East Africa is isolated from Germany.

Obviously, for the Heshingen royal family, the current core interests are still in Germany itself, and the East African colonies can only be regarded as a major project of the Hexingen royal family's investment.

Although Ernst strategically chose East Africa for the future of the Hashingen royal family, there was no need to travel to East Africa immediately.

Because the East African colony was still a long-term project in the eyes of any colonial power, the first phase of the project was not even completed.

The East African colonies relied heavily on the Hexingen consortium for blood, and their development immediately came to a standstill after leaving the Hexingen royal family.

For example, the weapons, technology, and population of Germany and Austria-Hungary did not have the Hashingen royal family as the central regulation, and a colony in East Africa should not be fantasized at all.

Although the Ernst people were not in East Africa, the power in East Africa was in the hands of Ernst, and the rules and regulations limited the power of all officials in East Africa to a very small range.

Because East Africa adopts a mercenary system, that is, a company system, and the main development project is agriculture, it is not an exaggeration to say that the East African colony is an agricultural development company owned by Heixingen.

And the officials in East Africa, that is, the employees of Heshingen, especially the earliest Germans in the army, they all signed contracts with Hexingen.

In other words, these people have weaknesses in the hands of the Hexingen royal family, and you can rest assured that you can use your power to fool around in East Africa, but your family is recorded in the archives of the Hexingen consortium, and it is not easy to take advantage of the Hohenzollern family in Prussia and Germany.

Moreover, these German mercenaries, who were in various ruling echelons of the colony, were veterans who had retired from the Prussian army.

To put it mildly, they are all old people who have been driven out of the army by the army, and they have gone to East Africa to work for Ernst in order to make a living.

When they have enough money, they will definitely not want to continue to stay in East Africa, after all, they also want to enjoy their old age in peace, and East Africa is obviously not a place to retire now.

Even if the medical conditions in East Africa are poor, there is nothing to do, and most importantly, there is no family for them.

Unlike those who were at the bottom of the country, the Far East and Austria-Hungary, South Germany ...... The immigrants are in order to make a living, and they are ready to die in a foreign country at the moment they leave their hometown, and it is not excluded that some people have the idea of returning to their hometown, but most of them are still aiming for their lives.

German mercenaries, on the other hand, were made money by participating in colonization activities from the very beginning, and they were Germans at all times (here Germany refers to the current German states. And not East Africans.

So after making enough money, they naturally want to return to Germany to enjoy life, so the power is only temporarily in their hands, not to mention the power locked in a cage.

The Hellingen Consortium is the permanent director of East Africa, which is specially used to audit the accounts, strictly control the dispatch and expenditure of various resources in East Africa, and is responsible for supervising the implementation of Ernst's orders by East African officials.

Although the number of directors of the Hexingen consortium in East Africa is small, the status at the top is not low, among which von der Leyen is the representative, and he, together with the East African military governor Yarman, and the East African army staff member of the East African army staff (of Chinese descent) together form the troika of East Africa.

In the East African army, Ernst favored the staff of the second force, all of which were cadets of the Heixingen Military Academy, which was mainly Chinese cadets in the early days, and now has begun to replenish German cadets.

The Heixingen Military Academy is actually the place where Ernst raises private troops, all students have received brainwashing education, and the Heixingen royal family is its faith, so Ernst dares to reuse them and play a supervisory role in all forces in East Africa.

Basically, every East African official has to have a cadet from the Heshingen Military Academy as his deputy, and this configuration runs from the center all the way to the villages.

Any action in East Africa would require a joint meeting of these three groups, which would then be reported to Ernst, who would then make a decision.

In this way, of course, the administrative efficiency of East Africa is not high, but it is very safe, because the tripartite interest groups cannot urinate in the same pot.

Fortunately, East Africa is a complete agricultural colony, and the specific affairs are boring, that is, farming, farming, farming......

Occasionally, an indigenous tribe is formed, and the colonial villages can make their own decisions, and only the indigenous countries, Arab forces and other colonizers need to report to their superiors.

However, the forces around East Africa have already been investigated in East Africa, and those people cannot be provoked, and the East African colonies are clear in their hearts, except for the Portuguese and the British, there are no deterrent forces.

Even so, the East African colonies were quite low-key, such as the United Kingdom, and the reason why East Africa was polite to the Sultanate of Zanzibar, in addition to dealing with indigenous needs, was that it was afraid of British interference, so the core of the Sultanate of Zanzibar could continue to exist.

On the border between East Africa and Mozambique, the East African colonies have also exercised restraint and will not take the initiative to cause trouble.

Not to mention the British and Portuguese, even those native, the East African colonies were handled with care.

For example, in Zambia in the southwest, East Africa has long been able to stake its land, and even if East African forces enter Zambia, other colonial forces will not get any news.

But the East African colonies did not do this, the food had to be eaten in one bite, and the immigrants were not in place, so they were not in a hurry to expand.

Of course, Ernst does not want to go to East Africa, but he can't get away with it at the moment, and there is no need to do so.

Prince Konstantin was old (67 years old), and Ernst was not comfortable leaving his old father alone in Europe (historically, Prince Konstantin died on September 3, 1869).

At the same time, the biggest wealth in the hands of the Heixingen royal family is the Heixingen Foundation, whose main business is all located in Europe.

Ernst did not dare to easily hand over the affairs of Hexingen in Europe to others, and if he lost the Hexingen consortium, Ernst would not be able to develop the East African colonies even if he had great ability.

From the establishment of the East African colony to the present, it can be said that the Heixingen consortium has been supported little by little, the funds and ships needed by the immigrants, the rations of the early days of the immigrants, the weapons and equipment of the colony, and the salaries of East African officials...... That's all provided by the Heixingen Foundation.

There is only one way to solve this problem, and that is to shift the focus of the Black Singen consortium to East Africa.

However, the current conditions of the East African colonies are not to mention that it is a bit difficult to feed the Hexingen Consortium, and it is a bit difficult to support themselves, and Ernst is not very demanding, at least until East Africa has established a set of preliminary industrial bases before transferring the Heixingen Consortium to East Africa.

For example, to solve the problem of coal in the East African colonies, it is necessary to build railways, and the coal in East Africa is mainly in the southwest, so it is necessary to pull them to the coastal areas, of course, some people may say that it is not enough to build factories there?

The problem is that the machines in the factories of this era are stupid and stupid, and if you want to transport them inland, you also need railways, and the main business of the Heixingen consortium is Europe, and in the end, inland goods and food still have to be transported by rail.

It is still quite difficult to build a railway to the inland under the current conditions of East Africa, and it is not impossible to gather the strength of the whole colony and the support of the Hexingen consortium, but the cost is too great.

Ernst was certainly aware of the role of the railway, but now was not the time to build it, and Ernst knew of a period of opportunity and planned to build a railway in East Africa at that time.

In addition to railways, ironworks, cement plants...... You have to have all of these! Otherwise, the Heixinggen Consortium will also be difficult to cook without rice, and it is useless to move the machine over, so it can't rely on imports for everything.

Not to mention these, even the current scale of agriculture in East Africa is difficult to support industrial construction, such as cotton, a light industrial raw material, East Africa is only a small-scale planting, if it is really large, maybe it will attract the attention of some countries, the textile industry is the pillar industry of many industrialized countries.

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All in all, there is still a lot of road to be done in East Africa, and at the moment the East African colonies are at most vassals of the Heshingen Consortium, through which Ernst can influence German politics and continental public opinion, while controlling the development of East African industries.

Although the East African colonies were important to Ernst, the fact is that the East African colonies are now inferior to the Heshingen consortium.

In this way, if East Africa is lost, Ernst can find a place to start again through the Heshingen Foundation, and if he loses the Hexingen Foundation, Ernst will not be able to play anything.

Of course, Ernst's idea was to combine the Heshingen consortium with the East African colonies in the future, but now was not the time, and the development of the East African colonies was not enough to support Ernst to gamble his entire wealth on it.

(End of chapter)