Chapter 932 Law, Ambassador of the West
Hans Leiden’s idea was first reported to the Hanseatic Provincial Government in the port city of New Hamburg, then to the central government, and finally reached Ernst’s hands.
Sweite, who has served as the director of the National Planning and Economic Commission, reported the plans of the Maputo Municipal Government to Ernst and asked: "Your Highness, what attitude should we take towards this matter in Maputo?"
Ernst: “This matter is indeed very controversial. However, although Hans Layton’s idea does not conform to the understanding of most people in the East African environment, in my opinion it is a good thing. It is very meaningful to give full play to the initiative of local governments on the basis of government plans.”
After pondering for a while, Ernst said: "We will not deal with this matter for the time being. We will look at the effect first. When Hans Layton's term is up, we will look at the specific effect. If the effect is good, we will expand the scope. , practiced throughout the Hanseatic provinces,”
Thinking point nodded and said: "I understand, His Highness means to use Maputo City as an experimental field."
"Yes, we have our own national conditions in East Africa. East Africa is a complex country, and its economic structure is different from that of most countries in the world. Therefore, if we want stable and sustainable development, we must continue to trial and error, and then correct our mistakes." Regarding institutional issues, no country’s system is perfect in the current environment. What we need is to grasp the balance according to the times.”
Ernst said these words not only to Sweet, but also to himself. As the actual ruler of East Africa, the monarchy is impossible for the Hechingen royal family to give up, but it is impossible for East Africa to completely follow the autocratic monarchy system. To govern the country, the royal family will inevitably be liquidated in the future, so balancing the balance between the royal family and the East African system is also an important goal of Ernst.
The world is either black or white, but no one can tell clearly what is black and white. We can only say that there is white in black, and black in white. Only by mastering the elite of "mushy mud" can the East African royal family survive.
In fact, what Ernst was thinking about was the ideological issue of East Africa's future. This ideology should not be extreme. After all, in their view, the monarch was dispensable. In this case, it was better to muddy the water so that it would be difficult for everyone to Inseparable.
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February 17, 1898.
While East Africa is busy with its economic transformation, the world situation is not calm. The East African government, which originally thought that it would not have any major interactions with Spain after the purchase of Mindanao, was unexpectedly dragged into the vortex by France today.
“The Ambassador of France to East Africa, Gleide, and the Ambassador of Spain to East Africa, William, requested a meeting with His Highness.”
If it were just the French, then Ernst didn't know what France's plans were for coming over this time, but with the Spanish and this delicate timing, Ernst already had a plan in mind.
“Let them wait in the drawing room for a while!” Ernst ordered.
Before Ernst's arrival, Grad and William were communicating.
"Ambassador William, the Americans are obviously deliberately creating disputes this time. We are definitely on your side regarding your country's experience. However, among the major powers in the world, we are the only ones in France who cannot influence the attitude of the US government. Several other countries are also relatively ambiguous, so we must win over allies as much as possible so that Spain will not fall into a passive situation. "
Glad said: "Don't worry about this. As a monarchy, as long as we convince the Hechingen royal family, it won't be a problem." In fact, William also understood this. Although Spain is also a monarchy, the Spanish royal family Obviously there is no such power as the Hechingen royal family, and what he is most worried about is not actually the relationship between Spain and East Africa, but that he thinks the French are unreliable as lobbyists.
After all, I don’t usually see how good the relationship between France and East Africa is, and the Hechingen royal family belongs to a branch of the Hohenzollern family. Based on the relationship between the German royal family and the Hechingen royal family...
Of course, even if William thinks so in his heart, he will not say it out loud, because Spain is really desperate this time, and the only one who can help Spain tide over the difficulties is France.
This is actually easy to understand. The current world situation is actually dominated by several great powers. When Japan has not yet matured, the undoubted great powers in the world at this stage are Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and Austria. There are eight countries in the United States, West and East Africa, and these eight countries basically dominate the changes in the international situation. As for Italy and Portugal in their previous lives, they have been completely eliminated.
As a big country, East Africa has become one of the great powers that can dominate the world. In fact, it was also affected by the South African War. After the South African War, East Africa's international status rose rapidly. In fact, under the praise of the British, East Africa is currently Its military strength is even higher than that of "Spain" and "Austro-Hungary".
As for Spain, which has become the goalkeeper of the great powers, there is no dispute about this. After all, they cannot achieve the same strong record as East Africa in the South African War. Not to mention the United Kingdom, Portugal alone, a country that has been kicked out of the ranks of great powers, is not It's easy to deal with. As a neighbor of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain understands Portugal better.
In fact, if East Africa had not emerged, Portugal would not have ended badly. East Africa came to power by stepping on Portugal, and now Spain is facing the same situation, that is, the Americans also want to step on Spain and rise to power.
However, in the face of the aggressiveness of the United States, Spain lacks confidence. After the development of the U.S. Navy in recent years, it has surpassed the Spanish Navy.
Although there is not much difference between the two in terms of scale, Spain's weapons are outdated and the performance of many warships is no longer enough to compete with rising stars like the U.S. Navy.
Of course, it is not impossible to defeat the strong with the weak, just like the Austro-Hungarian Navy was in this situation during the Battle of Lisa, but it achieved a comeback by relying on the quality of its personnel.
Spain naturally does not have such ambitions. They only hope that their country can achieve the same record as the East African Navy and the British Royal Navy in the South African Naval Battle.
Of course, this does not represent the position of most people in Spain, because now Spain does not want to go to war with the United States. In fact, the United States has been the aggressive party for decades, and has been provoking Spain in the hope of squeezing Spanish power out of the Caribbean.
Or because of the location issue, just like the South African War, why did East Africa have the confidence to go to war with two powers at the same time? The main reason is that the location of East Africa destined the two countries to be unable to deal with East Africa with all their strength.
The United States has the same calculation. It is impossible for the Spaniards to defeat themselves "on the doorstep of the United States." If there is a war between the two, the advantage will be on the United States from the beginning.
The Spanish government also knows this, so they are afraid of war. This has led the Spanish government to place more hope on the international community to mediate the conflicts between the two countries.
At present, the Spanish government has only attracted one supporter, and that is the French government. However, no matter how powerful the French government is, it is impossible for the French government to directly intervene in the conflicts between the United States and Spain. After all, the United States does not seem to be easy to mess with.
Of course, it would be best if the United States and Spain could not go to war over this, so the French government needed to increase its bargaining chips. However, after testing the attitudes of various countries in Europe, the situation was very delicate. In this case, France turned its attention. Come to the great powers outside Europe, and the only great powers outside Europe are East Africa and the United States.
(End of this chapter)