Chapter 97 Daily
Ernst has no control over the life and death of the natives in East Africa. As a colonizer, he should be hard-hearted, otherwise it is a waste of time and he should end his life as soon as possible. Otherwise, the dark side of this world is so dark. If there are too many, you will be angry to death.
As a Western colonizer, Ernst is completely like a white lotus among his peers. After all, he is not as perverted as some countries, using the aboriginal...
Based on the principle that if you don’t think about it, you can treat it as if it didn’t happen. Ernst never thought about the consequences of this. As long as the East African colonies completed their tasks according to their own goals, as for extinction, anyway, The East African colonies didn't count if they didn't do it themselves.
On the one hand, he mastered the government affairs of the East African colonies, and on the other hand, he took care of the company's business in Europe. Ernst was busy most of the time,
I had half a day free today and drank afternoon tea with the old man in the garden.
What Ernst drank was authentic oriental green tea. There were only a few common drinks in this era. Ernst was not used to drinking coffee anyway, and would only taste it lightly when visiting others or entertaining guests.
Prince Constantine likes to drink coffee. It is not surprising that his son likes oriental tea. After all, the British like to drink tea very much, and there is also tea sold by the Dutch in Germany. This kind of drink is not uncommon. .
Ernst’s own fleet will also bring some tea leaves from the Far East, all of which are famous teas designated by Ernst himself, and the staff of the Far East will go to the tea area to purchase them personally.
Ernst did not embarrass the stationed staff. After all, the Hexingen Consortium’s business is mainly in the north, so most of them go to the tea areas close to North China to purchase tea, such as Lu’an Guapian, Xinyang Maojian...
The tea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is also good, but foreigners know a lot about it (Nanyang overseas Chinese businessmen), and it is well-known. Competition among local dignitaries is fierce (consumption in wealthy areas is high). With that pitiful output, it is certain that there is a lot of tea in the market. Some of them are fake, especially Westerners like the staff of the Hechingen Foundation, who are most likely to be fooled.
It is more reliable to go to tea areas to buy spot goods directly. Moreover, unlike coastal and southern tea areas, foreigners are more common in inland tea areas. Local officials should always be more cautious to make it easier for the staff of the Hechingen Consortium. .
"Ernst, how is your East African colony doing lately? I haven't heard you mention it for a long time!" Prince Constantine asked, holding a coffee cup.
"Father, everything is under control now. Since the telegraph line was laid, I can now process messages from East Africa on the same day. Immigration is also increasing steadily. If nothing happens, it will reach 500,000 by the end of the year. The scale is still okay," Ernst said to Prince Constantine.
Prince Constantine leaned back in his chair and said with a slight surprise: "The East African colony has not been opened for two years! You have recruited so many people. The entire Hechingen plus the countryside is estimated to be only a few Wanduo come forward!”
"Father, you must first understand a concept. The area of the East African colonies is currently as large as twice the size of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but the population of the East African colonies is only one hundred times the population of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (the population of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1870 was more than 33 million). One percent, so this is not enough for immigration,” Ernst and Constantine said.
"Is there so much developed land in East Africa?" Constantine was a little surprised.
When Ernst told himself that he would not take the development of East African colonies seriously at all, it was not a bad thing for children to have their own ideas anyway, and it did not matter whether they succeeded or not.
I didn’t expect that my son would be so outstanding. His original promise was basically fulfilled, companies and banks were opened, and he became one of the top companies in European countries.
When he spent money to buy Alaska, Constantine also knew it, but it was a land of ice and snow, and there was nothing to say, so he just thought his son was a fool and had too much money. Constantine knew that East Africa was the land that Ernst valued most, but he did not expect that he could actually accomplish it on his own (without the endorsement and support of national power).
“Half a million people, 1.2 million square kilometers of land, very good! Württemberg and Baden combined only have more than two million people (the Hohenzollern line to which Hechingen belongs) The province is sandwiched between the two, so if Constantine compares the two, half a million is not too small." Prince Constantine calculated.
“How many Germans can there be in the immigrant population?” Prince Constantine asked.
"Probably close to more than 10,000 people, mainly German immigrants in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In addition, there are 50,000 to 60,000 people from other ethnic groups in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Recently, I have also recruited some people from Paraguay." Stern preached.
"There are still a few Germans. I just have a piece of news to tell you. In recent years, food production in the south (Germany) has decreased. Many people have been forced to leave their homes and go out to make a living. I didn't notice it before because of the war. , and later I went home (Hechingen) and stayed for a while. The housekeeper told me that the grain production in the territory this year was indeed less than in previous years, and it was similar in Württemberg, Baden, Bavaria and other regions. This is an opportunity. Then I Go talk to them (the nobles of the South German region) and let them divert you, so that it will be convenient," Constantine said calmly.
Hearing this, Ernst was overjoyed. He had been wandering between Berlin and Vienna recently without paying attention to the situation in his hometown. If his father hadn't come to Berlin on business this time, he might have missed this opportunity.
"Father, you are really helpful. When the time comes, you can agree with your old friends that I can have as many immigrants as I want this time. There are plenty of local arrangements in East Africa." Ernst said excitedly.
This is a proper high-quality immigrant, which fully meets all Ernst's requirements for immigrants. They are Germans, farmers, and their educational level is not high (the popularity of compulsory education in South Germany is not as popular as that of North Germany).
The southwest region has always been an important area for German overseas immigrants, accounting for more than 30% all year round.
If this part of the immigrants can be well utilized, at least hundreds of thousands of pure German populations can be added to East Africa (currently many Austro-Hungarian immigrants in the East African colonies are brand-name Germans).
Coupled with the education of Paraguayan children, it is possible to change their identity perception in this generation. By then, the German population will be barely equal to that of Chinese immigrants (Chinese people who marry white people are automatically classified as mixed-race people and are not counted as Chinese people.) < br>
Although there are many fake Germans, after two or three generations they will all be native Germans. Naturally, there are also families in the West, such as the Hohenzollern family where Ernst belonged. Each branch It is all clear and can be checked, and there is no difference between it and the East.
But ordinary people in the West are far less likely to have the concept of clan than people in the East. For example, in the Far Southeast, ordinary people would rather not have the ability or financial resources to build a family tree, but most of them live together in families, and there are rich people in the family. Together with famous people, they will organize the continuation of the genealogy, so everyone in the East has descendants of nobles.
In the West, the boundaries between aristocrats and civilians are clear. Only when aristocrats recognize each other can they be considered true aristocrats. Therefore, civilians do not care about their own life experience at all, and they are unable to change it.
So in East Africa, these immigrants, if they educate two or three generations, they will not know who their ancestors are. At most, they can remember the grandparents of the first generation of immigrants.
After all, the cultural level of farmers in this era was low, and many recording methods relied on memory rather than words, which would create a recording gap.
At that time, relying on the colonial education system to indoctrinate immigrant children from an early age, Ernst would do whatever he said, and it would not be a bad idea to recreate a nation.
(End of this chapter)