Chapter 208 Population Introduction Plan

November 11, 1876, the Lan Fang Republic of Kalimantan.

It has been a long time since the Lan Fang Republic officially started cooperation with Spain, and the changes brought to the Lan Fang Republic are also obvious.

In addition to the new army with a number of 20,000 people and being trained, a large Spanish training school has also been opened in the Lan Fang Republic.

In addition to providing free Spanish training to Lan Fang citizens, this training school will also provide higher-paying jobs to these Lan Fang people who master Spanish.

Although the Lan Fang Republic is a gathering place for Chinese people formed because of gold panning, there are still many civilians in this huge gathering place, and not all of them are gold panners.

For gold panners, they may not look down on such high-income jobs. But for those civilians in the Lan Fang Republic, the jobs provided by the Spanish are still very attractive.

Although the number of military guidance groups sent by Spain is not large, there are currently dozens of Lan Fang people working for the Spanish.

What are their jobs? In addition to acting as translators, there are also working in Spanish schools to help more people master Spanish.

Although Lan Fang has a small population, it has great population potential because of the large population in the north.

The purpose of Spain building a Spanish school in Lan Fang is to attract some Lan Fang people to Spain and the Philippines.

Of course, the main purpose is the Philippines. If there are only Filipinos in the Philippines, these Filipinos will not stay so peaceful.

But if the Philippines can form a confrontation between the Filipinos and the Lan Fang people, and even mix with other ethnic groups, the stability of the entire Philippine region can be guaranteed.

At that time, it will be very difficult for both Filipinos and southerners to rebel for independence. Because they are facing not only Spanish colonists, but also other ethnic groups in the colony.

In this case, there is only one way to fight against the colonists, that is, several ethnic groups unite to fight together.

As long as the Spanish government regulates in the middle, this situation is difficult to happen. After all, it is difficult for different ethnic groups to unite, and everyone has their own interests.

It is still impossible to achieve a situation where Filipinos and southerners confront each other in a short period of time. After all, the Filipinos have already formed a scale, and the population in the south is insufficient. It will take a long time to form a scale in the Philippines.

Fortunately, Spain still has enough time to plan, and does not have to worry about the security of the Philippines for the time being.

Historically, Spain lost the Philippines more because the Cuban rebellion caused the Americans to covet it, because the Spanish-American War broke out in Cuba, which eventually caused the Spanish to lose the Philippines.

With Cuba not having a big problem, the Philippines is currently relatively stable. Based on historical experience, Spain still has at least 20 years to deal with the problems of the Philippines.

If Cuba can be considered to be abandoned, then the Philippines can be considered for medium- and long-term holding. Unless it can be exchanged for a more valuable or longer-term colony, it is better to hold it in hand for now.

After all, owning the Philippines can radiate to Southeast Asia, which will be a region with extremely high economic value after the birth of the car.

The rubber industry alone is enough for Carlo to consider holding Southeast Asian colonies. Not to mention that the land in Southeast Asia also has other resources, and the natives with a large population are also excellent cannon fodder.

Give these natives a certain amount of development time, and when the first war breaks out in the future, the land of the Philippines and Kalimantan can provide Spain with at least millions of troops.

This can make up for the population gap in Spain and allow Spain to mobilize more troops in World War I. Whether it is to truly participate in World War I in the future, to compete with the European powers in military strength and national heritage, or to use military as its last trump card, and to demand more benefits based on Spain's unique geographical location, it is a very good choice.

So far, Carlo is still quite vague about World War I and has not made plans for Spain.

If you can get enough benefits without participating in the war, such as the British are willing to give up Gibraltar, or the British are willing to let Spain occupy the whole of Morocco, etc.

If you can get such benefits without participating in the war, then Spain naturally has no need to make unnecessary sacrifices. After all, the war itself is launched for diplomacy, and all the outcomes of the war are diplomatic negotiations.

If the war cannot ensure that Spain gets enough benefits, then Carlo does not mind considering the gains that the war brings to Spain.

But whether it is neutrality or war, Carlo's goal is the same, that is, to allow Spain to get enough benefits in future wars, whether it is land or financial income, or technology and some industrial equipment, technical information, etc., including technical talents and scientists in various industries, these are all benefits that Carlo can fight for.

Because the plan to introduce the southern population is only in its infancy, there are only a few southerners who have obtained Spanish citizenship.

But in southern Morocco, where the population introduction plan has been implemented for several years, the plan has achieved quite good results.

Because Moroccans are white, Spain has also relaxed the requirements for Moroccans to obtain Spanish citizenship.

As long as you convert to Catholicism and are proficient in Spanish, you are eligible to apply for Spanish citizenship.

Of course, after applying for Spanish citizenship, you will go through a probation period. As long as you are a clean farmer, you will generally have Spanish citizenship after the probation period and get the opportunity to go to Spain.

But if your background identity is a bit complicated, or even there is a risk of extreme nationalism, then sorry, everyone including your family will be denied Spanish citizenship.

The probation period is generally 3 to 6 months, and the longest is one year. Generally speaking, it can be shortened by good performance, but the shortest must not be less than 3 months.

Spain has built mines in southern Morocco, and there are also some construction teams and plantations. As long as Moroccans perform well in mines, construction teams or plantations, they can shorten the probation period, and even ignore the condition of proficient Spanish. As long as they know a few words, they can obtain Spanish citizenship.

Anyway, there will be opportunities to train Spanish after going to Spain, and it is acceptable to relax some restrictions on this matter.

But in any case, if you want to join Spanish nationality, you must convert to Catholicism. Spain's condition for European immigrants is that all religions within Christianity are acceptable, but for immigrants outside Europe, the immigration condition must be Catholic.

After Spain established the southern Moroccan colony, the population introduction policy still played a certain role.

At present, there are more than 2,500 Moroccans who have joined Spanish nationality, and the number is still increasing at a rate of more than 500 people per year.

If Spain is not too strict in the identity background assessment, I am afraid that the rate of Moroccan immigration can be several times higher.

Although there are only 2,500 Moroccans who have joined Spanish nationality, this does not mean that only so many people are willing to join Spanish nationality.

Spain's governance attitude towards Moroccans is polarized and openly double-standard. For those more extreme Muslims and extreme Moroccan nationalists, Spain's attitude is quite cruel.

Their treatment is only to work to death in mines and other places, and there is no possibility of leaving mines and other labor places in this life.

For those Moroccans who are not extreme, Spain is still willing to give them a chance. As long as they perform well in the work process, or have certain technical skills, and are willing to marry Spanish soldiers, etc., they can have the opportunity to obtain Spanish nationality.

At present, there are hundreds of Moroccan girls who have married Spanish soldiers, which proves that there are still quite a few Moroccans who are not opposed to becoming Spanish.

After all, Moroccans and Spaniards are very similar in appearance. The real difference between the two is religion and language, but these can be changed later.

There are indeed quite extreme believers in the Muslim religion, but there are also some who are not extreme, or believers who do not deeply recognize religion.

When it comes to their own interests, religion is not impossible to change.

In the southern Moroccan colony, there is a huge difference in wages between those who can speak Spanish and those who cannot, and between those who believe in Muslims and those who believe in Catholics.

Moroccans who can speak Spanish and believe in Catholicism, although they also need to work in plantations and mines, will not be sent to more dangerous places, the work content is not so tiring, and they can get enough food, and even see meat, vegetables and fruits every once in a while.

Those who only meet one of the Spanish and Catholic can also get certain preferential treatment, such as the work is not dangerous, or the work content is not too tiring, etc.

Those who neither know Spanish nor believe in Catholicism will not receive any preferential treatment. They would give priority to more dangerous jobs, and even if they were not dangerous, they would still be quite tiring.

The daily food was black bread made from a mixture of various grains and even straw bran. If they were lucky, they could also eat sand, tree bark, grass roots, etc.

Even so, they could only have one full meal a day. The remaining two meals were quite thin porridge and rotten vegetable leaf soup, just to ensure that they would not starve to death.

The reason for such a huge disparity in treatment was not only to give preferential treatment to those Moroccans who were willing to obey and attract more Moroccans to "rebel", but also to save the expenses of the colony as much as possible.

Compared with Morocco in the north, the economy of the southern Moroccan colony was quite backward, and the land was more desert and mountainous.

The purpose of Spain's occupation of this land was to localize southern Morocco and even the whole of Morocco, so there was no need to cherish the Moroccans too much.

If the Moroccans were willing to obey Spanish rule, then Spain could naturally assimilate these Moroccans gently.

But if the Moroccans were quite repulsive or even full of hostility to Spanish colonial rule, then the Spanish government could only consider expelling Moroccans completely and immigrating Spanish people to occupy this area.

As long as all the people on Morocco are Spanish, then this land has been Spanish since ancient times.

This way, the localization of Morocco can be ensured, and there will be no worries. In other words, the Spanish population is too small. On the premise of assimilating Moroccans, Carlo still wants to obtain the millions of people in Morocco.

Otherwise, there will be more cruel means waiting for the Moroccans. Before the end of World War II, Spain still has enough time to carry out various assimilation experiments in Morocco.

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In fact, Carlo really underestimated the appeal of Spanish nationality, or the status of freemen, to Moroccans.

Although Moroccans are white, this is a backward African region. Slavery still exists in Morocco, and Morocco is a fairly feudal monarchy.

Although Morocco has a population of millions, a considerable number of them are slaves of the nobles.

As long as you obey the rule of Spain and join the Spanish nationality, you can obtain the status of freemen, which is a great attraction for those Moroccans who are slaves.

As for the Spanish enslavement of the entire Moroccan people, what does it mean to Moroccan slaves?

Before the arrival of the Spaniards, Moroccan nobles and other landlords also enslaved them in this way. The difference is nothing more than a change of a group of people, which is no different for the slaves.

Those who really hated Spain, or the more extreme Moroccan nationalists, and extreme Muslims, had been enslaved to death a few years before the establishment of the South Morocco Colony.

The establishment process of the South Morocco Colony was quite bloody, which was also the standard process for European countries to establish colonies.

Most of the manpower used was local indigenous people, and the life and death of these indigenous people was not a big deal for European colonists, and there was no need to worry about them at all.

This may also be good news. After all, after the more extreme Moroccans died, the remaining ones were more obedient.

According to the news from the South Morocco Colony, there are currently more than 10,000 Moroccans who master Spanish, and more than 100,000 Moroccans who have converted to Catholicism.

This also truly confirms that if Spain had not been strict in the review of population introduction, the number of people with Spanish nationality in the South Morocco Colony would have exceeded 10,000 long ago.

Regardless of whether these Moroccans who converted to Catholicism were sincere, in short, the attraction of Spanish nationality to Moroccans can be seen in this regard.

This also means that such a plan can also be applied to the entire Moroccan region. Morocco has a population of millions, which will be an excellent supplement for Spain.

Even if it can only absorb half or even less than one-third of the population, it will still be a scale of millions.

Of course, whether it is Moroccan immigrants or foreign immigrants, Spain is more cautious in dealing with them.

These immigrants will be dispersed and resettled, and mainly filled in Catalonia and the Basque region where nationalism is prevalent.

Only by constantly diluting the population of Catalonia and the Basque region can the stability of these two regions be ensured.

At present, Spain's treatment of Catalonia is still relatively effective. By building the Barcelona industrial base, it has helped Catalonia attract more than 100,000 immigrants.

This has also led to an effective reduction in the proportion of Catalans in Catalonia, and it is still decreasing.

With the development of the Barcelona industrial base, the proportion of Catalans in the future is expected to be reduced to less than 60%.

And among these 60% of Catalans, how many people really think they are pure Catalans?

The Basque region is also treated in this way. Although the population of the Basque region is smaller, it is still difficult to immigrate to the Basque region in a big way.

Compared with Catalans, Basques are more radical and have a clearer national consciousness.

If a considerable number of Catalans are not very clear about whether they are Spanish or Catalan, then almost all Basques know that they are of Basque descent.

The Basque region is sparsely populated, and the two regions together have only a few hundred thousand people. This also leads to the fact that most of the population of these two regions are Basques, and they have a national culture and character that is very different from that of Spain.

The handling of the Basque region has always been a difficult problem, even more difficult than the Catalan region. The Barcelona industrial base has the hope of solving the problem of Catalonia, but there is no effective solution in the Basque region at present.

Fortunately, there are not many Basques, and they will not have much impact on the rule of Spain.

Perhaps only when Spain welcomes a large number of immigrants and seizes the opportunity to immigrate more than 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of people to the Basque region can the problem of the Basque region be solved.

Otherwise, when nationalism in the Basque region becomes more radical and prosperous, and when the Basques feel that they should enjoy autonomy or even independence, Spain will eventually usher in a civil war.

Carlo often asks himself, why are Spain's problems always so bad?

Indeed, Spain's problems are quite bad.

Compared with Spain, a country that has been unified for hundreds of years, the German Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, two countries that have only been unified for a few years, do not have so many problems.

Germans and Italians still quite recognize the concept of the country, and even if there are issues of national independence, they are not so radical.

As a country that has been unified for hundreds of years, the Catalans and Basques are radically demanding autonomy or even independence, which is simply a bit puzzling.

Fortunately, although Spain has many problems, it is not beyond redemption. As long as the problem of Catalonia is solved, the Basque region will be nothing more than a small problem.

Whether it is a large number of immigrants or a victory through civil war, the final winner must be the Spanish government.

The population of the Basques also limits the Basques from defeating the Spanish government unless they have the support of other powers.

But then again, the powers also have their own problems. The British, who love to make trouble, will also have fires in their backyards. The Indians also want autonomy and independence, and even the subsequent Boer War made the British even more embarrassed.

Anyway, everyone is a makeshift team, and it is nothing more than seeing who has fewer problems and troubles, and who will win the final victory.

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