Chapter 56 Balance
Ernst returned from Austria to his home in Hechingen and spent Christmas in 1866 with Prince Constantine.
East African colonies are also developing step by step.
January 14, 1867.
The first immigrants from the Austrian Empire arrive at the port of Dar es Salaam.
The immigrants who first arrived in East Africa have long been tempered by the bumps on the sea, and now they are very happy to see the land.
The reason why it is still in the Sultanate of Zanzibar is that the environment here looks good in the eyes of the immigrants. After all, Zanzibar has been developed for many years, and the urban construction is barely qualified.
People of all colors can be seen in Zanzibar, Germans, Arabs, Portuguese, blacks, Indians and Chinese...
Immigrants who have been living deep in the interior of the Austrian Empire have never seen this. The architectural style of Zanzibar is also different from that of Europe, full of strong Arabic style.
With tropical beaches and coconut trees, everything is so novel to these immigrants.
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After three days on the road, these immigrants were brought to the first town. Officials from various regions of the East African colony had already been prepared, and they had come to pull immigrants long ago.
The first immigrants who came today turned out to be white! Colonial officials who were accustomed to accepting Chinese immigrants in the past were a little surprised.
However, this group of people soon struggled for their brains. At present, the officials in the colony are all Germans. The students of the Hechingen Military Academy generally serve as translators and assistants, or serve as junior officers in the colonial army.
In fact, these Germans are also guilty in their hearts. After all, what should they do if the yellow people under them rebel? It was okay earlier, the population was small, but in the last few months of last year, tens of thousands more Chinese immigrants came out, while the number of Germans was still 2,000 at the beginning.
It is still possible for two thousand people to suppress tens of thousands of people, but the increase in Chinese immigration is too fast. This year, it will be tens of thousands, next year it will be hundreds of thousands, and the year after that it will be hundreds of thousands.
This is still to say the least, no one knows whether Ernst will increase the number of ships to transport more people.
Although Chinese immigrants are more obedient and have a stronger labor force, the development of East Africa has greatly accelerated since the relaxation of restrictions on Chinese immigration.
But for German officials, it is only at ease that they can use their own people (whites), because German officials cannot speak Chinese, and many of the work under them needs students from the Hechingen Military Academy to complete.
The German officials who have tasted the sweetness of power are naturally worried. After all, these students of the Hechingen Military Academy are loyal to Ernst and have a monitoring effect on the German officials in the colonies.
The German officials believed that they were Ernst's reliance, and Ernst's over-reliance on the Chinese would lead to instability in the East African colonies.
Compared with the Germans hired by money and the students of the Hechingen Military Academy trained by himself, Ernst certainly trusted the students he trained more.
But people's hearts are unpredictable, so Ernst did not dare to hand over the colony to them. He would rather use Germans who are not very high-level (mostly retired veterans from the army and mercenaries who have gone overseas, and only a few high-level people are Hexinggen) managers of the consortium).
And this time the migration of the population from the Austrian Empire was also to prevent the Chinese immigrants from dominating the family.
Ernst is just a feudal aristocrat with the ambition to open up the map. There are always people who doubt Ernst is white-skinned and yellow-hearted.
In fact, Ernst didn't think about it that way. In addition to fulfilling the great ideals of his previous life, to establish a powerful country in East Africa and prevent those aboriginals from wasting the great land in Africa, Ernst has always put the interests of the Hohenzollern family into consideration. Put it first.
In Ernst’s own opinion, Africa can support at least two world-class powers, one is West Africa and the other is Southeast Africa.
West Africa is a densely populated area with mixed forces from various countries. Colonists from various countries have their own sphere of influence on the Gold Coast, while in East Africa there is only the Portuguese as a top player.
Cape Town, South Africa has been controlled by the British, and the Boers are not easy to mess with, so it is not a good place to start.
East Africa is basically only Portugal, a country that has gone downhill, and Ernst, the Sultanate of Zanzibar next door, has not been taken seriously (the colonial military strength has surpassed that of Zanzibar.).
The development of East Africa must squeeze out all the aborigines, and the best way to squeeze out the aborigines is to use immigrants to occupy the land of the Indians like the Americans.
For example, in the German East Africa in the previous life, when the local officials reported to the German government, it was impossible for white people to settle in Tanganyika on a large scale, and the large-scale land cultivation must be done by local labor.
So it’s not that Ernst doesn’t want to use Germans, but that there are too few Germans, and the population of the German region is just enough. Before the wars in Germany continued, many people chose to go abroad and immigrate overseas. Now Germany is basically stable under the control of Prussia. down.
The Germans who have no threat of war naturally choose to stay in Germany, while the Prussian industry, which already has a unified foundation, is developing rapidly, which is a bigger cake and can better solve the unemployment problem.
Even the Germans in Austria will give priority to the German region when choosing where to work and live.
So if you want to develop Africa, you must have a lot of surplus labor, and the countries with the most abundant labor in the world are the Russian Empire, India and the Qing Dynasty.
Russians are not easy to think about. After all, Russians live in temperate, sub-frigid and frigid regions all year round, where they are exposed to the African environment.
India Ernst is even more impossible to use, not to mention the poor reputation of Indians in previous lives, India will still be a rare and powerful opponent in East Africa in the Indian Ocean in the future, and Ernst's ambition is to dominate the Indian Ocean.
Unified India has the ability to interfere with all countries around the Indian Ocean, and Indians of later generations rely on the Indians who stayed in Africa during the British colonial era to influence the politics of African countries.
The Qing Dynasty did not have the capabilities of India, and its farthest impact was the Strait of Malacca. The problem is that Ernst never saw the Imperial Navy break through the first island chain until his death, let alone Malacca.
To be honest, as long as India chokes Malacca, it can kill half the life of the imperial economy. First, the main channel of oil and energy is interrupted. We all know that the two countries are superficially brothers, but the common threat prompts the two sides to stand together. It would be stupid for anyone to have real feelings.
Weakening India in the future is East Africa's long-term strategy. There can only be one hegemon in the Indian Ocean, and the future goal of East Africa is the hegemony of the Indian Ocean.
Channels like the Strait of Malacca are also the goals of future East African colonies.
The first two cannot be used, so you can only choose Chinese immigrants. Ernst was a Chinese in his previous life, so he naturally has a good impression of the Chinese in his heart, and the Chinese are really easy to use.
Now Ernst is an out-and-out German. In terms of identity, Germany is of course the priority. After all, one’s own identity as a German cannot be changed in this life, and the priority of the German is oneself.
And to develop the East African colony, which Germans who take advantage of it are willing to come if it is not developed? They couldn’t be paid with high salaries, and Ernst’s money was not blown by the wind. Just the two thousand Germans hired at the beginning accounted for a lot of Ernst’s expenses in East Africa.
Even the immigrants who flickered over from Austria were nothing but the ancestral farmers of the Hungarians and Slavs.
The population of the Austrian Empire can only be counted as the second tier, and the composition is complicated. Ernst doesn't care. After all, the United States of later generations is also ruled by Saxons from immigrants from all over the world. The largest immigrant group is German, and Latinos are in The rise of the United States cannot change the fact that the American Saxons are the ruling class, and English is the basis for maintaining American rule.
The country Ernst wants to build is naturally a German-speaking country, and all cultures are on par with Germany. After Tanzania became independent, English was still used as the official language. Therefore, race is second, and language and cultural identity are the basis of rule.
Otherwise, there is no need for a country like Brazil to exist at all. It is the Portuguese language and cultural identity that maintains the unity of Brazil.
Moreover, even if Ernst wants to recruit people from Germany on a large scale, it is currently impossible. If he learns from the United States and recruits some fraudsters and robbers, it will not work.
The United States is relying on its family and business, and its comprehensive conditions are the first in the world. Otherwise, the crime rate in the United States is basically the same as that in South America. The only difference is that Americans are really rich, while South America is really poor.
The inability to recruit Germans now does not mean that they will not be able to recruit in the future. The East African colony has been developed in the future, and naturally some people are willing to come and develop it. Moreover, there will be two world wars and the economic crisis. These are good opportunities for Ernst to start in Europe. Don't worry.
Conversely, if East Africa cannot be developed, even if they go to Europe and ask them to immigrate, they will not come.
So the current East African colonies are all centered on the development of wasteland to improve agricultural construction, and the future will only come after construction.
Waiting for the agricultural conditions to mature and enter the stage of industrialization is the time when large-scale introduction of European immigrants is really needed.
As for the problem of excessive Chinese immigration, it is not a threat at all until the East African indigenous people have not been cleared, and Ernst has already begun to seek European immigration to balance the number of Chinese.
Both European colonists and Chinese immigrants are latecomers to the invasion of East Africa. They are just the relationship between the mastermind and the accomplice. After cleaning up the aborigines, there will be no peace of mind between the two races in the future. This is the effect Ernst wants. It’s easy to mention racial conflicts, just like the vast majority of Americans ignore Indians.
And Ernst did not learn from the United States and South Africa to practice apartheid. The current East African colonies follow the model of Brazil and Cuba. In the final analysis, cultural identity comes first.
Cultural identity should naturally be instilled from an early age. Don’t think that the immigrants in the colonies have no culture. In fact, they are very good at heart! They have not received cultural education, but they have social experience passed down from their ancestors.
Wanting to change the thinking of the first generation of immigrants through education is basically thankless. As long as Ernst ensures that they can have a full meal, they will be grateful to Dade.
After all, the current Chinese don’t have any political ideas in their minds, unlike the unruly people in Europe who tried to make political appeals. Before the Republic of China, the Chinese would rebel only when they really couldn’t eat.
But if the Republic of China really came, Ernst would not recruit immigrants from the Far East. At that time, instead of recruiting immigrants, he recruited unscrupulous people who participated in the rebellion every day. All foreigners missed my Qing Dynasty. He really made me cry.
Ernst thought.
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The evil cause of colonization cannot be washed away. Ernst chose to drag the Chinese into the water. As an accomplice, the future has entered modernization, and the descendants of Chinese in East Africa will not be able to speak hard.
Everyone learns from the tacit understanding of the United States, just as if there were no indigenous people in East Africa, and the integration of German and Chinese is the kingly way.
Ernst did not choose to deal with the aborigines like the United States treats the Indians, even if it is the Holy Mother of God, none of the colonists in the current world is more noble than Ernst.
(end of this chapter)