Chapter 539 Neighborhood Theory

"Uncle Carl, you should stay in the First Town this time. Colonial development takes time, especially in Africa, which requires extreme caution. So you can stay in the First Town so that you can contact Leopold and others and monitor the progress of the colonization."

It is only natural to invite Prince Carl to stay in the First Town. It is impossible to let a 70-year-old man go to Chad alone.

Chad is now a truly desolate land, with more wild animals than people. This is because a large number of black forces fled westwards from East Africa. In this part of Africa, it is a typical situation of people and wild animals fighting each other. The space left by the blacks was not occupied by East Africa, so it was re-occupied by the wild animals.

Therefore, it is far more likely that the East African border troops will go to Chad for large-scale hunting than to clash with black forces.

In fact, with the increase of population in East Africa, the wildlife resources in East Africa have also been greatly affected. So this time the army can make a small fortune by going to Chad, especially ivory and leather.

Ernst went on to say, "Colonial development is not something that can be achieved overnight, especially in Africa. If you are not careful, you may lose everything. After all, there are some examples of failed colonization in Africa. However, as long as we follow the experience of East Africa, it should not be difficult to do it again in Chad. We can send relevant experts to provide you with protection."

The so-called experts are old East Africans who have lived in East Africa for a long time. They have experienced the process of building the East African colonies from scratch, encountered various difficulties, and finally overcame them, so they are absolutely rich in experience.

In fact, there are two East African divisions next to Chad, and these troops can help Sigmaringen solve most of the problems in the future.

The army has always been the vanguard of East African colonial expansion, and the East African Army on the border has experience in dealing with various risks. At the same time, the army is also one of the bases for cultivating talents in East Africa.

In the army, in addition to learning how to march and fight, they will also be exposed to various new things, especially machinery and technology. At the same time, the East African military camps are also a place to improve literacy rates.

At the same time, the East African army has certain medical experience. Basically every soldier knows a little bit, and they are quite proficient in simple bandaging and disinfection skills.

So, no matter what problems Sigmaringen encounters, most of them can be solved by asking the East African Army for help, whether it is fighting or life.

"Ernst, how long do you think it would take for us to establish a colony in Chad and incorporate the area you mentioned into Sigmaringen, or even go further?"

Ernst thought for a moment and replied, "If it is just to establish a colonial order, just like in ordinary colonies, it will only take a few years, and even the number of colonists will not be large. A few thousand people are enough to establish colonial rule in Africa."

In the past, there were only a few thousand Germans in German East Africa, but they controlled nearly one million square kilometers of land. However, it was obvious that this colonial rule was not stable and was not enough to cope with the competition from African colonists such as Britain.

People like Ernst who directly adopted the tactics of mass military force and human wave tactics in Africa were non-mainstream. After all, Ernst's original intention was to enclose land and build a country, not simply to plunder Africa's wealth.

So Ernst said: "If the colony of Sigmaringen wants to develop and go further, it is best to follow the same path as East Africa. The natives are absolutely unreliable and there is a risk of rebellion in the future."

"And to be honest, the prospects of colonizing Africa are no worse than developing in Europe. Take East Africa for example. After development, we have built a great country with our local resources. If it were in Europe, Hexingen would not have this opportunity."

"It's easy to get land in Africa now, but this is also the last window of opportunity, especially in Central and West Africa. The competition is much more intense than when we colonized East Africa. However, they colonized from the west coast of Africa to the inland, so the inland is Sigmaringen's breakthrough point."

When East Africa was colonized, the French were the most active in the whole of Africa, and there were no competitors in East Africa. The Sultanate of Zanzibar made a great contribution to this.

If it were a few decades ago, during the heyday of the Zanzibar Sultanate, it would probably have been difficult to establish a colony in East Africa. At that time, the Zanzibar Sultanate was daring and daring, so it was very important to seize the opportunity.

"Now that countries are competing with each other in West Africa, their energy is tied up in the coastal areas, making it difficult to explore inland. So Uncle Carl, you'd better complete the construction of the colonial framework within a few years. If you delay for a few years, you may not even get a bite of soup."

"Moreover, these lands cover an area of ​​more than two million square kilometers. When the population develops in the future, if we work hard, we may even be able to gain access to the South Atlantic Ocean. That would have much greater potential than in Romania."

Romania's climate is certainly better than Chad's overall, but southern Chad and Cameroon are no less favorable than Romania in all aspects.

Although northern Chad and Darfur have an arid climate, they are rich in mineral and oil resources, and most of Chad's minerals are located in the north.

Romania is best known for its oil resources, which can be said to be the oil depot of Germany during World War II. Chad's most important resource is also oil. Of course, for France in its previous life, Chad's uranium mines are also very important.

Therefore, Chad has quite good potential. The most important thing is that its area is large enough. Today's Romania is not like in the past that annexed a large part of Hungarian land. Therefore, Chad alone is almost ten times the size of Romania today. The area suitable for farming in southern Chad is larger than the entire country of Romania.

"No problem. According to what you said, we should go there first to stake our claim, and then consolidate our advantage in the local area in the next few years, right?"

"Yes, Uncle Karl, now we have to act quickly and strike first. You don't have to worry about the population. Even if we can't recruit people from Europe, we will definitely have enough people from the Far East."

Ernst's goal is to squeeze the living space of African blacks through immigration. It doesn't matter whether they are white or yellow people, as long as the blacks in East Africa and West Africa can be separated. If you want to build such an isolation zone, you must have a large population.

History has proven that simple physical isolation zones are not effective. The Great Wall could not resist the invasion of nomadic peoples from the north, the North American border wall could not stop Latin Americans from moving north, and the barbed wire on the Myanmar border could not stop people from falling into the trap.

Therefore, the best way is to establish a buffer zone, and there is no better choice than a country with the same culture. The Sigmaringen colony will definitely adopt German as the only official language in the future, just like East Africa, and the culture is naturally similar. Sigmaringen also has the best relationship with the Hechingen royal family, so there is no conflict of interest.

Therefore, it would be of great benefit to the future of East Africa if Sigmaringen established a colonial country in the northern part of East Africa. At least, the possibility of the Arab and black refugee crisis that occurred in Europe in the past is not high. After all, East Africa is not the United States, which can only threaten the countries around it.

As the saying goes, "Birds of a feather flock together." The United States has turned America into a quagmire, so it will certainly be polluted by the backlash, as is the case with the problems of drugs and illegal immigration.

These two issues have no impact on American capitalists and politicians, but it is self-evident how much harm they will cause to the lowest-level American people.

Therefore, Ernst did not want the neighboring countries in East Africa to be in too bad a state in the future. This is just like society. A good neighbor always makes people feel comfortable. Bad neighbors are probably like the countries surrounding the Far Eastern Empire. However, even so, the Far Eastern Empire still has to maintain fragile neighborhood relations. After all, wars in the surrounding areas will also affect the Far Eastern Empire's economy and investment environment.

This is the same reason why Ernst doesn't want to be neighbors with black countries. Not to mention that many black countries have insufficient governance, some black people in West Africa already have grudges against East Africa, and many were driven out by East Africa, so it is better not to get too close.

(End of this chapter)