Chapter 112 Population and Agriculture
The ideology of East Africa in the future is a form of civilization, that is, German civilization. As for democracy, freedom, and equality, Ernst, a traditional aristocrat, should not learn it. Using that set of banners is digging his own grave.
In German culture, nationalism, order, the rule of law, and conservatism are the foundation of Ernst.
These are what a feudal monarch should vigorously promote. Putting on some beautiful clothes, such as technology and sports, the Hexingen royal family can continue in East Africa.
Compared with public opinion and propaganda, these will definitely not be able to match the future of the United States and the Soviet Union in the future, but can you slander the other party!
Anyway, after the twentieth century, all problems will be solved, and everyone will be able to see that the world is as black as crows.
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Regardless of these, the most important thing in East Africa right now is to vigorously immigrate. With immigration, there will be land development. Only when the land is developed can it be profitable. Only when there is profit can it continue to expand the strength of the colony, arm more troops, equip More advanced weapons.
Building East Africa into a European Switzerland, a hard bone that no one in Africa can chew, Ernst will be stable.
In two years, nearly 600,000 (580,000) immigrants have immigrated, and it will reach at least 500,000 next year.
On the one hand, Hexingen’s fleet has been expanding, and the cost of immigration has been falling. On the other hand, new sources of immigration are constantly being developed, especially in Europe and the United States.
Tsarist Russia (a large number of serfs went bankrupt due to the reform of serfdom), Italy (an important force for immigrants from North and South America), and South American countries are virgin lands with potential for future immigration.
The current number of immigrants from the Far East tends to be stable, unless some disasters and wars cause a large number of refugees, but the current situation in the Far East will be in a period of stability and development (Westernization Movement).
For the current Far East immigration policy, Ernst intends to continue until around 1890, because the end of the 19th century was the most chaotic period of Far East thought, and it was also the time when the Far East national consciousness began to wake up and reshape. At that time, Ernst will greatly improve the Far East The immigration threshold to prevent ghosts and monsters from entering.
From next year to 1890, there will be at least 22 years. Such a long time is enough to introduce the population needed to develop East Africa. Calculated at 200,000 a year, that is 4.4 million people.
Including other immigrants, in 1890, at least 10 million people could be introduced into East Africa, and the original East African immigrants were not wood, and they must have children.
You must know that the terrifying fertility of farmers in this era, before the First World War, the population of the East African colonies could at least triple, at least in terms of scale reaching or even surpassing the size of France.
Anyway, the source of the land that feeds these people is the indigenous people. Ernst and the East African government don’t feel sorry for them. Therefore, unswervingly completing the great cause of farming in East Africa is the foundation of East Africa’s business.
An agricultural country with sufficient size, coupled with a relatively complete mobilization system and weapons with no obvious generational difference in equipment, is enough for East Africa to protect itself in the world.
As for industry, you can take your time. Solve the agricultural problem first before you can have the energy to solve the industrial problem. After all, the industrial population needs agriculture to support it.
Develop industry as soon as they come up, what do these people eat?
It is impossible for the colonists of other countries to compete with the East African colonies on the African continent unless they invest a large number of native populations in Africa.
Relying on the aborigines may prevent the expansion of the East African colony, but the aborigines who get the weapons will also devour the lord. If other colonists do this, at most they will lose to the East African colonies.
If the 400,000 troops were dispatched like the British crusade against the Boers, the current East African colonies would definitely not be able to withstand it.
But by the time countries noticed Africa, East Africa had long been dominant. Only when capitalism developed to a certain stage, European powers would crazily enclose land around the world, and this time point was around 1890.
Twenty years of development time is Ernst's confidence to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai. As long as he strives to increase the East African immigrant population to tens of millions within 20 years, Ernst can say that he will not be afraid of anyone in Africa!
This is a question of the survival of the East African colonies, so Ernst's choice of agriculture as the entry point for colonization is well considered.
Agriculture is not very popular in the eyes of the colonists during this time period. Most colonists are keen on precious metal mines and plantations, or cultivated land like India and the Philippines.
Like Ernst, it is very rare to vigorously develop grain cultivation. Countries such as Tsarist Russia and Austria-Hungary in Europe are already big grain producers, and sometimes they face the problem of overcapacity. Therefore, the profit of grain cultivation is not too high, and it is not easy. Be targeted by other colonists.
Not to mention Ernst’s development of East Africa, he actually lost money at the beginning, although with the development of East Africa’s land and crops mature and harvest, East Africa can now maintain self-sufficiency while contributing some economic value.
But if you count the clothes, ships, rations, etc. needed by the immigrants; the various materials needed by the colony, such as fertilizers, guns and ammunition, etc., the East African colonies are now barely maintaining a balance of payments.
The colonists at this time were basically impatient. How could Ernst have the patience to develop the colony.
Britain has patiently cultivated the Americas, and as a result, it has raised the rebellious son of the United States, so there are risks in colonization.
Ernst is also facing this risk. One of the ways to suppress this risk is to suppress the spread of various ideas in the colonies.
The second is to treat the colonies as the native land. The future of East Africa is the foundation of Ernst. Even the current huge Hexingen consortium is not as important as East Africa in Ernst's eyes.
The future positioning of the Hexingen Consortium is to be an important capital force in the world rooted in East Africa, so it is clear at a glance which is more important.
The third is that the investment cannot be ineffective. Just like the British, the investment in the United States has been in vain. To do this, Ernst’s idea is not to give too many rights to East African immigrants at once, Sheng Mien, Doumi The allusion to Qiu went deep into Ernst's mind.
Of course, it is definitely unrealistic for the royal family of Hexingen to get all the benefits. The East African people are essentially partners of the royal family of Hexingen, so Ernst will gradually give the benefits to the people of East Africa.
This process will last at least until before World War II, that is, seventy or eighty years. If Ernst does not live that long, he will naturally arrange for future generations to continue to do this.
At that time, East Africa must be a constitutional monarchy system. Ernst will dismantle the Hechingen royal family in advance, one line will continue to act as the national monarch, and the other line will turn to a capitalist family like the United States.
When it is bright and dark, the Hohenzollern-Hechingen family can hide behind the scenes, and continue to influence and dominate East African politics through the Hechingen consortium and the military.
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