Chapter 341 Democratic Election
As the Hexingen Group increased its investment in North America and the Far East, its investment in East Africa decreased accordingly. The actual reason is that East Africa is digesting its previous achievements, and its investment in East Africa is mainly concentrated in the Lake Malawi Industrial Zone and the Northern Industrial Zone.
The Lake Malawi Industrial Zone was independently invested by the Hexingen Consortium, and it will take some time for the heavy industry in the Lake Malawi Industrial Zone to go into production.
The construction of the factory alone took a lot of time, not to mention the larger infrastructure construction. The coast of Lake Malawi, especially in East Africa, is an area with relatively poor geographical conditions and many mountains, so road construction is relatively difficult and requires bypassing the rugged terrain, which greatly increases construction costs.
After all this is completed, the Lake Malawi Industrial Zone will still need new immigrants to fill it, and the industry needs workers, but at this stage, the overall number of immigrants in East Africa is showing a downward trend.
In particular, the number of German immigrants has dropped sharply. Without a sufficient number of German immigrants, we must be cautious when introducing immigrants from other ethnic groups.
In this regard, East Africa is stepping up efforts to develop Hungary's potential. After all, the Magyars in the Kingdom of Hungary only account for 5% of the Hungarian population.
This stems from the unique concept of the Magyar nobles. Due to the proliferation of Hungarian nobles, the number is as high as more than 600,000 (including the newly-crowned nobles of Lombardy), so the Magyar nobles can easily and automatically classify themselves as a group. They expel the untouchables in the Hungarian countryside and declare: "Only landowners are real Magyars!"
Nationalism was prevalent in the 19th century, but Hungarian nationalism was not pure. Hungary can be said to be a region that was cloaked in the cloak of nationalism while firmly defending the interests of conservatives. It can be said that it was protecting its own interests under the guise of nationalism.
In this case, can Austria assimilate these rural pariahs? The answer is no, although the Austro-Hungarian Empire actively promoted compulsory education and wanted to strengthen national identity.
It has some effect, but not much, because all schools in Hungary teach Magyar, which means that compulsory education cannot change the status quo of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but will accelerate Hungarian national identity. Therefore, East Africa is now rushing to send those Hungarian civilians to East Africa before compulsory education is popularized in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Although Hungarian immigrants are more inclined towards Hungary, at least in terms of geography, once they arrive in East Africa, everything will no longer be a problem, and changing nationality is a simple and crude matter.
However, the fact that most Hungarian immigrants only speak Magyar is a real problem, so they cannot be grouped together separately.
These Hungarian immigrants cannot fill sparsely populated areas such as Zambia and Zimbabwe, but it is still feasible to use them to supplement the population of eastern East Africa.
After such a long period of development in the eastern part of East Africa, the German language has been widely used. The German environment has forced other ethnic groups to learn German. This is inevitable. Without German, it would be very difficult to get by and even life would become a problem.
Generally speaking, it only takes two or three months for people to learn German in a German environment. Even if you are a slow learner, you can still learn it in half a year to a year.
If Hungarian immigrants are used to populate the east, East Africa can free up German immigrants to consolidate construction work in Zimbabwe and other regions.
The East African Kingdom, enraged by the trick played by the Ndebele people, ordered the Shona people to capture all the Ndebele people who had enslaved them in the past, and then sent them to the Central Province to dig a canal.
Although the Ndebele people were punished, the East African Kingdom also put local development on the agenda, and co-governance with the indigenous people became a thing of the past.
But how to deal with the larger number of Shona people? The East African Kingdom decided to use some unorthodox methods to consume the local indigenous people bit by bit without causing fierce resistance from them.
The first thing was to forcibly divide the Shona people into more than 150 large tribes according to their regions. Each large tribe had more than 10,000 people, which was the largest unit, so as to prevent them from forming a new core.
Then East Africa sent more than 100 soldiers, or a company, to each large tribe to be responsible for the stability of the large tribes within the jurisdiction. In this way, East Africa had a well-organized combat force in each area where the indigenous tribes existed, which could attack or defend, and would not be suddenly annihilated by the indigenous people as before. Even if they fell into a disadvantageous situation, they could wait for reinforcements.
Secondly, direct rule over the Shona people, which is similar to the Ndebele people, where they are the local rulers themselves, rather than sharing power.
As for how to ensure that these indigenous peoples accept the rule peacefully while reducing their number in an orderly manner, East Africa has come up with a vicious plan, which is the electoral system.
In the name of the gods, East Africa required each Shona tribe to pay tribute of 100 slaves, and who became a slave was a matter of discussion. If the East African kingdom directly appointed the slaves, it would definitely cause the Shona tribe to unite against the enemy, and the conflict would eventually be directed at East Africa.
Therefore, East Africa did not forcibly designate who would be slaves, but let the Shona people choose their own slaves. These indigenous people, who were temporarily brought together by East Africa through force, already had many conflicts, so they would definitely be very enthusiastic about voting for people with whom they had conflicts as slaves.
"Procedural democracy!", "Mob rule!"
The "lucky ones" who are "elected" will contribute to the development of East Africa. As for the remaining natives, there is no need to worry. The main idea is "everyone is like a dragon" and everyone has a chance.
This move is extremely vicious, as it forcibly shifts the conflict onto different ethnic groups of the Shona people, causing them to engage in internal strife.
At the same time, the number of slaves extracted from East Africa each time was not large, only about one percent, which would lead most of the natives to have a lucky mentality. It was just like pedestrians crossing the road, with so many people doing this, it was impossible for me to be the only one who got into a traffic accident.
Eventually, East Africa would draw 15,000 slaves from Zimbabwe every three months. The Shona population in Zimbabwe currently only has nearly two million people (modern Zimbabwe has a population of about 16 million). It would not be long before Zimbabwe would turn from black to white, and these 15,000 slaves would be used to support engineering construction projects throughout East Africa.
Such a good "strategy" cannot be left to Zimbabwe alone, but must be implemented in all indigenous settlements in East Africa.
While black people continued to be exported from Zimbabwe, new immigrants from East Africa continued to flow into Zimbabwe, consolidating East African rule.
There are only two million Shona people in Zimbabwe, which seems to have a relatively small population, but in fact it is at an upper-middle level in Africa. Zimbabwe has a total area of only more than 300,000 square kilometers, close to more than 400,000 square kilometers, and the precipitation is relatively low. In such a "small" area, there are more than two million indigenous people (including Ndebele people), and the population density is much higher than that of the East African grasslands.
(End of this chapter)
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