Chapter 723 Strategic Goals in East Africa
After all, the East African government and the Hechingen Consortium are two different systems. Ernst’s construction of the “Pheasant” University is not easy to publicize, so the uninformed East African government went there when.
Of course, Ernst was indeed too realistic in his university fraud, and all "formal" procedures were complete, so much so that a flood washed away the Dragon King Temple.
After thinking about it, Ernst said: "Later, I will have people from Europe screen the list of schools first. You will send people over to check it out to prevent our students from being 'scammed'."
East African students are happy because the East African government has paved the way for them. This is also related to the connections of the Hechingen royal family. I am afraid that the only one who can deceive East Africa is the Hechingen consortium.
Of course, although the Heixingen Consortium has built dozens of pheasant universities, it has also done some "business". For example, the Heixingen School in the East African talent training base is managed by the Heixingen Consortium.
That is, the bunch of schools left by Ernst in the Prince of Hechingen in the Prussian province of Hohenzollern, including the former site of the Hechingen Military Academy, have now become important bases for international students in East Africa.
The biggest difference from those pheasant schools is that the land of the school here is actually owned by the royal family of Hechingen, and the teachers are all hired from Europe. More than 500 international students study here every year.
Of course, in addition to international students, there are also schools in the form of "orphanages" left by Ernst. Every year, orphans are directly brought from Germany to study. This is also the top immigrant group in East Africa. They are in Germany. After completing their studies, they will go directly to East Africa for development.
Like most teachers in language schools, this is how they came originally, but now East Africa can provide them with a stable learning environment, and they no longer need so-called "crash" learning.
The fate of language school teachers has also been decided. The main task is to reshape them and then return to East African society.
"His Royal Highness, the next step is about our southern strategic issues. So far, our troops in the central, southern and eastern regions of East Africa have been deployed, and the basic construction of the defense lines has been completed. They are on the Zambezi River. Defense Line (the lower reaches of the Zambezi River in Mozambique), Eastern Defense Line (Matabele Province, eastern provincial border of Hechingen Province), Southern Defense Line (also Called the Orange River Defense Line), there are three major sections in total, with a total length of more than 3,000 kilometers. "
The military defense line in East Africa is mainly composed of three major segments, and it also shows the huge defense pressure in East Africa. The existence of the colony of Mozambique alone would require more than 1,800 kilometers of additional borders in East Africa. Without Mozambique, East Africa's land border defense and security expenditures would be reduced by one-eighth.
As for the Orange Free State (called the Boer Republic by the British and Transvaal), East Africa also wants to completely drive them to the south bank of the Orange River, which is the Eastern Cape area of the former Republic of South Africa. .
Here we have to mention the regional division of the Republic of South Africa. In addition to the city of Cape Town, there are three large provinces named Cape Town in the southernmost part of South Africa, namely Northern Cape Town and Eastern Cape Town. Cape Town and Western Cape Town.
The capital of the Western Cape is now Cape Town, while the capital of the Northern Cape is Kimberley. The Eastern Cape is just south of the Boer influence, on the south bank of the Orange River.
Except for these Cape Towns, other areas in the administrative territory of the former Republic of South Africa were the spheres of influence of the original Boers and Zulu people.
In other words, East Africa is to "rule across the river" with the British, bringing the original spheres of influence of the Boers and Zulu into the territory, and at the same time using the Orange River as a natural geographical limit.
As for taking over the Cape Town area, East Africa has no such plan. Even if the British lose the battle on the front line, they will not be able to give up the Cape Town area.
And East Africa has no intention of completely breaking up with the United Kingdom. This situation will only allow countries such as Germany, France, Russia, Austria, and the United States to enjoy the benefits, and is not in the interests of East Africa and the United Kingdom.
Therefore, although East Africa and the United Kingdom have irreconcilable conflicts with each other, they will not choose to fight to the end for the South African region. This actually illustrates the current helplessness of East Africa. The British military presence in South Africa alone is enough for East Africa to go all out. Even if East Africa wins, it will only cause Britain to lose its strategic tentacles in the south that threaten East Africa.
So choosing to accept the situation as soon as possible is the best choice in the interests of East Africa. Otherwise, with the current strength of the Royal Navy, if it only deals with East Africa, East Africa's international trade will be completely finished.
Although East Africa can be tougher and choose to fight to the end, it is only African chieftains who are having fun on the African continent. At the same time, it is possible for Germany or the United States to pick peaches in advance.
This involves East Africa's post-war "big industry" blueprint. Currently, East Africa has only built the most rudimentary industry, and is still far away from the goal of industrialization.
If East Africa had already achieved industrialization before the war started, it would have been possible to try to further challenge Britain's world hegemony in advance, and even gain hegemony in the Indian Ocean.
However, the problem is that East Africa has not completed industrialization, which is similar to the situation faced by Tsarist Russia today.
If Tsarist Russia had achieved industrialization, its Eurasian hegemony would have ended early, so East Africa needs the British ship not to suddenly disintegrate.
This entangled mentality is the same as the attitude of European and American countries towards the Soviet Union in previous generations. Of course, they hope that the Soviet Union will die, but not too quickly.
Just like the European Union was established just two years after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the previous life, although the EU is an economic union, European integration is definitely not what Americans want to see.
Of course, this is considered from the perspective of victory in East Africa. If the war ends in defeat, East Africa will definitely be very uncomfortable. A better situation is that East Africa continues to resist and falls into a protracted war with the United Kingdom and other countries, and the United Kingdom pulls other countries into the water and divides it up together. East Africa.
The worse situation is that East Africa directly loses its central and southern regions, nearly half of its industrial investment, and one-third of its agriculture directly cheaper than other countries.
This is the imbalance in the outcome of the war caused by the huge gap between the current national power of East Africa and the British.
Of course, if either side wins this war, the gains for the victorious side will be extremely huge. For example, Britain, if it can seize Matabele Province in East Africa, British hegemony will be greatly improved in the future. During the Great Consolidation, Matabele Province has a population of over one million, and is the closest to realizing industry. Coupled with the various resources of Hechingen Province, I am afraid that the British can grin from ear to ear. Just Hechingen The saved gold income will allow the British to recoup their capital.
The victory in East Africa will bring decades of peaceful development opportunities to East Africa in the future. At the same time, it will completely establish its status as a world power. At the same time, it will gain access to two important areas, Mozambique and Angola, and make up for East Africa's oil and energy shortfall. It will become a two-ocean country in the world, open up the land channel between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, and form a two-ocean economic belt with the central region and the central railway as the core.
It looks like a replica of the Boer War, but it is actually an enhanced version. However, in terms of international impact, it may not be as big a blow to Britain's international image as the Boers in the previous life.
Because East Africa itself is a member of the (pseudo) great powers, of course, if Britain loses the war, they will definitely assign the title of great power to East Africa immediately, confirming East Africa's status as the largest country in Africa.
After all, losing to the world powers and losing to the "peasants" in a small land like the Boers are two different concepts.
So once this war broke out, it was a war that changed the world structure. The winner took all. Of course, the most important thing for East Africa was not the British, but the Portuguese. Once the African colonies are annexed, East Africa will be a bloody profit, and being able to capture the Transvaal Republic will be an unexpected surprise.
(End of this chapter)