Chapter 311 Thoughts of the Kingdom of Italy

Most of the official medical personnel that already exist in East Africa are from the East. Constantine brought a team of German private doctors here. There are some "doctors" from Europe among the other immigrants, but most of these people are unscrupulous and use... After all, they come from rural areas, and most of them rely on the inheritance of their ancestors. They use axes and axes to disembowel their bodies without disinfecting them. Who can stand this?

Doctors are still the rarest profession in East Africa. Most patients still rely on fate, and many people have their own home remedies. They don't know if they will work, so just give them a try. Fortunately, people in this era are accustomed to this.

There are a total of 108 official clinics in East Africa, not a single hospital, and 285 registered doctors. There is a snake venom research institute that is considered the pinnacle of East African medical care.

Overall, medical resources are extremely scarce in East Africa. Fortunately, East Africa is very suitable for the cultivation of herbal medicine. Some of the indigenous people have inherited it, and it has been mastered by East Africans.

For example, after being bitten by a black mamba, the natives of East Africa will find a strange-looking plant from the surroundings, pound it into a plaster, apply it to the wound, and then wait to die.

Although this matter is somewhat ridiculous, the indigenous people believe it deeply. This shows that the indigenous people also have their own medicine, which can at least provide psychological comfort.

Of course, this is a failed case, but there are also many successful ones. Most of them are prescriptions that can reduce inflammation, stop bleeding and relieve pain. After all, the indigenous people have been fighting with the beasts of East Africa for thousands of years, and it is inevitable that they will suffer some minor injuries, so it is still Summarizing a set of systematic medical experience is essentially still in a state of being undivided by witch doctors, but some results can always be achieved by applying the right methods.

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Austria took Venice, and then launched the final purge of the region. A large number of intellectuals, businessmen, and nobles fled to the Kingdom of Sardinia. Compared with Hungary in eastern Lombardy, Austria's food was on the contrary more beautiful.

As the richest region in Italy, Lombardy greatly benefited the Hungarian nobles. Although they knew that the Austrians were using Hungary to block their guns, if the Italians wanted to regain their lost territory, they had to attack Lombardy first, but Hungary doesn't care, you What kind of level is Italy? No matter how bad our country is, Hungary is still a member of the great powers, with a strong motherland behind it.

Although Austria also expelled the Italians, most of them still had stable destinations because of the takeover of East Africa. Hungary was not so polite to Lombardy. It directly expelled the Italians in the territory according to the agreement, and then moved a large number of Hungarians from the empire. population, to achieve the goal of dove occupying the magpie's nest, this time the Hungarian government tried its best, after all, one Lombardy can house many of its own noble children.

The actions of Austria and Hungary directly led to the emergence of many refugee groups in the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Papal States, and Naples was also affected.

At this time, the East African Kingdom can appear as a good guy. As a major agricultural country, East Africa has far excess food production capacity. Even if it exports a large amount every year, it still has a surplus.

After all, in the European grain market, East Africa must not act recklessly and destroy people's financial resources like killing their parents. East Africa can only try its best to develop some differentiated products to expand grain sales. This is the case with Hechingen's food processing industry.

There is no need to worry about so much in Italy this time. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured in, and all Italian countries have been affected. If the problem of food rations for these people is not solved, lives will be lost.

Florence.

Since the defeat of the war, Emmanuel II has been looking sad all day long, and he has become much older. This time, the Kingdom of Italy lost his wife and lost its troops. Nearly half of the country was lost, and the Kingdom of Italy returned to its original state, but the more it At this time, the Kingdom of Italy becomes increasingly inseparable from itself, so it must continue to support it.

Emmanuel II asked the Minister of Agriculture with a sad face: "Has the food problem not been solved yet?"

The Minister of Agriculture said helplessly: "This time we lost a lot of land in the Po River Plain, and also lost the grain-producing areas in southern Italy. In addition, the kingdom's grain output was originally far lower than that of European countries, and now it is even more unsustainable."

Emmanuel II: "Can the Ministry of Foreign Affairs think of a way to ask other countries for help?"

Foreign Minister: "Your Majesty, the Spanish royal family is willing to give us some free assistance, but it is only a drop in the bucket. The internal situation in Spain is not very good, and Prince Amadeo has no choice. Germany and France have reduced their food production due to the war, so that now the entire Food prices in Europe have gone up."

Emmanuel II: "Is there no solution? You must know that hundreds of thousands of refugees in Lombardy and Venice have no food to eat. Their final finger will be directed at the government."

Foreign Secretary: "Your Majesty, there is actually good news. The East African Kingdom is willing to sell us a large amount of food at low prices, but it will mainly be rice and corn."

Emmanuel II: "The Kingdom of East Africa? Is it the country that was established last year?"

Foreign Secretary: "Exactly, Your Majesty, the Kingdom of East Africa is a country founded in East Africa by Constantine, Prince of Hechingen, Prussia."

Emmanuel II said: "This East African kingdom hasn't been around for a long time, right? Are they able to bear such a large amount of food exports?"

Foreign Secretary: "Your Majesty is unaware of something. In fact, the volume of grain trade between East Africa and us has been growing steadily in recent years. Before the establishment of the East African Kingdom, the East African colonies had always been a grain export area."

Emmanuel II: "The land of this East African kingdom is Africa, right? Is Africa so rich?"

Foreign Secretary: "Africa has poor climate conditions and rampant diseases, but there should still be no shortage of land. After all, the African continent is vast, and it was originally the birthplace of black slaves, so there is not much shortage of labor. It is estimated that this was the first time the East African Kingdom was established. That’s why it became a food exporting country.”

Emmanuel II: "You mean that the East African Kingdom developed its land by exploiting the indigenous people of East Africa, planted a large amount of food, and created huge wealth for the East African Kingdom?"

Foreign Secretary: "I think it should be like this. Black people eat less, work more, are strong, and don't need money. It's hard for Prince Constantine not to get rich."

Emmanuel II suddenly became interested: "How about we also open a colony in Africa to solve Italy's food problem?"

The Foreign Secretary is not optimistic: "Developing overseas colonies is one way, but Italy lacks experience in this area, and now our finances are also a big problem."

Speaking of financial problems, Emmanuel II also had difficulties. The Italian government itself owed a large debt to Britain. If it were not for fear that Italy could not repay its debts, Britain would not care about the life and death of Italians, mediate the war, and try to maintain The Italian subject continued to exist, and even the newly restored Kingdom of Naples was forced to inherit part of the debt owed by the Kingdom of Sardinia and repay the debt to the British.

In addition, in this war, Italy also lost Venice and one-third of Lombardy, which are important financial and taxation areas. In comparison, the Kingdom of Naples is not that important. Although Naples is large in area and has a large population, its economy is not good. Although it pays more taxes, the Kingdom of Italy has more fiscal expenditures here, and getting rid of this burden now is not necessarily a bad thing.

Emmanuel II: "In this case, we should spend our money wisely first. First, import food from East Africa. As long as the price is low enough, don't worry about rice and corn. It is important to appease the refugees first. As for the establishment of colonies, we will wait for a while." Come here and do what he wants."

The Kingdom of Italy doesn't want to colonize overseas. Anyway, Italy's conditions in this area are not bad, and it doesn't have any experience. The Mediterranean is also a sea, and Sardinia and Sicily are both ruled by sea routes. It's nothing more than this run. It's just a matter of colonizing further afield. It's impossible to support such a large population by relying on the local area.