"The rest of this group of trainees will be sent to East Africa, right? Now that the war in East Africa is over, it is time to reorganize the army. After seeing off Heinrich and Leopold, Ernst thought.

Just enough to retire some of the older German mercenary officers.

……

The war in East Africa was over, but the war in Europe was not over, and Prussia advanced by leaps and bounds in France, and one of France's most elite armies surrendered without a fight on October 27, 1870, after being besieged by Metz for 72 days.

On the Austro-Hungarian side, Lieutenant General Karl led his army around northern Italy, and even made a lot of peace in the Lombardy region, forcing the defenders of the Lombard front to divide their forces to prevent them from sneaking up from behind.

As a result, Archduke Albrecht seized the opportunity to cut off the connection between the Lombard army and the Venetian army, Venice was surrounded by the Austro-Hungarian army, and the imperial army commanded by the Archduke Albrecht consumed the energy of the Venetian defenders little by little, and the whole Venice slowly fell to the brink of collapse because of the blockade, especially the people in the city, who were in dire straits.

"Fulton, the family is about to run out of food, this may be our last dinner!" Lisa said to her husband with a sad face.

Fulton looked at the pot of porridge made out of batter on the table, and didn't know what to say.

Lisa continued: "Since the war, the price of food has increased thirteenfold, and the supply is still in short supply, and now there is no food in everyone's house, and the family of Elai has sold their house a week ago, and their family of five, if they can't scrape together any money, they will probably starve to death." ”

"Alas, damn war!" Fulton sighed, "I'll figure out a way to see if I can get Mr. Martin to advance his salary." ”

Martin was the owner of Fulton and ran a textile mill, the same Martin who had sold his shipyard to the Heishingen consortium.

Martin invested in the textile industry with the cash paid by the Heshingen consortium, and seized the opportunity for Venice to be annexed to Italy, and made a fortune importing textiles into southern Italy with the help of the unified market.

As a result, at the end of 1869, the Suez Canal was opened, and the Venetian shipbuilding industry had a revival trend, Martin felt a little regretful and sold his shipyard, but a few months later the war broke out, and the shipbuilding industry came to a standstill, but the textile mill made a lot of money because of the army's orders, and Martin had to sigh that he was so lucky.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

There was a knock on the door of Fulton's house.

"It's so late! Who is it? Fulton asked.

"Mr. Fulton, I'm Murray."

"So it's Murray? Is there anything wrong with you? Fulton asked.

"Mr. Fulton, I'm here to say goodbye." Murray smiled bitterly.

"Farewell? You have to leave Venice! ”

"Yes, our family is ready to go to East Africa."

"It can't be!" Fulton was surprised, "Isn't this a time of martial law?" How could you possibly leave Venice? ”

Murray smiled bitterly: "Hehe! You think too highly of the Venetian bureaucrats, who can meet all your needs for a little more money. ”

"Of course I know this, but even if you can spend money to move freely, how can you get out of Venice City, there are Austro-Hungarian troops outside, and the sea is also blocked by the Austro-Hungarian navy."

"I also learned from Mr. Winston, Mr. Winston, you also know that it was my former boss, his company went bankrupt, he was going to leave Venice for Paraguay, and then transferred to the United States to develop, he told me that there are actually ships on the sea that can travel, but only the ships of the Hashingen Ocean Trading Company can enter and leave Venice at will, and it is said that they have Prussian capital behind them, so the Austro-Hungarian Navy will let them go."

"Is it the Hashingen Ocean Trading Company that recruited people in Venice before the war?"

"Yes."

"I thought they were out of business!"

"Hehe, I thought so too, but because of the previous martial law, the news was actually blocked, and if it weren't for Mr. Winston, I would still be kept in the dark."

"What dock are they in?"

"It's in the Heixingen shipyard, which is their factory, so it's relatively closed, and I knew it would be like this, and I should have taken my family and the countrymen with me," Murray said. ”

"Then if your family goes to East Africa, how can you be sure that you can find a job, and the boat fare is a lot!"

"Don't worry about that, I already asked yesterday, you don't have to pay to go to East Africa and Paraguay, but where to go is not something we can decide."

"Is there a difference between East Africa and Paraguay?"

"It shouldn't make a difference! But Mr. Winston said that Paraguay might have more options, but for those of us who are poor, we go everywhere. ”

As for why the Heshingen consortium helped Paraguay to transport people, it has to start with the Paraguayan war that ended at the beginning of the year.

López was besieged on February 27, 1870, but he refused to surrender and ordered his mother and sister to be executed. On 1 March, he was captured by Brazilian troops. López shouted: "I live and die with my motherland!" Later, Brazilian soldiers hacked him to death with broadswords, and then the Brazilian soldiers buried him in the jungle, thus ending the Paraguayan War.

After taking over the new government of Paraguay, in the face of the devastation of Paraguay, the first biggest problem is the lack of population, in addition to the large shortage of adult males caused by the war, there is also the East African sixth child who sucked a large number of Paraguayan people during the war.

At the end of the census, Paraguay's population was only 130,000, which was nothing short of devastating for Paraguay.

This was not the end, East Africa did not stop at that time, but was approached by the new Paraguayan government, and in the face of the cry of the Paraguayan government, the international impact of this matter was not good after all, so Ernst also agreed to help Paraguay recover its population.

As for where the new population came from, it was naturally impossible for East Africa to return people, so it would have to continue to be drawn from Venice.

Originally, it was impossible for East Africa to fully absorb Venetian immigrants, so it simply sent to Paraguay the immigrants who did not meet East African standards screened out by East Africa.

Of course, this good thing must also be done with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, not afraid of how overpopulated the Italian area of Venice is? Now let's send the Italians to South America.

This was also the reason for the slow progress of the Archduke Albrecht, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was organizing large agricultural populations from the occupied territories to send to South America, not only Paraguay but also Argentina and Brazil.

According to the current population structure of Paraguay, Paraguay alone can absorb 100,000 Italian single boys, of course, the number cannot be so small, Austria-Hungary has been eager to send a large number of people from the Venetian area to South America, Paraguay may be able to restore the pre-war level.

Hundreds of thousands of people are sent out, which is very difficult for the current Austro-Hungarian Empire, but East Africa can help, provided that all East African migrant ships are stopped and only serve the Venice area, so Austria-Hungary has to pay East Africa, and at this time it needs imperial financial allocation.

Of course, Paraguay was not without a price, and East Africa was not charitable, along with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which carved up Paraguay's economic interests, including a large amount of land and the right to exploit mineral resources.

However, these can not be realized, so it is still a loss-making business, the big head is still Austria-Hungary, after all, the Venice area is still the most populous rural area, but Austria-Hungary is willing to be the head of this wrong, in order to obtain the support of Hungary, through this huge financial allocation, Austria-Hungary promised to transfer part of the land of Lombardy in western Venice to Hungary, but there is a precondition, that is, there can be no Italians on the land.

This is another poisonous plan, if Hungary wants to take over the land of Lombardy, it will send Hungarians there, but compared to the developed economy of Lombardy, the Hungarian nobles are still willing to do this, as for the life and death of the Italians, they don't care, and there is no psychological burden to expel them, just rush to the territory of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

As for the Kingdom of Sardinia, in fact, because of the evasion of the war, some people had already begun to take the initiative to go to France and the Americas, and the French republican government, at the suggestion of the Count of Medina, organized these Italians who had fled from Italy and sent them to the front line to act as cannon fodder and hinder the speed of Prussia's offensive.

(End of chapter)