African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 97 Daily life

   Ernst can't control the life and death of the indigenous people on the land of East Africa. As a colonist, he should have a heart of stone, otherwise he will be playing a fart, and he should end himself as soon as possible, otherwise there are so many dark sides in this world and he should not be angry.

   As a western colonist, Ernst is completely white lotus among his peers. After all, he is not as perverted as some countries, using aboriginal...

Based on the principle that if you don’t think about it, you can treat it as if it didn’t happen. Ernst never thinks about the consequences in this regard, as long as the East African colonies complete their tasks according to their goals. As for extinction, anyway, the East African colonies did not do it themselves. doesn't count.

  On the one hand, he is in charge of the government affairs of the East African colonies, and on the other hand, he is taking care of the company's business in Europe. Ernst is busy most of the time.

   Today, I took half a day off and drank afternoon tea with the old man in the garden.

  Ernst drank authentic oriental green tea. There are only a few common drinks in this era. Anyway, Ernst is not used to drinking coffee, and he only tastes some when visiting others or entertaining guests.

  Prince Constantine likes to drink coffee, and he is not surprised that his son likes oriental tea. After all, the British like to drink tea very much, and there are also tea sold by the Dutch in Germany. This kind of drink is not uncommon.

  Ernst's own fleet will also bring some tea from the Far East, all of which are famous teas designated by Ernst himself, and the staff from the Far East will go to the tea area to purchase them in person.

  Ernst didn’t make things difficult for the staff. After all, the current business of the Heixingen Consortium is mainly in the north, so most of them go to tea areas close to North China to buy tea, such as Lu’an Guapian, Xinyang Maojian...

The tea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions is also good, but foreigners know a lot about it (Nanyang overseas Chinese merchants), and they are well-known, and the local dignitaries compete fiercely (the consumption in rich areas is high). Some of them are fake goods, especially Westerners like the staff of the Hexingen Consortium, who are the easiest to be fooled.

   It is more reliable to go to the tea area to buy spot tea directly, and the inland tea area is not like the coast and the south, foreigners are more common, local officials should always be more cautious, and give the staff of the Hexingen Consortium a little convenience.

   "Ernst, how is your East African colony doing recently, I haven't heard you mention it for a long time!" Prince Constantine asked while holding a coffee cup.

"Father, everything is under control now. Since the telegraph line was laid, I can now process messages from East Africa on the same day. Immigration is also increasing steadily. If there is no accident, it will still be possible to reach 500,000 by the end of the year." Ernst said to Prince Constantine.

  Prince Constantine leaned back in his chair, and said with a little surprise: "The East African colony has not been opened for two years! You have recruited so many people, and the entire Hexingen plus the countryside is estimated to be more than tens of thousands!"

"Father, you need to understand a concept first. The area of ​​the East African colony is currently twice the size of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but the population of the East African colony is only one hundred of the population of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (the population of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was more than 33 million in 1870) One-third, so this immigration is not enough." Ernst and Constantine said.

   "Has so much land been developed in East Africa?" Constantine was a little surprised.

  At the beginning, Ernst told himself that he didn't take the development of the East African colony seriously at all. Anyway, it's not a bad thing for children to have their own ideas, and it doesn't matter whether it succeeds or not.

   I didn’t expect my son to be so good. The original promise was basically fulfilled. The company and the bank opened up, and they became the top batch of European countries.

  Konstantin also knew about the money spent to buy Alaska, but it was a world of ice and snow, so there was nothing to say, so he just treated himself as a son with too much money.

  East Africa, Konstantin knew that Ernst valued it most, but he did not expect that he could really do it on his own (without the endorsement and support of national power).

"500,000 people, 1,200,000 square kilometers of land, that's pretty good! Württemberg and Baden have a combined population of just over 2 million people (the province of Hohenzollern, to which Hechingen belongs, is sandwiched between the two. time, so Constantine compared the two.), five hundred thousand is not too little." Prince Constantine calculated.

   "Among the immigrant population, how many Germans can there be?" Prince Constantine asked.

   "There are about 10,000 people, mainly German immigrants in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In addition, there are 50,000 to 60,000 people from other ethnic groups in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Recently, I recruited some people from Paraguay." Ernst said.

"There are still fewer Germans. I just want to tell you a piece of news. In the past few years, the food production in the south (Germany) has been reduced, and many people have been forced to leave their homes and go out to make a living. I didn't notice it because of the war before, and then went home (black) Xingen) stayed for a while, and the steward told me that the grain production in the territory this year is indeed a little less than in previous years. Württemberg, Baden, Bavaria and other regions are similar. This is an opportunity. I will go with them (South Germany Nobles in the area) to talk about it, let them drain you, it’s convenient." Constantine said calmly.

   Hearing this, Ernst was overjoyed. He has been wandering between Berlin and Vienna recently, without paying attention to the situation in his hometown. If his father hadn't come to Berlin this time for business, he might have missed this opportunity.

   "Father, you are really helpful. When the time comes, you can tell your old buddies that I can take as many immigrants as there are this time. There are plenty of local arrangements in East Africa." Ernst said excitedly.

   This is a proper high-quality immigrant, which fully meets all Ernst's requirements for immigrants. The Germans are still farmers, and their cultural level is not high (the popularity of compulsory education in South Germany is not as good as that in North Germany).

  The southwestern region has always been an important area for German overseas immigrants, accounting for more than 30% of the total year-round.

  If these immigrants can be well utilized, at least hundreds of thousands of pure German population can be added in East Africa (currently many immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the East African colonies are OEM Germans).

  In addition to the education of Paraguayan children, it is possible to change their identity recognition in this generation, and then the German population will be barely equal to that of Chinese immigrants (Chinese and white people marry, automatically classified as a mixed-race group, not a Chinese group.)

Although there are many fake and shoddy Germans, after two or three generations, they will be the original German nation. Naturally, there are families in the West, such as the Hohenzollern family where Ernst belongs. Every branch is clearly traceable. There is no difference from the East.

However, ordinary people in the West do not have the concept of clans like Easterners. For example, in the Far East and South, ordinary people would rather not have the ability and financial resources to build a family tree, but most of them live together in a family. The rich and famous people in the family will Organize the continuation of the genealogy together, so the average person in the East is descended from nobles.

  In the West, the distinction between nobles and commoners is clear, and nobles recognize each other to be considered true nobles. Therefore, commoners don't care about their own background at all, and they can't change it if they care.

  So when they arrived in East Africa, these immigrants, after two or three generations of education, did not know who their ancestors were. At most, they remembered the grandparents of the first generation of immigrants.

  After all, the cultural level of farmers in this era, many recording methods rely on memory rather than words, which will form a recording gap.

   At that time, relying on the colonial education system, instilling ideas in immigrant children from an early age, Ernst will do what he says, and it is not impossible to rebuild a nation.

  (end of this chapter)