January 11, 1870.

Hohenzollern Castle, inside the gardens.

"One hundred and eleven, one hundred and twelve, one hundred and thirteen......"

Ernst gritted his teeth and struggled to count the number of push-ups, sweat soaking the white cotton vest.

"Three hundred!"

"Huhu...... It's still too difficult for me! Ernst gasped and said to the coach.

He was holding his thighs with his hands, and at the moment the sweat was pouring down on his forehead, Tom handed the towel over in time, and Ernst took the towel to wipe the sweat off his face.

"Your Highness, it's already very good that you can stick to it all the time, I'm afraid this perseverance is difficult for ordinary people to do!" The coach commented on the side.

"Coach Rovett, you are exalting me too much, I can't hold on if no one supervises me, and only a person with a little money like me would do such a boring thing."

Some time ago, Ernst looked in the mirror and found that he had gained a lot of weight, which was a bolt from the blue.

In his previous life, he had always been a normal figure, but after crossing over, he grew a bunch of fat meat because the food was too good and he didn't exercise too much.

At the end of this year, Ernst will be 20 years old, and his current height is 178 cm, which is not expected to grow any longer, which Ernst himself cannot control.

Prince Konstantin's appearance cannot be said to be ugly, it can also be said to be mediocre, and Ernst has made a slight breakthrough in Prince Konstantin's appearance.

In addition, he is relatively young, so in the appearance of people in this era, he belongs to the middle and upper reaches, and it can be said that Ernst has temperament and spirit, but he has nothing to do with handsome words.

On this basis, the impact of weight on Ernst is too great, and if you are a little fatter, it will not look good, and Ernst is self-aware and knows that she does not have that perseverance, so she hired a professional to tailor a weight loss plan for herself.

"Your Highness, in fact, your figure is not bad among the nobles, there is no need to engage in any so-called 'weight loss'." Tom said.

"I don't understand, my aesthetics are different from ordinary people, only I think it's good-looking, as for other people's standards are invalid for me, my life is to be satisfied with myself, not to follow the crowd."

Hearing Ernst say this, Tom no longer persuaded him, in Tom's opinion, Ernst was completely asking for his own hardships, and before losing weight, Ernst's figure was very much like that of Prince Constantine, so that he could look good, at least he looked very stable.

If Ernst knew Tom's inner thoughts, I am afraid that he would be depressed for a while, Prince Constantine was not steady, but indeed a little heavy, and his face was almost caked.

……

"Jingle Bell ......"

"Your Highness, the call of His Majesty the Prince!" A servant came to the garden and reported to Ernst.

Ernst sent Tom and the coach away, and went to the phone room to take the phone from the operator.

"You wait outside the door first, and then come in if I call you."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

The telephone operator is familiar with the way to close the door.

"Hey, father, what's the matter with me?"

"Ernst, I have one thing to ask you about the population of East Africa."

Hearing this, Ernst was incentric, and the population of East Africa has always been a major concern for Ernst.

"Father, you say?"

"That's right, the number of newborn children in East Africa in 1869 was more than 200,000, I think you know this number, but this year I am afraid that the number of newborns in East Africa will break through a new high, according to the reports of governments at all levels, we can now roughly determine that the number of newborns this year is likely to exceed 500,000!"

"Isn't that a good thing? Father! Ernst asked, puzzled.

"It seems that you don't know the seriousness of the matter yet, half a million is just conservative math, and the number could be 600,000, 700,000, or even more. The number of households in East Africa is more than 1.11 million, excluding the families who just gave birth last year, there are more than 900,000 households, and these more than 900,000 households are likely to give birth this year, and even some families have a second child, or even a third child, if you follow this trend, how many children will be in East Africa in the next 20 years? ”

"That's a lot indeed!" After saying that, Ernst was silent.

"It's not just a little too much, but these families, let's have at least five children in the next 20 years, and if you add new immigrants, by 1890 the population of East Africa will definitely exceed 10 million, not even 20 years, 10 years is enough."

"What do you think about this, father?"

"I mean do you want to administratively intervene in the population of East Africa and let them have fewer children?"

"That's absolutely not going to work!" Ernst resolutely objected, "It is easy to correct people's conception of fertility, but it will be troublesome to come back in the future, so we must not use administrative means to intervene in the population of East Africa." ”

Ernst is a staunch anti-family planning faction, which is related to his own life experience in his previous life, if family planning is enforced, there will be no birth of Ernst in his previous life, even so, the Ernst family was still fined a lot of money, people were generally poor at that time, so the Ernst family's slightly valuable belongings were emptied, and later the country had money, and no one wanted to give birth to people, and Ernst himself was not even married.

"Uh...... Didn't you ask me to tell me what I think! I'll just say it casually. Konstantin did not expect Ernst to oppose it so fiercely.

"Father, since the East African people are interested in childbirth, let them give birth well, as long as the children grow up in the past 20 years, they are the future of East Africa, and then the population of East Africa will not be a problem, it just happens that mixed-race families account for the highest proportion, this is the prototype of the German nation in East Africa." Ernst said.

"I know that you have always emphasized that population is the cornerstone of a country, and more population is the cornerstone of a strong country, but the education and upbringing of so many children alone is a heavy burden for East Africa."

Ernst thought about it for a while and said to Prince Constantine: "Father, the cost of childcare in our East Africa is aimed at the rural areas of the world, not Europe, and I don't think there is any need to worry about this population growth in East Africa. The fundamental reason for the education problem in East Africa is to liberate the labor force in East Africa and let women participate in more work tasks, and the industrial scale of East Africa is very small, and it does not need so many knowledgeable people. Therefore, we can be more flexible on the issue of compulsory education, and now the schools in East Africa are all small classes, and the age of these newborns to go to school is about four or five years later, and it is just right to change to a large class system at that time, and at that time, the students of the previous classes have also graduated, just so that they can solve the shortage of teachers in East Africa, anyway, they will just read according to the textbooks, and the requirements are not too high.

My personal opinion is that women should become housewives and no longer participate in agricultural production activities, and it is not difficult for a mother to bring five or six babies to her, so she is responsible for food and clothing. As for the lack of an agricultural population, let's make up for it with blacks! ”

In the end, the key to solving the problem is "labor", the black slaves in East Africa only have adult males, and they are not afraid of their unlimited reproduction, so they can only exist in East Africa for one generation, and the agricultural work will be shared among them, which is equivalent to letting them use their own generation to support the generation of East African newborns, and when the East African newborns grow up, that is, when the "farm tools" retire from East Africa.

This matter is very cruel, but the level of mechanization cannot be raised, so we can only suffer Nalgae first, and Ernst promised that after finding a new tool to replace Nygae, he will help these well-wishers who have made important contributions to the construction of East Africa to return to their "hometown" in advance.

(End of chapter)