After visiting the East African school in the first town, Massimiliano I and his wife were still very touched.

Top nobles like the two have received royal court education since childhood, and it is difficult for them to sink into contact with such a grassroots education model in East Africa.

Moreover, as a colony in East Africa, there is no need to hide from them, and what they see is the most real daily life in East African schools.

East African schools have few courses, with only two main subjects, German and mathematics, followed by history and physical education.

The content is also extremely simple, even with a lot of repetition in each grade, and by the end of the East African school, the most you can do is be proficient in reading and writing German and simple math operations.

The content of the entire East African education is less than a third of that of the previous Ernst primary school (the level of the third grade).

This was decided to accommodate the weakness of the teaching staff in the East African colonies, which were currently only able to carry out such poor education.

Of course, there is also an upward channel for the end of this kind of education in East Africa, and after passing the final exam, the best students can get the opportunity to study in Germany.

In terms of difficulty, it is very easy to pass the exam and get a place to study at the average level of primary school graduation in the previous life, but immigrants from East Africa may not realize the importance of education.

As a result, only families who value education have a better chance of their children studying in Germany, while families who do not value education, even if their children have good grades when they graduate, may only stay in East Africa to work as farmers, after all, they need parental consent to go to Germany.

Ernst didn't bother to correct the situation, anyway, he only needed to cultivate a sufficient number of talents, and if there was a surplus of talents, sometimes it would be a disaster.

After all, compared to those jobs that require a high degree of education, the most in-demand occupation in East Africa is farmers and the development of land. In Europe's industrial countries, workers are the most urgently needed.

At the current level of industrialization, only the United Kingdom has completely completed industrialization (the level of urbanization has reached more than 50%), while other countries are even lower, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.

The level of education required of the workers in these industrial countries was not high, not to mention the fact that the East African colonies, which were still centered on the development of agriculture.

The reason why compulsory education is introduced in East Africa is for the purpose of assimilation and the training of the talents needed for the future, all of which are needed to stabilize the rule, and in fact not to really change the fate of these people (although objectively they have changed).

Just as Prussia introduced compulsory education in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, the motivation for compulsory education in East Africa was not pure.

If you ask how much Ernst attaches importance to education, it is actually just like that, although Ernst received a full nine years of compulsory education and higher education in his previous life.

But Ernst was a nobleman in this life, and what he was doing now seemed to be lofty, but only if the interests of the Heshingen royal family were maintained and continued to prosper in the future.

The experience of India and other countries in the previous life taught Ernst that as long as the size and population are large, even in countries with low-quality populations, the upper echelons can accumulate a large amount of wealth.

Therefore, the aristocracy represented by Ernst essentially does not need too many highly educated people, but needs a population that can create wealth and be obedient.

This is essentially the same as why the ancient rulers liked the foolish people and why the West was anti-intellectual.

Education in East Africa is somewhere in between, with a lukewarm attitude towards education, neither teaching nor teaching, and actively lowering the standards.

In addition to paying more attention to national issues and cultural identity (Germanization), he is not keen on changing other qualities and perceptions of ordinary people.

As long as you are honest and a German, nothing else matters, who cares if your character is noble or not! Is it kind or not! …… This part of the education is still left to the family.

So the seemingly frugal and flawed East African education system is actually full of political wisdom behind the scenes.

Of course, Massimiliano I couldn't see it, and after visiting the education in East Africa, he couldn't help but make suggestions to the East African government personnel around him, and this kind of simple and crude education had huge room for improvement in Massimiliano I's opinion.

And the staff, with their left ear in and out of the right ear, are full of promises, but in fact they promise nothing.

The entire East African government and military administrators, with the exception of the employees of the Heshingen consortium (most of whom have a secondary school education or above), and the others, including the bluffing-sounding students of the Hexingen Military Academy, are actually at the primary school level.

In the eyes of employees and mercenaries, this is a job, and in the eyes of the students of the Heshingen Military Academy, it is a reward for the kindness of the rector.

They will only follow the route planned by Ernst and complete the task meticulously, and they do not care about the development of East Africa.

That is, out of respect for the identity of Massimiliano I, he coped with the matter, and Massimiliano I was still chattering and talking.

A living European intellectual, commenting on East African policy, really confirms the saying that no official is light.

If when he was the emperor of Mexico, he could be as energetic as he is today, and I could do it, and Ernst really admired Massimiliano I.

……

December 25, 1867.

It's Christmas again.

Ernst and Prince Constantine, who had been on the road for the year, returned to Heshingen early for the holiday.

Ernst was holding a small Rottweiler and wandering around the castle, this little Rottweiler was bought from a Berlin farm in the village of Ernst, the name was "Neville", it had no practical significance, it was just a memory of a pastoral dog raised by Ernst in his previous life, the dog was raised by Ernst when he was a child, his name was Neville, and then he died of old age, and Ernst was sad for a long time.

The castle is decorated with festive decorations, and fir trees transplanted from the forests of southern Germany are placed in the hall as a Christmas tree.

Unlike previous years, this year, electric lights were used in the hall, candles and other lighting tools were replaced, and the entire castle, and even the road outside the castle, was illuminated by the lighting system of the Hexingen Foundation.

Other royal families and big cities in Europe have also enjoyed the convenience of electric lights, and of course, some more traditional people are still using candles to set off the atmosphere of Christmas, a religious holiday.

The huge castle is a little deserted, because of Christmas, many servants were sent home by Prince Constantine to accompany their relatives, so there are not many people in the castle.

This year, the weather is a little colder, and the whole of Germany is covered with heavy snow, and through the window you can see the snow covering the land, and the forest around the castle, the snow in the pines and cypress treetops is dark green foliage.

In the cold winter season when Germany is still covered with snow, the land of East Africa in the far south is still like spring, and the East African government has also organized its residents to start the celebration of Christmas.

And 1867, which was about to pass in a few days, was a memorable year, in which the East African colonies completely controlled the entire territory of Tanzania and Kenya, the number of immigrants reached 500,000, and the initial size of a country, East Africa could already be regarded as a political entity, participating in international affairs.