Chapter 233 Another chapter (do not order)
The state is a tool of class rule. Every country has its own way. The immigrants who come to East Africa will at best be ruled in another place.
In Germany and the Far East, the vast majority of people are landless. The land is owned by the Junkers and the landlord class, just like the people who came to the United States in this era. If they are not nobles and rich people, go to I have to work as a coolie for a few years first.
The difference in East Africa is that among the people, there are also slaves. I may not be living a good life, but if there are people who are worse off than me, then I am living a good life.
Ernst originally thought about allocating land to immigrants, but now it seems that it is completely unnecessary, because immigrants have no such demands and are used to working as tenant farmers for nobles and landlords. Suddenly they encountered something like this in East Africa. Those who take care of food, clothing, housing, transportation, and even solve marriage problems are satisfied, after all, they cannot imagine a better life.
At the beginning, Ernst wanted to confer military merit on the land, but the fighting ability of the indigenous people was not worth the price, and the land remained in the hands of the Hechingen royal family.
In addition, East Africa belongs to the family and the country, and the Hechingen royal family owns the entire East Africa, causing the politics of East Africa to become a suture monster.
The current situation of agriculture looks like a Soviet-style collective farm. The difference is that the collective farm legally belongs to the collective economy, that is, it is jointly owned by the villagers, while in East Africa it is private ownership, but almost all industries in East Africa are owned by the Hechingen royal family. of private property.
Different from large farmers in the United States, farmers mainly consider efficiency and whether they can make money, while East Africa is all about planning and does not consider efficiency very much. As a result, per capita productivity is not fully utilized. According to East Africa’s two-year and five-year crops The agricultural conditions and the size of the land should put Italy beyond the past, but in fact this is not the case.
East African immigrants were also kept somewhat lazy by Ernst, and the reason why this system did not collapse was the existence of the slave economy.
As for the question of whether you will lose money when selling food, it is completely over-worry. There will always be places in the world that are short of food. For example, in Japan, the contradiction between man and land is extremely prominent, and there are quite a few landless farmers. It has become the main source of rice in East Africa. As for the importing countries, it's not that East Africa has any special skills, it's just that Japan in this era is too poor and can only buy cheap rice from East Africa. East Africa, on the other hand, imports "women", cultural relics, and ancient books from Japan through grain trade, getting the best of both worlds.
Italy has the same experience. The quality of East African flour produced by the Trieste factory is notoriously poor. Italy imports the most flour. East Africa took this opportunity to import family immigrants from the southern Italian region.
Now Ireland, a big immigrant country, has not been targeted by Ernst. It is not that he looks down upon Ireland, but the British are too inappropriate. They do not even allow Germans to enter Ireland for the same reason. Ready-made, the situation in Ireland is not very good now. The British are afraid of foreign countries causing trouble. Who knows if you are spies of the French.
Another reason is that the immigration wave in Ireland has passed for many years. It was around 1850. About 1.8 million people left Ireland. In addition, the previous Great Famine killed a quarter of the population. Now Ireland is just a little poorer and a little dissatisfied with Britain, so there is absolutely no reason to move away.
If you can’t get immigrants, then you won’t get them. Ernst is now a little relieved about the current scale of immigration, because the number of people born in East Africa in the first five months of this year reached an astonishing 380,000. If not Unexpectedly, throughout 1870, East Africa's population will increase by more than 600,000 just by births. Add in the immigrant population, and it will easily exceed one million.
New immigrants will join the birth force after a while. According to a conservative three-year cycle, the population of East Africa will exceed 10 million in ten years.
Immigration is now stable at 400,000 per year, which will be 4 million in ten years. However, immigration cannot remain so stable because there is still a world economic crisis that will last for several years. At that time, the population immigrating to East Africa will definitely explode in a short period of time.
On the population issue, Ernst has already firmly settled on Diaoyutai, so he must focus on other undertakings in East Africa.
Land ownership is a headache for Ernst. Ernst knows very well that the royal family of Hechingen cannot always reach an agreement with this group of unruly people. As time goes by, the land will be thrown out sooner or later. Go. It's just that you have to think carefully about when to throw and how to throw, and you can't make it crazy.
Now, some mines can be used for Austrian investment. This was planned before the establishment of the East African Kingdom.
By boosting the industrial development of Austria through the mineral resources in East Africa, East Africa will be able to complete its economic binding with Austria. If East Africa conflicts with Britain and France, the Austrian government will definitely be the first to become impatient.
Although the Suez Canal is in the hands of Britain and France, the biggest beneficiary is probably Austria. East Africa, an area of four million square kilometers, can also solve Austria's food and industrial raw material problems. The only flaw is the East African market. It is not open to Austria. At the same time, the quality of tropical food is poor, and it avoids direct competition with Hungary. Even the raw materials of Ernst's Vienna factory come from the Hungarian region, and its main focus is the mid-to-high-level food market.
The market in East Africa is negligible, and the people’s spending power is almost nonexistent. Even the wages they receive are bonds issued by the Bank of Hechingen. No one recognizes this thing after it comes out of East Africa.
The only thing Austria can make from East Africa is the weapons and equipment purchased by the government, such as large-caliber coastal defense artillery, gunboats, etc.
Relying on royal investment alone, development is still too slow. At the same time, some immigrants can also be diverted to enter the industrial field.
There is also the issue of the army. Now the East African army is not enough. With a land of four million square kilometers, the army must exceed 100,000 at least. Suppressing slaves also requires a huge army.
With the development of the agricultural slave economy, agriculture no longer uses so many people. After enough money has been saved, the tractors of the Hechingen Energy Power Company have almost been built, so the slaves can continue to use them. They are destined not to stay.
Cooperating with Austria is a national policy in East Africa. East Africa’s education, scientific research, military industry and other industries will need support from Austria.
Now these are impossible to achieve in East Africa. Take education as an example. If we expect the education industry in East Africa to develop, we have to wait at least two years before the first batch of East African students enroll in the second grade. Even international students are Half-grown children, after they go abroad, they still have to go to elementary school, middle school, and finally higher education.
While higher education cannot develop for the time being, scientific research and military industry are naturally impossible to achieve, and even industries with slightly technical content are short of manpower.
But Ernst is not worried about this. East Africa has only been developing for three years, so it is better not to think about these things.
And East Africa has established a basic compulsory education system from the beginning. Sooner or later, this system will develop with the growth of the second generation of East Africa. It is only a matter of time. Now there are so many countries in the world that do not even have compulsory education. No, so the start of education in East Africa is not too late.
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