Chapter 5: The Idea of the Kingdom of Italy

Most of the official medical personnel that already exist in East Africa come from the East, and Constantine brought a team of German private doctors over, and some of the other immigrants are "doctors" from Europe, but most of these people are some wild people, using the old Western medicine of the Middle Ages, after all, they are from rural areas, and most of them rely on the inheritance of their ancestors.

Doctors are still the most scarce profession in East Africa, most patients are still resigned to fate, and many people have their own recipes, and they don't know if it works, just try it, but people in this era are used to it.

There are a total of 108 officially built clinics in East Africa, none of which have 285 registered doctors, and a snake venom research institute is considered the pinnacle of medical care in East Africa.

On the whole, East Africa is extremely lacking in medical resources, but fortunately, East Africa is very suitable for the cultivation of herbal medicines, and some of the indigenous traditions are also controlled by East Africans.

For example, after being bitten by a black mamba, the indigenous East African people will find a strange-looking plant from the surrounding area, mash it into a plaster, apply it to the wound, and then wait for death.

Although this incident is somewhat ridiculous, the natives are convinced, which shows that the aborigines also have their own medicine, which can at least play a role in psychological comfort.

Of course, this is a case of failure, and there are many successes, most of which are prescriptions that can reduce inflammation, stop bleeding and relieve pain, after all, the indigenous people have been fighting wits and fierce with the beasts of East Africa for thousands of years, and it is inevitable to suffer a little injury, so it is still a set of systematic medical experience, which is essentially still in the state of witch doctors, but crooked beatings can always produce some results.

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Austria took Venice and immediately launched a final purge of the region, and a large number of intellectuals, merchants, and nobles went into exile in the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Lombardy, as the richest region in the whole of Italy, made the Hungarian nobles taste the sweetness, although they knew that the Austrians were using Hungary to block guns, and if the Italians wanted to recover the lost territory, they had to do it against Lombardy first, but Hungary didn't care, what grade are you in Italy! No matter how bad our Hungary is, it is also a part of the great powers, and there is a strong motherland behind it.

Although Austria also drove out the Italians, but because East Africa took over, most of the people still have a stable destination, Hungary was not so polite to Lombardy, directly according to the agreement, expelled Italy in the territory, and then migrated a large number of Hungarian people from the empire proper, to achieve doves occupy the magpie's nest, this time the Hungarian government did its best, after all, a Lombardy can settle a lot of their own noble children.

The actions of Austria and Hungary led directly to the creation of a large number of refugees in the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Papal States, as well as to Naples.

At this time, the Kingdom of East Africa can appear as a good person, as a large agricultural country, East Africa has far excess grain production capacity, even if it exports a large amount every year, but there is still a surplus.

After all, in the European grain market, East Africa must not act recklessly, cutting off people's financial routes is like killing parents, East Africa can only try to engage in some differentiated products to expand food sales, which is the case with Heixingen's food processing industry.

This time in Italy there is no need to worry about so much, hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured in, all Italian countries have been affected, and if the food ration problem for these people is not solved, it will be fatal.

Florence.

Since the defeat of the war, Emmanuel II has been sad all day long, and the whole person has aged a lot, this time the Kingdom of Italy has lost its wife and broken its army, nearly half of the country has been lost, and the Kingdom of Italy has been beaten back to its original state, but the more this time, the more the Kingdom of Italy is inseparable from itself, so it must continue to support.

With a sad face, Emmanuel II asked the Minister of Agriculture: "Hasn't the problem of food been solved?" ”

The Minister of Agriculture said helplessly: "This time we have lost a large amount of land in the Po River Plain, and we have also lost the grain producing areas in southern Italy, and the grain output of the kingdom is already much lower than that of European countries, and now it is even more unsustainable. ”

Emmanuel II: "Can the Ministry of Foreign Affairs think of a way to ask for help from other countries?" ”

Foreign Secretary: "Your Majesty, the Spanish royal family is willing to give us some free aid, but that is only a drop in the bucket, the internal situation in Spain is not very good, Prince Amadeo has no choice, Germany and France have reduced food production because of the war, so that now the price of food has risen throughout Europe." ”

Emmanuel II: "Is there no solution?" You must know that hundreds of thousands of refugees from Lombardy and Venice cannot eat, and their final spearhead will definitely be pointed at the government. ”

Foreign Secretary: "Your Majesty, there is good news, the Kingdom of East Africa is willing to sell us a large amount of grain at a low price, but mainly rice and corn. ”

Emmanuel II: "Kingdom of East Africa? Is it the country that was founded last year? ”

Foreign Secretary: "Exactly, Your Majesty, the Kingdom of East Africa is a state created in East Africa by Prince Constantine of Prussia Hachingen. ”

Emmanuel II said: "This East African kingdom hasn't been around for long, has it? Can they afford such a large volume of grain exports? ”

Foreign Secretary: "Your Majesty does not know, in fact, the volume of grain trade between East Africa and us has been steadily increasing in recent years, and the East African colonies have been grain exporting regions since before the establishment of the Kingdom of East Africa. ”

Emmanuel II: "This East African kingdom is Africa, right?" Is Africa so rich? ”

Foreign Secretary: "Africa has poor climatic conditions and rampant diseases, but there should still be no shortage of land, after all, the African continent is vast, and it was originally a black slave production area, so there is no shortage of labor, and it is estimated that this is the reason why the East African Kingdom became a grain exporter as soon as it was established." ”

Emmanuel II: "You mean that the Kingdom of East Africa has created great wealth for the Kingdom of East Africa by exploiting the indigenous people of East Africa to develop their land and grow food in large quantities?" ”

Foreign Secretary: "I think it should be so, black people, eat less, work more, are strong and strong, and don't need money, it is difficult for Prince Konstantin not to get rich." ”

Emmanuel II was immediately interested: "How about you say that we will also open up a colony in Africa to solve the food problem in Italy?" ”

The foreign secretary was not optimistic: "The development of overseas colonies is one option, but Italy lacks experience in this area, and now our finances are also a big problem." ”

When it comes to financial problems, Emmanuel II also made a difficulty, the Italian government itself owes Britain a large debt, if it is not for the fear that Italy will not be able to repay the debt, Britain will not care about the life and death of the Italians, mediate the war, and try to maintain the continued existence of the Italian subject, even the newly restored Kingdom of Naples was forced to inherit part of the debt owed by the Kingdom of Sardinia to pay off the British.

In addition, in this war, Italy also lost Venice and a third of Lombardy, which are important fiscal and tax places, compared to the Kingdom of Naples is not very important, although Naples is large in area, large in population, but the economy is not good, although it pays more taxes, but the Kingdom of Italy has more financial expenditures here, and it is not necessarily a bad thing to get rid of this burden now.

Emmanuel II: "In that case, let's spend our money first, import grain from East Africa first, as long as the price is low enough, don't care about any rice or corn, it's important to appease the refugees first, and then do what he thinks when we have recovered from opening up colonies." ”

The Kingdom of Italy doesn't want to colonize overseas, anyway, Italy's conditions in this area are not bad, it is not that it has no experience at all, the Mediterranean Sea is also the sea, Sardinia and Sicily are ruled by sea links, it is nothing more than this time to go farther, to colonize farther places, relying on the mainland simply cannot support such a large population.

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