In just a few months, the Heshingen Military Academy had completed the construction of the grass team, and the teachers recruited by Ernst had not yet begun teaching.

Because the 500-odd years recruited from the Far East were too weak and needed to recuperate for a period of time, most of them were yellow and thin, and malnourished.

For the teenagers who had just come to Europe across the sea, Ernst did not dare to let them eat too much, they were already weak, and they had been adrift on the sea for so long, and the bumps on the ship could not be stood by normal people, let alone these children.

Moreover, they used to be in a state of famine for a long time, needless to say, the state of the stomach and intestines, and if they rashly got too much oil and water, I am afraid that the next day the toilet will not be enough for them to spoil.

So after they came ashore, Ernst only prepared some vegetables, bread and potatoes for them to buffer, and the portions were not too much each time, for fear that they would gobble up and increase the burden on their bodies, and even then their eyes were full of light, which was the desire for food.

For the children of the East in this era, it was already a blessing to be able to eat every day, some of them even ate tree bark and mud, and the food prepared by Ernst was simply a delicacy for those who were not picky eaters.

For these poor children, Ernst was still able to ensure that they were well fed, and was even willing to pay out of his own pocket to add some meat to them.

In recent years, under the influence of wars, the already rotten Qing government has intensified the exploitation of the bottom, and the reparations of the foreign powers and the war funds for suppressing the rebellion in the south have all been deducted from the bottom.

From this, we can also know how difficult it is for the people of the ancient Oriental countries to survive, for the peasants who do not have any land, in addition to paying their blood and sweat in vain, not only will they not be rewarded, but they may also be burdened with huge debts.

The landlords and lords moved their mouths, and the taxes assessed by the imperial court were to be doubled and taken back from the tenant farmers, and once they encountered natural and man-made disasters, countless families went bankrupt, and the lucky ones begged all the way and went away, and the unfortunate ones were exposed to the wilderness on the road.

Therefore, Ernst's Far East Commercial Liaison Office was extremely successful in recruiting workers in the Qing Kingdom, and for these people who had lost hope of survival, whoever could eat was to have another parent, and it is not difficult to explain why some people crossed the ocean to build railroads in the United States.

The same is true for the Chinese who are the most able to endure hardships in later generations, you can hardly imagine their poverty a few decades ago, as long as they are given hope, they are the best workers in the world.

As for countries like India, it is a whole class of habitual rottenness, which they have learned thousands of years ago, and in Ernst's eyes they are not even comparable to the indigenous Africans.

The indigenous people in Africa have a positive attitude towards life, although they do not do good things, while the Indians tend to be between passivity and "realism".

This "realism" is not a good word, but a kind of worldview and a vague expression of values of Indians, after all, Indians have developed civilization and have a national character that does not match it.

This is also the reason why Ernst dared to appoint Chinese, although there were some emotional tendencies, but in fact it was due to interests, and in order to maximize the benefits, Ernst naturally needed a disciplined and obedient labor force.

In this era, Europeans are the best labor force in the world, because European education is at the forefront of the world, especially in Germany, and compulsory education allows civilians to get rid of illiteracy and better adapt to industrialized society.

Even in the Prussian army, ordinary soldiers had a primary school education and were able to enforce orders and prohibitions, so universal education was the general trend of the times.

Ernst wants to develop East Africa, of course, he also wants to use such high-quality labor, but the enlightened German people are not stupid, one is the American continent with full opportunities, high living standards, and high level of modernization, and the other is Africa, which is full of beasts and poisonous insects, and there is not even a decent road, everyone knows where to go to make a living.

If you don't spend money, who is willing to work hard for Ernst to go to East Africa to open up land, since the best can't be chosen, then the second best will be used, then the Chinese are the inevitable choice.

First of all, the dynasties in East Asian history were the best at mobilizing the people, organizing the people through the lower levels of government to dig roads and canals, or to carry out large projects, so they were generally obedient and easy to manage.

Secondly, the modern Chinese have had enough of the miserable days, and the whole society is still extremely involuted, and the spirit of hardship and hard work is no problem in the world, which is not felt by Europeans who have experienced a sharp decline in the population of the Black Death, coupled with the influence of the long serfdom in Europe, the European people and the lords have reached a certain degree of balance, after all, serfs are the assets of the lords, and overuse leads to accidental death, which is not a loss, after all, the labor cost is increased by the impact of the Black Death.

Not only that, the Black Death also made the whole European people panic, just like the lottery, maybe one day the people will be gone, so the European aristocracy indulged in enjoyment, but promoted the development of culture and art, the nobles above concentrated on pleasure, there was less tossing, and the people below lived better.

Therefore, it is difficult for Europeans to understand the current attitude of the Chinese people who work hard, do not have enough wages and enough rest time, and they will rebel.

In the end, Ernst does not need too high-end labor at all, at least not for now, Ernst is a person with a strong desire to control, uneducated Chinese, without the vision of Europeans, the pursuit is not high, and it is easier to satisfy than Europeans, and it is better to manage.

Ernst believes that it is impossible for any region to directly skip agricultural modernization and directly achieve industrialization, and now Ernst is to use the form of a company to organize Chinese farmers to farm in Africa.

The people hired from the Far East were meant to feed themselves, so their wages were lost, large-scale collaborative production did not require them to do intensive manual labor, and they could use the indigenous people to cultivate the fields.

Yes, Ernst was just a nobleman with a lot of interests, and not a virgin, the natives of the tribe, and Ernst not only had to expropriate their land, but also temporarily use the slaves that the Sultanate of Zanzibar did not need.

The Sultanate of Zanzibar has been trading slaves to all parts of Arabia since the time of the Omani Empire, and they also do not need native natives who are not physically fit.

At present, Ernst does not have the ability and energy to transport these natives to other countries and regions, so he can only use them as production tools to open up the land.

Originally, most of these natives lived by hunting and gathering, and it was difficult to get them to farm, and farmers also needed experience.

So Ernst only intended for these natives to do the simple heavy physical work of pulling plows and digging canals.

After all, there are no tractors and excavators, and even Ernst can't afford to use them, and the entire East African land reclamation can only be done by manpower.

As Ernst's last bit of conscience, that is, these natives lived long enough to survive Ernst's dependence on manpower, and Ernst would find a way to transport them to other countries and regions.

And this group of teenagers in front of them is the reserve talent who will assist Ernst in managing the Chinese in East Africa in the future, and there are probably not many Chinese in Germany who can speak Chinese.

As for the future, Ernst will not need to do this when he popularizes the German language in East Africa, the problem is that it will take a long time, and it will have to wait for the next generation of Chinese.

In this life, as an authentic German, Ernst will not do anything to destroy his foundation, so the future East Africa must be a German-speaking world, the early German must be the ruling class, and the later period will focus on the appointment of mixed blood, until the national integration is completed, Ernst will not leave a trace of trouble.