December 15, 1866.

Trieste, the most important port of the Austrian Empire.

Since the end of the Austro-Prussian War, when Austria handed over Venice to Italy via France, Trieste automatically became the single most important port of the soon-to-be-born Austro-Hungarian Empire (February 1867).

The Austrian government was currently negotiating with the Magyar nobility of Hungary, and the two sides were hotly arguing over rights and obligations.

In February of the following year, a compromise was reached, whereby the Magyars of Hungary were granted the same rights as Austria, but the Magyars had to ensure that Hungary remained within the empire, which was the dualist empire.

Trieste was the shipbuilding center and commercial and maritime center of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After two centuries of war with Venice, the natives sought refuge in the Habsburgs and were incorporated into the Austrian Empire, which has remained the core territory of Austria ever since.

Trieste actually has its own dialect, but due to the increase in the number of Italians, the temporary strength of the Republic of Venice, the influence of Italian culture in Europe, and other factors, Italian speaking has become the mainstream.

After World War I, Italy annexed Trieste on the grounds that Trieste spoke Italian, and in this way, Austria lost Trieste, which had ruled for 500 years, which is really a land since ancient times, which shows the overall inefficiency and incompetence of Austria-Hungary.

Nowadays, the city still retains a strong Viennese style, and there are many German-speaking people, as long as the Austrian government starts to promote German education here, Austria will not become a landlocked country after World War I.

Later, Trieste also changed from the pearl of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an ordinary city in Italy.

This shows the power of cultural influence, as Trieste originally spoke its own dialect, but in its long dealings with the Italian states (especially Venice), it was instead spoken and eventually annexed by Italy.

This is also the reason why Ernst wants to transform the education of immigrants in the East African colonies, as long as you successfully shape the identity of immigrants, the East African colonies will only be truly "Germans".

What is now Trieste is directly connected to Vienna, the capital of Austria, and a direct railway to Vienna was built in 1857.

Backed by the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire as its economic hinterland, Trieste became the third largest city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire after Vienna and Prague

As the first seaport city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it was responsible for the supply of coal and the transportation of goods to the outside world, and was also the headquarters of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

Known as the "Austro-Hungarian Cote d'Azur". At that time, Trieste was definitely one of the largest cities in Europe and the world.

In the hands of Italy, Trieste became the frontier of the country, and Trieste, which had lost its economic hinterland, had no sense of existence in the Italian ports in later generations.

Even many Italians don't know the city of Trieste.

People in the future world can only know from Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, "There was such a place in Europe".

"From Szczecin on the Baltic Sea to Trieste on the Adriatic Sea, an iron curtain has been pulled down across Europe." - Winston Churchill

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Ernst walked on the streets of Trieste, and now Ernst is also half of the Habsburg son-in-law, just in time to pull tiger skins to make some investments in the territory of Austria-Hungary.

Trieste was one of Ernst's goals, where he intended to build a centre for an East African ocean-going trading fleet.

Although Venice overlapped in function, Ernst wanted to separate the eggs in two baskets.

After all, Venice and Austria-Hungary are now two different countries, and if goods are transferred from Austria to Venice, they will be overtaxed by the Italian government.

So the shipyard remained in Venice, and the fleet was transferred directly to Trieste.

Trieste was chosen, in addition to economic reasons, primarily for the import of population to the East African colonies.

The question of white immigration had always plagued Ernst, and it was difficult for Germans in Prussia to be fooled into East Africa, and higher education (compared to the rest of Europe) was secondary.

Those Germans who went to the Americas to fight for it, one is that the Americas were developed early and the environment is good. Another reason is that it is impossible to get along in Prussia, many of whom are criminals, hooligans, and are recorded by the Prussian government, and of course some people who want to get rich and ambitious are not excluded.

And these two kinds of people can be seen at a glance that they are not needed by the East African colonies, and the receipt of East Africa will also threaten the stability of the East African colonies.

Austria-Hungary, on the other hand, has been in decline since the moment it was founded, the country has declined, and the degree of industrialization is not high, and the national contradictions are serious, which gives Ernst the opportunity to dig into the wall.

Austria-Hungary was second only to Tsarist Russia and Germany (which had already been excluded) in terms of population, and the level of education of the population was far inferior to that of Germany, which was a little stronger than that of Tsarist Russia, and there were quite a lot of illiterate peasants.

Uneducated peasants meant that their cultural identity could be transformed through education, which was exactly the kind of high-quality immigrants needed in the East African colonies.

The uneducated peasantry, who was at his best at any time to reproduce, could not have increased the land of Austria-Hungary for nothing, coupled with the exploitation of the nobility in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

These peasants either went to the cities to work, but it was clear that the Austro-Hungarian industry could not absorb such a large number of people, and the black-hearted factories in the cities were not necessarily easier than farming.

Either they chose to revolt against the exploitation of the local aristocracy, and in the conservative Austro-Hungarian Empire, the success rate was basically zero.

Finally, they go overseas to find employment opportunities in other regions.

Unlike the people who went to school in Germany, if you told a German to go to work and live in East Africa, he would definitely think of you as a liar, and only mercenaries and people who specialized in colonial activities would go.

And the people at the bottom of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, if you tell him to go to East Africa, he may first ask where East Africa is?

At this time, as long as you intensify your efforts to deceive, portray East Africa as a happy land, and finally find a few helpers to persuade you, anyway, you don't have a field in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and you can't find a job, so it's better to go overseas and fight hard.

These Austro-Hungarian peasants were still no better fool than the Chinese immigrants, after all, the Chinese were desperate, and the Austro-Hungarian peasants could barely survive.

If you go back further, when it was still serfdom, you don't have to think about it, after all, serfs are the private property of the nobles, and if you want to fool from the local area to the emigrate, you must deal with the local nobles.

Now, not long after the abolition of serfdom, these peasants no longer need to be responsible for the aristocracy, and they are all responsible for food, clothing, shelter and transportation.

The peasants, who did not have land in their hands, could only choose to continue farming for the nobles, but the problem was that the population was constantly growing, and the efficiency of the means of production was also improving, and there were not so many people who farmed the land.

At this time, the peasants who had no land to grow could only go to the city to work in the black-hearted factories to support their families.

A large number of peasants moved to the cities in search of jobs, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was not very industrialized, so it could not eat so much labor.

Ernst organized the company's people to recruit workers in various cities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, fooling unemployed peasants to develop in East Africa.

Not only do you have a salary, but you also have food and shelter, and you can return to Europe if you earn money in the future.

Agricultural workers are also workers, and Ernst is not a lie, and it is true that he has food and shelter, but he still has to build his own place and eat food grown in his own land.

As for salary, it's basically better than nothing, but it's true that you can save some money, what? You said that it was not enough to support the family, so it was a good time.

Encourage the whole family to work in the East African colonies, so that your family can basically eat and drink without worry, and the colonies also provide free education for children.

As for returning to Europe in the future, it is indeed possible, and there is still hope in four or five years, after all, at present, the merchant ships in the East African colonies can only pull people in, and there are only a few.

And if you want to return to Europe through the merchant ships of other countries, the price of a ferry ticket is not cheap, and you can't save it without working in the East African colonies for four or five years.

If you are currently developing in East Africa, then you can only support your family, and don't think about getting rich. The East African colonies did not have as many messy industries as the Americas, and there was no such thing as entrepreneurship.

The only land of value, the property rights were in the hands of the colonial government, and it was impossible to enclose land and build farms like the Americans did in the west.

However, the East African colonies offered to pay for the tickets of immigrants to East Africa, which is better than going to the Americas, after all, the US government will not take the initiative to pay you a boat to cross the Atlantic.

There is another advantage of going to East Africa, that is, you are still doing the old profession of farming, and you go to the Americas without a craft list, don't you also go to work as a general worker? And farming is something you can do yourself, and no one can fool you, and no matter how bad your life is, it is not as bad as the days when you were a serf.