometers, that's pretty good! Württemberg and Baden together only have more than 200 million people (the province of Hohenzollern to which Hexingen belongs is sandwiched between the two, so Constant Ding compares the two.), 50 is not too little." Prince Constantine calculated.

"Among the immigrant population, how many Germans can there be?" Prince Constantine asked.

"Probably close to 1 people, mainly German immigrants in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In addition, there are [-] to [-] people from other ethnic groups in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Recently, I recruited some people from Paraguay." Ernst said.

"There are still fewer Germans. I just want to tell you some news. In the past few years, the food production in the south (Germany) has been reduced. Many people have been forced to leave their homes and go out to make a living. I didn't notice it because of the war before, and then went home (black) Xingen) stayed for a while, and the steward told me that the grain production in the territory this year is indeed a little less than in previous years. Württemberg, Baden, Bavaria and other regions are similar. This is an opportunity. I will go with them (South Germany Nobles in the area) to talk about it, let them drain you, it’s convenient." Constantine said calmly.

Hearing this, Ernst was overjoyed. He has been wandering between Berlin and Vienna recently, without paying attention to the situation in his hometown. If his father hadn't come to Berlin this time for business, he might have missed this opportunity.

"Father, you are really helpful. Then you can tell your old guys that I can take as many immigrants as there are this time. There are plenty of local arrangements in East Africa." Ernst said excitedly.

This is a proper high-quality immigrant, which fully meets all Ernst's requirements for immigrants. The Germans are still farmers, and their cultural level is not high (the popularity of compulsory education in South Germany is not as good as that in North Germany).

The southwest region has always been an important area for German overseas immigrants, accounting for more than 30.00% of the total.

If these immigrants can be well utilized, at least 10,000+ pure German population can be added in East Africa (currently many immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the East African colonies are OEM Germans).

Coupled with the education of Paraguayan children, it is possible to change their identity in this generation, and then the German population will be barely equal to that of Chinese immigrants (Chinese and white people who marry are automatically classified as mixed races, not Chinese groups.)
Although there are many fake and shoddy Germans, after two or three generations, they will be the original German nation. Naturally, there are families in the West, such as the Hohenzollern family where Ernst belongs. Every branch is clearly traceable. There is no difference from the East.

However, ordinary people in the West do not have the concept of clans like Easterners. For example, in the Far East and South, ordinary people would rather not have the ability and financial resources to build a family tree, but most of them live together in a family. The rich and famous people in the family will Organize the continuation of the genealogy together, so the average person in the East is descended from nobles.

In the West, however, the boundaries between nobles and commoners are clear, and only when nobles recognize each other can they be considered true nobles. Therefore, commoners don't care about their own background at all, and they can't change it if they care.

So when they arrived in East Africa, these immigrants would not know who their ancestors were after just two or three generations of education. At most, they could remember the grandparents of the first generation of immigrants.

After all, with the cultural level of farmers in this era, many recording methods rely on memory rather than words, which will form a recording gap.

At that time, relying on the colonial education system to indoctrinate immigrant children with ideas, Ernst will do what he says, and it is not impossible to rebuild a nation.

(End of this chapter)