As a supplement to the agreement, Ernst deliberately got a ticket to the arms industry from Prussia to solve the problem of starting from scratch first.

This time Ernst explained the purpose in advance, that is, for the issue of weapons and equipment in the East African colonies under the administration of the Hashingen royal family.

After all, there is nothing wrong with developing weapons and equipment in Europe, but if you build a production line, it is difficult to say, even if it is relatively backward technology, it will try to avoid proliferation.

Since Ernst emphasized that it was for the purpose of colonizing East Africa, the Prussian government did not need to worry too much about its use, as long as it sent people to check the accounts and pay taxes reasonably.

This time, the Prussian royal family and government were very generous, and in addition to a small arsenal, there were several lines of original flintlock pistols that were about to be decommissioned, as well as bullet production lines. At the same time, it was promised that Ernst could order other supplies needed from Krupp and other Prussian military-industrial enterprises in the future, which of course had to be paid for, and could not be used in Europe.

At this time, Prussia was affected by the Second Schleswig War, and increased the production of retired front-loading flintlock pistols to produce rear-loading rifled guns, so it generously sent the production line of front-loading flintlock pistols to Ernst to make room for the new production line.

Ernst was content with the availability of these old weapons lines, and planned to equip the East African colonies with these weapons that he saw were about to fall behind.

There are more and more Chinese immigrants in the East African colonies, and the number of strongholds will increase in the future, but Ernst has only more than 2,000 hired Germans in East Africa, while the Chinese immigrants are now almost 3,000.

In fact, more than 2,000 people are quite a lot, and on the eve of the First World War, the strength of German East Africa included 68 white officers, 60 white non-commissioned officers, 132 white medical officers and administrative staff, 2 black officers, 184 black officers, and 2,286 black soldiers.

With such an army suppressing an area of more than 900,000 square kilometers, Ernst's investment in the East African colonies today is not comparable to that of Germany in the past.

At the military level alone, there are 2,000 white and native troops, and Chinese armies will be organized in the future.

In the previous life, German East Africa, as the most valuable colony of Germany in the previous life, was not so valuable in the eyes of Germany, where Germany mainly cultivated cotton, rubber and sisal and other cash crops.

Germany mainly pinned its hopes on a stud on the European continent, and as long as it won the victory on the European continent, it could divide the dominance of the world at will, and then there would be all the colonies.

Therefore, during the First World War, Germany voluntarily abandoned its overseas colonies and concentrated on fighting the Allies in Europe.

Ernst, on the other hand, saw East Africa as his retreat, so he was more concerned about population, agriculture, and industry.

At present, the intensification of immigration efforts is to prevent the situation like that of South Africa in the future. This can be regarded as learning from the Americans, but Ernst will not do it so roughly, the slaughter is impossible, and there is a high probability that he will choose to send it to another place by ship.

Agriculture, which is what Ernst is currently doing in East Africa, in addition to growing cash crops, Ernst retains the main position of food crops, and cannot postpone the development plan of the colony because of a small profit in the near future, and only when there is enough food can the immigrants be settled in place.

Industry is a little far away, and the current basic conditions in East Africa are too poor to have room for the development of industry, mainly basic industries such as mining, and Ernst does not plan to carry it out.

Before he completely took control of East Africa, if he found a terrible mineral, he was afraid that he would be burned, so Ernst was careful.

To master East Africa, a sizable army was needed, and there were almost no Germans willing to go to East Africa to develop, so Ernst planned to organize a small number of Chinese and establish a Chinese army.

The land used to control East Africa will inevitably collide with those tribes and other colonizers in the future.

Ernst did not want to recreate the experience of German East Africa being beaten by neighboring colonies in World War I, and even if a war broke out, it should be that his side had several times the strength of the other side, and that group fighting was the way to go compared to a fair duel.

In the previous life, Britain set up a full 250,000 indigenous army in Africa with colonies to deal with German East Africa, and was used as a monkey by thousands of colonists in German East Africa in the early days.

Therefore, the fighting power and desire of the natives can be imagined, and maybe they also know that they are going to die, so they directly put it to the ground, but Ernst prefers to believe that this is their daily state.

If we want to change the lazy and lazy character of these natives, it is not impossible, as long as we do a good job in education, starting with the next generation, we should be able to correct it.

But who bears the cost of money and time paid in that way, and the colonizers are here to get rich, not to help the poor, the wealth of society is quantitative, and it is better to let them work hard if they expect to take money from the colonists.

Of course, this is not the case for all colonies, such as the United States and Canada, which have completed the "clean-up", and the rest are "their own people" and cannot be treated like natives.

So it turned to the state of a normal state, and the East African colonies did not have this goal at present, and there was no way to pack up all the indigenous people for the time being.

Constrained by the size of the population, Ernst planned to build a 50,000-strong Chinese army in East Africa over the next three years.

In order not to let this army out of control, all officers were Germans, and students of the Heixingen Military Academy assisted in the management of staff officers and other deputy positions.

Ernst also wanted to expand the German community in East Africa, but there was no good way to do it, and who wanted to develop in such a "barbaric" place.

Only when the infrastructure of the East African colonies was completed, and Europe was in great chaos, and the clouds of war threatened, could Ernst reach into Europe and attract the ordinary people.

As the first Chinese army in the East African colonies, its weapons problem was naturally solved by these old front-loading flintlock pistol production lines.

This envisaged army is not a standing army, but a special force similar to the peasant army that has to join production and construction on a daily basis.

After all, the current East African colonies faced only uncivilized indigenous tribes, most of whom were still in the stage of making spears and arrows from stone and trees, with a small amount of iron.

Such an adversary is not worth forming a professionally trained standing army to deal with, as long as the Chinese immigrants learn to fire and aim with flintlock pistols retired from Europe, for those indigenous tribes, it is a dimensionality reduction strike.