Chapter 221: First of all, a bitter experience
January 11, 1870.
Hohenzollern Castle, in the garden.
“One hundred and eleven, one hundred and twelve, one hundred and thirteen...”
Ernst gritted his teeth and counted the number of push-ups with difficulty, soaked with sweat. White cotton vest.
"Three hundred!"
"Huh...this challenge is still too difficult for me!" Ernst said to the coach, panting heavily.
He held his thighs with both hands, and sweat was pouring from his forehead. Tom handed over the towel at the right time, and Ernst took the towel and wiped the sweat from his face.
"Your Highness, it is already very good that you can persevere. This kind of perseverance may be difficult for ordinary people to achieve!" The coach commented on the side.
"Coach Rowett, you praise me too much. If there is no one to supervise me, I won't be able to persist. Only a person with a little money like me would do such a boring thing."< br>
Some time ago, Ernst looked in the mirror and discovered that he had gained a lot of weight. This was a bolt from the blue for Ernst.
In my previous life, I had always had a normal figure. However, after time traveling, I gained a lot of fat because of the good food and lack of exercise.
At the end of this year, Ernst will be 20 years old. He is currently 178 centimeters tall and is expected to not grow any longer. Ernst himself cannot control this.
Prince Constantine's appearance cannot be said to be ugly, it can also be said to be ordinary. Ernst has made a slight breakthrough in Prince Constantine's appearance.
In addition, he is relatively young, so in terms of appearance among people of this era, he is in the upper middle range. It can be said that Ernst has temperament and spirit, but he is not handsome.
On this basis, the impact of weight on Ernst is too great. If he is a little fatter, he will look unsightly. Ernst is self-aware and knows that he does not have the perseverance, so he hired a professional to tailor a suit for himself. Set of weight loss plan.
"Your Highness, your figure is actually not bad among the nobles. There is no need to do any so-called 'weight loss'." Tom said.
“You don’t understand. My aesthetics are different from those of ordinary people. I only think they look good. As for other people’s standards, they don’t work for me. My life is to be satisfied with myself, not to follow the crowd. "
Hearing what Ernst said, Tom stopped trying to persuade him. In Tom's opinion, Ernst was completely asking for trouble. Before losing weight, Ernst's figure looked like that of Prince Constantine. Yu Feng, that would look good, at least it would look very stable.
If Ernst knew Tom's inner thoughts, he would probably be depressed for a while. Prince Constantine was not steady, but indeed a little heavy, and his face almost turned into a cake.
...
"Dingle bell..."
"Your Highness, His Majesty the Prince's call!" A servant came to the garden and reported to Ernst.
Ernst sent Tom and the coach away, went to the phone room and took the phone from the phoneman.
"Wait outside the door first. If I call you, then come in." "Yes, Your Highness!"
The telephone operator closed the door with ease.
"Hey, father, what do you want from me?"
"Ernst, I have something to ask you about, about the population of East Africa. "
Hearing this, Ernst concentrated. The population of East Africa has always been a major issue that Ernst paid close attention to.
"Father, what do you think?"
"That's right. The total number of newborn children in East Africa in 1869 was more than 200,000. I think you know this number. But this year, I'm afraid the number of newborns in East Africa will break a new high. According to According to reports from governments at all levels, we can now roughly confirm that the number of newborns this year is likely to exceed 500,000!"
"Isn't this a good thing?" Ernst asked in confusion.
“It seems that you still don’t understand the seriousness of the matter. Five hundred thousand is just a conservative math. This number may also be 600,000, 700,000, or even more. The number of households in East Africa is 111 There are more than 10,000 households, excluding those who just gave birth last year, and there are still more than 900,000 households. These more than 900,000 households are likely to give birth to a child this year, and some families may even have a second or even third child. If according to this Trend: How many children will there be in East Africa in the next twenty years? "
"That's a lot!" After speaking, Ernst fell silent.
"Not only is there a lot, we assume that each of these families will have at least five children in the next twenty years. If new immigrants are added, the population of East Africa will definitely exceed 10 million by 1890. It will not even take twenty or ten years. Time is enough."
"What do you think about this problem, father?"
"I mean, should we conduct administrative intervention on the population of East Africa to have fewer children?"
“That’s absolutely not possible!” Ernst firmly objected. “It’s easy to correct people’s ideas about fertility, but it will be troublesome if they try to correct themselves in the future. Therefore, we must not use administrative means to control the population of East Africa. Intervene.”
Ernst is a staunch anti-family planning sect, which is related to his own life experience in his previous life. If family planning was enforced, Ernst would not have been born in his previous life. Even so, well The Ernst family was still fined a large sum of money. People were generally very poor at that time, so all the valuable belongings of the Ernst family were evacuated. And later, when the country became rich, no one wanted to have children. She was willing to have a baby, but Ernst himself had never even been married.
"Uh... didn't you ask me to express my opinion? I just said it casually." Constantine did not expect that Ernst would object so fiercely.
“Father, since the people of East Africa are very interested in having children, let them have children. As long as the children grow up in these twenty years, they will be the future of East Africa. By then, the population of East Africa will not be enough. The problem is that mixed-race families happen to account for the highest proportion, and this is the prototype of the German nation in East Africa," Ernst said.
“I know that you have always emphasized that population is the cornerstone of a country, and more people are the cornerstone of a strong country, but the education and support of so many children is a heavy burden for East Africa! "
Ernst thought about it carefully and said to Prince Constantine: "Father, our childcare cost benchmark in East Africa It’s rural areas around the world, not Europe. I don’t think East Africa needs to worry about this population growth. We in East Africa have poor education. The fundamental reason in the first place is to liberate the labor force in East Africa and allow more women to participate. Labor tasks are required, and the industrial scale in East Africa is small and does not require so many educated people. Therefore, education is compulsory. We can definitely be more flexible on the issue of education. Now schools in East Africa are all in small classes. These newborns will start school almost four or five years later. It will be appropriate to change to large classes at that time, and the students from the previous batches will have graduated by then. , just for them to solve the teacher shortage in East Africa. Anyway, it is enough to read according to the textbooks, and the requirements do not need to be too high.
In fact, the most important problem facing East Africa now is how to raise so many newborns. My personal opinion is that women should completely become housewives and no longer participate in agricultural production activities. It is not difficult for a mother to raise five or six babies. , which is also responsible for the problem of food and clothing. As for the lack of agricultural population, just use black people to supplement it.”
After all, the key to solving the problem in the end is "labor". The black slaves in East Africa only have adult males, and we are not afraid of them multiplying indefinitely. They can only exist in East Africa for one generation. Sharing agricultural work equally among them is equivalent to letting them They use their own generation to raise the generation of East African newborns. When these East African newborns grow up, that is when the "farm tools" retire from East Africa.
This matter is cruel, but if the level of mechanization cannot be improved, we can only suffer Nigg first. Ernst promised to help these opponents in advance after finding new tools to replace Nigg. Good-hearted people who have made important contributions to the construction of East Africa are sent back to their "hometown".
(End of this chapter)