Ernst returned to his home in Heshingen from Austria and spent Christmas 1866 with Prince Constantine.

The East African colonies also developed in a step-by-step manner.

January 14, 1867.

The first immigrants from the Austrian Empire arrived at the port of Dar es Salaam.

Immigrants who first arrived in East Africa have long been tempered by the turbulence of the sea, and now they are very happy to see the land.

In addition, the environment here looks good in the eyes of immigrants because it is still in the territory of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, after all, Zanzibar has been developed for many years, and the urban construction is barely qualified.

People of all colors can be seen in Zanzibar, Germans, Arabs, Portuguese, blacks, Indians and Chinese......

Immigrants who have been living in the interior of the Austrian Empire have never seen this, and the architectural style of Zanzibar is also different from that of Europe, full of strong Arabic style.

Add to that the tropical beaches and coconut palms, and everything is so new to these immigrants.

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After three days on the road, the migrants were brought to the first town, where officials from all parts of the East African colonies, who had already been prepared, had come to pull the migrants for a long time.

The first immigrants to come today turned out to be white! The colonial officials, accustomed to receiving Chinese immigrants in the past, were somewhat surprised.

Soon, however, the gang became a dog-brainer, and the colonial officials were now all Germans, and the cadets of the Heixingen Military Academy generally served as translators and assistants, or as junior officers in the colonial army.

In fact, these Germans are also frightened, after all, what should they do if the yellow race under them rebels? Earlier, it was fine, the population was small, but in the last few months of last year, tens of thousands more Chinese immigrants came out, and the Germans were still 2,000 at the beginning.

It is still possible to suppress tens of thousands of people with 2,000 people, but the number of Chinese immigrants is increasing too fast, tens of thousands this year, hundreds of thousands next year, and hundreds of thousands the year after.

This is still a small amount, and no one knows whether Ernst will increase the number of ships and carry more people.

Although Chinese immigrants are more obedient and have a stronger labor force, the development of East Africa has accelerated greatly since the restrictions on Chinese immigrants were lifted.

But for German officials, it is only when they can use their own hearts (whites) that they can be sure, because German officials do not speak Chinese, and many of the tasks under their hands need to be completed by students of the Heixingen Military Academy.

The German officials, who had already tasted the sweetness of power, were naturally not at ease, after all, these students of the Heshingen Military Academy were loyal to Ernst and had a surveillance effect on the German officials in the colonies.

German officials, on the other hand, believed that they were the ones on whom Ernst depended, and that Ernst's over-reliance on the Chinese would lead to instability in the East African colonies.

Ernst of course trusted his own students more than the Germans hired by money and the students of the Heshingen Military Academy who he trained.

But the hearts of the people are unpredictable, so Ernst did not dare to hand over the colony to them, preferring to use Germans of a low level (most of them are veterans of the army, oilseeds and mercenaries who have wandered abroad, and only a few high-ranking people are managers of the Heixingen consortium).

The migration of people from the territory of the Austrian Empire was also to prevent the Chinese immigrants from becoming dominant.

Ernst was just a feudal aristocrat with the ambition of opening up the territory, and there were always people who doubted Ernst's white skin and yellow heart.

In fact, Ernst did not think so, except for the completion of the great ideals of his previous life, to build a strong country in East Africa, not to let those natives waste the great land of Africa, Ernst has always put the interests of the Hohenzollern family first.

In Ernst's own view, Africa can feed at least two world-class powers, one in West Africa and the other in Southeast Africa.

West Africa is a densely populated and mixed region, with colonists of all countries having their own spheres of influence on the Gold Coast, while East Africa has only the Portuguese as a top player.

Cape Town, South Africa, was already under the control of the British, and the Boers were not easy to mess with, so it was not a good place to start.

And in East Africa, there is basically only Portugal, a country that has gone downhill, and the Sultanate of Zanzibar next door, Ernst, has not yet taken it into account (the colonial forces have already surpassed Zanzibar. ）。

The development of East Africa must squeeze out all the natives, and the best way to squeeze out the natives is to encroach on the lands of the Indians with immigrants, as the Americans did.

For example, in the previous German East Africa, the local officials wrote in their report to the German government that it was impossible for whites to settle in Tanganyika on a large scale, and that the cultivation of large-scale land had to be done by local labor.

So it's not that Ernst doesn't want to use Germans, it's that there are too few Germans, and the population of the German region is just enough, and there were constant wars in Germany before, so many people chose to go abroad and emigrate overseas, and now Germany is basically stable under Prussian control.

The Germans, who were not threatened by war, naturally chose to stay in Germany, and the rapid development of Prussian industry, which already had a unified foundation, was to make the cake bigger and better solve the problem of unemployment.

In addition, the standard of living in the German region itself was first-class in this era, so Germans would rather wait than go abroad easily.

Even Germans in Austria prefer to go to Germany when choosing where to work and live.

Therefore, if you want to develop Africa, you must have a large surplus of labor, and the countries with the most abundant labor force in the world are the Russian Empire, India and the Qing Dynasty.

Russians don't think about it, after all, Russians live in temperate, subarctic and boreal zones all year round, where they are affected by the environment of Africa.

And India Ernst is even more impossible to use, not to mention the bad reputation of Indians in the previous life, in the future, India will still be a rare and powerful opponent in East Africa in the Indian Ocean, and Ernst's ambition is to dominate the Indian Ocean.

A unified India has the ability to intervene in all the countries around the Indian Ocean, and later generations of Indians relied on the Indians who remained in Africa during the British colonial era to influence the politics of African countries.

The Qing State did not have the ability of India, and its farthest impact was the Strait of Malacca, the problem was that in his previous life, Ernst did not see the Imperial Navy break through the first island chain, let alone Malacca.

To tell the truth, India can take half a life of the empire's economy as long as it chokes Malacca, first of all, the main channel of oil and energy is interrupted, and secondly, the European market must transit through the Americas, so the status of **** is so important, even if everyone knows that the two countries are superficial brothers, but the common threat prompts the two sides to stand together, and whoever moves his true feelings is stupid.

Weakening India in the future is a long-term strategy for East Africa, and there can only be one hegemon in the Indian Ocean, and the goal of East Africa in the future is hegemony in the Indian Ocean.

Passages like the Strait of Malacca were also the target of future East African colonies.

The first two can't be used, then you can only choose Chinese immigrants, Ernst was Chinese in his previous life, and he naturally had a good impression of the Chinese in his heart, and the Chinese are really useful.

Now Ernst is an authentic German, and of course Germany is the first to be German in terms of identity, after all, his German identity in this life cannot be changed, and the German first is his own priority.

And to develop the colonies of East Africa, which German is willing to come if it is not developed? They could not be brought over with high salaries, and Ernst's money was not blown by the wind, and the 2,000 Germans hired at the beginning alone accounted for a lot of Ernst's expenses in East Africa.

Even the immigrants who came from Austria were the ancestral farmers of the Hungarians and Slavs.

The population of the Austrian Empire can only be regarded as a second grade, and the composition is complex, which does not matter to Ernst, after all, the later America is also the Saxons who rule immigrants from all over the world, the first largest immigration group is the Germans, and the Latins rise in the United States, but it cannot change the fact that the American Saxons are the ruling class, and English is the basis for maintaining American rule.

The country that Ernst wanted to establish was naturally a German-speaking country, and all cultures were on par with Germany, and later Tanzania still used English as its official language after independence, so race was secondary, and language and cultural identity were the basis of rule.

Otherwise, there would be no need for a country like Brazil, which is united by the Portuguese language and cultural identity.

Moreover, even if Ernst wanted to recruit people from Germany on a large scale, it would not be possible at present, if he followed the example of the United States to engage some fraudsters and robbers.

The United States is also relying on its big family and big business, and its comprehensive conditions are the first in the world, otherwise the crime rate in the United States is basically the same as that in South America, the only difference is that Americans are really rich, while South America is really poor.

If you can't recruit Germans now, it doesn't mean that you can't recruit them in the future, the East African colonies will be developed in the future, and naturally there will be people willing to come and develop, and there will be two world wars and economic crises behind it, which are good opportunities for Ernst to start in Europe, and there is no need to rush at all.

On the other hand, if East Africa is not developed, even if they go to Europe and beg them to emigrate, they will not come.

Therefore, at present, everything in the East African colonies is centered on developing wasteland and doing a good job in agricultural construction, and only after it is built can there be a future.

When the agricultural conditions are ripe and the industrialization stage is reached, it is really necessary to introduce European immigrants on a large scale.

As for the problem of excessive Chinese immigration, it was not a threat until the indigenous East African population was cleared, and Ernst had already begun to seek European immigration to balance the number of Chinese.

European colonizers and Chinese immigrants are both latecomers to the invasion of East Africa, but the relationship between the mastermind and the accomplice, clean up the natives, and there will be no peace of mind between the two races in the future, this is the effect that Ernst wants, and it is not good to mention any racial contradictions if they are weak-minded, just like the tacit understanding that the vast majority of Americans ignore the Indians.

Ernst did not follow the example of the United States and South Africa in separatation, and the current East African colonies followed the model of Brazil and Cuba, and in the final analysis, cultural identity came first.

And cultural identity should naturally be instilled from an early age, don't look at the immigrants in the colony who have no culture, in fact, they are all good in their hearts! They have no cultural education, but they have ancestral social experience.

Trying to change the mindset of the first generation of immigrants through education was basically thankless, and Ernst was grateful to Dade as long as he made sure they had a full meal.

After all, the current Chinese people do not have any political concepts in their heads, unlike the Diao people in Europe who still vainly tried to make political demands, before the Republic of China, the Chinese would only rebel if they really couldn't eat, even if there was a mouthful of food to continue, they would hold on to death.

But if the Republic of China really arrived, Ernst would not recruit immigrants from the Far East, not to recruit immigrants at that time, but to recruit Diao people who participated in the rebellion every day.

Ernst thought.

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The criminal cause of colonization cannot be washed away, and Ernst chose to drag the Chinese into the water, so as an accomplice, the future will enter modernization, and the descendants of the Chinese in East Africa will not be able to speak hard.

Everyone learns from the Americans that it is tacitly assumed that there are no indigenous people in East Africa, and the integration of the German-Chinese nation is the king.

Ernst did not choose to deal with the natives in the same way that the United States did with the Indians, even if it was the Virgin of Great Grace, and none of the colonists of the current world were nobler than Ernst.