After the colonial team of the Heixingen consortium reached an agreement with the Sultanate of Zanzibar, the Heixingen colonial team was able to gain a foothold here.

In Zanzibar, the colonization team began to build horse-drawn carriages, tents and other means of transportation in preparation for exploring the interior.

Meanwhile, Dutch ships docked at the port of Dar es Salaam, after replenishing fresh water and supplies, continued their departure to East Asia.

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Heixingen.

Back in Europe, a new building is being built in Heixingen, not far from the outside of Heixingen, which has become a large construction site.

"Ernst, are you planning to open a factory in Heichengen?" Prince Konstantin asked.

After the war, Prince Konstantin retired from the Prussian General Staff in Berlin and returned to Heshingen.

Not long after he did not want to go to Venice, Ernst returned home and asked for a piece of land from himself.

Originally, Prince Constantine thought that Ernst wanted to take over his own business and develop in the field of agriculture, although he did not participate in labor, but the landlord also had to be able to settle accounts.

Prince Konstantin thought that Ernst was using these plots for crop experiments, because some time ago, Ernst had mentioned that he wanted to build a large farm in East Africa.

I didn't expect to see each other for a few days, and my field was pushed! It was piled with bricks, earth, gravel and cement ordered by Ernst, and Prince Konstantin, who had miscalculated, had to ask in person.

"Father, I'm going to build a school here." Ernst looked at the building in front of him with satisfaction, which was already taking shape.

In this way, Prince Konstantin was even more confused, building a school in Heixinggen, isn't this nonsense?

This is not Prince Constantine's imagination, the last thing Heixingen lacks is school, after all, Prussia has long popularized compulsory education, and Heixingen's children have gone to school. Ernst can't be born out of thin air! So it was impossible for Ernst to run a primary school. However, there is also a secondary school in Heixingen, which was built in the time of Marquis Frederick.

There are so few students who can go to secondary school every year, and most of them go to society after primary school, after all, the cost of going to secondary school is very expensive, either going home to work as a farmer or asking someone to find an apprenticeship job in the city.

There are only 100 people who can go to middle school every year, 2 or 300 people in good years, and only more than 80 people in bad years.

So Konstantin couldn't figure out what school Ernst was going to run, so he asked: "As far as I know, the education market in Heixingen is saturated, and you can't waste your resources in vain!" ”

After several years of getting along, Konstantin found that his son was a person who could not afford to be profitable, more and more like a businessman, but fortunately, Ernst was too successful at present, and Konstantin did not object to Ernst developing according to his own ideas, but Ernst would never trade at a loss.

"Father, I want to build a military academy in Heixinggen to train family talents." Ernst explained to Konstantin.

When Konstantin heard the words "Military Academy", his eyelids jumped, and he hurriedly asked Ernst.

"What do you want to do? Military academies should be reported to the government! If you don't follow the military line, isn't it superfluous to set up a military academy, as long as you say hello to me in advance, it's still okay to get an official and a half-post in the army. ”

Konstantin was puzzled and said, "Moreover, even if you want to build a military academy, how can you find a big city?" In the countryside of Heixingen, can anyone come without military cooperation? ”

Ernst knew that Prince Constantine had misunderstood, and began to describe his thoughts: "Father misunderstood, I do want to run a military academy, but this military academy has nothing to do with Prussia, it is prepared for the development of East Africa, and the so-called military academy is actually not what you think." ”

Of course, Konstantin understood, where is this formal college, isn't this just the training of the colonial team? But Konstantin's doubts were even heavier.

"Even if you develop East Africa, you don't need to train so-called talents alone, you just need to form a colonial team or hire a mercenary."

In these years, colonial force was indispensable, but it was all government troops, business groups, and mercenary organizations to do these jobs, and Konstantin had never heard of a separate school for colonial activities, or the military type.

"Father, this is related to my vision in East Africa, the area of East Africa in the future may be larger than the whole of Germany, so it is essential to prepare military talents in advance, such a large area of land, if we monopolize it, there will definitely be people coveting it."

Bigger than Germany? Prince Konstantin didn't dare to think about it, his son's head wouldn't be broken, right? So whimsical.

Constantine naturally knew about Africa, but he didn't specifically know about it, so Constantine took Ernst's hand and went home.

"Let's go back and study it."

Soon, a world map was spread out on the table in front of Konstantin, and he pointed to Tanzania on the map, "Is this it?" ”

"Yes, father." Ernst began to draw on the map with his pen, and soon a circle took shape on the map.

This circle included what would become Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, and southern Kenya.

"This is my initial idea, and now that the rest of Europe has not paid attention to it, I am ready to use the Black Singen Consortium to bring this place under the rule of our Hohenzollern family, as the British East India Company did." This was the first time Ernst had shown his ambitions.

"Unlike India, which is an ancient civilization with a long history, Aksum is the only civilization in the whole of East Africa." As he spoke, he crossed out the Ethiopian region on the map with a pen.

"Axum's sphere of influence is in the north of East Africa, I will not move there, the only threat to us in the whole of East Africa is the colonial teams of various countries and the Sultanate of Zanzibar." As he spoke, he circled Zanzibar and Portuguese colony Mozambique in small circles.

"These colonial teams are not to be worried, most of them are small groups of slave hunters and ivory hunters, as long as we can clear them in advance by various means before the European countries pay attention to this place."

Ernst continued: "The Sultanate of Zanzibar is an Arab country with a population of more than 100,000 people, so there is not much of a threat, and our first colonies have successfully landed. ”

"As for the Portuguese, they have been in decline and have much less control over the colonies, but Mozambique is a threat and the local colonial government has to be careful." Ernst said with a serious face.

"However, the Portuguese are not very interested in the rest of East Africa and mainly operate along the coast, which gives me room to operate."

Ernst continued: "I intend to send men first to establish a number of strongholds in the interior of East Africa, with a particular focus on Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi. As he spoke, he used his pen to depict the area between the three lakes.

"As long as hundreds of thousands of people are immigrated, this place can be completely included in the hands of our Hohenzollern family."

When Prince Constantine heard this, he asked: "Where do you find such a population?" That's more than the entire population of Heixingen? ”

Ernst replied: "Here! ”

The pencil in his hand pointed to the Qing Kingdom in East Asia.

Prince Konstantin frowned and asked, "If this is achieved through foreign races, why should you go far?" Can't you use local natives? ”

"Father, this question is easy to answer, the Qing country is the world's most populous country, their human resources are surplus, and the common people live a relatively difficult life, every year many people go to the sea because of famine and war to beg for a living, and for the indigenous people in Africa, we are invaders, they will not accept our rule willingly, so we introduce Qing people, these Qing people can only rely on us to survive when they first arrive in a strange place."

"Then why not introduce the population from the German regions?" Konstantin asked.

"I want to too! Father, but the cost of bringing in population from Germany is too high, and I hired the first batch of colonial teams with a lot of money, and the Qing people can work for us as long as they have food, which is a cost problem. ”

Ernst continued: "Secondly, now that the American Civil War is over, most Germans will choose to live and work in the developed and mature United States, and if you tell the Germans to go to Africa, they will probably be timid when they hear about Africa. ”

Under the influence of previous public opinion, Africa represented wild beasts and various tropical diseases in Europe, so much so that now Europeans only established colonial bases on the coast of Africa, and did not dare to go deep into the interior, which created opportunities for Ernst.

"Then how do you control the Qing people, you must know that if there are more people, there will be chaos." Konstantin said.

"The current idea is to cultivate our own talents, which is also the original intention of the establishment of the Heixingen Military Academy, the students will be found from the Qing country, we will instill their thoughts, let them obey the management, and then go to Africa to assist the Germans to divide and govern the Qing immigrants, after using the Qing country to develop the land of East Africa, we can stop the introduction of immigrants from the Qing country, and instead attract people in Germany and Europe, and then establish a preliminary industrial system for East Africa through the Heixingen consortium, and finally drive the local natives away, So that we can build a country similar to that between Brazil and the United States. ”

After listening to Ernst's thoughts, Prince Konstantin couldn't calm down in his mind for a long time, this is a big project, but there is really room for theoretical operation.

If Ernst had done so, it would have re-established a state for the Hohenzollerns abroad, a new state no smaller than Germany and dominated by the Hohenzollerns. Prince Konstantin's heart was surging when he listened to such a map.

"Well, since you have your own ideas, I also support them. Not to mention the rest, I still have connections and connections in the land of Germany, so you can do it! Konstantin suppressed the excitement in his heart and said calmly.

……

Jiaozhou Bay.

The German Commercial Liaison Office, a new Prussian-flagged liaison office, and one in Zhuhai, although Ernst placed special emphasis on the establishment in the north, and directly selected Jiaozhou Bay.

In addition to being responsible for the promotion of the products of the Heixingen Consortium in the northern part of the Qing Dynasty, the Jiaozhou Bay German Commercial Liaison Office also had a special task of sending people to select 500 healthy teenagers from the north, especially the areas along the Jishui River, and bring them to Germany.

The criterion is that there is no disease, no cultural education, and the most important one must be that you are from a poor peasant family.

This is the source of students selected by Ernst, in those places in the Qing Kingdom, the clans are the easiest to group, and it is the unstable factor of the rule, especially the southern clan power is everywhere, so Ernst does not recruit students in the south.

As for why it is on the banks of the Jishui River, because it was Ernst's hometown in his previous life, there was no Mandarin in this era, and dialects were everywhere, and Ernst didn't want his subordinates to speak and not understand it, if it was his hometown, Ernst could still understand a rough idea, after all, the language in the north was much more unified than in the south.

Ernst established the Heshingen Military Academy to be the headmaster himself, and it was possible to teach, and the language must be unified, otherwise these teenagers would be embarrassed if they could not understand what Ernst said, and give these people three years to learn German, and in the future, Ernst would not have to supervise and manage it himself.

In addition to Ernst's own goods, ERNST gathered some businessmen from Berlin to reach a cooperation agreement, taking the opportunity to jointly develop the German market in the Far East.

Fist products such as cigarettes and kerosene lighters had begun to gain popularity with the dignitaries in the Far Eastern markets, while the Hexingen consortium borrowed Dutch ships to bring back cheap raw materials from the Far East along with the population needed in East Africa.

The Dutch themselves added a lot of Far Eastern specialties, silk and porcelain, and tea was a big quantity.

Through this voyage, Ernst initially established a trade route for three centers in Europe, East Africa, and the Far East, and although it relied on the strength of the Dutch, it incidentally cultivated the experience of the Germans who accompanied the ships.

In the future, when the Suez Canal was opened, the Venetian fleet was almost ready, and at that time it would be possible to establish a completely German-dominated commercial route.

The main process of this commercial route was to export industrial goods from Europe, sell them in the Far East, recruit people from the Far East to develop in East Africa, and transport the crops and minerals developed in East Africa back to Europe.

Of course, in the early stage, the Heixingen consortium still operated this route at a loss, because East Africa was still a barren country, and only after the population was in place could there be product output, and at the same time, the Far East market was not fully opened, and the business of the two commercial liaison offices was still limited to the coastal areas, and the advertising investment and personnel salaries were all money, and Ernst could only look at the profitable industries in Europe to support his colonial activities.

However, this process may take several years, the good news is that Berlin Energie Power has made a major breakthrough, Ernst has more laying hens, and the popularity of the Heixingen Development Bank has increased in Germany, and Ernst has more money in his hands than before, and sure enough, the banking industry is a real wealth fighter and industrial incubator.