Chapter 831 Population Great Wall
Population reservoirs must not be built within the country. Generally speaking, population reservoirs are cities and villages.
For example, cities continue to absorb young and strong labor from rural areas, thereby obtaining a steady stream of low-end industrial population, promoting the sustainable development and prosperity of cities. This is because under normal circumstances, the natural population growth rate of the city itself is low, and when it develops to a certain stage, it is likely to be negative without introducing foreign population.
Population aging and the degeneration of low-end industries are fatal to urban development and the country. Of course, low-end industries are developing dynamically. After all, technology will advance over time, and existing industries will become low-end industries.
Of course, the solution is also easy to solve, that is to introduce foreign population, or to truly replace human labor with machines. However, Ernst, a man in the 21st century, knows that it is impossible for machines to replace human labor even in another century. If machines really replace human labor, then world peace should be achieved. However, this kind of utopian society, pessimistically estimated, will probably not be realized in a few hundred years, or even forever by human beings.
Therefore, when formulating national policies for East Africa, Ernst would often refer to human social problems in the 21st century and try to delay the occurrence of similar problems in East Africa in the future.
For example, the population issue. If East Africa can become a developed country in the future, there will naturally be a labor shortage problem. At that time, it is likely that East Africa will introduce foreign population, or it will try to hold on like Russia, resulting in a continuous decline in population and sluggish economic development.
Or, like Europe did, introduce refugees, but refugees are a double-edged sword that will have a huge impact on European culture, social order, and the lives of the lower classes.
Among the European immigrants, Eastern Europe is obviously the place where high-quality population is introduced. On the one hand, Eastern Europeans naturally admire Western European civilization and have high quality, and can perfectly integrate into Western European society. On the other hand, Arabs, a civilized population that conflicts with Christianity, obviously find it difficult to integrate into European society, at least on the cultural level. Even blacks are better than Arabs in this regard, but people all have mental cleanliness, and whites naturally look down on other people of color.
The same is true for Ernst as a secular man. His experiences in two lifetimes have made him prejudiced against people other than Germans and Chinese.
Therefore, the countries bordering East Africa in the future must be non-Arab white or yellow countries, so as to build a population security wall for future East African countries.
The Abyssinian Empire was just barely acceptable in terms of skin color, and its culture was a branch of Christianity. Otherwise, out of personal emotion, Ernst would never have allowed such a country to exist.
Of course, if East Africa fails in its impact on developed countries, the future population growth will most likely not be too high, because East Africa has achieved excellent results in popularizing and promoting basic education. As time goes by, a group of citizens who do not live according to the ideas of the ruling class will "awaken" in the future.
These are unavoidable problems, so Ernst's solution is a compromise. Since the future population problem in East Africa cannot be avoided, it is also necessary to introduce an ideal immigrant group that conforms to East African "values".
This is an important reason why East Africa supports colonial construction in places such as the Sigmaringen Royal Territory. These places will serve as the "reservoirs" of the future East African population.
If these "reservoirs" had not been built, the rulers of East Africa after Ernst would obviously not have been able to prevent the population infiltration from North Africa and West Africa.
Of course, this was all Ernst could do. If the later East African rulers could not solve the problem, then he could not do anything about it. Anyway, he would be buried by then.
As for believing in the wisdom of future generations, Ernst doesn't believe a word of it. Problems are easier to solve in the embryonic stage. They will only become more and more serious as time goes by. In the end, they will become too big to be solved and the only option is to reinstall the system. If the system reinstallation fails, there will be no other way.
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Of course, Ernst kept these thoughts in his heart and would not express them. After all, his ideas were not necessarily politically correct.
"Uncle Carl, if East Africa, the Sigmaringen Royal Territory, and German Cameroon can be connected together in the future, the problem of the Sigmaringen Royal Territory's access to the sea will naturally be solved."
At this time, Bismarck had been kicked out of German politics by William II, so Cameroon, as a German overseas colony, would definitely develop "greatly".
So Ernst was also considering whether the Cameroon colony could be included in the "German" circle in Africa in the future.
Because Ernst was not optimistic that Germany could hold on to Cameroon. If a war broke out in Europe, Cameroon would most likely be handed over to the Sigmaringen royal territory or East African trusteeship.
Even if Germany does not give up Cameroon, it will most likely become independent in the future. After all, Cameroon is almost as large as Germany today.
Obviously, Europeans in the 19th century could not understand this point. Even after World War II, Britain and France thought they could continue to bully their colonies until they were attacked by a combined attack from the United States and the Soviet Union.
Prince Karl said: "Of course, Leopold has communicated with William II on my behalf. William II supports us on the issue of public access to the sea."
Currently, the person in charge of Sigmaringen in Germany is Prince Karl's eldest son, Prince Leopold, who still holds an important position in the German army, so Prince Leopold has also become the contact person for direct dialogue between Sigmaringen and William II.
"But aren't you interested in Cameroon?" asked Prince Carl.
In fact, the northwest of East Africa is not far from the German Cameroon colony. If East Africa has an idea, it can directly open a channel to the Atlantic Ocean through German Cameroon.
Of course, the main reason why Prince Carl asked this question is that he hopes East Africa can take the lead in building a railway or highway leading to the coast of Cameroon.
Because among the countries in Africa that have large infrastructure capabilities, apart from some countries in North Africa and Cape Town, only East Africa can do it.
Neither the German colony of Cameroon nor the royal domain of Sigmaringen currently had the capacity or sufficient population to complete such a project.
Ernst shook his head and said, "Right now, our main focus in East Africa is on the south. We are completely unable to get away from it to do other things. We even feel that our population is insufficient. The area of the newly occupied areas is not small, and during the Portuguese and Boer periods, they were hardly effectively developed."
"Take the Boer Republic for example. Their construction is not even as good as the current Sigmaringen Royal Territory. Only Bloemfontein can barely be considered a city. Kimberley is actually managed and invested by the British. The other areas are no different from large ranches."
After hearing Ernst’s troubles, even though Prince Karl was old, he felt a little "jealous". He also wanted this kind of trouble!
He knew the population of East Africa, which was more than 70 million (including blacks). In terms of local population alone, East Africa was only behind the Far Eastern Empire, Tsarist Russia and India.
Even Ernst thinks the population is too small. When the construction of southern East Africa is completed, how many people will there be? It was over 100 million before, and maybe by the end of this century, the population of East Africa will exceed 100 million, Prince Karl thought.
Of course, Ernst thinks it is still difficult. He is not as optimistic as Prince Karl. After all, East Africa still needs to continue to eliminate blacks. If blacks are removed, the population will be nearly 20 million, and ten years is not enough for population iteration. Therefore, it is still difficult for East Africa to break through 100 million in this century.
(End of this chapter)
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