Chapter 1117 Public Opinion
After the cruiser Luanda completed the rescue mission, not long after, the Titanic completely exceeded its carrying capacity. The entire ship quickly sank into the Atlantic Ocean, causing a stormy sea in the Atlantic Ocean, and some lifeboats that did not come and were far away were also affected.
There were still some lifeboats around the Titanic. The Luanda mainly used the Titanic as its main rescue target at that time. Naturally, it was estimated that the lifeboats that had been scattered around would greatly distract and consume the Luanda. The rescue force loses more than it gains.
And some lifeboats, due to improper operation, did not leave the area affected by the sinking of the Titanic in time, and were also brought under the water of the Atlantic Ocean by this terrifying cruise ship.
After it was confirmed that the Titanic had completely sunk, the cruiser Luanda began to return to the scene and released a large rescue bomb to guide the lifeboats that had gone out before the Titanic sank to move closer to the Luanda.
The rescue activities continued until another British merchant ship arrived. At this time, the Luanda could only evacuate first. After all, the wounded and supplies would take time, and the Luanda could not stay there forever.
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Rhine City.
"Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean..."
Ernst was somewhat silent about the news sent back by the Luanda, because it was really a coincidence, because the rescue of the Titanic was not at all what Ernst expected.
Although Ernst was relatively familiar with the Titanic, a famous ship in its previous life, Ernst never thought about saving this tragedy.
The most important thing is that Ernst had no idea that the Titanic would sink this year. After all, sitting in Ernst's position, he received information about major national events every day. Who would care about a British ship thousands of miles away? Cruise ship.
As for the mission of the cruiser Luanda, it was entirely arranged by the naval department, and Ernst had no involvement at all, so the Luanda's encounter with the Titanic this time was completely out of Ernst's calculations.
Of course, this is not a bad thing for East Africa. It can still have a positive publicity effect on the international image of East Africa. Especially the cruiser Luanda, as an East African warship, rescued a British cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The most famous cruise ship, there is just too much drama.
As for the arrangements for the cruiser Luanda, this aspect is naturally a good opportunity for the media of East African countries to promote East Africa.
Ernst told Merk: "To commend all the officers and soldiers of the cruiser Luanda is an opportunity to show the good image of our army."
Merke nodded and said: "Yes, Your Highness."
For Ernst, now that the East African warship Luanda's rescue of the Titanic is a foregone conclusion, the next step is to maximize the benefits.
After all, saving so many people this time is likely to have a huge impact on the trajectory of history. You must know that many people on the Titanic were rich or noble. Who knows what kind of impact these people will have on the future of history after they survive. Waves.
Of course, history has changed a long time ago, so it is a done deal. Ernst does not care much about the interference of the Titanic incident on history. After all, Ernst himself is the biggest interference factor in the development of history.
East Africa has never had a positive influence in British public opinion. Even the East-British reconciliation has not been able to immediately change the British people's attitude towards East Africa.
As a world hegemon, Britain also controls the hegemony of world public opinion. Since the end of the South African War, the British government has relied on this hegemony of public opinion to conduct a dark campaign in East Africa for nearly two decades. Even the poorest patriot from the East End of London can't help but spit on the ground when he talks about the country of East Africa.
In British public opinion, the image of East Africa can be said to be no less than their ridicule of the French or Americans. After all, the birth of East Africa destroyed the British grand strategy of colonizing Africa. East Africa itself now has a land of more than 10 million square kilometers. It can be said that Most of them were colonies of the British in their previous lives.
Of course, what the British hate most is the disastrous defeat of the South African War. Although the South African War was advertised as a draw, everyone knows that for Britain, the most powerful country in the world, a draw is just a fig leaf. .
Britain, which could not defeat East Africa by force, naturally had to make up for it in other ways. However, Britain's economic sanctions were not significant, and it only achieved revenge on East Africa in terms of public opinion.
All in all, the national image of East Africa is definitely not a positive one because of the British incompetence and the deliberate guidance of the British government.
At other times, East Africa would naturally not care too much about this, but at this time, East Africa needs the goodwill of the British to obtain more investments and loans from the British.
So Ernst said: "Now when we borrow money from abroad, the UK always looks down upon East Africa because of stereotypes and arrogance. This is definitely not a good thing for us."
“After all, the UK is now the most capital-rich country in the world. If we want to obtain development funds, we cannot ignore the UK, and the UK’s long-term negative publicity against our country puts us at a disadvantage in trade with the UK.”
Although Britain lost millions of square kilometers of black African land in its previous life because of East Africa, Britain is still the world's largest colonial country and maintains its position as the world's financial center.
In this way, the pound can maintain a strong currency value even excluding British industry. After all, the pound can circulate in most parts of the world and represents the strongest purchasing power in the world today.
Therefore, it is impossible for any country to bypass the pound in its foreign trade, and the same is naturally true for East Africa. For example, the trade between East Africa and India must be completed with the pound as the main medium.
East Africa can purchase the goods, machinery and raw materials it wants in most parts of the world if it gets enough pounds.
However, it is also fortunate that the pound is far from as stable as the US dollar hegemony in the previous generation. Otherwise, it would be impossible for East Africa to bypass the UK to achieve industrialization.
However, obtaining a large amount of pounds sterling is absolutely beneficial to the development of East Africa's own industry. However, the negative public opinion of the United Kingdom on East Africa has affected East Africa's ability to obtain more pounds sterling through borrowing, investment promotion, or trade to accelerate the development of its own industry.
This is why Ernst wanted to use the Titanic as a breakthrough to change the negative impression of British people on East Africa.
Ernst: “The more favorable British public opinion is to us, the more industrial development funds we can obtain, thereby opening up the British colonial market in exchange for the resources and energy we want. The British itself controls a market with a population of more than 400 million people. , and the Titanic incident will also allow us to open up sales in this huge market of 400 million people.”
In the British colonial market, many British colonies originally had a bad impression of the country in East Africa because of the attitude of the mother country. This is unavoidable. For example, in the Far East Empire in the previous life, a certain area that the British colonized, even after the British left, The poison is still difficult to eliminate and has persisted into the 21st century.
Britain directly controls the public opinion of nearly 400 million people. It can discredit East Africa by just writing a few articles. And now East Africa's rescue of the Titanic is a positive event that cannot be covered up. If it can be used well, not only It can greatly change the attitude of the British toward East Africa, and it can also greatly improve the attitude of the large market of 400 million people controlled by the British toward East Africa.
Emotions themselves can affect trade. After all, trade boycotts have been common in history. Similarly, the improvement of British public opinion towards East Africa can also greatly stimulate East Africa's foreign trade.
(End of this chapter)