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, he should end his life as soon as possible. Otherwise, there are so many dark sides in the world and he 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 extermination, the East African colonies did not do it themselves anyway. Doesn't count.
On the one hand, he was in charge of the government affairs of the East African colonies, and on the other hand, he was taking 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.
Ernst drank 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 actually likes to drink coffee, and it is not surprising that his son likes oriental tea. After all, the British like to drink tea very much, and there are also teas sold by the Dutch in Germany. This kind of drink is not uncommon.
Ernst's own fleet would also bring some tea leaves from the Far East, all of which were famous teas designated by Ernst himself, and the Far East staff would go to the tea areas to purchase them in person.
Ernst is not embarrassed to station staff. After all, the Hexingen Consortium’s business is mainly in the north, so most of them go to tea areas close to North China to purchase tea, such as Lu’an Guapian, Xinyang Maojian…
The tea leaves in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are also good, but foreigners know a lot about them (Nanyang overseas Chinese businessmen) and are well-known. The competition among local dignitaries is fierce (consumption in wealthy areas is high). With that pitiful output, there must be 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 must always be more cautious to make it easier for the staff of the Heixinggen Consortium.
"Ernst, how's 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 be possible to reach 500,000 by the end of the year." 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 established for two years! You have recruited so many people. The entire Hechingen plus the countryside is estimated to be just over tens of thousands!"
"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 in 100, so this small amount of immigration is simply not enough,” Ernst and Constantine said.
"Is there so much developed land in East Africa?" Constantine was a little surprised.
When Ernst told himself that developing the East African colonies, he didn't take it seriously at all. Anyway, it's not a bad thing for children to have their own ideas. It doesn't matter whether they succeed 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 leaders in European countries.
Constantine also knew that he spent money to buy Alaska, but it was a land of ice and snow, and there was nothing to say, so he just treated his son as 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, that's pretty good! Württemberg and Baden combined have only over two million people (the province of Hohenzollern to which Hechingen belongs is sandwiched between them) time, so Constantine compared the two.), half a million is not too little." Prince Constantine calculated.
"How many Germans can there be in the immigrant population?" Prince Constantine asked.
"There are 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," Ernst said.
"There are still a few Germans. I have a piece of news to tell you. In recent years, the grain 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, but then I returned home (Black After staying in Schingen for a while, the steward 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 will go and talk to them (South Germany). Go talk to the nobles in the area and ask them to divert you for your convenience." Constantine said calmly.
Hearing this, Ernst was overjoyed. He had been wandering between Berlin and Vienna recently, and he didn't pay 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 ask for any number of immigrants 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 cultural level is not high (the popularity of compulsory education in South Germany is not as popular as that in North Germany).
The southwest region has always been an important area for German overseas immigrants, accounting for more than 30% all year round.
If we can make good use of this part of immigrants, we can at least increase the pure German population by hundreds of thousands in 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 a mixed-race group and are not counted as a Chinese group.)
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 Ernst’s Hohenzollern family. Each branch can be clearly traced. There is no difference from 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. Rich and famous people in the family will Together we organize the continuation of the genealogy, so that every person in the East has a descendant of a noble family.
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 when they arrive in East Africa, these immigrants, even if they educate two or three generations, they don’t know who their ancestors are. At most, they 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 be able to say whatever he said, and it would not be a bad idea to recreate a nation.