Chapter 73 Digestion
The East African colony currently covers an area of about 1.2 million square kilometers, including all of Tanzania and most of Kenya (the north is the sphere of Arab and indigenous influence).
The area has exceeded the German East African colonies in the previous life. Because there are many indigenous countries in the western part of the Great Lakes region and the population is relatively dense, it has not been annexed by the East African colonies for the time being.
In this large area, the number of immigrants is around 200,000, of which nearly 50,000 have been absorbed from the Austrian Empire in recent months, and the rest are Chinese.
The East African colonies benefited from the current transformation of the Austrian Empire into the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the relatively turbulent domestic situation. They absorbed about 30,000 immigrants from the Austrian Empire in the first month. It has now declined somewhat. Every month At about 3,000, Chinese immigrants were diverted due to the shortage of manpower in the Alaska colony. Now the number of people coming to East Africa every month has stabilized at about 10,000.
But Alaska does not need a large population. If it is around 30,000, Ernst will no longer support its population migration. By then, the number of Chinese immigrants to East Africa is estimated to be stable at around 15,000 per month.
Coupled with the fact that most of the current immigrants from the East African colonies are farmers, fertility is in the first echelon at the same time, basically doubling every year. After all, if you have more children, you have the land to raise them, and the colonies pay more attention to it. Hygienic issues, low mortality rate.
Not to mention the old immigrants who have lived in East Africa for some time, even the new immigrants from the Austrian Empire have also joined the birthing army.
But this population is still not enough compared to the nearly two to three million natives in the East African colonies.
The grassland area is too large, animals are overrun, the climate and environment are so good, and wild fruits can satisfy their hunger, so the indigenous people still have room for survival after being deprived of a large amount of high-quality land by the East African colonies.
In Ernst's view, these are all hidden dangers. Only by clearing out all the indigenous people in the current East African colonies can Ernst be half relieved.
However, after a year of exhausting slave hunting operations, Zanzibar's slave traders have only digested 200,000 natives, which is a drop in the bucket.
This is because it has seized a large number of slave markets in the Middle East. Even the Ottoman Empire ushered in a wave of small development under the influence of this wave of cheap slave trade, which greatly alleviated the labor shortage caused by ethnic conflicts. The dilemma of loss has made the suppression of other ethnic groups in the country even more severe.
The East African colonies currently face three problems. One is gender imbalance. Unlike the Austrian immigrants who brought their families, there were a large number of single men among the early Chinese immigrants, which was an unstable factor for future East African rule.
The second is the ethnic imbalance. The proportion of Chinese is too high. Immigration from the Austrian Empire can only alleviate this situation. To truly solve this problem, in Ernst's view, the ratio of yellow and white populations must at least reach 28%. , after all, judging from the fact that black people in the United States only accounted for a little more than 10% of the population in later generations, and they dared to engage in affirmative action, the different races in the East African colonies must at least exceed this bottom line.
After the Austrian Empire was completely reduced to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after this period of chaos, the number of immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire may not be able to maintain the current data.
Now that the East African colonies have added a large number of immigrants from the Austrian Empire, some Chinese immigrants have been forced to learn German in their daily lives.
The ratio of yellow and white races is about a healthy three to one, but more than half of these immigrants from the Austrian Empire do not know German, so this data is not satisfactory for the colonial government that wants to implement German education in East Africa. Very large, even some Austro-Hungarian immigrants who could only speak a few simple words in German were classified as German-speaking people.
The third is the huge number of black indigenous people in the country. The land completely controlled by the East African colonies actually only accounts for 20% of the area of the East African colonies. These are places with fertile water and soil and convenient transportation.
Black tribes in other places evenly occupy the remaining 80% of the land. Therefore, the current population problem faced by the East African colonies is how to solve the above three problems.
In order to solve these three problems, Ernst generally formulated three policies.
The first is to invest in the establishment of a wedding company to purchase slaves from the Sultanate of Zanzibar in the name of cross-border marriages. This is mainly aimed at the Middle East, especially the Ottoman Empire. The purpose is Armenian women in the Ottoman Empire. Of course , if the Sultanate of Zanzibar could work hard, it would be good if they could get women from other Arab areas. Anyway, Ernst was willing to pay for the money, and he could even replace them with black slaves, five to one or even twenty to one.
Ernst believes that based on the ethics of the Ottoman Empire, they are likely to agree. After all, it is all about making money. The population of the opposing ethnic groups can be dealt with through non-massacre, and some money can still be made. Why not? At that time, not only the Armenians, but also the Kurds, Greeks, and Christian populations... it is estimated that the unscrupulous Ottomans will all be sent out.
After all, this is not a slave trade, it is a marriage introduction. It is not easy for Western countries to criticize. As long as the unified caliber is "free love".
Of course, this policy will not only be implemented in the Middle East. Ernst will also seek help from his old friends, the Dutch, who have a large number of colonies in the Far East. If you are making money, you can't forget your friends.
Second, there is currently no good solution. Now that Europe has begun to move towards a short-term state of peace, it is not easy to operate. We can only increase the intensity of deception on the original basis, starting from immigrants going to the Americas. Try to collect as many scraps as possible.
The third, which is the most important task in the East African colonies in the next year, is to collect all the black indigenous people in the colonies and exile them to the west of the Great Lakes region, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda.
Since the Sultanate of Zanzibar cannot absorb so many slaves, Ernst can only send them to the west of the Great Lakes region to consume the power of the indigenous countries there.
After all, their land is limited and their population is large. After the East African colonies drove out a large number of natives, the two waves of people with different cultures and systems will definitely be confused.
Ernst could take this opportunity to eliminate at least one-third of the indigenous people. As for escaping further west, there is the Congo rainforest. Even in modern society, the tropical rainforest is a restricted area for humans. It is hard to say whether you can survive if you enter.
This third plan actually has the meaning of driving the tiger to devour the wolf, but to put it the other way around, it is to send the sheep into the tiger's mouth, and you will die if you don't want to die.
After all, the indigenous countries living in the Great Lakes region are not good. Compared with the many indigenous people in the East African colonies who are still in primitive societies, their slave countries are already quite developed.
Slavery countries need not go into details about their methods when faced with overpopulation. Referring to the Shang Dynasty in the Far East, most of them would adopt physical means to balance the population size, not to mention the natives of these East African colonies to the west of the Great Lakes Region. For indigenous countries, it is like ancient Rome facing the Germanic barbarians.
In short, the current focus of the East African colonial government is no longer to continue expansion, but to first secure the land in its hands.
While driving out the natives, they stabilized the colonial population structure and filled the vast lands of the East African colonies with immigrants.
(End of this chapter)