Chapter 638 Exchange of Interests
After hearing this, Franz’s mouth twitched and he said, “It’s really exciting!”
The United Kingdom has always been a troublemaker. Most countries in Europe, especially the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was "taken care of" by the British, have a clear conscience.
“Now the Boers should be considered their own people, and they still engage in checks and balances, but this is also in line with the consistent practice of the British.”
Franz was very indifferent to the British, but he really admired one thing, that is, the British methods were indeed superb. Not to mention other things, the British mainland is composed of three parts, plus Ireland, it is four parts, but England can combine the other three parts. Franz admired some of his abilities that he could handle easily.
After all, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria couldn't do anything to control Hungary, and there were a bunch of other countries and regions behind it that wanted to do the same thing as Hungary.
If Austria had the ability of England, Hungary would have to taste the power of the Great Famine in Ireland. However, Britain is an island country after all and is not susceptible to foreign interference, so the two countries are still very different.
“If you can’t deal with the UK, we can also provide some support. Although we can’t come forward directly, we can still help you solve some problems.” Franz said.
Now that East Africa's status is different, so valuable people are being attracted. If it were still the East African colony huddled in "Tanganyika", I'm afraid we would just get a situation like "Who is East Africa? I don't know."
"Haha, that's not necessary. The most important thing in East Africa now is economic development, so it would be great if the Austro-Hungarian Empire could give us more water in the fields of education, technology, culture and other fields." Ernst said.
It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish. The Austro-Hungarian Empire will definitely not do the hand-to-hand teaching like the Soviet Union did. However, there is still no problem for East Africans to pay their own tuition and come to study.
“Of course there is no problem, but would you like to share more of our industrial products?”
“I can’t make decisions blindly. Although East Africa is a big place, it is really poor! But we can help digest the many commodities that we in East Africa cannot produce.”
· Commodities and industrial products are still different. Agricultural products can also be used as commodities. The Austro-Hungarian Empire itself was an agricultural power and it was in a temperate zone. It had many crops that were not available in East Africa, so this aspect can be considered.
As for industrial products, East Africa needs to be cautious. Ernst thought about it and then said: "The main source of economy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is agriculture. The industry is not as strong as Germany, Britain and France, but we in East Africa are busy with infrastructure construction now, uncle. You also know that the land in Africa has never been developed before, and we in East Africa have to build everything ourselves. This year, we and Romania plan to build a railway directly to the Chad region in the hinterland of Africa. This railway has many technical problems. If Austria-Hungary gets involved, we can transfer some more benefits.”
The difficulty of the central and western sections of the Northern Railway is no less than that of the Siberian Railway. If East Africa alone builds it and works hard, it can indeed be done, but it will be very uneconomical.
Although the main force in building railways is black people, the lives of black people are also life! Therefore, it would not be harmful to East Africa to have the Austro-Hungarian Empire participate in reducing some human losses, and it would also speed up the progress of the project. The earlier the northern railway is opened to traffic, the earlier the population isolation zone in northern East Africa can be built.
“Austro-Hungary’s oil production is also Europe’s largest, and East Africa can import more of this,” Ernst said. The Austro-Hungarian Empire still has part of the territory of Romania in its former life, so it is relatively rich in oil resources, and its production ranks first in Europe.
To promote the development of the internal combustion engine industry and automobile industry in East Africa, oil resources are indispensable, so they can only import them.
As for the local oil in East Africa, although Ernst knows the approximate location, the current technology and theory may not be able to support inland oil exploration, and resource exploration is also a very laborious task.
Geologists often have to sleep in the open and go into mountains to explore caves. They stay outside for ten days and a half, so it is very time-consuming and labor-intensive. In addition, the understanding of elements and minerals in this era is also very rudimentary, and the technology is also backward, so prospecting is Quite difficult technical work.
The advantage of domestic mineral exploration in East Africa is that black people have hardly developed this land. Many minerals may be on the ground. If they were placed in Eurasia, they would have been exhausted by predecessors.
The development of transportation in East Africa in recent years has further promoted the development and progress of the mining industry. Not only can geological surveyors penetrate into more areas, but mechanical equipment can also be developed using railways and roads, and finally transported out by railway, and then East Africa Using it yourself or exporting it fully proves the truth that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads.
Railway investment is the trend of this era, just like new energy, artificial intelligence, etc. in the 21st century. Railways are such new things in this era. Although European railways have been widely popularized, they are only for the five gangsters in Europe. Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Russia, other countries are much different.
By bringing the Austro-Hungarian Empire into East Africa, it can further absorb the Austro-Hungarian Empire's domestic steel production capacity and promote the development of related industries. This is already a great deal of sincerity. After all, the central and western sections of the Northern Railway are fully national in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sexual engineering, because the Austro-Hungarian Empire was only so large compared to East Africa.
And Ernst added an oil import, which made Franz even more satisfied. Although oil production was limited in this era, it also showed that the price of oil was high. After all, things are rare and expensive. In addition to being used as fuel, oil has many uses. It is still very widespread, otherwise Rockefeller would not have made his fortune from oil.
East Africa imported oil from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was not a small income for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although Ernst did not say the specific amount, it was definitely indispensable.
Ernst didn't care, because a large part of the oil industry in Austria-Hungary and Romania was invested by the Hechingen Consortium. Importing oil from his own company was nothing more than paying an extra tax to the Austria-Hungary Empire, which was on their territory. When doing business, paying taxes is inevitable.
Franz, who received a satisfactory answer, also asked: "You mentioned education before, so I didn't ask too much. But this depends on the needs of each school in the empire. After all, they have to recruit students according to their own abilities. , and there are already a lot of East African students studying in the Austro-Hungarian Empire every year, so we can discuss it in terms of technology and culture."
East Africa is the largest group of international students in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Basically every university has East African students, so there is nothing wrong with what Franz said. However, East Africans are also considered half-Germans, so studying abroad in Germany is not a problem. It’s not too surprising. The level and quality of universities in this era are also high, and there won’t be any problems like discrimination.
There are countless countries studying in Europe, and many shrewd speculators will run some pheasant schools to defraud tuition fees. In this era, the cost of studying abroad is high. This method of studying abroad in East Africa, which directly cooperates with the governments of various countries, avoids many problems, so East Africa does take a lot of advantages.
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