Chapter 94 Paraguayan immigrants arrive
In addition to the large number of orphans caused by the Paraguay War, the largest number of orphans were single-parent families and single women.
The war in Paraguay is not over yet, but at least it is estimated that there are 70,000 to 80,000 orphans and widowed mothers who have lost their husbands and fathers.
With the intervention of the Hechingen Consortium, some people have left this place of right and wrong and gone to East Africa to start a new life.
According to the time when the Paraguay War ended in the previous life, this project can continue for another three or four years.
Before the new Paraguayan government is established, the East African colonies can absorb at least tens of thousands of Paraguayan immigrants. If coordination is good, hundreds of thousands are not impossible.
This kind of thing can be done during the war. After all, Paraguay, as a country with a small population, has a small population. Before the war, the number was only 500,000 or 600,000 (some data say it was more than 1 million, after all, many countries did not have a census at that time).
What the East African colonies did was to dig up the foundation of Paraguay, but Paraguay was not without solutions.
Paraguay is originally a country of immigrants. It will be enough to absorb more immigrants in the future. Of course, this is no different from farting. If immigrants are so easy to recruit, Ernst will not have so hard to do.
Moreover, after the war, a large area of land was taken away from Paraguay, and the country was in ruins. Which immigrant would be so short-sighted and want to come to Paraguay to develop? Aren't Brazil and Argentina next door delicious!
In this regard, the East African colonies are much stronger. Although the East African colonies have not been established for a long time, they are already places in Africa (excluding North Africa) that have developed quite well.
The environment in East Africa, not to mention compared with Argentina (after all, it is similar to Europe and immigrants do not have to adapt), is almost the same as the Brazilian plateau.
In addition, the East African colonies recruited immigrants in a planned and premeditated manner, much faster than those American countries that relied on spontaneous immigration.
That is to say, the East African colonies prefer to be in short supply rather than inundate, and are relatively repulsive to some local ruffians and petty thieves immigrants. At the same time, they are on guard against some immigrant groups that are not easy to govern and are not conducive to stability, such as township parties and clans.
Otherwise, it would not be a dream to surpass the United States in the number of immigrants every year. Immigrants from the Far East alone would rank first in the number of immigrants in the world.
This is not an exaggeration, because it is quite difficult for contemporary immigrants to afford a ship ticket, unless they encounter an emergency recruitment situation in some colonies. The problem is that this situation is not sustainable.
It’s not like there are no countries that want to build colonies to repay themselves. The British spent a lot of effort in America back then, and the last war of independence was all in vain.
Therefore, Ernst strictly controlled immigrants from the East African colonies to prevent the emergence of rebellious people like the United States.
The reason why the United States was able to become independent was because of the existence of a large number of elites. After all, those who fled to the United States on the Mayflower were not refugees, but intellectual and organized Puritans.
In previous lives, there was a saying that Calvin's Puritanism theory was the foundation of the United States.
So Ernst strongly rejected any theories and beliefs that might unite immigrants, or blood and clan...
There were no missionaries or churches in the East African colonies, and the immigrants' beliefs were mixed, including Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and even a small number of Green Christians.
The beliefs of immigrants from the Far East are even more confusing. What about ancestors, family immortals, God, the Jade Emperor, the City God... Even some people who have had a lot of contact with Western immigrants will guess God and Allah, which fully reflects their pragmatic thinking. .
The East African colonies were managed like a company, so Ernst naturally would not take the initiative to promote the construction of churches, and had no idea of recruiting missionaries.
Most of the immigrants in East Africa are illiterate and old farmers. They have not systematically studied religious knowledge. Even if they spontaneously perform some rituals at home, they only have a partial understanding and rely on the experience passed down from generation to generation.
Missionaries could connect the people through their religious interpretations and missionary activities, so Ernst strictly prohibited religious people from entering the East African colonies.
Most of the immigrants in the East African colonies were ordinary people with no ambitions. Most of the leaders were Germans who retired and returned to Germany to retire.
Coupled with the restraint of loyal students from the Hechingen Military Academy, the Hechingen Consortium continues to enrich its leadership.
The current colonial governments in East Africa are quite stable and are in a state of containment by many parties, and the only hub that maintains the East African colonies is Ernst.
As for causing trouble in the East African colonies, not to mention the containment between the parties, if we leave the foreign trade system of the Hechingen Consortium, the economic structure of the East African colonies will disintegrate and collapse.
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September 10, 1867.
Morgans Krog.
Chief of Ngaga Village, Massasi Town, Roan Roda Municipality, Lower Maritime District, East African Colony.
He was taking immigrants assigned to the village of Ngaga from Paraguay to see their new homes.
"Ladies, the current conditions in East Africa are not very good, so the furniture and other facilities in these houses are still relatively simple, but the environment is definitely not bad."
Morgans Krog pointed to the door and said:
"Have you seen those acres of fertile farmland? Doesn't it feel good? You must know that a year ago, Ngaga Village was still a wilderness where only wild animals lived. But with the arrival of immigrants, Ngaga Village is visible to the naked eye. It was developed at a rapid pace, so there is no need to worry about the living conditions and future development prospects of the East African colonies. It is far away from wars and is well-ordered. As the government cleans up the surrounding wild beasts, there is no trace of the wild beasts, and it is very safe."
The translators were German-speaking residents of Paraguay. Although most of these immigrants who came to East Africa from Paraguay to escape the war were Hispanic, the fragmentation and war in Germany in the early years caused a large number of Germans to emigrate overseas.
Prussia is now getting better after integrating the North German region, and the immigration wave has been cooled down. The female translator is a German whose ancestors immigrated to Paraguay, so she can speak both German and Spanish.
Mogens Krog continued: "And you have definitely caught up with the good time. In order to take care of you orphans and widows caused by the war, His Royal Highness Prince Ernst of Prussia, the owner of the East African colony, I personally ask for money to subsidize poor people like you, and the East African colonies provide free education for your children...so live in Ngaga Village with peace of mind, and the future will be better."
After listening to the introduction of village chief Mogens Kroger, these Paraguayan women who had traveled across the ocean from a distant country felt relieved.
Some cried with joy and prayed to God to wish Ernst good health.
They are also pitiful people who lost their husbands in the war, and the war is still going on with no hope of ending. Therefore, many people have to leave Paraguay, a land of right and wrong, to live in East Africa for the safety of their children.
Of course, the living allowance also gave them some determination. After all, they will have to raise their children by themselves in the future, and having a subsidy can reduce their pressure.
Before coming to East Africa, I might have been worried that the local government would break its promise, but now that I got a house, I immediately felt at ease.
