Chapter 1139 The tricolor flag falls
Immigration also needs channels. In the past, East Africa established two major immigration recruitment systems in Germany and the Far Eastern Empire.
However, with the economic development of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German region has now changed from a population outflow area to a population inflow area, so since 1890, this system has basically been paralyzed.
East Africa's immigration system in the Far East has always been maintained at a certain scale. Of course, the main purpose of East Africa absorbing immigrants in the Far East is to supplement the East African colonial population, not the native population. Now East Africa suddenly has nearly one million square kilometers more in its hands out of thin air. Land, the gap for immigrants has also increased accordingly.
Herman: "This is not a small project. Nowadays, most of our ships need to transport war supplies to Europe, so it is not easy to immigrate millions of people to Togoland."
East African ships not only have to facilitate the export of local goods to Europe, but also take into account commodity trade in the Far East, South America, the Middle East and other regions. The pressure is very huge. It can be said that the current shipping industry has a shortage of ships. This situation is not conducive to East Africa. The so-called immigration program was carried out.
Hermann's words reminded Ernst that now is indeed not a good time to immigrate, so he can only put it on hold for the time being.
However, Ernst said: "It is difficult to carry out the immigration plan, so we must first start with implementing and consolidating the local ruling order."
"Although these colonies already belong to the empire in name, the local ruling class is basically German, and we still have a lot of preliminary work to do."
"The military and officials must make arrangements first, and they must also be responsible for some communication with the local Germans. After all, East Africa and Germany are fundamentally different."
After all, East Africa and Germany are two countries, so the methods of local governance and corresponding policies must be completely different. This will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among some German businessmen and colonial groups.
However, this matter can be easily solved. The German colonies originally had few troops, but now they have all withdrawn to the country for the First World War. When the East African troops are in place, they can successfully accept the local government. As for the local Germans, they are not a climate at all.
The main reason is that they are small in number. Take German Central Africa as an example. Before that, there were only a few thousand Germans in the entire German Central Africa. These thousands of people also included the German colonial army. Now that the German colonial army is about to return home, can they stay? Even fewer Germans came down.
After talking about Germany's colonies in Africa, the East African government finally began to shift the topic to Germany's bunch of islands in the Pacific.
The East African government has a headache when it comes to arranging these large numbers of islands. The main reason is that they are too far away.
Ernst said: "It is certainly not easy to rule these islands, but it is also a great opportunity for us to establish our influence in the Pacific region, and at the same time, we can use this opportunity to form a certain deterrent to Australia."
This is actually complete bullshit. How can we use deterrence to deal with colonial countries like Australia? To be honest, if it were not a British colony, East Africa would have taken action on Australia long ago.
Of course, no one can say that Australia is unimportant. Although the environment is a bit harsh, it is still a continent and is definitely rich in various resources.
Sweet also nodded and said: "If we want to deal with Australia in the future, we really need some strongholds, and our mainland is indeed far away from Australia, so the location of these islands is good."
This is probably the only time the East African government can find the important value of Germany's Pacific colonies. As for resources, except for Nauru, most of them are better than nothing for East Africa at this stage.
The most important resource on the small island of Nauru is "guano". The guano accumulated over the years has formed rich phosphate resources and is very easy to mine.
When it comes to minerals like phosphate, Ernst can't help but think that the Germans are really picky about places. For example, in the Togoland colony, its most valuable mineral is also phosphate.
The main reason why Ernst said this is that in the previous life, Nauru was snatched from Germany by Australia under the arrangement of the British. Therefore, it is still necessary to send troops to Nauru, although there is a high probability that Australia will not have the courage to provoke East Africa. Of course, the extra troops Ernst said would only amount to a hundred or ten people at most. Nauru, a small island, could not bear it. After all, the population of Nauru was only a few thousand.
In addition to Nauru, among Germany's Pacific colonies, the island of New Guinea deserves attention. This colony is relatively complex.
To the south of German New Guinea was the British colony, and to the west it was bordered by the Dutch East Indies colonies, forming a tripartite situation.
The area of German New Guinea is not small. Even if the United Kingdom and the Netherlands occupy the majority, Germany still has more than 200,000 square kilometers, so some people must be stationed here in a symbolic manner.
Of course, don’t expect the East African government to develop these islands. Currently, East Africa has no energy or ability to develop and construct these Pacific islands.
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Libreville.
"Dudududu..."
During the performance of the symphony orchestra, the flag of the Second German Empire slowly fell, and the flag of the Rhine Empire with the lion emblem on one side slowly rose to the top of the flagpole, fluttering in the sea breeze blowing from the South Atlantic, announcing Lieber Vail has a new owner.
A few years ago, the French flag was still flying here, and then it was abandoned by France because of the Moroccan crisis. However, its new owner, Germany, also handed over the ownership rights here to East Africa in less than a year.
Watching the German flag fall and finally be put away, the Germans present were very sad. After all, this farewell was not only the end of German rule in the local area, but also their last peaceful time before heading to the European battlefield.
Among them, Xavier, the governor of German Central Africa, also had a very complicated mood. A year ago, he hoped to realize the great blueprint for the development of German Central Africa through the hands of East Africa. The result is now good, and the entire German overseas colonies have directly become East African. .
Of course, Xavier also knows that this is very necessary for local decisions. Now Germany has no time to manage these overseas colonies, so it is better to throw these burdens to East Africa.
But now, the war has begun in the homeland, and he will also be on his way home, with only more than 1,600 armed men rushing back to the homeland to join the war. No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Now Germany is facing the siege of three major powers, so Germany is Although there are not many troops stationed in overseas colonies, they can only choose to recall them all, which can at least relieve some pressure on military strength.
In this war, the native populations of Britain, France, and Russia were nearly three times that of Germany. The mobilization potential of the three countries alone overwhelmed Germany.
"Your Excellency Andel, I hope you in East Africa can treat this land well. After all, this place left a deep impression on me. If I am still alive after the war, I will definitely come back to see this place where I lived and worked. I hope It reaches its full potential in your hands.”
Xavier has deep feelings for German Central Africa. After all, even if the entire area of German Central Africa is compared with the German mainland, it is not much different.
Therefore, Xavier, who previously controlled such a large land, also experienced extraordinary happiness in German Central Africa. It is not an exaggeration to even say that he was the earth king of German Central Africa.
Andel, who was responsible for taking over German Central Africa, said: "Don't worry! Governor Xavier, since we in East Africa have taken over this place, we will make it the homeland of our Germans. I also look forward to your safe return from the European battlefield." On that day, witness the new face of Libreville.”
In response to Andel's words, Xavier just smiled with a complex expression, and then said: "In that case, let's say goodbye here!"
He waved to the others, then boarded the ship with the troops from the former German Central African colonies and officially embarked on the journey back home.
(End of chapter)