Huye Vasje was a man of little ambition, and in fact he was far more in awe of the Austrians than in gratitude.

After all, the previous Kieran Vasje and Kalaikabang were almost invincible in the eyes of the former, but such a behemoth burst like a balloon in front of the Austrians.

Huye Vasjie was well aware of his situation, he didn't really have a choice, a neighbour far more powerful than he had imagined, perhaps only the British could match it.

But now that the whole of India is in turmoil, it is not known whether Britain will be able to keep its foundation, and it is all the more necessary to have good relations with the Austrians at this time.

Moreover, the Austrian side was not excessively demanding, and the territory claimed was only a piece of land about the size of Trankuiba close to the interior.

As for the export of labor agreements, Huye Vasje felt that the untouchables in his territory had been an eyesore for a long time, and it was really worth it to exchange them for money and equipment.

As for the promise not to send opium to Austria and its colonies, Huye Vasjie did not think it mattered, after all, he had no way to sell opium, and in the end he was swept away by foreign companies, and was criticized by religious people.

In fact, the Valmar Plateau and the Ganges Delta in northern India are the main opium producing areas, and too much precipitation in the south is not conducive to the growth of opium.

(The opium produced in Bengal, also known as Pangong Land, is considered to be the finest opium in the world.) ）

Although cotton planting does not make money by growing opium, it is better than stability, and in fact this should be regarded as optimizing the allocation of resources, not coercion.

However, it did not matter to Austria what Huye Vasje thought, Franz's goal was to develop the East African plateau with Indian manpower, while confusing the "water" of the Sri Lankan region.

As for that land, it can be used to grow cotton, and it can also be used to confuse the British.

At this time, it has to be mentioned that the Austrian Empire's East African Governorate, Franz's original plan was to use the Dutch to develop East Africa, so that it would save a lot of money and at the same time be easier to receive.

As a result, the two successive governors of Tanzania did not do well with Franz's schedule, and the number of immigrants attracted was not as large as that sent by Franz.

The first Benny Erbin, who can be described as a time, place, and people, has tens of thousands of colonists at the beginning, has the support of two empires (Austria and Oman), is a native of East Africa, has a rare white skin, and has the support of the strongest kingdom in Tanzania.

As a result, he trusted his black brother too much, which led to his over-expansion, which eventually led to the Wekin Rebellion.

Had it not been for Friedrich's timely arrival, the Viceroyalty of Tanzania would have been reduced to a sea of fire and the siege of the Slave Fort would have been restored.

In the event that the Omani Empire took the opportunity to fall into the ground, the Austrian colonies in East Africa would cease to exist, and even the Omani Empire would have to fight another war or pay a huge toll in order to restore the shipping routes.

Fortunately, Friedrich's battle at Paradise Castle directly wiped out the army of the Kingdom of Vegin, and Biru Neumbay (Benny Erbin's younger brother) was killed in battle, and most of the 13,000 native warriors he was proud of were killed.

This was not due to the accuracy of the Austrian artillery and rifles, but to the fact that Biru Numbay himself had blocked all the exits to Paradise Castle in order to hold on with adequate supplies.

As a result, the Austrian Empire directly used the newly developed incendiary rockets, burning the city, and the Paradise Castle was close to the sea, within the range of the Austrian Navy's attack, so the scene was tragic and unusual.

The Kingdom of Vecin disappeared from the world, and all the population, livestock, and possessions were invaded by the Kingdom of Ngoni, which was loyal to Austria.

Of course, Benny Erbin also had merit, for example, he destroyed three of the seven kingdoms in Tanzania, and his brother destroyed two more.

Now that the Kingdom of Wecking had fallen, the land had been transferred to the Austrian Empire, quadrupling the area it actually controlled in Tanzania. The remaining Ngoni made the Austrians gods and were not easily developed inland.

So Franz did not punish Benny Earbin in any way, except to remove him from the title of governor of Tanzania.

The second governor was Hendri van der Meer, a powerful businessman in Bagamoyo, who was similar to Franz's belief that Tanzania's development should be unforgiving, and advocated using the region's land advantages to develop agriculture and animal husbandry.

In fact, the 57-year-old man wrote a total of more than a million words of development plans for Franz. With just that number of words, Franz knew that he must have been planning for years and should give him a chance to show himself.

In fact, Franz also looked at Hendri van der Meer's development plan, which was generally decent and in place in terms of market analysis.

In particular, the Omani Empire and Western Asia were severely short of food production, coupled with the infighting within the Abyssinian (Ethiopian) Empire, and Egypt's food self-sufficiency rate plummeted after the defeat of the Turkish-Egyptian War.

This is a very flexible European, Protestant in the Netherlands, Catholicism in Austria, and Celestial Christianity in the Arab world.

He knows more about East Africa and West Asia than ordinary people, and has a wide range of contacts and "friends" everywhere.

Franz's previous plans in East Africa were based on cotton and coffee cultivation, supplemented by grain cultivation, and did not grow cloves-based spice and dye crops to avoid conflict with the Omani Empire.

Hendri van der Meer believed that such progress was too slow and a waste of land resources, and that food crops should be vigorously cultivated in order to grasp the lifeblood of East and West Asian countries, strengthen Tanzania, and contribute more to the economy of the Austrian Empire.

Franz felt that he had at least drawn an SR, so he allocated a lot of manpower and material resources to support him.

But what Franz didn't expect was that this old brother actually wanted to engage in a slave economy. The reason is that the Omanis can, the French can, the Americans can, why can't Austria do that?

Although, according to econometric calculations, the slave economy was theoretically a more efficient economic system in the case of a shared unified market (the Nobel laureate in economics researched it, not the author).

This is contrary to the laws of the Austrian Empire, and the slaves captured in the Tanzanian colonies were all genuine indigenous blacks.

Leaving aside the issue of language communication, the inefficiency of this group of people is far more inefficient than Hendri van der Meer imagined.

It is not possible to dig a ditch, and in the end, the crooked land can only be dug again by the colonists, and the efficiency of loosening the soil is not as good as that of cattle and horses.

What is even more outrageous is that this group of blacks does not know how to use tools, and they use up tens of thousands of shovels and pickaxes in a month, and some people can even use several shovels in a day.

At first, the colonists thought that there was a problem with the quality of the tools, but as a result, several strong colonists did not break the wheel for a long time, and it broke down after half a day after it was handed over to the black slaves

Lazy, greedy, every time you eat, it's a war, and there are often strong slaves who rob the weak, the many who rob the small, and almost every day they kill a few slaves or kill a few colonists.

Later, Hendri van der Meer retreated and prepared to let the black slaves go to the border wall. In his eyes, it was an easy job, but the wall fell when the wind blew and the animals fell when they touched it.

It rained all night and the border wall even disappeared directly.

Hendri van der Meer had to supervise the work himself, and it turned out that the so-called walls were a mixture of small mounds of earth and stones, not squares, but ellipses

In addition to this, the slaves often stole seeds and colonizers' belongings, and Hendri van der Meer thought that the whip would help them learn a little more.

But the result was that the whips were all broken, and the slaves were to do what they were supposed to do.

Hendri van der Meer saw that the delivery date was near, and then at the black slaves who were eating raw rice, wheat, cotton, and even raw sisal, and fainted.

Hendri van der Meer wanted to make a big splash in Tanzania, but he was so angry that he had high blood pressure and cerebral thrombosis, and finally half of his body was paralyzed and had to rest in bed.

So now Franz had to take over the affairs of Tanzania himself, but he simply did not have that much time to appoint Benny Earbin and Hendri van der Meer as assistants to the governor.

Franz's first order was to invite the Omanis to come and take these black natives away, and it was unrealistic to develop the Tanzanian colony with the manpower of the Tanzanian colony at this time.

Even the existing cotton and coffee fields are no problem with planting and care, but picking is definitely a big problem.

It's not that the Austrian colonists couldn't kneel down with steel plates in their legs, but that the amount was too large to finish at all, and they had to be picked before the second rainy season, otherwise they would be lost.

East Africa is not quite the same as West Africa, which has only one rainy season and one dry season a year, while East Africa has two rainy seasons a year.

This point is actually very pitiful, and farming must strictly follow the law of time, and some varieties cannot be planted at all.

Two rainy seasons mean double flooding, when Europe's infrastructure can't keep up, let alone Africa.

The water conservancy project at this time was a joke, Vienna was flooded three times in twenty years, and Paris was flooded twice.

Although London was not washed away by the floods, the flooding of the Thames River caused a large amount of garbage and waste to fill the streets, and at the same time, a large amount of stagnant water in the city could not be drained in time, which indirectly led to the occurrence of the plague in London.

When the Danube flooded in 1858, hundreds of people were killed and nearly a thousand houses were destroyed in Austria, not to mention those downstream countries.

At this time, there was almost no construction of water conservancy projects in East Africa, which is one of the reasons why the colonizers were all located near the mouth of the river.

In addition to this, this short-term, high-intensity rainfall has caused another problem, that is, it is extremely difficult to build and maintain roads.

The Portuguese, Dutch, Omani, and even the indigenous kingdoms have not been able to build a road between the cities and the interior for hundreds of years.

Floods often wash away roads, heavy rainfall erases all traces of their existence, and herds of animals and wild plants all speak of the wildness of nature.

Then there is the biggest problem of colonizing East Africa, the terrible disease, where the warm and humid climate during the rainy season can easily breed a large number of mosquitoes and spread the terrible disease.

If it weren't for the trade with the Omani Empire, it would have taken time for the Tanzanian colonies to produce cotton and coffee trees. Not enough money to buy quinine

PS: Franz has already developed allicin, and at the same time quinine is cultivated on the islands of Chenla and Kalimantan in Southeast Asia, so the loss is not too big.

(Chenla and Kalimantan were both important quinine producing areas in later generations, so transplantation was not too difficult, although it took several years to successfully plant.) ）

So where do you find laborers who are disease-resistant, cheap, and adept at growing grain and cotton?

The answer is India, Ah San's anti-poison talent can be described as a full level, at least the clean and healthy Ganges water Franz does not have the courage to challenge.

Of course, from an economic point of view, India is close enough to Tanzania and affected by the monsoon, which greatly reduces the time it takes to transport labor, and at the same time reduces the mortality rate (attrition rate).

During this period, whether it is a black slave or a contract worker, the loss rate on the way will exceed 15%, and it is possible that the loss rate will be close to 50% in case of emergencies.

The journey from Trankuiba to Bagamoyo is completely free of this trouble, and it only takes a dozen days under the action of ocean currents and monsoons, which is really short for the sea journey.

And the Dalits, as a pariah, were not property to the local Indian maharajas, but outright garbage.

Modern people always like to use Japanese samurai to cut people and try swords to say that island countries have no human rights, but those Japanese samurai still have to find a good excuse, such as being hit, being insulted, and so on.

But in India, the upper castes don't really need any reason to kill untouchables, whether it is a shadow falling on someone's feet, a smell on someone's body, or even a footprint on the road can be a reason for them to be beaten, ravaged, and killed.

And even today, these atrocities against the Dalits continue to this day.

"India doesn't need Dalits." —from the mouth of a well-known Indian politician.

They are spurned, exploited and oppressed by society, they are all landless hired farmers and people engaged in "unclean trades", generally laundry workers, sweepers, butchers, etc.

Even as the lowest level of manure diggers, they do not have the right to manure. The dung belonged to the Shudras (fourth rank) who led them and were in charge of driving the car.

According to the ancient traditions of India, people of any caste should not come into contact with them, the inferior people, or accept what they have used for fear of being defiled.

They also do not have the right to enter monasteries and places of worship, let alone schools to receive education.

In the nineteenth century, not only did these Dalits have no surnames, but many of them did not even have a first name.

Dalí is deliberately referred to as the "oppressed man" and at the same time as the "untouchable".

But for Franz, there is no better place for them to go to Africa at this time. These people have been enslaved by the caste system for a long time, and lowly obedience has been carved into their bones.

But they are much more social and organized than the original African natives, and they learn new things much faster than the blacks.

In Silicon Valley, Dalits make up a significant proportion of senior engineers of Indian origin (there are no executives of Indian origin here, because Dalits are relatively unsuitable for managers).

When he heard that the Austrians wanted Dalit labor, Huye Vasjie immediately expressed his willingness to cooperate, and that the price was easy to say, just give a little as you like.

(End of chapter)