Chapter 277: Empty the Cage and Change the Bird
The first town, Svet Palace.
Armen reported the latest war developments to Constantine: "Your Majesty, the war on the southern and northern fronts has almost been completed. The southern front has successfully advanced to the north bank of the Limpopo River, and the indigenous people on the northern front have basically evacuated on their own. ."
Constantine paused with the pen in his hand and said, "Well, how is the situation on the Western Front?"
"The west side is still advancing. Because there are many rivers, it is not over yet, but it is almost there. It is almost to the Kuango River Basin."
Constantine stood up and looked at the map of East Africa behind him.
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"The war is about to end in a blink of an eye, but I don't know how the war in Europe will develop. The French are gone and the Italians are still holding on. However, even if the war ends, Europe will definitely be more turbulent in the future." Constantine said with emotion. .
Although Europe was fighting to the death, Constantine had long been accustomed to it. He had never seen the continental war cease in his life. The map of East Africa in front of us looks so pleasing to the eye. It is all the property of the Hohenzollern family.
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Kingdom of Italy.
After the surrender of the Kingdom of Italy's navy, the Austro-Hungarian Empire's 50,000 army troops easily arrived on the east coast of the Kingdom of Italy on troop ships.
Subsequently, with the cooperation of the Papal State army, the territory of the Kingdom of Italy was directly cut off by the coalition forces, and Naples and Sicily were cut off from the northern land connection.
The restoration organization in Naples immediately launched a rebellion, whose leader was Francesco II, the last monarch of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
After Italy unified the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, Francesco II went into exile in Rome. Naturally, the Austro-Hungarian Empire would not give up such a good chess piece.
At the same time, the Austro-Hungarian Empire launched a crazy revenge against the non-aristocratic bourgeoisie in Italy. It can be said that before the emergence of the Kingdom of Italy, most of Italy was under the direct or indirect rule of the Austrian Empire. Without the support of these people, there would be no Sardinia. Good thing the kingdom united Italy easily.
Under the planning of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Naples was the first to recover, and those former allies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire also came out again and began to take over power.
The future of the restored Kingdom of Naples is indeed worrying, but the Austro-Hungarian Empire does not matter.
Now, Franz, as long as Naples regains its independence and Italy is not unified, it will be a small problem.
It's not that Franz is stingy, but the Austro-Hungarian Empire is not the Austrian Empire after all. Now Franz just wants to swallow Venice and transform it into a German region.
It was Ernst who came up with this bad idea, just two days ago.
"Austria cannot lose Venice. The importance of Venice is related to the future of Austria. With Hungary as a rebel and a group of other national separatist forces ready to move, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is at risk of disintegration at any time, so Austria must strengthen Your own strength." Ernst said to Franz as soon as he returned to Schönbrunn Palace from Hechingen.
"Taking advantage of this war, we can seize Venice, find ways to weaken the Italian population, and then inject German immigrants there. This will greatly ease Venice's tendency to regain independence in the future."
"That's what I say, but if I had so many Germans, the Austrian Empire wouldn't be what it is today. Can you give me the German immigrants in East Africa?" Franz was a little angry, Ernst This is completely like standing and talking without back pain. Everyone knows the idea of disintegration, but it is even more difficult to solve the problem.
There are Germans flowing out of the Austro-Hungarian Empire every year. Where can we find such Germans to exchange blood for Venice?
"The population of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is flowing out. Isn't it because Hungary and Slavs are too fertile? The more people there are, the fewer job opportunities there are for Germans. Austria has a relatively developed economy. Once job opportunities are squeezed, ordinary Germans will naturally have to Find a way out." Ernst said, "In this war, the Kingdom of Italy is bound to lose anyway. Let's transport the Italians out of the countryside of Venice now. We in East Africa will suffer some losses. We can help Austria to complete it. We will use it afterwards. Machines will compensate. After the war, Austria can distribute the land to its soldiers. The Austrian soldiers who have land will naturally increase the number of Germans. Anyway, the final result depends on your choice."
Ernst's calculations hit Franz in the face. East Africa wanted to hollow out Venice to develop East Africa, and even pretended to be helping Austria.
"You, forget it, but what you said does make sense. Although the large population in Venice is an asset, but if it is not German, it is a debt to the empire." Franz said, "But you East Africa can absorb that Are there many Italians? Aren't you afraid that they will go to East Africa and cause you trouble?"
"Haha, are they really allowed to travel to Africa? As long as they go to Africa, the sky will not respond and the earth will not work." Ernst said coldly.
"You don't want to turn them into slaves, do you?" Franz said doubtfully.
"Of course not, but now there is an industry in East Africa that urgently needs industrial workers from Venice to help complete it, so we need this group of manpower." Ernst said calmly. As for whether they are slaves, that needs to be discussed carefully. If they accept East African values, they will naturally be their own people (Germans). If they do not accept them, they will be the targets of elimination.
"What industry?" Franz asked curiously.
"Of course it's the textile industry. Most of the immigrants from East Africa have gone to farm, and they are basically zero in the industrial field, so we need a group of skilled workers."
Ernst had actually always wanted to engage in the textile industry in Africa, but population was precious to East Africa. In order to effectively occupy East Africa, most of the immigrants were arranged to farm and join the army.
Taking this opportunity to plunder the population from Venice can effectively alleviate the problem of underpopulation in East Africa. France's tiger-bearded Ernst naturally does not dare to stroke, but Italy's wool is full of courage.
The population of the Venice area and the rural areas is close to one million. Ernst is not greedy. He still has the ability to eat about 400,000 people in one go. Adding in the Italians who immigrated to East Africa before, the number of people who can reach the top is only 500,000. Not too difficult for East Africa, which has a population of nearly four million.
After excluding those responsible for land reclamation, the remaining urban immigrants could directly create two industrial cities in East Africa. In fact, Ernst and Franz missed one industry, which was shipbuilding.
The waters of East Africa have been wasted, which is really not a solution. A large amount of marine fishery resources have been wasted. You must know that the waters near Somalia are a world-famous seasonal fishing ground.
"It's not that easy to start the textile industry. Raw materials are the problem, but if you want to try it, you can give it a try." Franz said.
Raw materials are a small problem for East Africa. The cotton fields in East Africa have begun to harvest, and Ernst also plans to expand the cotton planting area on this basis.
As for other problems, the only problems now were manpower and equipment, both of which Ernst planned to prostitute directly from Venice.
