Chapter 101 Recruitment
Prince Constantine deserves to be a well-known figure in the south of Germany. He won the support of the southern states just by communicating with the nobles from all over the country.
For the South German nobles, emigrating overseas is actually a good thing. The South German region is mainly based on agricultural planting, and farmers are a group with a high fertility rate.
In addition, the land in southern Germany is fertile, and the living standards of farmers are not bad. In normal years, they are free to live, but they can't do it when there is a famine.
South Germany already has a high population density, and the aristocratic territory itself has no shortage of population, so naturally it cannot control the lives of those victims. Anyway, the land is in the hands of the aristocrats. You don’t farm the land, you have people.
The industrial level in South Germany is not high (compared with Prussia and Austria), and it cannot digest the remaining population.
So unemployed farmers can only find their own way out. Before that, most of the South German farmers went to the United States.
It’s not that the conditions in the United States are so good, but that German immigrants really have nowhere to go. European countries reject immigrants because of religion, population and other reasons, and Britain fooled many Germans to North America in order to develop North America.
For these Germans who went to America, it is not ruled out that a few people can get ahead, but the lives of more people have not improved much, and the earlier the German immigrants are, the more difficult the living conditions are, and many German immigrants have become the so-called " Indentured slaves” had a higher status than black slaves.
However, due to historical inertia and the improving attitude of the United States towards immigrants (even black slaves have been liberated), going to the United States is still the first choice for German immigrants.
Especially recently, Prussia has basically stabilized and mastered the North German region, so North German immigrants have been greatly reduced.
The south has not yet been controlled by Prussia, coupled with poor grain harvests, immigration has not decreased but increased (1866 to 1869 was a peak of South German immigration. Data source network.)
But the situation on the American side has improved again. After the Civil War ended, the United States began to develop the western inland again, and the demand for immigrants increased.
So Ernst is going to **** people from the Americans now, and the chance of success this time is absolutely high.
In the past, the German region did not have its own colonies overseas. (Countries such as Prussia and Austria tried, but most of them were spontaneous actions of businessmen, so they failed.) Immigrants in the German region can only choose to go to the British colonies to survive.
Now the East African colony is a colony developed by the Germans themselves (Hexingen is a German vassal state. After being incorporated into Prussia, its nominal status was retained, and it participated in Prussian politics as a vassal state.), and it has a vast area and has also been initially developed. The conditions are not bad, giving German immigrants a new option.
This is not the most important thing. The main advantage is that Heixinggen itself is one of the local snakes in the South German region, and it is connected with the nobles in the South German region, and they are all of their own.
The residents of South Germany are all the subjects of the nobility, and the serfdom system was not long ago abolished (for example, Bavaria abolished serfdom in 1808), and the nobility still has a profound influence on the local farmers.
Therefore, as long as the support of nobles from all over the country is obtained, Hexingen can obtain a large number of immigrants who originally went to the United States in history.
Historically, the German immigrants who went to the United States were not interested in politics, which is similar to the Far East immigrant group, which made it easier for Ernst to operate.
Of course, it is impossible to eat all these immigrants. After all, some people may choose to go to the United States to join relatives and friends. Such people are a minority after all, and Ernst doesn’t care.
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Kingdom of Württemberg.
The people who came to inquire were mostly German peasants in ragged clothes.
"Sir, I have never heard of this East African colony. Is it reliable for us to live and work there?" Orucci Reis, a farmer from the Kingdom of Württemberg, and Eric Knight, a staff member of the Hechingen Consortium Said.
"You can rest assured that the East African colony is a territory developed overseas by the Germans themselves. Its area is larger than the two German regions. Now there are more than one million Germans living there, mainly because the people who were recruited before were all Austrians. Residents of the Hungarian Empire, so it’s normal that you haven’t heard of it.” Eric Knight exaggerated, he boasted that all the people in the entire East African colony (including the indigenous people) were Germans, and fooled this group of people to go to East Africa with peace of mind. .
"Uh... How much is more than one million? Sir, I can count to ten with one hand without reading a book! Can you compare it with us." A farmer asked in embarrassment.
Eric Knight suddenly felt embarrassed, but for the sake of performance, he still said kindly: "Your village, on the map of the Kingdom of Württemberg, is about the size of a grain of wheat thrown into a pond. And there are hundreds of villages like yours in the Kingdom of Württemberg, and the combined population of all villages and cities in the Kingdom of Württemberg is the same as the population of the East African colonies."
"Ah! There are so many people in East Africa, just like the whole kingdom, why do you recruit us to develop it!" A farmer asked in confusion.
Good guy, what I said before is in vain, and Eric Knight has nothing to do. The knowledge level of the villagers in this village is too low to understand what he said at all, but Eric Knight did not give up. It's so foolish, it's just a waste of time.
"This is not the same, how about it, I will draw on the ground for you."
Eric Knight found a branch, squatted on the ground, and cleared a clearing.
"This is the Kingdom of Württemberg." As he spoke, he drew a small circle on the ground with a branch the size of a thumbnail.
"And this is the East African colony." Eric Knight stretched out his arm and drew a large circle with a diameter of one meter, "Look, this is the difference in size between Württemberg and the East African colony. Compared with the land of the Kingdom of Württemberg, it is the difference in the size of the land between the Kingdom of Württemberg and the East African colonies."
"Look, the East African colony has as much land as the population of such a small Württemberg, so the East African colony needs to recruit people to develop it!" Eric Knight talked to the villagers.
"What does East Africa look like? Is it the same as Württemberg? Is the land there fertile? How about the rain?" A villager asked.
"East Africa! It's similar to ours, neither hot nor cold, the land is flat, the precipitation is similar to ours, and there are many rivers, which are very suitable for growing crops. Of course, there are some disadvantages, that is, there are too few people and more wild animals. But everyone can rest assured that the East African colonial government will organize the army to clean up the wild beasts, and then arrange for everyone to develop the land, and there is no problem with safety." Eric Knight said half-truthfully.
In fact, the Germans who immigrated to the East African colonies now basically do not go to those desolate places.
In order to balance the Chinese immigrants, Ernst must split up the German immigrants and stuff them into the existing colonial cities and settlements.
So the worst thing for German immigrants is to be assigned to well-developed villages, and they don't even think about settling alone in groups.
After all, if East Africa is to assimilate Chinese culture and achieve Germanization, Chinatowns cannot be allowed to exist like in later Southeast Asia.
You all live together, so you don’t need to communicate with other ethnic groups, so how can you integrate into each other.
As for why Eric Knight deceived these villagers, it was actually to dispel the concerns of these villagers.
After all, if you want to boast about East Africa like a flower, all its advantages will definitely arouse the vigilance of the villagers. Only by telling the shortcomings of East Africa can they dispel their suspicions, and at the same time, they cannot scare away these villagers.
And the beast is a good excuse, there is indeed a certain danger, and it also proves that there are indeed many wastelands in East Africa, and the colonial government of East Africa sent troops to clean them up, which can reassure these villagers subconsciously, after all, how could the beast be beaten? Army of guns.
(end of this chapter)