Chapter 73 Digestion
The East African colony currently covers an area of approximately 1.2 million square kilometers, including the entire territory of Tanzania and most of Kenya (the northern part is the sphere of influence of Arabs and indigenous peoples).
Its area has exceeded that of the German East African colonies in the previous life. However, because there are more indigenous countries in the western part of the Great Lakes region and the population is relatively dense, it has not been annexed by the East African colonies for the time being.
In this large area, the number of immigrants is around 200,000, including nearly 50,000 immigrants absorbed from the Austrian Empire in recent months, and the rest are Chinese.
The East African colonies benefited from the current transformation of the Austrian Empire into the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the relatively turbulent domestic situation. In the first month, they absorbed about 30,000 immigrants from the Austrian Empire. Currently, the number has declined to around 3,000 per month. Due to the shortage of manpower in the Alaskan colony, Chinese immigrants were diverted. Now the number of people coming to East Africa each month is stable at around 10,000.
But Alaska does not need too many people. At around 30,000, Ernst will no longer support its population migration. By then, the number of Chinese immigrants going to East Africa is estimated to stabilize at around 15,000 per month.
In addition, most of the current immigrants in the East African colonies are farmers, so their fertility rate is in the first tier among their contemporaries, basically doubling every year. After all, they have enough land to support many children, and the colonies pay more attention to health issues, so the infant mortality rate is low.
Not to mention the old immigrants who have lived in East Africa for some time, even the new immigrants from the Austrian Empire have joined the army of fertility.
However, this population is still not enough compared to the nearly two to three million native indigenous people in the East African colonies.
The grassland area is so large, animals are rampant, and the climate is so good that the indigenous people can fill their stomachs with wild fruits, so they still have a living space after being deprived of a large amount of high-quality land by the East African colonies.
In Ernst's view, these are all hidden dangers. Only when all the indigenous people in the current East African colonies are cleared out can Ernst feel half relieved.
But after a year of arduous slave hunting, the slave traders in Zanzibar had only absorbed 200,000 natives, which was a drop in the bucket.
This is because it seized a large amount of the Middle East slave market. Even the Ottoman Empire ushered in a small wave of development under the influence of this wave of cheap slave trade, which greatly alleviated the dilemma of labor outflow caused by ethnic conflicts and suppressed other ethnic groups in the country more severely.
The current East African colonies face three problems. One is gender imbalance. Unlike the Austrian immigrants who brought their families with them, there were a large number of single men among the early Chinese immigrants, which is an unstable factor for future East African rule.
The second is ethnic imbalance, with the proportion of Chinese being too high. Immigration from the Austrian Empire could only alleviate this situation. To truly solve this problem, in Ernst's opinion, the ratio of the yellow and white populations must at least reach 28:0. After all, judging from the fact that the United States dared to launch the equal rights movement when blacks only accounted for a little over 10% of the population in later generations, the different races in the East African colonies must at least exceed this bottom line.
After the Austrian Empire was completely transformed into the Austro-Hungarian Empire and passed through this chaotic period, the number of immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire may not be able to maintain the current figure.
Now that the East African colonies have been supplemented with a large number of immigrants from the Austrian Empire, some Chinese immigrants have been forced to learn German in their daily lives.
The ratio of yellow and white races is around a healthy three to one, but more than half of these Austrian immigrants do not speak German, so this data is very inflated for the colonial government that wants to implement German education in East Africa. Even some Austro-Hungarian immigrants who only know a few simple German sentences were classified as German-speaking people.
The third is the huge number of local black indigenous people. The land completely controlled by the East African colonies actually only accounts for 20% of the area of the East African colonies. These are places with fertile soil and convenient transportation.
Black tribes from other places evenly occupied the remaining 80 percent of the land.
Therefore, the current population problem facing the East African colonies is how to solve the above three problems.
In order to solve these three problems, Ernst generally formulated three guidelines.
One is to invest in setting up a wedding company and purchase slaves from the Sultanate of Zanzibar in the name of transnational marriages. This is mainly aimed at the Middle East, especially the Ottoman Empire. The purpose is Armenian women in the Ottoman Empire. Of course, if the Sultanate of Zanzibar is powerful, it can also get women from other Arab regions. Anyway, Ernst is willing to pay the money, and he can even exchange them through black slaves, at a ratio of five to one or even twenty to one.
Ernst believed that given the Ottoman Empire's integrity, they would most likely agree. After all, they would make money by eliminating the population of the opposing ethnic group in a non-massacre way, and why not make some money? By then, not only the Armenians, but also the Kurds, Greeks, and Christians... the shameless Ottomans would probably send them all out.
After all, this is not slave trade, it is marriage introduction, and Western countries cannot blame anything. All they have to do is to say it is "free love."
Of course, this policy will not only be implemented in the Middle East. Ernst also needs to seek help from his old friend the Dutch who owns a large number of colonies in the Far East. He can't forget his friends when he can make money.
Second, there is no good solution at the moment. Now that the European continent is beginning to move towards a brief state of peace, it is not easy to operate. We can only increase the intensity of deception on the original basis and try to collect some scraps from the immigrants going to America.
The third, and most important task for the East African colonies in the coming year, is to gather all the black natives in the colonies and exile them to three regions west of the Great Lakes region, namely Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda.
Since the Sultanate of Zanzibar could not absorb so many slaves, Ernst could only send them to the west of the Great Lakes region to consume the power of the indigenous countries there.
After all, their land is limited and their population is large. After driving a large number of indigenous people to the East African colonies, the two groups of people with different cultures and systems will definitely fight each other.
Ernst could take the opportunity to eliminate at least one third of the indigenous people. As for escaping further west, that is the Congo rainforest. The tropical rainforest is a restricted area for humans even in modern society. It is hard to say whether you can survive if you enter it.
This third plan actually has some meaning of driving a tiger to devour a wolf, but to put it the other way around, it is sending a sheep into the tiger's mouth, where the sheep will die if he doesn't die.
After all, the indigenous people living in the Great Lakes region are not easy to deal with. Compared with the many indigenous people in the East African colonies who are still in the primitive society, their slave state is already quite developed.
There is no need to explain in detail the means that slave states used when faced with overpopulation. Referring to the Shang Dynasty in the Far East, most of them would take physical measures to balance the population size. Moreover, these indigenous peoples of the East African colonies were to the indigenous countries west of the Great Lakes region what ancient Rome was to the Germanic barbarians.
In short, the current focus of the East African colonial government is no longer to continue expansion, but to secure the land in hand first.
While expelling the indigenous people, the population structure of the colony was stabilized and the vast land of the East African colony was filled with immigrants.
(End of this chapter)
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