Chapter 583 Three Six Nine and Others
At the Schveth Palace, Ernst was also planning how to improve the transportation problem in Hesse. This time it was not Ernst who thought of it on his own initiative, but when he was talking to Prince Carl mentioned during communication.
With the help of East Africa, Sigmaringen has now established a firm foothold in Africa, so at the end of the year Ernst came to ask Prince Karl about the construction of Sigmaringen in the African colonies.
Due to the relationship between the two families, the Ernst family and Prince Carl got along very harmoniously. Even when it came to colonial affairs, they were as casual as a family.
Ernst: "Uncle Carl, how is the situation in your colony now?"
"So far, the progress is very smooth. Because of your help, we have immigrated more than 40,000 people in Chad. This was really unimaginable to me before!" Prince Karl sighed.
Ernst smiled and said nothing. During the peak period of East African immigration, from 1874 to 1875, nearly four million people immigrated to East Africa in two years. In normal years, the number of immigrants could reach one hundred. At about 10,000, immigration has dropped off a cliff and is no less than 300,000 per year. Therefore, the number of immigrants from Sigmaringen is just a drop in the bucket for East Africa.
After taking a sip of tea, Ernst asked: "Then the territory we planned for you is now under control?"
Prince Karl said excitedly: " That's natural, a whole two million square kilometers of land! Who wouldn't be interested? Anyway, we already control many important areas, and other forces should now do it! You can’t squeeze in!”
Ernst understood the joy of this crazy enclosure in Africa. He said: “When you gain a foothold in Chad in the future, you can continue to the west. After all, the outlet to the sea is in the west, and it will be the next India. Of course, India’s area is only more than three million square kilometers.”
Of course, Ernst was only referring to the area. The conditions in India are too good. There is almost no bad land. Even the arid land of Pakistan can look at the Indus River and support more than 100 million people in the future.
But when you think about a place like Somalia in the previous life that could support a population of more than 10 million, it seems understandable.
The advantage between India and East Africa is that the precipitation in the tropical monsoon climate is almost twice that of East Africa. The annual precipitation in the tropical monsoon climate is 1500 to 2000mm; the annual precipitation in the savanna climate is only 750 to 1000mm. This The difference is stark; but Ernst thinks savanna rainfall is at a threshold that's just right.
The main countries with the same type of climate distribution as East Africa are Brazil, Mexico and Australia. In the past, except for Mexico, which mainly focused on drug cultivation, the other two countries had very good agricultural development.
Brazil Needless to say, Brazil’s urbanization rate is close to 90%, and only 10% of people live in rural areas, which is smaller than the rural population in Europe and the United States. This also illustrates the development of Brazil’s agriculture. , as for the hunger problem in Brazil is entirely caused by distribution.
Australia's agricultural conditions are not very superior, and can be said to be the worst among several regions. That's because Australia's desert and semi-desert areas account for nearly 40% of the country's area, and more than 70% of the entire continent's land is in Arid or semi-arid zones.
Among them, Australia's most important wheat-producing area, the Murray-Darling Basin has a subtropical grassland climate with low precipitation. The annual precipitation in most areas is only 200 to 500 millimeters, which is much greater than that in East Africa. Some areas are not as good. Most areas in Matabele Province (Zimbabwe), which claims to have relatively little rainfall in East Africa, can receive more than 700 millimeters of precipitation, and the driest west can also reach 400 millimeters.
In the desert areas of East Africa, precipitation in the Kalahari Desert and Namib Desert can sometimes reach more than 200 to 300 millimeters.
Of course, the savanna climate in East Africa is very different from the savanna climate in Australia. The savanna climate in East Africa is caused by the plateau terrain, while the savanna climate in Australia is distributed in the plains. The main reasons for the low precipitation in Australia's savanna climate are the barrier of the Eastern Great Dividing Range Mountains to eastern water vapor and the influence of the subtropical high.
Most of East Africa is between the Tropic of Capricorn and the South, while half of Australia's savanna climate is south of the Tropic of Capricorn. As for the savanna climate in northern Australia, most of it is used for grazing cattle and sheep.
Of course, Ernst believes that the reason why Australia's climate is so dry is that the entire continent is neither south nor north, which means it is severely affected by the subtropical high pressure.
The subtropical high is a downdraft zone that is not conducive to rainfall. It is generally distributed near 30 degrees north and south latitude, that is, active between 20 degrees and 40 degrees north latitude, covering most of Australia. area.
The South African territory in East Africa is almost in this area. Like Botswana and Namibia, they are extremely arid areas. That is to say, the African terrain is relatively narrow and extends north and south. Otherwise, there will definitely be a large area of desert in the south. , even so, the area of desert and semi-desert in Southwest Africa reaches nearly one million square kilometers.
A negative example is the Sahara Desert near 30 degrees north latitude. Egypt is at this latitude. Most of the land in East Africa just bypasses the north and south subtropical high pressure belts.
Of course, the main purpose of saying this is to highlight the superiority of East Africa's climate. Tropical grassland climates are also divided into three, six, and nine grades. The names are not the same, but the conditions are the same. Brazil has a good climate, but its most livable tropical plateau climate, even Africa Less than half of the total, East Africa is better than these countries in terms of climate conditions and land area.
Prince Karl: "In this year's immigration, you East Africa directly sent us more than 30,000 people. We in Sigmaringen worked hard in Europe to recruit more than 3,000 people."
This made Ernst chuckle inwardly, but he still persuaded: "Uncle Carl, you should stop thinking about immigrating to Germany. You should think of more ways to come from Romania and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. , Germany’s current industrial development has reached a new stage, and the spillover population basically does not exist. Instead, people from other regions come to Germany to work, so it is more realistic to recruit immigrants to the backward areas of Central and Eastern Europe.”
Of course, there is another reason that Ernst did not mention, and that is that East Africa has the most immigration agencies in Germany. With East Africa existing, it is difficult for anyone to compete with East Africa.
Prince Karl: "Oh, it's true. If we had been a few years earlier, we wouldn't have been so passive, especially during the economic crisis, when many people suddenly lost their jobs."
However, Ernst feels that this is not necessarily the case. The most important reason why Sigmaringen can immigrate to Africa on a large scale now is the support of East Africa. A few years ago, East Africa's own population was not enough, and it was impossible to share the soup with others.
Without the help of East Africa, Sigmaringen managed to immigrate thousands of people in Africa. This is the current situation of most African colonies, except for the two weirdos of East Africa and Italy.
East Africa followed the human wave tactic, using immigrants to develop Africa, while Italy was forced to colonize Africa to relieve domestic population pressure. According to a survey by the East African Defense and Security Agency, Italy is now in Essel Biya has immigrated more than 300,000 people, and Cape Town's immigration achievements of hundreds of years have been completed in just a few years.
So the Italian African colonies are now the third colony (country) with white population after North African Arabs. The first is naturally East Africa, and the second is Cape Town. Most of the other colonies are insignificant, and some countries In a colony, the number of white people may only be a few dozen or a few hundred, but any country with more than 10,000 people is considered a big country.
(End of this chapter)