Chapter 233 Another Water Chapter (Do Not Subscribe)
The state is a tool of class rule. Every country follows the same path. Immigrants who come to East Africa are at most changing the place where they are ruled.
In Germany and the Far East, the vast majority of people were landless. The land was owned by the Junkers and the landlord class, just like the people who came to the United States during this era. If they were not aristocrats or wealthy people, they would have to work as coolies for a few years before arriving there.
The difference in East Africa is that below the people, there are slaves. I may not be living well, but if there are people who are worse off than me, then I am living well.
Ernst originally thought about distributing land to the immigrants, but now it seems completely unnecessary, because the immigrants have no demands in this regard. They are used to being tenants for nobles and landlords, and suddenly they are satisfied when they encounter East Africans who provide them with food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and even solve their marriage problems. After all, they cannot imagine a better life.
At first, Ernst wanted to grant land for military merit, but the indigenous people’s fighting power was not worth the price at all, so the land remained in the hands of the Hechingen royal family.
In addition, East Africa is a country and family, and the Hechingen royal family owns the whole of East Africa, which makes East African politics a patchwork.
The current agricultural situation looks like a Soviet-style collective farm. The difference is that collective farms are legally collective economies, that is, they are jointly owned by villagers, while East Africa is privately owned. However, almost all industries in East Africa are private property of the Hechingen royal family.
Unlike large farmers in the United States, who mainly consider efficiency and whether they can make money, East Africa is completely based on planning and does not consider efficiency much, resulting in the per capita productivity not being fully utilized. According to East Africa's agricultural conditions of five crops in two years and the scale of land, it should be able to surpass Italy, but in fact this is not the case.
The East African immigrants were also made somewhat lazy by Ernst, but the reason why the system did not collapse was the existence of the slave economy.
As for whether selling grain will result in a loss, it is completely unnecessary. There will always be places in the world that lack grain, such as Japan, where the contradiction between population and land is extremely prominent and there are many landless farmers. Japan has become the main importer of rice from East Africa. It is not that East Africa has any special tricks, but because Japan at that time was too poor, it could only buy cheap rice from East Africa. East Africa imports "women" and cultural relics and ancient books from Japan through grain trade, which is the best of both worlds.
Italy also suffered the same fate. The quality of East African flour produced by the Trieste factory was notoriously poor, and Italy imported the most. East Africa took this opportunity to import family immigrants from southern Italy.
Now only Ireland, a major immigration country, has not been targeted by Ernst. It's not that he looks down on Ireland, but the British are too unkind. They don't even allow Germans to enter Ireland. The reason is ready-made: the situation in Ireland is not very good now, and the British are afraid that foreign countries will cause trouble. Who knows if you are French spies.
Another reason is that the Irish immigration wave has been over for many years. It was around 1850, when about 1.8 million people left Ireland. In addition, the previous famine caused the death of a quarter of the population. Now Ireland is just a little poorer and a little dissatisfied with Britain. There is no reason for them to leave.
If there is no hope of immigration, then there is no hope. Ernst is now somewhat relieved about the current scale of immigration, because the number of births in East Africa in the first five months of this year has reached a staggering 380,000. If nothing unexpected happens, in the whole of 1870, the number of births in East Africa alone will increase by more than 600,000, and with the addition of the immigrant population, it will easily exceed one million.
The new immigrants will join the birth army in a while. Conservatively assuming a three-year cycle, the population of East Africa will exceed 10 million in ten years.
Now the number of immigrants is stable at 400,000 per year, which means 4 million in ten years. However, immigration cannot remain stable forever because there is still a world economic crisis that will last for several years. At that time, the number of immigrants to East Africa will definitely explode in a short period of time.
As for the population problem, Ernst has already secured a firm foothold, so he needs to focus on other undertakings in East Africa.
Land ownership is a problem that gives Ernst a headache. Ernst knows very well that the Hechingen royal family cannot always reach an agreement with this group of unruly people. As time goes by, the land will be thrown away sooner or later.
However, you must think carefully about what time period and method to throw it, and you must not cause a huge chaos.
Now, some mines can be made available to the Austrians for investment. This was designed before the establishment of the East African Kingdom.
By using East Africa's mineral resources to support Austria's industrial development, East Africa will be able to complete its economic ties with Austria. If a conflict arises between East Africa and Britain and France, the Austrian government will certainly be the first to get angry.
Although the Suez Canal is in the hands of Britain and France, the biggest beneficiary is probably Austria. An East Africa of four million square kilometers can solve Austria's food and industrial raw material problems. The only flaw is that the East African market is not open to Austria. At the same time, the quality of tropical food is poor, and it avoids direct competition with Hungary. Even the raw materials of Ernst's Vienna factory come from Hungary, and its main target is the mid-to-high-level food market.
The market in East Africa is negligible, and people's spending power is almost non-existent. Even their wages belong to bonds issued by the Hexingen Bank, which no one would recognize once it leaves East Africa.
The only thing Austria can make money from East Africa is government-purchased weapons and equipment, such as large-caliber coastal defense artillery and gunboats.
Development is still too slow if it relies solely on royal investment. At the same time, some immigrants can be diverted to enter the industrial field.
There is also the issue of the army. The East African army is not enough now. With four million square kilometers of land, the army must be at least over 100,000. Suppressing slaves also requires a large army.
With the development of the agricultural slave economy, agriculture no longer employed so many people. After enough money was saved, the tractors of the Heixingen Energy Power Company were almost completed, so the slaves could still be used. They were destined not to stay.
Cooperation with Austria is East Africa’s national policy. East Africa’s future education, scientific research, military industry and other industries will all need Austria’s support.
All these are impossible to achieve in East Africa now. Take education for example. If we expect the education in East Africa to develop, we have to wait at least two years. The first batch of East African students will only be in the second grade. Even the international students are half-grown children. After going abroad, they have to go to elementary school, middle school, and finally receive higher education.
Since higher education cannot be developed for the time being, scientific research and military industry are naturally impossible to realize. Even industries with a little bit of technical content are short of manpower.
But Ernst is not worried about this. East Africa has only been developed for three years, so it is better not to think about these unnecessary things.
Moreover, East Africa has established a basic compulsory education system from the very beginning. This system will sooner or later develop with the growth of the second generation of East Africans. It is only a matter of time. Now there are so many countries in the world that do not even have compulsory education, so East Africa’s start in education is not late.
I haven’t had any inspiration lately and can’t write anything.
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