Chapter 829 Catching a Sheep
As for East Africa, its population is actually not small. In the international community, East Africa is also one of the few populous countries with a population of over 50 million.
The fundamental reason for the current population shortage in various places is that population migration is a huge project that cannot be completed in a short period of time, especially in Angola and Mozambique. The population shortage in each place is not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but millions.
And this is only the minimum requirement. Given the conditions in Angola and Mozambique, it is reasonable to accommodate a population of tens of millions. In the past, Angola and Mozambique were countries with a population of over 30 million, which together is more than the current population of East Africa. So at the current stage, no government in East Africa will complain about having too many people. On the contrary, the more the better.
A single move can affect the entire body. The migration of millions of people is not something that can be accomplished in a short period of time for East Africa. Of course, it can be forced to be completed regardless of the cost, but it is not cost-effective, and this will have a huge impact on the economic development of the areas where the population is migrating.
For example, although the New Baden Province only supported a few thousand people in Orange, it had already reached the point of serious damage. If it were not for the mandatory requirement of the central government, the New Baden Provincial Government would not want to send out a single person.
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"Your Highness, East Africa is in need of people. This is the telegram the Orange Regional Government sent us the day before yesterday. They are in urgent need of at least 30,000 black people. It would be even better if we could provide them with some professional workers, because the infrastructure in the Kimberley region is not bad, and there are many infrastructures left by the British."
"Orange doesn't even want black people now?" Ernst asked.
"There is nothing they can do about it. Currently, the largest group of people in the entire Orange region is the military. Apart from the military, the entire Orange region has a population of less than 10,000 people. So now they can only think of ways to deal with the blacks. And there are not many blacks in Orange. There are not many blacks in South Africa to begin with, and the Orange region is even more prominent among them."
Von der Leyen's words reminded Ernst of the eastern part of East Africa, where blacks have completely become history. Of course, this does not mean that there are no blacks in the east, but that all black settlements in the east have been demolished in East Africa, and all blacks in the east have been registered as "laborers."
The East can be said to be the only region that has completed de-blackization. There are still a large number of black settlements in the Midwest, which also reflects the population distribution in East Africa.
More than 70% of East Africa's population is concentrated in the East African Plateau and the eastern coastal areas. The East African Plateau alone accounts for 40% of the population. However, the area of the East African Plateau is only one-tenth of the country's total. This is a manifestation of the uneven population distribution. If it were not for the development of the central provinces, the proportion would only be more exaggerated.
The total population of the four provinces in the central region (including Hesse) is over 10 million, barely meeting the standard. Moreover, the central and eastern regions have relatively close economic ties, and currently the eastern region's population resources are also tilting towards the central region.
Excluding the central and eastern regions, the total population of other parts of East Africa is only about five million, and is distributed in more than a dozen provinces, concentrated in the north and south.
This does not include Angola and Mozambique, which have just been incorporated into the East African territory. Therefore, even the regions that have been incorporated into the East African territory for a long time are queuing up. It is almost impossible for East Africa to take care of all the regions.
Of course, in the Orange region, Kimberley must not be delayed. Ernst believes that conditions in Kimberley are better than many areas in East Africa. Even as long as the city's scale during the British rule is restored, it can become the second largest city in the southern region after the port city of New Hamburg.
Ernst said: "Kimberley can be a priority development area in the Orange region. After all, Kimberley's diamond industry is very famous, which is a profitable point in the short term. So let the east, especially the various diamond mining areas, squeeze in and organize a group of experienced workers to Kimberley to resume local diamond production."
Previously, Kimberley's biggest competitor was East Africa. Diamonds are distributed in almost every province in East Africa, from the Nile Basin in the north to the South African Plateau in the south. From west to east, there are considerable diamond reserves throughout East Africa. However, only the eastern diamond mining area has been developed in East Africa. Diamonds in central and other regions are generally mined as a by-product of other mineral development.
It is not possible without restrictions. After all, diamonds are of relatively high value in the industrial and jewelry fields, and low prices are not very beneficial to East Africa.
Even so, the development of East Africa still lowered the world diamond price, which is probably the main reason why Britain gave up its interests in Kimberley. Of course, the deeper reason is that East Africa lowered the population of Orange, so that Kimberley could not continue to maintain normal production. Hiring East African workers is not cheap, and they must comply with East African laws, which is the most unacceptable to British talents.
In fact, although East Africa has labor laws, they are not strictly enforced. However, if you are hiring abroad, that is a different matter.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, at the moment it seems that we should think more about overseas immigration. Overseas immigration is cheaper than domestic migration and will not interfere with normal production and living order," von der Leyen suggested.
"But for the sake of national balance, where can we introduce Germans from? The German region in Europe is different from what it was a decade ago. Since the unification of Germany and the rapid economic development of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, there has been almost no population outflow," said Ernst.
"Your Highness, we have all overlooked one problem. That is, the main ethnic group in East Africa has been established. We can also learn from immigration countries such as the United States and appropriately relax immigration restrictions. This will not change the culture and population structure of East Africa," said von der Leyen.
Von der Leyen's words woke Ernst up. Now it is indeed different from the past. In the past, East Africa had to shape its cultural identity, but now the mainstream culture in East Africa is already quite complete, so it is no problem to introduce non-Germans at this time.
Von der Leyen went on to say: "Especially the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although the economy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire has developed rapidly, its domestic economic development is not balanced. Except for Venice, Austria and Bohemia (Czechoslovakia), the economic conditions in other regions are actually not very good, and the fertility rate is also relatively high. Hungary is a high-quality target for us to absorb population. After all, under the rule of the Habsburgs, the living habits of Hungarians and other Austro-Hungarian peoples are no different from those of the Germans."
Ernst nodded and said, "Well said. I indeed overlooked this problem. In this case, let the Immigration Bureau formulate a plan and have all departments cooperate. We will introduce population from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and there must be sufficient job supply. This way, we can replace a large part of the local residents, and then let them go to the west and south."
Immigrants introduced from abroad naturally cannot be directly used to supplement places like Angola. After all, East Africans are a minority there. If overseas immigrants are directly added to these areas, there may be a risk of being usurped.
It would be really fun if it became a replica of the Austro-Hungarian Empire by then, so the population migration of the later incorporated regions still gives priority to local citizens, and the vacancies left by them will be filled by overseas immigrants.
Moreover, if the additional immigrants were mainly residents of backward areas of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they would be able to integrate into the East African environment more quickly. After all, under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they had already become accustomed to the German lifestyle.
East Africa is taking advantage of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and there is nothing it can do about it. East Africa would not consider a country like Germany, because the development of various parts of Germany is relatively balanced and the economic levels are not much different. It would be more difficult to trick people into coming to Germany. Of course, the situation was just the opposite a dozen years ago.
(End of this chapter)
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