Chapter 94 Immigrants from Paraguay arrive
In addition to the large number of orphans caused by the Paraguay War, the largest number of orphans were actually single-parent families and single women.
The war in Paraguay is not over yet, but at least it is estimated that there are 70,000 to 80,000 orphans and widowed mothers who have lost their husbands and fathers.
With the intervention of the Hechingen Consortium, some people have left this place of right and wrong and gone to East Africa to start a new life.
According to the time when the Paraguay War ended in the previous life, this project can continue for another three or four years.
Before the new Paraguayan government is established, the East African colonies can absorb at least tens of thousands of Paraguayan immigrants. If coordination is good, hundreds of thousands are not impossible.
This kind of thing can be done during the war. After all, as a country with a small population, Paraguay has a small population. Before the war, there were only 500,000 or 600,000 people (some data say more than 1 million, after all, there were many people in that era. The country does not have a census).
The approach of the East African colonies is to dig up the foundation of Paraguay, but Paraguay is not without solutions.
Originally, Paraguay is a country of immigrants. It will be enough to absorb more immigrants in the future. Of course, this is no different from farting. If immigrants are so easy to recruit, Ernst will not be so difficult.
Furthermore, after the war, a large area of land was cut off from Paraguay, and the country was in ruins. Which immigrant would be so short-sighted and want to come to Paraguay for development? Aren’t Brazil and Argentina next door delicious!
In this regard, the East African colonies are much stronger. Although the East African colonies have not been established for a long time, they are already places in Africa (excluding North Africa) that have developed quite well.
As for the environment in East Africa, not to mention compared with Argentina (after all, it is similar to Europe, immigrants do not have to adapt), it is almost the same as the Brazilian plateau.
In addition, the East African colonies recruited immigrants in a planned and premeditated manner, much faster than those American countries that relied on spontaneous immigration.
That is to say, the East African colonies prefer to be sparse rather than excessive, and are relatively repulsive to some local ruffians and petty thieves immigrants. At the same time, they are on guard against some immigrant groups that are not easy to govern and are not conducive to stability, such as township parties and clans.
Otherwise, it would not be a dream to surpass the United States in the number of immigrants every year. Immigrants from the Far East alone would rank first among all countries in the world.
This is not an exaggeration, because it is quite difficult for contemporary immigrants to afford a ship ticket, unless they encounter an emergency recruitment situation in some colonies. The problem is that this situation is not sustainable.
It is not that there are no countries that want to build colonies to repay themselves. The British spent a lot of effort in America back then, and the last war of independence was all in vain.
So Ernst strictly controlled the immigrants from the East African colonies to prevent the emergence of the kind of rebels in the United States.
The reason why the United States is independent is because of the existence of a large number of elites. After all, those who fled to the United States on the Mayflower were not refugees, but intellectual and organized Puritans.
In previous lives, there was a saying that Calvin’s Puritanism theory was the foundation of the United States.
So Ernst was strongly opposed to any theories and beliefs, or blood and clan... that might unite immigrants.
The East African colonies didn’t even have missionaries or churches, and the immigrants’ beliefs were confusing, including Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and even a small number of Green Christians.
The beliefs of immigrants from the Far East are even more confusing. What about ancestors, family immortals, God, the Jade Emperor, the City God... Even some people who have had a lot of contact with Western immigrants will even guess about God and Allah, which is enough. Reflects his pragmatic thinking.
The East African colonies were similar in management to a company, and Ernst naturally would not take the initiative to promote the construction of churches, and had no idea of recruiting missionaries.
Most of the immigrants in East Africa are illiterate and old farmers. They have not systematically studied religious knowledge. Even if they spontaneously perform some rituals at home, they only have a little knowledge and rely on the experience passed down from generation to generation. Missionaries could connect the people through their religious interpretations and missionary activities, so Ernst strictly prohibited religious people from entering the East African colonies.
Most of the immigrants in the East African colonies were ordinary people with no ambitions. Most of the leaders were Germans who retired and returned to Germany to retire.
Coupled with the restraint of loyal students from the Hechingen Military Academy, the Hechingen Consortium continues to enrich its leadership.
The current East African colonial government is quite stable and is in a state of containment by many parties, and the only hub that maintains the East African colonies is Ernst.
As for causing trouble in the East African colonies, not to mention the containment between the parties, if you leave the foreign trade system of the Hechingen Consortium, the economic structure of the East African colonies will disintegrate and collapse.
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September 10, 1867.
Morgens Kroger.
The village chief of Ngaga Village, East African Colony, Lower Marina District, Ronroda City, Massasi Town.
He is taking immigrants assigned to the village of Ngaga from Paraguay to see their new residence.
"Ladies, the current conditions in East Africa are not very good, so the furniture and other facilities in these houses are still relatively simple, but the environment is definitely not bad."
Mogens Kroger pointed to the door Wai said:
“Have you seen those acres of fertile farmland? Doesn’t it feel good? You must know that a year ago, Ngaga Village was still a wilderness where only wild animals survived, and with the immigration Arrival, Ngaga Village was developed at a speed visible to the naked eye Come, so you don’t have to worry about the living conditions and future development prospects of the East African colonies. It is far away from war and is in good order. With the government cleaning up the surrounding wild beasts, there are no traces of wild beasts. It is very safe.”
The translators were German-speaking residents of Paraguay. Although most of these immigrants who came to East Africa from Paraguay to escape the war were Hispanic, the fragmentation and war in Germany in the early years caused a large number of Germans to emigrate overseas.
Currently, Prussia is getting better after integrating the North German region, and the immigration wave has been cooled down. The female translator is a German whose ancestors immigrated to Paraguay, so she can speak both German and Spanish.
Mogens Krog continued: "And you have definitely caught up with the good time. In order to take care of you orphans and widows caused by the war, His Royal Highness Prince Ernst of Prussia, the owner of the East African colony, Ask for money personally to subsidize poor people like you , and the East African colonies provide free education for your children...so live in Ngaga Village with peace of mind, and the future will be better."
I heard these from the introduction of the village chief Mogens Kroger. Paraguayan women across the ocean from a faraway country are relieved.
Some cried with joy and turned to God to wish Ernst good health.
They are also pitiful people who lost their husbands in the war, and the war is still going on with no hope of ending. Therefore, many people have to leave Paraguay, a land of right and wrong, and come to East Africa for the safety of their children. Life.
Of course, the living allowance also gave them some determination. After all, they will have to raise their children by themselves in the future, and having a subsidy can reduce their pressure.
Before coming to East Africa, I might have been worried that the local government would break its promise, but now that I got a house, I immediately felt at ease.
(End of this chapter)