Chapter 1139 The tricolor flag falls

Chapter 1139 The tricolor flag falls

Immigration also requires connections. In the past, East Africa established two major immigration recruitment systems in Germany and the Far East Empire.

However, with the economic development of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German region has now changed from a population outflow area to a population inflow area, so this system has been basically paralyzed since 1890.

The immigration system of East Africa in the Far East has always been maintained at a certain scale. Of course, the main purpose of East Africa's absorption of immigrants in the Far East is to supplement the population of East African colonies, not the local population. Now East Africa suddenly has nearly one million square kilometers of land out of thin air, and the gap in immigrants has also increased accordingly.

Hermann: "This is not a small project. Most of our ships now need to transport war materials to Europe, so it is not easy to immigrate one million people in Togoland."

East African ships not only need to facilitate the export of local goods to Europe, but also take into account the commodity trade in the Far East, South America, the Middle East and other regions. The pressure is huge. It can be said that the shipping industry is in short supply of ships. Under this circumstance, it is not conducive to the implementation of the so-called immigration plan in East Africa.

Hermann's words woke Ernst up. Now is indeed not a good time to immigrate, so it can only be shelved temporarily.

However, Ernst said: "The immigration plan is difficult to carry out, so we should start with the implementation and consolidation of the local ruling order."

"Although these colonies belong to the empire in name, the local ruling class is basically German, and we still have a lot of preliminary work to do."

"The army and officials must be arranged in place first, and they must also be responsible for communicating with the local Germans. After all, East Africa and Germany are essentially different."

After all, East Africa and Germany are two countries. In this way, the methods of local rule and the corresponding policies must be completely different, which is bound to cause dissatisfaction among some German businessmen and colonial groups.

But this matter is easy to solve. The German colonies originally had few troops, and now they have all been withdrawn to the country for the First World War. When the East African army arrives, they can smoothly accept the local regime. As for the local Germans, they are not a big deal at all.

The main reason is that they are few in number. Take German Central Africa as an example. Before that, there were only a few thousand Germans in the entire German Central Africa, including the German colonial army. Now that the German colonial army is about to return home, there will be even fewer Germans who can stay.

After talking about Germany's colonies in Africa, the East African government finally began to shift the topic to Germany's islands in the Pacific.

The East African government has a headache about the arrangement of these islands, mainly because they are too far away.

Ernst said: "It is definitely not easy to rule these islands, but it is also a great opportunity for us to establish influence in the Pacific region. At the same time, we can use this opportunity to form a certain deterrent to Australia."

This is actually a complete nonsense. Do we need to use deterrence to deal with a colonial country like Australia? To be honest, if it were not a British colony, East Africa would have already taken action against Australia.

Of course, no one can say that Australia is not important. Although the environment is a bit harsh, it is still a continent, and various resources must be relatively rich.

Siwei Te also nodded and said: "If we want to deal with Australia in the future, we do need some bases, and our mainland is indeed far away from Australia. The location of these islands is good."

This is probably the only important value that the East African government can find in Germany's Pacific colonies. As for resources, except for Nauru, most of them are better than nothing for East Africa at this stage.

The most important resource on the small island of Nauru is "guano". The guano accumulated over the years has formed a rich phosphate resource, which is very easy to mine.

When it comes to phosphate, Ernst can't help but think that the Germans really know how to choose places, such as the Togoland colony, whose most valuable mineral is also phosphate.

Out of his attention to this pile of "guano" in Nauru, Ernst said: "Nauru should send more troops to guard against Australia. After all, Nauru's phosphate resources are still valuable."

The reason why Ernst said this is mainly because Nauru was snatched from Germany by Australia under the arrangement of Britain in his previous life, so it is still necessary to send troops to Nauru, although it is very likely that Australia does not have the courage to provoke East Africa.

Of course, the more troops Ernst said, at most a hundred people, and the small island of Nauru cannot bear it, after all, the population of Nauru is only about a few thousand people.

In addition to Nauru, among the German Pacific colonies, the island of New Guinea is worth paying attention to. This colony is more complicated.

In the south of German New Guinea is the British colony, and in the west it borders the Dutch East Indies colony, forming a three-legged situation.

German New Guinea is not small in area. Even if Britain and the Netherlands occupy the majority, Germany still has more than 200,000 square kilometers. It must send some symbolic people to garrison here.

Of course, don't expect the East African government to develop these islands. At present, East Africa has no energy and ability to develop and build on these Pacific islands.

...

Libreville.

"Toot, toot..."

As the symphony orchestra played, the flag of the Second German Empire slowly fell, and the flag of the Rhine Empire with a lion emblem slowly rose to the top of the flagpole, fluttering in the sea breeze from the South Atlantic, announcing that Libreville had welcomed a new owner.

A few years ago, the French flag was still flying here, and then it was abandoned by France because of the Moroccan crisis. However, its new owner, Germany, also handed over the ownership rights here to East Africa in less than a year.

Watching the German flag fall and finally be put away, the Germans present were very sad. After all, this farewell was not only the end of Germany's local rule, but also their last peaceful time before heading to the European battlefield.

Among them, Xavier, the governor of German Central Africa, also had a very complicated mood. A year ago, he hoped to realize the great blueprint for the development of German Central Africa through the hands of East Africa. The result is now good, and the entire German overseas colonies have directly become East African. .

Of course, Xavier also knows that this is very necessary for local decisions. Now Germany has no time to manage these overseas colonies, so it is better to throw these burdens to East Africa.

But now, the war has begun in the homeland, and he will also be on his way home, with only more than 1,600 armed men rushing back to the homeland to join the war. No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Now Germany is facing the siege of three major powers, so Germany is in Although there are not many troops stationed in overseas colonies, they can only choose to recall them all, which can at least relieve some pressure on military strength.

In this war, the native populations of Britain, France, and Russia were nearly three times that of Germany. The mobilization potential of the three countries alone overwhelmed Germany.

"Your Excellency Andel, I hope you in East Africa can treat this land well. After all, this place left a deep impression on me. If I am still alive after the war, I will definitely come back to see this place where I lived and worked. I hope It reaches its full potential in your hands.”

Xavier has deep feelings for German Central Africa. After all, even if the entire area of ​​German Central Africa is compared with the German mainland, it is not much different.

Therefore, Xavier, who previously controlled such a large land, also experienced extraordinary happiness in German Central Africa. It is not an exaggeration to say that he was the earth king of German Central Africa.

Andel, who was responsible for taking over German Central Africa, said: "Don't worry! Governor Xavier, since we in East Africa have taken over this place, we will make it the homeland of our Germans. I also look forward to your safe return from the European battlefield." On that day, witness the new face of Libreville.”

In response to Andel's words, Xavier just smiled with a complex expression, and then said: "In that case, let's say goodbye here!"

He waved to the others, then boarded the ship with the troops from the former German Central African colonies and officially embarked on the journey back home.