Chapter 56 Balance

Ernst returned to his home in Hechingen from Austria and spent the Christmas of 1866 with Prince Constantine.

The East African colonies also developed step by step.

January 14, 1867.

The first immigrants from the Austrian Empire arrived at the port of Dar es Salaam.

The immigrants who first arrived in East Africa have long been tempered by the bumps on the sea, and now they are very happy to see land.

Not to mention the fact that it is within the Sultanate of Zanzibar, the environment here looks pretty good in the eyes of the immigrants. After all, Zanzibar has been developed for many years and the urban construction is barely up to standard.

People of all colors can be seen in Zanzibar, Germans, Arabs, Portuguese, blacks, Indians and Chinese...

The immigrants who have been living deep in the interior of the Austrian Empire have never seen this. The architectural style of Zanzibar is also different from Europe, and is full of strong Arabic style.

Coupled with tropical beaches and coconut trees, everything is so novel to these immigrants.

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After three days on the road, these immigrants were brought to the first town. Officials from various regions of the East African colonies had been prepared and had come to pull the immigrants in early.

The first batch of immigrants arriving today turned out to be white! Colonial officials who were accustomed to accepting Chinese immigrants in the past were a little surprised.

However, this group of people soon came to their senses. Colonial officials are currently all Germans. Students at the Hechingen Military Academy generally serve as translators and assistants, or as junior officers in the colonial army.

In fact, these Germans were also worried. After all, what would they do if their yellow men rebelled? It was fine in the early days and the population was not large, but in the last few months of last year tens of thousands more Chinese immigrants came out, while the number of Germans was still the original 2,000.

It is still possible to suppress tens of thousands of people with two thousand people, but the number of Chinese immigrants is increasing too fast. This year it will be tens of thousands, next year it will be hundreds of thousands, and the year after that it will be hundreds of thousands.

To say the least, no one knows whether Ernst will increase the number of ships to transport more people.

Although Chinese immigrants are more obedient and have a stronger labor force, the development of East Africa has greatly accelerated since restrictions on Chinese immigration were relaxed.

But for German officials, being able to rely on their own people (white people) is the only way to feel at ease, because German officials do not speak Chinese, and many of their tasks need to be completed by students from the Hechingen Military Academy.

German officials who had already tasted the sweetness of power were naturally uneasy. After all, these Hechingen Military Academy students were loyal to Ernst and had a monitoring role for German officials in the colony.

German officials believed that they were Ernst's reliance. Ernst's over-reliance on the Chinese would lead to instability in the East African colonies.

Compared to the Germans hired with money and the students of the Hechingen Military Academy trained by himself, Ernst certainly trusted the students he trained more.

But people's hearts are unpredictable, so Ernst did not dare to hand over the colony to them. He would rather use Germans who were not very high-level (mostly retired veterans of the army and mercenaries living overseas, and only a few high-level officials were Hechingen managers of the consortium).

The purpose of relocating people from the Austrian Empire this time was to prevent Chinese immigrants from becoming one family.

Ernst was just a feudal aristocrat with the ambition to open up new territories. There are always people who doubt that Ernst has a white skin and a yellow heart.

In fact, Ernst had never thought about it this way. In addition to fulfilling the great ideals of his previous life, building a strong country in East Africa and preventing the indigenous people from wasting the great land in Africa, Ernst always put the interests of the Hohenzollern family into consideration. Put it first.

In Ernst's own opinion, Africa can support at least two world-class powers, one is West Africa and the other is Southeast Africa.

West Africa is a densely populated area with mixed forces from various countries. Colonists from various countries have their own spheres of influence on the Gold Coast, while in East Africa there is only one top player, the Portuguese.

Cape Town, South Africa is already controlled by the British, and the Boers are not easy to mess with, so it is not a good place to start.

In East Africa, Portugal is basically the only country that has gone into decline. Ernst, the Sultanate of Zanzibar next door, has not yet taken it seriously (the colonial military strength has exceeded Zanzibar.).

The development of East Africa must squeeze out all the indigenous people, and the best way to squeeze out the indigenous people is to use immigrants to occupy the Indian land like the Americans.

For example, in the previous life of German East Africa, local officials wrote in reports to the German government: It is impossible for white people to settle in Tanganyika on a large scale, and large-scale land cultivation must be completed by local labor.

So it's not that Ernst didn't want to use Germans, but that there were too few Germans, and the population in the German region was just enough. There were constant wars in Germany, so many people chose to go abroad and immigrate overseas. Now Germany is basically stable under the control of Prussia Came down.

The Germans, who were not threatened by war, naturally chose to stay in Germany, and the Prussian industry, which already had a unified foundation, developed rapidly, which made the cake bigger and could better solve the unemployment problem.

In addition, the living standards in the German region itself are first-rate in this era, so Germans would rather wait than go abroad easily.

Even Germans in Austria will give priority to German regions when choosing where to work and live.

Therefore, if you want to develop Africa, you must have a large amount of surplus labor. The countries with the most abundant labor force in the world are the Russian Empire, India and the Qing Dynasty.

It's not easy for Russians to think about it. After all, Russians live in the temperate, subarctic and frigid zones all year round, where they can withstand the African environment.

And the Indian Ernst is even less likely to be used. Not to mention the poor reputation of Indians in his previous life, India will still be a rare strong opponent in East Africa in the Indian Ocean in the future. Ernst's ambition is to dominate the Indian Ocean.

A unified India has the ability to interfere in all countries around the Indian Ocean. Later generations of Indians relied on the Indians who stayed in Africa during the British colonial era to influence the politics of African countries.

The Qing Dynasty did not have the capabilities of India, and its furthest reach was the Strait of Malacca. The problem was that Ernst in his previous life did not see the Imperial Navy break through the first island chain until his death, let alone Malacca.

To be honest, India can kill half of the empire's economy as long as it strangles Malacca. First, the main channel of oil and energy is interrupted. Second, the European market must be transited through the Americas. That's why Pakistan's status is so important, even if everyone We all know that the two countries are brothers on the surface, but the common threat prompts both sides to stand together. If anyone has true feelings, that is stupid.

It is East Africa's long-term strategy to weaken India in the future. There can only be one hegemon in the Indian Ocean, and East Africa's goal in the future is hegemony in the Indian Ocean.

Passages like the Strait of Malacca are also the goals of future East African colonies.

If the first two cannot be used, the only option is to immigrate from China. Ernst was a Chinese in his previous life, so he naturally has a good impression of the Chinese, and the Chinese are really easy to use.

Now Ernst is an out-and-out German. When it comes to identity, of course he puts Germany first. After all, his identity as a German cannot be changed in this life. Putting German first means putting himself first.

As for the development of the East African colonies, which Germans would be willing to take advantage of them if they were not developed? You can't use high salaries to bring them over, and Ernst's money didn't come from strong winds. The two thousand Germans hired at the beginning accounted for a lot of Ernst's investment in East Africa.

Even the immigrants who were tricked into Austria were just the ancestral farmers of the Hungarians and Slavs.

The population of the Austrian Empire can only be regarded as the second level, and the composition is complicated. This does not matter to Ernst. After all, the Saxons in the United States in later generations ruled immigrants from all over the world. The largest immigrant group was Germans, and Latinos followed. The rise of the United States cannot change the fact that the Saxons in the United States are the ruling class, and English is the basis for maintaining American rule.

The country that Ernst wanted to establish was naturally a German-speaking country, and all cultures were aligned with Germany. After Tanzania became independent, English was still used as the official language. Therefore, race was secondary, and language and cultural identity were the basis of rule.

Otherwise, there would be no need for a country like Brazil to exist at all. It is the Portuguese language and cultural identity that maintains the unity of Brazil.

Moreover, even if Ernst wants to recruit people from Germany on a large scale, it is currently impossible. It will not work if he imitates the United States and recruits fraudsters and robbers.

The United States relies on its big family and big business and ranks first in the world in comprehensive conditions. Otherwise, the crime rate in the United States is basically the same as that in South America. The only difference is that Americans are really rich, while South America is really poor.

The fact that Germans cannot be recruited now does not mean that they cannot be recruited in the future. Once the East African colonies are developed in the future, people will naturally be willing to come and develop. Moreover, there will be two world wars and economic crises later, which are good opportunities for Ernst to start in Europe. No need to rush.

On the other hand, if East Africa cannot be developed, even if we go to Europe to beg them to immigrate, they will not come.

Therefore, the current East African colonies focus on developing wasteland and improving agricultural construction. Only when construction is completed will there be a future.

When agricultural conditions mature and the country enters the industrialization stage, it is really necessary to introduce European immigrants on a large scale.

As for the problem of too many Chinese immigrants, it was not a threat at all until the East African natives were cleared, and Ernst had already begun to seek European immigrants to balance the number of Chinese.

Both the European colonists and the Chinese immigrants were latecomers to the invasion of East Africa. They were nothing more than masterminds and accomplices. If the natives were cleared out, the two races would not be able to feel at ease in the future. This was the effect Ernst wanted. If both had a guilty conscience, then there would be no peace. It’s easy to mention racial conflicts, just like the tacit understanding that most Americans ignore Indians.

And Ernst did not follow the example of the United States and South Africa in practicing apartheid. The current East African colonies are following the model of Brazil and Cuba. In the final analysis, cultural identity comes first.

Naturally, cultural identity must be inculcated from an early age. Don’t look at the colonial immigrants as uneducated. In fact, they are well-educated in their hearts! They have not received any education, but they have ancestral social experience.

Trying to change the minds of the first-generation immigrants through education is basically a thankless task. As long as Ernst ensures that they can have a good meal, they will be grateful.

After all, the current Chinese people do not have any political ideas in their minds. Unlike the unscrupulous people in Europe who still pursue political demands, before the Republic of China, the Chinese would only rebel if they really had no food to eat. Even if they had a mouthful of food to continue, they would hold on to death.

But if the Republic of China really comes, Ernst will not recruit immigrants from the Far East. At that time, instead of recruiting immigrants, he recruits unruly people who participate in rebellion every day. All foreigners miss our Qing Dynasty. He really makes me cry to death.

Ernst thought.

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Such a criminal enterprise as colonization cannot be cleansed. Ernst chose to drag the Chinese into the water. In this way, as an accomplice, when the future enters modernization, the descendants of the Chinese in East Africa will not be able to speak out.

Everyone learns from the tacit understanding of the Americans and just pretends that there are no natives in East Africa. The integration of the German and Chinese ethnic groups is the way to go.

Ernst did not choose to deal with the natives like the United States treated the Indians, which is considered a blessing. No one of the colonists in the world is nobler than Ernst.