Germany, February 24, 1862.

In the middle of the night, the drunken stars glow faintly in the black, cold sky.

Turning to the south of Germany, the branches and leaves of the street trees of the ancient city of Heixingen are rustled by the cold wind of early winter.

Dead wood-colored street lamps illuminate the streets paved with dark blue stone slabs, and the streets are lonely with pedestrians, and there is a hollow dark sound in the black alleys.

Through the windows of the houses that line the streets, you can hear people whispering.

It was time for the citizens of Heixingen to enjoy dinner, and the light and shadow of the candle flame swayed from side to side in the dark rotten wood window frames, dancing freely like natural dancers.

As we walked along the road, slowly leaving the neighborhood, a road leading to the outside of the city suddenly opened up, and along the low ramp, a luxuriously decorated carriage slowly drove out of the city, and along the road to the distant hill, on which stood a solemn castle.

Soon, the carriage drove to the gate of the castle, and the guards with guns saw the comers, opened the gate, and the carriage slowly drove into the castle.

Sitting in the carriage was none other than Prince Konstantin of the Kingdom of Prussia, the ruler of the Heshingen region.

Originally a small country in southeastern Germany, Heichengen was the birthplace of the Hohenzollern family and is now part of the Prussian province of Hohenzollern.

Among the decision-makers who pushed for Heshingen to join the Kingdom of Prussia was Prince Konstantin von Hohenzollern, whose full name was Konstantin von Hohenzollern.

Prince Konstantin finally returned home after a tiring day and was about to return to his room to rest.

Suddenly, a rush of footsteps came from the hallway, and it was the old butler Kaino.

"Master, it's not good, something is wrong!" Kaino panicked and reported to Konstantin.

"What's going on, Kaino, don't rush, speak slowly?" Konstantin said calmly and naturally.

"Today, His Royal Highness the Prince suddenly fainted while riding a horse, and now the doctor is diagnosing it, sir, go and take a look!" Kaino hurriedly explained.

As soon as he heard that it was his son who had an accident, Konstantin's majesty could not hold back. Ignoring the exhaustion of his body, he followed the butler to the door of his son's bedroom.

The servants were waiting in front of the door, not daring to take a breath, carefully waiting for the arrival of the old master.

Konstantin couldn't say anything, so he pushed open the bedroom door and walked in to see his son Ernst lying on the bed.

Seeing that Ernst, who had "woken up" in front of him, was safe and sound, Konstantin's heart was also relaxed, and looking at the waiting doctor, Konstantin asked: "Doctor, how is the situation?" ”

The doctor did not dare to slack off, and replied respectfully: "Your Excellency, the prince is currently fine, but the cause of his fainting is not yet certain, and it is very likely that it is caused by excessive fatigue. ”

Konstantin cautiously came to the bed, held his son's immature little hand and asked, "Ernst, how do you feel?" ”

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Ernst felt that the whole person was ignorant, and his heart was a little dull, and when he suddenly heard someone asking, he didn't dare to show too deliberately, and whispered: "Well, I feel a little confused in my head, and I'm still a little unconscious." ”

"And do you remember who I am?" Prince Constantine asked eagerly.

"Of course, father, it may be the sequelae of my fainting, there should be no major problem."

Konstantin turned his head to look at the doctor, and the doctor quickly replied: "Your Excellency the Prince, don't worry too much, the prince's physical condition has been checked before, and he is very healthy, you can rest for a while, and then observe and observe, if there is a situation, I will follow up and treat it in time." ”

Looking at the already dark sky outside the window, Prince Konstantin thought for a while and said: "Well, well, you all go down!" Let the prince have a good rest. ”

Everyone quietly exited the room, and the old butler closed the door when he left, and Prince Konstantin, who was relieved, found himself in a cold sweat behind him, Prince Konstantin put his hand on his chest and said reverently, "Thank you for the protection of the Lord!" ”

Prince Ernst, as the only seedling of the Hohenzollern family's black lineage, has been Konstantin's heart since he was a child.

Prince Constantine only had this child when he was fifty years old, and his wife Eugenie de Beauharne died of a cold shortly after Ernst was born, so Prince Constantine took great pity on Prince Ernst.

Of course, Constantine had no children in history, and from the moment Ernst was born, the timeline of history changed, and a new branch was opened from the main branch.

At this moment, Ernst did not dare to breathe, and lay on the bed as an ostrich, because only he knew that he was actually a traverser. Today, I suddenly woke up to the memory of my previous life, so I fainted, I was a "motherland" in my previous life, not to mention being a cow and a horse, but also a dead man, occasionally reading some novels to relieve boredom, and venting my emotions in the group.

Of course, it has been twelve years since Ernst came here, and it is only today that he knows that he is a traverser. There is a feeling of Zhuang Zhou Mengdie.

Fortunately, the knowledge and common sense learned in the previous life cannot deceive oneself, plus the evidence of historical events, such as Napoleon the Great, who is dead and powerful on the continent, the loose German Confederation, Prussia that is still developing, the Austrian Empire that is still mighty, and his status as a member of the Hohenzollern family......

Speaking of the Hohenzollern family, it is famous, but the Ernst family is still a little different from the famous Hohenzollern of Brandenburg, Prussia, his family is the young branch of the Hohenzollern, located in the southwest of Germany in the previous life, and there is also a young branch of the Hohenzollern family - Sigmaringen, which belongs to the same Swabian branch as Heixingen, which happens to be understood by Ernst in his shallow knowledge.

In history, there have been plots for the Spanish throne, and there have been Romanian emperors in the future, so it seems that in addition to their own family, they are all prominent families that have left their names in the history books.

If you want to ask why there is no Heishingen Hohenzollern anything, well...... Historically, the Heixingen line was extinct, but the arrival of Ernst changed history.

While Ernst was still sorting through his brain circuits and memories, Konstantin had already come to his senses and began to ask, "Do you feel better?" Ernst. ”

"Yes, father, I think I'll be alive again after a little sleep." Ernst responded with a pretended lightheartedness.

"It's okay, you want to inherit the title in the future, don't have too much pressure, even if it's a messy life, it doesn't matter, I don't ask you to be motivated, but you must grow up healthily, usually pay more attention to rest, eat more healthy food, don't learn from those prodigal sons and gentlemen who overindulge ......"

Barbarala said a lot, and Konstantin gave up, tucked up the quilt of Ernst, told him to rest, and called the servant if he had something to do, and then got up and left the room.

The candlelight flickered faintly, illuminating the dark walls, and the room fell silent.

Ernst curled up under the covers to warm himself up a little and began to gather his thoughts.

Speaking of which, in his previous life, Ernst had a promising job and was sent to Africa as an engineering consultant by the company, and his life in Africa was boring, and he often moved with the construction site.

In my previous life, the place where I worked was basically an isolated wilderness, with frequent power outages and network outages, and sometimes supply shortages, but fortunately, the salary was still acceptable.

His time in Africa changed greatly for Ernst, who had worked in Tanzania, a distant African country.

Working in Tanzania gave Ernst a new look at Africa. Before going to Africa in person, influenced by the media and news, Ernst had the impression that Africa was synonymous with backwardness, poverty, poor natural conditions and turmoil.

But as he really lived and worked there, Ernst overturned his previous thinking, and most of the information on the Internet was biased.

In terms of environment alone, the temperature and precipitation conditions in Tanzania are better than those in his hometown of the North China Plain.

Originally, Africa was thought to be unbearable heat, with huge tropical rainforests, endless savannahs, and the huge desert of the Sahara deeply reflected in Ernst's mind, but when he arrived in Tanzania, Ernst found that the temperature here was between ten and thirty degrees, neither hot nor cold. The rainy season is also abundant every year, and the rain and heat conditions are excellent.

Tanzania is a small and unknown country, and because of his work, Ernst began to get acquainted with it, and through the information on the Internet, and compared with the actual situation, he will find that this country is unexpected.

Although it is located in the tropics, it is a habitable place because of the highland terrain, similar to the Brazilian highlands.

The land is flat, the vegetation is dense, and the savanna is the majority, which also changes their perception, because the African grasslands are in conflict with their traditional grasslands.

Before seeing the savanna with his own eyes, Ernst naturally imagined the world's steppes as the Mongolian steppe.

But in Africa, Ernst saw a different landscape, the savanna can be said to be a unique landscape of trees and grasslands, which looks very pleasing to the eye, and the hydrothermal conditions far exceed the Mongolian steppe.

Farmers here generally have a good harvest, and it is based on rough cultivation methods, and the biggest problem of local farmers may be the difficulty of obtaining water for irrigation, the lack of hydraulic engineering and basic irrigation systems for farmland.

The standard of living of the locals is not too bad, and the rougher way of life can also make the poor Africans happy.

Because of its location in the savannah, fruit and meat can be supplemented to a certain extent, and the crude small-scale peasant economy is a little higher than the living standard of the peasants at the end of the ancient East Asian dynasties.

Of course, the attitude to life is also an important factor, in the past hundred years of colonial history, it has been forcibly pulled from the primitive hunting lifestyle to the modern society by Westerners.

The concept of Africans has not changed in time, and it is difficult to reflect the complex and elaborate and natural mode of survival of East Asians in Africa.

Industrial conditions are also a major feature in Africa, where the mineral resources are not as superior as they are said on the Internet, just take Tanzania as an example.

This is a mining and exporting country, but many major mineral resources are actually not as rich as imagined, coal, iron, copper and oil, but compared to those real resource countries, it is not too much.

Many resources are not ranked in the world, but because of the extremely low level of industrialization, the mining resources are rich.

I have the impression that East Asia is a poor mining country, which is actually related to the high degree of industrialization of East Asia, but compared with Tanzania with actual mineral resource reserves, it is the younger brother.

In terms of coal, iron and oil, East Asia has world-class large mines, and the most inferior oil has several famous large oil fields.

Tanzania was also an oil-poor country before the discovery of oil on the east coast. But Tanzania is not the traditional perception of a small country.

In terms of land area, 940,000 square kilometers is almost one-tenth of East Asia, but the desert in the northwest of East Asia alone accounts for nearly a quarter of the area, and there are alpine plateaus that are too high to be developed, countless mountain ranges, and only the eastern part has considerable conditions for agricultural development.

The main body of Tanzania is the plateau, but the altitude of the plateau is not too high, the terrain is relatively gentle, and the equator is interspersed, the temperature is suitable, and the precipitation is moderate, which has created a well-known agricultural country in Africa, and Tanzania's comprehensive natural agricultural conditions are estimated to be second only to Nigeria in Africa.

In terms of population, Tanzania is also a large country with a large population by international standards, having crossed the 50 million population mark and is still growing rapidly. However, Tanzania still has a lot of uncultivated land, and the fishery resources are not fully developed, and the population limit is more than that.

As for the industrial conditions, although the mineral resources are not very rich, it depends on who they are, at least a group of small and medium-sized countries in Europe are beyond their reach. If the primary industrialization is satisfied, it is completely sufficient. Africa's overall mineral resources are not rich in all continents, and the resources are concentrated in South Africa and West Africa, as well as North Africa, which has unique oil resources, and Tanzania's mineral resources are also medium in Africa.

Tanzania is also good in terms of transportation, located in the traditional commercial waterway of the Indian Ocean, Dar es Salaam is one of the few well-known large ports in Africa, before the opening of the Suez Canal, it is an important world-class commercial node, the pearl of the Indian Ocean, and the Omani Empire established a semicolon here on a whim in history - the Kingdom of Zanzibar.

It can be seen that Tanzania's conditions are not bad in all aspects, so why is the level of development so low?

Before Ernst went to work in Africa, influenced by the traditional media, he believed that there was only one cause of poverty in Africa, and that Africans were lazy and depended on the weather for food.

But when he came to Africa, Ernst found that this idea was one-sided, and it was a symptom.

A variety of factors are the source of poverty in Africa, before the arrival of the colonizers, the overall level of civilization on the African continent was very low, the isolation of the Sahara Desert has led to most of southern Africa being civilized deserts, and only Ethiopia in West and East Africa has developed an independent civilization, and it has been greatly influenced by the Arabs.

The Bantu people of West Africa were the first people to conquer the south, but the Bantu people only developed the characteristics of the civilization of the early state, and the level of technology was extremely low, and they had to migrate south through the Congo rainforest and the beast-ridden areas of the Central African savannah. The expansion of the Omani Empire in the Middle East was also limited to the island of Zanzibar and the coast of East Africa, and civilization did not expand into the interior of Africa.

In Central and Southern Africa, there is a widespread tribal social form based on hunting, and the tribes in the Mongolian steppe have developed political power under the influence of the Central Plains culture. In Africa, however, it is a desert of regimes. The indigenous people live a life of fighting against wild beasts.

The arrival of Westerners has brought this region, which is mainly composed of primitive tribes, into the system of modern society.

According to Ernst's own experience, this destructive method is difficult to integrate the local indigenous people into the modern social form, for example, in the western mountainous areas of East Asia, the country of abundance, which was still slavery at the time of the founding of the Republic, and after nearly a hundred years of integration and support, it is still difficult to change some of the habits of the local people.

Not to mention Africa, where Westerners and social forms are not as good as slavery, and the form of society is not as good as that of slavery.

In fact, the tribal system was already a very advanced system for Africans at that time.

At that time, there were still the most basic forms of families and villages in many parts of Africa, and even the lions on the African savannah also existed in this form of family!

Therefore, the starting point of African civilization is very low, almost equal to none, and it remains at the same level as prehistoric civilization.

Africa was forced to embark on the path of civilization under the guns of Westerners, which was also the cause of the continuous wars and turmoil after Africa's independence.

Of course, Tanzania does not have the impact of large-scale wars, and the overall stability of Tanzania in modern times is among the best among African countries.

However, the Tanzanians lack the experience of governing the country, there is no history to learn from, the starting point is low, and the social solidification has caused little overall progress, although there is some development, but it is insignificant compared to the whole world, just like the East Asia and the Middle East in later generations far surpassed Africa.

But compared to African countries, Tanzania is already arguably one of the most successful countries in Africa.

Ernst couldn't help but feel embarrassed when he looked back on his previous life experience, and it was a disaster to go from a well-equipped area to a largely uninstructive area, and then Ernst slowly adapted to that kind of life.

Of course, now is not the time to reminisce about the past life, but I have traveled back to modern Europe, and a new life beckons to me again, and I am about to seek my place in the torrent of history.