Chapter 142 - Population (continued)
The first mass immigration in East Africa (excluding mercenaries) began in 1865, and since then the number of immigrants has skyrocketed, and the scale has increased as the capacity of East Africa has increased.
In other words, the first settlers from East Africa have settled in East Africa for nine years, and the nature of East African immigrants has made the current population of East Africa grow explosively.
This can be compared to the German region, where the fertility rate is currently quite high, and in East Africa, where the cost of childbirth is borne by the problem, which cannot be done in Germany.
The division of land resources among the nobility and landlords, coupled with the development of capitalist agriculture, no longer pursued labor and occupancy, but made profit the first priority.
Although the nature of land in East Africa is also privately owned, Ernst's previous focus was to give East African citizens relatively good treatment, one of which was to hope that East African residents would have as many children as they could, and the state would bear most of the cost of childbirth.
East African citizens who do not have the burden of childbearing are naturally able to have as many children as they want, especially in the absence of contraceptive concepts and means.
If you are basically healthy, the fertility rate will not be low, and with the extremely low mortality rate (compared to other countries), the population of East Africa will eventually increase exponentially.
At low levels of productivity, most of these costs are ultimately borne by the black population, which has a black population of 20 million in East Africa, of which the labor force is close to 10 million.
So East Africa is not feeling much pressure at the moment, but the black population in East Africa is also decreasing quite quickly, and if East Africa wants to continue to play this game in the future, it can only pass on this part of the cost to new immigrants.
But if the new immigrants continue to have children in the future, a vicious circle will be formed, and Ernst himself is a believer in the theory of population superiority, and has said before that a population size like India will inevitably form a large country.
If East African immigrants are allowed to reproduce unscrupulously, a family has only two laborers, and it is possible to raise a dozen mouths, even to be a cow and a horse is unrealistic, of course, this may be a bit too ideal, a conservative estimate of seven or eight mouths should have.
In addition to the birth rate, immigration is also a problem, and the current normal level of immigration in East Africa is about 250,000 per month, with more than 400 ships (including chartered boats and slave trading boats) serving East African immigrants.
In a year, the number of immigrants in East Africa was almost 3 million, and by 1880 it was more than 10 million.
It should be noted here that although the East African government does not count the native population, it still counts immigrants every year, and the number of immigrants is as large as it is, and there will be no changes due to the birth rate.
In fact, it now takes more than ten days to travel from the Far East and Europe to East Africa by boat, and the arrangements for these immigrants to enter East Africa will not exceed three months at most.
This is the ideal state of immigration, in fact, the reality is the ideal situation, the economic crisis has created opportunities for East Africa, even the United States, a country of pure immigrants, has people immigrating to East Africa, and the rest of the world can be imagined.
East African immigration is led by the government, and immigration agencies have been established in European countries, East Asia and South America, so the East African Immigration Agency is the world's largest and systematic migration organization, and the second largest slave trader in the world.
In fact, in the current world, except for Arab and Indian men, blacks, all countries are targeted by the East African Immigration Agency to meet the needs of East African immigrants.
Take Germany as an example, the total population of South Germany, which has been sucked by East Africa all year round, has not decreased significantly, but it has not increased either, so East Africa's absorption of immigrants has caused little loss to all countries.
After all, after the Industrial Revolution, the world's population has skyrocketed to more than 1.27 billion, and the number of immigrants in East Africa is not even a fraction of it.
Of course, East Africa has its own country, so many of the situations are very different from those in the Americas that immigrant countries absorb immigrants.
Migration is generally a spontaneous act of the people, and the difficulty of migrating across continents is quite difficult for the people of this era.
The ferry tickets of American immigrants are mainly paid in advance by various companies and enterprises that lack people, and then deducted from the wages of immigrants, these things will basically be written clearly in the contract, and East Africa is directly exempt from ferry tickets, so that in the choice of the two, East Africa is in an advantageous position, after all, the United States even calculates the ticket money so clearly, do you still want to go to the United States to make a fortune? I really think it's full of gold!
The second is that the marketing methods in East Africa are different, and the immigration advertisements in East Africa focus on demonstrative, based on the people at the bottom, and then return to their hometowns to attract people. East Africa really dares to do this, and the United States can only make up stories in newspapers and engage in fraud.
Finally, East African immigration is not limited to Caucasians, and the Far East is equal to Europe, so that East Africa is in a buyer's market, and here the Far East does not refer to the concept of the state but to the Far East in the true sense of the word.
Of course, in addition to these normal means, East Africa will also use some off-the-counter tactics, that is, to report some of the real situation of American immigrants through European newspapers.
It is true that the upper limit of development in the United States is higher, but most people still have self-knowledge, such as the German peasants, who still have a few pounds and a few taels, and the conditions of East Africa are more in line with themselves than the fantasy of going to the United States to make a fortune.
The second thing to pay special attention to is the education system in East Africa, which has played a big role in reducing the cost of childbirth, with the development of the secondary school system, the population born in East Africa, for ten years, spent ten years in school, the most important of which is that East African schools also take care of a lunch.
Taken together, the total population of East Africa exceeded 30 million in 1880, and the exact data will not be known until the census is reopened, and may even exceed 40 million.
In an agrarian society, human fertility cannot be ignored, and East Africa is an agricultural country with industrial attributes.
As for restricting immigration, it is better to screen immigrants, which was originally the initial immigration policy in East Africa, mainly aimed at drug addicts, and small problems such as malnutrition, East Africa does not care.
Moreover, the increase in immigration restrictions this time is mainly aimed at German immigrants in the United States, because the United States is, after all, the stronghold of liberalism, and East Africa, as an absolute monarchy, naturally has to prevent some "decadent" ideas from the United States from flowing into East Africa. This is true for the whole of America except the United States, and there is not a single monarchy, how can this reassure East Africa.
And on the whole, East Africa's investment in immigration has actually increased, for example, female immigrants, East Africa is very welcome, the last time East Africa counted that the proportion of women was close to 47%, a large part of these women can come to East Africa, that is all at the expense of money, that is, Indian and Green women are also popular in East Africa, except for blacks, of course.
The problem of population overbirth is not only in East Africa, but the social atmosphere in the 19th century gave East Africa the convenience of buying and selling.
The wool comes from the sheep, and the money for the redemption of women in East Africa is naturally repaid by the bachelors in East Africa, and in the early days, it was used as an incentive mechanism to mobilize the enthusiasm of immigrants.
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