Under the blessing of the economic crisis, East Africa ushered in a rare wave of immigration, in East Africa is specifically used to refer to German immigrants, not other immigrants, if East Africa really liberalizes the immigration policy, the rate of population growth is too terrifying.

So in 1874, East Africa again did the opposite, raising the threshold for immigrants further and tightening the health checks on immigrants. Don't underestimate the health screening metric, which alone can screen out a large number of immigrants who do not meet Ernst's psychological expectations.

The 19th century was actually an era of darkness and development, and in the 21st century, people in the Far East looked at the drug problem in the West and felt that the West was very chaotic, but in the 19th century, it was called real chaos, because drugs were not a problem in the 19th century, it was a matter of course.

Ernst could have felt this in Africa in his previous life, and the living conditions of Africans were not much different from those outside of modern Europe and the United States.

Addicts on the streets of Africa are found in almost many African cities, and unlike the Americans, who are exquisite, high-tech or imported from Mexico, they can smoke cough syrup, glue, and aviation fuel.

In the 19th century, there weren't so many hoops of gimmicky, just the proliferation of opium and chemical drugs, plus there was no regulatory system, so it was easy for ordinary people to buy them.

So when East Africa tightens its health screening, it immediately screens out 20 percent of immigrants, not just drugs, but other indicators, of course.

In fact, anyone who is in Ensst's position will feel fear of the surge in immigration, and if they don't feel it for a day or two, they will find that the original immigration policy is still a little rough after a long time.

East Africa's population is growing so fast that in 1850 it has more than quadrupled to more than 23 million, compared to the United States, which was also an immigrant country, from 5 million in 1800 to more than 23 million.

According to the population trend of the United States, if East Africa implements the same population system as the United States, by the end of the 19th century, the population of East Africa will be at least 40 million.

However, East Africa is clearly different from the United States, where the fertility rate is significantly higher than that of the United States, and the desire to have children will not change much for at least the next 30 years.

In the 21st century, many older generations in the rural Far East maintain the idea of "more children, more blessings", and the same is true of Ernst's parents, while an agricultural country in East Africa, even if it becomes an industrial country in a very short time, the social mindset will continue to maintain according to inertia for a long time.

The vast majority of industrialized countries will experience a population boom in the early stages of industrialization, which may not be the case in East Africa, where population growth has exploded and there is a relatively rudimentary industrial system.

So even if productivity and health care improve, East Africa's population growth will not increase dramatically again.

Because the current birth rate in East Africa is already the limit of East Africa, this is related to the problem of social distribution in East Africa, although the wealth of the Heshingen royal family and the state finance are two systems.

The capital of the Heixingen royal family is the main force in the construction of East Africa, and although the national fiscal revenue is small, the expenditure burden is relatively light.

It is said that it is a planned economy, but in fact there are only a few small factories in state-owned enterprises, and the state's agricultural tax revenue is its largest source of finance.

We should not underestimate the agricultural tax, East Africa is not an ordinary agricultural country, it is a large agricultural country, and the agricultural tax is higher than the fiscal revenue of many countries in the world.

Therefore, the revenue of the Kingdom of East Africa is not small compared with many other countries, and the bulk of the revenue is paid to support the new birth population in East Africa.

Including food, clothing, housing, transportation, and education, this allowed the population of East Africa to grow unscrupulously in the first decade, so Ernst planned to end this support program in 1875, and the East African people could not afford to live like this again.

And now the population of East Africa is a mystery, there has been no population data for three years, it is not that East Africa is slack, but the statistics are difficult to be as detailed as before, the data you count today may be overturned tomorrow because of the increase in the number of newborns, if the population data is counted every year, then the statisticians in East Africa can be exhausted to death.

Of course, to stop the newborn subsidy, you can't just do it, we must first let the policy change spread all over East Africa, so that no one will be aware of the policy change at that time. and then the big birth.

"East Africa's population is growing faster than expected, so from next year, except for education is still free, all other types of childbirth support will have to be curtailed and stopped, some families in East Africa have seven or eight children, some even more than ten (this is family migration), if this phenomenon becomes a common phenomenon in East Africa, then in 20 years, what will be the population of East Africa? The large number of newborns has become a burden in East Africa, so we now need to bring the population growth rate back to normal levels in East Africa with less government intervention and guidance. Ernst said at the East African Population Conference.

After Ernst's speech, the others also engaged in a heated discussion.

"Your Highness, although the birth rate in our country is high, the survival rate should not reach that level."

"That being said, but the survival rate of our newborns is not low, even higher than that of some backward areas, even if the number of newborns in a family does not reach the level of seven or eight, at least four or five should always have, and this is not the limit, East Africa has only been ten years from colony to kingdom in total, and the population base has been cultivated, what will happen in the next ten years?"

"And that's not even counting immigration, the number of immigrants is quite large, and the scale of our immigration is the same as that of the United States, especially in this economic crisis, I'm afraid there are more than one million people flowing into East Africa."

"So it's not just the newborn subsidy, the immigrant population should also be limited, now East Africa is relatively empty, but we can't blindly import people in order to develop East Africa, no matter how much land there is, it is also limited."

"There is also the issue of national ideology, as a country of immigrants, the national ideology of our East Africa is not yet solid, and the continuous flow of foreign populations will dilute our previous efforts."

Where there is opposition, there is support, but the reasons of the supporters are not very convincing.

After all, the Kingdom of East Africa is not going to engage in birth control, but to stop childbearing subsidies, you want to have no one to stop you, but it depends on whether the salary is enough, if you voluntarily cut down on food and clothing to have children, you can continue, but in East Africa, abandonment is a felony, so you must live within your means and consider carefully.

"Okay, this matter is so decided, there are still five months to go, you have to notify governments at all levels, notify every family of this policy change, next year, including newborns born after that, will no longer enjoy government subsidies, of course, this year's pregnant should be counted in place, the next five months is the final window period."

In 1874, at the daily work conference of the government, the population policy of East Africa was transformed, which actually showed that the population of East Africa could renew itself and meet the needs of East Africa without immigration.

The population of the Kingdom of East Africa is no longer a national shortcoming, and at the same time, the pursuit of population in East Africa has begun to transition from quantity to quality.

Although the population of the western interior is still insufficient, the population of the eastern part of the country has reached the level where the spillover can be met, and the migration process is still ongoing, so it is only a matter of time to digest the western interior.

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