Chapter 831 The Great Population Wall
Population reservoirs must not be built within the country. Generally speaking, population reservoirs are cities and villages.
For example, cities continue to absorb young and strong labor force from rural areas, thereby continuously acquiring low-end industrial population, promoting the sustainable development and prosperity of cities, because under normal circumstances, the natural growth rate of the population of the city itself is low, and after development to a certain stage, without introducing outsiders In the case of population, there is a high probability of negative growth.
The aging of the population and the degradation of low-end industries are fatal to urban development, and the same is true for the country. Of course, low-end industries develop dynamically. After all, technology will advance over time, and the original industries will become low-end industries. end industry.
Of course, the solution is easy to solve, that is, to introduce foreign populations, or to truly replace human labor with machines. However, Ernst, a man of the 21st century, knows that even in another century, it will be impossible for machines to replace human labor. If it really comes true, If machines replace manpower, world unity should be achieved. However, pessimistic estimates suggest that this utopian society will not be realized in a few hundred years, or even that humans will never be able to realize it.
Hence, when formulating national policies for East Africa, Ernst would often refer to human social problems in the 21st century and try to delay similar problems from happening in East Africa in the future.
Take the population issue as an example. If East Africa becomes a developed country in the future, there will naturally be a labor shortage problem. At that time, there is a high probability that East Africa will introduce foreign populations, or it will suffer like Russia, resulting in a declining population and stagnant economic development. .
Either like Europe, introduce refugees, but refugees are a double-edged sword and will have a huge impact on European culture, social order, and the lives of the people at the bottom.
As for the introduction of European immigrants, it is obvious that Eastern Europe is a place where high-quality people are introduced. On the one hand, Eastern Europeans naturally respect Western European civilization and are of high quality, so they can perfectly integrate into Western European society. However, it is obviously difficult for Arabs, a civilized population that conflicts with Christianity, to Integrating into European society, at least at the cultural level, even black people are better than Arabs at this point, but everyone has mental mysophobia, and white people naturally look down on other people of color.
The same is true for Ernst as a layman. His experiences in two lives made him prejudiced against people other than Germans and Chinese.
Hence, the countries that border East Africa in the future must be non-Arab white or yellow countries. This will build a great population security wall for East African countries in the future.
For example, the Abyssinian Empire just barely passed the test, barely acceptable in terms of skin color, and culturally a branch of Christianity. Otherwise, Ernst would not have allowed such a country to exist from a personal perspective.
Of course, if East Africa fails to impact developed countries, the probability of future population growth will not be too high, because East Africa has achieved relatively good results in popularizing basic education. As time goes by, a group of people will be "awakened" in the future who do not live according to the ideas of the ruling class. of nationals.
These are unavoidable problems, so Ernst’s plan is a compromise. Since the future population problem in East Africa cannot be avoided, an ideal immigrant group that conforms to East African “values” must also be introduced.
This is an important reason why East Africa supports colonial construction such as the royal territory of Sigmaringen. These places will be the "reservoirs" of the future East African population.
If these "reservoirs" are not built, then the East African rulers after Ernst will obviously not be able to prevent the population infiltration of North and West Africa.
Of course, that’s all Ernst could do. Later East African rulers couldn’t solve the problem, so they couldn’t control it. Anyway, they were buried by that time.
As for trusting the wisdom of future generations, Ernst doesn't believe a word of it. The problem is easier to solve in its infancy. As time goes by, it will only become more and more serious. In the end, it will be too big to lose. In the end, the only option is to reinstall the system. If the system reinstallation fails, Then there is no more.
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"Uncle Karl, in the future, if the royal territory of Sigmaringen in East Africa and German Cameroon can be connected together, the issue of the seaport of the royal territory of Sigmaringen will naturally be solved." By this time, Bismarck had already been kicked out by William II. German politics, so Cameroon, as a German overseas colony, will definitely receive "big" development.
So Ernst is also considering whether the Cameroon colony can be included in the "German" circle of Africa in the future.
Because Ernst is not optimistic that Germany can hold Cameroon, if a war breaks out in Europe, Cameroon will most likely be handed over to the Royal Domain of Sigmaringen or the East African Trusteeship.
Even if Germany does not give up Cameroon, there is a high probability that it will become independent in the future. After all, Cameroon is almost the same size as Germany.
Obviously, Europeans in the 19th century could not understand this. Even after World War II, Britain and France thought they could continue to dominate colonial countries until they were beaten by the United States and the Soviet Union.
Prince Karl said: "Of course, Leopold has communicated with William II on my behalf a long time ago. William II supports us on the issue of public access to the sea."
At present, the person in charge of Sigmaringen in Germany is Prince Leopold, the eldest son of Prince Karl, who still holds an important position in the German army, so Prince Leopold has also become the liaison between Sigmaringen and William II for direct dialogue.
“But aren’t you interested in Cameroon?” Prince Carl asked.
In fact, northwest East Africa is not far from the German Colony of Cameroon. If East Africa has the idea, it can open a channel to the Atlantic Ocean directly through German Cameroon.
Of course, when Prince Carl asked this, the most important thing was that he hoped that East Africa could take the lead in building a railway or road to the coast of Cameroon.
Because among African countries with large infrastructure capabilities, except for some countries in North Africa and Cape Town, only East Africa can do so.
At present, neither the German colony of Cameroon nor the royal territory of Sigmaringen has such capabilities, or sufficient population to complete such a project.
Ernst shook his head and said: "Now our main energy in East Africa is concentrated in the south, and we are completely unable to do other things. Even our population feels that it is not enough. The area of the newly occupied area is not small, and among the Portuguese and Boers During the human period, it was hardly developed effectively.”
"Take the Boer Republic. The construction there is not even as good as the current royal territory of Sigmaringen. Only Bloemfontein can barely be considered a city. Kimberley is actually managed and invested by the British. Other areas and large pastures are not. any difference."
Hearing Ernst's troubles, even though Prince Carl is older, he is a little "jealous". He also wants this kind of trouble!
He knew the population of East Africa, which was over 70 million (including black people). In terms of native population alone, East Africa was only behind the Far Eastern Empire, Tsarist Russia and India.
Ernst still thinks the population is small. After the construction of southern East Africa is completed, how many people will there be? It used to be hundreds of millions. Maybe by the end of this century, the population of East Africa will directly exceed 100 million, Prince Karl thought.
Of course, there are still difficulties in Ernst's view. He is not as optimistic as Prince Carl. After all, East Africa will continue to eliminate black people. If black people are removed, the population will be nearly 20 million, and ten years will not be enough to replace the population, so East Africa It is still difficult to exceed 100 million people in this century.
(End of this chapter)