Chapter 232: Another Chapter of Water (Don't Order)
The state is a tool of class rule, and any country is a way, and immigrants to East Africa are, at most, ruled in a different place.
In Germany and the Far East, the vast majority of people were landless, and the land was owned by the Junkers and the landlord class, just like the people who came to the United States in this era, if not the aristocracy and the rich, they had to work as coolies for a few years if they went.
The difference in East Africa is that there are slaves under the people, and I may not be doing well, but if there is someone worse than me, then I am doing well.
Ernst initially thought about dividing land for immigrants, but now it seems completely unnecessary, because immigrants have no such demands, and are accustomed to being tenant farmers for nobles and landlords, and suddenly they are satisfied with the East African management of food, clothing, housing, transportation, and even solving marriage problems, after all, they can't imagine a better life.
At the beginning, Ernst also wanted to engage in military merit and grant land, but the indigenous combat power was not worth the price at all, and the land was always rotten in the hands of the Heixingen royal family.
In addition, East Africa belongs to the unity of the family and the country, and the Heixingen royal family owns the whole of East Africa, which has led to the politics of East Africa becoming a stitching monster.
No matter how you look at the current situation of agriculture, it looks like a Soviet-style collective farm, the difference is that the collective farm is legally a collective economy, that is, the villagers jointly own, while East Africa is privately owned, but almost all industries in East Africa are the private property of the Heixingen royal family.
Unlike the big farmers in the United States, the farms mainly consider efficiency and whether they make money, while East Africa is completely planned and does not consider efficiency too much, resulting in the per capita productivity is not fully utilized.
East African immigrants were also raised by Ernst to be somewhat lazy, and the reason why the system did not collapse was because of the existence of the slave economy.
As for the question of whether the grain will be sold at a loss, it is completely too much to worry about, there will always be a shortage of food in this world, such as Japan, the contradiction between man and land is extremely prominent, and there are quite a lot of landless peasants, and it has become a major importer of rice in East Africa, and it is not that East Africa has any tricks, just because Japan is too poor in this era, and can only buy cheap rice from East Africa. And East Africa imports "women" and cultural relics and ancient books from Japan through the grain trade, which has the best of both worlds.
The same is true of Italy, where East African flour produced at Trieste mills is notoriously poor, with Italy importing the most flour. East Africa took the opportunity to import family migrants from southern Italy.
Now Ireland, a big country of immigrants, is not targeted by Ernst, not that he looks down on Ireland, but that the British are too inappropriate, they don't even allow the Germans to enter Ireland, the reason is also ready-made, the situation in Ireland is not very good now, the British are afraid of foreign countries to make trouble, who knows if you are a spy of the French.
Another reason is that the wave of immigrants to Ireland has been going on for several years, it was around 1850, about 1.8 million people left Ireland, and the previous Great Famine caused a quarter of the population to die, and now Ireland is only a little poorer, a little dissatisfied with the British, and there is no reason to go away.
Ernst is now somewhat relieved about the current scale of immigration, because in the first five months of the first half of this year, the number of births in East Africa reached an astonishing 380,000, if nothing else, in the whole of 1870, East Africa will increase by more than 600,000 births alone, plus the immigrant population, easily exceed the scale of one million.
After a while, new immigrants will join the fertility army, conservatively according to the three-year cycle, and the population of East Africa will exceed 10 million in ten years.
Migration is now stable at 400,000 a year, 4 million in 10 years, and migration cannot be so stable forever because there is still a world economic crisis that is several years away. At that time, the population of immigrants to East Africa will surely explode in a short period of time.
On the issue of population, Ernst is already firmly seated in the Diaoyutai, so it is necessary to focus on other undertakings in East Africa.
Land ownership is a headache for Ernst, and Ernst knows very well that the royal family of Heixingen cannot always reach an agreement with this group of Diao people, and with the development of time, the land will be thrown away sooner or later.
It's just that when to throw it and how to throw it, you have to think clearly, and you can't make chickens and dogs jump.
Now, some of the mines could be set aside for Austrians to invest in, which had been designed before the Kingdom of East Africa was founded.
By helping Austria's industrial development through East Africa's mineral resources, East Africa can complete its economic binding with Austria.
Although the Suez Canal is in the hands of Britain and France, the biggest beneficiary is probably Austria, a four-million-square-kilometer East Africa, and at the same time can solve the problem of Austria's grain and industrial raw materials, the only flaw is that the market in East Africa is not open to Austria, and the quality of tropical grain is poor, and Hungary avoids direct competition, and even the raw materials of Ernst's Vienna factory come from Hungary, and the main focus is the medium and high-level food market.
The market in East Africa is negligible, the people's spending power is almost equal to none, and even the wages they receive belong to the bonds issued by the Hexingen Bank, which no one recognizes when it comes out of East Africa.
The only thing Austria can make a fortune from East Africa is the weapons and equipment procured by the government, such as large-caliber shore defense guns and gunboats.
Relying on royal investment alone, the development is still too slow, and at the same time, it can also divert some immigrants and let them enter the industrial field.
There is also the problem of the army, now the East African army is not enough, four million square kilometers of land, the army must at least exceed 100,000, and the suppression of slaves also requires a huge number of troops.
With the development of the agricultural slave economy, agriculture no longer uses so many people, and the follow-up money is enough, and the tractors of Heixingen Energy Power Company are almost built, so the slaves can continue to be used, and they are destined not to stay.
Cooperation with Austria is the national policy of East Africa, and the education, scientific research, military and other industries in East Africa need Austria's support.
Now these East Africa are not possible, take education as an example, expect the development of education in East Africa to develop at least two years, the first batch of East African students to enter the second grade, and even the international students are half the aged, they have to go to primary school, middle school, and finally receive higher education when they go abroad.
However, if higher education cannot be developed for the time being, scientific research and the military industry will naturally be impossible, and even the slightly technical industries will not have enough manpower.
However, Ernst is not worried about this, East Africa has only been developing for three years, so don't think about these things.
Moreover, East Africa has established a basic compulsory education system from the beginning, and this system will sooner or later develop with the growth of the second generation of East Africa, it is only a matter of time, and now so many countries in the world do not even have compulsory education, so the education cause in East Africa started not too late.
I haven't had much inspiration lately, so I can't write anything.
(End of chapter)