Chapter 461 Friedrich

If you ask who was most annoyed by the Hechingen consortium's investment in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the answer is the Jewish consortium, especially the Rothschild family.

There is a saying in the Austro-Hungarian Empire that "Austria has an Emperor Ferdinand and a King Solomon". In 1848, Solomon referred to the Rothschild family, which had completely controlled the economy and finance of the Austrian Empire at that time.

The Austrian government was extremely dependent on Jewish capital, but all this changed with the rise of the Hechingen Consortium. The two sides launched a fierce competition for the financial industry in the German region. With the impact of the economic crisis, the current dominant power is in the hands of the Hechingen Consortium.

The economic crisis is uncontrollable, so even the experienced Rothschild family cannot avoid losses. Normally, with their strong capital, they can buy at the bottom and make a profit in the end even if they suffer losses. But this time they encountered the capital-rich Hexingen Consortium.

The Hechingen Consortium took advantage of the huge amount of funds accumulated before the economic crisis and acquired companies on a large scale during the economic crisis, especially in the emerging industrial fields. After all, Ernst knew that the economic crisis in 1873 lasted too long and the prospects for traditional industrial fields were not clear.

At the same time, the construction of the East African Railway greatly helped the Austrian government maintain stability, which was much better than the ugly Jewish capital that behaved in an ugly way during the economic crisis.

Coupled with the favoritism of the Habsburg family and other nobles towards the Hechingen consortium, the Hechingen consortium successfully squeezed out the Jewish consortium and became the largest capital group in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

However, Jewish capital still has a dominant position in countries such as Britain, the United States, and France. The Hechingen Consortium only has a dominant position in the German region. However, there are many factions within Jewish capital, so there is nothing they can do about the Hechingen Consortium.

In fact, Jewish capital is not as powerful as people imagine. European countries actually treat Jews as ATMs more often. No matter how powerful the capital is, it cannot withstand the guns held by the European aristocracy.

The Jewish community really wants to have a say in the world, but unless the United States becomes the world hegemon, they will have no chance at all.

In fact, European writers have already accurately described the true human nature of the Jews: for example, "Shylock" in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and "Old Grandet" in Balzac's "Eugenie Grandet".

European writers such as Shakespeare and Balzac, regardless of their positions, are literary masters who can discover human nature through social phenomena, so their descriptions of Jewish merchants are very consistent with social reality.

Of course, this is only aimed at those Jewish profiteers who are rich but unkind. However, the vast majority of Jews are profiteers. But apart from the business group, Ernst still has a very positive evaluation of the Jews, especially those thinkers and scientists. Facts have proved that the Jewish brains are indeed useful in other fields, but they are crooked when used in business and politics.

However, this only shows that Jews are more suitable for scientific and theoretical research. After all, the educational level of Jews is definitely the highest in the world.

Ernst believes that if black people enjoy a full set of education, they can also produce many "geniuses" who shine in human history, but they just don't have the opportunity. There are definitely deviations in human intelligence, but this deviation is reflected in all human beings, not divided by ethnicity or race.

If we really make the distinction based on these things, the Jews are nothing more than the "inferior race" mentioned by Adolf, and are not much better than the blacks.

In more traditional countries, Jews actually have no presence, but the United States happens to be the least traditional country. If there had not been the two world wars and the voice of the European aristocracy had not declined, the general anti-Semitic social atmosphere in Europe would probably not have changed much.

In Ernst's view, although economy is the foundation of politics, politics is obviously superior to economy. Ernst is most familiar with this situation. In his previous life, rich people did seem very powerful, but they had no advantage over the "aristocrats".

Except for American democratic countries, the top-level design is controlled by a group of businessmen, and American politicians are strictly restricted. A strong president like Roosevelt can only appear once, and Lincoln, Kennedy and the like are the norm.

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1877.

The Svet Palace is full of flowers in March.

The Svet Palace combines the characteristics of Hohenzollern Palace and Schönbrunn Palace, so when it was built, it had both the majesty and solemnity of Hohenzollern Palace and the brightness and openness of Schönbrunn Palace.

Inside the palace, the family was revolving around a new life, and Ernst's first son was born.

"Little baby, look at mommy!" Ernst smiled foolishly at Karina while holding the little prince. The little prince couldn't open his eyes yet. Ernst kissed Karina on the head: "Thank you for your hard work, dear!"

Karina lay weakly on the bed, but with a faint smile on her face: "Baby, our little baby."

Ernst held his wife's hand tightly and joked, "He was born to be the future chief of East Africa."

Constantine and Ferdinand on the side were already dissatisfied: "What East African chief? Let me, your grandfather, hug you first."

Finally, Constantine took the lead in hugging his grandson and scolded him: "My grandson is the heir of the Hohenzollern (Hechingen) family. How can the glory of the Germans be compared with those barbarians in Africa? The name of the East African Kingdom is too ugly. It is better to change it sometime!"

Constantine, who doted on his grandson, didn't want his grandson to bear the title of African chief. It didn't matter if he suffered a little grievance as the monarch of the East African kingdom, but his grandson couldn't do that.

Ernst said obediently, "Change it, but wait two years. I think it would be more appropriate to change the country's name in 1880."

Archduke Ferdinand: “Why 1880?”

"Because according to my prediction, our East African Kingdom will be founded in 1880!"

"Founding of a country?"

Ernst nodded and said, "The East African Kingdom has actually been implementing a policy of isolation, but I have never said it. We have almost no exchanges with other countries, especially civil exchanges. This is because East Africa used to be a weak colony and needed time to develop. We could not enter the vision of major powers. However, with the increasing attention paid to Africa by Europe and the increase in the size of East Africa, East Africa no longer has the basic conditions to continue hiding."

Archduke Ferdinand said: "What an interesting statement!"

Ernst's approach is indeed different from the mainstream thinking mode of European aristocrats, which also explains the weirdness of a series of policies in East Africa.

"Okay, why are we discussing politics at this time? Let's quickly give our little baby a name!" Constantine said somewhat dissatisfiedly.

So the family began to discuss the name of the little prince, but the name was more complicated.

"Let's call him Friedrich!" Constantine finally decided.

"Friedrich?"

"Yes, our ancestor Friedrich III put the word Hohenzollern before the Hohenzollern family, which made the Hohenzollern family flourish in Europe. I also hope that little Friedrich will bring the Hohenzollern family to a new level in the future!"

In 1185, Count Frederick III of Solln married Sophia, the daughter of Count Conrad II of Nuremberg. In 1192, Conrad II died without a child, so Frederick III inherited the County of Nuremberg. After he ruled the two counties of Solln and Nuremberg, his power grew greatly, and the Solln family was named "Hohen", which means "noble", and was called the Hohenzollern Family.

Ernst also agreed with the name Friedrich, because in his impression, people named Friedrich generally have good abilities. As for the high rate of duplicate names, there is nothing to be done about it, because the rate of duplicate checks for European names is higher than 100%.

Friedrich is called Frederick in German, which means "peace, ruler", so people named Friedrich in the past were generally either rich or noble.

To celebrate the birth of the prince, the whole of East Africa was given a seven-day holiday. Celebrations were held in every city in East Africa to pray for the little prince. As soon as little Friedrich was born, he was loved by people all over the country.

To commemorate the birth of little Friedrich, Ernst ordered another top-level ironclad ship from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and named it after Friedrich.

(End of this chapter)