Chapter 152: Friedrich

Ask the Heshingen consortium who was most annoyed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the answer was the Jewish consortium, especially the Rothschilds.

In the Austro-Hungarian Empire there was a saying that "Austria had an Emperor Ferdinand and a King Solomon", and in 1848 Solomon was referring to the Rothschild family, which at that time had full control over the economy and finance of the Austrian Empire.

The Austrian government was heavily dependent on Jewish capital, but all this changed with the rise of the Heshingen consortium, which fought fiercely over the financial sector in Germany, and with the impact of the economic crisis, the current dominance was in the hands of the Heshingen consortium.

The economic crisis is uncontrollable, so even the experienced Rothschilds cannot avoid losses, and under normal circumstances, looking at the abundant capital, they can also make a profit by buying the bottom when they suffer losses, but this time they met the well-capitalized Heixingen consortium.

The Hexingen consortium took advantage of the large amount of money accumulated before the economic crisis to buy companies in large quantities, especially in the new industrial sector, after all, Ernst knew that the economic crisis of 1873 was too long and the future of the traditional industrial sector was uncertain.

At the same time, the construction of the East African Railway greatly helped the Austrian government to maintain stability, which was much better than the ugly Jewish capital in the economic crisis.

Coupled with the partiality of the Habsburgs and other aristocracy to the Hashingen consortium, the Heixingen consortium successfully squeezed out the Jewish consortium and became the largest capital group in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

However, Jewish capital still has a dominant position in Britain, the United States, France and other countries, and the Heixingen consortium only occupies a dominant position in Germany, but there are many factions within Jewish capital, so there is no way to take the Heixingen consortium.

In fact, Jewish capital is not as strong as people think, and European countries actually use Jews as cash machines more often, and no matter how strong capital is, it is now not worth the gun in the hands of the European aristocracy.

The Jewish community really wants to control the world's discourse, and unless they wait until the United States becomes the world hegemon completely, they will have no chance at all.

In fact, European writers have already described their true humanity to the point: for example, "Shylock" in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", and "Old Grandet" in Balzac's "Eugenie Grandet".

European literati such as Shakespeare and Balzac, regardless of their position, were masters of literature who could discover human nature through social phenomena, so the depiction of Jewish merchants was very much in line with social reality.

Of course, this is only for the Jewish profiteers who are not benevolent to the rich, but the vast majority of Jews are profiteers, but apart from the merchant community, Ernst still has a very positive opinion of the Jews, especially those thinkers and scientists, and it has been proved that the Jewish mind is really good to use in other fields, and it is crooked to use it in the business and political fields.

However, this only shows that Jews are more suitable for scientific and theoretical research, after all, the Jews are certainly the most educated in the world.

Ernst believed that blacks could produce many "geniuses" who would shine in human history if they had a full education, but they had no chance. There is certainly a deviation in human intelligence, but this deviation is manifested in the whole human race, not in terms of ethnicity and race.

If we really distinguish by these things, the Jews are nothing more than what Adolf called an "inferior people", and they are not much better than the blacks.

In more traditional countries, in fact, Jews cannot become the climate, but the United States is the least traditional country, if there are no two world wars, the European aristocracy does not decline, then I am afraid that the general anti-Semitic social atmosphere in Europe will not change much.

In Ernst's view, although the economy is the basis of politics, politics is obviously higher than the economy, this situation Ernst is most familiar with, in the previous life the rich people did seem to be very powerful, but they did not have any advantage in front of the "aristocracy".

Except for American-style democracies, where the top-level design is controlled by a group of businessmen, American politicians are restricted to death, and a strong president like Roosevelt can only appear once, and Lincoln, Kennedy and others are the norm.

……

Year 1877.

The Swaite Palace is in full bloom in March.

The Swaite Palace combines the characteristics of Hohenzollernberg and Schönbrunn Palace, so it was built with both the majesty of Hohenzollernberg and the brightness and openness of Schönbrunn Palace.

In the palace, the family is revolving around a new life, and Ernst's first son is born.

"Baby, look at Mommy!" Ernst hugged the little prince and smirked at Karina, the little prince couldn't open his eyes, Ernst kissed Karina on the head: "Honey, hard work!" ”

Karina lay weakly on the bed, but with a shallow smile on her face: "Baby, our little baby." ”

Ernst squeezed his wife's hand and joked, "He was born destined to be the future Great Chief of East Africa." ”

Konstantin and Ferdinand, who were on the side, were already dissatisfied: "What East African chieftain? Let my grandfather hug me first. ”

In the end, Konstantin took the lead in putting his arms around his grandson, and said by the way: "My grandson is the heir of the Hohenzollern (Heixingen) family, how can the glory of the Germans be compared with those barbarians in Africa?" The name of the Kingdom of East Africa is too ugly, so it's better to find a time to change it! ”

Konstantin, who spoils his grandson, doesn't want his grandson to bear the title of African chieftain, and it doesn't matter if he is wronged to be the monarch of the East African Kingdom, but his grandson can't.

Ernst said obediently: "Change, but wait two years, I think it is more appropriate to change the name of the country in 1880." ”

Archduke Ferdinand: "Why 1880?" ”

"Because according to my prediction, in 1880, our East African kingdom will be opened!"

"The Founding of the Nation?"

Enstie nodded and said: "Now the East African Kingdom has actually been implementing a policy of closing the country, but I have never said it, we have almost no contacts with other countries, especially people-to-people exchanges are almost cut off, this is because in the past, as a weak and small colony, our East Africa needs time to develop, and cannot enter the vision of the great powers, but with the increasing attention of Europe to Africa and the improvement of the size of East Africa, there are no basic conditions for East Africa to continue to hide." ”

Archduke Ferdinand said: "What an interesting statement! ”

Ernst's approach was indeed at odds with the mainstream mindset of the European aristocracy, which explains a series of policy oddities in East Africa.

"Okay, what politics are you talking about at this time? Hurry up and come up with a name for our little one! Konstantin said with some dissatisfaction.

So the family began to discuss the name of the little prince again, but what to choose is more complicated.

"Let's call it Friedrich!" Konstantin finally decided.

"Friedrich?"

"Yes, our ancestor Friedrich III put the word Hohenzollern in front of the Sauron family, so that the later Hohenzollern family will carry forward in Europe, and I also hope that little Friedrich will bring the Hohenzollern family to a new level in the future!"

In 1185, Friedrich III, then Count of Solom, married Sophia, daughter of Conrad II, Count of Nuremberg, and in 1192, Conrad II died childless, Friedrich III inherited the Count of Nuremberg, and after he ruled the two Counts of Solon and Nuremberg, his power rose greatly, and the Sauron family was named "Hohen", which means "noble", called the Hohenzollern family.

Ernst also agrees with the name Friedrich, because in his impression the person named Friedrich is generally good, as for the duplicate rate is too high, there is no way, because the European name duplicate check rate is higher than 100%.

Friedrich called Frederick in German, which means "peace, ruler", so people who used to be called Friedrich were generally either rich or noble.

In order to celebrate the birth of the prince, the whole country of East Africa has a seven-day holiday, and every city in East Africa holds celebrations to pray for the blessing of the little prince, who was loved by the whole country as soon as he was born.

To commemorate the birth of Friedrich the Younger, Ernst ordered another top-of-the-line ironclad ship from Austria-Hungary and named it after Friedrich.

(End of chapter)