Chapter 554: The East-Jewish Dispute Behind the Scenes

Mogville had no time to listen to these compliments. He had a lot of things to do. After all, the city of Grusegen was a new district and there were too many problems to solve.

After two months of preparation, the East African Navy finally prepared the supplies and was ready to set sail for the South Ryukyu Islands.

"Father-in-law, why are you going out to sea again this time? You have a lot of people under you now, so there's no need to do everything yourself. The sea is dangerous. What if something happens to you? I can't explain to Karina!"

"That's right, father. Listen to Ernst and stay. You are the commander-in-chief of the navy, so you should stay in the mainland. The South Ryukyu Islands are not an important place. There is no need for you to go there in person. Besides, mother and I want you to be safe." Karina said coquettishly.

"Well... I saw that Ernst attached great importance to the South Ryukyu Islands, so I decided to go there in person for him."

As soon as Archduke Ferdinand finished speaking, Karina gave her husband a vicious look and said, “It’s all your fault!”

Ernst quickly shirked responsibility and said, "Father-in-law, you can't wrongly accuse me. Who said I value the South Ryukyu Islands? This archipelago is just icing on the cake for me. It's not essential. I won't feel bad if I lose it tomorrow."

Ferdinand looked at Ernst suspiciously and said, "If you don't value it, why did you prepare so many supplies, and even several heavy artillery, just to use on a few worthless islands? Mayotte (one of the Comoros Islands, an East African territory) didn't have this treatment in the first place, right?"

Ernst: "Hey, just because of this, you judge that I value the South Ryukyu Islands?"

"Isn't it? The weapons and supplies you prepared are obviously intended for long-term defense of the South Ryukyu Islands, and the level of equipment is quite high. Even the Lan Fang overseas province does not have such treatment." Ferdinand asked back.

"Father-in-law, this is actually a misunderstanding. The reason why I prepared so many things for the South Ryukyu Islands has nothing to do with whether the South Ryukyu Islands are important or not. Turning the South Ryukyu Islands into a Pacific advance base for East Africa is completely incidental."

Ferdinand looked unconvinced. Who are you fooling? Whether it is important or not depends on actual actions. Even if Ernst really does not take it seriously, the Far Eastern Empire and Japan, who have ideas about the South Ryukyu Islands, must think that Ernst takes it seriously. There are warships and garrisons. Who are you fooling?

"Hey, father-in-law, don't look like that. I'm not kidding you. The South Ryukyu Islands are just an insignificant point in my strategic map. It's so far away from East Africa and has no economic value. It doesn't have much strategic value for us either. After all, that location will only cause trouble for us, but it's a thankless task."

"You also know that it's a thankless job, which shows that you have ideas about the South Ryukyu Islands. Take East Africa for example. Colonizing East Africa was also a thankless job, but didn't you do it anyway? Now that East Africa is developing so rapidly, you've made a lot of money."

"How can the South Ryukyu Islands be compared with East Africa? The two are not even on the same level. There is a huge gap between them. The area of ​​East Africa alone is more than 10 million square kilometers. Even if it is all rotten land, it is still valuable. You can basically make a profit by digging some minerals. The South Ryukyu Islands have nothing. The land, population, resources, economy, military value... There is nothing that can make people look up to it."

Archduke Ferdinand: "If you say so, why do we still have troops stationed in the South Ryukyu Islands? They are almost as powerful as the Lanfang Overseas Province."

"Father-in-law, I stationed troops in the South Ryukyu Islands to guard against villains. Although the South Ryukyu Islands are of no value, since I have already captured them, I naturally cannot give them up easily. It's like I have a piece of cake in my hand, but I have plenty of fish and meat every day, and now a beggar wants to eat this cake. I can give up the cake, but he can't steal or rob, otherwise I will give him a bite of his teeth."

Archduke Ferdinand stared at his son-in-law with suspicion: "The villains and beggars you are talking about are not from Japan, are they?"

"Hahaha, father-in-law, you still understand me well."

"Why do you have such an attitude towards Japan?" asked Archduke Ferdinand. In fact, Karina also wanted to know.

In fact, the two of them had a good impression of Japan, which was actually a misunderstanding. That is, love for the house extends to love for the dog. Everyone in East Africa knew that the Crown Prince was very friendly to the Far East, including, of course, the Germans in East Africa.

The Far East is a geographical term in Europe with a very broad concept. This Far East naturally includes the Far Eastern Empire, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. As for Mongolia among the five East Asian countries, it is still the territory of the Far Eastern Empire. With Ernst's interference, it is unknown what the future will be like.

"The character of Japan is very extreme. Don't think that they are hiding it well now. In fact, they are full of evil intentions. The Far Eastern Empire should feel this the most. In a word, they are ungrateful countries, just like the Jews. However, the Japanese and Jews use different methods, but they have the same goal."

Ernst explained this to his wife and father-in-law, and this passage is very vicious. In this era, the reputation of Jews is not only hated by everyone, but also notorious. It is nothing like in the past when Europe and the United States were like dogs licking the Jewish power. But it is understandable. The Jews have the support of the United States and control world public opinion. It goes without saying how powerful public opinion is in "democratic" countries. It is related to power.

In capitalist countries, Jews can use their industries to maximize their influence and power because they represent the most powerful capital groups in Europe and the United States and are multinational organizations. However, this does not work in the Arab world and the Far East Empire. If they do this, local forces will dare to beat the Jews to death.

The Europeans were actually digging their own grave. Just as the Far Eastern empires emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce, so did the Europeans. Therefore, the Jews could only engage in industries that the European aristocrats had previously looked down upon, namely business.

In the capitalist era, when business developed, the power of the Jews naturally expanded, and the more free and democratic a country was, the more it could not escape the control of the Jews.

Ernst, the reborn man, was actually one of the obstacles to the Jewish consortium, because Ernst himself was also engaged in business. The rise of the Hechingen Consortium directly poked the Rothschild family's stronghold in the German region.

The Rothschild family had no way to deal with the Hechingen Consortium because Ernst himself was a part of the German aristocracy. The German aristocracy was happy to see someone like Ernst restrain the Jews in the financial field. The German aristocracy focused on controlling the guns, so they were more dependent on the support of the Jewish consortium, but they looked down on the Jews.

Although Ernst could not completely abolish the Jewish financial group, he was able to keep it under control, and the nobles, as the ruling class, were naturally happy to see it happen.

Of course, this is only the German region. The Jewish base is now Britain and the United States. As for the attitude of the Germans towards the Jews, Adolf had already given the conclusion in his previous life.

Japan's industrial and commercial funds came from Britain, and a large part of Britain's funds came from Jewish businessmen. Therefore, the Jews played an important role behind the East-Japan dispute.

And it is not only Japan, in fact, the same is true in the Far Eastern Empire. There is also competition between East African and Jewish capital in the Far Eastern Empire, but East African and the Far Eastern Empire have a semi-cooperative relationship, and focus on investing in the industrial field. Jewish capital in the Far East mainly relies on British national power, competing with German merchant groups through foreign companies such as HSBC, especially in the financial field. The Hechingen Bank is a direct competitor of other foreign companies.

Ernst looked down on the Qing government, but there was one thing he appreciated about the Qing government's ideas, that is, the Qing government attached importance to industry, especially investment in heavy industry and military industry. This was much better than the democratic governments in previous lives that were willing to act as compradors and destroy national capital and industry.

Although the Qing government fell due to incompetence, it did leave behind some assets, especially the military industry. Unlike some governments, it took away the national treasury and all foreign exchange before its death. It used the assets accumulated by 400 million people for decades, but developed worse than Japan and South Korea in its tiny country. Ernst would definitely spit on such a government.

(End of this chapter)