Chapter 637: Great Lack of Virtue
Constantine and his old brother talked about everything, of course, they discussed more about the management of the colony.
Although Constantine did not participate in the management of East Africa in its early days as a colony, he had seen pigs run even if he had not eaten pork. Especially when he was crowned as the King of East Africa, East Africa was in the transition period from colony to kingdom.
At that time, many models in East Africa were still operating in a colonial form, especially the newly occupied areas. Prince Carl was naturally not bored and came to listen to Constantine's bragging, but he really wanted to learn the East African model.
Colonial management is actually not difficult. It can be done with a gun. The most primitive way of colonization is to rely on "robbery".
Now colonial management has been upgraded to a "cooperation" model. For example, Britain has won over a large group of Indian princes and nobles to jointly exploit and oppress the lower-class people in India.
Britain also built roads, dug canals and railways in India, which were unseen before. During the Portuguese and Spanish colonial eras, they would never engage in construction in their colonies.
As for the Dutch, they paid more attention to trade means, but unfortunately they were too small and ultimately failed in the competition with Britain.
What deserves Prince Carl's attention in East Africa is naturally the rapidly expanding national strength of East Africa. In just over a decade, East Africa has completed the transition from primitive society to modern society.
This is actually not difficult. As long as the population is in place, colonial development will be much easier. Of course, black people can also be included, but there are not many black people in Africa. After all, they are one of the three major races, but there are less than 100 million black people. With so many people left in East Africa, there may only be more than 70 million now.
There was no massacre in East Africa, but there was forced migration. At that time, six or seven million indigenous peoples from the Great Lakes region alone fled to West Africa, and rivers of blood flowed along the way. After all, when you arrive in a new place, you have to rob for land and wealth.
But East Africa has no psychological burden. As long as the blood is not spilled within East Africa, it is just the feud between the black uncle tribes and has nothing to do with East Africa. The difference between East Africa and the United States is the difference between a robber and a murderer. It goes without saying which one is worse, but neither is a good thing. Of course, the United States is a robber and a murderer at the same time, and East Africa has to add the identity of a human trafficker, and the buyer is the United States. This is also an irony of the times.
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"This little girl must be Jenna! So cute, and looks exactly like Karina when she was a child." Queen Mother Sophie hugged Princess Jenna and said lovingly.
Communication between East Africa and Austria was quite convenient, at least there was no shortage of telegraphs and telephones, so Queen Mother Sophie knew about the existence of the little one before Jenna was born.
Little Jenna was sleepy, but she didn't cry because a "stranger" was holding her. Her chubby little face was very cute.
"Grandma, you are exaggerating. How can they be exactly the same?" Karina said coquettishly while holding the arm of Queen Mother Sophie.
"Haha, I took care of you when you were a child, and you don't remember what you looked like when you were a baby. Look at this nose, these eyes..." Queen Mother Sophie started playing a game of finding similarities.
The current Queen Mother Sophie is much younger than in her previous life. After all, her beloved son Archduke Ferdinand was not executed in Mexico and can visit her often, so she lives a happier life. Of course, the bad relationship between her and Princess Sissi has never changed.
"Little Friedrich and his grandfather are in East Africa. Since the royal family of Hechingen is a little sparse, they cannot come to Austria for the sake of political stability, so there are only photos." Archduke Ferdinand took out the photo of his grandson and showed it to his mother.
I originally wanted to draw a portrait of him, but little Friedrich was very lively and active and couldn't sit still, so I could only record him with photos. Although the photos lack some vividness, they are more real.
While the family was having a great time, Ernst and his great uncle, Emperor Franz, were discussing the relationship between East Africa and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the study.
Now East Africa has the strength to maintain an equal relationship with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Even Franz has to pay attention to the existence of East Africa. The benefits ceded by East Africa every year alone are not a small amount.
"The British have been imposing sanctions on you for almost a year! I haven't heard of any follow-up actions from them recently. What is your relationship with them now?" Franz asked.
"Before, it was Afghanistan that distracted Britain's attention. After all, Afghanistan is directly related to India, and India is the lifeblood of Britain, so Britain put all its energy into dealing with Afghanistan. As for now, we are not worried about the British causing trouble. They are now concentrating on dealing with the Orangemen."
"Orange?"
Orange people are currently only called this in East Africa. As for other countries, they may not even know the existence of the Orange Free State.
"They are the Boers who originally lived in South Africa. After we destroyed the Transvaal, most of the residents migrated to the Orange Free State, which is also a Boer country.
Now the Transvaal immigrants and the natives of the Orange Free State are engaged in a civil war, so in order to distinguish between them, we call them Transvaal and Orange people respectively. "Ernst had to explain to Franz the intricate relationship here.
Because the location of the Orange Free State is indeed very awkward. It has been completely turned into a landlocked country by East Africa and Cape Town, and it has not much value except for diamonds, so it naturally will not attract attention. This is similar to Outer Mongolia sandwiched between two major countries in the previous life, but its area is not as large as Outer Mongolia. East Africa and the United Kingdom do not pay much attention to it, and its channels of external communication have been cut off by two gangsters, so it has no way to express its grievances.
Therefore, a place like the Orange Free State is destined to hardly attract the attention of the outside world. Even the civil war that broke out there was only known to its two neighbors, East Africa and Britain.
"Since they are all Boers, why are they fighting? Shouldn't they be united in targeting you?"
"Hehe, uncle, you are wrong to say that. We in East Africa have always been a country that is kind to others. At least the Orange people know our kindness." Ernst said shamelessly.
"Did you instigate the internal conflict among the Boers?"
"Of course not. If we had the ability, we would have done it a long time ago. And if we in East Africa were to sow discord, the Orangemen and Transvaal people would not be divided at all. They might even unite and face the outside world together. After all, the fact that we wiped out the Transvaal Republic is an indelible fact."
"Since it's not you, why are they fighting among themselves? And as you said, with East Africa as a formidable enemy, aren't they afraid of someone taking advantage of the situation?"
"We have to thank the great virtues of the British. Britain is now the sovereign of the Orange Free State. Uncle, you also know that the Boers were at odds with Britain in the past. Now that Orange has been incorporated into the British colony, the Orange people will naturally not be honest. For the sake of their own rights, they will inevitably oppose Britain on some matters.
If this were any other colony, the Orangemen might have been able to fight for their rights, but they accepted a large number of Transvaal people into their territory.
Many people in Transvaal wanted to restore their country, but faced with a powerful country like us in East Africa, they knew they could only rely on Britain, so Britain chose to cooperate with the people of Transvaal.
So Britain took the initiative to sow discord, causing the Boers to split into two parts. Now that the civil unrest in the Orange Free State has not been quelled, Britain cannot concentrate its forces in South Africa to fight against us. "
(End of this chapter)
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