Having prevented the Germans from offending Russia with another thankless effort, Jochen was in a good mood. Although Bismarck was offended this time, it also increased the weight of Jochen's voice in everyone's minds. After all, there are really very few people who can win with the iron-blooded prime minister Bismarck.

And to avoid further deterioration of relations with Russia, there is another advantage, that is, to avoid the next tariff war between the two sides, Tsarist Russia increased import tariffs on industrial products, while the Germans increased food import tariffs-for-tat, the tariff war between the two sides has hit the economies of the two countries, and the rise in food prices and the obstruction of the export of industrial products have had an impact on the industrial development of Germany, coupled with the obstruction of industrial development and the increasing urban population in Germany, the reduction of employment rate will lead to social instability in the country. And it will lead to a loss of population, which is obviously bad for Germany, especially since the German population as a whole is second to none in Europe.

On August 13, 1763, King Frederick the Great of Prussia signed the world's first General Compulsory Education Act, and in 1825 compulsory education was introduced, and in 1850 the Draft School Law was promulgated, which stipulated that education was the same as military service, and that teachers had the same rights and duties as public officials, and that students were exempt from paying school fees. As a result, it became the first country in the world to implement free and compulsory education. As a result, the German citizen literacy rate is already the highest in Europe. After the reunification of Germany, in a peaceful environment, the Germans formulated a complete plan in basic education, vocational education and higher education, and also sent a large number of talents for economic development. The British educator Henry Rothko once commented: "The love of science and knowledge for the sake of science and knowledge in Germany is far more common in universities than in our English universities." ”

The population has always been an important part of the country's strength, and the loss of population caused by emigration not only undermines Germany's strength, but also cheapens other countries. Especially in the United States, the rapid development of the United States in the 19th century has many opportunities, which indeed makes many Germans who are struggling to live at home yearn for it. For a long time in the mid-to-late 19th century, Germany was the world's largest exporter of immigrants, while the United States was the largest importer of immigrants. Obviously, this situation cannot be allowed to continue to exacerbate.

Avoiding tariff wars and avoiding economic development is only the first step; Next, the second step is to ease relations with Russia and sell industrial products, so as to accelerate industrial development; Then, after the grain import tariff is lowered, the laborers will have more spare money, so expanding domestic demand is the third step. But the most important thing is to make the colonies run on their own as soon as possible, without the constant subsidy of the empire.

After nearly two years of hard work, as an early pilot for the development of German colonies, the management system of German Cameroon has been basically established. And thanks to the support of Crown Prince Frederick, Cameroon's administrative structure and military presence at this time were far better than in history. Unlike in history, colonial officials were not all military officials, but a considerable number of civil officials were responsible for administration, so that those officers would not only know how to act brutally when things happened. Under Jochen's intervention, the colonial government did not completely use force to deprive the colony of its land, because at this time Germany had just entered Cameroon, and Cameroon's terrain was complex, the natural environment was excellent, and the local tribes in the east and north were quite strong, so these civil officials adopted a policy of co-opting and suppressing the main suppression, bribing the chiefs everywhere with the industrial products brought from Europe, carrots in one hand and sticks in the other, and then killing a few small tribes who refused to cooperate to kill chickens to show the monkeys. Coercion and coercion induced these chiefs to cooperate with the colonial government, and the Germans gained a foothold in Cameroon.

In the future, Cameroon will be called the "breadbasket of Central Africa", and it is also one of the few countries in Africa that can export grain to the outside world, and Jochen does not want to let the colonies only engage in the cultivation of a single cash crop in order to meet the domestic production of industrial raw materials, as in the past, so that the colonies' grain will not only fail to fill the shortage of domestic food, but also import to meet the needs of the colonies. If the production of grain in Cameroon is increased, then when the grain produced in Cameroon begins to slowly enter the German market, the price of grain in Germany falls, and the news that the empire wants to reduce the import tariff on grain is spread through the deliberate guidance within the guò, this will make a large number of Junker nobles who depend on the land for food uneasy, and then release the news that Cameroon has a large amount of arable land suitable for planting, and tell all the people that the empire gives preferential land purchase prices and taxes to the Germans who are engaged in agricultural cultivation in the colonies. Coupled with the fact that it was far cheaper to hire locals to grow than it would have been in Germany itself, there would have been some bold and less conservative Junker landlords who would devote themselves to the great cause of colony reclamation, and those who clung to what little arable land they had on their home soil and opposed the Empire's increased investment in the colonies, and when they imported grain from Russia on a large scale, there were these people who cried. The increase in the number of people willing to invest in Cameroon has also led to the overall development of Cameroon's entire colonial economy, and the overall development of the colonial economy will allow more people to invest here, thus forming a virtuous circle.

However, due to the moderate colonial policy in general, and the small amount of investment in the early stage, the overall progress was not fast, the number of German immigrants who came was not large, and the domestic funds attracted were limited, but in general the progress was still obvious. Moreover, the relationship between the colonial authorities and the chiefs of the various local powers in Cameroon is not tense at present, because of the fact that the local people are forced into forced labor, forced labor, and even slavery, as in the past, rather than by force of plunder, but rather by divisiveness, as in the past. Moreover, by employing local people to work and paying them, the development of the colony and the efficiency of land cultivation were gratifying. With the mark in their hands, the locals had to choose German products when they wanted to buy goods, which in turn stimulated the opening of the market for German light industry products in Cameroon. Although the quantity is limited and the profits are not abundant, it is clear that there is a good start overall. In view of the promising results in Cameroon's development, in order to increase its penetration into the surrounding regions and expand its sphere of influence, the Imperial Government decided this year to expand Cameroon's administrative structure to 30 people, increase the number of local troops to 500, and increase the allowance to Cameroon to 10 million Reichsmarks next year (Note 1). However, this plan was quickly overturned by a piece of news.

On August 20, 1887, a telegram came back from the port of Douala, Cameroon, where, after more than a year of exploration, sampling, testing, and analysis, the Imperial expedition had discovered several gold and diamond veins in the area enclosed by Jochen. This news immediately ignited the enthusiasm of the top brass for the colony, after all, the Franco-Prussian War had received a war dividend of 5 billion francs, which had been exhausted in the context of Germany's rapid development, and many of Germany's domestic monopoly giants really needed more currency to support their development. The news of the expedition immediately excited the upper echelons of the Reich, who had already had a premonition that the amount of money issued by the German banking system was beginning to shrink. However, the area where the gold mine was discovered has been said in advance, and it has been rounded by His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson, and everyone sighs at the luck of His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson, on the other hand, they hope that the Imperial Grandson will not pile all the gold into the royal treasury after it is mined, otherwise there will be no hope of issuing additional currency. For a while, the attitude towards Jochen was a lot kinder, and I had to make Jochen sigh that this is the power of money.

Crown Prince Frederick was also very happy to have the veins in his hands and the ownership of the royal family, so in the face of Jochen's request, he gave Jochen another 10 million marks from the royal treasury to Jochen to form a mining company to open mines in Cameroon. The high-ranking officials of the empire were also surprised by the generosity of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, after all, the one-time investment was so high, but Jochen was not worried, and in his previous life, Cameroon produced 218 kilograms of gold per month, of which 178 kilograms were mined by small-scale artisanal workshops. Jochen believes that even if there is a certain gap in technology, the large-scale industrial mining of Guò, and the industrial cyanidation method of gold extraction has appeared at this time, coupled with the improved process of the cyanide method that Jochen knows, and the addition of oxygenated carbon leaching process in the leaching process, can improve the gold and silver leaching rate; Reduced leaching time; Reduces cyanide. The efficiency of chemical consumption should be higher than that of a craft workshop. So assuming that 250 kilograms of gold are produced every month, which is 3 tons a year, which is equivalent to 8 million marks, and Cameroon is expected to have nearly 100 tons of gold reserves in later generations, this business is definitely a sure profit. What's more, there is also the diamond mine of Mobilelon, which may have a reserve of 736 million carats (152 tons) in later generations, which can be regarded as a sky-high wealth.

Of course, the 10 million marks Yochen is not ready to invest in gold and diamond mining all at once, he also has another goal - Cameroon concentrates oil in the Gulf of Guinea region, Cameroon's oil reserves have been proven to be 250 million barrels in the future, and not only Cameroon, Jochen has the next plan, but now is not the time.

In order to accelerate the development of Cameroon so that it could bring more benefits to the empire, the Imperial Diet agreed to increase its support for the Cameroonian colonial authorities, increasing the subsidy input to Cameroon to 20 million marks from next year, expanding the administrative structure to 100 people, and increasing the garrison to 3,000 people. Moreover, Johentiyì accelerated the construction of the port of Douala, and used it as the administrative, commercial, military, and distribution center of German Cameroon. And the Imperial Navy, naturally, strongly supported this. After all, German New Guinea, far away in the Pacific Ocean, could not be counted on at all, and the German African colonies had not had a military base that could satisfy the navy because of insufficient investment. Of course, the council will be satisfied with this request, after all, this is the time for them to use the navy.

The parliament also agreed to intensify its efforts to obtain large quantities of land from the chiefs by means of ransom, inducement, and plunder, and to guide agricultural producers to Cameroon to buy land for the cultivation of crops in the country, so as to concentrate the idle funds that were bound to the land, and to provide loans to those who were willing to go to the colonies to start businesses, so as to promote the development of the credit industry of the empire. Under the power of gold and diamonds, the voices of the stubborn Junkers, who opposed the intensification of colonial development in the future, lest the import of food from the colonies in the future affect the profits of their agricultural products, went unheeded. After the originally monolithic Junker landlords were divided into agricultural Junkers and industrial Junkers in the face of Germany's rapid industrial development, the agricultural Junkers began to divide again, and the difference between colonial agricultural Junkers and local agricultural Junkers began to become increasingly apparent. The forces driving Germany's pursuit of foreign markets have become even stronger.

Note 1: In 1905 there were only 6,000 Germans in all German colonies. In 1913, the total allowance of the German colonies was only 29 million marks, so it is not unreasonable to say that the German colonies have not been able to turn from investment to profit, because the initial investment is too low.

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